MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bradgessler | 2026-02-23 22:26:02+00:00
I’m super early stages with this project and exploring what it would look like agents were just unix programs running securely along side other Unix programs. A big benefit of that is I can pipe one agents output into another agents input.

Another idea I’m exploring is having agents write code for simple tasks. First example, if you run “hello world” with agent script, the first time an agent reads the text file, understands its simple, then writes a static memory.js file. When the program runs again, it hits that file and never invokes the agent.

Where things get interesting are the cases where a script works for some cases, but not all. When that happens, the memory.js script can call agent.resume() during a static run so the agent can take over.
by josephg | 2026-02-23 22:26:29+00:00
Yeah but it’s like saying, “why are you impressed with Claude making a car when there are plans for an engine online?”. Even if Claude used that code (it didn't), it made the whole car. Not just an engine. There’s a lot more stuff going on than simply calling a backend mail server over jmap.

And fyi, jmap is just a protocol for doing email over json & http. It’s not that hard to roll your own. Especially in a web browser.
by six_arm_spidey | 2026-02-23 22:27:28+00:00
This is such an impressive tool. As others have noted, the price of entry is high, but it's incredible what it pulls off.

I've been doing a cheaper version using a Waveshare 7.5 inch screen, a Raspberry Pi and a 3d printed case coupled with Inkycal: https://github.com/aceinnolab/Inkycal. This works well for my needs, but seeing what else can be done maybe it's time for an upgrade.
by tl2do | 2026-02-23 22:27:45+00:00
I ran benchmarks comparing xsync.Map's memory allocation against orcaman/concurrent-map.

Pure overwrite workload (pre-allocated values):
xsync.Map: 24 B/op 1 alloc/op 31.89 ns/op
orcaman/concurrent-map: 0 B/op 0 alloc/op 70.72 ns/op

Real-world mixed (80% overwrites, 20% new):
xsync.Map: 57 B/op 2 allocs/op 218.1 ns/op
orcaman/concurrent-map: 63 B/op 3 allocs/op 283.1 ns/op

Go maps reuse memory on overwrites, which is why orcaman achieves 0 B/op for pure updates. xsync's custom bucket structure allocates 24 B/op per write even when overwriting existing keys.

At 1M writes/second with 90% overwrites: xsync allocates ~27 MB/s, orcaman ~6 MB/s. The trade is 24 bytes/op for 2x speed under contention. Whether this matters depends on whether your bottleneck is CPU or memory allocation.

Benchmark code: standard Go testing framework, 8 workers, 100k keys.
by Gigachad | 2026-02-23 22:27:59+00:00
Only if all the other kids are not on social media. When I was in school, birthday parties and such were organised on facebook. If you were not on facebook, you weren't invited.

If everyone was banned from facebook we would have organised them via text messages or email. That's the main point of social media age restrictions, individually banning kids is too punishing on those kids so parents and teachers don't try. Doing it across the whole population is much better.
by lm28469 | 2026-02-23 22:28:09+00:00
> In a country like the US with a fairly democratic process at various levels of government

How can you look at the current state of affair and say this with a straight face... It's a mafia, they're all millionaires, they're all friends, thay all go to the same schools, they all work for the government and instantly bounce to lobby for the private sector, they all use their insider knowledge to profit, &c. Only someone who went through the American education system can believe the US is anywhere close to what you described, it's a farce
by overfeed | 2026-02-23 22:28:23+00:00
> You can never get rid of them because it already passed and nobody wants to relitigate the same thing every couple of years.

Those who care about their privacy should relitigate at every opportunity. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"; if you're not willing to fight for it, you will lose it, and deservedly so. Those who give up in advance are beyond fucked, because they'll have to take whatever is sent their way.
by rvz | 2026-02-23 22:29:13+00:00
> We're very close to just being about to set an AI coding agent to brute-force a driver for anything.

That sounds quite naive and it isn't that simple. Even the author expressed caution and isn't sure about how robust the driver is since he hasn't seen the code himself nor does he know if it works reliably.

Even entertaining the idea, someone would have already have replaced those closed source Nvidia drivers that have firmware blobs and other drivers that have firmware blobs to be open replacements. (Yes Nouveau exists, but at the disadvantage of not performing as well as the closed source driver)

That would be a task left to the reader.
by labrador | 2026-02-23 22:29:43+00:00
They're not reading the actual FCC document then, which says:

Strategy: The move brings Tesla's sensor approach closer to competitors like Ford, GM, and Rivian, who utilize multi-modal systems (cameras plus radar) for their driver-assistance features.

Potential: This 'HD radar' could provide critical redundancy and data needed for achieving higher levels of driving automation and improving system performance in all conditions.
by samaltmanfried | 2026-02-23 22:29:49+00:00
It irks me because it usually manifests as embracing cartoonish stereotypes of the most superficial aspects of the culture: "I'm 1/64th Italian, so I like pizza. I'm 1/16th German, so I like beer. etc."

It doesn't keep me up at night, but I think it's tacky and vulgar.
by xt00 | 2026-02-23 22:30:07+00:00
I imagine there is a process in place to allow cities / states / communities to place the cameras on polls. If Vegas somehow got around public comment process to put these on poles, then what would stop any random company from requesting to put their own camera there? Like lets say a motivated individual went through some process to put a camera on a pole someplace near somebody that would definitely make the govt official / flock exec etc nervous, what is stopping them? It sounds an awful lot like Flock is basically going to town's and saying "we will put up a bunch of cameras in a bunch of places" probably based upon algorithm's etc. How do they decide where these get put, who gets to decide that? Why can't any random company request to put up a camera on a random power pole? After they give the map to the govt officials, do they get a chance to say "oh this one by my house, can you move that?"
by drnick1 | 2026-02-23 22:30:15+00:00
> Your mobile provider knows your exact location at any point in time, and the NSA probably has access to most big tech data.

I can choose whether to carry a cell phone. I can control what data I share with big tech (very little here since I use free software and self-host everything).

I cannot do anything (that isn't illegal) if some bureaucrat decides to place a camera down my street to identify me or my car anytime I pass nearby.
Show HN: AI Studio – Multi-Persona AI with WhatsApp and Memory
by prijak | 2026-02-23 22:30:21+00:00
A few days ago, I built AI Council — a tool where multiple AI personas debate a question (CFO, Lawyer, Contrarian, Chairman, etc.).

By Day 4, it evolved into AI Studio.

Key changes:
• 5-page navigation with auth-aware routing
• 40+ categorized personas
• 18 AI agent templates
• Extracted Council component (2-column layout, inline editing, stage cards)
• Searchable PersonaPicker and ModelPicker
• Soft vs hard auth-gate patterns
• Voice chat modal
• MCP integration panel

The bigger additions:

You can now chat with personas directly via WhatsApp.

There’s also an Assistant Mode with memory support, designed to act as a persistent personal AI layer rather than a stateless chat session.

The system runs on Sarvam AI.

Live demo: https://council.gameinghub.com/

Source: https://github.com/prijak/Ai-council

Open source.
Would appreciate feedback from builders here.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-23 22:31:02+00:00
Ubuntu used to be the distro to go do, used to.

- SNAP which is only managed and supported by them

- Tried to reinvent the wheel with sudo-rs

- They are heavily focused into cloud, servers and business

- Following the Rust hype train

I used Ubuntu for 13y or so, it is a Windows within Linux world.
Bloated, kernel panic, heavy, privacy issues.

Debian still the king to be used as servers, Mint Cinnamon is the king for desktop, gaming, video editing, 3D design, coding,it just works.
by eigen-vector | 2026-02-23 22:31:19+00:00
Thanks for the look. Babyshark is inspired by a bunch of terminal tools (termshark included), but the focus here is different: domains/weirdness-first drilldowns + "explain" + live-mode hostname hints (including observed IPs when DNS is encrypted/cached). If you try it and have specific gaps vs termshark, I'd love concrete feedback /issues.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-23 22:31:53+00:00
Your conflating the medium with the source of the message in this analogy.

Writing and oration are two different media, the question of which is preferable in which context is completely unrelated to LLM authorship.

If "the purpose of writing is to convey ideas" (which I largely agree with), which ideas are being added between whatever you prompt the model to convey and what the model conveys? Are you proposing that an LLM can extract some meaning from your initial prompt that a human being couldn't?
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-23 22:32:10+00:00
Because other car companies don't have CEOs who've been super confident about predicting actual full self driving either "this year" or "next year" for the past decade. If Ford had been swearing up and down they'd have full self driving cracked any day now for ten years, and been charging people for the hardware along the way, everyone would be pissed at them too.

Surely you already know this, so why pretend otherwise?
by phil21 | 2026-02-23 22:32:58+00:00
It's weird due to the complete lack of second order thinking the majority of people seem to have.

You can scream up and down about how building such things is a horrible idea because it can one day be used for evil, and folks will either yawn or call you paranoid or worse.

Then the thing actually gets (very lightly) abused/used for something folks don't like and omg it's an emergency no one could have ever predicted! And oh look - it's often times far too late to do a damn thing about it other than surface level 'fixes' that are nothing of the sort.

It gets very frustrating living in such a society, but it might simply be the way humans are wired. If it's not in your face and actively a major problem to you in the moment, it's simply not a concern.
by himata4113 | 2026-02-23 22:33:02+00:00
Except that there is a huge trusted network for this. The world does not revolve around americas and europe. Not everyone has issues cashing out millions of crypto from a bank. This has been especially prevelant with countries that host a lot of Russian immigrants ever since the SWIFT ban, the regulation is extremely lax and there is minimal data shared to western institutions.

I have heard from friends who are in these countries observing transactions that go into the millions of dollars that are being cashed out (not even laundered) like it's just another day. Nobody asks questions, nobody cares either and if you bring it up you will likely lose your job in few months or so.
by simondotau | 2026-02-23 22:33:14+00:00
Xpeng is abandoning sensor fusion. aiMotive has never bothered with sensor fusion. I never mentioned Waymo; unfortunately the AI gods at Apple auto-corrected me typing Wayve, as in Wayve Technologies Ltd.

Tesla FSD is not accurately described as a "no LIDAR at all" approach, and claiming it as such is technically misleading.
by troosevelt | 2026-02-23 22:33:56+00:00
It might usually manfiest as that or you're picking out the most superficial parts of people's identity to criticize. It's just not how I and others view it when we think about where the people who made us come from.

Or, to put it another way: your criticism is tacky and vulgar. Perhaps what you're describing is "cosplaying" but that's not how immigrant communities see themselves. I do in fact know the perecentages of my national makeup but pizza and beer aren't how I celebrate that. Nobles know their ancestry down to the smallest detail, is somebody really tacky for knowing that technically they are 1/4th Italian? I don't think attacking somebody's identity is ever fair; it costs you nothing but is everything to them.
Show HN: Axiom Refract – Full architectural record for any codebase
by Cerebrum_Cadre | 2026-02-23 22:34:06+00:00
Hey HN – solo founder here, built this from scratch starting last September with no coding background.
Axiom Refract analyzes a codebase and produces a complete architectural record — structure, dependency relationships, risk, dead code, single points of failure, compliance posture. Human-readable and machine-readable output.
The problem I kept seeing: architecture knowledge lives in the heads of 2-3 engineers. Someone leaves, gets acquired, or AI agents start contributing code — and that tribal knowledge disappears with no record it existed.
This produces that record automatically.
Built on top of Cerebrum Cadre, a multi-AI coordination system I've been developing. Happy to talk about the tech, the architecture, or the "I didn't know how to code 6 months ago" journey.
Free scans available at axiomrefract.com/social-proof
by lokar | 2026-02-23 22:34:43+00:00
I agree that there are many companies that hire H-1B (and other non-immigrant visa holders) over equally qualified US citizens and permanent residents in order to pay less, work them harder, etc.

But, I often see this presented as all or nearly all that is going on. There are lots of non-immigrant visa holders who get hired who are better qualified then 90+% of others, and are getting the same pay and conditions and their American teammates. These people are improving the employment prospects for Americans, not hurting them.
by Betelbuddy | 2026-02-23 22:34:43+00:00
"Charles Kushner is an American real-estate developer, diplomat, and disbarred attorney serving since 2025 as the United States ambassador to France and Monaco...

...In 2005, Kushner was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which he served in the Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery. As a convicted felon, he was also disbarred in three states. He later received a pardon issued by his son's father-in-law, President Trump, on December 23, 2020. Kushner has donated significant amounts to Trump's campaigns..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner
by McGlockenshire | 2026-02-23 22:35:26+00:00
In fact the 9900 itself was used in an entire line of minicomputers that included a hardware memory map.

The 9900 is a single chip implementation of the CPU board in the TI 990. They even created a dedicated memory mapper chip to go along with the product line, though it is significantly different than the one in the minicomputer line.

(edit: the 990 was first built in the early 70s, memory mappers are quite old conceptually)

(edit 2: in fact the necessity of using a memory mapper is what killed the platform, and was one of the things that made the IBM PC team decline the 9900.)

Unfortunately I don't think that there is a reasonable way to perform real hardware-level memory protection with that chip alone. I'm working on a project documenting the genesis of the 99000 chips, which include a privilege bit in the status register, from the minicomputer line.

Essay forthcoming, and probably an OS. Maybe a year...
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 22:35:32+00:00
There is much more in an ASML machine, besides the UV source.

So the ASML machines combine technologies developed in various places, not only in USA, even if the UV source is indeed a critical component. While an ASML machine would not work without the UV source, it would also not work without many other critical optical and mechanical components.

If it were so easy to make a lithography machine when you have a UV source, Cymer would have remained an independent company or it would have been bought by a US company. Cymer has been bought by their only customer.

The same happens when you look at a PC, it is likely that it contains something essential that comes from USA, i.e. the CPU logic may be designed by AMD, but the manufacturing technology is designed in Taiwan, the memories may be designed and made in Korea, other chips may be designed and made in Taiwan, other components come from Japan, the PCB may have been designed in Taiwan, but actually made in China, and so on.

So yes, it has some important US technology in it, but there is a very long way from a CPU logic design to a physical computer and most of that rarely has anything to do with USA.

The same happens with an ASML machine.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-23 22:35:55+00:00
> any different than any other vendor who doesn’t bother releasing Linux drivers

Which has dwindled in number so much as to practically not be problem anymore. There is even a Linux-only or Linux-first attitude with some vendors.

Buying Apple to run Linux borders on stupidity nowadays because of the vast better options fit for purpose.

Like buying a gasoline vehicle then complaining it can't run on diesel. It wasn't designed to.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-23 22:36:19+00:00
> how did you jump from property damage and arson to speech?

I included speech as an example, the same as your bringing up property damage, arson, and financial damage. It seemed relevant given the general shape of what you were expressing.

Someone being driven to suicide or unable to pay for medication is not an example of violence. It might be many things but violence is most certainly not one of them.

> you cannot pretend that disrupting someone's livelihood is not at all related to attacking their liberty and/or life

Indeed it is _related_ but that does not magically make it "violence". Violence is direct physical harm. Not indirect and not anything other than physical.

> a case where you can argue speech can be violence

Speech is _never_ violence. That's about as close to definitionally impossible as you can get. (Here's a fun related observation: violent rhetoric is not itself violent.)

Respectfully, you seem to be having extreme difficulty comprehending the fact that words have meaning. It's impossible to engage in meaningful discussion with someone who either can't or won't conduct themselves in accordance with that fact.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-23 22:36:29+00:00
>I don’t think Apple is any different than any other vendor

Read my previous comment again!!
If you buy a genuine display and install it, it won't work because Apple locks the hardware ID via firmware.
It must be installed by Apple only.

No other vendor does that, the Linux community always found its way to get a non-supported hardware working.

Windows until recently with the AI slope, was the only major OS used everywhere so why many vendors only have Windows driver, I understand theirs "Why bother?"
by Gigachad | 2026-02-23 22:36:31+00:00
Ban in public spaces might not make sense since there isn't a proximity hazard like smoke. But I can imagine after kids are banned from social media and we see how this was an obviously positive effect on their mental health, we will begin to acknowledge that this stuff is toxic for adults as well.

We could start to ban many of the mechanisms social media companies have deployed over the last 10 years. Infinite scrolling, algorithmic feeds of "creator" content, AI generated ragebait from bot accounts, etc. I'd love to see social media reverted back to when it was just holiday photos from your friends.
by 6r17 | 2026-02-23 22:36:58+00:00
I really wanted to believe the original comment as it is indeed not something I wouldn't see against - however there is truth that hardware can be capricious and one could definitely burn something flipping the wrong bit - here comes the fantastic world of Megaman ; where he's analyzing the bits of the unknown driver - one mistake could burn his owner the machine - he didn't receive the latest analysis tool ; hm...maybe some other ai knows about this on the darkclanet ?

Sorry I drifted, claude is probably done generating stuff
by oconnor663 | 2026-02-23 22:37:01+00:00
I wouldn't read too much into pre-1.0 versions. Folks take SemVer pretty seriously, and that makes some folks reluctant to declare v1.0 even when a crate has been in use and "mostly stable" for years. There can also be compatibility issues with a 1.0 bump if a crate's types are common in public APIs, e.g. the `libc` crate. I'm a big fan of the curated list of crates at blessed.rs, or honestly just looking at download numbers. (Obviously not a perfect system.)
by thesz | 2026-02-23 22:37:14+00:00
> meaningless.

No.

You present "programs are graphs" as trivial truth. True trivial truths are, as you pointed out, meaningless. But you leave out degree of applicability - information in the dependence graph differs between programming languages.

Dependencies form a graph, and analyses needed to optimize execution of the program graph differ wildly between languages. Look at С++ aliasing rules and C's "restrict" keyword.

One can't escape the dependence graph. But one can execute dependence graph better or worse, depending (pun intended) on the programming language.
by summm | 2026-02-23 22:37:18+00:00
> jailbreaking / "prevent tampering"

Now your EU government requires you to have an unmodified Google or Apple device to use any age restricted services. Cementing the US mobile OS duopoly and locking out any free systems and desktop etc. forever.

Any governmental service taking part in this is a violation of civil rights and even if you don't care about those, maybe you care about digital sovereignty.

This is so lightly handwaved away, almost as if attention needs to be drawn away. By the looks of this I'd say the end of general computing might be the actual goal, and all the age verification is just yet another "think of the children" pretense?
by josephg | 2026-02-23 22:37:20+00:00
By that definition C has sum types too.

This argument feels like the “we have sum types at home” meme. Ergonomics matter.

I write a lot of rust. Rust has traits which are similar to Go’s interfaces. But the features aren’t the same, and I use enum all the time. (I also use trait all the time, but I use trait and enum for different things).
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-23 22:38:00+00:00
This is fintech - I've not worked in banking specifically, but fintech (or fintech adjacent) most of my career, and from my POV these things can get insanely complicated in very unintuitive ways because the financial world is messy and complicated.

I've never worked on COBOL systems specifically, but just going from my experience working on fintech problems in dense legacy stacks of various languages (java is common), that are extremely hard to understand at times, the language itself is rarely if ever the problem.

"Just need to convert it to Go or Python" is kind of getting at the fallacy I am trying to describe. The language isn't the issue (IME). I do have my gripes about certain java frameworks, personally, but the system doesn't get any easier to understand from my POV as to simply rewrite it in another language.

Even let's say it was this simple in the case of COBOL - these are often extremely critical systems that cannot afford to fail or be wrong very often, or at all, and have complex system mechanisms around that to make it so that even trying to migrate it to a new system/language would inevitably involve understanding of the system and architecture.