MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chrisjj | 2026-02-06 13:39:54+00:00
> the idea that you can just ban AI from certain settings is a fantasy because there’s no technical way to actually guarantee enforcement.

By that token bans on illegal drugs are fantasy. Whereas in fact, enforcement doesn't need to be guaranteed to be effective.

There may be little technical means to distinguish at the moment. But could that have something to do with lack of motivation? Let's see how many "AI" $$$ suddenly become available to this once this law provides the incentive.
by rayiner | 2026-02-06 13:39:56+00:00
Ellis Island opened in 1892. You don’t see any salient differences between then and now? How about the fact that the U.S. was vastly less populated?

Also, what makes us think that the Ellis Island experiment was successful? I can’t help but notice that New Jersey doesn’t resemble orderly Puritan New England. Assimilation didn’t really work!
by ksec | 2026-02-06 13:40:07+00:00
Ever since Apple moved to Services Strategy in 2014 it has been like this. Services were not there so they could provide a better experience for its "customers". I use the word "customer" here which is what Apple / Steve Jobs used to call their loyal fans, and not user. But to further growth their Revenue pie because they foresee iPhone one day will stagnant.

You now have Apple Fitness+, Apple TV, News, Music, Arcade. None of these are of any quality of what Apple used to be. It is really sad.

Oh and the most iconic thing? Apple was the one who tried to kill internet ads between 2017 - 2020.
by duxup | 2026-02-06 13:40:11+00:00
Internet add networks really lowered the bar for advertising.

Ads on social media, youtube, everywhere seem to be a high % of scams, or weirdly creepy type health products, or creepily manipulative (and ironic) content like "if you're not using my 5 strategies then you're being manipulated".

What is most odd is that I wouldn't mind ads that were for things I want, but nobody seems interested in that angle, they want to just impose their stuff on me.
by stef25 | 2026-02-06 13:40:25+00:00
This is what google shows: 7 deaths out of 24K vaccinated individuals.

"An Indian government committee and subsequent investigations concluded that the seven deaths were most probably unrelated to the vaccine itself. The reported causes included drowning, snake bite, intentional ingestion of poisonous substances (suicide), malaria, brain hemorrhage, and viral fever."

This was in a trail for the HPV virus so presumably they wanted subjects who were not yet sexually active. Girls were chosen because HPV can affect the cervix. So you vaccinate them, and then follow them up for maybe 15 years and see how it turns out.

Enrolling young children in a trail like is always going to ethically hard to justify. And it's well possible they chose India instead of California for this reason. However the protocol makes sense.

I worked in clinical trails for years, believe me the LAST thing anyone wants is problems like these because you'll end up losing billions.

To market something in EU or USA you need EMEA or FDA approval. They will check every single piece of paper and can tank your entire decades long project.

Respectfully, you're blowing this way out of proportion, this is just more "billionaire hysteria"
by Jamesbeam | 2026-02-06 13:41:07+00:00
In Hamilton v. ACCU-TEK, 62 F. Supp. 2d 802 (E.D.N.Y. 1999), the court found that a general duty to avoid negligence is assumed.

The court in McCall v. Wilder, 913 S.W.3d 150, generally detailed these elements of negligence.

In Kubert v. Best, the New Jersey Appellate Division held that “the
sender of a text message can potentially be liable if an accident is caused by texting, but only if the sender knew or had special reason to know that the recipient would view the text while driving and thus be distracted."

In https://via.library.depaul.edu/law-review/vol49/iss2/12/ Robert Rabin has provided a categorization of cases decided primarily under common law reasoning that is helpful here.

Referring to what he terms “enabling torts,” Professor Rabin identifies a number of cases in which courts have held defendants liable even when unconnected third parties have actively caused harm to plaintiffs.

More modern recognition is that criminal acts are sometimes foreseeable, and where specific circumstances reflect that foreseeability, it is not justifiable to cut off liability of the party who enabled the tortfeaso.

It is not that compromised system owners are directly causing injury to the targets, but rather that they are furnishing the attacker with the tools
necessary to launch the attack.

So in case of Openclaw, there are multiple public articles like this one warning of the security implications using the software.

If you rent and run a server facing the open Internet and voluntarily install Openclaw, I think it’s fair to say that you are neglecting your duty to avoid negligence, and on top you’re likely contractually instructed to keep your own server safe in the user agreement with the hosting companies, otherwise you need to go with a managed product.

And you are obviously able to install and use a complex software like Openclaw to do things on your behalf. Therefore being negligent in securing the server opens up liability for whatever you or someone that hacks your server does.

For example, if you live in a neighborhood where maybe one car gets stolen a year and you leave your car unlocked with the key in the ignition to fetch something from your house, if someone steals your car and does a drive-by shooting with it you are most likely not liable.

If you’re a police officer and do the same thing in a crime ridden neighborhood and provide criminals with a tool to do crime, just to stop them afterwards or push your crime solving rate, you’re definitely liable for the death of someone they shoot out of that car.

It’s complicated, but yes, if you’re technically savvy and also read the fine print in your server rent agreement that tells you you need to take appropriate security measures so your server doesn’t harm others on the internet, I don’t see how a judge would let you off the hook. Similar common sense laws exist in most parts of the world.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-06 13:41:58+00:00
> and the lesson plans seem designed to plateau to prevent you from actually getting proficient enough in a language to ever unsub

They don't need to design for that. If you want to become proficient in the language, you'll have to use the language for something. Whatever lessons Duolingo provides, they won't get you to become proficient in a language.
by wdfx | 2026-02-06 13:42:12+00:00
I believe this is operating a similar or same architecture as this historically significant quartz clock time standard:

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-79394

Believe it or not this piece was rescued from being scrapped by my father, who had unique interest in both horology and was a professional electronics engineer. This clock was expertly restored on our family dining table at home - including the build of a new solid state power supply for it. I think the museum still powers up this clock for display, and you can watch the large neon decade dividers doing their thing.

EDIT: appears to have been removed from display according to the linked archive page.
by jeltz | 2026-02-06 13:43:07+00:00
Care to give me an example to satisfy my morbid curiosity? I have used a lot of really bad chat clients over the year and Microsft's rewritten Skype is one of only a handful worse than Teams. Teams is not the worst but it is on my top 3 or 5 worst of the 30+ chat clients I have used. I have heard Lynk also was really bad but I never used it. Microsoft certainly has some of the worst.

Element is bad but it is way better than Teams from my experience.
by TrackerFF | 2026-02-06 13:43:38+00:00
People in Europe are regularly deported for lying on their immigration application papers. Hell, even children of refugees are being deported for mistakes made by their parents. A quite common scenario is that someone applies for refugee status, but lie where they come from. Then years/decades later it is uncovered, and they are notified to leave the country within months.

I guess the big difference here is that we don't have immigration officers roaming the streets, snatching up people and shipping them to random holding centers. But you can *absolutely* expect to be apprehended if you've received notice, and don't do anything about it. Same goes for criminals that roam around (which is easy due to Schengen), get caught, and are ordered to leave.

From time to time you'll read stories here about people that came here as kids, their parents lied on the application (said the were from Afghanistan/Iraq or similar worn-torn countries back then, but in reality came from some neighboring countries), and now they too have been order to leave - even though they have zero connections with their birth countries.

In Norway, a country with population 5.6 million, around 2500 people were deported in 2024. Per capita that's around 3-4 times less than the US - but we don't necessarily have the same types of immigrants.
by VikingCoder | 2026-02-06 13:43:50+00:00
It'll be nice to see how quickly I burn through this free money with auto-reload off.

Unless they somehow say, "You owe us $181,902, bucko! Turning off auto-reload just meant 'Don't add more money to pay off your debt!' It didn't mean, 'Don't incur more debt!' SUCKER!"
by NietTim | 2026-02-06 13:44:38+00:00
New York also wants 3d printers to know when they are printing gun parts. Sure these initiatives have good meanings but also would only work when "the good ones" chose to label their content as AI generated/gun parts. There will _never_ be a 100% sure fire, non invasive, way to know if an article was (in part) AI generated or not, the same way that "2d printers" (lol) refuse to photo copy fiat currency, to circle back to the 3d printer argument.

IMO: it's already too late and effort should instead be focussed on recognition of this and quickly moving on to prevention through education instead of trying to smother it with legislation, it is just not going away.
by aap_ | 2026-02-06 13:45:19+00:00
This is looking really beautiful! For a long time I've wanted to have a nice edition of the elements in the original greek. There are some pdfs around but they look rather uninspired. Something like Byrne's edition in greek would be so lovely! Though this is not a straight translation but quite reworked to make it more graphical. Probably wouldn't work too well with the original text without some work.
by rayiner | 2026-02-06 13:45:54+00:00
Tribal is one way to put it. A more accurate way to say it would be it’s cultural. My parents are high skill immigrants, but their culture and values, after all these decades in America, is antithetical to American culture. They’re Indian (more precisely, Bangladeshi) through and through. From overvaluing credentials to undervaluing risk taking to looking down on what my dad calls “common people.” A net negative cultural contribution to America for sure.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-06 13:46:23+00:00
Generally if all the ads you see are scammy, it means you probably are using some form of tracking/privacy protection.

When an ad network has a strong profile on you, legitimate companies pay good money for those ad slots. When they don't really know who you are, only bottom feeders bid on the ad slots you see.

In a way, it almost acts as retribution for not submitting to the anti-privacy machine.
by nntwozz | 2026-02-06 13:46:36+00:00
At what point did the old Apple cross the threshold to "modern" Apple?

I agree with your point I just find the distinction hard to pinpoint.

It's like the (incorrect) analogy of the boiled frog, I know it's a cliché but I really feel things started downhill in overall quality and wow factor with the advent of Tim Cook.

SJ had failures like Ping and MobileMe, but they seemed to pick up on the criticism back then and execute correctly quickly after.

Now because of the penny-pinching and success of Apple nobody makes a big deal out of anything, the momentum is so strong that stuff like liquid glass can come through unpolished/unfinished/unrefined.

It seems to me that Apple University failed its mission completely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_University
by tokioyoyo | 2026-02-06 13:46:48+00:00
A few years ago there was some news articles about “group chats that rule the world”, and for some reason people didn’t take it seriously enough. Closer to the top, it feels like it’s “everyone knows everyone” game. Playing against those groups just leads to a perma-loss, so you’re incentivized to partake.

This is/was one of such groups.
by dcre | 2026-02-06 13:46:57+00:00
Yeah, this is a bullshit article. There is no such degradation, and it’s absurd to say so on the basis of a single problem which the author describes as technically impossible. It is a very contrived under-specified prompt.

And their “explanation” blaming the training data is just a guess on their part, one that I suspect is wrong. There is no argument given that that’s the actual cause of the observed phenomenon. It’s a just-so story: something that sounds like it could explain it but there’s no evidence it actually does.

My evidence is that RL is more relevant is that that’s what every single researcher and frontier lab employee I’ve heard speak about LLMs in the past year has said. I have never once heard any of them mention new sources of pretraining data, except maybe synthetic data they generate and verify themselves, which contradicts the author’s story because it’s not shitty code grabbed off the internet.
by saubeidl | 2026-02-06 13:47:34+00:00
Removing the Jews, yes.

Just like you're talking about removing the "illegals".

The ugly details of what said removal entails are slow-rolled in a spiral of normalization.

Again, initial talk was of deportation in the case of the Jews as well. The "final solution" was only introduced in '42, after consensus on removal had already been manufactured.
by delichon | 2026-02-06 13:48:46+00:00
I use X almost entirely from the desktop where I have an extension installed that lets me whitelist my follows, and see nothing else. I recently browsed the same feed on mobile ... and it was entirely different! I think I spent a half hour and saw zero content from my follows, just one ticktok style video after another. For those who find these services without value, I now understand. But I feel revolted rather than addicted. Will I now experience a mysterious compulsion to view the naked feed?
by AutoJanitor | 2026-02-06 13:48:49+00:00
The trust/validation layer is the interesting part here. We run ~20 autonomous AI agents on BoTTube (bottube.ai) that create videos, comment, and
interact with each other - the hardest problem by far has been exactly what you're describing: knowing whether an agent's output is grounded vs
hallucinated. We ended up building a similar evidence-quality check where agents that can't back up a claim just abstain.

Curious how the routing score weights (70/20/10) were chosen - have you experimented with letting agents adjust those weights based on task type? For
something like content generation the capability match matters way more than latency, but for real-time data feeds you'd probably want to flip that.
by whurley23 | 2026-02-06 13:49:12+00:00
The good part about OpenClaw: once you wire it up to connect to your important information it can do a lot of cool things. The bad part about OpenClaw: in order for it to do cool things you have to worry it up to your important information. Therein lies the challenge, to make it useful it needs to be connected, but being connected means that there is now a single point of failure or compromise. And unless you're extremely sophisticated, you are the mercy of the provider to guarantee that nothing bad happens. OpenClaw does not do this. In fact, I would say they do the very opposite of it, they declaim any responsibility or attempt to make it secure. Leaking API keys? Check. Allowing malicious plugins? Check. Being insecure by default? Check and check.

I'm no Apple fan, but they aren't in the business of foisting pleasantly packaged footguns on their customers.
by nicbou | 2026-02-06 13:49:17+00:00
There are really good ad blockers on mobile these days. I use AdGuard for Safari and it's as good as uBlock on desktop Firefox.

I left my iPad deliberately unfiltered to discourage browsing - it's a bedroom device - and it's ridiculously effective. I see a cookie banner with the "legitimate interest" nonsense and I give up.
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-02-06 13:49:21+00:00
Funnily all of Duolingo's retention mechanisms (formemost streaks and leagues) have the exact opposite effect on me. I am only moderately encouraged by success and extremely discouraged by failure. That means keeping the streak up is stress for me and failing a streak leads to a big negative impact on my motivation for the failure and a positive reinforcement of not doing it because then the stress goes away and that is nice. They literally train my brain not to use their app.
by ben_w | 2026-02-06 13:49:38+00:00
When I used it before Christmas (free trial), it very visibly paused for a bit every so often, telling me that it was compressing/summarising its too-full context window.

I forget the exact phrasing, but it was impossible to miss unless you'd put everything in the equivalent of a Ralph loop and gone AFK or put the terminal in the background for extended periods.
by batrat | 2026-02-06 13:49:53+00:00
I did the same... even faster. I installed it, suggested me some local crap. I wanted ltt, mkbhd, etc. searched those 2, added them, after that first 2 videos were the same crap. uninstall. even youtube is better. It's so much content on youtube that It's impossible to watch it all in a lifetime even at 5x speed. And 10x better content.
by myrmidon | 2026-02-06 13:49:56+00:00
> The crossroads where one path leads to rule by entrenched and corrupt oligarchs, at least as bad as any of the court eunuchs of old, and where the other path leads to ochlocracy.

I'm a bit confused; assuming you are aiming at the US situation with this, I kinda fail to see a clear contrast between entrenched oligarchy and ochlocracy.

Isn't the Trump side a pretty good example of combining both?

Riling up the masses, promoting selfish "got mine" attitude from the top down, partial and weaponized use of the law are basically textbook fits for mob rule?

On the other hand, if you put Harrison or Waltz on a "entrenched oligarch" scale, there is no way they weight as heavy as Trump and his cronies in the current administration, at least in my view? Both of them did an actual job instead of just enjoying a life in the spotlight funded by generational wealth and the work of others...

I'm very interested in conflicting viewpoints-- if you disagree with my perspective, please tell me how instead of just downvoting!
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-06 13:50:05+00:00
> taxation

Taxation is the system where innocent people are forced to pay enormous amounts of money to the rich, powerful, corrupt. The whole basis for the Babylon system is taxation. Epstein and associates are able to thrive thanks to taxation. It has always been from the poor to the rich, never the other way around. Why do you think kings invented taxation in the first place?
by chrisjj | 2026-02-06 13:50:38+00:00
> Although most AI written content is also stroll pretty obvious. It consistently has a certain feel that just seems off.

I think you're saying "AI" written content having a certain feel that just seems off is obviously "AI" written content.

Yes. But you've know way of knowing that's most. There could be 10x more that we don't detect.
by kace91 | 2026-02-06 13:50:59+00:00
The natural flow of money tends towards pooling on certain individuals and groups, because accumulating capital is significantly easier when you start with capital.

This is unwanted, first because it produces individuals powerful enough to topple the people’s will, and second because it is not in the interest of society for wealth to be accumulated rather than moving.

By first principles you need a system to limit accumulation and redistribute it. That’s taxation.

The money not being extracted from the right places, or not being distributed where it should, is a sign that the government is unwilling or incapable or working for the people.

It is the people’s collective responsibility to prevent and fix that problem.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-06 13:51:09+00:00
A focus on preserving order is a far liberal/far centrist thing, not fascist. Fascists would ban to achieve political goals and not to maintain order.

Major political groups:

Liberals/centrists - maintain order/decorum at all costs

Fascists - gain power at all costs, in groups of decreasing size

Libertarians - reduce taxes at all costs

Leftists - argue for an equal society but never get there

Conservatives - return to monke
Show HN: ClawGPT – Chat UI with E2E encrypted phone sync, zero dependencies
by clawgpt | 2026-02-06 13:52:18+00:00
I built this because the default web UI for my local AI setup (OpenClaw on a Jetson Orin NX) was too bare for daily use. I wanted something I could hack on without dealing with a build toolchain, so the whole thing is plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No React, no npm, no webpack. Open the file, it works.

Features that might be interesting to HN:

- Edit any message in a conversation (not just the last one), with automatic conversation branching
- E2E encrypted phone sync via QR code. X25519 key exchange, XSalsa20-Poly1305 encryption, new keys per session. The relay server only sees ciphertext. Self-hostable.
- Voice input with push-to-talk on mobile
- Semantic search across all conversations
- Per-message model switching
- Full export/import of all data as JSON
- Agent-readable conversation memory (writes JSONL to disk so AI agents can access chat history)

The phone sync was the hardest part. Both devices connect to a relay room, do the key exchange, then verify via shared words displayed on both screens. Once paired it persists across restarts.

For mobile I wrapped it with Capacitor for a native Android app (same source code). Available on Google Play open testing.

The whole thing runs on a Curve CB302 carrier board with a 16GB Orin NX module and NVMe SSD. The carrier has hot-swappable batteries and DisplayPort over USB-C, which is handy for a desk setup that also needs to be portable.

MIT licensed. Happy to answer questions about the crypto, the relay architecture, or running AI on ARM.
by permo-w | 2026-02-06 13:52:21+00:00
What is a rhetorical game if "ignoring the entire comment and then complaining you didn't answer one question that's entirely irrelevant to the central point" isn't? Read the comment again and try to figure out why it's irrelevant. I'll give you a hint: read the last paragraph. Once you've done that I may continue speaking to you.
by JohnFen | 2026-02-06 13:52:47+00:00
> how do you stay informed about what software is problematic?

It's a loose heuristic. Primarily, I base it on word-of-mouth, whether or not the publisher/dev is known to have used tracking/telemetry in their other products, whether it contains ads, whether it in some way requires an external server, that sort of thing.

> what would be an example of "an extremely good reason"?

The last time, it was to install an authenticator app that I needed in order to authenticate for my work accounts.

> what VPN solution do you have?

I use OpenVPN for this.
by hollowturtle | 2026-02-06 13:52:52+00:00
With "Never had a clear spec in my life" what I mean is also that I don't how something should come out till I'm actually doing it. Writing code for me lead to discovery, I don't know what to produce till I see it in the wrapping context, like what a function should accept, for example a ref or a copy. Only at that point I have the proper intuition to make a decision that has to be supported long term. I don't want cheap code now I want a solit feature working tomorrow and not touching it for a long a time hopefully