MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gpresearch2025 | 2026-02-11 19:29:00+00:00
CIRcurate LLC (Texas LLC) | Lead System Architect | Pinehurst, TX | Onsite/Remote/Hybrid

Company Description
At the Data Vault Project, we’re building a secure data vault and permissioned sharing layer designed to put individuals and organizations in control of their information. Through privacy-first architecture and flexible access controls, users choose what data is shared, with whom, and for how long — with the ability to revoke access at any time. Our goal is to create infrastructure that enables secure, transparent, and user-governed data exchange in an increasingly AI-driven world.

About the role
We're looking for a Tech Lead / System Architect to own the overall system design for a sensitive-data product. You'll define the blueprint, set technical standards, keep work aligned across components, and guide implementation through reviews.

What you'll do
Own the end-to-end system design so components work together safely
Define clear interfaces between components and keep them consistent over time
Make key technical decisions and document tradeoffs, risks, and scope
Guide engineering execution through design/PR reviews (part-time weekly review is OK)

Required (must-have)
Led system design for a product handling sensitive data (health/finance/identity)
Can define and maintain clear APIs/interfaces across components
Can make decisions and document them clearly (what's in/out, risks, tradeoffs)
Experience guiding other engineers through reviews and unblocking work

Nice-to-have
Experience with audit logging or compliance-style record keeping
Experience with permission-based sharing systems

Compensation
Commensurate with experience and scope of responsibility

If interested, please send an email to gpresearch2025@gmail.com. Thanks!
by Bender | 2026-02-11 19:29:08+00:00
WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

Highly unlikely and would be a waste of effort and resources. In the real world we are already well surveilled by cameras, microphones, satellites, cell phones, televisions, modern vehicles with a large number of cameras, web enabled doorbell cameras, refrigerators, AirTags, robot vacuum cleaners that map our home and monitor us, anything bluetooth enabled and that is even before actual spy devices like laser microphones that can turn most windows into a giant microphone.

All of these methods are far more attainable without trying to recreate microwave imaging that has been used by the feds for ages and the feds use a handheld device vs. this complex lab setup and this is even before we talk about advanced high resolution milspec FLIR which some companies have managed to get into serious trouble for selling to sanctioned countries for ITAR violations.
by palmotea | 2026-02-11 19:29:08+00:00
> If debt refinancing became illegal or widely impractical due to an interest rate spike, you’d quickly see how much of the productive economy it’s fueling!

You're missing the point. Read the article.

And no one is saying "don't refinance debt." The passage you're reacting to was making the point "less than a tenth of [the capital banks raise] goes toward building anything new."

> Why do you think large companies refinance debt? So they can invest in productive areas of the business.

The article is talking about banks and the finance industry, not non-financial companies.

Also, if you think they were restructuring debt to invest in productive areas of their businesses, don't you think more than 10% of the capital banks raise would be going to building something new? If you read the article, it spends a lot of time talking about how much money goes into "mergers and acquisitions" and how it's a waste.
by safestclaw | 2026-02-11 19:29:17+00:00
Safeclaw is the absolute safest automation alternative doing at least ninety percent what openclaw does without a language model. We used NLP techniques so you can still tell the ai what you want, you can still chain commands together, so it will do multiple things you want without a language model. We even have voice to text and text to speech. Try it out. I love stars.
by jrsdav | 2026-02-11 19:29:23+00:00
I'm fairly certain that Nest cameras do not allow streaming over your local network.

You can still use the cameras even without a subscription, i.e. watch the live stream or get notifications. This means that yes, they are absolutely uploading data to the cloud and storing it for some undetermined window. Paying for a subscription seems to just give you access to that history.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-11 19:30:47+00:00
From a user perspective, I would consider Opus 4.6 somewhat of a regression. You can exhaust your the five hour limit in less than half an hour on, and I used up the weekly limit in just two days. The outputs did not feel significantly better than Opus 4.5 and that only feels smarter than Sonnet by degrees. This is running a single session on a pro plan. I don’t get paid to program, so API cost matter to me. The experience was irritating enough to make me start looking for an alternative, and maybe GLM is the way to go for hobby users.
by scottyah | 2026-02-11 19:30:52+00:00
Same as any other software team? You keep an eye on all PRs, dive deep on areas you know to be sensitive, and in general mostly trust till there's a bug or it's proven itself to need more thorough review.

I've only ever joined teams with large, old codebases where most of the code was written by people who haven't been at the company in years, and my coworkers commit giant changes that would take me awhile to understand so genAI feels pretty standard to me.
Show HN: Built a tool that generates cheap multi-city flights in Europe
by mikoun | 2026-02-11 19:31:08+00:00
I love flying, so I built myself a small tool to find cheap multicity trips. So far it supports ryanair, easyjet, wizzair and vueling. Over 1M prices in db, at least 6 months up front.
Would love to have any constructive feedback how to make it better :)
by gchamonlive | 2026-02-11 19:31:34+00:00
Your kids getting picked up shouldn't depend on you seeing an instant message, that should probably be agreed upon the previous day. Sure, emergencies happen, in which case you can't really be held responsible. But if that happens more often than not, that's bad parenting.

Or maybe your agreement with your spouse is to communicate over instant message about managing these daily tasks, in which case it's ok, but you better crank that notification sound all the way to 11 LOL
by dongobread | 2026-02-11 19:31:43+00:00
What a strangely hostile statement on an open weight model. Running like 20 benchmark evaluations isn't trivial by itself, and even updating visuals and press statements can take a few days at a tech company. It's literally been 5 days since this "new generation" of models released. GPT-5.3(-codex) can't even be called via API, so it's impossible to test for some benchmarks.

I notice the people who endlessly praise closed-source models never actually USE open weight models, or assume their drop-in prompting methods and workflow will just work for other model families. Especially true for SWEs who used Claude Code first and now think every other model is horrible because they're ONLY used to prompting Claude. It's quite scary to see how people develop this level of worship for a proprietary product that is openly distrusting of users. I am not saying this is true or not of the parent poster, but something I notice in general.

As someone who uses GLM-4.7 a good bit, it's easily at Sonnet 4.5 tier - have not tried GLM-5 but it would be surprising if it wasn't at Opus 4.5 level given the massive parameter increase.
by josephg | 2026-02-11 19:31:45+00:00
Yep. As well as what Toomim said, eg-walker (another text crdt algorithm) doesn’t need or use tombstones. With eg-walker we just store the history of all changes (kinda like git). Some changes are deletes. The changes are only used for merging old stuff, so if you’re happy to set a cutoff (or have some coordination like antimatter) you can delete the operation history and all the overhead that goes along with it.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-11 19:31:56+00:00
The root of the problem is technocracy -- deferring to "science" when big money is at stake, because those scientists will be corrupted. Only trust the integrity of scientists in fields where the financial stakes are very small. Everywhere else, assume money has corrupted key actors when evaluating the trustworthiness of their results. There is no special formalism or ritual that can stop this -- not citations, not replications, not peer review. All are trivial to game when the money at stake is big enough, but we can do is try to improve transparency and treat everything with skepticism.

One thing I would very much like to see is personal financial disclosures about grant awards, salaries, and funding sources of the main authors of a paper.

The main author received a $400,000 grant from the Save Our Turtles foundation and a $2 million dollar grant from the John "Turtle Lover" Heisenberg foundation when writing his peer-reviewed paper revealing that more public funding for turtle sanctuaries unlocks massive local economic benefits in the Upper Mississippi Delta.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-11 19:32:26+00:00
> The majority of the SUVs I see driving have exactly 1 person in them. It's ok to admit that.

I don't need to "admit" that, because I agree it's true.

In your rush to prove a point, you completely missed mine, which was: At least 99% of families buying SUVs to transport kids around instead of a car or minivan (which is why single occupant use didn't come up, as it wasn't really relevant) aren't intentionally firing a shot in an ideological war, they're just picking a car that works for them, they can afford, and they like.

Obviously a lot of that is subjective and has been shaped by regulation, marketing, and an interest in conformity with peers, but what will definitely not change anyone's mind is endless hostility over what is a generally benign decision.
by ndneighbor | 2026-02-11 19:32:39+00:00
Hey there Dave, Angelo from Railway here-

First off, super duper sorry. It's sometimes a good/bad thing if I can remember someones handle. ...and I specifically remember the support thread where we did have an outage before your demo :| - the number one goal for us is to deliver a great product. Number two is that we should never embarrass a user, outages do exactly that.

We just wrapped up the post mortem and that'll be published soon where it explains why the dashboard was reporting the state of the application incorrectly and would be more than happy to credit you for the impact to keep your business. That said, totally understand if two is way too much impact for your services.
by kube-system | 2026-02-11 19:32:54+00:00
Most of these cloud connected cameras always stream footage through their cloud service, regardless of whether you pay for a subscription. Because people don't know how to configure port forwarding, etc, in their firewall.

They're not architecturally delivering the video a different way if you pay than if you don't. They're just changing the retention period.

This video was probably recovered from cache somewhere.
by spyder | 2026-02-11 19:32:57+00:00
No, you are confusing it with the earlier methods. This is another method that doesn't use RSSI or CSI and it is passive.

This approach relies solely on the "unencrypted parts of legitimate traffic".
The attacker does not need to send any packets or "generate" their own traffic; they simply "listen" to the natural communication between an access point and its clients.

BFI is much more complex than simple signal strength. RSSI is an aggregation of information that the researchers describe as "not robust" for fine-grained tasks
In contrast, BFI is a high-resolution, compressed representation of signal characteristics.
This rich data allows the system to distinguish between 197 different individuals with 99.5% accuracy, something impossible with basic RSSI.

While older CSI methods often focused on walking directly between a specific transmitter and receiver (Line-of-Sight), BFI allows a single malicious node to capture "every perspective" between the router and all its legitimate clients.

Also CSI requires specialized hardware and custom firmware, this one isn't, just wifi module in monitor mode.
by mantas | 2026-02-11 19:33:06+00:00
I’m all for encouraging people to create art.

But I think people who benefit from this won’t be artists. But people who are good at making money off artsy projects.

I’d see much more value in investing in supply and demand. First, provide free studios with arts supplies, music instruments and so on. Next, force government agencies to hire local artists. Make municipalities have live music for local events and hire local musicians. Make gov agencies buy local art for decorations etc.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-11 19:33:28+00:00
Too late to edit my comment, but it looks like I didn't quite understand how Apple Pay works either. After a little more research on both of them, here's the gist of it: Apple Pay and Google Pay both create a "Device Account Number" for your card, and this number never changes. When you tap your phone to pay, it generates a one-time cryptogram for the transaction which will always be unique. I was under the impression that merchants only get the cryptogram, but that's not the case – merchants get both the cryptogram and the DAN during the purchase.

The problem is, since the DAN is a stable number that never changes per card, they can save it and use it to recognize you across visits. That's how stores can tie Apple Pay/Google Pay transactions to loyalty programs without scanning a separate card. The DAN doesn't differentiate between online/in-app purchases and physical purchases either, though the number is different between devices (i.e. use phone to pay in-store, use computer or tablet to shop for groceries). But realistically, Apple Pay/Google Pay would only marginally improve the privacy in the Walmart scenario, which is a bummer.
by TomasBM | 2026-02-11 19:33:32+00:00
What things (languages etc.) do you work with/on primarily?

I don't know what to say, except that I see a substantial boost. I generally code slowly, but since GPT-5.1 was released, what would've taken me months to do now takes me days.

Admittedly, I work in research, so I'm primarily building prototypes, not products.
by Starman_Jones | 2026-02-11 19:33:56+00:00
Worth noting that these would have been North African elephants, a now-extinct subspecies. It is not as tall as the modern African elephant - 2.5m at the shoulder, as compared to 3 to 3.5m for African elephants. A large warhorse might measure 1.5m tall, for comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_elephant
by indoordin0saur | 2026-02-11 19:34:27+00:00
> That article was a strange read from my perspective, because here the infrastructure is built for winters as well. I don't remember school ever being canceled due to winter conditions, traffic is only a mess after a snowstorm.

Seems like the author lives in a rural area where there isn't the support to deal with heavy snow. Also, Finland has frequent snow that falls in small amounts. I'm not sure exactly where the author is, but some mountainous or lake-adjacent areas in the US and Canada the snow falls less frequently but when it does it can come very heavy, like a meter of the stuff in 48 hours is not uncommon which is more than Helsinki usually gets in an entire winter. In Buffalo, NY for example a few years back they got 2 meters in a single day.
by ezekiel68 | 2026-02-11 19:34:34+00:00
They aren't, though.

As a SE with over 15 years' professional experience, I find myself pointing out dumb mistakes to even the best frontier models in my coding agents, to refine the ouput. A "coder" who is not doing this on the regular is only a tool of their tool.

(in my mental model, a "vibe coder" does not do this, or at least does not do it regularly)
by SatvikBeri | 2026-02-11 19:34:48+00:00
Cursor performs notably worse for me on my medium-sized codebase (~500kloc), possibly because they try to aggressively conserve context. This is especially true for debugging, Claude Code will read dozens of files and do a surprisingly good job of finding complex bugs, while Cursor seems to just respond with the first hypothesis it comes up with.

That said, Cursor Composer is a lot faster and really nice for some tasks that don't require lots of context.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 19:34:49+00:00
Our SATB chorus was about 75 strong, with about 2 women who could sing tenor. They were highly valued, especially in the limited membership of a women’s barbershop ensemble.

If you’re male and you can sing anything or play a pipe organ, you are worth your weight in gold to the right church.

Some of my favorite vocalists are female contraltos, because I can sing in their range.

Choral work is the most demanding volunteer job I ever had. It’s also exhilarating, highly social, and rewarding. No regrets!
by idopmstuff | 2026-02-11 19:35:35+00:00
Also product manager here.

Not at all cynically, this is classic product management - simplify by removing information that is useful to some users but not others.

We shouldn't be over it by now. It's good to think carefully about how you're using space in your UI and what you're presenting to the user.

You're saying it's bad because they removed useful information, but then why isn't Anthropic's suggestion of using verbose mode a good solution? Presumably the answer is because in addition to containing useful information, it also clutters the UI with a bunch of information the user doesn't want.

Same thing's true here - there are people who want to see the level of detail that the author wants and others for whom it's not useful and just takes up space.

> It requires deep understanding of customer usage in order not to make this mistake.

It requires deep understanding of customer usage to know whether it's a mistake at all, though. Anthropic has a lot deeper understanding of the usage of Claude Code than you or I or the author. I can't say for sure that they're using that information well, but since you're a PM I have to imagine that there's been some time when you made a decision that some subset of users didn't like but was right for the product, because you had a better understanding of the full scope of usage by your entire userbase than they did. Why not at least entertain the idea that the same thing is true here?
by samiv | 2026-02-11 19:35:38+00:00
Because you need and want all the fancy features such as

- fancy HDR rendering with reflection planes,atmospheric effects, tone mapping, camera effects, all kinds of animations for doors opening, lights turning on off etc
- content pipelines to get all this data from digital creation tools into packages deployable on target

When everything is said and done this is the same bread and butter what game engines use so the industry has pushed to leverage those and spread to these markers. Both unity and epic have tried with but not without issues.
by mmooss | 2026-02-11 19:36:03+00:00
> money to help the poorest people comes from the rich ones

It comes largely from the middle and working classes, who pay a higher tax rate than wealthy people.

> many poor people can make a country hard to live for the richest (crimes for example)

I'm not convinced that poverty causes crime. It might be lack of public services, such as health care, shelter, food, education (creating social mobility), safety net, etc.
by MontyCarloHall | 2026-02-11 19:36:21+00:00
>I'm sorry, but did you forget what page this comment thread is attached to? It's literally about corporate communication from CEOs reorganizing their companies around AI and mandating that employees use it.

That’s exactly my point. The fact that management is trying to top-down force adoption of something that operates at the individual level and whose adoption is thus inherently a bottom-up decision says it all. Individual workers naturally pick up tools that make them more productive and don’t need to be forced to use them from the top-down. We never saw CEOs issue memos “reorganizing” the company around IDEs or software frameworks and mandate that the employees use them because employees naturally saw their productivity gains and adopted them organically. It seems the same is not true for AI.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-11 19:36:29+00:00
I am sorry but you are way off.

Sewer stats tell us that in reality the most civilized places in the world have the highest amount of coke in their sewers.

Zurich, Brussel, Berlin, Melbourne, Billionaire's row in NYC, Nantucket [0]

For those who don't jump the hedonic treadmill blow is just edgy chic coffee with the thrill of doing something 'illegal' and snorting it instead of consuming it orally

[0]https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/pods/waste-water-ana...
by AngryData | 2026-02-11 19:36:32+00:00
No because more basic cars have much lower profit margins while requiring higher volume and investors/capitalists will not accept that. Why earn 5% on their investment selling a million cars and building brand name when they can instead earn 20% on selling 100,000 cars at the expense of a brand name they never cared about maintaining in the first place? Brand tarnishment is something other smucks will have to deal with down the road, not the guys making these decisions right now who get performance "bonuses" and not the shareholders that want large returns.
by ericmay | 2026-02-11 19:37:10+00:00
Sure, can you provide an example?

And separately, does that hotel accept credit cards?

By the way, American debit cards also run on Visa and Mastercard. So going back to the OP this idea of Europe "breaking up" with Visa and Mastercard is just not going to happen even if somehow whatever number of European businesses just stopped accepting credit cards.
by iJohnDoe | 2026-02-11 19:37:15+00:00
Lots of concerns about doing a Restart or Redeploy since a lot of people are still offline 4+ hours.

Since there hasn't been any responses on the official support forum, maybe this will help someone.

I did a backup of our deployment first and did a Restart (not a Redeploy). Our service came back up thankfully.

Obviously do your own safety check about persistent volumes and databases first.
by keeda | 2026-02-11 19:37:32+00:00
I've mentioned this before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45987316), but I follow a labor economist on LinkedIn who puts things into a balanced perspective. The thing he reminds us often is you can't take these numbers in isolation.

Job numbers need to be considered in the context of a lot of other numbers, including population growth. As the other top thread yesterday highlighted, the US is experiencing slowing population growth, which may also have been exacerbated by the recent upheavals in immigration.

I may be butchering the theory here, but the point is that the economy is a dynamic, inter-connected system, and a smaller population requires fewer jobs. (As a silly example, you need many more car mechanics for a town with a population of 1000 as opposed to a population of 100.) That actually has implications for GDP growth as well.

That's not to say the overall economy is doing great, just that these job numbers should not be taken as a complete indicator of it.
by lukev | 2026-02-11 19:37:42+00:00
I expect that the reason for their existence is political rather than financial (though I have no idea how that's structured.)

It's a big deal that open-source capability is less than a year behind frontier models.

And I'm very, very glad it is. A world in which LLM technology is exclusive and proprietary to three companies from the same country is not a good world.