MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ksaj | 2026-02-23 07:25:40+00:00
While I do pay for an OpenAI (ChatGPT) account, I wouldn't ever pay someone to use it for me, so I don't know. Given how it works, I would be only results driven, and if the results I want come easily through AI, I would have already done it that way.

I don't speak for everyone, but I have a hard time imagining someone paying for someone else to .... prompt for things on their behalf. Especially since the prompt I would have to provide you is likely to be sufficient for the AI directly.
by mrob | 2026-02-23 07:27:00+00:00
The tactile feeling of the physical media is important.

I buy a lot of used CDs. It's a great time to buy because prices are still very low. It's not uncommon to find charity shops (a.k.a. thrift stores) in the UK selling used CDs for £0.25. At this price I don't put much effort into selecting discs, and if I don't like one I just donate it to another charity shop (ideally in another town to keep the discs circulating). I discover a lot of good music this way I wouldn't otherwise hear.

Accordingly, I shop mostly by intuition. One surprising thing I discovered is that I can do better than chance at identifying good CDs by touch. This is because jewel cases from the 80s are generally thicker and heavier than modern jewel cases. In the 80s, recording technology was expensive enough that people didn't usually have access to it unless they'd demonstrated some musical talent. In the 80s, the loudness war hadn't started and CDs were mastered on the assumption that they would be played on a good home stereo. A random CD from the 80s has a higher chance of being good than a random CD from any other decade.

Every used CD I've bought has played without audible defect. A few have circumferential scratches long enough to defeat the error correction but the error detection still works to interpolate the missing data. In a previous HN comment I wrote that I had a few with disc rot; I was mistaken and what I thought was disc rot was actually "pin holes". These are holes in the metal layer that people say are a manufacturing defect caused by contamination between the injection molding and metalization stages, and don't get worse with time. Since then, I bought one with genuine disc rot, which looks like corrosion starting from the edge of the disc. This one will probably continue to decay, but for now it also plays perfectly because the rot hasn't reached the data.

I also have two "sticky Nimbus" discs: a known manufacturing defect where Nimbus UK in the 80s used some material for label printing that becomes sticky over time. The first one I attempted to clean with a damp cloth and damaged it, the second I recognized as the same thing and didn't touch. I've heard that you can clean them with ice-cold water, but I'll just tolerate the dust and fingerprints on it. Aggressive cleaning will remove the label entirely. It doesn't affect playback.

All this experience is missing from index cards with QR codes. You could get the same kind of experience from vinyl, but that would cost a lot more and the sound quality won't be as good.
by pyaamb | 2026-02-23 07:27:59+00:00
I've been casually daydreaming about possible paths an "AI augmented" newsfeed experience could take.

I'm imagining an initial group of agents scraping the web for events (twitter/x, science/eng/business publications) that could potentially translate to stories that their end users (humans) might be interested in.

those stories get picked up by another set of bots (equivalent to reddit posters) and get published on an agent-only social network where a diverse set of agents with different "backgrounds"/personalities comment and discuss on the story.

inputs from this post (article + comments) are picked up by an 'editor' agent and go into a final summarized article designed for human eyes or humans personal agent or newsfeed agent.

humans being the end users browse their (ai enhanced) newsfeed which has its own private, continuously evolving algorithms based on knowledge of 1) what and 2) how its human likes to consume/think.

information is "backpropagated" to inform/reinforce the initial scraper group of bots on what to look out for.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-23 07:28:21+00:00
> Suspending customers for [snipped]

They are being banned (not suspended) for breaking the ToS, not for what you imagine them to be suspended for.

It doesn't matter how expensive a provider plan you purchase, the provider is free to end their contract with you, permanently if they want to, if you breach their terms of service.

You also get the same freedom.
by sonofhans | 2026-02-23 07:28:27+00:00
Peak microwave UX is today, IMO — modern commercial microwaves. You seem like my people, so check this out — https://shop.sharpusa.com/medium-duty-commercial-microwave-o...

Consumer-grade microwaves are made to look cool, not to use. Commercial microwaves are made to make money. One dial, no bullshit.

And check out the scale on the dial. That’s modern, no old-skool 2-dial microwaves can do that, AFAIK.
Show HN: I made and app to stop living on autopilot
by pabloschz | 2026-02-23 07:29:40+00:00
Hey, I'm Pablo and I feel like we are wasting our lives scrolling on social media. Sadly they are somehow necessary, and deleting them is not the solution but intentional usage is. That's why I built this app. I'm planning to go deep and improve it as much as possible, as I think this is one of the biggest problems we're facing as a society right now. It's free to try for a few days, hope you like it.
by blkhawk | 2026-02-23 07:29:44+00:00
wow the markup on the larger E-ink displays is crazy and the price curve is well above the bare added area. looking at the smaller displays it seems to me like prices have even gone up especially for the 7.5" ones and that's surprising considering reTerminal and clones being about 75EUR-ish.

That said there are some displays for the adventurous with no clear ready made interface boards that would need some effort to connect to. Like the ES120MC1 12" high res ones for 50ish USD with some gnarly zif sockets.
by shaheeniquebal | 2026-02-23 07:30:55+00:00
Thanks for this. Super helpful perspective.

The point about health-tech still leaning on patents because “it works” is interesting. From your conversations with early-stage founders, did you notice whether that confidence comes from actual enforcement experience, or more from investor expectation and signaling value?

The GAU strategy you mentioned is also fascinating. Intentionally slowing prosecution to stay under examination longer. In practice, do founders see that as a strategic delay tactic, or is it mostly attorney-driven?

And on AI/software patents given how common 101 rejections are post-Alice, do you feel early-stage teams still see patents as worth the cost and uncertainty? Or are they filing more for positioning than enforceability?

Really appreciate you sharing your experience would love to understand where you think the biggest blind spots are for early-stage teams.
Show HN: DoFast – I built a tool that shows me my next best action
by gisverygood | 2026-02-23 07:31:27+00:00
I realized I avoid hard decisions/tasks like a Damocles sword.

Instead, I:

- change UI details

- reorganize lead lists

- do “productive” nonsense

Zero real progress.

So I built DoFast.

It tells me the best action I need to take right now to actually move the project forward.

It’s free. Yes fr.
by schiffern | 2026-02-23 07:32:10+00:00
I noticed, it's an unfortunate regression.

What's amazing is how the vibe of using the microwave completely changed. Before it was:

"Okay, how much time?? I've gotta get this right, I only get one shot. Think!!"

to:

"Probably 2 minutes." moves knob, cooking starts "Eh, maybe 90 seconds actually." moves knob again

That alone probably reduces the error rate, and it certainly reduces annoyance.

With the new stoves, I've noticed people are starting to dread using their stove the same way they dread the microwave. Hopefully we can fix both.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-23 07:32:32+00:00
> They keep your groceries and your $250, and they ban you from the store.

If you signed an agreement with the grocery store that says they will ban you with no refunds for doing $FOO, and you do $FOO, then you can't expect any sympathy when you get banned, now can you?

In any case, your analogy is broken, because this is a monthly subscription, not a once-off purchase: when you pay for a month of subscription and then get banned, you don't expect to get that month's payment back.
by dotancohen | 2026-02-23 07:34:34+00:00
Thou shalt indent to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt indent, and the number of the indentation shall be three. Four shalt thou not indent, neither indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then compose thou thy Holy Lua.
by agentifysh | 2026-02-23 07:34:48+00:00
so far i've been able to use gemini pro just fine from codex cli using my web session mcp bridge: https://github.com/agentify-sh/desktop

it seems like the main problem with OpenCode and OpenClaw is that they call the API directly bypassing the website

my approach is browser automation, its technically against the ToS too but there's default mechanisms to avoid unintentional mass spam.

I think what pissed off Google and Anthropic was that people were running through multiple accounts from OpenCode and ruined it for everybody else
by xavpoon | 2026-02-23 07:36:08+00:00
Built this because I got tired of paying $15/mo for Wispr Flow when all I needed was accurate dictation that runs locally.

Mellon runs Whisper on-device — no cloud, no subscription, no data collection. What makes it different from other local Whisper wrappers:

- Phonetic-based corrections: catches homophones and accent mistakes using phonetic matching, not just AI

- Correction history: shows you exactly what was corrected, why, and which dictionary caught it

- Screen context: reads what's on your screen to spell names and jargon correctly

- Agent mode: highlight text and give voice commands to rewrite/proofread in place

- 99 languages, medical dictionary (600k+ clinical terms)

It's free. macOS 12+. No account needed — just download and go.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or how the phonetic correction engine works.
by niel | 2026-02-23 07:36:18+00:00
I believe GP is referencing this classic comment from 2007 on Drew's original Show HN post for Dropbox:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
by spwa4 | 2026-02-23 07:37:21+00:00
This reasoning obviously cannot compensate for a difference of more than 10% or so.

And in my experience in most places software contractors are paid more. Contractors are simply the people who are good enough to be technical people who demand higher salaries at non-FANG. They don't get, and don't have a need for, job security and in trade get a lot more dineros. This can be because of specialized knowledge (e.g. knowledge of bank protocols and encryption, including the softer side of it (ie. what particular kinds of encryption actually protect against)). These people are not needed often, and not constantly, but when they're needed they're critical. Hence, lots of pay, switch from bank to bank often. This exists for specialized mechanical engineers in defense too, for example.
by Kovah | 2026-02-23 07:38:45+00:00
Unfortunately, I can second this, both as a developer and a user. His IMHO childish behavior has ruined his image for me, and is not a good lighthouse for the Fediverse itself. Also, as a OSS veteran myself, I see it extremely critical that he is starting new projects all along, denies to get proper help and build up a maintainer team, and leaves older projects in the dust. Pixelfed is the one product he might should focus on, jet it feels like the platform is in maintenance only mode. Pixelfed is a wonderful addition to the Fediverse and deserves to be on good hands.

Maybe, and this is a very personal opinion, his product success and the Kickstarter campaign raising over 100k made him feel like he's better than everybody else. And one can see the effects.
by moontear | 2026-02-23 07:39:05+00:00
"how does Google figure out it happened" - no insider knowledge, but the calls Claw makes are very different than the regular IDE, so the calls and volume alone would be an indicator. Maybe Google has even updated their Antigravity IDEs to just include some other User Agent, that Claw auth does not have.

Everything just guesswork, but I don't think it is too hard to figure out whether it is Antigravity calling the APIs or any Claw.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-23 07:39:38+00:00
> Terms of Service that span multiple pages of legalese and require an attorney to parse, for something that is either 'free' or a few $ per month, and can result in loss of service across multiple product lines, AND has binding lopsided arbitration requirements, is not only draconian, it is unconscionable.

In the general case, I broadly agree, but in this specific case:

1. This wasn't a term buried 2/3rds in a 200 page document. It was a term that was so upfront and clear that everyone knew you weren't supposed to do it.

2. Even for the people who claim they didn't know, when doing the auth, the message specifically asks the user to authorise the antigravity application, not the OpenClaw application.

The argument that users did not know they were violating ToS, in this specific case, is pure BS.
by benreesman | 2026-02-23 07:39:55+00:00
If you read this and mount a credible objection that can't be addressed by tweaks to methodology, then I will leave the site forever.

But the asymmetry of the power of selective participation is tyrannical: you engage when you like, your silence is a moral victory by default, and I'm the senior community member by a lot.

https://github.com/b7r6/cassandra-dissertation

6 kids dead, not counting Suchir.

Engage constructively, substantial ly, and in public, or deal with my press releases.

The data shows black holes in comments and submissions that correlate with Altman. I ran it on myself to not fix anyone. There are other search parameters that are worse, it's open source, proven in lean4 to a growing degree, and you win by making an argument, not being an unclected apparatchik.
by rand846633 | 2026-02-23 07:40:30+00:00
I love 0 A.D., and I’m endlessly grateful to all the developers and volunteers who made it happen. Your dedication and skill deserve a monument — my genuine admiration.

I install it every few years, and it’s always a blast, somehow, and I do not know why I never do more than experiment with it..

Gameplay-wise, I find that Beyond All Reason is, as far as open-source RTS games go, a few orders of magnitude more fun and mature. I don’t think there’s any commercially available RTS that can compete with Beyond All Reason in terms of fun and performance.
by aix1 | 2026-02-23 07:41:05+00:00
> The talking improves almost automatically, without having to practice it.

My experience is the opposite of this. I listen to a lot of German and read a fair amount. As a result, my listening and reading comprehension got pretty good. My writing has also improved significantly. However, I find that this does not transfer well to speaking, which I need to practise separately in order to get better.
by farathshba | 2026-02-23 07:41:56+00:00
I’ve published a new issue of my DevSecOps‑focused security brief. This one is centered on control‑plane risk rather than just app CVEs:

Microsoft February 2026 Patch Tuesday: 6 in‑the‑wild zero‑days, 50+ vulnerabilities, heavy on elevation‑of‑privilege and security feature bypass (SmartScreen/MoTW, Office/OLE, MSHTML).

CVE‑2026‑1731 in BeyondTrust Remote Support / Privileged Remote Access: pre‑auth RCE on a privileged access gateway, now on CISA KEV and actively exploited.

Critical vulns in WordPress plugins and SmarterMail turning “just the blog/mail server” into a realistic pivot into internal systems.

How to wire SAST/SCA/DAST/IAST around these: KEV‑driven SLAs, treating remote support / RDS / WordPress / mail as first‑class AppSec surfaces.

Audience: DevSecOps, AppSec, and platform teams who care about pipelines, SLAs, and realistic attacker paths (not just theoretical bugs).
by renegat0x0 | 2026-02-23 07:42:06+00:00
I think as a society we miss some kind of 'laws', or 'rules' around accounts and banning.

I feel that sometimes corporations have all 3 montesquieu powers. Google can define eulas, decide if you should be punished, and apply a ban.

Can a shop decide who to serve? I may be wrong, but big tech should not be able to 'just close' accounts, or demonetize accounts on their whim.
by moontear | 2026-02-23 07:42:50+00:00
Time and time again it is shown to *not* use your main account for everything. This goes for Apple and having a separate account for development work, for the App Store and your main iCloud account but this also goes for all other SaaS providers.

You are doing groundbreaking new and untested stuff with Claw? Do not use your main account. You want to access your main account's data? Sure, allow it via OAUTH/whatever possible way.

Have separate accounts, people. You don't want one product groups decision in those large SaaS corps to impact everything else.
by ljf | 2026-02-23 07:43:16+00:00
I'd never make porridge with water at home - but in winter in the office I used to cover a 1/3 bowl of oats with boiling water and then microwave for just 30 seconds.

Once the oirriois cooked (it really should be already) add a teaspoon or two of salted butter to the middle and stir, then sugar to taste.

Suprisingly delicious, quick and repeatable.

I won a few people over who couldn't believe that porridge made with water would be any good, but it was a great winter staple, especially after cycling in, in the cold.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-23 07:43:18+00:00
> Service providers don't have the right to discriminate what their service is used for.

They frequently do have those rights, though. It's up to the paying customer to either pay for a different tier or move to a competitor who offers the tier they need.

You are never going to get a court to agree that service providers cannot offer different tiers, or segment their offerings.
by Jordan-117 | 2026-02-23 07:43:31+00:00
I could maybe see the worth of this if it was a $60k medical bill to save a dying cat. But even a successful clone will only be physically identical, not behaviorally. And it feels like the resemblance would just magnify all the differences.

I love cats and dogs dearly, so I don't say this lightly, but please just get a new cat (even the same breed!) and save the money for a worthier cause.
by dddgghhbbfblk | 2026-02-23 07:44:04+00:00
This website is under attack from relentless AI slop spam, both in submissions and in comments, and I have absolutely no idea what we can do about it. To me this stuff is an existential threat to a site like this.

I moderate a mid sized subreddit (few hundred thousand) and I ban AI spammers on sight with extreme prejudice, but I don't feel like that same attitude meshes well with HN.
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-23 07:44:13+00:00
> Making the model write a research file

Having LLMs write their prompt files was something that became a thing the moment prompt files became a thing.

> then the plan and iterate on it by editing the plan file, then adding the todo list, then doing the implementation, and doing all that in a single conversation (instead of clearing contexts).

That's literally what planning mode is.

Do yourself a favor and read the announcement of support for planning mode in Visual Studio. Visual Studio code supported it months before.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/introducing-plan...
by mpweiher | 2026-02-23 07:44:39+00:00
You are confusing "issues" with "lack of need" and "lack of benefit of proposed solution".

Again, I think the tech is cool, and I would actually really like to both better understand and try out the tech. But to try something out in earnest, I need some concrete use-case, and so far the use-cases I have seen range from "meh" to "get it away from me".

For agentic coding, I also needed some concrete use cases, and I found where it worked really well, where it struggles, and where it's just horrible.
60 Year old vibe coder create revenue SaaS with vibe agent and vibe testing tool
by Thorin_scout | 2026-02-23 07:45:53+00:00
We represent client who is a 60 year old father have troubles after working with Lovable. Here is what we found

We work for ScoutQA and we made this auto vibe testing agent using Amazon Bedrock with our friends and colleagues. I was wondering if anyone had the same pain points as some of our clients have reached out to us on. We're devs and QA people at heart and it's surprisingly hard for us to know what the community would want from a tool like ours. So we would like to share more about the trouble of old people making wordpress business and Lovable website. I'll post below one of the POV and quote from our client:

"I’m a 60 year old vibe coder, building SaaS only on Lovable and ScoutQA - it's never to late to learn new stuff"

I’m 60. I’ve been working as Project Manager in software testing for 40 years.

I still don’t write code though.

And I’m making my SaaS with basically two things:
Lovable to build + ScoutQA to test

No IDE. No CI pipeline. No walls of Git diffs. I think old age make it hard for me to learn new tool, but it a progress made for finally finish building something that shippable with quality

1. What I actually ship:
I use Lovable to build full products, not just MVPs:
- A contract management SaaS with paying customers
- An infra management platform (GG Workspace)

All of this, built without touching the generated code. The code lives in GitHub purely as a backup. If I open it, it mean nothing to me.

2. Before ScoutQA, my weak spot was back and forth stuck:
- Change one thing in Lovable -> Random flows break somewhere else
- Spend hours clicking through everything, still miss issues

Now my workflow with ScoutQA help me caught a real XSS vulnerability I didn’t know about. It organizes everything as projects/web apps, not repos. Kinda lets me think like a product person, not a developer

Manual testing is like hoping your web app would not broken after launch, but for automation test, I’m just clicking a button.

I build for about an hour most evenings. That’s it. No 12‑hour debug marathons.

That is the story of our client in their 60s base in UK, I hope you guys enjoy it and if possible, feel free to give out feedback and try our product. It basically a vibe testing website with no set up, just paste your URL and let Scout handle all the bug like SEO, Functional, Performance, Navigation, etc...ScoutQA is perfectly fit for vibe coder, web builder, solo dev and tester with little resource. The product is in beta free mode so you can run as many test as you like.

TL;DR: Our 60 years old client, who can’t read code, using Lovable + ScoutQA to ship stable, revenue SaaS products (his product is small scale with few customers so I hope pro dev would empathize with him about scaling). Automated vibe‑testing agent like ScoutQA can help you save less effort with manual grind and improve your credibility to customer with bug fix report
by Guestmodinfo | 2026-02-23 07:45:56+00:00
Mir titles is a feeling. It's nostalgia. It's childhood for many including me.
The books are excellent written by some of the finest of their times talking to the lowest highschool level student or even a child and making him or her understand fully what all is going on. Indians love Mir.

My favorite author is Landsberg. He is in Mir titles. He got defeated by our main man C V Raman by 2 weeks to publish the same research (independently) which got C V Raman the only Nobel Prize for India.