MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by djkurlander | 2026-02-15 20:09:32+00:00
Many/most of these are servers that have been compromised. DigitalOcean is certainly one of the biggest ISPs/providers; however, I’m betting that if you looked at ratio of knocks per ASN IPs registered, DigitalOcean would still be at the top. I’ll look into that.

Providers can shut down abusive IPs. I run a script every night to report attacks to abuseIPDB.com (included in the extras folder on the knock-knock GitHub repository). Some providers just don’t care.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-15 20:09:51+00:00
Why not have it research Svelte 5 syntax and write itself a syntax & function call checking tool, then put that in Husky / pre-commit so it gets run all the time.

Then it will have the signal that is in your head, and you’ll never again need to tell it to use Svelte 5.

As you see more “wrong” usage, have it add those to the checker, and the checker will keep getting better over time.
by dijit | 2026-02-15 20:09:53+00:00
rayon is a regenerated cellulose fibre: it biodegrades.

polyester is a thermoplastic polymer synthesised from petrochemicals: it doesn’t.

that’s the dividing line. one breaks down in the environment, the other persists for centuries and sheds microplastics into waterways every time you wash it.

rayon has its own environmental problems (deforestation, chemical processing), but “is it plastic?” is not one of them. the chemistry here isn’t ambiguous.
by marler8997 | 2026-02-15 20:10:21+00:00
If you have a self-contained project, where you don't depend on anyone else and others don't depend on you, MinGW works great. Problems arise when you have dependencies that don't work with it. I'd love to see if MinGW could find a way to be binary compatible with MSVC-compiled binaries. Right now it's kind of an all or nothing solution which makes it hard to adopt.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-15 20:10:44+00:00
What even is a "nato apologist"???

> Where have you seen it used outside of Americans

Well, there was this minor thing called "the western roman empire" for a few years, so that might be a starting point.

I am fascinated to learn how a claim that westerners "prefer liberty over security" is somehow erasing your culture though.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-15 20:11:03+00:00
As a kid (I was born in the 80s), my home town would get 3ft of snow almost every winter. We even saw 10ft some winters.

By the time I hit highschool, seeing a 3ft snow in the winter was pretty rare.

Over the last 4 years, there's never any snow on the ground. They are lucky if 1 inch sticks around.
by rapnie | 2026-02-15 20:11:11+00:00
> Firms are already incentivised by profit to not waste

Anecdotal but my perception is that clothing has become so extremely low quality, and I assume dirt cheap to produce, that they have less of an incentive to let it go to waste. When I buy socks they get holes after wearing them 7 times, and then they go in the bin too.
by shakna | 2026-02-15 20:11:50+00:00
They switched the backend to Common Lisp in 2019, and at the time had two seperate Arc-to-JS compilers in development. [0]

The site may feel less changeable than many, but I would be very surprised if it is not "in-development".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21550123
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-15 20:12:05+00:00
I’m aware. The preferred name is clearly Vector and ArrayList is the wordy alternative they had to use to not break back compat. List is the name to the interface which encompasses a lot of different data types. But ask a Java programmer of they prefer to use arrays or lists and I suspect they won’t even think twice about understand that the list you’re referring to is a linked list rather than asking what you mean because arraylist implements list. A fun Java weirdness is that of course arrays themselves do not implement list
by jmward01 | 2026-02-15 20:12:22+00:00
I see a lot of negative comments on this retraction about how they could have done it better. Things can always be done better but I think the important thing is that they did it at all. Too many 'news' outlets today just ignore their egregious errors, misrepresentations and outright lies and get away with it. I find it refreshing to see not just a correction, but a full retraction of this article. We need to encourage actual journalistic integrity when we see it, even if it is imperfect. This retraction gives me more faith in future articles from them since I know there is at least some editorial review, even if it isn't perfect.
by tvoybot0 | 2026-02-15 20:12:29+00:00
TvoyBot is an innovative AI-powered chatbot builder that completely changes the way businesses approach automation. The key advantage of the service is that you no longer need to spend time designing complex logic flows or writing technical specifications. You simply describe your idea in plain words, and the neural network creates a fully functional chatbot in just 30 seconds.

This solution is designed for those who value speed and simplicity: you can launch a bot without involving developers or dealing with unnecessary headaches. The system works as a “smart assistant” — you state the task, and the AI independently builds the structure, designs conversation scenarios, and configures the required features.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-15 20:12:29+00:00
"Obviously you prefer to coddle with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Iraq, UAE and such"

Uh...do you think that's the dichotomy? Do you think it's one or the other?

The US has relationships with lots of countries. Give and take relationships.

No other relationships has the sort of pathetic supplicant behaviour that we see with Israel. American politicians are not hoisting Qatar or Saudi Arabia flags. They aren't giving pathetic fawning four minute standing ovations for random criminal leaders of those countries. They aren't saying "Qatar First" or telling their voters that their first order of business is visiting Qatar to show deference. That would be bizarre behaviour that would immediately raise enormous red flags.

What a bizarre take.
by toraway | 2026-02-15 20:12:36+00:00
"You guys are reacting like engineers" is a very wave-y dismissal of the many practical questions raised about why exactly OpenAI should expand into a product that's tangentially related (at best) to their core competency of AI.

The chain of logic in the article is explicitly spelled out as: Sam Altman said OpenAI will grow into new products -> Altman says to tell them what these products should be -> You say: Slack sucks so.... how about Slack?

I think most people, engineers or otherwise, reading the article have an understandable reaction of mostly bafflement as to why we are even talking about this, specifically, to begin with?
by suprjami | 2026-02-15 20:13:00+00:00
This whole article is incorrect rubbish.

The driver for the 440BX's separate i82443bxgx EDAC chip is being removed as it hasn't actually worked for 19 years. This is the driver for things like ECC memory fault detection and correction.

The 440BX chipset itself is still supported and works fine. Removing support for that hardware would break billions of active virtual systems and I doubt the Linux kernel would allow such a disruptive change.

Yet another instance of a mainstream tech journalist not understanding what they're reporting. I expect better from a site like Tom's Hardware. Very disappointing.
by namnnumbr | 2026-02-15 20:13:06+00:00
Anthropic's bet is that a model which understands why its values matter is safer than one that follows rules. Buddhist philosophy has a word for this: karma — not punishment, but intentionality creating feedback loops.

I traced this idea across four layers of building with AI: how alignment training plants karmic seeds, why the intention behind a prompt shapes the model's trajectory, how memory turns an agent's first impressions into self-fulfilling karma, and what happens when no one tends the karma at all.

An excerpt:

> Alignment with human values requires not only understanding what "good" and "bad" actions are, but why they matter. Anthropic have planted karma through the intentional, considered design of the Constitution and its use in training Claude. It may manifest in a model that in some sense understands its own karma — alignment, it turns out, may just be karmic awareness.
by stopbulying | 2026-02-15 20:13:11+00:00
What is a good resource for reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of mandatory Real ID for Internet access?

Aren't there sound reasons to support anonymous whistleblowing?

Would there be critical feedback without pseudo-anonymity on the internet?

But you folks just have to dom all the haters.

What is their favorite thing: stuffed animal brand, candy, musical artist?

But then wouldn't undercover ops be obvious?

Is this similar to the "ban all crypto" movements that periodically forget everything we've learned about infosec and protecting folks?

Do protectees' deserve privacy for their safety?

In the 1990s, they told us kids not to use our real names or addresses on the internet.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-15 20:13:12+00:00
> So for me "stop using Facebook" sound similar to saying "burn all of your family photos and throw away your ability to talk to many of the people who are important to you."

You just aren't looking for obvious alternatives that would still allow you to do all that privately. Keep your family photos offline on your own hardware. Create a contacts list on your phone (ideally de-Appled and de-Googled) and text people on Signal and/or create group chats. Tell people you are leaving Facebook because it is an evil surveillance machine, and that you can be reached on Signal, email (self-hosted) or phone.
by Mordisquitos | 2026-02-15 20:13:46+00:00
You have an odd perception of what constitutes "micro-targetting".

Why apparel specifically? Because apparel is specifically the consumer industry where enormous quantities of unsold product are intentionally destroyed to then be replaced in the market by newly made equivalent articles.

Why was USB-C mandated specifically on Apple devices? Well here's the thing: it wasn't. It was mandated on smartphones in general, and Apple was the only company that specifically tried to fight the regulation because apparently they're special.
by rootsudo | 2026-02-15 20:13:53+00:00
RIP Internet. I don't agree with any of this, but I don't see the majority of people protesting this. If anything, promotion it because: Think of the children.

"Many social media platforms deliberately
target minors, fueling a nationwide youth mental health crisis."

". These
platforms are intentionally designed to be addictive, particularly for
underaged users, and generate substantial profits by monetizing
minors’ personal data through targeted advertising. These companies
fail to adequately disclose the addictive nature of their products or
the well-documented harms associated with excessive social media
use. Increasing evidence demonstrates that these companies are
aware of the adverse mental health consequences imposed on underage users, yet they
have chosen to persist in these practices. Accordingly, many of our Offices have initiated
investigations and filed lawsuits against Meta and TikTok for their role in harming minors. "

Yet, the comapnies aren't being regulated, nor the algorithims, the marketing or even the existence. It's the users that are the problem therefore everyone has to submit their Identity to use the Internet if this passes.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-15 20:15:01+00:00
Uncle Sam — by proxy — Wants You…

____

The Non-Negotiables: How We Work

…

• …We leave video links open while we eat lunch. Our pets and kids know our coworkers…

____

If the graphics on their landing page is anything to go by, that company [1] is essentially some kind of defense contractor.

The CTO running that Onebrief shop is the guy [2] that prompted the prediction I made in another post [3].

Coincidentally, I came across a blog post recently [4] where the blogger describes the above job description's way of working playing out IRL.

[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/BigtechBro

[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/OM16G

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995623

[4] https://g2ww.short.gy/DonutPassGo
by dheera | 2026-02-15 20:17:02+00:00
The problem with today's society is you walk into a hospital bleeding and they make you sign an ultimatum.

Legally this should be treated as signing under duress and invalidated.

If someone's life or well-being depends on it, and undergoing services in not a choice, terms and conditions should not be legally allowed to be unilaterally dictated by one party.
by pear01 | 2026-02-15 20:17:11+00:00
Weird way to agree with someone, end with an insult just because you're not sure whether or not you should take the least charitable interpretation. You would think the rest of my post would have been a clue.

Moving past that, yes we are in agreement. In fact you bring up an excellent point, which is that political parties themselves make corrupt use of campaign finance lawlessness to get in the way of their own voters and rig their own primary systems. None of these entities, whether the DNC or a right wing corporate interest group should be able to buy and sell American elections.

Individual campaign contributions are a non issue, also because regular people are capped at relatively low and long established FEC limits these various slush funds/pacs are designed to circumvent. As you said, the math is clear. I'm confident if this issue were ever put straightly to the American people, the result would be overwhelmingly in favor of campaign finance reform. The real issue isn't anyone's ability to do math, but what you hinted at earlier. The political parties themselves enjoy and benefit from this corruption. Therefore they are incentivized to ensure such a vote never takes place.

The current moment offers an opportunity to overpower such entrenched powers that be, if we can collectively move beyond partisan finger pointing that will only alienate those fellow Americans we need to agree with us to make such a broad based reform possible.
by EmTekker | 2026-02-15 20:17:46+00:00
Hey HN! OP here.

I built ContextLedger because I kept losing context between AI coding sessions. I'd wrap up a session with Claude or Codex, and the next day I'd spend the first 10 minutes re-explaining what I was working on, what failed, and what was left to do.

ContextLedger is a local-first CLI that captures events from your AI coding sessions (prompts, tool use, errors, files touched), summarizes them into structured "capsules," and generates resume packs / handoff documents so your next session starts with the right context already loaded.

Key design choices:

Local-first, SQLite-backed – everything stays on your machine. No cloud, no accounts.

Multi-agent – works with Claude Code (via hook events), Codex (rollout JSONL ingestion), and Gemini (coming soon!).

Privacy controls – prompt capture is off by default, secrets are redacted, and you can block prompt content from being sent to remote summarizers.

Summarizer-agnostic – supports local models via Ollama, or OpenAI/Anthropic APIs for generating session capsules and intent labels.

Handoff workflow – ctx-ledger handoff --agent claude --from latest generates context and can launch the agent directly with it injected.

It also ships with a web dashboard (ctx-ledger dashboard) that gives you a live view of your active agents and detailed analysis of your sessions — planning vs. execution time breakdowns, project-level time tracking, intent distribution, and tool usage stats. It auto-refreshes every few seconds and keeps syncing enabled integrations in the background, so it doubles as a monitoring panel while you work.
The onboard command gets you set up in one step – it enables integrations, runs an initial sync, and starts the dashboard.

I've been using it daily for last few days and it's made a noticeable difference in how quickly I can pick up where I left off, especially on multi-day projects. The intent labeling and planning-vs-execution time breakdowns have also been interesting for understanding how I actually use these tools.
Would love feedback.

Repo: https://github.com/manthan787/context-ledger
by zestyping | 2026-02-15 20:17:47+00:00
Approval, not ranked-choice.

Ranked-choice reduces transparency and understanding of the vote-counting process, disenfranchises an alarming percentage of lower-income voters, obstructs risk-limiting audits (which are essential for security), and is non-monotonic (increasing voter support for a candidate can make them lose). Further, ranked-choice doesn't actually fix the spoiler problem and won't eliminate two-party dominance.

Approval voting is cheap and easy to implement, dead simple to explain, count, and audit. Not only does it eliminate the spoiler problem, it is easy to see why it does so: your ability to vote for any candidate is independent of your ability to vote for any other.
by gjsman-1000 | 2026-02-15 20:18:20+00:00
I blame HN and Silicon Valley in general for consistently treating keeping children online safe as a parental responsibility only, rather than a government-parent team effort like every other regulation.

This loophole, “think of the children,” would not exist if SV had gotten over itself and not called very solution unworkable while insisting that any solution parents receive, no matter how sloppy or confusing, is workable.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-15 20:18:30+00:00
Billions of dollars of revenue on trillions of dollars of investment is not a revolutionary feat. I promise you I could turn trillions into billions too.

Neither of those software are primarily responsible for the revenue, either. The actual models underlying them are, not the trivial CLI chat interface. I also don't even think it's true that Codex is primarily agent-written. OpenAI specifically cited using Electron in their recent Codex desktop application for "agent orchestration" to save human developer time on porting it across platforms, which does not sound like a successful exercise in eating their dog food.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-15 20:18:35+00:00
> They were all bearish in 2025. Now they are bullish.

There's noting bullish in "America isn't ready". The technical success of AI can absolutely cannibalize it's economic and political feasibility - which is the opposite of bullish.

Besides, mainstream media's modus operandi has been fixed for along time and the switch in tone is perfectly explainable, but that's not the point here.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-15 20:19:04+00:00
And Golden Dome is just the reheated leftovers of the 80s Star Wars space-based scheme literally dreamed up by Dr Strangelove himself, Edward Teller, and promoted by the Heritage Society as a way to get past MAD and allow the US to start and win WWIII. These clowns will absolutely kill millions if they’re not put in check.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire
by everyflavourvms | 2026-02-15 20:19:09+00:00
They've completely reworked release plans. 2026 LTSC will come out a year after the initial VS 2026 release (at the same time as VS 2027) and be supported for 1 more year. You pretty much have to get on the rolling updates train for the IDE, which is why the C++ toolchain now follows a different schedule and you're supposed to be able to install any specific toolchain side by side.
Show HN: Clue (Cluedo) Solver/Assistant
by dmd | 2026-02-15 20:19:39+00:00
After playing a few rounds of the board game Clue (aka Cluedo) with my kids I thought "this is a logic problem! We can automate away all the fun!"

I quickly found it'd been done before, but with a required server-side (Python or Rust) component. I rewrote it as a standalone SPA and spruced up the UI a bit.

Hope people find it useful or fun!
by phicoh | 2026-02-15 20:20:21+00:00
Yes, there is a tool called asmconv, that converts.

One example is the new compiler driver that can use ACK and GCC from a single compiler driver and that can automatically convert assembler and figure out which archiver to use to create libraries.

Another example is library support for filenames longer than 14 characters that was completely transparent. MINIX3 just broken all backward compatibility by increasing the size of directory entries to a new fixed size.

I'm sure there is more stuff, these are just a few I remember.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-15 20:20:34+00:00
This feels like a maybe interesting position, but I don’t really follow what you mean. Is it possible to just state it directly? Asking us to ponder is sort of vague.

These math LLMs seem very different from humans. A person has a specialty. A LLM that was as skilled as, say, a middling PhD recipient (not superhuman), but also was that skilled in literally every field, maybe somebody could argue that’s superhuman (“smarter” than any one human). By this standard a room full of people or an academic journal could also be seen as superhuman. Which is not unreasonable, communication is our superpower.
by YZF | 2026-02-15 20:20:57+00:00
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-formal...

I mean it's just a gift. No favors expected in return?

There are absolutely US politicians who are advocating for those other countries.

We already covered the not a criminal until proven guilty angle.

But yes, the US has considered Israel a close ally and friend and its leaders are well received in the US as are US leaders in Israel.

And yes, the not criminal leader of Saudi Arabia who had a journalist chopped up and violates the rights of his people is also received with great honors in the USA.
by otterley | 2026-02-15 20:21:24+00:00
Let's suppose for the sake of the argument that while you are a volunteer, you take on some duty. What is the nature of that duty? And how do we enforce the execution of said duty? What are the consequences of it not being performed?

You can't really say someone has a "duty" without also implying that they have a "responsibility," and thus liability if they fail to execute those duties properly. I don't see how this fits at all for a volunteer. Very few people are going to volunteer for no pay if they're taking on a risk of liability.
by Riveora | 2026-02-15 20:21:32+00:00
I’m the founder of Riveora. We built it to help mobile teams stop guessing what to build next by analyzing public App Store + Google Play reviews from competitor apps.

Current output is grouped into:
- missing features / opportunities
- complaints and issues
- liked aspects

Each insight is tied back to review evidence quotes, and you can run analysis across multiple countries.

It’s still early, and I’d really value blunt feedback on:
1) whether the ranking is useful for roadmap prioritization
2) what feels noisy or missing in the output
3) where the workflow slows you down

If you share your app category/use case, I can suggest how to set up competitors for better signal.
by mint5 | 2026-02-15 20:21:54+00:00
You seem so certain despite having it backwards as likely as not.

the western ordered cheap quality overproduction solution of swamping developing countries with it, where much also ends in a trash heap, means they can continue the exploitive and environmentally destructive mass production.

Smaller local industries would be economically better for the countries, supply more aligned so less waste, and there’d be less of the bad factories in Bangladesh.
by mistrial9 | 2026-02-15 20:22:44+00:00
>in most EU countries is that the Vatican still has control over the board of a very surprising number of hospitals.

>Needless to say, the EU governments really hate that

> if the government wants the Vatican out of the board ... they have to increase spending on that hospital, often by a lot. I'd call them "Vatican hospitals"

> one thing government and the Vatican really agree on is that they do not want patients to know the underlying financial arrangements around hospitals

> in many cases it's quite difficult to find who controls a hospital even though it's technically public information)

I am responding to these somewhat "breathless" statements that imply more than they delineate. My rebuttal is that these words frame a kind of inquiry that is common among conspiracy-attracted commentors.

The subject deserves more rigor and less insinuation IMO.