MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anetagro | 2026-02-25 06:47:30+00:00
Eyematch.ai is a facial recognition search platform created to help people understand where their face appears online. Instead of relying on identical images, the system analyses facial features and looks for visual similarities across publicly available web content. This makes it possible to find appearances of the same person even when photos differ in angle, lighting, quality, or context. The platform focuses on showing where images appear online, not on identifying or profiling individuals.

The tool is designed to be easy to use and accessible to a wide audience. Users upload a clear photo of a face, and within seconds Eyematch.ai scans public websites for potential matches. Results are presented in a simple format that allows users to review images and visit source websites directly. This approach helps users understand how and where a face may be visible online without requiring technical knowledge or manual searching.
by freeopinion | 2026-02-25 06:48:05+00:00
I don't have a problem with vouchers. I mostly agree with you about not penalizing a child for the failures of the adults.

But whether the failure be the child's or the adults', a child who hasn't learned multiplication and division should not be thrown into an Algebra class. That is just more failure on the part of the adults. The child should first be given another chance to learn multiplication and division.

None of my post was aimed at defunding the student. I just think that any money spent buying third-grade reading level books for somebody who doesn't know the alphabet should not be wasted in that way. Instead, the money should be spent teaching (and re-teaching) the alphabet. The same goes for Algebra, etc. I'm all for teaching as many people as possible Algebra and Geometry and Physics and Chemistry... after they have gained the foundation they need to learn those subjects. This may require more funding, not less.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-25 06:49:23+00:00
Waiting for the wave of shit LLM-generated games on Steam. That'll be when I really know that LLMs have solved coding.

Though I'm old enough to remember the wave of shit outsourced-developer-coded games on CD that used to sell for $5 a pop at supermarkets (whole bargain bins full of them), so maybe this is nothing new and the market will take care of it automagically again.

Or maybe this will be like the wave of shit Flash games that happened in the early 2000's, that was actually awesome because while 99% of them were shit, 1% were great (and some of those old, good, Flash games are still going, with version 38453745 just released on Steam).
by omnimus | 2026-02-25 06:49:25+00:00
Might work for some countries (like US). But if you are from country with their own currency PayPal will only allow payout to account with that native currency. You get payed in USD you can't payout to USD account if your nation uses different currency. And of course they will also exchange that USD to your currency with their exchange rate that's 5-8% above services like Wise.

Basically you either keep money in your Paypal and use it there or pay their cut. It's simply usury.
by palmotea | 2026-02-25 06:49:27+00:00
> First they rushed a model to market without safety checks, and I said nothing. It wasn't my field.

> Then they ignored the researchers warning about what it could do, and I...

...tried it and became an eager early adopter and evangelist. It sounded like something from a dystopian science function novel I enjoyed.

> Then [I] gave it control of things that matter, power grids, hospitals, weapons, and...

...my startup was doing well, and I was happy. We should be profitable next quarter.

> Then something went wrong, and no one knew how to stop it, no one had planned for it...

...and I was guilty as fuck,

FTFY, to fit the HN crowd.
by wps | 2026-02-25 06:49:38+00:00
I think a relational DB is the best tool for the job!

I argue more for the use case of "secrets manager" than solely password manager. People store TOTP seeds and Passkeys and a myriad attachments. A SQLite store would better facilitate this, as not everything has to be in memory all the time. This is only with regard to the size constraint, there are so many other benefits to be had from a formal specification of the schema to truly future-proof the standard.
by tw1984 | 2026-02-25 06:49:50+00:00
> Much of this is the direct result of Apple investing literally a quarter trillion dollars and exporting critical western IP toward developing Chinese advanced manufacturing capability (among other American technology companies).

Really love your 1990s style western centric view.

Care to explain how fancy western IP is not leading in more and more techs fields, e.g. drones, EVs, renewable energy, robotics, fighter jets etc.? because western companies invested in China and gifted fancy western IPs they don't even have to China?
by deaux | 2026-02-25 06:50:42+00:00
You're correct, it was yet another genocide carried out by the Israeli state, as usual.

> In an interview with Politico in 2023, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that "In the last 15 years, Israel did everything to downgrade the Palestinian Authority and to boost Hamas." He continued saying "Gaza was on the brink of collapse because they had no resources, they had no money, and the PA refused to give Hamas any money. Bibi saved them. Bibi made a deal with Qatar and they started to move millions and millions of dollars to Gaza." At a Likud party conference in 2019, Benjamin Netanyahu said:

> “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” - Benjamin Netanyahu

> Gershon Hacohen, former commander of the 7th Armored Brigade and an associate of Benjamin Netanyahu, said in 2019 in an interview:

> “Netanyahu’s strategy is to prevent the option of two states, so he is turning Hamas into his closest partner. Openly Hamas is an enemy. Covertly, it’s an ally.”

Swiss Policy Research has excellent documentation on the promotion of Hamas in Gaza by Israel:

https://swprs.org/2023/10/20/israel-palestine-overview/
Show HN: Sopho - Open Source Business Intelligence Platform
by athultr1997 | 2026-02-25 06:51:08+00:00
I got tired of the increasing gap between the open source and closed source products for business intelligence and data analytics in terms of product quality, performance and AI features. Hence, I started building Sopho.

Currently, Sopho has the following features:

- Canvas: integrated notebook and dashboard in one place

- Chart Cells: configurable bar, line, pie, and metric charts for data visualization

- SQL Cells: write and execute SQL powered by CodeMirror editor and TanStack Table

- Keyboard Shortcuts: global search (Cmd+K) and notebook editing shortcuts

- Connections: PostgreSQL, Supabase, and SQLite with encrypted credential storage

- Authentication: username/password with session-based access and refresh tokens

- Deployment: Docker image with configurable environment variables

- Documentation: live Fumadocs-based docs site

There is a Docker image with sample data, dashboards and notebook which works out of the box. I am planning to spend some time on the AI features next to get the bases right.

Would love some feedback!
by YZF | 2026-02-25 06:52:12+00:00
So this label is not accurate? You are not anti-Israel but rather pro-Israel?

I haven't made any commentary re: the isolation of this incidents. Yes there were other incidents. But as a percent of the total number of fire fights during a two year war it's still fairly small.

Gaza is in ruins because it attacked Israel. Not all of it but large swaths. As to the Israeli policy in the west bank I generally do not support it but it's mostly only tangentially related. The connection is the right wing government and the Israeli public support of it that is a direct response to indiscriminate use of violence by Palestinians and their refusal to consider any path to end the conflict (other than the destruction of Israel which is obviously not acceptable to Israelis).

Between being dead and called evil Israelis are definitely not gonna care about your name calling. If the Palestinians had been serious about a peaceful win-win solution we wouldn't be here. During the Oslo process, in the beginning anyways, there was public support in Israel for giving Palestinians most of the west bank and gaza and a path to statehood.
by quillshade | 2026-02-25 06:53:40+00:00
What's interesting is how their recommendation algorithm plays into this. I've been digging into how these systems work (Netflix's specifically), and there's a pattern: the algorithm doesn't optimize for what you'd rate highest, it optimizes for what keeps you engaged.

Amazon does something similar but with pricing layered on top. Their rec system pushes higher-margin products, sellers notice which items get promoted, then they raise prices knowing Amazon will keep showing them anyway. So it's not just "algorithm adjusts prices" - it's more like the recommendation layer creates conditions where sellers can safely jack up prices without losing visibility.

Basically the algorithm creates artificial scarcity by only showing certain products, which gives sellers pricing power they wouldn't have otherwise.
by audunw | 2026-02-25 06:55:01+00:00
The one big thing missing from LLMs is the ability to express how confident it is in the truth of what it’s saying.

Perhaps this could be a step in that direction. If we can associate the attribution with likelihood of being true. E.g., Arxiv would be better than science fiction in that context. But what is the attribution if it hallucinates a citation? Im guessing it would still be attributing it to scientific sources. So it does nothing to fix the most damaging instances of hallucination?
by rixed | 2026-02-25 06:55:06+00:00
Something I don't quite understand is why the price of a used dedicated server is impacted by anything beyond electricity and land prices. It's not like the RAM gets replaced by new one every now and then. That's old RAM chip that's been bought years ago (and I believe largely amortized by now).

Is there any collocation space from which you can actually buy and own a physical machine without going there, and pay only the rent and traffic? I miss calling a server "mine".
by YZF | 2026-02-25 06:56:06+00:00
It was not any of these things. It was not an open air prison or a concentration camp. That's the truth. Both these accusations are cheap propaganda that doesn't stand the most cursory fact checking. Look into how many people traveled to and from Gaza a year. Check out the vast tunnel network and rocket arsenal Hamas manged to build. That Hamas preferred to smuggle CNC machines and lathes and explosives from Egypt instead of food for the Gazan population is on them.

Hamas took over Gaza by force, killing their Palestinian brothers, tossing them from roof tops. Israel just responded to Hamas' war on it. You know, rockets and such. All along Gaza had a border with Egypt which Israel did not control.

Don't defend Hamas. Just don't do it.
by bcherry | 2026-02-25 06:57:53+00:00
you mention voice ai in the announcement but I wonder how this works in practice. most voice AI systems are bound not by full response latency but just by time-to-first-non-reasoning-token (because once it heads to TTS, the output speed is capped at the speed of speech and even the slowest models are generating tokens faster than that once they start going).

what do ttft numbers look like for mercury 2? I can see how at least compared to other reasoning models it could improve things quite a bit but i'm wondering if it really makes reasoning viable in voice given it seems total latency is still in single digit seconds, not hundreds of milliseconds
by siliconpotato | 2026-02-25 06:58:26+00:00
In a corporate environment most emails are TLDR. Quite often a big boss will forward a mail to the whole department "please read". It's 5 pages of waffle. Is it useful or not? Either I spend ten minutes reading or ignore it, or ask a person or bot for a summary. For a dyslexic person, to read a large block of text that is unclear if it is pointless or not, is a lot of cognitive load that you cannot afford either.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-25 06:59:26+00:00
> Even if someone makes a closed fork of some software down the line, the original will always be there and will still be just as free.

Like MinIO, Solaris, Elasticsearch, Hashicorp Suite and countless others. The versions before the license changes are healthy as a doornail. You're absolutely right.

Some of them are re-forked, some did not.

Permissive licenses don't take away the four freedoms, but add a fifth one. The ability to take the other four away. Without prior notice. This is what I don't like personally.
by EvansWilson | 2026-02-25 07:00:22+00:00
When most people think of Bill Gates, they think of Windows and software. But if you look at his actual investment strategy via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, you’ll realize he’s moved far beyond the tech world. He isn't just "buying the dip"—he’s building a fortress designed to withstand a decade of economic volatility.

The latest filings show that Gates is playing a very different game than the Silicon Valley crowd. He’s not chasing the next speculative AI startup; he’s buying the very "pipes and rails" that keep the modern world running.

Bill Gates Portfolio 2026: The Strategic Anchor

If you want to understand the Bill Gates portfolio 2026, you have to look at its massive concentration. Gates doesn't believe in "spraying and praying." Nearly 80% of his managed equity assets are parked in just a handful of companies.

The Berkshire Connection
Despite his long-standing friendship with Warren Buffett, Gates has been systematically trimming his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) position over the years. However, it still remains a top holding. It acts as the "safe haven" of his portfolio—a massive pile of cash and diversified industrial power that provides a floor during market crashes.

Microsoft: The Eternal Engine
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft (MSFT) remains the crown jewel. But here’s the kicker: Gates uses Microsoft not just for growth, but as a source of liquidity. By maintaining a massive stake in the AI leader, the Bill Gates portfolio 2026 benefits from the enterprise tech boom while the Trust uses dividends to fund its global humanitarian initiatives.

Betting on the "Boring" Stuff: Waste, Rails, and Farms

While Reddit traders are busy with meme stocks, Gates is quietly monopolizing the industries that literally handle our trash and transport our goods.

Waste Management (WM): The Ultimate Moat
Gates has a massive crush on Waste Management Inc. Why? Because trash is recession-proof. No matter what happens with inflation or interest rates, people still need their garbage picked up. It’s a classic "toll booth" business with high barriers to entry and incredible pricing power.

Canadian National Railway (CNI)
Another massive pillar is the Canadian National Railway. Gates loves railroads for the same reason Buffett does: they are the most efficient way to move heavy goods across a continent. In an era of supply chain fragility, owning the physical tracks is a masterstroke of defensive investing.

What This Means for Your Money

The Bill Gates portfolio 2026 tells us one thing: the era of "growth at any cost" is over. Gates is pivoting toward Real Assets—companies with physical infrastructure, essential services, and massive moats.

He’s not trying to get rich quick; he’s trying to stay rich forever. By balancing the high-octane growth of Microsoft with the rock-solid stability of Waste Management and Deere & Co., Gates has built a "forever portfolio."

For the retail investor, the lesson is clear: A little bit of "boring" goes a long way. Are you diversified into real-world infrastructure, or is your entire net worth tied to the cloud?
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-25 07:00:43+00:00
In Florida it wouldn’t be confusing to refer to someone from Hawaii as “Hawaiian,” but in Hawaii it means something much more specific about ancestry, and it’s considered rude and even offensive to misuse it.

In NYC they pronounce Oregon as “Ore-gone,” even though Oregonians pronounce it “Ore-gun.” In Portland, mispronunciation marks you as an ignorant outsider.

Every place has idiosyncratic misuses of terms that come from somewhere else. Of course you are correct about “Caucasian,” but wherever you are from, I’m sure you misuse some other term.

Labeling it as uneducated and unaware is a form of snobbery that you’re unlikely to be entitled to. None of us are.
by unsnap_biceps | 2026-02-25 07:01:30+00:00
> In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the extension leaves people more vulnerable to phishing, since they have to copy/paste passwords out of the app.

The latest updates have it prompting me every time I auto fill to approve filing on the site.

Click OK to fill your 1Password item on news.ycombinator.com

I'm dumbstruck by this. I want you to reject it if it's not the right site, not ask me to verify the site by hand every time...
by ljf | 2026-02-25 07:01:50+00:00
Some peoolle have automated ebay/amazon leveraging set ups - for eg the cheapest I could find a brand name snorkel set on ebay was £19.99 - and since i often find ebay the cheapest, I bought without futher searching.

3 days later the package arrived from amazon, complete with packing slip, where I found it cost £16.

Searching the sellers account they had thousands of random listings - where I assume they can leverage a small profit. Items came and went quickly from their inventory, I assume as amazon prices fluctated.
by mihneadevries | 2026-02-25 07:02:16+00:00
It looks like Claude tokenizer handles markdown pretty efficiently, like a ## header is like 1-2 tokens. So I think the actual token savings are smaller than the byte-level numbers suggest. Where this actually matters is if maybe if you're on Haiku with big codebases where system prompt and context fight for space. On Opus? Probably not worth making your files unreadable for humans?
by keeda | 2026-02-25 07:03:44+00:00
I think the issue was with incomplete context. Even before the original METR study came out, there were a number of larger-scale studies that showed a 15 - 30% boost, starting as far back as 2024. I often mention them, though they require some explanation, so this thread and linked comments may be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559254

However those studies never got as much airtime as the METR study, and this has created an imbalanced perspective.

My take is that studies like this are extremely useful, but a lagging indicator of the true extent of AI-assisted coding. Especially since the latest tools are something else entirely.

I am not at the "never look at code again" stage, the old habits are just too ingrained... but I'm starting to look less frequently because I rarely find anything to fix. I can see a path from where I'm at to the outlandish claims people have been making.
by ahtihn | 2026-02-25 07:04:02+00:00
> But it's not a valid reason to deny the warfighters the best possible weapons systems.

Of course it is.

Think about it this way: if you could guarantee that the military suffers no human losses when attacking a foreign country, do you think that's going to more or less foreign interventions?

The tools available to the military influence policy, these things are linked.

US military is already overwhelmingly powerful, there's 0 reason to make it even more powerful.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-25 07:04:06+00:00
I don't think that is a significant proportion of crime, though it certainly exists. Most crime is organized (theft, pickpocketing, robbery, kidnappings, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, racketeering), or it exists in an atmosphere of impunity, where there is a baseline assumption of no consequences (Epstein files, rape culture in certain industries).
by hansmayer | 2026-02-25 07:04:22+00:00
> Splitting your code up into multiple functions across multiple files is computer unfriendly code. It'll cause L1, L2 and L3 cache misses

I think you have no idea what you're talking about and trying to sound technical based on some concepts you misheard somewhere.

A lot of non-tech people got into "tech" in the last years not because they were passionate about technology but because they heard they could make more money there. This was possible due to VCs throwing around money at various software companies. As a result we get statements like yours. There is one thing that I am hopeful for with the AI bubble - which is the VCs panicking out because they think "everyone will vibecode an SaaS" - and pulling out of software companies investments, causing the folks like you to go back to whatever you were doing before and leaving software to people who actually know it and do it out of genuine interest and not primarily for the money.
by onion2k | 2026-02-25 07:04:33+00:00
I don't know anything about how things work in situations like this, but logic would lead me to think a convoy of aid workers wouldn't be returning fire so shooting at them with all the shots coming from the IDF side might indicate some sort of mistake quite early in the encounter. The fact they carried on shooting for 5 minutes is either a signal that they knew and just didn't care, or that they're some of the worst trained soldiers imaginable.
by tibbar | 2026-02-25 07:05:07+00:00
Determinism in agents is a complex topic because there are several different layers of abstraction, each of which may introduce its own non-determinism. But yeah, it is going to be difficult to induce determinism in a commercial coding agent, for reasons discussed below.

However, we can start by claiming that non-determinism is not necessarily a bad thing - non-greedy token sampling helps prevent certain degenerate/repetitive states and tends to produce overall higher quality responses [0]. I would also observe that part of the yin-yang of working with the agents is letting go of the idea that one is working with a "compiler" and thinking of it more as a promising but fallible collaborator.

With that out of the way, what leads to non-determinism? The classic explanation is the sampling strategy used to select the next token from the LLM. As mentioned above, there are incentives to use a non-zero temperature for this, which means that most LLM APIs are intentionally non-deterministic by default. And, even at temperature zero LLMs are not 100% deterministic [1]. But it's usually pretty close; I am running a local LLM as we speak with greedy sampling and the result is predictably the same each time.

Proprietary reasoning models are another layer of abstraction that may not even offer temperature as knob anymore[2]. I think Claude still offers it, but it doesn't guarantee 100% determinism at temperature 0 either. [3]

Finally, an agentic tool loop may encounter different results from run to run via tool calls -- it's pretty hard to force a truly reproducible environment from run to run.

So, yeah, at best you could get something that is "mostly" deterministic if you coded up your own coding agent that focused on using models that support temperature and always forced it to zero, while carefully ensuring that your environment has not changed from run to run. And this would, unfortunately, probably produce worse output than a non-deterministic model.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14966
[1] https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/openai/ho...
[3] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/glossary