MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ThinkBeat | 2026-02-15 22:50:01+00:00
Is the software good at what it does?
Does it give a good return on investment?

That seems like a question worth knowing the answer to.

A second good question is what are the available competitors?

If the NCY Public Hospitals drop Palantir today,
What systems will give them the same functionality at a
comparable, (hopefully cheaper) price?
by vharuck | 2026-02-15 22:51:22+00:00
I would hope this case wouldn't be hard to make. If the government isn't allowed to censor people through third parties (e.g., threaten onerous investigations of a platform unless a specific person is kicked off), the government shouldn't be allowed to conduct unreasonable searches through a third party. Would we be okay if the FBI contracted with private detective firms to conduct warrantless searches?
by margorczynski | 2026-02-15 22:51:35+00:00
> legal moats to protect their field

I wonder how do they hold up when there's a big enough benefit of using AI over human work.
Like how are politicians to explain these moats to the masses when your AI doctor costs 10x less and according to a multitude of studies is much better at diagnosis?

Or in law? I've read China is pushing AI judges because people weren't happy with the impartiality of the human ones. I think in general people overestimate how much these legal moats are worth in the long run.
by senko | 2026-02-15 22:53:44+00:00
1) there is only one OpenClaw and only one Peter;

2) at least half of the money is to not read the headlines tomorrow that the hottest AI thing since ChatGPT joined Anthropic or Google

3) the top paid people in this world are not phds

4) OpenAI is not beneath paying ludicrous amounts (see all their investments in the past year)

5) if a perception of their value as a result of this "strategic move" rises even by 0.2% and the bonus is in openai stock, it's free.

need I continue?
by ralphc | 2026-02-15 22:53:59+00:00
I had a Spaceball Avenger which made it so intuitive to play.

From my old reddit post about it, "The Spaceball Avenger is a gaming peripheral. It has the usual buttons, but the big ball is used for six degrees of freedom movement. With pressure sensors the ball is pushed up/down, left/right, and in/out for X, Y and Z axes. The ball can also be rotated for pitch, yaw and roll.

Plugged into the computer's serial port it came with drivers for games such as Doom, for which it was a good controller, but the Spaceball really shined for the Descent family of games. Descent is a FPS with no gravity, where your ship moves in ALL directions, and controlling with with the Spaceball feels like you're holding the spaceship in your hand and you're just moving it to where you want it to go."

You can see it here https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/gmusxs...
by jacquesm | 2026-02-15 22:54:51+00:00
> Linux has become too complicated for an introductory course.

So that already suggests a fantastic way to make some progress.

I think Tanenbaum had a unique vision at the time, but he went about it in the most ham handed manner possible and if not for VU Minix wouldn't even be remembered today. Linus had a huge advantage: he didn't have a lifestyle to support just yet.
by MattDaEskimo | 2026-02-15 22:55:26+00:00
Truly incredible.

OpenAI is putting money where their mouth is: a one-man team can create a vibe-coded project, and score big.

Open-source, and hyped incredibly well.

Interesting times ahead as everyone else chases this new get-rich-quick scheme. Will be plentiful for the shovel makers.
by eszed | 2026-02-15 22:56:01+00:00
Yeah, I don't quite agree with that, or think of it as any kind of a criticism. The candles are placed in such a way that the faces of the important characters are easily visible, while the spectators fade into the background. This is fine! You're not meant to see their reactions, only hear them. The lighting functions like stage lighting, or (more likely Kubrick's inspiration) chiaroscuro, focusing viewers' attention where it's meant to be.

As an aside: I've always suspected that the next scene (outside the house, at the end of this clip) is not naturally lit, though I've never seen anyone write anything about it. Even there, though, the lighting is used dramatically: as she turns, her face goes into shadow, leaving her reaction to his approach unseen, and therefore ambiguous.

Sorry / not-sorry , you were making a quick point, which I've totally hijacked to geek out about one of my favorite films of all time. Carry on.
by aydyn | 2026-02-15 22:56:43+00:00
There's some neat experiments people post on social media. Mostly, the thing that captures the imagination the most is its sort of like watching a silicon child grow up.

They develop their own personalities, they express themselves creatively, they choose for themselves, they choose what they believe and who they become.

I know that sounds like anthropomorphism, and maybe it is, but it most definitely does not feel like interacting with a coding agent. Claude is just the substrate.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-15 22:57:13+00:00
how is it a "startup" if all ip is open-source. Seems like openAi is just buying hype to keep riding their hype bubble a little longer, since they are in hot water on every other front (20Billion revenue vs 1 Trillion expenses and obligations, Sora 2 user retention dropping to 1% of users after 1 month of usage, dense competition, all actual real founding ml scientists having skipped the boat a long time ago).
Show HN: I built "Docker for code", isolate AI logic into semantic containers
by alonsovm | 2026-02-15 22:58:24+00:00
Hello HN, i want to share Glupe, a hobby project I've been working on for the last 30 days. Nothing fancy.

I've been pretty annoyed by the "all or nothing" approach of most AI coding tools, which are useful, yes, but also risky. If i tell an AI to "fix this bug" it may probably do it, but it can (or will) hallucinate a fake library, mess up my manually optimized code or subtly delete important code without explaination or notice.

Glupe summarized is this: "Stop giving AI root access to your code, Glupe isolates AI logic into semantic containers, so your code stays safe".

Instead of sending your whole file to the LLM and pray it does not break, with Glupe you can surgically tell the AI were to write code and what to do using the $${ logic }$$ syntax. Code outside the container is preserved as is. Instructions inside the container are turned into source code and embedded into the output file.

Containers can be named and are cached and hashed, Glupe detects which containers changed in a source file; when you run `glupe project.txt -make` it only calls the AI to update the "dirty" logic containers and uses cached code for the clean ones, saving time and API calls and allowing for incremental builds using AI.

What if there is a syntax error on the output code? Glupe has a self-healing loop which feeds the error history back to the LLM and tells it to fix it. No more trivial debugging.

Why do I say it is "Docker for code"? It is a metaphor, it applies the same core principle of Isolation to source text that Docker applies to running processes.

In Servers: If you run an app directly on a host OS, it has "root access." If it behaves badly, it can delete system files.

In Coding: If you give an AI access to your file, it has "root access." It can "crash" your architecture by deleting manual code or changing signatures.
Docker protects the OS from the App. Glupe protects your Architecture from the AI.

Docker solved "it works on my machine", Glupe aims to solve "

I wrote a white papaer on the subject which is available in the repo.

Any feedback or critcism is welcome and encouraged.

repo: https://github.com/alonsovm44/glupe
white paper:https://github.com/alonsovm44/glupe/blob/master/glupec.cpp
by b00twhy | 2026-02-15 22:59:20+00:00
> ...you're going to do what exactly?

I mentioned I am working on replacements for the usual local PC software stack ..."exactly"

You breezed right over that, obsessed over a single statement to justify your choices which.

I am waiting right now for a new build of a model backed GPU accelerated Vulkan-based desktop replacement to compile. A custom Linux distro boots to it.

I can submit a prompt, get a point cloud/depth map displayed onscreen and then it crashes. Memory management needs improvement.

And I have achieved this in the last few weeks with a single 3090 and local models. But then again, I am an EE who has developed software from hardware up for over 20 years and not a web SaaS code school grad; some of us have the context to bring "fairy tales" to life.

In my day to day experience the browser really isn't indispensable, quite the opposite. I barely use one. Native phone apps work better than web apps for "present reality" use-cases. I will stick to phone apps and run what I want on my PC.
by userbinator | 2026-02-15 22:59:26+00:00
As someone who has been doing Win32 development for literally decades, I'm not particularly convinced this is a problem that needs more code to solve. You don't need VS to get the compiler (which is available as a separate download called something like "build tools", I believe); and merely unpacking the download and setting a few environment variables is enough to get it working. It's easy to create a portable package of it.
by akmarinov | 2026-02-15 22:59:36+00:00
So that’s OpenClaw dead then.

It took all of Peter’s time to move it forward, even with maintainers (who he complained got immediately hired by AI companies).

Now he’s gonna be working on other stuff at OpenAI, so OpenClaw will be dead real quick.

Also I was following him for his AI coding experience even before the whole OpenClaw thing, he’ll likely stop posting about his experiences working with AI as well
by ggm | 2026-02-15 22:59:40+00:00
Never felt American Lounges got the point. Absolutely agree (unsurprisingly) the international ones are just better executed.

Mainly, I just want to unwind a bit and then get home. I know people who pick routing to get a specific lounge (turkish airlines Istanbul for instance) but I don't think I've sunk that low yet.

My partner frequently observes a sense of entitlement is very ugly. I think I agree, but I'd like another free beer and some of that quiche first.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:00:16+00:00
> There are very few companies who I trust with my digital data and thus trust to host something like OpenClaw and run it on my behalf: American Express, Capital One, maybe Proton, and maybe Apple. I managed an AI lab team at Capital One and personally I trust them.

I don't really understand what this has to do with the post or even OpenClaw. The big draw of OpenClaw was that you could run it locally on your own system. Supposedly, per this post, OpenClaw is moving to a foundation and they've committed to letting the author continue working on it while on the OpenAI payroll.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-15 23:01:38+00:00
The wall of getting buy in for switching your company over to a new SCM is much higher if you need to move everything over to a new system and switch over all of your developers onto new software at the same time. And if things don't work out you have to do the same expensive process in reverse. On the other hand if you have git compatibility you can start with a small group of developers being able to try out the tool first and see if it is actually beneficial and work your way spreading it through the company. If it turns out the new thing isn't good it is trivial to go back to your old tools since you did not have to do expensive migrations.
by Havoc | 2026-02-15 23:02:32+00:00
Given an arbitrage opportunity like that - pay someone 1/3 - corporations will take it. It is in the corporate profit maximization DNA. Keeping american jobs for americans doesn't factor in at all.

Bits and bytes have no borders and the massive pay differentials will equalize over time. Being on the wrong side of that means constant downward pressure.

As someone who is also well paid for staring at computer screens I do worry about this too because there doesn't seem to be an obvious counter. Be good/valuable doesn't work...guess what the competition in 3rd world is trying to be? That's not an edge.
by MysticBirdie | 2026-02-15 23:02:47+00:00
Congrats on the sharp eye—fair skepticism! Here's the breakdown:

*Sample 20q* = hardest edge cases (47 Rome anachronisms Claude fails completely). Public on GitHub—run it yourself.

*Full 222q* = broader test (Claude gets 45%, still poor). Gated to prevent contamination.

Why 0% on samples? Claude 4.6 injects modern moralizing ("slavery immoral") into 110 CE Rome characters. Triad's λ/μ/ν agents + Sand Spreader catch cultural hallucination.

Eval code reproducible: `python eval_framework.py samples/sample_20q.jsonl`

Try it → you'll see Claude fails basic anachronisms our multi-agent system doesn't.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:02:53+00:00
> This guy just single handedly released something useful (and very insecure) before anyone else.

It has been interesting to watch this take off. It wasn't the first or even best agent framework and it deliberately avoided all of the hard problems that others were trying to solve, like security.

What it did have was unnatural levels of hype and PR. A lot of that PR, ironically, came from all of the things that were happening because it had so many problems with security and so many examples of bad behavior. The chaos and lack of guardrails made it successful.
by fragmede | 2026-02-15 23:03:27+00:00
If you're on OpenAI, and I'm on Anthropic, can we interoperate? What level are we even trying to interoperate on? The network effect is that, hey, my stuff is working here, your stuff is working over there. So do we move to your set of tools, or my set of tools, or do we mismash between them, as our relationship and power dynamics choose for us.
by throw444420394 | 2026-02-15 23:04:31+00:00
Cursor is fine, the example is about how things go out of hype in very little time. However I believe Cursor will not survive much. It is designed around a model that will not survive: that the AI "helps you writing code", and you review, and need an IDE like that. There are many developers that want an IDE and can't stand the terminal experience of Claude Code and Codex, but I don't believe most developers in the future will inspect closely the code written by the AIs, and things like Cursor will look like products designed for a transition step that is no longer here (already).
by dlivingston | 2026-02-15 23:07:05+00:00
My gut feeling is that OpenAI is desperately searching for The Killer App™ for LLMs and hired Peter to help guide them there.

OpenAI has tried a lot of experiments over the years - custom GPTs, the Orion browser, Codex, the Sora "TikTok but AI" app, and all have either been uninspired or more-or-less clones of other products (like Codex as a response to Claude Code).

OpenClaw feels compelling, fresh, sci-fi, and potentially a genuinely useful product once matured.

More to the point, OpenAI needs _some_ kind of hyper-compelling product to justify its insane hype, valuation, and investments, and Peter's work with OpenClaw seems very promising.

(All of this is complete speculation on my part. No insider knowledge or domain expertise here.)
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-02-15 23:07:21+00:00
Co-operative will have significantly worse privacy guarantee compared to shareholder based model. In the no one company wants to sacrifice on privacy standard just for the sake of it. They do it for money. And in shareholder based model, the employees are more likely to go against the shareholder when user privacy is involved, because they are not directly benefiting from it.
by appplication | 2026-02-15 23:08:45+00:00
I’d somewhat agree with you there, but I usually use variables for uniformity. I do see arguments against tailwind but find anytime I’ve tried to do anything else it just feels like bikeshedding on internals for the same end result.

Really what I want to see is beautiful TDD for CSS so that uniformity can be enforced, but I’m not sure that exists.
by mjr00 | 2026-02-15 23:08:58+00:00
> 1) there is only one OpenClaw and only one Peter;

Again, Peter is a good/great AI product manager but I don't see any distinguishing skills worth a billion dollars there. There's only one Openclaw but it's also been a few weeks since it came into existence? Openclaw clones will exist soon enough, and the community is WAY too small to be worth anything (unlike, say, Instagram/Whatsapp before being acquired by Facebook)

> 2) at least half of the money is to not read the headlines tomorrow that the hottest AI thing since ChatGPT joined Anthropic or Google

True, but not worth $100 million dollars - $1 billion dollars

> 3) the top paid people in this world are not phds

The people getting massive compensation offers from AI companies are all AI-adjacent PhDs or people with otherwise rare and specialized knowledge. This is unrelated to people who have massive compensation due to being at AI companies early. And if we're talking about the world in general, yes the best thing to do to be rich is own real estate and assets and extract rent, but that has nothing to do with this compensation offer

> 4) OpenAI is not beneath paying ludicrous amounts (see all their investments in the past year)

Investments have a probable ROI, what's the ROI on a product manager?

> 5) if a perception of their value as a result of this "strategic move" rises even by 0.2% and the bonus is in openai stock, it's free.

99.999999% of the world has not heard of Openclaw, it's extremely niche right now.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:09:18+00:00
> Peter single handedly got many of us taking Codex more seriously, at least that's my impression from the conversations I had.

Comments like this feel confusing because I didn't have any association between Codex and OpenClaw before reading your comment.

Codex was also seeing a lot of usage before OpenClaw.

The whole OpenClaw hype bubble feels like there's a world of social media that I wasn't tapped into last month that OpenClaw capitalized on with unparalleled precision. There are many other agent frameworks out there, but OpenClaw hit all the right notes to trigger the hype machine in a way that others did not. Now OpenClaw and its author are being attributed for so many other things that it's hard for me to understand how this one person inserted himself into the center of this media zeitgeist
by nickledave | 2026-02-15 23:09:42+00:00
Write down whatever helps you.

Sounds like your approach works for you.

Here's a similar post with more concrete advice on what to write:
https://jamesmckay.net/2017/02/how-to-keep-lab-notes-as-a-so...

1. Choose the most low-friction solution you can get your hands on.
2. Write down everything you do, as you do it.
3. You can not be too detailed.
4. Write down your train of thought when you’re planning and designing your code.
5. Don't worry too much about making your notes look good.
6. Use a searchable text format.
7. Make your notes append-only.
8. Use your notes as a source for documentation, commit summaries and pull request descriptions.
9. Share your notes with your whole team.
10. Don’t make your notes public.
11. Learn from your mistakes.

I used to use HackMD but I have found Obsidian helps me better meet the criteria above (low-friction yet searchable).

I have learned the hard way, repeatedly, that forcing myself to write down a to-do list and notes on what I did actually makes me a better developer, even when I am in software engineering mode, not research mode. I make myself prioritize what to do, I retain better what I've learned, and I converge on solutions faster.
by wiml | 2026-02-15 23:10:36+00:00
This exact method was implemented back around the turn of the century by RSAC/ICRA. I think only MSIE ever looked at those tags. But it seems like they met the stated goal of today's age-verification proposals.

That's why I have a hard time crediting the theory that today's proposals are just harmlessly clueless and well intentioned (as dynm suggests). There are many possible ways to make a child-safe internet and it's been a concern for a long time. But, just in the last year there are simultaneous pushes in many regions to enact one specific technique which just happens to pipe a ton of money to a few shady companies, eliminate general purpose computing, be tailor made for social control and political oppression, and on top of that, it isn't even any better at keeping porn away from kids! I think Hanlon's razor has to give way to Occam's here; malice is the simpler explanation.
by AndrewStephens | 2026-02-15 23:11:37+00:00
This is great. I run a server for my blog and can confirm idiotic bots continually hammer port 22. Sometimes I check my SSH logs just to see what is going on but I’ve never detected anything cleverer than trying common username/pw combinations.

It seems a little pointless, surely every server actually accepting SSH passwords has been 0wned year ago.
by flyinglizard | 2026-02-15 23:11:58+00:00
I'd venture a guess that most of the software in the world is not written from scratch but painstakingly maintained and as such, Cursor is a good fit while CC is not.
Besides, if agentic coding does go off, Cursor has the customer relationship and can just offer it as an additional mode.

Whoever stands in front of the customer ultimately wins. The rest are just cost centers.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-15 23:12:04+00:00
Fully aware, but who the heck wants to spend nearly 10 grand, and that's with just a 1TB hard drive (which needs to be able to fit your massive models mind you). Fair warning not ALL the RAM is fully unified. On my 24GB RAM Macbook Pro I can only use 16GB of VRAM, but its still better than me using my 3080 with only 10 GB of RAM, but I also didn't spend more than 2 grand on it.
Show HN: SyncFlow – Privacy-Focused SMS/MMS Sync Between Android, Mac, and Web
by solovibecoder | 2026-02-15 23:12:08+00:00
I built SyncFlow to sync my Android SMS/MMS messages to my Mac and web — without relying on Google Messages or any third-party big tech cloud.

It runs on a dedicated server with a Node.js/Express API + PostgreSQL backend.

The Android app syncs messages, contacts, and call history, and you read/send them from a native Mac app or web client. Your messages never touch Google, Apple, or any third-party cloud.

Key technical decisions:
- E2EE with Signal Protocol for message encryption
- WebRTC for video/audio calls between devices
- MMS attachments stored on Cloudflare R2 via presigned URLs
- WebSocket for real-time message delivery + delivery status tracking
- Firebase Auth for identity only — message data is fully separate

Stack: Kotlin (Android), Swift (Mac), Next.js (Web), Express + PostgreSQL (Server)

What it does:
- Read/send SMS and MMS from Mac or browser
- Full contact and call history sync
- Video and audio calling via WebRTC
- File Transfer between your devices
- Spam filtering and scheduled messages

Free tier: 200 messages/month. Paid removes limits.

Downloads: https://sfweb.app/download

Would love feedback on the architecture especially the E2EE implementation and the MMS sync approach.
by johnwheeler | 2026-02-15 23:12:37+00:00
I just dislike Sam Altman, and I think he's just using this as a marketing ploy, which is more dishonesty from him. People keep saying OpenClaw is hype. I installed it, but I never tried to run it, and I don't know what the compelling reason is to. Supposedly you can talk to your agent from your iMessage? Who cares? Why not just talk to Claude Code?
by yencabulator | 2026-02-15 23:12:39+00:00
You might like https://github.com/ctz/graviola/

Also, even if rustls is using aws-lc-rs, you still get the TLS parts from the rustls project, and aws-lc-rs is just lower-level crypto. That means there's less places for Amazon to say no; they either implement an algorithm or don't.