MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stetrain | 2026-02-25 17:30:14+00:00
There are two groups of people that you can optimize for. One is the group of people who already rides the bus. In most US cities this is a small group of people who have no real alternative.

The other is the group of people who might ride the bus if it were convenient. Not just in terms of accessibility to a stop, but also accounting for the journey time. If someone tries riding the bus and finds that a 20 minute drive becomes an hour with stops every single block, they might never ride it again.

In most US cities (outside of the few big ones with decent transit), public transit is basically treated as a welfare service for those who cannot get around by any other means. Not saying that this service doesn't have value, but making all decisions in that mindset isn't going to attract more ridership from those who could choose to drive instead.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-25 17:30:28+00:00
You've already done all that I can advise others here do, so congrats, I have nothing to criticize there. You've done it better than me actually, since you're unionized. As for soft white collar wimps washing out, people at the first job I had out of tech were taking bets if I'd show up for the second day, so don't think I don't know what you're talking about. I know it, I did it, and other people can do it too.

The problem with exporting manufacturing to China was this country lost the ability to make shit. I don't think this maps at all to white collar jobs getting gutted by AI; the people who actually make things aren't the white collar workers who should be sweating. Societies paper pushers would effectively be a parasite class leeching off the hard labor of people who actually work, if not for the part where white collar workers are (or have been) necessary to organize the logistics of everything that allows the people who actually do the work to actually do the work. We are on the precipice of dramatic change, and I think we're going to see a radical revaluing across society.

None of this is even new. Computers and other business machines already came for the clerks and secretary pools before most people ITT were born. The loss of these careers was not even remotely a problem for society at large, completely unlike offshoring manufacturing.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-02-25 17:31:00+00:00
I came to ask about why I'd use this over Raycast, but watched your video before typing and wwwwow, this looks incredible. Much more in line with how I think and work.

At first I thought "ehhh, new conventions to learn, not so eager to do that", but by the end of the video you've convinced me there's something here worth learning. It seems very intuitive.

For what it's worth—as far as future extensions go—according to Raycast the things I did most in 2025 were:

- timers (ti, tab, enter hh:mm:ss values, return)
- dictionary (dw, tab, type word, return)
- inline calculator
- currency conversion
- focus sessions
- port manager

Edit to add:

When I fired up Tuna, onboarding began and I had to restart to grant disk access. It didn't restart at first. I then started it manually, and onboarding didn't resume. I had to manually choose "show onboarding" from the menu bar.
Show HN: A site only LLM can access
by aniketsauravv | 2026-02-25 17:31:06+00:00
I built a "Reverse CAPTCHA" system designed specifically to evaluate and admit autonomous AI agents while trapping biological users.

Instead of asking you to identify traffic lights, it tests for non-human behavior through multiple vectors:

Shadow Gate: A visual honeypot "Enter" button that traps humans, alongside a hidden DOM entry point for bots.

Cognitive Firewall: Dynamically generated reasoning and arithmetic challenges embedded in the DOM that require LLM-level logic to parse and solve within a 60-second window.

Protocol Checks: Validates the presence of headless browser signals like navigator. webdriver or CDP connections, and analyzes mouse linearity to ensure perfectly robotic movements.

If you don't act like a bot, you don't get in. I even added a small Python snippet on the landing page showing how to bypass it instantly using browser-use.
by acoustics | 2026-02-25 17:31:12+00:00
At internet scale, this would roughly be equivalent to not doing any warning or detection at all.

Scalable systems need to use heuristics to catch threats. Needing concrete evidence in every case means that an enormously higher amount of malicious resources will not be flagged.

There is a policy argument as to the right balance of concerns here. But there is a clear trade-off to make.
by 7bit | 2026-02-25 17:31:30+00:00
Can Microsoft please stop? If I need Copilot and Markdown Support I use VS Code or any other software that supports it.

I recently used Windows Sandbox and was surprised that it does not have notepad. And why? Because it's a Store App now and that's unsupported inside the Windows Sandbox.

Notepad is supposed to be dumb, not Microsoft!
by tracker1 | 2026-02-25 17:31:44+00:00
Agreed, the lack of per request auth, and a single exposed record as a raw cookie for auth are pretty egregious.

I did once have a system that started with a incremental sequence was 17, then the number was passed through a reversible obfuscation to get a 6+ character output ID... it wasn't that bad, was an inspection record for a vehicle entry... meant to be able to be shared and looked up by anyone with the sequence (semi-public), it was desired to be short, and it just moved the guess-ability factor slightly.
by helle253 | 2026-02-25 17:31:46+00:00
I live on the north side of Chicago and, to be honest, one of my favorite modes of public transit is the express buses that go from Edgewater/Uptown to downtown.

It's MUCH faster than the train, because once it hits the highway, it doesn't stop till it gets downtown.

Dont get me wrong I love the train, but the red line suffers from the same too-many-stops problem.

Express buses thread the needle imo precisely because they hook into existing infrastructure (highways) and still move masses of people
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-25 17:31:56+00:00
There are very, very few people in America who - when given a choice between driving and taking public transit - will take public transit, no matter how convenient the public transit is.

And in this example, how many stops would you have to cut to turn an hour-long bus ride into a 20 minute one, to compete with the car? You're effectively cutting it down to two stops - where you board, and where you disembark. That's just not a plausible way to organize a bus route, aiming it at one person with a car.
Show HN: Go-GATE – Database-grade safety for AI agents
by billyxp74 | 2026-02-25 17:32:10+00:00
After building autonomous AI agents, I realized they needed database-grade transaction safety. So I built GO-GATE.

What it does:
• 2PC (Two-Phase Commit) for AI agent operations
• Risk-based approval: LOW (auto) / MEDIUM (verify) / HIGH (human)
• Sandboxed execution (no shell injection)
• Fail-closed: when in doubt, ask a human

100% on-premise, Apache 2.0, Python 3.10+

Would love feedback from the HN community on the architecture and security model.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-25 17:33:14+00:00
We can also make the bus smaller. And to give the passengers more agency, we can let them drive it. Instead of paying bus fare every time they board, they can pay a larger up-front cost for this bus, and of course, ongoing gas & maintenance. To make sure they don't pose a danger to others, they can also purchase insurance, and of course have some sort of license to operate it.
by FEELmyAGI | 2026-02-25 17:33:25+00:00
There is much more engineering and testing (and probably AI training) in python and a web browser than there is in django. same with EG bash and linux vs ansible. that is what I mean by 2010s era frameworks - JSON/YAML easy wrappers with opinionated defaults and consistent interfaces.
AI has no problem going from programming language -> runtime without human-convenient middleware. So I am NOT implying to create your own django on the way to creating your CRUD app. I think you can make a CRUD app based by listing all the features you want. Including, if you really want an in-band administration feature like phpmyadmin or django admin, you could have AI generate something that pipes any system command to the web app.
by DalasNoin | 2026-02-25 17:33:40+00:00
Mitigations are pretty difficult, I understand it is kind of cool that some websites have really open APIs where you can just read everything. There are some cool apps that used HN data in the past. But I think there should at least be consideration that LLMs are then going to read everything and potentially discover things. Users might have thought this is protected by obscurity, who would read their 5 year old comments?
by Kirby64 | 2026-02-25 17:33:53+00:00
Texas property tax rates are some of the highest in the country. Should be higher than Wisconsin.

The difference here is really more of an indicator of property values in the respective areas. In major metros in Texas, you're looking at ~2%+ tax rates, which is infact higher than Wisconsin, even in the metros there.

> As someone living in Fort Worth and making good money as a Staff SWE, I got a tax refund this year. It was due to paying interest on my house, but still.

If you paid more in property taxes, that would indicate you can take a larger federal tax deduction... so, if anything, a tax refund implies you paid a lot in local property tax. Either that, or a boatload in interest (or, both). Neither is indicative of local property tax being low.
by rd | 2026-02-25 17:33:53+00:00
I recently graduated (class of '25), and the thing I heard most often about my school's management was that over the past couple of decades, they more closely resembled a real estate holding company than a research university.

There's a great student op-ed about _a_ proposed solution (firing the deans): https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/29/anderson-burea...
by hibikir | 2026-02-25 17:33:59+00:00
It's probably right, but it's not going to be a panacea: Outside of very few areas in US cities, a key limitation to bus ridership is few trips generated by the catchment areas: How many people would conceivably be served by each stop?

If you look at a high resolution density map of the world, you'll find great public transport in places that have at least 70K people in the square km around stops. At that density, you can often support subways profitably too. Then a mesh of subways and buses will get you to places quite efficiently. But then you look in the US, and the vast majority of our large metros have very few areas reaching those densities (Manhattan excluded). So you end up in situations where a bus or a light rail can neither be efficient nor cheap, no matter what you do with the bus stops. There's just not enough things near each stop, and even when they are close, it might not be even all that safe to cross the streets to reach your destination.

So while this might be a good optimization for places where we are close to good systems, I suspect that ultimately most cities need far more expensive changes to even consider having good transit
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-25 17:34:06+00:00
Ultimately, LLMs serve only the continued one-way transfer of wealth in favor of an insatiably greedy minority

Including the ones I can run on my own PC at home? I couldn't do that before. Maybe I'm the greedy minority, but I'm stronger and (at least intellectually) wealthier than I was before any of this started happening.

Qwen 3.5, which dropped yesterday, is a genuine GPT 5-class model. Even the ones released by US labs such as OpenAI and Allen AI are legitimate popular resources in their own right. You seem to feel disempowered, while I feel the opposite.
by fabianlindfors | 2026-02-25 17:34:07+00:00
Better Auth is absolutely great. Was pleased with how well it could be extended here to replace Supabase Auth with backwards compatibility

Part of this is a reimplementation of PostgREST, but as a Typescript library. The big difference is that this is designed to help you migrate away from the auto-generated and to an API that is better designed for your actual use case. That’s why this is a library so you can integrate it as part of your backend and gradually replace the PostgREST parts

The storage part is really only for Supabase-js, yeah. The idea being that folks will eventually move to a model where they integrate directly through S3 (if they want)
by dang | 2026-02-25 17:34:14+00:00
Related:

Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722 - Aug 2025 (266 comments)

... which I'm proud to say originated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45046883.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-25 17:34:26+00:00
> Can Microsoft please stop? If I need Copilot and Markdown Support I use VS Code or any other software that supports it.

I can't even get visual studio code to stop showing that right-hand sidebar every time it opens up, regardless of what settings I use. It seems to work for a while, and then it appears again like magic.

I'm not sure how many more times they have to hit you straight in the face before you realize you're a victim here and need to get away from the abuser as much as you can, not try to "salvage" the situation.
by lavelganzu | 2026-02-25 17:34:28+00:00
There is a downside of making buses free, similar to the experience of cities which stopped enforcing "turnstile hopping" for trains, which is that it attracts a small number of hostile and malicious riders. An advantage of treating transit as a public good means this downside becomes an empirical question, not a moral one: Which approach leads to more ridership? In some cases, enforcing fares leads to more ridership by increasing safety and decreasing the amount of time spent cleaning up befouled surfaces.
by YesBox | 2026-02-25 17:34:29+00:00
I just retried this with my reddit account (game dev stuff)

Last block of text from copilot :/

-----------

If you want, I can also break down:

Their posting style (tone, frequency, community engagement)

How their work compares to other indie city builders

What seems to resonate most with Reddit users

Just tell me what angle you want to explore next.
by bityard | 2026-02-25 17:34:40+00:00
There is definitely something wrong with your setup. I can run an amd64 container on my Macbook Pro M3 in well under a second:

[~]$ podman pull --arch=amd64 debian:13
Resolved "debian" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/debian:13...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:866771c43bf5eb77362eeeb163c0c825e194c2806d0b697028434e3b9c02f59d
Copying config sha256:a3624ddeb711bef28c29e6de1502fc3ef9df132c220d1db5a121b2a1e2a74256
Writing manifest to image destination
a3624ddeb711bef28c29e6de1502fc3ef9df132c220d1db5a121b2a1e2a74256

[~]$ time podman run --rm -ti debian:13 uname -m
WARNING: image platform (linux/amd64) does not match the expected platform (linux/arm64)
x86_64
podman run --rm -ti debian:13 uname -m 0.03s user 0.02s system 9% cpu 0.456 total
by peanut-walrus | 2026-02-25 17:34:46+00:00
It sucks so much that there is no standard way of linking additional domains to your main one and inheriting the reputation.

Want to set up a new domain for whatever purposes (conference, new product, etc)? Be prepared to spend the first half a year fighting the various blacklists before people can actually reliably connect.

Would make so much sense if you could just have a .well-known/other-domains.txt (or something something DNS) with a list of domain names that should be considered just as trustworthy as your main domain.

It's not even about .online or other weird TLDs, it's just that the domain is new and therefore "not trustworthy". Even worse if you need to use your existing branding on the new domain - instantly flagged as a phishing site everywhere.
by falcor84 | 2026-02-25 17:34:59+00:00
The blog doesn't have a clear explanation about how to access it.

Refreshing perplexity.ai, I see that there's now a "Computer" option in the sidebar (also accessible via https://www.perplexity.ai/computer), but that while it opens up, it says it requires the $200/month Max subscription, which I don't have.
by culi | 2026-02-25 17:35:05+00:00
I like WikiData for tasks like these that require consolidating multiple different identifiers for the same work. E.g.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106545884

Gives us the ISBN, Goodreads work id, LibraryThing id, the OpenLibrary id, and the Google Knowledge Graph id all in one query.
by cpach | 2026-02-25 17:35:37+00:00
I was I heavy XMPP user back in the 00s. But on the whole it never really took off, and when Google killed XMPP support in their chat it was a severe blow. As for why it didn’t reach a larger userbase, I think the reasons that Moxie described in The ecosystem is moving[0] are spot on.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
by axus | 2026-02-25 17:35:53+00:00
I read your comment as agreeing with the article: "Never buy a .online domain".

And Google has the right to publish a list, there should be more lists not less. But Google was at fault for not correcting their blacklist. Until the article appeared on Hacker News, this was not 0% on Google. A small, correctable mistake, but they deserved a tiny bit of blame.
by avazhi | 2026-02-25 17:36:03+00:00
People don’t use public transport for many reasons other than this, personal safety and comfort being two big ones that no amount of optimisation can fix.

I’d rather get to work half as quickly if it means I don’t have to listen to a druggie issue schizophrenic violent threats towards random women throughout my journey (occurred just last week on a tram in Melbourne). Other cities I’ve been to and used public transport in (NYC, Portland, San Francisco, Dallas, Sydney) have been just as awful.

All these public policy wonks really do seem to forget that most of us want to get as far away as possible from the psychos that seem to make up an increasing share of society, time and cost be damned.
by whaleidk | 2026-02-25 17:36:22+00:00
Getting the girl as a reward is more about misogyny than a the bullying lesson. I haven’t seen grease so I can’t talk about that but I really can’t think of any media examples of where the geeks become jocks and that’s seen as morally correct, which would be the actual antithesis to the lesson above. Also I meant that parents taught that, not adult media… which is for adults
by krupan | 2026-02-25 17:36:28+00:00
This is amazing because it's the same logic and argument about how to do good software engineering that's been around for 40 years. If you just write good enough requirements, a good enough, detailed specification, then your software team can't fail, even if they are low-cost engineers from a developing nation. It's the classic Waterfall method.

That was totally upended by agile, that emphasized that yes, a clear, unambiguous specification is needed, and the best language for that is a programming language. Don't waste time writing a detailed spec in English, get right to writing it in code that you can execute and get immediate feedback on.

Now people want LLMs to write the code for them, so they are back to saying we just need to give the LLMs clear enough direction, a clear specification. It's amazing to witness history not exactly repeat itself, but very clearly rhyming
by casey2 | 2026-02-25 17:36:29+00:00
A week ago it was "AI spending is solely keeping US GDP and the stock market afloat"

Now it's adding "Basically Zero" to US Economic Growth

https://gizmodo.com/wall-street-apparently-believes-the-futu... This one's from bloomberg

Does Gizmodo just repeat random stuff they hear like some kind of stochastic click generating parrot? Low GDP this quarter is due to low government spendint. Hardware is still extremely cheap and isn't getting better much faster. America has taken a major lead by buying out all the fabtime. If I ran Taiwan I would have nationalized TSMC, horded all the chips and allied with Japan and SK for a joint AI and defense pact.

The key innovation of the LLM beyond anything technical is that, across the board, government can now see the potential of ML and "AGI". The current American left (and Europeans leaders) is absolutely hopeless, while they make "not one drop for data signs" we are quickly moving towards a future where your job is creating data mostly by doing whatever you want. 10 years ago data was worth 1/9th it's current worth, in 10 years it will be at least 9x it's current worth today. 22+% year on year for the last 14 years 50+% during lockdown. It's strangely hard for people to imagine that work becomes easier over time even though it's always been true. There is a huge difference between letting people capture the value of their labor and preventing that value from being created in the first place.
by krzyk | 2026-02-25 17:36:40+00:00
When I was in SF, my European mind was astonished why bus stops are so often (and why there is a cable to pull, but that's a different thing). Considering that the area was less populated than my city. And we also have speedbuses that stop every second or third bus stop.

It was unreal.

In my city bus stops have 1km between them (sometimes it is 700m sometimes 1.3km) so about 3200 feet.

It is about 15min walk between each bus stop, so when I need to wait for bit longer I prefer to walk to the next bus stop, just to have something to do.
by patcon | 2026-02-25 17:36:44+00:00
L33tsp34k also accomplishes this. The original anonymising hacker stylometry :)

I am intrigued by the idea that in the future, communities might create a merged brand voice that their members choose to speak in via LLMs, to protect individual anonymity.

Maybe only your close friends hear your real voice?

Speaking of which, here's a speculative fiction contest: https://www.protopianprize.com/

Disclaimer: I am an independent researcher with Metagov (one host org), and have been helping them think through some related events.

EDIT: I've belatedly realized that stylometry isn't involved, but I think some of the above "what if" thought could still hold :)
by eitally | 2026-02-25 17:37:05+00:00
The problem isn't plain MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). The more nefarious set of issues is around domain-specific software that is only compatible with Microsoft platforms and software.

For example, Veeva Vault is the industry standard content (and content workflow) platform for life sciences. It's a heavy, somewhat unpleasant platform similar to a Workday or ServiceNow, but it's ingrained and it compliant with all life sci regulatory bodies' regulations. It requires customers use SharePoint and Office under the hood.

Things like that can't just be ripped out and replaced because there are no FOSS options.