MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LiamPowell | 2026-02-25 01:47:36+00:00
Another downvoted comment asks if this is all LLM output. While I don't think all of it is, chunks of it have LLM smells so I wanted to point those out as the author or other readers may find it useful:

The ASCII flowcharts all contain jagged vertical lines. This is the biggest indicator of LLM output as no human would ever produce that. You can simply see with your eyes that it's wrong if you even glance at it.

> there’s no way for us to prove that they don’t have access to all of that data anyway. we can only assume that they don’t have access to all of that data. but if you want my two cents, they probably do.

This doesn't quite read as LLM output but it makes the whole article look like a conspiracy theory.

> after trying to write a few exploits, vmfunc decided to browse their infra on shodan. it all started with a Shodan search. a single IP. 34.49.93.177 sitting on Google Cloud in Kansas City. one open port. one SSL certificate. two hostnames that tell a story nobody was supposed to read:

> and the company that runs all of this is the same one that takes your passport photo when you sign up for ChatGPT. same codebase. same platform. different deployment. same facial recognition. same screening algorithms. same data model.

> and as always, the information wants to be free. we didn’t break anything. we didn’t bypass anything. we queried URLs, pressed buttons, and read what came back. if that’s enough to expose the architecture of a global surveillance platform… maybe the problem isn’t us.

These all absolutely stink of LLM writing patterns.
by nemooperans | 2026-02-25 01:48:36+00:00
Ha, fair call. I use Claude a lot and it's definitely rubbed off on how I write and even think (which is something to explore in itself sometime). The scaffolding point is from building though, not prompting. Been doing AI-integrated dev for about a year and the gap between "better model" and "actually useful in production" is almost entirely the surrounding architecture. You're right the infrastructure hasn't caught up yet, that's kind of the whole problem right now. Most teams are building fancier autocomplete when the real problems are things like persistent memory and letting learned patterns earn trust over time.
by xg15 | 2026-02-25 01:49:17+00:00
This proposal?

> Most sources agree, that under Israel's final proposal, the Temple Mount (including Al-Aqsa) would remain under Israeli sovereignty. Israel would also take most of the rest of East Jerusalem, while Palestinians would get some parts too. Israel would annex 8% or 13.5% of the West Bank, and would maintain a military of an additional 6–12% of the West Bank for an unspecified period of time (sometimes called a "long term lease"). According to some sources, Israel would also retain its settlement blocks in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian state would not be contiguous and the West Bank would be split into 2 or 3 sections. Finally, Israel would control Palestinian airspace.

How is that a sovereign state?

> Specifically the sticky point here is the right of return which means that Israel ceases to exist.

If you see Jewish supremacy as a core element of Israeli statehood, then I guess, yes. There are other concepts though, like a one-state solution, which would solve that.

> Either way it's not up to the Arab states to make peace here, it's up to the Palestinians.

The arab states have leverage though, and in this situation, they tried to use it.

I honestly don't see how Palestinians would be able to make peace if the result is more creeping settlements like in the west bank. What is the outlook here? Where would they live?
by theologic | 2026-02-25 01:49:36+00:00
By the way, I've been using a Whisper model, specifically WhisperX, to do all my work, and for whatever reason I just simply was not familiar with the Handy app. I've now downloaded and used it, and what a great suggestion. Thank you for putting it here, along with the direct link to the leaderboard.

I can tell that this is now definitely going to be my go-to model and app on all my clients.
by fuzzylightbulb | 2026-02-25 01:50:13+00:00
> Sure some creeps will use them and with that in mind Apple has the possible ability to solve that privacy issue as they are a privacy company (all pics and vids taken thru APple glasses faces not in your network are randomize/anonymized).

This is it's own distopian nightmare. No one exists in the world but those you've asserted you've met. What if you meet someone who was in the background of a picture from childhood? Can you never take your pictures from apple?
by igravious | 2026-02-25 01:50:26+00:00
There was a recent post on here where the creator of Ladybird (Andreas Kling) translated a chunk of his novel browser from c++ to Rust in two weeks -- a feat he estimated would take him months: https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/

I, in my own way, have discovered that recent versions of Claude are extremely (as in, super-humanly) good at rewriting or porting. Apparently if recently released coding agents have a predefined target and a good test suite then you can basically tell them that you want X (well-defined target w/ good suite of tests) written in Y (the language/framework you want X written in but it isn't) -- and a week or two later you have a working version.

I have spent the last month wrapping my head around the idea that there is a class of tasks in software engineering that is now solved for not very much money at all. More or less every single aspirational idea I have ever had over the last 20 years or so I have begun emabarking on within the last two months.

I hear you.
by shiroiuma | 2026-02-25 01:52:00+00:00
>We're repeating the same pattern with online shopping, malls and stores everywhere are closing because of our collective actions

Are you talking about the small mom-n-pop shops that are only open when most people are at work, while with online shopping you can do it any time 24/7? The same mom-n-pop shops that refused to take returns, and had poor selection and would take weeks to order something for you, at a ridiculous price?

There are a lot of really good reasons online shopping has put so many stores out of business.
by thrance | 2026-02-25 01:52:26+00:00
> property is enforced, contracts are enforced, and people are allowed to trade consensually without (much) interference from men with badges and guns.

Capitalism isn't about that at all. It is about private ownership of the means of production, and that's it. It says nothing about freedom to or freedom from. And indeed, most humans alive today have very little to their names, and they have very limited agency to change things.

> But based on history

Don't fall into capitalist realism.
by spartanatreyu | 2026-02-25 01:54:41+00:00
It's kind of like making an email account. First you pick where you want your email to be (gmail, outlook, proton, etc...), then make your account.

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If you're brand new, pick where you want your account to live.

- General worldwide website: mastodon.social

- or pick a website by topic: https://fedi.directory

- or pick a website by locality: https://fediverse.observer

Your starting global feed will have different users/posts based on which website you pick.

Check out which one you want then make an account there.

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Now choose some people to follow:

- Either in the global feed on your website

- or choose people by topic: https://fedi.directory

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Then people who you follow will share posts from other people, and you can choose if you want to follow them too.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-02-25 01:54:41+00:00
What if people could have purchased American made goods but this means that they would have had to have less or what they did get wouldn't be as good.

For example, I get a 40inch TV instead of a 65 inch or I buy a set of American made screwdrivers but then I can't get a bottle of Vodka.

Most people have their basic needs met. They just want as much as possible for their money even if it harms other Americans. At the same time, if they happen to work at a factory making extension cords, they'll want people to buy their US made cords to protect their job.

Because most people are selfish when it comes to people who aren't family or friends.
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by tzs | 2026-02-25 01:59:47+00:00
> Also, if they'd increase things by 5%, or did yearly 2% increases or something like that, I'd be okay with that (to cover the inflation). But the 33% increase combined with the list of features I don't care about -- that's just taking users for granted

The price has been unchanged at least as far back as mid 2018. According to the inflation calculator at bls.gov [1] inflation over those 8 years was 31%.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
by wtallis | 2026-02-25 01:59:56+00:00
You bought the 5800h last year, and provided last year's price paid for it. That makes the 2024 Mac mini more relevant than the models that weren't being made or sold last year. Unless you'd like to dig up what that 5800h system cost back in 2021, to put that into context against a Mac mini from back then?
by pixl97 | 2026-02-25 02:00:18+00:00
Ya, because the same item was way more at other stores and people didn't understand why. Most of it was logistics at first and not just cheap items. That and buying in very very large lots. It was over time that the hunt for more profits started chasing cheap items.

Really the mom and pop store was set to die in the US because of car culture. You'll pay a bit more to walk to the closest store, but if you're already driving there is very little cost in driving to a store a little farther is almost nothing.
by Silhouette | 2026-02-25 02:00:29+00:00
I hesitate to post this here but I'm not sure Stripe hasn't become most of those things as well now. It's obviously been very successful and I'm happy for the people who built such a useful service in the early years. But I also mourn the loss of the tidy product, transparent pricing, clear documentation and legendary support that made it exceptional back then.
Show HN: Limits – Control layer for AI agents that take real actions
by thesvp | 2026-02-25 02:00:54+00:00
Prompt instructions like 'never do X' don't hold up in production. LLMs ignore them when context gets long or users push hard.

Limits sits between your agent and the real world. Every action — database writes, API calls, refunds — gets intercepted and checked against your rules before it executes. Deterministically. No LLM involved in enforcement.

Three modes:

Conditions: hard rules on structured data
Guideance: validate LLM output before it reaches the user and give the agent chance to reason and retry
Guardrails: scan for PII, toxicity, prompt injection etc

One line to integrate: npm install @limits/js

https://limits.dev

We've processed 30,000+ policy checks across 16 teams. Would love feedback from anyone who's built something like this internally."
by jcalloway_dev | 2026-02-25 02:01:01+00:00
This is a real problem — I blew past $300 in a week before I even noticed. The lack of visibility is genuinely alarming when you're letting an agent run autonomously.

Few questions that'd help me understand the scope better:

The risk level tagging (read/write/exec) — is that purely for logging, or are you planning any threshold-based alerting? Like "pause and ask me before you rack up another $50 in exec calls"?

Also curious about the append-only guarantee. What's preventing a compromised agent from tampering with the ledger before your audit? Is that a threat model you've considered or intentionally out of scope?

The Cursor billing pull is clever — did cursor.com's API require any reverse engineering or is that documented somewhere?

Rust was the right call for something sitting in that critical path. Nice work shipping something you actually needed. This fills a gap that the agent tools themselves are weirdly uninterested in solving.
by josephg | 2026-02-25 02:01:01+00:00
Yeah I agree with this. We might be able to benchmark it soon (if we can’t already) but asking different agentic code models to produce some relatively simple pieces of software. Fast models can iterate faster. Big models will write better code on the first attempt, and need less loop debugging. Who will win?

At the moment I’m loving opus 4.6 but I have no idea if its extra intelligence makes it worth using over sonnet. Some data would be great!
Show HN: Declare AI – open standard for AI content disclosure
by BetterToBest | 2026-02-25 02:01:08+00:00
I'm not a developer — I'm the person who came up with this idea and built
an interactive prototype with Claude's help. I'm posting here because this
is exactly the kind of project that needs real engineers to take it somewhere.

The idea: a declare-ai.json file that any creator, platform, or AI tool can
publish alongside content — declaring what percentage was written, coded,
illustrated, or researched by AI versus humans, which tools were used, and
who the human contributors are. A lightweight embeddable widget displays it
as a collapsible pie chart. A browser extension auto-detects it on any page.
A community forum handles disputes.

Think Creative Commons, but for AI provenance. Or a nutrition label, but for
intelligence.

The demo is a full interactive developer briefing — architecture diagram,
JSON schema, forum mockup with a real dispute thread example, tech stack
recommendation, and phased roadmap. The widget on the page declares itself.

I've gifted it as MIT. I'm looking for developers who want to own this with me.

GitHub: https://github.com/Declare-AI/declare-ai
Live demo: https://declare-ai.github.io/declare-ai/declare-ai-devteam.h...

Genuinely open to all feedback — including "this already exists and here's
why it won't work."
by BetterToBest | 2026-02-25 02:01:32+00:00
I'm not a developer — I came up with this idea and built an interactive
prototype with Claude's help. Posting here because this needs real engineers
to take it somewhere.

The idea: a declare-ai.json file any creator or platform can publish alongside
content — declaring what percentage was written, coded, illustrated, or
researched by AI vs humans, which tools were used, and who the human
contributors are. An embeddable widget displays it as a collapsible pie chart.
A browser extension auto-detects it on any page. A community forum handles
disputes.

Think Creative Commons, but for AI provenance.

The demo is a full interactive developer briefing — architecture, JSON schema,
forum mockup with a dispute thread example, tech stack, and phased roadmap.
The widget on the page declares itself.

MIT licensed. Looking for developers who want to own this with me.

Genuinely open to all feedback — including "this already exists and here's
why it won't work."
by psim1 | 2026-02-25 02:02:45+00:00
Carriers both land/VoIP and wireless must attest to having fraud mitigation measures; this is the "Robocall Mitigation Database" and in Cape's record they exempt themselves from STIR/SHAKEN attestation but state they have measures to prevent fraudulent calling. (which is required for them to be permitted to operate)

What kind of measures are possible to prevent fraudulent calls when the caller is your anonymous customer? The answer is obviously "none," unless you respond to every complaint by terminating service of the offending customer and hoping they don't come back.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-25 02:02:49+00:00
More people need bicycle racks hung on their cars — all the time — which seem to fasten best when covering the license plate.

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Many states do not consider a trailer hitch ball as "obstructing" the license plate...

...so I have a trailer hitch ball hung directly across my identifier, entirely obscuring the plate (but not "obstructing," to letter of poorly-written laws e.g. Tennessee's).

Been rolling with it for months and nobody cares. Now I'm in Flock's database as the white Camry with no visible identifier (no bumper stickers nor tag visible).

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First time you get cited for "obstructing license plate," in Tennessee, is a $10.00 fine. Second is $20.00. This state also doesn't require plates for trailers, so after my second citation I'll just start hauling my 2ft long canoe trailer everywhere (which conveniently covers license plate).
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-25 02:03:03+00:00
Over a year ago yeah I occasionally heard that argument or some light variation of it, though not nearly to this ridiculous extent that you’re portraying now. Now? It’s basically a strawman. Most people’s objections revolve around the theft/reckless scraping that has literally taken down public infrastructure required to train these models as well as the ridiculous expectations being put that all of us implement it in literally every aspect of our lives even if it doesn’t fit, especially professionally.
by esafak | 2026-02-25 02:03:04+00:00
It must be due to pressure from the Defense Dept:

The AI startup has refused to remove safeguards that would prevent its technology from being used to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance.

Pentagon officials have argued the government should only be required to comply with U.S. law. During the meeting, Hegseth delivered an ultimatum to Anthropic: get on board or the government would take drastic action, people familiar with the matter said.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/24/breaking-news/anth...
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 02:03:50+00:00
If Israel wants to take that position, they’ll need to denounce the Nuremberg trials. “Crimes against humanity” were invented for them, as the Holocaust was legal under German law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip).

As the article indicates, prohibitions against perfidy and other war crimes predate the Conventions.

(And I’d note that, as occupying power, Israel is subject to other requirements.)

(And if this is truly your argument, “Hamas doesn’t have to follow the rules either” is the logical conclusion. Which makes whining about their uniforms a bit odd; there is no scenario where "Hamas has to follow the Conventions, but Israel does not" is a coherent position.)
by volodia | 2026-02-25 02:03:55+00:00
I’d push back a bit on the Pareto point.

On speed/quality, diffusion has actually moved the frontier. At comparable quality levels, Mercury is >5× faster than similar AR models (including the ones referenced on the AA page). So for a fixed quality target, you can get meaningfully higher throughput.

That said, I agree diffusion models today don’t yet match the very largest AR systems (Opus, Gemini Pro, etc.) on absolute intelligence. That’s not surprising: we’re starting from smaller models and gradually scaling up. The roadmap is to scale intelligence while preserving the large inference-time advantage.
by montyanne | 2026-02-25 02:04:55+00:00
> We add noise to their data

It’s interesting that Apple is going down a similar path with hardware filtering location retrieval commands and neighborhood-level blurring on their C1 modems. Really awesome work from that team by making sure they’ve considered privacy as a first party feature for that chip.

How do you guys view the relative value of privacy/security at the network provider layer of the cell stack for the average user/citzen?

Even if Cape doesn’t retain metadata yourselves (eg LTE positioning info), is that data not still retained and repackaged by the tower owners themselves? Eg babel street, venntel, etc. A rotating IMEI every 24 hours might make it marginally more difficult for logical tracking, but there’s still only physically one location the phone can be in without fuzzing at the hardware level.

I should also say - I’ve been following y’all’s work for a while (and considered some of those early forward deployed engineer positions), but I’m struggling to see how this all works as a consumer product. Would be awesome to see an eventual partnership with Apple/Qualcomm to bring this to the hardware level since privacy is a tough nut to crack even at full MVNO.
by typ | 2026-02-25 02:05:20+00:00
American business leaders have (had?) an obsession with gross margin and tech "advancedness." They thought they would be the winner as long as they occupied the high-tech sectors in the supply chain. So they discarded the high-volume, low-margin, low-growth, low-tech businesses like assembly lines and outsourced them. But the reality is that the proximity of the assembly lines creates a cost advantage that attracts more upstream suppliers to surround it. Even Intel was seeking to build more fabs in China before being stopped by the US government.
by rvnx | 2026-02-25 02:05:29+00:00
The comments above mine were blaming USAID saying that it caused more damage because it existed and made people became dependent on it, and (in their logic) that it would have been better if it did not exist.

If you look above you can see the whole concept “people die because of USAID”. It’s not my concept.

I am showing with the bird analogy how this is absurd. That you always have the choice to feed the birds or not.

At the end, it’s still a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” type of dilemma, like all important political interactions.

Nobody knows if the long-term impact will be positive or negative. It can push countries to take care of their population, to have new coalitions of countries (what if China double-down and offer more aid ?), etc.

Pretty much unknown. I hope it will eventually work out for the innocents who are victims of politicians who are in comfy places.
by msabalau | 2026-02-25 02:06:24+00:00
It is really unclear why you think that either the political interest or strategic logic of not wanting to rely on manufacturing in China, and having some on the value being created here goes away, or is some idle whim.

Sure, if it took decades of slow patient effort to create the current situation, it might take decades to unwind it. And, sure, the US political system is exceptionally bad at industrial policy.

But, at the end of the day, the political and military logic is, and will be for the forseeable future, get your supply chains out of China. Just because it is slow and difficult doesn't there is any reason to believe the pressure will relax. (Putting aside the possibility of an AGI/robotics revolution)
by jcalloway_dev | 2026-02-25 02:06:31+00:00
Great experiment. The "implied context" problem is real and it kills projects.

One thing I'd push back on slightly: the 5 vs 127 framing makes this feel like a volume win for AI, but I think the actual insight is that AI externalizes the assumptions humans carry silently. That's the useful part.

What worked for us was using AI-generated specs not as a deliverable but as a conversation starter. You print the 127 points, sit with the client for 90 minutes, and the deletions become the spec. "We don't need multi-tenancy" is a real decision, not an oversight, once someone's forced to say it out loud.

To your questions directly:
1. Yes, reusable checklists for auth/RBAC/rate limits are underrated
2. 127 points is too many to hand a dev team, but perfect for a client workshop
3. Filter by "can we launch without this" — ruthlessly

Would love to see those prompts.