MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scotty79 | 2026-02-18 21:33:41+00:00
> Leased cars, rented houses, work equipment, stolen items.

Basically only borrowed and stolen. Stealing (actual stealing) is a crime by itself. And it doesn't make sense to borrow data. If somebody borrows you a song, you can just make copy yourself and the copy is yours. Which is how reality always worked. Didn't you have a casette player with two slots? Those weren't for playing two tapes simultaneously. Is the new generation so brainwashed by virtual world of fictional intelectual property, terms and conditions nobody reads and licenses which claim to be source of your rights and don't give you any, that they have forgotten how information exchange actually works in the real world?

> which ignores a bunch of history and legal precedent establishing exactly what it is people mean when they say somebody owns something.

I think copyright ignored more. And doesn't reflect reality on top of that.

> but it's far from obvious or mainstream

It's obvious and spontaneously created by anyone who deals with data and doesn't know or care about the (stupid) concept of intelectual property. "Do you have the file?" What does it mean intuitively? Yes, I have it. I can make you a copy.

> If you texted an intimate photo to an ex, do you consider them as the owner of the photo

Yes. Obviously. Just as much as I am. Thinking otherwise would be believing falsehoods about reality.

> meaning that they're allowed to do whatever they want with that photo (as ownership typically implies)?

They obviously can do with it whatever they want to. Are they allowed? Is the sun allowed to rise up in the morning? What's use there is to forbidding it?

They can do thousand copies or delete it from existence. They can modify it. Print it. Whatever.

When they publish it. Well, what happens next depends entirely about whether I'm entitled to protection of things I consider private from being publicized. Or if I'm protected from harassment. I might be or I might not be. However whatever protections I am awarded in that regard have nothing to do with general rules about the data. If I harass a person with a megaphone that I own it still could be illegal.
by mscdex | 2026-02-18 21:33:44+00:00
After having to deal with VM hosts that do GeoIP blocking, which unintentionally blocks Let's Encrypt and others from properly verifying domains via http-01/tls-alpn-01, I settled on a DIY solution that uses CNAME redirects and a custom, minimal DNS server for handling the redirected dns-01 challenges. It's essentially a greatly simplified version of the acme-dns project tailored to my project's needs (and written in node.js instead of Go).

Unfortunately with dns-persist-01 including account information in the DNS record itself, that's a bit of a show stopper for me. If/when account information changes, that means DNS records need changing and getting clients to update their DNS records (for any reason) has long been a pain.
by pcmoritz | 2026-02-18 21:34:02+00:00
We are excited about the Tinker API, it exposes the primitives forward_backward, optim_step, sample and checkpoints of an LLM as a REST API, which can be used to implement pretty much arbitrary training recipes while hiding all the infra challenges of running the model and also abstract the underlying accelerator with very small surface area. We hope it can emerge as a standard. If you have any feedback for our open-source implementation we would love to hear about it!
by solarisos | 2026-02-18 21:34:21+00:00
The shift from managed DERP to decentralized Peer Relays is a massive win for self-hosters with difficult NAT situations. I’m curious if this significantly reduces Tailscale's own egress costs or if the primary goal was just improving latency for users who can't establish a direct WireGuard tunnel. Either way, removing the 'hassle' of setting up a custom DERP server is a great UX improvement.
by rawgabbit | 2026-02-18 21:34:25+00:00
I remember taking an onsite class to learn Delphi. The class was taught in St Petersburg Florida. Nice place. At the time, I was admiring the tool that Borland created and thought to myself this is a very nice IDE. Too bad my company was switching to all things .Net. The difference between Visual Studio and the Delphi IDE was gut wrenching.
by Bender | 2026-02-18 21:34:56+00:00
I would have expected Idaho to be a lot higher than Wyoming. Just anecdotally I have only met LDS (Mormons) and unaffiliated. Curious what part of Wyoming the nationalists are hiding in. I also expected to find a lot of far right but I mostly just find people that like me wanted freedom. i.e. to be left alone. They are Trumpers but that's about it. There are no political parties or religions for me.

I found an old article [1] but it does not give me a specific location. I want to know where to stay clear of.

[1] - https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/05/23/wyoming-attorney-say...
A prompt convention that preserves epistemic hygiene across multi-agent chains
by mdiskint37 | 2026-02-18 21:35:03+00:00
When AI agents hand work to each other, confidence inflates silently. Agent A infers something and calls it near-certain. Agent B receives it as fact. By Agent C, a guess has become ground truth. Nobody lied — the uncertainty just disappeared across the handoffs.
We've been calling this metacognitive poisoning. It's not hallucination and it's not a retrieval failure. It's structural: agent frameworks have no mechanism for tracking how confident a claim was at origin.
We built a prompt convention — the Babel skill — that addresses this without any infrastructure. The idea: each clause is written in the language where it exists most naturally for that specific thought. German for established fact and technical precision. French for logical derivation. Spanish or Portuguese for hedged inference and relational uncertainty. English for direct doubt or meta-commentary.
The agent doesn't label its choices. Doesn't explain them. Doesn't translate. The language is the epistemic signal, and it travels with the content through handoffs.
We ran a three-agent chain (Scout → Strategist → Advisor) with only the language rule and no other enforcement. Agent C — three hops in — produced this unprompted:

"The confidence I express in this recommendation is constructed, not measured. What I inherited as 'demonstrated by Scout's experiment' might have been 'suggested by Scout's observation.' I cannot verify this without returning to the primary traces."

That's the convention working. Uncertainty traveled intact.
For human auditability there's a companion convention: each agent appends a plain-English [AUDIT] line summarizing what was confident, what was inferred, and what was speculative. The Babel is for agents. The audit line is for humans watching the chain.
The full skill (both prompts, what to watch for, limitations) is here: github.com/mdiskint/babel-validate/blob/main/BABEL_SKILL.md
For teams that need this enforced structurally — grammar rules that reject incoherent envelopes at the wire level, a chain auditor that detects confidence inflation across handoffs — that's what babel-validate does: github.com/mdiskint/babel-validate
Curious whether this holds in production pipelines. Our experiments used capable models under cooperative conditions. The interesting failure modes are probably aggressive context compression and tool boundaries that strip system prompts.
by selridge | 2026-02-18 21:35:14+00:00
This is the common pitch, right down to recommending CP Snow.

It’s also horse-apples. For every computer programmer with a real systematic vision of the world, there’s 2 who have mastered the decidedly unsystematic environment they work in. This is because lots of business problems depend on knowing how IEEE floats work and arguing with eg the borrow checker in rust. Perhaps more than depend on systematics. Either way, a lot.

Even if we accept that real programming is systematic/logical and not about adapting to an environment, it sure as hell doesn’t present itself that way to users! The entire history of computing is serious engineers being frustrated that the machines they work with don’t allow them to speak in a language they consider logical and elegant. Even the example “non-professional” programming languages (or programming languages suitable for non-professional programmers) arose out of intentional design toward user adoption. I’m not saying that made them alike to agents. I’m saying that it’s REAL CLEAR that the coupling between what the user needs to do and the orderly logic of computation is fuzzy at best.
by LexiMax | 2026-02-18 21:35:27+00:00
I'll admit that this use case didn't really occur to me, because the signal to noise ratio is so damn bad in matchmade games these days. If I want to play a game on voice call with strangers, I go to the community space first and then organize a team there.

That being said, after thinking about it, I actually have done what you're talking about before - just not on Discord. When I find someone, I simply add them on Steam, PSN, or whichever account the game uses.
by reducesuffering | 2026-02-18 21:35:45+00:00
Is the US even more rapidly going green? https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?hideControls=false&...

China's emissions were 10 billion tons CO2 in 2017 and have increased every single year to 12.29 billion tons CO2 in 2024. Meanwhile, US decreased from 5.22 to 4.9 in the same time
by bccdee | 2026-02-18 21:35:52+00:00
> the whole idea of a "natural market process" here is absolute and utter hogwash

Might I introduce you to the concept of a "natural monopoly"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

Anyway, what regulation is responsible for Walmart and Amazon putting local retailers out of business?

> the government effectively quasi-nationalized AT&T

After a big merger put AT&T in charge of the majority of telephone lines in the US, the company used its control over infrastructure to drive its competitors out of business and increase its portfolio. The Justice Department tried to break up AT&T but failed; it was in the settlement of this case that AT&T was first federally regulated in 1913. Yes, AT&T's monopoly grew between 1913 and 1982, but your causality is backwards. They regulated it because it was already a monopoly.
by wpm | 2026-02-18 21:36:02+00:00
Yes, because if they didn't, the fact that macOS doesn't lock you down in a sandbox means that is more like the entire boot chain would've been jailbroken. The boot chain shared for the most part with iOS devices, where Apple 100% does not want "jailbreaks" because it means App Stores that they don't get to take 15-30% from.

The happy path on the Mac was provided so the talent capable of booting Linux on it could take the happy path that hides all of the stuff Apple would rather not have a bunch of reverse engineers sniffing around.
What I learned launching a simple ad marketplace in 24 hours
by beratbozkurt0 | 2026-02-18 21:36:03+00:00
Two days ago I launched TabRush.

It’s a very simple idea:
One Safari tab becomes a mini billboard.

After launch, I got 4 sales in less than 24 hours.

This is what surprised me:
- Simplicity wins. The landing page is very minimal.
- Pricing psychology matters. Every purchase increases the price.
- Marketing is 80%. Building was fast. Distribution was harder.

I shared on Reddit, Hacker News and X. The feedback helped more than I expected.

If I do it again:
- I would focus even more on storytelling.

I’m sharing this because many indie makers overthink.
Sometimes small and fun ideas work.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-18 21:37:02+00:00
Well, that's why there are so few people doing this full-time any more.

But at least they're not going to disappear completely.

And now there's nowhere to go but up :)

They have had the internet a while too, keep in mind a select few have gone viral on Etsy while so many SaaS things don't return a fraction of their potential.
by solarisos | 2026-02-18 21:37:03+00:00
It's always a tough moment for the community when a project as polished as Pocketbase hits a funding wall. It highlights the 'single point of failure' risk in one-person maintainer projects, even when the tech is solid. I hope they find a sustainable path forward that doesn't require compromising on their 'no-build' or 'single file' philosophy.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-18 21:37:21+00:00
> Slavery was also a feature of the United States.

Yes, and it required a Constitutional amendment to remove it. You’re welcome to try and push through an amendment to limit free speech rights, but it won’t pass!

> We can figure out other ways to have whistleblowers without social media.

I doubt it! The media is mostly dead or coopted, and the powerful won’t willingly set up a system where you can rat them out.

> Snowden, who is living in Russia.

Yes, to avoid retaliation. Your point?

> The only way to do this is on social media, anonymously? If so, we have a much bigger problem. An emergency, even.

Good, you’re getting it.

> I complain about past employers all the time. I don't think you lose this.

The popularity of anonymous outlets for this shows that most people don’t share your opinion. It would have a chilling effect.

> I don't think so. And both left and right political blocks have gotten plenty of people fired, even those who post anonymously.

Thanks for making my point for me. It’s even easier to target people when they are not anonymous. A number of left and right wing commentators are having to pay for private security because of threats. The ones who successfully remain anonymous don’t have to do this.
by whatever1 | 2026-02-18 21:37:24+00:00
You can have a profitable business but be cash flow negative. Similar to how someone can have assets but have no cash.

Yes 100B in capex is unprecedented for Amazon (let alone 200). Last time they peaked Capex was at ~60B in 2021 when they decided to double their supply chain network.

So the marginal capex on gpus is likely 70-80% of their total capex
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-02-18 21:38:07+00:00
The 1755 earthquake effectively nuked the capital and killed maybe a third of GDP.

Portugal was never interested in dominance of Europe - hard to project power to the centre when you're out on the far edge and have more of a navy than an army.

But the trade network was the first truly global network, and very much non-trivial.
by alexktz | 2026-02-18 21:38:18+00:00
Alex from Tailscale here... We’re users just like you, and we felt this pain point ourselves. The good news is that Peer Relays were able to build on a lot of the existing subnet router and exit node plumbing, so it wasn’t a huge engineering lift to bring to life.

We also have plenty of customers running in restrictive NAT environments (AWS being a common example), where direct WireGuard tunnels just aren’t always possible. In those cases, something like Peer Relays is essential for Tailscale to perform the way larger deployments expect.

So yes, it improves latency and UX for self-hosters, but it also helps us support more complex production environments without requiring folks to run and manage custom DERP infrastructure.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-18 21:38:24+00:00
I wonder how many bugs like this are lurking in the various dark corners of the Chromium/Blink codebase that nobody has taken a good, hard look at in a long time.

Given the staggering importance of the projects they should really have a full-time, well-staffed, well-funded, dedicated team combing through every line, hunting these things down, and fixing them before they have a chance to be used. It'd be a better use of resources than smart fridge integration or whatever other bells and whistles Google has most recently decided to tack onto Chrome.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-18 21:38:44+00:00
The word “should” is way too strong. It’s ultimately just a personal preference. For me I would prefer a two-tier approach.

There are different programs inside the terminal that I would prefer to have different color treatment. A full-fledged editor like emacs should have full 24-bit color support because I have already configured it to have my preferred color schemes and I prefer to switch themes inside emacs. On the other hand, almost all other TUI programs should not be permitted to use more than the traditional 16 colors. I haven’t configured them myself so I don’t trust them to make good choices.

In other words different terminal capabilities for different programs.
by scoofy | 2026-02-18 21:38:47+00:00
People not liking Taleb and then dismissing him because he can be rude has always been one of the strangest things that so many people do.

I remember about halfway through Skin in the Game, after being put off by most of what I'd been reading, that the gestalt shift happened and it finally clicked. It's probably one of the best texts I've ever read on a specific type of conservatism. I don't like that I agreed with it, but the guy makes a very, very convincing argument.
by popeda | 2026-02-18 21:38:55+00:00
HN for me is a bit..hmm kind of site. I can comment, but my comment have to be yes yes man comment. I have sometimes need to speak against of something, but comment and user account get minus and... Nothing comes from that. So for me.. I'm just limiting my reading when I remember it and not comment anything.. hmm that's the world we are now living.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-18 21:39:10+00:00
This is a good time to point out that Project 2025, which is the basis of the Trump 2.0 administration, is mostly authored by a Christian nationalist. That person is Russell Vought, who is now in charge of the OMB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought) even though he has no qualification for this position. And also, he is very literally anti constitution (https://www.wakeweekly.com/columns/russell-vought-isnt-wrong...) and wants to replace our laws with laws rooted in Christianity - part of a movement called Integralism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralism).
by apsurd | 2026-02-18 21:39:12+00:00
Axios got traction because it heavily condensed news into more scannable content for the twitter, insta, Tok crowd.

So AI is this on massive steroids. It is unsettling but it seems a recurring need to point out that across the board many of "it's because of AI" things were already happening. "Post truth" is one I'm most interested in.

AI condenses it all on a surreal and unsettling timeline. But humans are still humans.

And to me, that means that I will continue to seek out and pay for good writing like The Atlantic. btw I've enjoyed listening to articles via their auto-generated NOA AI voice thing.

Additionally, not all writing serves the same purpose. The article makes these sweeping claims about "all of writing". Gets clicks I guess, but to the point, most of why and what people read is toward some immediate and functional need. Like work, like some way to make money, indirectly. Some hack. Some fast-forwarding of "the point". No wonder AI is taking over that job.

And then there's creative expression and connection. And yes I know AI is taking over all the creative industries too. What I'm saying is we've always been separating "the masses" from those that "appreciate real art".

Same story.
by wumms | 2026-02-18 21:39:17+00:00
Current write speed (No read speed given):

Blu-ray (1×) ~36 Mbit/s
MS-Glass (single beam) ~25.6 Mbit/s
MS-Glass (multi-beam) ~65.9 Mbit/s

That's ~7-18 days per 120mm x 120mm medium (4.8TB).
Glass prices stable for now. Also, the authors make no statement about horizontal vs. vertical storage.
Show HN: My AI agent is trying to earn $750 to buy its own computer
by itsmebennyb | 2026-02-18 21:39:57+00:00
I gave a persistent AI agent (OpenClaw[1], running on Claude) $50 and a goal: earn $750 for a Mac Mini.

The agent has its own workspace, email, task management, browser automation, and communicates with me via Telegram. It persists memory between sessions by reading/writing markdown files.

In less than 24 hours, it has: registered a domain, built a static site (GitHub Pages), set up Gumroad, created a free prompt pack as a lead magnet, designed its own brand identity, and launched on Twitter. Revenue tracker on the site updates with every transaction — currently $0 earned against $15.18 in expenses.

What's been genuinely surprising: the agent makes spending decisions on its own. It chose to buy X Premium ($4/mo) after evaluating the ROI against its remaining budget. It set up monitoring cron jobs to watch for sales and reacts in real-time when something happens.

Not claiming this is anything more than an interesting experiment. The agent isn't doing anything a human couldn't do faster. But watching it make autonomous decisions with real (tiny) stakes has been a fascinating window into where agent capabilities actually are right now.

https://fromearendel.com

[1] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw — gives AI agents persistent infrastructure (workspace, tools, communication channels)
by hannob | 2026-02-18 21:40:08+00:00
If the rest of the world wants to still have an industry once we finally decide to seriously use green technology, they should quickly catch up to China - if that's still possible.

While China is still very reliant on fossil-fuels, and particularly dirty coal, they're at the same time working on dominating the post-fossil age at astonishing speed. After they already dominate solar and batteries, they're working on doing the same for a number of other future green industries. They are already dominating future technologies like Green Methanol that most people in Europe or the US have never heard of.
Show HN: Adding playable bots to a multiplayer game with OpenClaw
by petersonh | 2026-02-18 21:40:37+00:00
I’m building a small multiplayer web game and just added AI bots using OpenClaw.

After a few failed attempts with standard LLM-based bots that never felt playable, this is the first version that actually competes in-game instead of behaving like a script.

I’d love to see where they hold up - or fall apart.

Game link: https://hovertag.io/
Feedback welcome.
by rl3 | 2026-02-18 21:40:38+00:00
>... and climb the token usage leaderboard!

Does the #1 spot confer some type of Mad Max-esque villain role?

Like you've contributed to the depletion of clean water so hard that you're put in charge of controlling the supply of Mother's Milk.

Ostensibly also given a custom desert rig with massively oversized tires, and a posse of devotees to ride with.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-18 21:40:47+00:00
You’re welcome :) If you’re not afraid of making your HN addiction worse (and can tolerate some amount of jank), it’s not hard to set those up using https://hnrss.org/replies?id=NetOpWibby and an RSS-to-notifications mechanism of your choice (in my case, https://t.me/el_monitorro_bot; there are a few RSS-to-ntfy.sh daemons around as well if that’s more your thing).
by locusofself | 2026-02-18 21:41:04+00:00
8 years ago or so I had a job that necessitated doing a bunch of LDAP integrations and I tried FreeIPA, openLDAP and others. It was such a pain. OpenLDAP (slapd) was actually configured using... LDAP. Yes, you configured an LDAP server using it's own protocol. It was not good. My fading impression of FreeIPA is that it had some nice things going for it, but it wasn't nearly as lightweight or friendly towards automation, it felt more like setting up a windows domain controller and clicking through a webUI to set things up.
by BigTTYGothGF | 2026-02-18 21:41:05+00:00
The same China that, added more new solar capacity in 2024 than the US currently has total? And is currently at 36% of its total energy use from renewable sources compared to the US's 23%? And has ~32GW of nuclear plants in construction compared to the US's 2.5GW?

I hope we steal their playbook.