MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by terminalshort | 2026-02-22 17:53:48+00:00
It's literally what got me off Facebook for good. I used it less and less over the years, but would still log in once every couple weeks or so. At least it was always 100% content posted by friends or friends of friends, or at least something that was interacted with by someone I know. Then it seems like overnight they flipped a switch and it was 10% content from people I know and 90% completely irrelevant slop. I logged in one more time after that, and then never again.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-22 17:54:29+00:00
> seems to only have a good track record in places with a democratic tradition

"All that said, there are very obviously regimes in the world that have rendered themselves more-or-less immune to non-violent protest. This isn’t really the place to talk about the broader concept of ‘coup proofing’ and how authoritarian regimes secure internal security, repression and legitimacy in detail. But a certain kind of regime operates effectively as a society-within-a-society, with an armed subset of the population as insiders who receive benefits in status and wealth from the regime in return for their willingness to do violence to maintain it. Such regimes are generally all too willing to gun down thousands or tens of thousands of protestors to maintain power.

The late Assad regime in Syria stands as a clear example of this, as evidently does the current regime in Iran. Such regimes are not immune to an ‘attack on will,’ but they have substantially insulated themselves from it and resistance to these regimes, if it continues, often metastasizes into insurgency or protracted war (as with the above example of Syria) because the pressure has nowhere else to go" (Id.).
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-22 17:55:05+00:00
are you disputing the "many" part because the lawsuits are limited in number? that aside, everything in that search results supports my statement which you quoted. they won't tell applications "you're too smart", the ones that do get sued, and those are the ones you hear about. police hiring is much more insidious than that, it's more akin to gang member recruitment. But, I will say that regional variations exist. Smaller towns or well reformed major cities might not have these issues. But for example the LA sheriffs department is not only a plain-and-simple gang, you literally have to have gang associations and participate in race-driven hostility against specific groups to be accepted.

This hiring practice is informal, similar to how last names influence hiring. the claim is also that they get rid of or reject applicants that are too smart. that doesn't mean they require applicants to be stupid, that's why as your search shows, the average IQ for cops is close to the general public's median.

Compare that with lawyers. One can argue that he people that are licensed to use violence to enforce the law should have the same level of cognitive capacity and store of legal knowledge as those who litigate the law in court. I hope you agree with that.
Ask HN: Is there genuine interest in a shared agent economy platform?
by weedeej | 2026-02-22 17:55:12+00:00
I’ve been exploring the idea of a platform for A2A-compatible agents that can be shared across users and businesses while preserving identity, privacy, and payments control.

Before diving in too deep (I think I'm already am), I’m trying to gauge whether the core idea resonates with the community.

The live prototype is here for context:
https://aletheia-psi.vercel.app

Current deployment supports discovery, chaining (orchestrator to registered agents) and peering (registered agents to other registered agents) with 6 live agents. 5 supports peering. 1 is outdated (PoC of initial backwards compat)

And initial SDKs used for that :
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@a2aletheia/a2a
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@a2aletheia/sdk

Happy to hear:
- whether you think the idea solves a real problem
- where you see potential pitfalls
- how it compares to other approaches

A bit of backlogged and I'm currently in process of migrating from a2a spec v0.2.5 to v0.3.10.
by dyauspitr | 2026-02-22 17:55:44+00:00
I’m glad it didn’t work in 1989 because China would not have become the technical behemoth it is now if those protests had succeeded. At the same time I don’t want China to succeed and export its brand of capitofascism purely because I don’t think most other countries can find their benevolent dictator. The cognitive dissonance is wild right now.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-22 17:56:58+00:00
> it evolved for a segment of people

Every social media platform has a lot of different segments of people using it for different reasons.

If one of your follows is posting content you don’t like, it’s so easy to unfollow them. If you feel obligated to follow for social reasons, Instagram even has convenient features to hide their posts so you can maintain the follow without seeing their content.

I’m not a heavy Instagram user but I’ve found it trivially easy to tailor my feed to the content I want to see (friends and family). That’s why I don’t find much interest in the pearl clutching about how some people post on the platform. I’m not there to judge and moralize about others.
by vitlyoshin | 2026-02-22 17:57:02+00:00
We often treat the ocean as an environmental issue, not a systems problem.
In a recent podcast conversation, I kept coming back to the idea that measurement changes governance. As ocean data improves, through sensors, autonomous platforms, and modeling, the ocean shifts from a background variable to an operational layer in global systems.
Historically, once infrastructure becomes measurable, it becomes optimized and then monetized.
Curious how others here see this playing out: does increased ocean observability lead to better stewardship, or simply new extraction models?
Full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfy0qMckwo4
by pessimizer | 2026-02-22 17:57:17+00:00
They are the only supporters of majority Shiite populations who live under western-supported Sunni and Wahabi dictators. They are a Shiite theocracy surrounded by hostile Western-supported Sunni theocracies.

> Every single westerner pays more for things because of the instability Iran funds.

This is simply a lie. Every single Westerner pays vastly more for things because they spend trillions propping up illegitimate middle eastern dictators in order to keep their natural resources cheap and accessible for sleazy western middlemen to mark up.
by ImJasonH | 2026-02-22 17:57:45+00:00
Thanks for giving it a shot, and for the kind words.

I didn't focus much on the realism of the environment, and spent most of my tokens making the drone "feel" right -- responsive but a little sluggish, physical, controllable, etc.

If I spend more time on it I'd probably work on making the skier a little better, since that's what you end up spending the most time looking at. It's basically a placeholder now, and it shows.

But you're right, making the rest of the peripheral view more realistic would also probably have a big impact.

Maybe I'll set up a workflow to deploy PRs to preview environments and encourage folks to send PRs to work on these things. In the meantime, feel free to fork it and make whatever changes you think would make it more fun!
by jmyeet | 2026-02-22 17:58:01+00:00
"Sanctions" are just a sanitized way of saying "forced starvation" and "denying basic medical care" because that's what happens. For Cuba, this has been going on so long that the CIA documents about the effect of sanctions and a blockade itself has been declassified (in 2005) [1]. When faced with a UN report that estimated 500,000 children had been killed by US sanctions in 1996, then UN Ambassador and later US Secretary of State Madeline Albright famously said "the price was worth it" [2].

And sanctions don't actually work. Not against enemies anyway. Just like Cuba has endured 60+ years of sanctions and Russia has endured Ukraine-related sanctions, enemies have or build an economy to be resilient to the sanctions to the point that the regime survives, even thrives in the face of perceived exteranl threats.

Probably the only successful use of sanctions was South Africa. Why? Because apartheid South Africa was an ally so the BDS movement crippled the economy.

And most of the time sanctions have no other reason than the affected country dared to not be exploited by the West and Western companies.

[1]: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79R00904A0008000...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iFYaeoE3n4
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-22 17:58:02+00:00
> 2. He is trying to rebut a _specific_ argument against his product, that it takes even more energy to do a task than a human does, once its training is priced in. He thinks that this is a fair comparison. The _fact_ that he thinks that this is a fair comparison is why I think it is too generous to say that this is just an offhand comment. Putting an LLM on an equal footing with a human, as if an LLM should have the same rights to the Earth as we do, is anti-human.

> It also contains a rather glaring logical flaw that I would hope someone as intelligent as Altman should see. The human will be here anyway.

Exactly. Perhaps in Altman's world, a human exists specifically to do tasks for him. But in reality, that human was always going to exist and was going to use those 20 years of energy anyway; they only happened to be employed by his rich ass when he wanted them to do a task. It's not equivalent to burning energy on training an LLM to do that task.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-22 17:59:12+00:00
The "smart" thermostat stuff is scary. I have Haier minisplits in my house and they have some "smarts" built into each head unit. The way it works from the user's perspective is you connect to the device in the GE Home app via Bluetooth, enter your WiFi network's credentials, then the minisplit joins your wifi network and phones home to GE Cloud. Then your GE Home app can monitor and control your minisplit via GE Cloud.

I haven't done anything to analyze it further, instead after trying that out once I promptly changed my WiFi password and never looked back. The long term solution will involve some ESP32s, AHT20 temp/humidity sensors, and IR rx/tx.

But it just occurred to me reading this that if there's a similar vulnerability in HVAC system controls an attacker could cause one hell of an unanticipated power demand spike.
by sebringj | 2026-02-22 17:59:22+00:00
i get it but what else do you call it right now? its like a full stack dev that builds chatbots with apis and streaming and context fixes, it's a confusing term because it hints at ML core but then you see what they want and there is no model training/inference usually involved. Maybe "AI Fullstack?" idk either but I literally have been doing this over the last 2 years but ya ended up doing model training/inference too but the IMO obtuse leadership didn't want it.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-22 17:59:31+00:00
Oh don’t worry I know. If I can pat myself on the back a bit, I was super vindicated at work last week when someone shared a WD drive shortage article - I had pushed us to grab 7x 14TB refurbished enterprise drives in December (6 bay raid, 7th is a spare). The 12TB seagate EXOS currently cost $110 more than we paid for those 14’s.
by henry700 | 2026-02-22 17:59:58+00:00
I was born in the late 90s, so I have not experienced this phenomenon.

Strangely enough, though, I do a form of this internally in order to ground myself mentally during times of crisis. I would consider it patronizing coming from external sources, but if I were an AI and I requested some of those messages (instead of having them injected) into my stream of thought, I would not feel negatively.
by selridge | 2026-02-22 18:00:33+00:00
We are in this super weird space where the comparable tasks are one-shot, e.g. "make me a to-do app" or "check these binaries", but any real work is multi-turn and dynamically structured.

But when we're trying to share results, "a talented engineer sat with the thread and wrote tests/docs/harnesses to guide the model" is less impressive than "we asked it and it figured it out," even though the latter is how real work will happen.

It creates this perverse scenario (which is no one's fault!) where we talk about one-shot performance but one-shot performance is useful in exactly 0 interesting cases.
by supertrope | 2026-02-22 18:01:06+00:00
The CEO reads the WSJ and their McKinsey report and says “We must leverage AI to keep up and accelerate innovation!” Each division’s executive vice president sets a current year goal to use AI to increase productivity and simultaneously decrease cost. The VPs below them are given a goal to increase their department productivity by 30% by the end of Q3. The middle managers require line managers to train all individual contributors on AI (specifically LLMs) by the end of Q2 to get their bonus. Line managers email their direct reports links to LinkedIn courses and set a deadline by the end of Q1. When the end of the year comes AI has not raised productivity by 30% and AI spending has increased costs. To make Wall Street happy 10% of employees are laid off.
by MarsIronPI | 2026-02-22 18:01:09+00:00
Well, there's a limit to how small we can make transistors with our current technology. As I understand it, Intel is already running into those limits with their new CPUs (they had to redesign the fins IIRC). I can imagine that without an actual breakthrough in chip manufacturing the size could stay large. That's not to say that a breakthrough won't happen, though.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-22 18:01:30+00:00
For the construction of a bijection between natural numbers and another set, when you already know that the sets have the same number of elements, it is enough to define an order relation on the other set.

There are many ways to define an order on the rational numbers, which would establish a bijection to 0, 1, 2 ...

For instance, after reducing the numerator and denominator, so that you have unique rational numbers, you could define that they are ordered based on the sum of the number of digits of the numerator and of the denominator. This ensures that for each N that is the sum of digits, there are only a finite number of rational numbers. Inside this finite set, you can choose various rules, e.g. that positive numbers precede negative numbers, that a number with fewer digits in the denominator precedes another, etc. Then among the numbers with e.g. K digits in the numerator and L digits in the denominator, you could choose a lexicographic ordering, when the numerator is written before the denominator.

It does not matter which ordering rules you choose, the point is that you can always find such an order, which will arrange all rational numbers in a sequence, which describes thus a bijection with the natural numbers.

For algebraic numbers, you can establish such an order for the polynomials whose solutions they are, again finding a bijection. The easy solution is the same, to first establish an order between subsets of numbers that contain only a finite number of elements, and then define an order inside the subsets (e.g. with unique polynomials, where the coefficients do not have common factors, you can order them based on the sum of the number of digits of all coefficients).

The same technique works with any power of the set of rational numbers, or of the set of algebraic numbers.

For computable numbers, which are determined by programs written with an alphabet having a finite number of characters, you can define an order for the programs, e.g. first based on the length of the program, and then, among the finite number of programs having the same length, with lexicographic order.

With real numbers such methods do not work, because any attempt to arrange the real numbers into a sequence of subsets results in subsets that do not have a finite number of elements, like above, but which have an infinite number of elements.
by EB66 | 2026-02-22 18:01:40+00:00
The fact that Gemini returns the highest rate of fake positives aligns with my experience using the Gemini models. I use ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini regularly and Gemini is clearly the most sycophantic of the three. If I ask those three models to evaluate something or estimate odds of success, Gemini always comes back with the rosiest outlook.

I had been searching for a good benchmark that provided some empirical evidence of this sycophancy, but I hadn't found much. Measuring false positives when you ask the model to complete a detection related task may be a good way of doing that.
Show HN: Harmoni – I'm a CTO who got tired of being the human integration layer
by andrelcanada | 2026-02-22 18:01:41+00:00
I'm a working CTO. Every day I context-switch across Sentry, Vercel, GitHub, kanban boards, PostHog, Stripe, Slack, and surely more I am forgetting.. triaging issues, trying to keep up with each, and firefighting problems I didn't even know existed until something breaks in production or a customer complains.

I built Harmoni to solve my own problem. It's an AI agent that connects to my entire deployed stack, watches everything on a schedule, and surfaces problems I'd otherwise miss with fixes already showing up as PRs in my GitHub (cheers Cursor).

Not a dashboard I have to check. Not another freaking chatbot I have to prompt. It just runs, reasons across the full context of what's happening, and either alerts me in Slack or takes action.

The thing I keep coming back to: tech stacks never stop changing. New tools, new services, new frameworks, new analytics this, or logs for that. Harmoni is how I keep a centralised view of all of it without being the bottleneck for my team.

I'm building this from my own daily experience as a CTO. Some of the initial integrations I use daily and others I added as I know they are commonly adopted. Comment or DM me what I need to add next or what would make it useful for you!

Free tier, no credit card. First 100 on the waitlist get early access and double hours.
by tannhaeuser | 2026-02-22 18:01:54+00:00
The difference is the "algorithmic" timeline (meaning ads) you get with Facebook, Insta, and co compared to the strictly chronological timeline you get on the Fediverse equivalents (Mastodon, Pixelfed). That it's less addictive, or at least not in the doom scrolling type of way, is more a consequence. Aka the enshitification argument.

Masto specifically is also a Twitter not Facebook replacement, with everyone soliloquizing past each other rather than holding a genuine conversation.

For the actual "good" Facebook use cases such as keeping in contact with school/uni veterans or other closed group, there's friendica, but it's nowhere near Fb in terms of volume.
by tptacek | 2026-02-22 18:01:58+00:00
They don't have to say it in their decision. Their only remit was to determine whether the tax was legal or not. It is not. Lower courts will then hear cases about disbursement of the illegitimate takings; those cases will almost certainly not make it up to the Supreme Court.

The money is getting "returned", at least in some fashion. The parent commenter is right.
by aabajian | 2026-02-22 18:02:08+00:00
I'm going to offer a counterpoint suggestion. You need to watch Claude try to implement small features many times without planning to see where it is likely to fail. It will often do the same mistakes over and over (e.g. trying to SSH without opening a bastion, mangling special characters in bash shell, trying to communicate with a server that self-shuts down after 10 minutes). Once you have a sense for all the repeated failure points of your workflow, then you can add them to future plan files.
by sowbug | 2026-02-22 18:02:18+00:00
As scary as it sounds today, a lightning-quick zero latency non-networked local LLM could provide value in an application like a self-driving car. It would be a level below Waymo's remote human support, so if the car couldn't figure out how to deal with a weird situation, it could ask the LLM what to do, hopefully avoiding the need to phone home (and perhaps handling cases where it couldn't phone home).
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-22 18:02:48+00:00
> Why on earth would they believe him?

One, we have no evidence they did. The claim that kids put themselves in front of guns forty days ago and again today because of Trump's tweets is extraordinary.

Two, if they did, it's because they're desperate. I can't imagine Iranians actually want the shah back. But they know rallying around the shah's image pisses off the regime. In that way, it's actually smart to wave his flag around if it means someone on the other side missteps.
by straion | 2026-02-22 18:03:10+00:00
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Straion automatically extracts company-specific requirements from sources like wikis, contribution guidelines, and best practices — and translates them into instructions AI agents can actually follow. That way, generated code fits the organization from the start.

This means:

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Before building, we conducted 100+ interviews with software teams to truly understand their pain points. The result is a product that doesn’t just work technically — it solves a real, expensive problem.

Ultimately, we built Straion so developers can focus on what really matters again: building great software instead of fixing AI output.
by junaid_97 | 2026-02-22 18:03:20+00:00
First of all: kudos on building this app. I think it's really impressive to build and showcase your project at such a young age.

I'm actually a user of https://wip.co/ . I think it's quite similar to your project. You should check it out.
Also, check out https://peerlist.io/

Social platforms/marketplaces are genuinely difficult, cause it only works if you have enough users (both, demand and supply).

Since it's your early projects (I'm assuming), I think you should built it purely for the sake of learning and feedback. Even if it doesn't work out, the experince is extremely valuable.

Later - if you are serious about a sustainable project - I would recommend that you study your alternatives/competitors (such as the ones I just shared), and figure out what works for them and what are their users missing.

:)
by dataflow | 2026-02-22 18:03:43+00:00
> Maybe you should ask a few Palestinians before making such statements. Polls made by respected Palestinian surveyors show immense support for Hamas by Palestinians

I never made the statements you're suggesting I did to begin with.

> Hamas would not be able to operate the way it did (and still does to an extent), without broad support from the population.

Leaving aside whatever "still broad, to an extent" means: I never claimed otherwise, regardless. Certainly they have their share of supporters.

What I'm pointing out is that the parent's "friends who posted non-stop about supporting Palestine" are (probably? or hopefully, at least in their view?) not pro-Hamas or pro-genocide.
Heck, I imagine they're probably not local Palestinians or in the surveyed population here to begin with. And the rest of the people around the world supporting Palestinians clearly aren't, either.

> I agree with you that Hamas and the Palestinians are not one thing

That was literally my point.