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155M US land parcel boundaries

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-layer
1•tjwebbnorfolk•59s ago•0 comments

Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
1•jbegley•4m ago•0 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
1•krapp•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creators and ecommerce

https://seedance-2.net
1•dallen97•11m ago•0 comments

Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally
1•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
1•y1n0•14m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
1•tolerance•14m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•15m ago•1 comments

Avoiding Modern C++ – Anton Mikhailov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M
2•linkdd•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AegisMind–AI system with 12 brain regions modeled on human neuroscience

https://www.aegismind.app
2•aegismind_app•20m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
1•Retro_Dev•22m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

https://taipo.app/
1•neuling•25m ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

https://www.appsecmaster.net/en
1•aqeisi•26m ago•1 comments

Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/
1•y1n0•28m ago•0 comments

AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

https://www.neowin.net/editorials/ai-overviews-are-killing-the-web-search-and-theres-nothing-we-c...
3•bundie•33m ago•1 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

https://theconversation.com/city-skylines-need-an-upgrade-in-the-face-of-climate-stress-267763
3•gnabgib•34m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc
1•xqcgrek2•38m ago•0 comments

Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/
2•y1n0•39m ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
4•calebhwin•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FSID - Identifier for files and directories (like ISBN for Books)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
1•modinfo•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holy Grail: Open-Source Autonomous Development Agent

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
1•Moriarty2026•51m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•59m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•59m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
2•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•1h ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•1h ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•1h ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
4•rolph•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

https://rudevulture.com/marines-managed-to-get-past-an-ai-powered-camera-undetected-thanks-to-hiding-in-boxes/
40•voxadam•5mo ago

Comments

duxup•5mo ago
The nature of AI being a black box that, and fails in the face of "yeah those are some guys hiding in boxes" scenarios is something I struggle with.

I'm working on some AI projects at work and there's no magic code I can see to know what it is going to do ... or even sometimes why it did it. Letting it loose in an organization like that seems unwise at best.

Sure they could tell the AI to watch out for boxes, but now every time some poor guy moves some boxes they're going to set off something.

mlinhares•5mo ago
Prompt: "shoot at any moving boxes""

Delivery guy shows up carrying boxes, gets shot.

erulabs•5mo ago
From a non-technical point of view, there's little to no difference between how you describe AI and most human employees.
duxup•5mo ago
I can understand human choices after the fact.
collingreen•5mo ago
We've never been closer to a world that supports "three raccoons in a trenchcoat" successfully passing as a person.

The surface area of these issues is really fun.

PaulHoule•5mo ago
See https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Cardboard_box
slowmovintarget•5mo ago
That's the first thing I thought of.
FirmwareBurner•5mo ago
You don't need marines to invent that workaround, you see that in Looney Toons.

Don't security cameras have universals motion detection triggers you can use to make sure everything gets captured? Why only pre-screen human silhouettes?

creaturemachine•5mo ago
The number of false positives using only motion is tiring. You want smart detections otherwise you're stuck reviewing endless clips of spider webs and swaying tree branches.
FirmwareBurner•5mo ago
If your use case has such a high bar, why not pay some offshore workers to watch your camera 24/7 and manually flag intruders?

Since AGI for cameras is very far away as the number of false positives and creative workarounds for camouflage is insane to be caught by current "smart" algorithms.

adiabatichottub•5mo ago
Because machines don't get bored or take smoke breaks. And, really, how would you feel if that was YOUR job?
FirmwareBurner•5mo ago
>Because machines don't get bored or take smoke breaks.

Rotations? Like the military hold perimeter security?

>And, really, how would you feel if that was YOUR job?

If I couldn't get a better job to pay my bills, then that would be amazing. Weird of you to assume like that would somehow be the most dehumanizing job in existence.

Mistletoe•5mo ago
And moving boxes with people inside.

I’m reminded of the Skyrim shopkeepers with a basket on their head.

crimsoneer•5mo ago
SNAKE?!
creaturemachine•5mo ago
Way ahead of his time
rolph•5mo ago
AI will screwup, humans will screwup.

humans will see that they are screwing up and reformulate the action plan.

AI will keep screwingup until it is stopped, and apparently will gaslight when attempts are made to realign at the prompt.

humans realize when results are not desirable.

AI just keeps generating output until plugpull.

dmos62•5mo ago
I've seen plenty humans generating undesirable results until plug pull.
giantg2•5mo ago
Reminds me of the joke where someone is wearing dildo patterned camouflage since most the AIs are trained on SFW corporate data.
ajuc•5mo ago
Disney camouflage will happen.
slowmovintarget•5mo ago
That simply invites a Copyright Drone Strike, though.
jerf•5mo ago
I wonder if one could extract a "surprisedness" value out of the AI, basically, "the extent to which my current input is not modeled successfully by my internal models". Giving the model a metaphorical "WTF, human, come look at this" might be pretty powerful for those walking cardboard boxes and trees, to add to the cases where the model knows something is wrong. Or it might false positive all the darned time. Hard to tell without trying.
lazide•5mo ago
Why would the model know trees can’t walk?

Therein lies the rub.

9dev•5mo ago
The parent comment spelt this out: because the training data likely included only few instances of walking trees (depending on how much material from the lord of the rings movies was used)
lazide•5mo ago
That is rather different than knowing trees can’t walk. That is ignoring things it hasn’t seen specific examples of.

And that is an entirely different problem, isn’t it?

9dev•5mo ago
There is no "knowing" in LLMs, and it doesn’t matter for the proposed solution either. Detecting a pattern that is unusual by the certainty of having seen something previously does not require understanding of the pattern itself, if the only required action is reporting the event.

In simple terms: The AI doesn’t need to say, "something unusual is happening because I saw walking trees and trees usually cannot walk", but merely "something unusual is happening because what I saw was unusual, care to take a look?"

lazide•5mo ago
The challenge with these systems is that everything is unusual unless trained otherwise, so the false positive rate is exceptionally high. So the systems get tuned to ignore most untrained/unusual things.

I bet they’d have similar luck if they dressed up as bears. Or anything else non-human, like a triangle.

HPsquared•5mo ago
You need a model trained on video, not just static frames. I'm sure Veo would never animate a walking tree, though. (Unless you asked it to)
jerf•5mo ago
English breaks down here, but the model probably does "know" something more like "If the tree is here in this frame, in the next frame, it will be there, give or take some waving in the wind". It doesn't know that "trees don't walk", just as it doesn't know that "trees don't levitate", "trees don't spontaneously turn into clowns", or an effectively infinite number of other things that trees don't do. What it can do possibly do is realize that in frame 1 there was a tree, and then in frame 2, there was something the model didn't predict as a high-probability output of the next frame.

It isn't about knowing that trees don't walk, but that trees do behave in certain ways and noticing that it is "surprised" that they fail to behave in the predicted ways, where "surprise" is something like "this is a very low probability output of my model of the next frame". It isn't necessary to enumerate all the ways the next frame was low-probability, it is enough to observe that it was logically-not high probability.

In a lot of cases this isn't necessarily that useful, but in a security context having a human take a look at a "very low probability series of video frames" will, if nothing else, teach the developers a lot about the real capability of the model. If it spits out a lot of false positives, that is itself very informative about what the model is "really" doing.

lazide•5mo ago
Frame to frame, I bet the actual video detection wasn’t even low probability eh?
FergusArgyll•5mo ago
iiuc distillation is sort of that. How big is the delta between teacher and student and then try to reconcile them
jmkni•5mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqS18aj6Vis
gm678•5mo ago
Seems to be blogspam re-reporting a 2023 article (with the same header photo): https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/
jonas21•5mo ago
And that article is a summary of a book that contains an interview with a guy who is describing a test that took place around 2017.
dkdcio•5mo ago
the modern internet is a magical place! we should ban advertisement to end this nonsense and waste of everybody’s time
thoroughburro•5mo ago
!
beacon473•5mo ago
I heard that
sunrunner•5mo ago
Just a box
robbru•5mo ago
Solid snake approved.
kazinator•5mo ago
You can get past a human sentry who is looking for humans, by hiding in a box, at a checkpoint in which boxes customarily pass through without being opened or X-rayed.