MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jajuuka | 2026-02-11 19:48:22+00:00
Yeah I've seen this same type of study done over the years with the same dire warning. But like you pointed out it's just extremely labor intensive when it's simply easier to attack phones, security cameras or any other smart device that can be easily hacked. Or just install your own bugs.

Would not be surprised to see this get more traction right now due to the political climate.
by pb7 | 2026-02-11 19:48:22+00:00
Zero citizens got shot that didn't spend their days conspiring ways to obstruct and assault federal law enforcement executing deportation orders given by our judicial system.

If you obstruct ICE, you are going against the executive branch executing these laws, against the legislative branch who passed these laws, and the judicial branch who granted the deportation orders. You are a traitor to this country.
by lp0_on_fire | 2026-02-11 19:48:34+00:00
> You're saying it's bad because they removed useful information, but then why isn't Anthropic's suggestion of using verbose mode a good solution?

Because reading through hundreds of lines verbose output is not a solution to the problem of "I used to be able to see _at a glance_ what files were being touched and what search patterns were being used but now I can't".
by bayindirh | 2026-02-11 19:49:32+00:00
It's pretty interesting to watch AI companies start to squeeze their users as the constraints (financial, technical, capacity-wise) start to squeeze the companies.

Ads in ChatGPT. Removing features from Claude Code. I think we're just beginning to face the music. It's also funny that how Google "invented" ad injection in replies with real-time auction capabilities, yet OpenAI would be the first implementer of it. It's similar to how transformers played out.

For me, that's another "popcorn time". I don't use any of these to any capacity, except Gemini, which I seldom use to ask stuff when deep diving in web doesn't give any meaningful results. The last question I asked managed to return only one (but interestingly correct) reference, which I followed and continued my research from there.
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-11 19:49:46+00:00
I think you're talking about apples and oranges, as parent appeared to be cataloguing recent design defects. Which are pretty common too.

That'll influence the average reliability minimally, unless you were unlucky enough to buy one of those models.

Personally, why I'd rather get something at 120k mileage w/ 250k+ max examples on the road by that calendar date. You'll know whether they designed a lemon.

Add: undersized Tacoma rear leaf springs, multiple manufacturers' head gaskets, a few early aluminum engines (? from memory)
by shimman | 2026-02-11 19:49:47+00:00
I don't need to "play the game" to realize private valuations are just marketing fluff not based in reality. It's literally "the greater fool" theory in action. When the incentives are to just lie and not put out something with some actual scrutiny like a 409A, it's quite clear what game is being played.

But yes, I would totally love to invest in startups with people's pension funds. It seems like the perfect scam where the only losers are the public that allows such actions.
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by mlugo-apx | 2026-02-11 19:49:57+00:00
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by gowld | 2026-02-11 19:50:11+00:00
It's 2 because there cannot be just one. There must be 2. Same as with magnetic poles and Siths. (and not same as with Highlanders.)

It's not infinite, because if you add more, you get a different space of numbers.

j and k are not complex numbers, in the same way that i is not a real number.

Changing the name of a number doesn't change the number. "Two" is not a different number from "2".
by nsbk | 2026-02-11 19:50:13+00:00
The US averages 23 pedestrian deaths per million people per year. The EU averages 8. The US fatalities have increased by 50% since 2013, while in the EU have decreased by 25% in the same time frame.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7408a2.htm
by sfink | 2026-02-11 19:50:17+00:00
Developer> This is important information and most developers want to see it.

PM1> Looks like a PM who is out of touch with what the developers want. Easy mistake to make.

PM2> Anthropic knows better than this developer. The developer is probably wrong.

I don't know for sure what the best decision is here, I've barely used CC. Neither does PM1 nor PM2, but PM2 is being awfully dismissive of the opinion of a user in the target audience. PM1 is probably putting a bit too much weight on Developer's opinion, but I fully agree with "All of us... have seen UIs where this has occurred." Yes, we have. I personally greatly appreciate a PM who listens and responds quickly to negative feedback on changes like this, especially "streamlining" and "reducing clutter" type changes since they're so easy to get wrong (as PM1 says).

> It's good to think carefully about how you're using space in your UI and what you're presenting to the user.

I agree. It's also good to have the humility to know that your subjective opinion as someone not in the target audience even if you're designing the product is less informed in many ways than that of your users.

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Personally, I get creeped out by how many things CC is doing and tokens it's burning in the background. It has a strong "trust me bro" vibe that I dislike. That's probably common to all agent systems; I haven't used enough to know.
by viraptor | 2026-02-11 19:50:18+00:00
I don't get why people cling to the Claude Code abusive relationship. It's got so many issues, it's being worse, and it's clear that there's no plan to make it open for patching.

Meanwhile OpenCode is right there. (despite Anthropic efforts, you can still use it with a subscription) And you can tweak it any way you want...
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-11 19:50:22+00:00
GitHub Issues as a customer support funnel is horrible. It's easy for them, but it hides all the important bugs and only surfaces "wanted features" that are thumbs-up'd alot. So you see "Highlight text X" as the top requested feature; meanwhile, 10% of users experience a critical bug, but they don't all find "the github issue" one user poorly wrote about it, so it has like 7 upvotes.

GitHub Codespaces has a critical bug that makes the copilot terminal integration unusable after 1 prompt, but the company has no idea, because there is no clear way to report it from the product, no customer support funnel, etc. There's 10 upvotes on a poorly-written sorta-related GH issue and no company response. People are paying for this feature and it's just broken.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-11 19:50:56+00:00
I am under the (potentially mistaken) impression that at minimum rasterization and texture filtering retain dedicated hardware on modern cards. There's also the issue of the format you output versus the format the display hardware works in natively.

That said, I'm not clear the extent to which such dedicated functionality either already is or could be made accessible via the instruction set. But even then I'm not sure how ergonomic it would be to make use of from a shader language.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-11 19:51:07+00:00
Connecting via ODB? Come on. The car does not need any of that built into it. You can connect an app on your phone to handle all of that and just use the screen as a display. There is no need for a car to have a cellular connection just to give this functionality. That would also prevent the car from being able to communicate with the mother ship. If there's an update, have the app do that as well.
by observationist | 2026-02-11 19:51:41+00:00
This is actually one of the mechanisms behind "blood swaps" done by the rich and weird. Donating blood frequently also reduces various accumulated "factors" that reduce kidney stress, encourage healthy new blood, and is overall beneficial to health.

Various other mechanisms can improve how effective your body is at recycling cells, encouraging autophagy and filtering things in the blood. There are a whole suite of various supplements and medicines that work in this system.

As undead, though, vampires no longer produce new living blood, so require fresh blood of the living to restore lost function. Or something.

I guess that'd make Bryan Johnson the ultimate thrall?
by toss1 | 2026-02-11 19:51:45+00:00
"As radio waves move through a space and interact with people, they create distinctive patterns that can be captured and analyzed. These patterns are comparable to images produced by cameras, but they are formed using radio signals rather than light. "

The concept sounds not unlike like the multispectral imaging produced by Geordi's visor in TNG.

Seems conceptually possible, but likely too much computing power and observing time (to build up and learn each individual's pattern in that part of the RF band), at least in current times.

I'm sure it could be developed to work in the field, but what is the use case where it pays off to make the silly-money investment to make it happen? Especially so when it's far easier to simply notice pings and get better data when approximately everyone always carries their mobile phone.
by zahlman | 2026-02-11 19:51:46+00:00
As a heads-up, the "?page=N" linking style is a bit wonky on discuss.python.org, as it's using Discourse which defaults to an infinite-scroll view using JavaScript. You can directly link posts by including a post ID (and also the thread title slug is irrelevant), thus:

https://discuss.python.org/t/_/104854/121

Glad to see this one accepted. The absence of such a type has been conspicuous for me for years, although I recognize that there are surprising design trade-offs required.
by spmurrayzzz | 2026-02-11 19:52:18+00:00
No I'm saying there are quite a few more bottlenecks than that (I/O being a big one). Even in the more efficient training frameworks, there's per-op dispatch overhead in python itself. All the boxing/unboxing of python objects to C++ handles, dispatcher lookup + setup, all the autograd bookkeeping, etc.

All of the bottlenecks in sum is why you'd never get to 100% MFUs (but I was conceding you probably don't need to in order to get value)
by meame2010 | 2026-02-11 19:52:18+00:00
We built this as a simple open directory: one place to discover, compare, and learn about coding agents.

It covers:
- coding agents
- models
- mcp, skills, and protocols
- benchmarks
- weekly updates

This is a community-driven project — the more people contribute, the more useful it becomes.

Feel free to open an issue, suggest an agent, or submit a PR.

https://github.com/SylphAI-Inc/codingagents.md
by mmooss | 2026-02-11 19:52:36+00:00
That conflates two very different things:

* A conventional military war, on a battlefield: Neither Saddam Hussein's military nor the cartels nor the Taliban would last long against the US.

* An unconventional insurgency: The Iraqis quickly turned to this approach and it worked very well for them, as it did for the Taliban. The Taliban won, and the Iraqi insurgency almost drove the US out of Iraq and was eventually co-opted.

The cartels of course would choose the latter. They, the Taliban, etc. are not suicidal.
by thisisit | 2026-02-11 19:52:40+00:00
My last experience with Claude support was a fun merry go round.

I had used a Visa card to buy monthly Pro subscription. One day I ran out of credits so I go to buy extra credit. But my card is declined. I recheck my card limit and try again. Still declined.

To test the card I try extending the Pro subscription. It works. That's when I notice that my card has a security feature called "Secure by Visa". To complete transaction I need to submit OTP on a Visa page. I am redirected to this page while buying Pro subscription but not when trying to buy extra usage.

I open a ticket and mention all the details to Claude support. Even though I give them the full run down of the issue, they say "We have no way of knowing why your card was declined. You have to check with your bank".

Later I get hold of a Mastercard with similar OTP protection. It is called Mastercard Securecode. The OTP triggers on both subscription and extra usage page.

I share this finding with support as well. But the response is same - "We checked with our engineering team and we have no way of knowing why the other Visa card was declined. You have to check with your bank".

I just gave up trying to buy extra usage. So, I am not really surprised if they keep making the product worse.
by spyder | 2026-02-11 19:53:08+00:00
Yes it's in a controlled environment not in a real world noisy environment.
But this is more stealthy than a camera and could potentially work with non-line-of-sight or even through walls.

And based on that I could imagine with a combination of a camera and this method, you could train the model on data where both the camera and this method is seeing the individual and then continue to track them with the wifi sensing + the trained model even where the camera cannot see them anymore.

But yea real world is noisy, so it could be very challenging.
by riku_iki | 2026-02-11 19:53:15+00:00
> Mine gets a 40-45 mile all electric range.
That sounds like the real issue, vs. EVs. This sounds like you basically have to plug it in every time you park it. And there’s no way you could do any sort of (even small) road trip without using gas.

> (For comparison, our EV6 has about 200-250 mile range, and we charge it about once a week or so, give or take, unless we take a road trip.)

its gasoline car. You use 45miles for every day commute while charging overnight, and use gas for roadtrips: 500 miles range + 3 mins put gas into car
by oliverchoy | 2026-02-11 19:53:17+00:00
This is exactly what AI agent builders need—persistent context across sessions changes the game.

Curious: Once you nail this, what's next? I'm seeing agent-native founders all face the same scaling question: "Do we build adjacent tools, monetize the core, or create an ecosystem?"

I've been running multi-model validation on exactly this—4 frontier models debate the positioning, TAM, and next moves for tools like yours. Helps founders skip the months of uncertainty.

If you want actual GPT-5 / Claude / Gemini pressure-testing on your next 3 ideas (market fit, feature priority, business model), happy to help. No sales pitch—just pattern-matching from 50+ validation studies.

Great build. Excited to see where you take this.
by thesuitonym | 2026-02-11 19:53:17+00:00
The most surefire way would be to put a device between your router and your ONT/modem to capture the packets and see what requests are being sent. It's not complicated but it IS a lot of information to sift through.

Your router may have the ability to log requests, but many don't, and even if yours does, if you're concerned the device may be compromised, how can you trust the logs?

BUT, with all that said, these attacks are typically not very sophisticated. Most of the time they're searching for routers at 192.168.1.1 with admin/admin as the login credentials. If you have anything else set, you're probably good from 97% of attackers (This number is entirely made up, but seriously that percentage is high). You can also check for security advisories on your model of router. If you find anything that allows remote access, assume you're compromised.

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As a final note, it's more likely these days that the devices running these bots are IoT devices and web browsers with malicious javascript running.
by blueflow | 2026-02-11 19:54:20+00:00
Its not a "risk".

Water vapor (clouds) is a stonger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. We already got measurably higher temperatures, so we also have higher water evaporation, and from the last 5 years it looks like it happens every year.

So the runaway is already happening, until something stops it near hothouse conditions or hopefully earlier than that.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-11 19:54:35+00:00
It can be both. There's such a thing as opinions that coincide with facts. Until I put in effort to support it though, I only offer it as an opinion.

> you should back it up rather than restating it loudly and more slowly when asked for justification.

It's a fair amount of work to do so, and I haven't seen anyone worthy of putting in such work. This site isn't great, from a practical point of view, for that type of lengthy debate, either.
by chickensong | 2026-02-11 19:54:37+00:00
For a general tool that has such a broad user base, the output should be configurable. There's no way a single config, even with verbose mode, will satisfy everyone.

Set minimal defaults to keep output clean, but let users pick and choose items to output across several levels of verbosity, similar to tcpdump, Ansible, etc. (-v to -vvvvv).

I know businesses are obsessed with providing Apple-like "experiences", where the product is so refined there's just "the one way" to magically do things, but that's not going to work for a coding agent. It needs to be a unix-like experience, where the app can be customized to fit your bespoke workflow, and opening the man page does critical damage unless you're a wizard.

LLMs are already a magic box, which upsets many people. It'll be a shame if Anthropic alienates their core fan base of SWEs by making things more magical.
by ViktorRay | 2026-02-11 19:55:01+00:00
The Dark Knight was released in the summer of 2008. This was almost 7 years after 9/11.

Many aspects of that film were deliberately done to explore post 9/11 America. This includes the methods Harvey Dent uses, the things the Joker says, and the surveillance scenes and more.

These discussions surrounding surveillance have been around long before 2008.
by achenet | 2026-02-11 19:55:03+00:00
Have you ever met human beings that constantly reuse a certain idiom/figure of speech/linguistic pattern?

The valley girl using "like" every other word, for example?

Or I had a colleague who would use the expression "we can say" (in French, because we were speaking in French) basically every couple sentences for a bit.

Humans also repeat speech/linguistic patterns, therefore "repetition of the same pattern" is not sufficient to mark text as produced by AI :)
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 19:55:43+00:00
> In what world is public opinion not universally against the cartels?

Minnesota, Los Angeles, Portland, Cuidad de Juárez, and any community where narcocorridos music emanates from lowriders all night.

USA isn’t invading Mexico (or Canada or Greenland). Latin America is recolonizing us. It is called “Reconquista” and it’s an open secret since before César Chavéz began complaining about it.

US Democratic leadership were practicing appeasement and non-resistance because they knew how damn violent it would get on the ground.

Check back in the archives for Presidente Sheinbaum announcing thousands of Mexican ground troops marching north. The tariffs. The campaign slogan. Cartel incursions are counterattacks and retribution for deportations.
by alphazard | 2026-02-11 19:55:50+00:00
Product management might be the worst meme in the industry.
Hire people who have never used the product and don't think like or accurately represent our users, then let them allocate engineering resources and gate what ships. What could go wrong?

It should be a fad gone by at this point, but people never learn.
Here's what to do instead: Find your most socially competent engineer, and have them talk to users a couple times a month.
Just saved you thousands or millions in salaries, and you have a better chance of making things that your users actually want.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-11 19:56:07+00:00
> but you are precisely reinforcing my point. Because opponents can claim via evidence that the death penalty is effective for this, if you argue on the basis of "facts".

I don't believe I am. The death penalty being effective at reducing a crime isn't itself a sufficient justification of the death penalty.

> Thus, objectivity should not be used as an argument for an ethical and moral human principle. Such principles stand by themselves to maintain the sanctity of the human soul - no justification needed.

We do have objective arguments though; ultimately everything can be quantified by the amount of harm or good it does.
by vaylian | 2026-02-11 19:56:14+00:00
This is one of the key sentences:

> Policymakers and the public, however, remain largely unaware of the risks posed by such a practically irreversible transition

Most people still underestimate what it means for the earth system to change from the current stable state into another state, which might need many years to become stable again. And that new stable state might be a lot less favourable for us humans.
by Starman_Jones | 2026-02-11 19:56:47+00:00
I believe this is the point you are making, but it's worth clarifying that NDT is a technically sophisticated astrophysicist who is best known for his non-technical communication targeted at a non-technical audience. Part of the genius of Feynman is that he could communicate to a technical audience in a way that was still accessible to the lay audience. Tyson can't communicate to both groups at once like Feynman (or Tyson's mentor, Carl Sagan) could. It's a rare gift.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-11 19:57:12+00:00
I bet you could derive a lot by using a packet sniffer while using CC and just watch the calls go back and forth to the LLM API. In every api request you'll get the full prompt (system prompt aside) and they can't offload all the magic to the server side because tool calls have to be done locally. Also, LLMs can probably de-minimize the minimized Javascript in the CC client so you can inspect the source too.

edit: There's a tool, i haven't used it in forever, i think it was netsaint(?) that let you sniff https in clear text with some kind of proxy. The enabling requirement is sniffing traffic on localhost iirc which would be the case with CC
by jorvi | 2026-02-11 19:57:49+00:00
Doing it this way actually makes games more stable on Linux. Often, Linux ports of games would be riddled with bugs because the QA just isn't worth it. Especially because desktop Linux is always in a fast flux of changes. Hence the joke that "Win32 is the only stable Linux ABI."

Now game studios can just develop for windows, work out all the bugs. And then Proton has a broad set of compatibility patches that can be applied to those Windows games.

Doing it this way also unlocks a gigantic library of old games that otherwise would have been unplayable on Linux.

So, no. No native Linux games please.