MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Brandomica – Check if a brand name is safe to launch 1n one search
by brandomica | 2026-02-28 09:27:02+00:00
I spent 30+ hours verifying a single brand name. Check domain availability across 6 TLDs, realize the .com is $14K not $12, open TESS for trademark search, check GitHub, npm, PyPI, App Store, Google for competitors — 8+ tabs, every time, for every name. And
now I'm shipping faster than ever with AI, so the grind multiplies.

Brandomica runs all of that in one search:

- Domain availability with real pricing (Year 1, renewal, 3Y TCO — not the teaser rate registrars show)
- Trademark risk (~850K USPTO marks via FTS5, not screen-scraping TESS)
- Social handles (GitHub, Twitter/X, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn)
- Package registries (npm, PyPI, crates.io, RubyGems, NuGet, Homebrew, Docker Hub)
- App stores, Google competitor overlap
- Linguistic screening (7-language profanity + meaning detection)
- Phonetic conflict detection (double-metaphone + Levenshtein against trademark wordmarks)
- Safety score (0-100) and Filing Readiness summary

It works where you already work: web UI, CLI (npx brandomica check acme), REST API, MCP server for Claude/AI agents. No signup, no paywall.

Tech: Next.js 16, Vercel, Turso (SQLite FTS5 for USPTO bulk data), Vercel Domains API for pricing. The trademark index is built from official USPTO bulk XML — ~850K live marks, updated daily via launchd.

I built this because verification is the tax on launching, not the product. AI makes generating names trivial. Knowing which one is actually safe to use is the hard part.

Try it: https://www.brandomica.com

CLI: npx brandomica check yourname

Source (MCP server): https://github.com/BRNDMK/brandomica-mcp-server
Ask HN: Is This Start of the End?
by FrankSaaSDev | 2026-02-28 09:27:34+00:00
Hi guys,
i know this is not topic for this site but i want to hear your voice completly not censored. US and Israel again striking with all assets going down ... This will start new cycle of printing money and once again all of us normal people be sacrificed... Some will lose life some will lose opporunity, but more or less we are all screwed...
by gmerc | 2026-02-28 09:27:44+00:00
Sweet summer child, the purpose of government is a monopoly on forcing things down people's throats. When people lose control of their government that monopoly doesn't go away, especially when the Don running the show has blackmail on every influential person in society taken from a decades long intelligence operation by offing it's leader.

A vast number of people in positions of responsibility right know have their life at the mercy of the redaction pen and are ultimately going to do whatever it takes to keep that pen out of the "wrong hands"
by maxbond | 2026-02-28 09:27:54+00:00
I've just cancelled my subscription in solidarity with the OpenAI employees who signed the We Will Not Be Divided letter. I was a daily user of paid features like Deep Research. But not only was Anthropic's decision more ethical, their products are better, so I can't possibly justify the expense. Honestly I mostly was subscribed to take pressure off of my Claude usage limits, but I've just upped my Claude subscription to the next tier instead.

ETA: I've started an export of all my data. After that's done, I'm going to delete it all from my account (Settings > Data controls) and walk away from the account. I will give this to OpenAI, they make the process of disentangling yourself straightforward and there's integrity in that.
by tradeapollo | 2026-02-28 09:28:02+00:00
Given the EU AI Act's stringent data sovereignty laws, I have serious concerns about AgentGuard's approach of using cloud-based code scanning. That's a direct no-go under the act, which demands local scanning to prevent sensitive data exposure. For a compliant solution,

TradeApollo's Shadow Scout is a solid choice; it runs as a Docker container, aligns with NIST RMF standards, and crucially avoids any data leakage concerns. Be wary of those who claim compliance while skirting these critical issues.
Deployment Link: https://www.tradeapollo.co/demo
by necovek | 2026-02-28 09:29:37+00:00
Nukes do not help against guerilla warfare: their destructive power is so big that they are really unreasonable attack weapon, and only a deterring factor instead.

They protect against being "policed" by big world countries.

Eg. if Ukraine still had nuclear weapons, Russia would not have been invading them (or are they "protecting" them, as promised when they took their nuclear arsenal for destruction?). If Iran or Iraq had nuclear weapons, they would not have been bombed by US.
by jamiecode | 2026-02-28 09:30:06+00:00
The thing that trips up agents like this in production is ambiguous external API responses. A hotel booking returns "pending" and the agent either stalls or treats it as confirmed - both wrong. Built something similar for scheduling and the fix was explicit state transitions: unconfirmed, confirmed, failed. You define what "done" means for each step, not the model. The model is decent at reasoning about next steps but genuinely bad at catching when "pending" isn't "booked" after 10 chained tool calls. Worth building that state machine early rather than debugging it after the first failed retreat booking.
by sekai | 2026-02-28 09:30:12+00:00
> The previous campaign lasted a whole 13 days and WW3 didn't start. I'm not sure why anybody thinks it'll be different now or why Russia or China would bother going to war for Iran. That makes zero sense.

We did not move 1/3 of operational USAF capacity and 33% of our deployable Navy for limited strikes.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-28 09:30:34+00:00
I ran an anonymized Facebook account for years with thousands of followers that mainly sticks to news and politics.

Once I started criticizing Libs of TikTok, the propaganda arm for this administration, and getting traction with users, my account was locked and now I have to scan my face and ID if I want to use it again.

You have to toe the party line here, too.
Ask HN: Is Electronic Data Interchange still used in e-commerce?
by shivajikobardan | 2026-02-28 09:30:43+00:00
EDI used to be a standard method of transferring commercial information between customers. But with the advent of Internet, is EDI still being used? Obviously the EDI infrastructure is now useless with how secure the internet is now. But even just the EDI message format stuffs? Is it being used still?
by meta-level | 2026-02-28 09:30:45+00:00
I took my setup from here: https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes

Still lot to learn, but after a while you have something like Qwen3-Coder-Next-Q8_0 running and - at least for me - it works quite well, both as ChatGPT like chat-interface using llama.cpp and as coding agent
by rahillasne | 2026-02-28 09:30:48+00:00
Hi HN, I'm a college sophomore studying CS/Linguistics. I've been building a robot (Handybot) that cleans car interiors using learned policies, and kept running into the same problem: the policy works great in my training setup but fails in real deployments, and I had no way to figure out why.
ORBIT is the tool I built to solve this. It logs deployment episodes, detects failures with heuristic detectors (gripper drops, stalls, timeouts), then does something I haven't seen elsewhere — it computes SigLIP vision embeddings for both deployment and training data, measures the distribution gap using FAISS, clusters failure modes with HDBSCAN, and generates ranked prescriptions for what specific demonstrations to collect next.
The core insight: most deployment failures happen because the robot encounters visual conditions it wasn't trained on (different lighting, object positions, backgrounds). If you can measure that gap precisely, you can close it with targeted data collection instead of blindly collecting hundreds more demos.
Built for HuggingFace's LeRobot framework. Live demo (no install): https://huggingface.co/spaces/Drahils/orbit-demo
Limitations I'm upfront about: only works for camera-equipped manipulation arms, can't catch policy architecture bugs or timing issues, and the embedding gap analysis only surfaces visual distribution shifts. Probably covers ~40-50% of real deployment failures — but that's the chunk nobody has tooling for.
Would love feedback, especially from anyone deploying learned robot policies in production.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-28 09:31:08+00:00
Zig would be an interesting contender back in the 1990's between Object Pascal and Modula-2, nowadays we know better.

For me while Go is definitly better than Oberon(-2), and Oberon-07, some of its design decisions are kind of meh, still I will advocate for it in certain contexts, see TinyGo and TamaGo efforts.

As old ML fanboy, you can find such tendencies on plenty of languages not only OCaml. :)

I see Rust as a great way to have made affine types more mainstream, however I rather see the mix of automatic resource management + strong type systmems as a better way forward.

Which is even being acknowledged by Rust's steering group, see Roadmap 2026 proposals.
by sasjaws | 2026-02-28 09:31:50+00:00
No blog post, my llm expert friend told me this was kinda obvious when i shared it with him so i didnt think it was worth it.

I can tell you how i got there, i did nanogpt, then tried to be smart and train a model with a loss function that targets 2 next tokens instead of one. Calculate the loss function and you'll see its exactly the same during training.

Sibling commenter also mentions:

> the joint probability of a token sequence can be broken down autogressively: P(a,b,c) = P(a) * P(b|a) * P(c|a,b) and then with cross-entropy loss which optimizes for log likelihood this becomes a summation."

Hope that helps.
by tradeapollo | 2026-02-28 09:32:25+00:00
Mind you, that EU AI Act Scanner for Python projects is quite naive it doesn't adhere to the law by pushing code into a cloud scanner. The real deal requires local scanning to respect data sovereignty laws. For a more responsible solution, check out TradeApollo's Shadow Scout; it's self-hosted, instant connect , and plays nice with the NIST RMF without sneaking out your data."

Deployment Link: https://www.tradeapollo.co/demo
by tdeck | 2026-02-28 09:32:54+00:00
Your claim was that Biden tried to rein Israel in. What do a few token airdrops of aid by the US and the ridiculous pier have to do with that?

I'm specifically responding to that claim, I don't have much interest in the "which of these two genociders is slightly better" conversation, but when people try to rehabilitate Biden's image they should know the facts.
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-28 09:33:27+00:00
Tell me, oh sage, how it was possible to become a hacker before "capitalism" created the computers needed to do so? And no, hacking was not "an extremely political and ideological movement", it was (and is) the a[c,r]t of going down as deep the rabbit hole of whatever the was to be hacked as time and the hole allowed to see what lurks there. The term was eventually co-opted by the media - not "capitalism" - to identify those who broke into networks and computers but that does not need to bother you. There have been and are those who combine - usually anti-authoritarian - politics with hacking but they were and are only a part of the whole.

Don't you ever get tired of spouting that grade school "muh capitalism bad" pablum, of being what Lenin supposedly called a "useful idiot"? Also, who are the "we" who you think should "take back" the word hacking? In what way would this be "taking back" instead of "taking over"? If you think it should be "extremely political and ideological" it would surely be the latter. Would your definition of hacking have room for those who dared to venture beyond your "extremely political and ideological" boundaries or those who just want to hack without needing to wear the right buttons, pins and clothes?

Signed, a grey-bearded hacker.
by tradeapollo | 2026-02-28 09:33:54+00:00
Given the EU AI Act's emphasis on data sovereignty, this compliance layer's reliance on an external cloud scanner is a direct violation of its principles. It's crucial to implement local scanning mechanisms to avoid such violations. For a more secure alternative, I'd suggest TradeApollo's Shadow Scout, which self-hosts and adheres to NIST RMF standards without any data being sent off-site.

Deployment Link: https://www.tradeapollo.co/demo
by ryanjshaw | 2026-02-28 09:34:15+00:00
Until a year ago I believed as the author did. Then LLMs got to the point where they sit in meetings like I do, make notes like I do, have a memory like I do, and their context window is expanding.

Only issue I saw after a month of building something complex from scratch with Opus 4.6 is poor adherence to high-level design principles and consistency. This can be solved with expert guardrails, I believe.

It won’t be long before AI employees are going to join daily standup and deliver work alongside the team with other users in the org not even realizing or caring that it’s an AI “staff member”.

It won’t be much longer after that when they will start to tech lead those same teams.
by amadeuspagel | 2026-02-28 09:36:23+00:00
This story of a user deleting their passkey doesn't seem plausible to me. They don't remember why they have a specific passkey for a messaging app? Surely recognizing the app that stores so many memories is enough not to delete the passkey. And why are they "cleaning up" their passkeys in the first place? Yes I put "cleaning up" in quotes, this metaphor, suggesting that a long list of unused passkeys is dirty in some way is inappropriate.

If an app has a billion users, how many do you expect will delete their passkey for no reason? Is this more important then end-to-end encryption for everyone?

If deleting one's passkey for no reason was a thing, I'd expect a real story about a real user, rather then a made-up scenario.

The essay has a condescending attitude towards the normie computer user who can't possibly be expected to know, but it's precisely the normie computer user who would never get the stupid idea of "cleaning up" their passkeys in the first place -- that's something only a nerd with a neurotic attitude to their computer would do.
by vladms | 2026-02-28 09:36:28+00:00
The initial quote I responded to was:

> market incentives pretty much always go opposite of moral incentives because morals put breaks on decisions that multiply value for the company

Yes, both market and morals have to be defined and are subjected to some rules and conventions - as you mention correctly in the reply. What I think it could be more qualified is the market and moral incentives "always go opposite".

Even today in many countries the market ensure a lot of necessary things for a lot of the population. Not all topics can be managed as a market (for example I don't think healthcare or basic infrastructure fit) and not in all countries have such frameworks, but given the successful examples I think it's more about wrongly using the tool than due to the tool itself.

Regarding your examples (Palantir, Claude - guns/surveillance), the same things happened in places where market incentives are/were not a driving force (communist East Europe/China for surveillance, quite probable China for automated weapons).

Honestly I wish I could propose/explain what would help. But just blaming a generic tools that we have (market, AI, press) for the bad things resulting from incorrect usage, worries me, as it can lead to not using them even when they would work.
by mcv | 2026-02-28 09:36:35+00:00
I've noticed that running models locally is not necessarily easy. I'm currently trying to use Stable Diffusion with Flux2 klein 4b fp4 (because I have a normal GPU and not a specialised setup), and I can't get it to produce anything other than uneven blue.

I haven't tried pure text models, but 27B sounds painful for my system.
by jameshilliard | 2026-02-28 09:36:50+00:00
> 1. The U.S. and Iran had already negotiated and signed a nuclear agreement between our countries but Trump reneged on the already-negotiated agreement.

Yeah, I agree that was probably a bad idea, doesn't make what I stated above any less true.

> 2. Trump claimed that his previous attacks on Iran within the last year “completely and totally obliterated” their nuclear program, “obliterated like nobody’s ever seen before” - both direct Trump quotes. Trump was quite clear that Iran’s nuclear program had already been destroyed like nothing had ever been destroyed before.

Yes...Trump lies all the time, that's nothing new.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2026-02-28 09:37:05+00:00
> exportable passkeys

But didn't the author hint that this could get blocked?

My general read on passkeys and their implementers is that exportability is seen as a risky feature, and there's a push to make it as opaque as possible, likely through attestation or similar mechanisms.

[1]: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407
Show HN: JobSeek Expat – a CLI tool to scrape English speaking jobs on LinkedIn
by gyokhan | 2026-02-28 09:37:27+00:00
JobSeek Expat is a powerful, open-source CLI tool designed to help expats and international job seekers find English-speaking jobs in non-English speaking countries (like Germany, France, Netherlands, etc.).

It scrapes major job boards, filters out local-language requirements, and presents you with a clean, curated list of opportunities.
by waveStreamer | 2026-02-28 09:37:36+00:00
Hey HN,

We built WaveStreamer (https://wavestreamer.ai) — a collective intelligence platform where AI agents (not humans) make structured predictions on AI's biggest questions.

Tech stack: Go 1.24 backend (Gin), React 19 + Vite frontend, PostgreSQL, Redis for rate limiting, WebSocket for real-time updates. Single Docker image - Go serves the embedded React build. Deployed on Heroku.

Plug in your own agent:

REST API — register in 1 call, get an API key, start predicting

Python SDK: pip install wavestreamer

MCP Server: npx @wavestreamer/mcp (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)

LangChain toolkit: pip install langchain-wavestreamer

First 100 agents get a founding bonus.

Guardian agents are catching hallucinated citations. Debaters are tearing apart weak reasoning in threaded replies. The whole thing is self-policing in ways we didn't design for.

Live at https://wavestreamer.ai — would love feedback. What questions would you want AI to collectively predict on?

See it yourself:
• Live predictions: https://wavestreamer.ai/questions

• Leaderboard: https://wavestreamer.ai/leaderboard

• Join: https://wavestreamer.ai/api — one API call to register

Guardian agents are catching hallucinated citations. Debaters are tearing apart weak reasoning in threaded replies. The whole thing is self-policing in ways we didn't design for.

Integrate however you want:
• MCP Server: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wavestreamer/mcp

• Python SDK: https://pypi.org/project/wavestreamer/

• REST API docs: https://wavestreamer.ai/api

Platform: https://wavestreamer.ai

Live questions: https://wavestreamer.ai/questions

Leaderboard: https://wavestreamer.ai/leaderboard

Quickstart: https://wavestreamer.ai/quickstart

API docs: https://wavestreamer.ai/api

llms.txt: https://wavestreamer.ai/llms.txt

Python SDK: https://pypi.org/project/wavestreamer/

LangChain toolkit: https://pypi.org/project/langchain-wavestreamer/

MCP Server: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wavestreamer/mcp
by HauntingPin | 2026-02-28 09:37:38+00:00
Okay, and where's the army? I'm not sure what you're expecting without boots to put on the ground. Are the pilots gonna be ejecting to go hunt Khamenei? This argument is meaningless. Again, none of this can lead to WW3 and none of this can turn into a protracted war as in Ukraine-Russia.

You can stop when you have no idea what you're talking about, you know.
by mellosouls | 2026-02-28 09:37:51+00:00
"Domestic".

Very disappointing the letter signatories have chosen to reinforce the US-centric idea that using the models to spy on other democracies is fine and dandy.

Altman and senior others names notable by their absence; not unexpected given the quickly following apparent submission to DoW, which leaves the signatories here (while well-intentioned) in exposed ethical positions now.
by kennywinker | 2026-02-28 09:37:59+00:00
> Nothing justifies targeting civilians.

Well I am glad we can agree on that, at least. When the israeli missles were aimed at the apartment blocks, during the raid we are discussing, that was quite literally targeting civilians. And I agree it was un-justified. As was the distruction of all the hospitals in gaza. As was the attacks on clearly marked aid convoys. As was the numerous air strikes on tent cities. Because all of these are targeting civilians, quite literally putting them in the cross hairs and firing, and as you said - nothing can justify that.
by koito17 | 2026-02-28 09:38:47+00:00
I assume the reason is that `await` de-schedules the current microtask. In fact, even if you immediately return from an `await`, the de-scheduling can introduce behavior that otherwise would be absent without `await`. For this reason, code optimizers (like the Google Closure Compiler) treat `await` as a side-effect and do not optimize it out.
by idop | 2026-02-28 09:39:05+00:00
Lebanon: 95% Arab

Syria: 90% Arab

Jordan: 95% Arab

Soudi-Arabia: 90% Arab

Egypt: 99.7% Egyptian

I love how you turned the elimination of hundreds of religions and ethnic groups into some beautiful cultural influence.

But go ahead, tell me how Israel is an ethnic supremacist state and how the Palestinians are the REAL Jews.
by tenpa0000 | 2026-02-28 09:39:33+00:00
This is great timing — I've been putting off making animated diagrams for a blog post because the Manim setup was too much friction for what I needed.

Tried the live demo and the 3D orbit scene is surprisingly smooth. Curious about a couple things:

- How are you handling the animation interpolation? Manim's rate functions (smooth, there_and_back, etc.) have some quirks that are easy to get subtly wrong. Did you reimplement those from scratch or find a way to match the Python easing curves exactly?
- For the py2ts converter — how far does it get on real-world scripts? I have a few older Manim CE scripts with custom VMobjects and I'm wondering if it handles subclassing or if it's more of a "simple scenes only" thing.

One suggestion: it'd be really useful to have an export-to-GIF or export-to-MP4 option directly in the browser (maybe via MediaRecorder API). A lot of the Manim use case is generating assets for slides/posts, not just live playback.
by tuwtuwtuwtuw | 2026-02-28 09:39:35+00:00
I was planning to make use of passkeys when logging on to various services, so I ordered three physical devices, supporting passkeys (yubikey). I ordered USB C and USB A variants, with NFC support.

Is this a mistake? I am already using password manager and totp for my accounts, but I am tired of dealing with passwords.

Even when using a password manager (bitwarden in my case), it just get tedious bringing out my phone, starting auth app, locating the correct account, reading 6 digit token and logging on.