MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-11 14:36:24+00:00
It was reported on Democracy Now! that an anonymous source said the military representing Biggs Army Air Field at Fort Bliss (KBIF) couldn't guarantee safety of commercial air traffic around El Paso International Airport (KELP). There was no specific details communicated and the message released caused unnecessary panic. The most likely explanation seems to be an unresolved dispute between the military and the FAA related to improving airspace safety around military flight tracks near major airports (class B/C/D airspace).
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-11 14:36:35+00:00
But a $500 Mac Mini has nowhere near the memory capacity to run such a model. You'd need at least 2 512GB machines chained together to run this model. Maybe 1 if you quantized the crap out of it.

And Apple completely overcharges for memory, so.

This is a model you use via a cheap API provider like DeepInfra, or get on their coding plan. It's nice that it will be available as open weights, but not practical for mere mortals to run.

But I can see a large corporation that wants to avoid sending code offsite setting up their own private infra to host it.
by aed | 2026-02-11 14:36:43+00:00
Funny you say that! When the two new models were released Friday I spun up mayors for each. (But didn’t do the prompting in the most scientific way.)

Mayor Compounded Wonder - Claude Opus 4.6

https://hallucinatingsplines.com/mayors/compounded-wonder-2c...

Mayor Bronze Offramp - OpenAI Codex 3.6

https://hallucinatingsplines.com/mayors/bronze-offramp-09941...

TL;DR: Opus won.

Have also thought about using openrouter and getting one mayor per model running the same prompt through all of them to create potentially the world's dumbest LLM benchmark.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-11 14:37:20+00:00
> It's looking like we'll have Chinese OSS to thank for being able to host our own intelligence, free from the whims of proprietary megacorps.

I don’t know where you draw the line between proprietary megacorp and not, but Z.ai is planning to IPO soon as a multi billion dollar company. If you think they don’t want to be a multi billion dollar megacorp like all of the other LLM companies I think that’s a little short sighted. These models are open weight, but I wouldn’t count them as OSS.

Also Chinese companies aren’t the only companies releasing open weight models. ChatGPT has released open weight models, too.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-11 14:38:10+00:00
They taught us that Geography is old fashioned so the geography classes and history were all replaced with "Social Studies" at some time in the 80s. Most of that class was just about reading holocaust books, I think we had a week or two where they taught us what islands and fjords are, but the only time putting names to countries and capitals on a map came up was an optional extra credit quiz in 8th grade. Most people skipped it.
by mzajc | 2026-02-11 14:38:19+00:00
I'm also dealing with a scraper flood on a cgit instance. These conclusions come from just under 4M lines of logs collected in a 24h period.

- Caching helps, but is nowhere near a complete solution. Of the 4M requests I've observed 1.5M unique paths, which still overloads my server.

- Limiting request time might work, but is more likely to just cause issues for legitimate visitors. 5ms is not a lot for cgit, but with a higher limit you are unlikely to keep up with the flood of requests.

- IP ratelimiting is useless. I've observed 2M unique IPs, and the top one from the botnet only made 400 well-spaced-out requests.

- GeoIP blocking does wonders - just 5 countries (VN, US, BR, BD, IN) are responsible for 50% of all requests. Unfortunately, this also causes problems for legitimate users.

- User-Agent blocking can catch some odd requests, but I haven't been able to make much use of it besides adding a few static rules. Maybe it could do more with TLS request fingerprinting, but that doesn't seem trivial to set up on nginx.
by whompyjaw | 2026-02-11 14:38:24+00:00
Ya i thought this as well… seems like a bad idea. I get that most ppl keep their phone number. Maybe better to let ppl just use their number than everyone creating an account? Idk..

But now i think of it… how does Visa and MC do it? Cuz i dont have a username or phone nber with them (i know they have my number). But i havent switched my number, so maybe if i did, i would have an issue?
Show HN: TapTap AI – Use Your OpenClaw Agent from Apple Watch/AirPods/CarPlay
by geogons | 2026-02-11 14:38:30+00:00
Hey HN,

I built TapTap because I was tired of being chained to my desk to use my AI agent.

What it is:
TapTap connects your Apple Watch (+ AirPods/CarPlay) to your OpenClaw instance. Tap your wrist, speak a command, get a response. That's it.

Why I built it:
I've been using OpenClaw for weeks — it knows my workflows, data, preferences. But the moment I leave my desk? Useless. I can't access it while walking, driving, or at the gym. So I built a bridge.

Current state:

• TestFlight launching this week
• Free (for now — seeing if people actually use it first)
• OpenClaw plugin required (setup guide included)
• iOS 17+ / watchOS 10+

What's next:

• Support for other AI frameworks
• Complications + Shortcuts integration

Why Show HN:
I'm curious if this resonates with other people who've customized their AI agents.

Try it: https://gettaptap.ai
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-11 14:38:53+00:00
> After introduction of the death penalty in the 90s, the average net amount of opium trafficked to Singapore famously dropped by ~70%.

If we introduced the death penalty for minor shoplifting, minor shoplifting would probably drop by a huge percentage. Would that justify it?

> But not "objective ones" since the evidence clearly supports the death penalty for "objective reasons". For these positions, objectivity should be left in the gutter.

I disagree. When you evaluate all the pros and cons, I think the evidence is solidly against the death penalty.
by geerlingguy | 2026-02-11 14:38:55+00:00
The engineer on the truck seemed to have the most annoyance with the PTP aspect of 2110, but it seemed nobody questioned the move to 2110, and at least as far as broadcast equipment goes, they're all in on 2110. As a small(ish) YouTuber, NDI is more exciting to me, but I'm not mixing dozens or hundreds of sources for a real time production, and can just re-record if I get a sync issue over the network.

Perfect is the enemy of the good, as always—reading through that site, it seems like no solution is perfect, and the main tradeoff from that authors perspective is bandwidth requirements for UHD.

It looks like most places are only hitting 1080p still, however. And the truck I was looking at could do 1080, but runs the NHL games at 720p.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-11 14:39:16+00:00
I don't think that your daughter might know if say any web cam might take photos and see what she's searching if the extensions are indeed malicious.

I'd either go ahead and talk to her and remove extensions altogether and ask her to have a stock/only open source extensions (yes opensource also has supply issues but its infinitely more managable than this) or the second option being to maybe create them yourself . I don't know about how chrome works (I use firefox) but one thing that you can do is if the thing is simple for your daughter, then just vibe code it and use tampermonkey (heck even open source it) and then audit the code written by it yourself if you want better security concerns.

Nowadays I really just end up creating my own extensions with tampermonkey before using any proprietory extension. With tampermonkey, the cycle actually feels really simple (click edit paste etc.) and even a single glance at code can show any security errors for basic stuff and its one of the few use cases of (AI?) in my opinion.
by ajross | 2026-02-11 14:39:17+00:00
It's... not about the file format.

The point is that a "private" cert is not a "cert" as commonly understood. The important part to a certification authority is the AUTHORITY part, not the data format. Either there is a trusted third party that will promise you are who you say you are, or there is not. With SSH, there is not, nor can there be as it is commonly deployed.

So applications that want that have used other protocols and other schemes, very productively.
by nmcfarl | 2026-02-11 14:39:31+00:00
I am pretty sure this is not true.

I recall my mother’s family conversing via mail in the early 80’s - and she would write one 10 page letter a month as a reply (max) - that would 3 or 4 mails a year with any particular sibling (and probably 1 phone call - but phone calls to alaska were expensive, and you wouldn’t say all you wanted to).
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-02-11 14:39:39+00:00
The majority of the SUVs I see driving have exactly 1 person in them. It's ok to admit that.

We can also look at the facts, which do imply a more recent disregard (if not disdain) for pedestrians:

> Drivers hit and killed 3,304 people walking in the United States in the first half of 2024, down 2.6% from the year before but a staggering 48% above a decade ago, according to a new analysis from GHSA. [0]

[0] https://www.ghsa.org/news/early-2024-us-pedestrian-fatalitie...
by sdellis | 2026-02-11 14:39:48+00:00
Please say something intelligent about a link when you drop it. No one can tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

I did watch the video of him and I can confirm (so no one else wastes their time) he does not address why monopolies are great for everyone other than the CEO. But he does go into depth about why women should not wear Hillary Clinton style pantsuits when pitching ideas to him. Noted.

I am not sure if the video is the same as the article, but there is no way I am going to pay a penny to hear what Theil has to say. Honestly, after I heard him rambling about the anti-christ crap he spews I would pay for him to stop talking.
by acjohnson55 | 2026-02-11 14:39:51+00:00
> I think the near future is going to be something like a high-speed drag race. Going slow isn't an option. Everyone will have to go fast. Many will crash. Some won't and they will win.

I think this is right. This is what we as engineers have to wrap our minds around. This is the game we're in now, like it or not.

> Many will crash.

Aside from alignment, and some of these bigger picture concerns, prompt injection looms large. It's an astoundingly large, possibly unsolvable vector for all sorts of mayhem. But many people are making the judgment that there's too much to be gained before the shocks hit them. So far, they're right.
by bavell | 2026-02-11 14:40:06+00:00
> Going from zero to one employee is hard.

Story of my life the last 5-10 years haha. Hard to take such a big risk without having a very solid position.

I'm taking an AI-first approach with a project I wouldn't have accepted otherwise, to get a better understanding of how much I can delegate and how quickly I can get it done. Could open up a lot of doors if successful. There are many more projects I'd be willing to pitch/accept if I didn't have to do all the grunt work. Quality still needs to be there though.
by geogons | 2026-02-11 14:40:24+00:00
I got tired of only being able to use my AI agent at my desk, so I built TapTap AI — connects your Apple Watch to OpenClaw (self-hosted AI). Now I can dictate emails, ask questions, run workflows while walking/driving/at the gym.

TestFlight drops this week. https://gettaptap.ai

Curious if others have this same "my AI is desk-bound" frustration.
by NiloCK | 2026-02-11 14:40:42+00:00
Grey market fast-follow via distillation seems like an inevitable feature of the near to medium future.

I've previously doubted that the N-1 or N-2 open weight models will ever be attractive to end users, especially power users. But it now seems that user preferences will be yet another saturated benchmark, that even the N-2 models will fully satisfy.

Heck, even my own preferences may be getting saturated already. Opus 4.5 was a very legible jump from 4.1. But 4.6? Apparently better, but it hasn't changed my workflows or the types of problems / questions I put to it.

It's poetic - the greatest theft in human history followed by the greatest comeuppance.

No end-user on planet earth will suffer a single qualm at the notion that their bargain-basement Chinese AI provider 'stole' from American big tech.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-02-11 14:40:46+00:00
I can second this...Been trying to get local LLMs to play through Pokemon Emerald (with virtually 0 success).

I'm under the impression I'm being hampered by a separation of 'brain' and 'eyes', as I have yet to find a reasoning + vision local model that fits on my Mac, and played with two instances of qwen (vision and reasoning) to try to solve, but no real breakthroughs yet. The requirements I've given myself are fully local models, and no reading data from the ROM that the human player cannot be aware of.

I was hoping OP was able to retro-fit vision onto blind models, not just offload it to a cloud model. It's still an interesting write-up, but I for sure got click-baited
by mythz | 2026-02-11 14:40:56+00:00
Yep the Qwen team has been churning out models for basically everything,
and lets not sleep the big blue whale that started it all which is rumored to have a 1M context drop coming soon [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1r1snhv/deepsee...
Show HN: Clap.Net – Source generated CLI Parsing for .NET (Inspired by Clap-Rs)
by scurtis0 | 2026-02-11 14:41:59+00:00
Clap.Net is my attempt at bringing the excellent Rust clap crate to .NET as a near 1:1 port.

The goal is API and behavioral parity where it makes sense while staying idiomatic to .NET and fully compatible with .NET AOT.

This is my first public library, so please go easy on me! I’m sure there are design decisions I’d approach differently with more experience.

The project is still evolving but should be ready to use for real-world CLI apps.

AI Disclaimer: I have used Claude to finish some features today, before that it was a hand-coded effort.
by vel0city | 2026-02-11 14:42:08+00:00
> What counts as "large"?

Remote into a machine that you're not allowed to copy data out of. You only have the utilities baked into Windows and whatever the validated CI/CD process put there. You need to open a log file that has ballooned to at least several hundred megabytes, maybe more.

Moby Dick is about 1MB of text. That's really not much compared to a lot of log files on pretty hot servers.

I do agree though, if we're going to be complaining about how a text editor could have security issues and pointing to Notepad++ as an example otherwise, its had its own share of notable vulnerabilities even before this update hijacking. CVE-2017-8803 had a code execution vulnerability on just opening a malicious file, this at least requires you to click the rendered link in a markdown file.
by dTal | 2026-02-11 14:42:25+00:00
Your ultra-reductionism does not not constitute understanding. "Math happens and that somehow leads to a conversational AI" is true, but it is not useful. You cannot use it to answer questions like "how should I prompt the model to achieve <x>". There are many layers of abstraction within the network - important, predictive abstractions - which you have no concept of. It is as useful as asking a particle physicist why your girlfriend left you, because she is made of atoms.

Incidentally, your description of LLMs also describes all software, ever. It's just math, man! That doesn't make you an expert kernel hacker.
by ninalanyon | 2026-02-11 14:42:26+00:00
I do keep three seconds separation most of the time. If possible I engage traffic aware cruise control set to maximum separation for just that purpose. People do cut in but not often; what would be the point of cutting in between two vehicles that are both going slower than your desired speed?

Also perhaps I should have made it clear that I am in Europe where one is expected and required to drive in the outermost (rightmost except in UK and Ireland) lane unless overtaking so the only time anyone would 'cut in' between my car and the one in front is when they are entering a motorway.
by EngineerBetter | 2026-02-11 14:42:54+00:00
I made something very similar, in my spare time, last week. I didn't need $60m for it.

https://github.com/re-cinq/claudit

What's amusing is that I specifically made a comedy license for it, because I thought trying to protect the IP of such a thing is madness in the AI-native era. Then within days I find out it's a massively funded startup!

https://github.com/re-cinq/ai-native-application-license/

I've got Claude Code adding Gemini and OpenCode support to my tool currently.
by jfaat | 2026-02-11 14:42:59+00:00
Yeah that's a good idea. I played around with kimi2.5/gemini in a similar way and it's solid for the price. It would be pretty easy to build some skills out and delegate heavy lifting to better models without managing it yourself I think. This has all been driven by anthropic's shenanigans (I cancelled my max sub after almost a year both because of the opencode thing and them consistently nerfing everything for weeks to keep up the arms race.)
by KGKalalsmaa | 2026-02-11 14:42:59+00:00
Fair question. Three things stop us:

1. Structure & incentives – We’re a lending platform, not a trading desk. Our returns come from loan performance, not from directional bets. Front-running users would destroy the core business.

2. Regulatory constraints – As a broker/lending intermediary, we’re required to act as a neutral counterparty facilitator. Trading against or ahead of customers would be illegal and career-ending.

3. Practical reality – Users bring their own research, models, and theses. We don’t have visibility into some secret alpha we could systematically exploit, and even if we did, copying it would nuke trust instantly.

If we ever front-ran even one customer, word would spread and the company would be dead. Our entire business depends on being a neutral capital provider, not a competitor.
by RobMurray | 2026-02-11 14:43:11+00:00
Yes, that makes perfect sense. Apologies for the overly negative tone of my comment.

Do you have a description of the device with specs, or is it in earlier development than that?

Are you using the technology from DotPad, or do you have your own?

Does it have a Braille keyboard for input? I would consider that essential for education.

I fully agree that education is the most important thing. Without it Braille will die. In the UK blind schools are dying out, replaced by specialist teachers who visit mainstream schools. It's just not the same and children don't have much incentive to learn Braille.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-11 14:43:40+00:00
So this would require a list of decided malicious extensions or not and someone can go ahead and check through that.

To find the list of decided malicious extensions, I can imagine that a github repository where people can create issues about the lack of safety (like imagine some github repo where this case could've also been uploaded) and people could discuss and then a .txt/json file could be there in the repo which gets updated every time an extension is confirmed to be malicious.

Thoughts?

Edit: (To take initiative?) I have created a git repo with this https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/unsafe-extensions-list but I would need some bootstrap list of malicious extensions. So I know nothing about this field and the only extension I can add is this one maybe but maybe someone can fork this idea (who is more knowledgable within the extension community space) or perhaps they can add entries into it.

Edit 2: Looks like qcontinuum actually have a github repo and I hadn't read the article while I had written the comment but its not 1 extension but rather 287 extensions and they have mentioned all in their git repo

https://github.com/qcontinuum1/spying-extensions

So they already have a good bootstrapped amount & I feel as if qcontinuum is interested they can maybe implement the idea?
by Sharlin | 2026-02-11 14:43:42+00:00
I'm pretty sure that most people are only dimly aware of the existence of the quoted part at the bottom of an email. Mail clients routinely hide it by default, and in most cases it's never needed for anything in today's email conventions. Most clients now group conversations to threads, and most emails aren't long or complex enough to require much context anyway, never mind the custom of interleaving quotes and replies.

The vast majority people didn't yet use email back when bottom posting was good etiquette and top posting was discouraged. They're simply not aware of the concepts, or the controversy, at all. Even old-fashioned snail mail letters, for those who still remember such things, didn't usually include quoted passages, even though getting a reply to one's letter could easily take weeks if not months.
by JeremyNT | 2026-02-11 14:43:59+00:00
There are a lot of people, including (but absolutely not limited to) RFK, who are mentally incapable of proper research on their own.

He (and similarly poorly informed people) would be better served by delegating the research task to somebody who is more capable.

We've got laymen Dunning-Krugering our health policy. This is bad.
by mellosouls | 2026-02-11 14:44:10+00:00
Eh? See my comment "unwilling to acknowledge the excesses and poor behaviour of cyclists".

Cyclists certainly endanger people, you could have done a 5 second fact check before posting.

Eg.

Cyclists injured record number of pedestrians last year, data reveals

Collisions on pavements and at zebra crossings surged nearly 60 percent in five years

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/cyclists-injured-pedestrians-r...
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-11 14:44:24+00:00
We're now heading in the same direction -- will take more time than I would like to work it out, for various reasons, but this is no longer a country where I want to raise my kids (despite us being citizens and having the "right" color skin), and as much as I want to be hopeful for change it's really hard to see the damage being undone any time soon.
by Sharparam | 2026-02-11 14:45:30+00:00
> since they still don't accept Apple Pay/Google Pay. When I go in and make a purchase using my credit or debit card, they'll associate it with my Walmart account

Why wouldn't they be able to do that with at least Google Pay?

I pay with my phone using Google Pay at a Swedish grocery store chain and it's connected to my loyalty account there.

(Since I don't use Apple Pay I don't know if the same works there.)
by quesera | 2026-02-11 14:45:31+00:00
> I am left having to assume that, in the absence of some clear indicator to the contrary, whoever I am writing to will actually have rather strict expectations

This is self-defeating. You have the option -- and I recommend it -- to intentionally adopt the opposite assumption:

Zero communication is urgent, unless explicitly described as such.

It might be appropriate to make exceptions for certain people. Parents, partners, children. Maybe some work people during a crunch. Maybe some friends going through difficult times.
Show HN: Tahc – AI chat widget that hands off to a human when it can't answer
by brookler | 2026-02-11 14:45:56+00:00
I was a Drift user for years, and didn't even have AI chat on my site. When Drift broke a few months ago, I built a replacement for myself - calling it tahc (chat backwards)

When you’re launching, having an open dialogue with users helps you get to product market fit faster. I believe in the ‘human in the loop’ approach and that’s why I built tahc with that emphasis - not just another AI chatbot.

When a chat comes in, you get push notifications on your iPhone or Android instantly. You can monitor the AI conversation and jump in to take over anytime. AI handles the easy stuff, humans handle the nuance and empathy.

Have a look at tahc.ai - hit the chat widget and I’ll respond as fast as I can.