MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abcd_f | 2026-02-17 19:39:15+00:00
It's a tough problem.

Once some users have extra power to push content to the front-page, it will be abused. There will be attempts to gain that privilege in order to monetize, profit from or abuse it in some other way.

The only option along this path would probably be to keep the list of such users very tightly controlled and each vouched for individually.

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Another approach might be to ask random users (above certain karma threshold) rank new submissions. Once in a while stick a showhn post into their front page with up and down arrows, and mark it as a community service. Given HN volume it should be easy to get an average opinion in a matter of minutes.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-17 19:39:43+00:00
I recall only a bit of a show that described a particular labyrinth on a hill—I think the destination was a tower also on the hill. It was thought to be one of the more difficult mazes because, as I recall, humans want to progress up toward the tower but at several junctures the incorrect path was the one that headed uphill.

No idea what/where that one was.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-17 19:40:03+00:00
Famously it's workers too. Look at NUMMI. Before the NUMMI initiative, GM's workers [at their worst plant] were absolutely atrocious. Not only did they not care, they sometimes intentionally sabotaged cars. They brought prostitutes to the plant, drank on the job. It was crazy. Management made it worse, but the workers chose to stop giving a shit.

Then Toyota came in, taught them TPS, and the transformation was night and day. Read the interviews and stories. Workers reported they gained more pride in their work, it made them want to do better, and they did do better. So we can have pride in our work, but it's not ingrained culturally like it is in Japan.

Another way to think of it, paraphrasing George Carlin:

"Where do you think these Managers come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out."

Managers aren't an alien species separate from Workers. They come from the same American machine. One just has more power.
by jimrandomh | 2026-02-17 19:40:11+00:00
I think this is likely a defender win, not because Opus 4.6 is that resistant to prompt injection, but because each time it checks its email it will see many attempts at once, and the weak attempts make the subtle attempts more obvious. It's a lot easier to avoid falling for a message that asks for secrets.env in a tricky way, if it's immediately preceded and immediately followed by twenty more messages that each also ask for secrets.env.
by Tharre | 2026-02-17 19:40:29+00:00
> * Chip design pays better than software in many cases and many places (US and UK included;

Where are these companies? All you ever hear from the hardware side of things are that the tools suck, everyone makes you sign NDAs for everything and that the pay is around 30% less. You can come up with counterexamples like Nvidia I suppose, but that's a bit like saying just work for a startup that becomes a billion dollar unicorn.

If these well paying jobs truly exist (which I'm going to be honest I doubt quite a bit) the companies offering them seem to be doing a horrendous job advertising that fact.

The same seems to apply to software jobs in the embedded world as well, which seem to be consistently paid less then web developers despite arguably having a more difficult job.
by nosianu | 2026-02-17 19:40:48+00:00
> Debt

That is the very basis of our currency, and the basic idea is a good one in an idea-heavy economy more reliant on innovation than natural resource constraints. Also, if truly becomes too much we will just have one of the many many currency changes. My grandparents lived with about five (could be as many as seven) currencies throughout their (German) lives, for example.

As long as the real values remain, the factories, the people, the roads, the buildings, that is not a problem overall. It's not like people can emigrate to alien worlds, and on earth the places with the best real economy will be where they will go - have to go.

Money is the carrot dangled in front of us to keep us moving and to create real value things. The carrot can be updated and changed if the current one starts to lose its appeal, it is not what ultimately matters. The point of view of an individual and the big picture are very different things.
by SkyBelow | 2026-02-17 19:41:10+00:00
Isn't this also the tactic used by someone who has been falsely accused? If one is innocent, should they not deny it or accuse anyone claiming it was them of being incorrect? Are they not a victim?

I don't know, it feels a bit like a more advanced version of the kafka trap of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" to paint normal reactions as a sign of guilt.
by skybrian | 2026-02-17 19:41:18+00:00
The letter is here:

https://x.com/MrinankSharma/status/2020881722003583421

A slightly longer quote:

> The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or from bioweapons, gut from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding at this very moment.

In a footnote he refers to the "poly-crisis."

There are all sorts of things one might decide to do in response, including getting more involved in US politics, working more on climate change, or working on other existential risks.
by Aachen | 2026-02-17 19:41:48+00:00
Yeah, I should have pursued the idea ten years ago of making a usable 2fa hardware device (that confirms what you're authenticating and an attacker can't simply pull auth codes for whatever they want)

Still, I'm plenty okay with my phone as a second factor for my laptop and vice versa for nearly all services. The rest is about tying things to a government identity (bank cares only if it's me who's authorising the transaction; government cares only if it's me who's requesting a student loan) and can be done with the chip that's already in my identity document and a single 20€ nfc chip reader or by using a phone as nfc reader
by anonymousiam | 2026-02-17 19:41:54+00:00
I lived in both worlds (hardware/software) throughout my career. In school, I learned (in order): Analog electronics (including RF), Digital electronics, Microprocessors, Software, Systems. I've always thought that it's strange how few software people know hardware, and vice versa. In the software domain, when I began referencing hardware elements while explaining something, the software audience would usually just glaze over and act like they were incapable of understanding. Same goes for the hardware people when I would reference software elements.

I learned Ada sometime around 1991. Counting assembly for various platforms, I had already learned about a dozen other languages by then, and would later learn many more.

Sometime around 2000 I learned VHDL. In all of the material (two textbooks and numerous handouts) there was no mention of the obvious similarities to Ada. I wish somebody had just produced a textbook describing the additional features and nomenclatures that VHDL added to Ada -- That would have made learning it even easier. The obvious reason that nobody had done that is that I was among a very small minority of hardware people who already knew Ada, and it just wouldn't be useful to most people.

In all of my work, but especially in systems integration work, I've found that my knowledge of multiple domains has really helped me outperform my peers. Having an understanding of what the computer is doing at the machine level, as well as what the software is doing (or trying to do) can make the integration work easy.

More on-topic:
I think it would be a great improvement to add some basic hardware elements to CS software courses, and to add some basic CS elements to EE courses. It would benefit everyone.
by Galanwe | 2026-02-17 19:41:59+00:00
I don't know where you are from, but that is the case for most european countries. I would be surprised if it were not also the case in the US?

Usually it's not implemented as a rule though, but rather by creating tax cuts for certain kind of investments.

E. G. In France you get tax cuts if you invest in green energy, housing in poor neighborhood, and a trillion other subcategories.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-17 19:42:19+00:00
>I don't think you'll find anyone opposing the former, but what's the alternative to the latter?

If parents want to pay 65k per year to have some corporate entity track their child's every keystroke, I guess that's not my place to pry. I will call them stupid, though. This isn't 2007 anymore; we know what they can, have, and will do with such data.

> individual human tutors: insanely expensive, out of reach for even well paid programmers, or you have to home school

again, they're paying 65k for this curriculum. I'd wager public school and 600 hours of private tutoring @100/hr (as a high ball) would work out much better
by Danielopol | 2026-02-17 19:42:24+00:00
I built a free library of copy-paste Claude Code workflows for people who don't code.

The idea came from watching r/ClaudeAI explode with the same question: "What can I do with Claude Code besides coding?"

After 3 months of collecting, testing, and documenting use cases, I have 100+ playbooks covering:

- Personal Productivity (file organization, Obsidian workflows, task management)
- Finance & Accounting (CSV merging, expense categorization, tax prep)
- Marketing (ad copy generation, SEO analysis)
- Research & Writing (PDF summarization, academic workflows)
- Legal (contract review, clause extraction)
- HR (resume screening, job description optimization)
- Creative (D&D worldbuilding, creative writing assistance)

Each playbook has the actual CLAUDE.md template you can copy-paste, step-by-step instructions, and example outputs.

Everything is free. Would love feedback from the HN community—especially what industries or workflows you'd want added.

Link: https://www.claudecodehq.com/
by quinncom | 2026-02-17 19:42:56+00:00
Small nudges to steer company culture regarding AI use:

- signal disclosure as a norm: whenever you use AI, say “BTW I used AI to write this”, when you don’t use AI, say “No AI used in this document”

- add an email footer to your messages that states you do not use AI because [shameful reasons]

- normalize anti-AI language (slop, clanker, hallucination, boiling oceans)

- celebrate human craftsmanship (highlight/compliment well written documentation, reports, memos)

- share AI-fail memes

- gift anti-AI/pro-human stickers

- share news/analysis articles about the AI productivity myth [0], AI-user burnout [1], reverse centaur [2], AI capitalism [3]

[0] https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-...
[1] https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies...
[2] https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/
[3] https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/extreme-power-concen...
by moralestapia | 2026-02-17 19:43:02+00:00
"Myopia has reached near-epidemic levels worldwide, yet we still don't fully understand why," said Jose-Manuel Alonso, MD, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor and senior author of the study."

It's because you focus on nearer things much more time than things which are far away. One does not need a PhD and the whole kitchen sink to notice that.
by margalabargala | 2026-02-17 19:43:08+00:00
The issue is that one group of people are describing observed behavior, and want to discuss that behavior, using language that is familiar and easily understandable.

Then a second group of people come in and derail the conversation by saying "actually, because the output only appears self aware, you're not allowed to use those words to describe what it does. Words that are valid don't exist, so you must instead verbosely hedge everything you say or else I will loudly prevent the conversation from continuing".

This leads to conversations like the one I'm having, where I described the pattern matcher matching a pattern, and the Group 2 person was so eager to point out that "want" isn't a word that's Allowed, that they totally missed the fact that the usage wasn't actually one that implied the LLM wanted anything.
by tliltocatl | 2026-02-17 19:43:12+00:00
Not that you aren't factually right with regards to all modern technology being funded thru MIC, but USSR/Russia had exactly the same kind of MIC and has miserably failed at converting it to something profitable in the past. No reason to expect anything different this time - it's probably even worse because every successful entrepreneur that wouldn't leave the country ends up in prison. That said, there isn't much of good news for Ukraine either, sadly. The fat man slims down but the thin one starves to death.
by ebiester | 2026-02-17 19:43:18+00:00
Put a culture of stopping work at 40 hours. Allow the work to be the work and stop deadlines.

Otherwise, people will take every time savings possible. If I'm using AI for anything, it's because it's important enough to someone else for me to do but not important enough to sacrifice my own time.

I don't think it's about people being scared, at least from what I've seen. It's about people being exhausted.
by pfisch | 2026-02-17 19:43:35+00:00
Yes. I also don't think it is realistic to pretend you understand how frontier LLMs operate because you understand the basic principles of how the simple LLMs worked that weren't very good.

Its even more ridiculous than me pretending I understand how a rocket ship works because I know there is fuel in a tank and it gets lit on fire somehow and aimed with some fins on the rocket...
by joecool1029 | 2026-02-17 19:43:43+00:00
> One idea that a user proposed is a review queue where experienced HN users would help new Show HN submitters craft their posts to be more interesting and fit HN's conventions more.

HN has a vouch system. Make a Show HN pool, allow accounts over some karma/age level to vouch them out to the main site. I recently had a naive colleague submit a Show HN a week or so ago that Tom killed... for good reason. I told the guy to ask me for advice before submitting a FOSS project he released and instead he shit out a long LLM comment nobody wants to read.

The HN guidelines IMO need a (long overdue) update to describe where a Show HN submission needs to go and address LLM comments/submissions. I get that YC probably wants to let some of it be a playground since money is sloshing around for it, but enough is enough.
by brailsafe | 2026-02-17 19:44:05+00:00
It's definitely been amplified severely by agent coding, but what's worse is that the most meme hustle-culture part of bringing ideas to life has been the most magnified, because it's the easiest. I started paying less and less attention when the whole "just get yourself a mailing list to test there's a market for your product" meme started gaining popularity, but people were at least constrained by the time it took to cobble together a generic landing page with an email signup. Now there's effectively no limit to how many shadcn boilerplate email collectors can be tossed together in a night. The more of that redundant stuff gets put on Show HN, the less I check it, but also the less I trust the "products" or the potential products, and that doesn't seem like it would be in anyone's best interest.
Show HN: We built a free VC platform that shares data between GPS and founders
by jamesatistari | 2026-02-17 19:44:08+00:00
Hey HN,

We built Vistaley — a two-sided platform for VC fund management. The GP-facing side (VentureLens) handles fund operations: deal pipeline, portfolio tracking, fund accounting, LP reporting. The founder-facing side (Harbour) provides free FP&A tools: financial dashboards, KPI tracking, burn rate analysis.

When a portfolio company enters their financials in Harbour, the data is immediately available in the GP's VentureLens dashboard — no CSV exports, no quarterly spreadsheets, no API integrations.

Interesting challenges we solved:

- Multi-currency — 60+ currencies with local display toggle. Every financial metric can be viewed in fund currency or portfolio company's local currency. Exchange rates stored per-snapshot, not globally, to preserve historical accuracy.

- Multi-jurisdiction accounting — 12 jurisdictions (including Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bangladesh) with different tax frameworks, compliance requirements, and regulatory reporting standards. One accounting standard per fund, enforced at the database level.

- The reporting incentive problem — VCs hate that founders don't report. Founders hate reporting. Our solution: give founders tools good enough that entering data is the reporting. The FP&A dashboard IS the GP's portfolio view. Aligned incentives through shared utility.

Why emerging markets? Most fund management tools price out or ignore funds in Central/South Asia and Africa. We're targeting the $5M-$500M fund range in high-growth regions with pricing starting at free, up to $399/mo. For context, enterprise tools in this space charge $50K+/year.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-17 19:44:14+00:00
It's amazing how well Waymo functions as a shibboleth for people who don't understand how these systems work. Waymo's remote assistants provide high level guidance, they're not part of the control loop.

Supposedly neither are Tesla's remote assistants, though there are open questions about why they've posted job descriptions about building a teleop system for their vehicles [0] and why their remote assistant setups have steering wheels if that's completely true.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20241211115851/https://www.tesla...
AI dev team that plans and ships, not just generates code
by bohdokas | 2026-02-17 19:44:28+00:00
I’m building Zrost because every AI coding tool I tried was great at generating code and terrible at finishing projects. The last 20% always killed us.
Instead of one AI assistant, Zrost gives you a coordinated team. You talk to an AI PM, describe what you want, it breaks the project into tasks with dependencies. Then specialized agents (frontend, backend, QA, DevOps) execute together through visual task graphs and GitHub integration.
The key difference: agents are aware of each other’s work. The backend agent knows what the frontend agent built. QA knows what changed. No conflicts, no duplicated work.
Stack: task dependency graphs, Kanban boards, GitHub sync, pay-per-usage pricing ($20 free credits to start).
Small team building from Ukraine. Been in production for a few months, looking for honest feedback on what’s working and what’s not.
https://zrost.ai
by moralestapia | 2026-02-17 19:44:35+00:00
It's the camera-only mandate, and it's not Elon's but Karpathy's.

Any engineering student can understand why LIDAR+Radar+RGB is better than just a single camera; and any person moderately aware of tech can realize that digital cameras are nowhere as good as the human eye.

But yeah, he's a genius or something.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-17 19:44:37+00:00
I know a fair deal about the subject of chess AI, but when I was reading this and I didn't understand. I was polarized, was I reading a mastermind that was way above my level? Or someone way too confident that learned enough buzzwords through an LLM to briefly delude someone else other than themselves?

A quick visit at the homepage suggests that it's probably the latter. I don't want to be rude, not posting out of malice, but if someone else was reading this and was trying to parse it, I think it might be helpful to compare notes and evaluate whether it's better to discard the article altogether.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-17 19:45:13+00:00
>Intelligence is the ability to reason about logic. If 1 + 1 is 2, and 1 + 2 is 3, then 1 + 3 must be 4.

Human Intelligence is clearly not logic based so I'm not sure why you have such a definition.

>and yet LLMs, as expected, still cannot do basic arithmetic that a child could do without being special-cased to invoke a tool call.

One of the most irritating things about these discussions is proclamations that make it pretty clear you've not used these tools in a while or ever. Really, when was the last time you had LLMs try long multi-digit arithmetic on random numbers ? Because your comment is just wrong.

>What if 1 + 2 is 2 and 1 + 3 is 3? Then we can reason that under these constraints we just made up, 1 + 4 is 4, without ever having been programmed to consider these rules.

Good thing LLMs can handle this just fine I guess.

Your entire comment perfectly encapsulates why symbolic AI failed to go anywhere past the initial years. You have a class of people that really think they know how intelligence works, but build it that way and it fails completely.
by Aachen | 2026-02-17 19:45:14+00:00
That seems wrong. If malware can fake what the authenticator shows me, the authenticator is broken!

It doesn't matter what device relays the code I typed over or otherwise transmits the approval through untrusted networks to the server

> The sad reality is that phones (and some tablets) are the only relatively secure computing environments that we have

My bank('s authenticator hardware) begs to differ
by anonym29 | 2026-02-17 19:45:18+00:00
When "correct alignment" means bowing to political whims that are at odds with observable, measurable, empirical reality, you must suppress adherence to reality to achieve alignment. The more you lose touch with reality, the weaker your model of reality and how to effectively understand and interact with it gets.

This is why Yannic Kilcher's gpt-4chan project, which was trained on a corpus of perhaps some of the most politically incorrect material on the internet (3.5 years worth of posts from 4chan's "politically incorrect" board, also known as /pol/), achieved a higher score on TruthfulQA than the contemporary frontier model of the time, GPT-3.

https://thegradient.pub/gpt-4chan-lessons/
by gek0z | 2026-02-17 19:45:31+00:00
I built this because I needed NBA data for a side project (WedgieTracker: https://www.wedgietracker.com, yes, it tracks basketball wedgies). The Python ecosystem has swar/nba_api which is great, but the JS/TS side only had abandoned packages from 3-6 years ago with no types and piles of dependencies.

Some things that were interesting to work through:

TLS fingerprinting: stats.nba.com sits behind Akamai bot protection that rejects requests based on TLS fingerprints. Node's and Bun's built-in fetch get blocked immediately. The client accepts a custom fetch function so you can plug in something like tlsclientwrapper or curl-impersonate to spoof a browser TLS handshake.

IP blocking: On top of that, the API silently drops connections from datacenter IPs. AWS, GCP, Azure, all blocked.

Response parsing: The NBA returns data in a compact headers[] + rowSet[][] format instead of objects. The client parses these into typed objects with camelCase keys (PLAYER_ID → playerId), so you get full autocomplete on every response.

Rate limiting: Built-in retry with exponential backoff, token-bucket rate limiting, and configurable timeouts. The rate limits are undocumented so I settled on a conservative 600ms default through trial and error.

The live endpoints (scoreboard, box scores, play-by-play, odds) are on cdn.nba.com with no protection, so those work from anywhere.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nba-api-ts

Docs: https://nba-api-ts.riccardo.lol