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Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•7m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•7m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•9m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
2•cwwc•12m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•12m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•14m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•14m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•16m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•16m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•17m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•17m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•19m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•23m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•29m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

1•fud101•29m ago•3 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•30m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
1•petethomas•32m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•32m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•36m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•41m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•42m ago•0 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
3•todsacerdoti•42m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•43m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•45m ago•0 comments

SidePop – track revenue, costs, and overall business health in one place

https://www.sidepop.io
1•ecaglar•47m ago•1 comments

The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
2•tzury•49m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•51m ago•0 comments

Lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/
1•kermatt•54m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Flock Reports to Police If It Thinks Car Movement Patterns "Suspicious"

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=pm&utm_medium=pm&initms=nat-dig-pm-awr-int-fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=nat-dig-pm-awr-int&utm_content=fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=pm&ms=nat-dig-pm-awr-int-fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&utm_term=pm-6748111603595-6838690309595&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMABhZGlkAAAGOEHIQhsBHntU-vN-zAj7VllTEkKZxwc7W3NxYS6d6L4_XI4idiZnhTYsnLyqFCbuQ6Mo_aem_dWflVIAJNk7sTdRRfrq5mg&utm_id=6544987402995
81•gscott•5mo ago

Comments

FireBeyond•5mo ago
This sadly doesn't surprise me, at all.

Flock's founders vision is that Flock will "eliminate all crime", and as an ex-employee, it's not an aspirational quote - he is quite literal. All of the ethics around data gathering that you heard during recruitment is gone, and it's all about sharing all the data you can, and trying to speed run to a Minority Report style future.

Their data transparency report is ... a lot less than transparent. I'd estimate that a large number of agencies using Flock are not reported on their "Agencies using Flock" page. Just in my county and the next one over, I can name at least half a dozen agencies using Flock (and it's not even an issue on the part of the agency - my local PD and Sheriff will refer to Flock hits on their FB posts multiple times a week with respect to incidents. But "strangely", neither agency is listed as a Flock-using Agency on their transparency site).

SoftTalker•5mo ago
> Flock's founders vision is that Flock will "eliminate all crime"

And he quite possibly genuinely believes it.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

hattmall•5mo ago
Is that even good intentions? "Crime" is mostly how the world progresses.
leobg•5mo ago
Another way to see it is that Flock merely wants to place itself at the top of the crime food chain.
duxup•5mo ago
“Sorry sir, computer says you are suspicious.”

That kind of opaque justification seems ripe for abuse.

FireBeyond•5mo ago
It's intentional. Flock will bend over backwards to help police, whether they should or shouldn't be.
ChrisArchitect•5mo ago
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860000
delichon•5mo ago
What would a constitutional amendment that could head off the panopticon look like? How about

  The people shall be secure against surveillance of their persons, data, communications, and movements. No government shall collect, compel, or purchase such information except upon a warrant founded on probable cause. Mass or indiscriminate surveillance is prohibited.
edit: added "or purchase" per comment.
solid_fuel•5mo ago
I believe this wording may leave a loophole, allowing the government to purchase such information from a 3rd party.
DANmode•5mo ago
As it is now.
elevation•5mo ago
In the text above, “Warrant” is used in the colloquial sense (a judicial permission slip) rather than in the literal sense (the extenuating circumstances that prompt or “warrant” the action by law enforcement.)

I recommend replacing the language “warrant founded on probable cause” with a statement more specifically limiting the government. For instance, the fourth amendment allows the government to search and seize ONLY IF it can describe beforehand l specifically the scope of the search.

Such specific language would also benefit this provision.