MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrighele | 2026-02-06 15:08:06+00:00
Even most liberal societies tend to ban addictive things. Alcohol, smoking, gambling, drugs, they are regulated almost everywhere, in one form or another.

I think that algorithmic social media should be likewise regulated, with at the very minimum ban for minors.

Note that my focus here on the "algorithmic" part. I'm fine with little or no regulation for social media where your feed is just events in chronological order from contacts that you are subscribed to, like an old bullettin board, or the original Facebook.

Also, I think we should consider companies that provide algorithmic social media responsible for what they publish in your feed. The content may be user generated, but what is pushed to the masses is decided by them.
by breuleux | 2026-02-06 15:08:08+00:00
In the case of LLMs, "prediction" is overselling it somewhat. They are token sequence generators. Calling these sequences "predictions" vaguely corresponds to our own intent with respect to training these machines, because we use the value of the next token as a signal to either reinforce or get away from the current behavior. But there's nothing intrinsic in the inference math that says they are predictors, and we typically run inference with a high enough temperature that we don't actually generate the max likelihood tokens anyway.

The whole terminology around these things is hopelessly confused.
by echelon | 2026-02-06 15:08:40+00:00
Forest for the trees.

You see a business you like, boom competing business.

These are going to turn into business factories.

Anthropic has a business factory. They can make new businesses. Why do they need to sell that at all once it works?

We're focusing on a compiler implementation. Classic engineering mindset. We focus on the neat things that entertain us. But the real story is what these models will actually be doing to create value.
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by pcrh | 2026-02-06 15:08:52+00:00
I briefly scanned the paper. The above summary is garbage.

For a biologist, a summary might be like this: pcr fragments are generated with short reverse complementary sequences added to the end of one fragment that match that at the begining of the next to-be-joined fragment.

These will anneal to create a cross-shaped DNA molecule. The short arms of the cross being the complementary sequences. Like so:

======∥=====

The short arms can then be processed-off to leave behind the now-longer fragment. The process can be repeated using different reverse complementary sequences between each fragment, the "page numbers" referred to.
by ecshafer | 2026-02-06 15:08:55+00:00
I have found it to really depend on the company. Large companies, there is a ton of time spent on architecture reviews, paperwork, design, hitting new library updates, etc. That work is on seniors, then mid levels do a lot of the actual coding (at least in my experience).

But I have worked in some areas that its not like that. What we are building is decided pretty quick, but the implementation takes a month of two.
by trentnix | 2026-02-06 15:08:55+00:00
It's my favorite movie of all time, even though it's one of those movies that I don't expect anyone else to like. It's just a shot of joyful nostalgia right into my veins every time I watch it.

Explorers, the Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix movie from the mid-80s, is my #2 for the same reasons.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-06 15:08:57+00:00
This is cool - the ~70% success rate on basic attacks tracks with what I've seen. Most agent frameworks just pipe raw text through without any sanitization because "it's just summarizing a page, what could go wrong."

The screenshot approach nate mentions is interesting but feels like trading one problem for another. You're immune to text injection but now vulnerable to visual tricks - misleading rendered text, fake UI elements, those unicode lookalike characters that render identically but have different meanings.

Curious if you've tested any agents that do pre-processing on the HTML - like stripping invisible elements, normalizing unicode, etc - before passing to the model. That's the approach I've seen in a few internal tools but haven't benchmarked how effective it actually is against multi-layer attacks like yours.
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-02-06 15:09:00+00:00
Flink is too slow for this.

If by features you mean tracking state per user, that stuff can be tracked without Flink insanely fast with Redis as well.

If you re saying they dont have to load data to update the state, I dont see how massive these states are to require inmemory updates, and if so, you could just do inmemory updates without Flink.

Similarly, any consumer will have to deal with batches of users and pipelining.

Flink is just a bottleneck.

If they actually use Flink for this, its not the moat.
by nyrikki | 2026-02-06 15:09:14+00:00
Warning, this post is not covering the ‘systems thinking’ that most of you will be expected to know in staff level jobs, it is using the term for up front design.

In a more typical modern sense systems thinking is more about relationships and wholes, rather than isolating parts, which is the traditional engineering approach.

While much of the base material on systems thinking will be based around cybernetics, it is really a complement to traditional engineering, used in parallel to identity more natural complexity boundaries and to help avoid confusion and accidental complexity.

Gregor Hohpe’s Architect Elevator is probably a good place to start on why this change in perspective is important and why investing in flexibility is crucial when there is uncertainty.

While you may have to accept this article’s definition in some groups, accepting the more modern definition will help you get jobs in places that are nicer to work.

This type of false dichotomy that is presented in the article is a warning that there is soft work to be done.

People mentioning mechanical engineering in this thread are possibly the people who may benefit most from examining the material. I encourage you to see if this is a path forward for your needs.
Show HN: Hibana – An Affine MPST Runtime for Rust
by o8vm | 2026-02-06 15:09:49+00:00
Hi HN — I just open-sourced Hibana and hibana-agent.

Hibana is an Affine MPST runtime for Rust:
- global choreography -> compile-time projection -> role-local execution
- core is no_std / no_alloc-oriented
- deterministic route/offer/recv/decode model

Repo: https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana
Demo (AI control with session-typed branching): https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana-agent
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-06 15:09:51+00:00
You'd think so.

I think YouTube has no idea that when I see 70% ads for things that are transparently scams, the other 30% of advertisers are being scammed too because I'm going to assume that they are all scams. Meta has been busted for putting it in writing that they could do something about scam ads but won't because it would cost them revenue in the short term.
by inetknght | 2026-02-06 15:09:53+00:00
> For signed payloads there is no difference, you're trusting <client>'s authentication code to read a blob, a signature and validate it according to a public key.

Assuming this all came through unencrypted HTTP:

- you're also trusting that the client's HTTP stack is parsing HTTP content correctly

- for that matter, you're also trusting that the server (and any man-in-the-middle) is generating valid HTTP responses

- you're also trusting that the client's response parser doesn't have a vulnerability (and not, say, ignoring some "missing closing bracket" or something)

- you're also trusting that the client is parsing the correct signature (and not, say, some other signature that was tacked-on later)

It's trivially easy to disassemble software to find vulnerabilities like those, though. So it's a lot of trust given for an untrusted software stack.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-06 15:09:59+00:00
> Shame on Apple for creating a honeypot for scam ads in what they consider to be a premium news service. This company cannot be trusted with ads in its products any more.

As a longtime Mac nerd, this makes the ads story even worse than it already was. See this [0] (unrelated to me) article on the ways that Cook's focus on the stock has caused rot for a good summation of how software / services are tanking at Apple.

All plugged-in Apple nerds have been aware of the decline. It's finally reached an apex where it's getting a lot of blog posts. I really hope they're noticing (I think they are - John Gruber wasn't granted a live interview after criticizing their AI efforts last year), but I don't expect them to act rationally in response).

As a decades-long Apple nerd who feared the company would collapse in the 90s, it's fucking horrid.

0. The Fallen Apple - https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/
Ask HN: Good way to come to with a realistic weekend project?
by nmstoker | 2026-02-06 15:10:03+00:00
How do people here come up with realistic but engaging weekend projects? What inspires your projects? Where do you look for ideas/worthy problems?

I normally have a few ideas on the boil but I'm struggling for something right now: I was a victim of a violent assault earlier in the week, I am not in a state to go out and I'm struggling to think of something to occupy me (and take my mind off what happened!) that's not too vast/daunting but is also worth spending a bit of time on.

Usually I'm pretty creative / imaginative but I suspect the shock has made those aspects take a back seat... The only things that spring to mind are over ambitious for the timeframe. It doesn't strictly need to be a one-weekend only thing but I would like to get some sense of good progress, hence my desire to ponder a manageable scale project.

I'm a fairly all rounder tech, mainly using Python, modest JS, various AI tools.

I suppose if I can find a problem that resonates I'd figure out something from there, but like I say, the creativity isn't flowing!

Previous side projects I've done of this sort of scale include:

- personal doc/paper store/exploration tool with automated tagging and similar doc suggestion

- TTS heteronym prediction (to say ambiguous text in the expected way)

- a chess match viewer for PGN files in the browser

- various simple chatbots (pre-genAI and post) most recently a nice PowerPoint creator

I suppose one alternative is to try building something inspired by a tutorial/cloning an existing tool for learning purposes - that may fit better because there's a bit of direction already baked in, but ideally I'd find a new project.

Any suggestions?
by stuffn | 2026-02-06 15:10:15+00:00
Unless of course you’re training practical, useful strength. Which requires intense bursts of weight training, and balance between tempo runs, rucks with 35-40% of body weight, and slow run/jogs. Weightlifting is a small part of a larger picture of strength and being able to put it to use. Cardio is the single most important thing you can train because without a gas tank you’re just a fat, slow, strong slob.

You don’t need to be elite nor on juice to do this. All you need is a purpose. I do this all the time, am over 35, and not on juice. My fitness is great but no where near elite.

Rippetoe is an obnoxious jackass and you can venture to his forums (cult) to see it. He’s great at making fat, out of shape, strongmen. He’s not great at producing a fighter, tradesman, or operator. When you want to know what works look to the people actually using their fitness not morons like him who proselytize and look like the hardest thing they do all day is eat a pack of bon Bons.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-06 15:10:16+00:00
It doesn’t help that now other potential growth markets for AWS, like the EU, now are getting pushed to have more and more data sovereignty due to the administrations antipathy towards allies. Musk can whine all he wants about the EU, but that’s like complaining about customers that don’t want to buy your products instead of building a good product they trust and want to buy.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-06 15:10:38+00:00
Yea, I was instantly thinking on what kind of optical tricks you could play on the LLM in this case.

I was looking at some posts not long ago where LLMs were falling for the same kind of optical illusions that humans do, in this case the same color being contrasted by light and dark colors appears to be a different color.

If the attacker knows what model you're using then it's very likely they could craft attacks against it based on information like this. What those attacks are still need explored. If I were arsed to do it, I'd start by injecting noise patterns in images that could be interpreted as text.
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-06 15:10:48+00:00
Interesting in the comments Oop also explains that the "customer" had the AI bot discuss maths and percentages before it created the discount code.

My reading is that the code did not work on the sales gateway. Although, it's not totally clear.

The consensus is that fulfillment is not enforceable as the website would act as an invitation to treat and not a contract.
by mbreese | 2026-02-06 15:10:49+00:00
This makes me wonder if Amazon the retailer requires having access to AWS services “at cost” in order to be profitable. If AWS was spun out completely, would Amazon proper be able to afford their AWS bill of AWS had a profit margin on it.

I’m sure Amazon.com would be fine, but it would take a chunk out of their margins. I’m also sure that their X% ownership of the spun out AWS would cover the difference.
by robocat | 2026-02-06 15:10:55+00:00
We should just blame "the willies".

Investment is all about belief. When the root cause is the willies, then we hallucinate reasons together.

Crypto and memes have demonstrated us a lot about the drives of individual investors.

Unfortunately it seems that professional investors are not that much more rational (from my limited personal experience with a small hedge fund, and from my years of looking at markets).

My favourite term has always been "taking profits" which is generated by the technical analysis (I loath that term) of looking at the prices: taking an effect and publishing a cause (trying to sound smart).

We are deeply irrational beings; often the more you go up a professional ladder the more rationalisation you see.

During unstable periods, we see lots of weird side-effects and there is a lot that doesn't seem to make sense.

Edit: a better meme could be "The use of AI by funds is destabilising markets"

Disclaimer: I am not a professional investor. I am a cynic.
by naravara | 2026-02-06 15:11:30+00:00
Apple News unironically would have been better if they had just made an RSS reader with a way to subscription gate feeds and a rule that you have to do provide the full text of the article. They could have just put their energy into just polishing up a known and weathered and broadly adopted technology but nooooo, they needed something with platform lock-in so they could book more “services revenue.”

They didn’t need to do like half the work they did, and a lot of what they did do in order to make the news feeds prettier are seldom adopted because Apple doesn’t want to do the hard partnership work to drive and support it.
by ultrafox42 | 2026-02-06 15:12:09+00:00
Update: v1.9.0 – Cross-platform screenshots

Just shipped a new feature: AiDex can now take screenshots directly via MCP. Four modes: fullscreen, active window, specific window (by
title), and interactive region selection.

The killer use case: error dialogs or UI bugs where you can't even copy the text. Your AI assistant captures the region, reads the image,
and immediately understands the problem. No manual file paths, no clipboard gymnastics.

Works on Windows (PowerShell + .NET), macOS (screencapture), and Linux (maim/scrot). No new dependencies.

aidex_screenshot({ mode: "window", window_title: "VS Code" })
aidex_screenshot({ mode: "region" }) // user draws a rectangle
aidex_windows({ filter: "chrome" }) // find window titles

npm update -g aidex-mcp to get it.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-06 15:12:12+00:00
Wealth that isn't being spent is effectively inert and frozen. It may have some precautionary value for the person who's holding it, but this is immaterial once you get to the million-dollar range, let alone the billions. The only interesting thing to ask about is what happens once the wealth is in fact being spent. (Of course, this wealth is generally invested in productive ventures and not literally 'frozen'; but this is a happy side effect, not something that's expressly chosen by whoever holds it. They're simply allocating it so that it 'compounds' effectively.)
by ToValueFunfetti | 2026-02-06 15:12:20+00:00
Of course I'm not saying this! There's no way to read what I said and get this out unless you put it in! You're supposed to be charitable here and you are actively doing the opposite.

If you punch John Doe in the face becaune you think he's Hitler; if you torture Hitler's parents just to stick it to him, yes, you are in the wrong.
by krapp | 2026-02-06 15:12:39+00:00
"some" implies more than one. There was only one. There weren't any more, and there doesn't seem to be any sign of more. And this happened in a city where people get shot to death every day.

Life is literally no less safe for CEOs in the US post-Mangione then prior. The whole narrative that he represented some kind of social or cultural inflection point against CEOs was simply false, and the ones that are actually afraid already hire security because getting kidnapped for ransom is a much bigger threat than being shot in the street.
by jfengel | 2026-02-06 15:12:42+00:00
What I'd really like to see is a label on original reporting.

Even beyond AI, the vast majority of news is re-packaging information you got from somewhere else. AI can replace the re-writers, but not the original journalists, people who spoke to primary sources (or who were themselves eyewitnesses).

Any factual document should reference its sources. If not, it should be treated skeptically, regardless of whether AI or a human is doing that.

An article isn't automatically valueless just because it's synthesized. It can focus and contextualize, regardless of whether it's human or AI written. But it should at the very least be able to say "This is the actual fact of the matter", with a link to it. (And if AI has hallucinated the link, that's a huge red flag.)
by fathermarz | 2026-02-06 15:13:02+00:00
I have been inspired by all the use cases that are popping up from a proactive assistant, but lightweight is the last thing I would want when it comes to locking it down.

I started building my own version and before I even think about letting it loose, every facet needs to be designed and thought out. I have more tests than these lightweight libraries have code.

To me I don’t care about the size, I care about not getting wrecked.
by aktau | 2026-02-06 15:13:04+00:00
From the GitHub page:

LiteBox is a sandboxing library OS that drastically cuts down the interface to the host, thereby reducing attack surface. It focuses on easy interop of various "North" shims and "South" platforms. LiteBox is designed for usage in both kernel and non-kernel scenarios.

LiteBox exposes a Rust-y nix/rustix-inspired "North" interface when it is provided a Platform interface at its "South". These interfaces allow for a wide variety of use-cases, easily allowing for connection between any of the North--South pairs.

Example use cases include:

- Running unmodified Linux programs on Windows
- Sandboxing Linux applications on Linux
- Run programs on top of SEV SNP
- Running OP-TEE programs on Linux
- Running on LVBS
by akameldev | 2026-02-06 15:13:29+00:00
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by kibwen | 2026-02-06 15:14:08+00:00
That doesn't make a difference here. Even with a nonzero temperature, an LLM could still be deterministic as long as you have control of its random seed. As the article says:

"This gets to my core point. What changes with LLMs isn’t primarily nondeterminism, unpredictability, or hallucination. It’s that the programming interface is functionally underspecified by default."
by vel0city | 2026-02-06 15:14:13+00:00
Note: I'm not really super pro-ads, and I've never worked in the advertising industry. I don't like the existing hyper-advertised world we live in.

> Both sides spending billions on marketing would result in roughly the same outcome as both sides spending nothing on marketing

This is an assumption not backed by data. But its pretty much impossible to truly test this hypothesis at any real scale. What data we do have is if many brands stop advertising when they used to do advertising, they tend to start to lose sales. But, as you point out, their competitors didn't necessarily reduce advertising as well, its not testing "what if everyone cut advertising".

> But if your product is so great, why haven't I heard about it via things like independent reviews or personal recommendations already?

Its an assumption these people would have even found the product in the first place, or were willing to give it a try, or even know the product category or type exists in the first place, and that this organic growth would have happened fast enough to keep the product alive. If everyone is basing their decisions off word of mouth, are there really going to be enough people in your network to buck the trend and give a scrappy new competitor a go and have their opinion make decent enough waves?

A world without any advertising at all seems to me to be a place where entrenched names in markets end up dominating based purely on people practically never finding the competitors. They become the default, the go to. This still largely happens in this over-marketed world today though, I do agree, but I think that's more of over-consolidation of producers and distributors having an outsized say on what we see in a lot of physical stores.

That world without any advertising also leads to some things not being made that would have otherwise existed, things that people generally like. Lots of magazines and other publications practically live off some amount of marketing, and they largely exist as a format for people to go see what's happening in a given industry. Lots of things like sports leagues/teams rely on sponsorships. Would there be Formula 1 racing if they didn't have those corporate sponsors?

I do agree especially internet advertising is largely destroying the internet. I don't understand how anyone uses mobile web pages without an ad blocker these days. Its absolutely terrible looking at anyone else's phones that doesn't block the ads, every page is more ad than content. We've definitely gone too far.