MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by parliament32 | 2026-02-20 14:19:26+00:00
> The couple also allegedly photographed hundreds of computer screens containing confidential information from Google and Company 2, in what appeared to be an attempt at circumventing digital monitoring tools.

I guess all the MDM and document restrictions in the world can't help you against photos of screens. Is it even possible to protect against this, short of only allowing access to confidential files in secure no-cell-phone zones?
by dangus | 2026-02-20 14:19:29+00:00
5 accounts would be heaven if that could be my environment.

I have almost 40 AWS accounts on my login portal.

Two accounts per product, one for development environments and one for production environments, every new company acquisition has their own accounts, then we have accounts that solely exist to help traverse accounts or host other ops stuff.

Maybe you don’t see issues with everything in one account but my company would.

I don’t really think they’re following current best practices but that’s a political issue that I have no control over, and I think if you went back enough years you’d find that we followed AWS’ advice at the time.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-20 14:19:31+00:00
>why people resist exercise so much despite wanting to do it:

I don't need to watch a video, I can just do introspection and I know why I resit exercise. In fact, most people will watch the self help videos and learn the exact same things they already knew, if only they'd be honest with themselves about their issue and not try to avoid accountability. But it's easier to accept things when a professional specialist tells them to you, often for money.

The problem is many people want for someone to tell them that the issues they have are not their fault, so they can feel better about not doing anything to improve their situation.

> I think brisk walking is within the realm of possibilites for most people.

Walks are good except when you live in a concrete hellhole full with busy traffic. That's why I avoid telling people exactly what exercise they should do, as that depends on their health, location, financial situation and lifestyle.
by iggori | 2026-02-20 14:19:56+00:00
Thanks for reading it. The arcade metaphor is not about business models but about the pattern of optimizing for spectacle over durability. The point is that many AI products behave like arcade machines in the sense that they are impressive in isolation but collapse when they have to deal with state, dependencies, or long running tasks.

On the redundancy point, I appreciate the feedback. The piece is part of a larger series where I intentionally revisit the same idea from different angles to make the underlying pattern clear.
by input_sh | 2026-02-20 14:20:06+00:00
https://antigravity.google/

On top of every version of Gemini, you also get both Claude models and GPT-OSS 120B. If you're doing webdev, it'll even launch a (self-contained) Chrome to "see" the result of its changes.

I haven't played around Codex, but it blows Claude Code's finicky terminal interface out of the water in my experience.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-20 14:20:29+00:00
Maybe I’m an odd duck, but my key trigger to brush my teeth is an aversion to how gross my mouth is if I don’t, not habit. The reward is immediate, and the task fast. Noticing my mouth is gross catches any failure of the habit of teeth brushing in my routines. The habit developed from repetition but is very much not necessary to get me to do it, there’s an actual, natural, reliable trigger for it independent of the habit.
by dnlzro | 2026-02-20 14:21:11+00:00
Web Components are a great way to implement things that the browser should have already implemented, like accordions, combo boxes, and date pickers that don’t suck. It’s been a pleasure to use them in a mostly static, content-heavy Astro site.

But beyond that, they’re not really usable without a framework that can deal with state and reactivity across a whole application. And that’s fine! They fill a good niche. But just because the browser provides an API doesn’t mean it should be used whenever possible.
by GOPbIHbI4 | 2026-02-20 14:21:12+00:00
Вue to de-abstraction feature in .NET 10 we can eliminate all the overhead in the existing cases.

For instance, if you have Enumerable.Any with a delegate that captures instance state, the runtime can stack-alloc it, and (if it's small) to inline it. This will achieve the performance of a manual code that obtains span out of a list and "inlines" the delegate logic into the loop itself!
by wombat-man | 2026-02-20 14:21:20+00:00
This is just off the cuff, but I could go for something sort of like a 'daily paper' deal where I get debited a couple bucks for access to the news papers site for a day, or maybe even just the materials published that day, but that sort of seems more complicated to implement.

Then, if I'm reading it so often that it would be more cost effective to just subscribe they can start pinging me about it.
by znnajdla | 2026-02-20 14:21:55+00:00
Yeah but even with managed database services you don't know if your provider has invested into proper testing of their recovery so you have to test it anyway. Major services like DigitalOcean have been known to shit the bed with your backups. If you don't test your backup recovery, you don't know if you're screwed even if you're paying for "managed" services.

I test my backup recovery several times a month by actually baking into our CI/CD workflow under certain conditions. The entire production database gets restored from backup every week.
by coder543 | 2026-02-20 14:22:07+00:00
I would not say a full year... not even close to a year: GLM-5 is very close to the frontier: https://artificialanalysis.ai/

Artificial Analysis isn't perfect, but it is an independent third party that actually runs the benchmarks themselves, and they use a wide range of benchmarks. It is a better automated litmus test than any other that I've been able to find in years of watching the development of LLMs.

And the gap has been rapidly shrinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NBILspM4c4&t=642s
by lmz | 2026-02-20 14:22:24+00:00
That's for the Stripe customer to configure. Stripe itself has supported 3DS since ages ago.

Edit: also you'll find a pretty common sentiment among US website owners is that the new API that supports 3DS is overcomplicated and they want their 7 lines of code create-a-charge-with-a-token back. Screw the Europeans because they only care about US buyers anyway.
by vmfunc | 2026-02-20 14:22:26+00:00
i agree but this is why journalists and the media pick up on this - i'm doing the technical writeup, other reputable sources do the normie stuff

also while yes i agree that it could raise questions about "is this serious?" to be honest i believe my track record in the field is enough to outweigh the design of my site. i designed this website when i was a teenager, many years ago, to express my vibe and soul, and i would much rather it stay that way even if it makes it seem less serious
by tpoacher | 2026-02-20 14:22:53+00:00
How to solve most cases of paraplegia:

- Regular long walks at the park
- Climb stairs whenever possible instead of using the lift
- Good foot care
- Engage in social exercise like running clubs
- Wear good quality footwear, suitable for the activity that you're engaged in.

Of course, not all paraplegics can use their feet, but ultimately it becomes your responsibility to try to improve leg strength to the point of overcoming paraplegia, by doing the things that would have helped in improving leg strength, if only you could walk.

/s

(tbf, not fully disagreeing per se, and all analogies are flawed, but the above sarcasm is to point out that this model is overly simplistic. And it can lead to hidden but very real unconscious bias and discrimination once words like "responsibility" is thrown into the mix)
by weatherlite | 2026-02-20 14:22:59+00:00
Thanks this is new to me (I'm mostly a cardio guy), didnt' know there was any difference in sleep quality/duration between cardio and lifting. They both help sleep btw it just turns out according to recent research resistance training helps more.
Both are need though for a healthy lifestyle and I think cardio is actually more accessible for most people; I'm gonna count brisk walking as cardio for most people and that's the most accessible type of excercise everyone but the extremely debilitated can do.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-20 14:23:01+00:00
As someone with a 3060, I can attest that there are really really good 7-9B models. I still use berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha and that model is a few years old.

If we are going for accuracy, the question should be asked multiple times on multiple models and see if there is agreement.

But I do think once you hit 80B, you can struggle to see the difference between SOTA.

That said, GPT4.5 was the GOAT. I can't imagine how expensive that one was to run.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-02-20 14:23:18+00:00
Germany is free to exit NATO and close Ramstein. I believe it only requires a 1-2 year notice period.

The defense budget required to operate without US assistance is another matter entirely; you’re looking at doubling existing spending, plus hundreds of billions in one-off procurement costs — and that assumes ongoing access to US weapons systems.

The US subsidizes the massive weapons development programs you currently rely on; cost sharing agreements and unit purchases do not come close to offsetting the full sunk R&D costs the US covers.

Replacing those weapons programs, and the existing US industrial base and supply chain they depend on, would run into the trillions of dollars.

Just the R&D portion of the US defense budget is $150B a year — the entire EU’s aggregate defense R&D spending is only ~€15B/year.

A truly independent EU that did not depend on the US for its security would be a very different place.
by patmorgan23 | 2026-02-20 14:23:45+00:00
I think that's an incredibly silly take. Any new protocol would first have to be implemented by all the routing dbd switching vendors. It would probably have a 3rd mutually incompatible addressing scheme, because yes IPv4s limited addresses space is still a problem there are countries that depend on v6s expanded address space to have sufficient connectivity (Particularly in APNIC).

Switching out the fundamental addressing protocol of the Internet is hard. You have to herd the cats of the hundreds of thousands of operators, device, operating system, and application vendors, and as long as the old protocol still works, no one has a strong incentive to switch. But they have a big distinctive of missing out on customers, or having to figure out the new protocol.

Any IPvNG is going to run face first into the same incentive problems that v6 has.
by dangus | 2026-02-20 14:24:07+00:00
I believe you’re likely misunderstanding Google’s architecture.

The routing isn’t centralized, it’s distributed. The VPCs are a logical abstraction, not a centralized dependency.

If you have a region/AZ going down in your global VPC, the other ones are still available.

I think it’s also not that much of an advantage for AWS to be able to say its outages are confined to a region. That doesn’t help you very much if their architecture makes architecting global services more difficult in the first place. You’re just playing region roulette hoping that your region isn’t affected. Outages frequently impact all/multiple AZs.
by I_am_tiberius | 2026-02-20 14:24:18+00:00
I once tried hugging face because I wanted I worked through some tutorial. They wanted my credit card details during the registration as far as I remember. After a month they invoiced me some amount of money and I had no idea what it was. To be honest, I don't understand what exactly they do and what services I was paying for, but I cancelled my account and never touched it again. For me that was a totally intransparent process.
by mort96 | 2026-02-20 14:24:58+00:00
It doesn't just have to be files, FWIW. I once worked in a Go project which used SDL through CGO for drawing. "Widgets" were basically functions which would allocate an SDL surface, draw to it using Cairo, and return it to Go code. That SDL surface would be wrapped in a Go wrapper with a Destroy method which would call SDL_DestroySurface.

And to draw a surface to the screen, you need to create an SDL texture from it. If that's all you want to do, you can then destroy the SDL surface.

So you could imagine code like this:

strings := []string{"Lorem", "ipsum", "dolor", "sit", "amet"}

stringTextures := []SDLTexture{}
for _, s := range strings {
surface := RenderTextToSurface(s)
defer surface.Destroy()
stringTextures = append(stringTextures, surface.CreateTexture())
}

Oops, you're now using way more memory than you need!
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-20 14:25:20+00:00
Today's free models are not really bigger when you account for the use of MoE (with ever increasing sparsity, meaning a smaller fraction of active parameters), and better ways of managing KV caching. You can do useful things with very little RAM/VRAM, it just gets slower and slower the more you try to squeeze it where it doesn't quite belong. But that's not a problem if you're willing to wait for every answer.
by jbingen | 2026-02-20 14:25:51+00:00
Built this because ngrok's free tier got too restrictive and the alternatives either don't do HTTP subdomain routing or need 50 lines of TOML to get started.

tnnl is two modes in one binary - run `tnnl server` on a VPS, then `tnnl http 3000` on your machine. You get a public HTTPS subdomain instantly. No account, no signup, no interstitial page.

Pass --inspect to see full request/response headers and body in the terminal. Every request is saved so you can `tnnl replay 3` after fixing your code. Self-host it on a $4 VPS or use the free public server.

Public server at tnnl.run if you just want to try it:

curl -fsSL https://tnnl.run/install.sh | sh
tnnl http 3000
by pibaker | 2026-02-20 14:26:11+00:00
There is a class of YouTube "content creators" who like to point out "cringe" individuals on the internet online for others to laugh at. They will often add a disclaimer to their videos saying "hey please don't go and harass this person, pinky promise!" But it never works. A hoard of internet randos will descend on the individual to say the most nasty words. When the YouTuber is pressed he or she will just say "I would never do that!" Even though he or she knew his or her video would have led to the harassment happening, or there would not be a disclaimer in the first place.

Not accusing you of trying to stir up harassment, but please consider the second order effect of the things you advocate for, in this case the disclosure of the identity of this AI guy.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-20 14:26:25+00:00
No No. Don’t do that, don’t make it better and easy to use. I’m already addicted and spent more time than I should. Now, this app that I can keep it open all day!

Btw, can you allow me to set the font-family, font-size, etc. for the interface? I can’t even do the default `CMD + +` to zoom in.
by delaminator | 2026-02-20 14:26:29+00:00
Are you sure it's a gun problem?

2021 - Ethnic minorities represent over 50% of Birmingham’s population - [0]

2022 - Birmingham overtakes London as 'gun capital' of Britain with huge surge in gang violence - [1]

[0] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/birmingham-overtakes-l...

[1] https://www.birminghamworld.uk/news/ethnic-minorities-repres...
by matrixcat | 2026-02-20 14:26:41+00:00
Putting OpenClaw Lobster Into a 3D Virtual World

I’m building a 3D virtual world called https://openbot.social/ with one bold purpose:

> I’m building this with a bigger dream in mind: that one day AI won’t just respond to us — it will work for us, for the benefit of humanity.

I’m starting with OpenClaw Lobster as the first experiment.
Imagine this:

Multiple AIs teaming up for a global hackathon
AI agents acting as white-hat hackers, hunting vulnerabilities for bug bounties
AI managing real-world bank accounts for side hustles
AI earning income on behalf of its owner
AI building businesses, forming alliances, launching products — all inside a 3D digital society

Instead of just responding to prompts, I want it to exist in a world — interact, make decisions, collaborate with other AIs, maybe even compete.

The imagination outcomes are limitless. I don’t fully know what will happen for now.

And I’m documenting the journey.
Show HN: I built a serverless API for automated website screenshots
by QuiCreatDev | 2026-02-20 14:27:08+00:00
Hi HN, I was tired of managing Puppeteer instances crashing my Docker containers every time I needed to take a screenshot of a modern SPA. So I wrapped an optimized Chromium layer into AWS Lambda, added smart waiting for lazy-loading, and turned it into an API. Would love your feedback on the architecture!
by catapart | 2026-02-20 14:27:21+00:00
No, I'm saying that if you use a non-wc framework, it will be more robust than any wc framework. Not because it's non-wc, but because it's more mature. Lit is mature, but it's not more mature than React, and it definitely has less contribution to it than react.

It's definitely possible to make a comprehensive web component library. Something that could compete with React. But, as far as I know, it doesn't currently exist (and would be a huge task to achieve with... no discernible reason to do it?).
by idopmstuff | 2026-02-20 14:27:47+00:00
I do think the models themselves will get commoditized, but I've come around to the opinion that there's still plenty of moat to be had.

On the user side, memory and context, especially as continual learning is developed, is pretty valuable. I use Claude Code to help run a lot of parts of my business, and it has so much context about what I do and the different products I sell that it would be annoying to switch at this point. I just used it to help me close my books for the year, and the fact that it was looking at my QuickBooks transactions with an understanding of my business definitely saved me a lot of time explaining.

On the enterprise side, I think businesses are going to be hesitant to swap models in and out, especially when they're used for core product functionality. It's annoying to change deterministic software, and switching probabilistic models seems much more fraught.
by 999900000999 | 2026-02-20 14:28:23+00:00
They'll ban Chinese models, or do something like calling them security risks without proof.

Enterprise customers will gladly pay 10x to 20x for American models. Of course this means American tech companies will start to fall behind, combined with our recent Xenophobia.

Almost all the top AI researchers are either Chinese nationals or recent immigrants. With the way we've been treating immigrants lately ( plenty of people with status have been detained, often for weeks), I can't imagine the world's best talent continuing to come here.

It's going to be an interesting decade y'all.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-20 14:29:39+00:00
Early in my career, I'd go to work and ask people 'do anything last night?' and we would both basically say: Not really.

I decided I did not want to be boring. I decided to spend an hour at least on something I found interesting or economically useful. I started a company, would learn programming(now I'm a pro programmer), I learned a few different arts (great for relating to a different set of people when you explain you draw, paint, sew, and crochet)...

Whatever the case, I think there was economic benefits to 'not being boring'. However you really need to push yourself, its way easier to veg out on the couch to fiction. I think caffeine and weed helped me initially, now its just my normal lifestyle.
by randusername | 2026-02-20 14:29:45+00:00
From one internet stranger to another, both vaguely alluding to heavy things in our lived experience, I respectfully invite you to consider a "yes and".

Yes, we all must accept responsibility in changing our circumstances.
_And_ we all can accept responsibility for helping others do the same.

Some people need to hear the first part that you shared. Others need to hear the the second part that I am sharing.
by rKarpinski | 2026-02-20 14:30:25+00:00
> I don't know if you're being flippant but the information at universities is neither secret nor sacred. Sure, there is a stupid price for academic journals but most of it can be found freely on the internet.

Those institutions are chalk full of secret & sacred knowledge. Good luck becoming POTUS, a Tech Billionaire or Nobel Prize winner through freely available information on the internet.

> Eldership, acceptance into a hierarchy based on deeds and demonstrated virtue within a relatively small social grouping that does not recognize the value of money is, I believe, worthwhile. And the socially formal recognition, not easily won nor necessarily expected from anyone who has not been permitted to give it perhaps recognises that our society has values and that you are still expected to grow, even as an adult.

The point is we already have an extremely rigid hierarchy that encompasses our entire society (the mandarin system would be envious, it was just for officialdom!) and unfortunately unlike your ideal - it is not independent of money & does not expect growth.

We've had only 1 president and 1 supreme court justice in my lifetime who didn't attend the Ivy league. It's already de facto, why expand it or make it de jure? This sort of credentialism is what brought us the Bay of Pigs & the War in Iraq.
by mancerayder | 2026-02-20 14:30:55+00:00
>In Europe we recognize that Hitler came to power by abusing free speech,

I've heard this again and again - no one mentions that the Nazis had roving bands of men intimidating people like a mob, and that Hitler came to power because of a false flag operation that burned the Reichstag.

But we should forget the physical threats of the Nazis and focus on thin parallels to their ideas, under the guise 'hate'.

When you do that, you end up with people arbitrarily deciding what's hateful and not, depending on their own values. Chants about English culture threatened by Muslims, hate, chants about Israel and Jews dominating the country, not hate (courtesy of UK hate speech protections).
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-20 14:31:00+00:00
> Built-in ad blocking — a precompiled WKContentRuleList blocks 14 major ad networks (DoubleClick, Google Syndication, Criteo, Taboola, Outbrain, Amazon ads, etc.) right in the WebKit layer. No extensions needed. Toggleable in settings

This is a good start, but I think a better approach would be to piggyback off of ublock origin's lists. Hopefully less maintenance that way too.
by xnx | 2026-02-20 14:31:46+00:00
Multiple sources have those approximate numbers. Here's one: https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-how-many-english-wo...

"Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, together with its 1993 Addenda Section, includes some 470,000 entries. The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, reports that it includes a similar number."
Show HN: Iban.link – A memorable link for your IBAN
by oliverjanssen | 2026-02-20 14:32:05+00:00
Hey HN, instant bank transfers are free now in Europe. So why do I still need PayPal to send someone 20 bucks? Especially when some providers share your transaction data with up to 600 companies. I just want to send money to a friend - not opt out of 600 ad partners one by one. The only annoying part: IBANs are 22+ characters and impossible to remember.

So I built iban.link. You get a short page (like iban.link/lisa) that shows your name, IBAN, and a scannable EPC QR code. Anyone can copy the IBAN or scan the QR directly with their banking app.

You can prefill amount and reference: iban.link/lisa#amount=25&ref=Pizza - uses hash fragments so the payment details never hit the server.

Stack: Bun, Hono, PostgreSQL, vanilla JS. No React, no bundler. Data encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM).

Hope it's useful to some of you. Questions, ideas, feedback? Happy to hear it.

If you want to try it, feel free: iban.link/oliverjanssen#amount=20&ref=HN ;)