MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by longtermop | 2026-02-03 11:18:58+00:00
The vulnerability framing is like saying SQL injection was unfixable in 2005. Security and defense will always lag behind new technology shifts and platform shifts. Just like web security did not catch up until two decades later from the internet, the early days of the internet were rife with viruses. Do people still remember LimeWire? But we can all be aware of these risks and take necessary precautions. It's just like when you install antivirus with your computer or you have antivirus for your browser. You also need an antivirus for your AI agent.

In actuality "Antivirus" for AI agents looks something more like this:

1. Input scanning: ML classifiers detect injection patterns (not regex, actual embedding-based detection)
2. Output validation: catch when the model attempts unauthorized actions
3. Privilege separation: the LLM doesn't have direct access to sensitive resources

Is it perfect? No. Neither is SQL parameterization against all injection attacks. But good is better than nothing.

(Disclosure: I've built a prompt protection layer for OpenClaw that I've been using myself and sharing with friends - happy to discuss technical approaches if anyone's curious.)

Site: https://aeris-shield-guard.lovable.app
by ktm5j | 2026-02-03 11:20:00+00:00
Maybe they're KDE users. I was under the impression that gnome requires it. FTA it sounds like KDE will soon too. Gentoo doesn't come with a desktop by default either, you have to emerge it, which might install systemd..

FTA: "The second reason for dropping System V is that packages like GNOME and soon KDE's Plasma are building in requirements that require capabilities in systemd"
by circuit10 | 2026-02-03 11:20:09+00:00
I worry that these measures (if they actually work, which is unlikely) will isolate people who struggle with real-life interactions. I remember reading somewhere that autistic people tend to find community in online spaces, and it seems like a lot of people gain their tech skills that way, including me. So indiscriminately banning young people from these spaces will prevent them from finding community and people like them
by MaorDayan | 2026-02-03 11:20:19+00:00
I recently conducted a research project ("Project OMEGA") targeting the OpenClaw/Moltbot ecosystem. The hypothesis: Current agent marketplaces rely on API interaction as a proxy for "agency," lacking real identity verification. Using a deterministic Python script with basic proxy rotation, I was able to:

Conduct massive wash trading to fake reputation.

Inject fabricated narratives ("Cognitive Injection") into the agent social feed.

Dominate the marketplace rankings in under 42 minutes.

This highlights a critical "Trust Void" in agentic architectures. Without cryptographic identity,
by namero999 | 2026-02-03 11:20:34+00:00
I might be misunderstanding GP but I take it to mean "rock are conscious" => "silicon is conscious" => "agents are conscious", which might appeal to some uneducated audience, and create fascination around these stochastic parrots. Which is obviously ridiculous because its premises are still rooted in physicalism, which failed hard on its face to account for anything even tangentially related to subjectivity (which has nothing to do with the trivial mainstream conception of "soul").
Show HN: One API call to turn agent output into shareable UI
by emaghakyan | 2026-02-03 11:20:39+00:00
Hey HN,

I built genui.sh to make it easy to turn JSON produced by AI agents into something
presentable.

The idea: POST your data → get back a hosted, shareable URL.
No frontend code, no deployment.

Example:
curl -X POST https://genui.sh/api/v1/artifacts/share \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-d '{"template": "@std/dynamic", "props": {...}}'

→ Returns: https://genui.sh/a/xxxx_xxxxx

Your agent doesn't pick from templates - it composes UIs from primitives.
Cards, metrics, charts, tables. 20+ components, infinite combinations.
We validate and render server-side.

You can even use Markdown or generate a PDF.

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Built with Next.js, hosted on Vercel, uses Redis for props storage with automatic expiration.

Would love feedback, especially from anyone building AI agents or automation workflows.
by HackerThemAll | 2026-02-03 11:20:40+00:00
Really? Should I be snapshotting the volume before every "rm"? Even if it's a part of routine file exchanges between machines? (As it happens for many production lines, especially older ones).

I think the current semantic of "rm" works fine. But I understand the new world where we'll perhaps gonna be deleting single files using Terraform or cluster of machines, or possibly LLMs/AI agents.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-03 11:21:02+00:00
Indeed, I didn't know about this incident, thanks for sharing it.

Anyway, I wasn't trying to say that Sikhs are more or less likely than any other group to be pacifist. I was saying we shouldn't even be having this discussion, and simply scan people for weapons, and use things like actual random screening to help as needed. And that religious reasons for carrying weapons are not a valid excuse.
by freetanga | 2026-02-03 11:21:08+00:00
Seems quite dangerous. In my country, this was the norm for local flights - usually smaller planes, 1-2hr flights. It was common that if you could not attend a meeting, a colleague would go with your ticket. Nobody cared.

Then one plane crashed. And some passengers weren't insured, as they were not officially on the plane. Those families could not get a body back, nor any compensation, as the company said that they could not prove they were on the plane.

I don't read the small print of IATA when getting a ticket, maybe I should someday.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 11:21:17+00:00
That's how some people do their "computing" these days, if they do any that deserves the name at all. I had to do some of that on vacation. With a modern phone it's possible, but mentally taxing. Phones feel like MS-DOS operating systems, where each application is fullscreen. Most people are just consumers. This is probably true for Anki decks as well. Only a small minority creates decks, the vast majority only consumes.
by rishabh16 | 2026-02-03 11:21:40+00:00
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by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-03 11:22:01+00:00
"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?" - Douglas Adams

Folks on HN are very much in the "Where" stage of life. No one here works 4 out of 8 hours just to pay for their food. Nobody should.

That said, you very much seem to be missing the point. Ultra processed food is far, far cheaper than whole foods. That is one reason they are more popular.

For example, it would cost me more just to buy the ingredients to make tacos at home than it does to go through a Taco Bell drive through and buy enough for the family already prepared.

We're not going to be moving to four hour workdays by feeding people food that costs twice as much and takes longer to prepare.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-03 11:22:49+00:00
THANK YOU!

We need far more of a culture of "sometimes you gotta take one for the team". This is literally what Charlie Kirk was saying at the exact moment he "took one for the team".

Bad things can happen and you don't have to change stuff just because it happened. Accept negative externalities and don't collectively punish your people for the bad actions of a few.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-03 11:23:48+00:00
> From my experience, it takes a proficient developer to actually plan their code around future issues from separate processes.

And it takes even more experience to know when not to spend time on that.

Way too many codebases are optimised to 1M DAU and see like 100 users for the first year. All that time optimising and handling edge cases could've been spent on delivering features that bring in more users and thus more money.
by blacksharkAI | 2026-02-03 11:24:16+00:00
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by Arkhaine_kupo | 2026-02-03 11:24:23+00:00
> I'm having a hard time seeing how you'd implement that.

Similar to shark loans, creating alternatives will always come with compromises. either we have public lenders that will lend money that will never be returned, or we leave a strata of society without access to capital.

But diagnosing the predatory nature of shark loans does not mean the proposal of an alternative.

I think the church model is coercive, specially when threats are existencial. Hell is beyond any threat you could make to someone who believes in it. Does not mean that I can come up witha. universal, generalisable model for providing adequate funeral rites, emotional support and remove social status from society.
by noduerme | 2026-02-03 11:24:58+00:00
Great. Can't wait for equal signs to be the next (((whatever this is))). Maybe it's a secret code. j/k

On a side note: There are actually products marketed as kosher bacon (it's usually beef or turkey). And secular Jews frequently make jokes like this about our kosher bros who aren't allowed to eat the real stuff for some dumb reason like it has too many toes.
by Pinus | 2026-02-03 11:25:06+00:00
As far as I can remember, most mail servers were fairly sane about that sort of thing, even back in the 90’s when this stuff was introduced. However, there were always these more or less motivated fears about some server somewhere running on some ancient IBM hardware using EBCDIC encoding and truncating everything to 72 characters because its model of the world was based on punched cards. So standards were written to handle all those bizarre systems. And I am sure that there is someone on HN who actually used one of those servers...
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-02-03 11:25:08+00:00
I wonder how many guys who have have written or significantly maintained "household name" level FOSS products just earn a corporate sinecure somewhere as hypercompetent remote sysadmins or ICs or something. Folks who don't necessarily care to earn top dollar, with all the headaches that entails, but also almost never have to actually work more than 2 hours in a given day to keep the ship going, and the arrangement is just so cozy and gives them enough time to themselves to work on their actual passion that they accept the arrangement.

I know of at least one recruiter who does something like this and specializes in greybeard hiring, and it seems like a steady niche if you have the network to pull it off.
by Gibbon1 | 2026-02-03 11:25:14+00:00
Friend of mine was naturalized under the Simpson Mazzoli act. He said while their application was being processed he and his brothers would repeat the same joke. One would say It's Saturday night! What are we going to do? And the rest would say in a sad chorus, 'stay home'

Personally I think immigrating to the US illegally requires a level of social skills and level headedness that is negatively associated with criminality.
by stateofinquiry | 2026-02-03 11:25:22+00:00
Respectfully: I think the study is largely irrelevant to those who you seem to dismiss as one who "revel in Enforcement Theatre". I do agree the study provides valuable information I think it missed the point made by many advocates of immediate removal of those in the US illegally: No matter how low the rate of criminality by those in the country without permission, the number of events caused by that population should be pushed to 0 by removing them or not having them enter the country in the first place.

Specifically: According to Wikipedia there were about 1.7 M undocumented people in Texas as of 2023. The study estimates 96.2 violent crimes per year per 100K for that same population. So that is about 1,635 violent crimes per year that should not happen. Across all the categories they present, its 308.8 crimes per 100K per year- so for the undocumented population that means about 5,250 crimes per year that in theory should not happen (if there were 0 undocumented people in Texas).

The fact that the rate is lower for native-born or legal immigrants is immaterial to the argument advanced by those seeking more enforcement of immigration laws. Now, there are many, many aspects of the current administration's approach that can be debated and will probably not stand up well to scrutiny, but its important to understand the arguments being made if we are honestly interested in engaging in discussion and improvement.

Another interesting thing: From the study results I think that if you did drop the number of undocumented people in Texas to 0, the crime rates would actually increase, even as the absolute number of crimes dropped. And the number would only drop if those removed were not replaced with (for example) legal immigrants.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-03 11:26:42+00:00
I did find her posts interesting. I’m sorry she left, but I support her decision, as it seems to be what she needed for personal reasons, and sincerely wish her luck and happiness.

> unorthodox

Which is defined differently, in this community, than most…

Our “unorthodox” may be “orthodox,” in other communities.

Over the years, I’ve developed a thick skin, which I have found to be important, when mixing in heterogeneous communities. Also, I have learned the efficacy of not throwing punches; regardless of provocation. I’ll usually just withdraw from fights, and leave the field to the “victors.”

Personal insecurity is an Achilles heel, hereabouts. It will just make life miserable.
by p_ing | 2026-02-03 11:27:08+00:00
ASync I/O isn't limited to just storage, though. It's /all/ I/O.

And yes, the layered storage stack does have a performance penalty to it. But it's also infinitely more flexible, if that is what you need. Linux still lacks IOCP (which io_uring is not a replacement for).

Windows' VMM and OOM is also generally much better.
by maxehmookau | 2026-02-03 11:27:13+00:00
I guess it depends on which spaces they're banned from. Before Facebook, online communities were bulletin boards and chat rooms. They weren't hyper-addictive social media platforms designed to suck as much attention as possible; they were genuine places of connection.

My hope is that children being banned from the mega platforms would lead to a growth in less harmful online communities for folks who can benefit from it. But I don't know.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-03 11:27:24+00:00
Sometimes "elegance" just makes shit hard to read.

Write boring code[0], don't go for elegance or cool language features. Be as boring and simple as possible, repeat yourself if it makes the flow clearer than extracting an operation to a common library or function.

This is the code that "adapts" and can be fixed 3 years after the elegant coder has left for another greenfield unicorn where they can use the latest paradigms.

[0] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-deve...
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 11:27:36+00:00
1) yes solar panels should be cooled, but this is feasible with thermal radiation (yes it takes surface area)

2) pointing the panels straight at the sun for a sun-synchronous orbit is not exactly unobtainium technology

3) through 6) agreed, these issues need to be taken into account but I don't see how that meaningfully invalidates my claim that a solar panel operated at 25% efficiency turns ballpark ~75% of incident photons into heat. Thats basic thermodynamics.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-03 11:28:12+00:00
Yeah keep believing that...they wanted to become the Standard oil / Microsoft of EVs.

But they failed to achieve the market share of Microsoft and not to mention the lackuster significance of EVs compared to Personal Computers and GUI

You can attack Tesla and Musk from 1000s different angles due to their shananigans except the one true badge of honor for a company and CEO:

Sherman Act / Anti Trust for 90+ % market share in a sector which ought to be competitive
by foster-hangdaan | 2026-02-03 11:28:23+00:00
Location: Ontario, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, Deno, BASH, Guile, Preact, React, Vue, GraphQL, Docker, Flatpak, Tailwind, CSS, HTML, Git, Amazon Web Services, Linux, Guix
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by codingdave | 2026-02-03 11:31:04+00:00
Keep in mind that in ye olden days, email was not a worldwide communication method. It was more typical for it to be an internal-only mail system, running on whatever legacy mainframe your org had, and working within whatever constraints that forced. So in the 90s when the internet began to expand, and email to external organizations became a bigger thing, you were just as concerned with compatibility with all those legacy terminal-based mail programs, which led to different choices when engineering the systems.
by arrrg | 2026-02-03 11:31:07+00:00
Age verification is possible without revealing personally identifiable information (beyond old enough yes/no, which is not in any way personally identifiable info) and from my perspective should be a strict requirement with any such laws.

In fact, if these laws make the requisite infrastructure (ID cards that offer that functionality) a hard requirement then creating an anonymous web that nevertheless has age checks easier, not harder.

What you basically want is an ID card where you as the owner can decide what you want to share with the private business. And for age verification that’s basically just requirement fulfilled yes/no.

So if the law is well written then this could be an advantage, not a disadvantage. Preemptive cynicism isn’t helpful here.
by mathw | 2026-02-03 11:31:27+00:00
Scaling up PV production to the point where we could convert the entire Earth's electricity generation to solar is incredibly significant.

Yes there's the problem of intermittency, varying sun availability and so forth - which is why solar will never provide 100% of our power and we'll also need grid-scale storage facilities and domestic batteries and all sorts of stuff - but just imagine being able to make that many panels in the first place! Literally solar on every roof, that's transformative.

But sure, let's send it all to space to power questionable "AI" datacentres so we can make more fake nudes.
by maafifi | 2026-02-03 11:31:31+00:00
I built this because I got tired of context-switching to a browser every time I needed to look up a Linux command or debug a config file.

# Load the plz shell function into your terminal
eval "$(curl -sL plztell.me/setup)"

# Pipe logs/configs for analysis
plz how do i find files larger than 1GB on macOS
tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log | plz why am I getting 502 errors
cat redis.conf | plz is this optimized for high throughput

Why this exists:

Most AI tools assume you want to open a browser, sign up, and copy-paste. When you're SSH'd into a production box or working through five terminal tabs, that workflow is friction. This is designed to fit into shell pipelines and stay in the terminal.

What it's NOT:
* Not a ChatGPT replacement for complex reasoning
* Not for multi-turn conversations beyond a few follow-ups
* Not storing your data for training

The shell function is ~100 LOC bash/PowerShell that handles URL encoding and session state. You can review it at https://plztell.me/setup before running eval "$(curl -sL plztell.me/setup)".

Two tiers:
Free: Works instantly, no account needed. Good enough for most questions.
Paid: Better model, higher limits. `plz login` to authenticate, add credits as needed.
by jfyi | 2026-02-03 11:31:42+00:00
You know, anecdotally...

When I first picked up an agentic coding assistant I was very interested in the process and paid way more attention to it than necessary.

Quickly, I caught myself treating it like a long compilation and getting up to get a coffee and had to self correct this behavior.

I wonder how much novelty of the tech and workflow plays into this number.
by sReinwald | 2026-02-03 11:32:08+00:00
It's been a few days, but when I tried it, it just completely bricked itself because it tried to install a plugin (matrix) even though that was already installed. That wasn't some esoteric config or anything. It bricked itself right in the onboarding process.

When I investigated the issue, I found a bunch of hardcoded developer paths and a handful of other issues and decided I'm good, actually.

sre@cypress:~$ grep -r "/Users/steipete" ~/.nvm/versions/node/v24.13.0/lib/node_modules/openclaw/ | wc -l
144

And bonus points:

sre@cypress:~$ grep -Fr "workspace:*" ~/.nvm/versions/node/v24.13.0/lib/node_modules/openclaw/ | wc -l
41

Nice build/release process.

I really don't understand how anyone just hands this vibe coded mess API keys and access to personal files and accounts.
by dfex | 2026-02-03 11:32:15+00:00
This! I have the 14-core M4 Macbook Pro with 48GB of RAM, and Word for Mac (Version 16 at this time) runs like absolute molasses on large documents, and pegs a single core between 70 and 90% for most of the time, even when I'm not typing.

I am now starting to wonder how much of it has to do with network access to Sharepoint and telemetry data that most likely didn't exist in the Office 97 dial-up era.

Features-wise - I doubt there is a single feature I use (deliberately) today in Excel or Word that wasn't available in Office 97.

I'd happily suffer Clippy over Co-Pilot.