MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vsgherzi | 2026-02-20 22:38:22+00:00
The blocking of VPNs is despicable. I love mullvad but hate that most sites block mullvad ips until i get lucky with one of the relays. Either way love what they do and hope they win. The forced demonetization of users is ridiculous. This will be looked back on just as the cryptography was when it was deemed a munition and banned from export.
by culi | 2026-02-20 22:38:41+00:00
Mistral is cool and I wish them success but it consistently ranks extremely low on benchmarks while still being expensive. Chinese models like DeepSeek might rank almost as low as Mistral but they are significantly cheaper. And Kimi is the best of both worlds with incredible benchmark results while still being incredibly cheap

I know things change rapidly so I'm not counting them out quite yet but I don't see them as a serious contender currently
by BoxFour | 2026-02-20 22:38:43+00:00
This strikes me as a pretty weak rationalization for "safe" always-on assistants. Even if the model runs locally, there’s still a serious privacy issue: Unwitting victims of something recording everything they said.

Friends at your house who value their privacy probably won’t feel great knowing you’ve potentially got a transcript of things they said just because they were in the room. Sure, it's still better than also sending everything up to OpenAI, but that doesn’t make it harmless or less creepy.

Unless you’ve got super-reliable speaker diarization and can truly ensure only opted-in voices are processed, it’s hard to see how any always-listening setup ever sits well with people who value their privacy.
by tartoran | 2026-02-20 22:38:53+00:00
You're saying that my eyes straining going away from reduced blue light is placebo? I can feel it right away and it gets worse in minutes, time and time again. As soon as I remove blue light the strain is gone. Honestly, I don't care what other people have to say, to me it's obvious that it helps and I stick to it. Again, I don't think this is universal and it may not help you if you don't notice immediate improvement.
by edent | 2026-02-20 22:38:58+00:00
My bank sends me an alert when my card is used to make a transaction - handy for spotting fraud.

I get an alert when a payment comes it - handy for knowing if a client has paid.

I can quickly check my balance - handy for knowing if I can afford another round of drinks.

I can repay a friend in two taps - handy if they've paid for dinner.

Is anything essential? No. Is it something people use multiple times per day? Yes!
by sowbug | 2026-02-20 22:39:00+00:00
Yes, I think that's the starting point. Another part of my question was whether a CPA applying GAAP would recommend recognizing the $2 as other income, or else as a liability against a future claim from the customer who bought the widget and is now seeking a partial refund.

I did what passes for research these days and concluded that if the claim is "probable and estimable," then it could be recorded as a "contingent liability" rather than other income. Relevant facts would include whether the tariff refund included a pass-through refund mandate (unlikely with this administration), or whether class actions for refunds against merchants were pending (inevitable).
by Hermes_dev | 2026-02-20 22:39:29+00:00
Hi HN,

Hallucinations remain the single biggest bottleneck for moving LLM applications from "cool demo" to "reliable production." Whether it’s a RAG pipeline inventing
citations or an autonomous agent fabricating data, the lack of a reliable "truth layer" is costing companies billions in trust and market cap.

I’m sharing HalluciGuard, an open-source middleware layer (AGPLv3) designed to act as a security and reliability buffer between LLM providers and your end-users.

GitHub: https://github.com/Hermes-Lekkas/HalluciGuard (https://github.com/Hermes-Lekkas/HalluciGuard)

How it works
Instead of just hoping the model is right, HalluciGuard intercepts the LLM response and runs it through a multi-signal verification pipeline:

1. Factual Claim Extraction: It uses lightweight LLMs to break down a response into discrete, verifiable factual claims.
2. Multi-Signal Scoring: It evaluates each claim using four distinct signals:
* Self-Consistency: LLM-as-a-judge verification.
* Linguistic Heuristics: Detecting "uncertainty language" and high-risk patterns.
* RAG Cross-Reference: Verifying claims directly against your retrieved documents.
* Web Verification: Optionally pulling real-time snippets from search engines (like Tavily).
3. Risk Flagging: It returns a comprehensive GuardedResponse with an overall "Trust Score" and flags specific claims as SAFE, MEDIUM, or CRITICAL risk.

Key Features
* Provider Agnostic: Native support for OpenAI (GPT-5.x), Anthropic (Claude 4.6), Google (Gemini 3.1), and local models via Ollama.
* OpenClaw Integration: We’ve built a native interceptor for the OpenClaw agent framework, allowing you to monitor agent actions and thoughts in real-time.
* Streaming Support: Performs analysis asynchronously so you don't lose the "real-time" feel of streaming responses.
* Cost-Optimization Cache: We cache verification results locally to reduce your API bills by avoiding redundant checks for common facts.
* LangChain Ready: Includes a drop-in CallbackHandler for existing LangChain projects.

Why AGPLv3?
We believe the "Truth Layer" of the AI stack should be owned by the community, not hidden behind a proprietary corporate API.

What’s Next?
We are currently working on "Lookahead Verification" (v0.9), which will attempt to auto-correct hallucinations during the token generation phase before the user
ever sees them.

I'd love to get the community's feedback on our scoring heuristics and hear about the edge cases you're seeing in production.

Happy to answer any technical questions about the architecture or the benchmark results we've seen so far!
by Aurornis | 2026-02-20 22:40:10+00:00
> And I don't just mean that nobody uses it anymore. Like, I knew everyone under 50 had moved on

It will probably surprise a lot of people to learn that this isn't true.

A higher percentage of 30-49 year olds report using Facebook than in 50+ age groups

The bias toward younger generations is even higher when you include Instagram

One source https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/social-media...

I think many in the Hacker News bubble stopped using it and assume everyone else did, too. It's not too surprising when you read articles like this that paint a completely different picture of the platform than what your friends and family are actually seeing when they use it, as evidenced by the multitude of reports in this comment section from people whose family and friends are still getting value out of the site.
by hsuduebc2 | 2026-02-20 22:40:17+00:00
"Europe" is a continent made up of independent nation states. Each of those nations has chosen to have its own rules about what is and is not legal, which is the right of every country. Those nation states want companies operating within their territory to follow their rules. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, it is up to each individual country.

At the same time, I do not understand how what you wrote is in any way relevant to the topic.
by TrackerFF | 2026-02-20 22:40:28+00:00
Yeah, this is a major FB trap.

If you interact in any way with propaganda accounts, even just look too long at the posts when they first randomly pop up, they've target locked you.

I'm a liberal dude. 90% of the political content I get on both FB and Insta is far-right propaganda, sprinkled in with some typical brocasters.

No amount of "Not interested" will make it go away, either.
by hendricius | 2026-02-20 22:40:43+00:00
I had the exact same frustrations. Bilingual user(German/English), and the keyboard situation with multiple languages is even worse than what you describe.

Your post actually inspired me to stop complaining and try to fix it myself. I built an iOS keyboard that uses AI to handle the parts Apple refuses to get right. You speak or type roughly what you want to say, pick a tone or language, and it outputs clean text. The translation + tone combo alone saved me from switching to Android.

It's called Cerebro, currently in TestFlight if anyone wants to try it: https://cerebro-keyboard.app

Not trying to plug my thing here, genuinely just wanted to say: your countdown resonated with a lot of us. Some of us just dealt with it differently.
by BoiledCabbage | 2026-02-20 22:40:46+00:00
After reading that link, that seems extremely likely to me.

If true, it could/would mean that someone tried to take archive.today offline recently by planting CSAM and trying to get them shut down. And after that failed, now are trying getting them to DDOS to get them shut down.

Otherwise to me, none of this makes sense to me.

The timing, especially after reading that prior article seems very suspicious.

Again all I can do is speculate with the above, I have no factual knowledge - but at least to me, that makes sense.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-20 22:40:58+00:00
I am not sure, whether you are trying to get at something specific, but will interpret the question in good faith:

A classical password manager reads an encrypted database. In theory, you could upload your password database (usually just one file) anywhere, and wouldn't need to worry, assuming, that you chose a sufficiently long password for decryption, and assuming, that the encryption does not have weaknesses, which would allow an attacker to decrypt it without the password. In practice, of course you still wouldn't upload your password file to a public place, to reduce risks in the future. But anyway, the idea is, that only you know the master password for the encrypted database and so no one else can read your passwords.
by paxys | 2026-02-20 22:41:03+00:00
This spiel is hilarious in context of the product this company is pushing - an always on, always listening AI device that inserts itself into your and your family’s private lives.

“Oh but they are offline-only…”

Okay, but that doesn't mean every aspect of our lives needs to be recorded and analyzed by an AI.

Are you okay with private and intimate conversations and moments (including of underage family members) being saved for replaying later?

Have all your guests consented to this?

What happens when someone breaks in and steals the box?

What if the government wants to take a look at the data in there and serves a warrant?

What if a large company comes knocking and makes then an acquistion offer? Will all the privacy guarantees stand in front of the $$$ ?
by SmirkingRevenge | 2026-02-20 22:42:22+00:00
You can just ban imports from people who use sweatshops, or hash that out in trade agreements.

Because Trump is so fixated on tariffs, it's centered tariffs in too many conversations on these trade topics. People have developed a kind of tunnel vision here.

There are other kinds of policy levers besides tariffs for securing supply chains, promoting domestic manufacturers, or cutting out businesses that rely on slave labor from international trade. Most of them are cheaper and more effective than tariffs.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-20 22:42:36+00:00
That quote jumped out at me for a different reason... it's simply a falsehood. Claude code is built with an LLM which is a pattern-matching machine. While human researchers undoubtedly do some pattern matching, they also do a whole hell of a lot more than that. It's a ridiculous claim that their tool "reasons about your code the way a human would" because it's clearly wrong--we are not in fact running LLMs in our heads.

If this thing actually does something interesting, they're doing their best to hide that fact behind a steaming curtain of bullshit.
by majormajor | 2026-02-20 22:42:41+00:00
> 2 - Dario and Dwarkesh were openly chatting about how the total addressable market (TAM) for AI is the entirety of human labor market (i.e. your wage). First is the replacement of white-collar labor, then blue-collar labor once robotics is solved. On the road to AGI, your employment, and the ability to feed your family, is a minor nuisance. The value of your mental labor will continue to plummet in the coming years.

Seems like a TAM of near-0. Who's buying any of the product of that labor anymore? 1% of today's consumer base that has enough wealth to not have to work?

The end-game of "optimize away all costs until we get to keep all the revenue" approaches "no revenue." Circulation is key.

It seems like they have the same blind spot as anyone else: AI will disrupt everything—except for them, and they get that big TAM! Same for all the "entrepreneurs will be able to spin up tons of companies to solve problems for people more directly" takes. No they wouldn't, people would just have the problems solved for themselves by the AI, and ignore your sales call.
Show HN: CH-UI v2 – ClickHouse workspace in a single binary (Go and Svelte)
by caioricciuti | 2026-02-20 22:42:47+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been building CH-UI, an open-source ClickHouse workspace. Today I'm releasing v2, which is a complete rewrite from scratch.

v1 was a React SPA served via Docker. v2 is a single Go binary with an embedded Svelte frontend — download, run, open browser. No Docker, no Node, no runtime dependencies.

What it does:

- Multi-tab SQL editor with autocomplete
- Database/table explorer with data preview
- Saved queries
- Tunnel architecture: run `ch-ui server` on one machine and `ch-ui connect` next to your ClickHouse — secure WebSocket tunnel, no VPN needed
- Self-update (`ch-ui update`), OS service install (`ch-ui service install`)

Pro edition adds dashboards, scheduled jobs, AI assistant (BYO provider), governance (lineage, access matrix, policies), and alerting.

Core is Apache 2.0. Pro uses a signed license model (Ed25519).

Stack: Go 1.24, Svelte 5, SQLite (embedded state), Chi router, WebSocket tunnels.

GitHub: https://github.com/caioricciuti/ch-ui
Install: `curl -fsSL https://ch-ui.com/install.sh | sh`

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, the tunnel model, or the open-core licensing approach.
by rainsford | 2026-02-20 22:43:09+00:00
Not a lawyer, but I found the majority opinion's position on "regulate" much more compelling than the dissent. In particular, the majority's argument that "regulate" is a pretty common function of the executive branch that in no other context implies the authority to tax (tariff), which is a pretty clear Article I power. The majority also convincingly argued that it seems unreasonable to interpret a law to broadly delegate Congressional power to the Executive branch without Congress making that intent explicit in the law. The dissent not only didn't make good counter arguments even read by themselves, but the majority opinion did a pretty good job refuting those arguments specifically.
by orwin | 2026-02-20 22:43:09+00:00
It's not the same purpose. Ansible is useful to configure your IAC, terraform to deploy and handle the state, which is very useful when you have multiple teams working on the same infrastructure.

What you can do if you _really_ like ansible is to use it to generate the terraform files (typically from Jinja2 template). In practice, i think Terragrunt is easier to use if you already have terraform modules. But if i was back at my first "real" job, where we had between 50 and 80 ansible modules (very short ones, it was really good, i've never saw an infrastructure that complex handled that concisely and easily), and if we had to use terraform, i would use ansible to generate terraform files 100%.
by ribosometronome | 2026-02-20 22:43:10+00:00
People say a lot, especially when it benefits them in the moment to tell people what they want to hear.

"I guarantee that you won't need to log into your Facebook account every time you wanna use the Oculus Rift." — Palmer Luckey (2014)

"No advertising coming onto Netflix. Period." — Reed Hastings, Netflix co-CEO (2019)

"Read my lips: no new taxes." — George H.W. Bush (1988 Republican National Convention)

"I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." — Franklin D. Roosevelt (October 1940 Campaign Speech)

"If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." - President Barack Obama (June 15, 2009, AMA Speech)

"I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them." — Donald Trump (July 5, 2024)
by numpad0 | 2026-02-20 22:43:19+00:00
It's just that pilots have no capacity left to be fluent in every languages everywhere. You don't avoid ambiguity speaking in the second language in a critical situation, you just incur significant responsiveness plus bandwidth penalty.

There are few recordings of aircraft emergencies over Japan on YouTube. Two obvious things in those recordings are that local pilots drop pretense of speaking Engurish in almost any non-normal conditions, and that local ATCs are dangerously useless outside of normal conditions. There's nothing visibly helpful from using English in there.
by dijit | 2026-02-20 22:43:35+00:00
Only bitwarden (no ad-blockers or anything).

https://sh.drk.sc/~dijit/hn_tab_extensions.png

EDIT: Looking into it, seems the tab memory viewer is only looking at the page and does not take extensions into account; if the extensions inject JS/Style to the page then it counts, and Bitwarden seems to only add a small amount of JS to find password dialogues. It uses memory, but outside of the tab viewer.
by themafia | 2026-02-20 22:43:46+00:00
They're not a rulemaking agency. They're very tightly bound by an entire dedicated section of the US Title Code.

More importantly licensees pledge to serve their _local_ communities and maintain _local_ standards. That's the entire well documented point of the license system. As such the FCC has very little actual authority over stations outside of general technical requirements of the radio broadcast itself and no authority over content unless prompted by local complaints.
by robszumski | 2026-02-20 22:43:52+00:00
We’ve built a modern dependabot (or works with it) agent: fossabot analyzes your app code to know how you use your dependencies then delivers a custom safe/needs review verdict per upgrade or packages groups of safe upgrades together to make more strategic jumps. We can also fix breaking changes because the agents context is so complete.

https://fossa.com/products/fossabot/

We have some of the best JS/TS analysis out there based on a custom static analysis engine designed for this use-case. You get free credits each month and we’d love feedback on which ecosystems are next…Java, Python?

Totally agree with the author that static analysis like govulncheck is the secret weapon to success with this problem! Dynamic languages are just much harder.

We have a really cool eval framework as well that we’ve blogged about.
by wolrah | 2026-02-20 22:43:55+00:00
That assumes that demand is meaningfully elastic, that suppliers have room in their margins to absorb it, and that they're willing to. That is obviously not the case for a lot of things.

Products with inelastic or less elastic demand we can skip over because it's pretty self explanatory.

Products like the random cheap widgets a lot of us would buy from random Chinese sellers are often high volume low margin products with a lot of competition. Think about stuff like a USB->TTL serial board that's basically two connectors, one cloned chip, and a few supporting components on a single layer PCB. Hypothetically this is an ideal case for free market economics and these things should have already been basically as cheap as they can be at every step in the chain.

For less competitive items, particularly lower volume specialty items, a vendor may also decide that it's just not worth sacrificing profits in other markets by letting them know there's room to come down. A lot of the independent hardware designers I've been wanting to buy things from sell out every batch one way or another so they just don't care, demand exceeds supply even if demand from the US is reduced. Others have decided the volatility of the situation just isn't worth it with the risk of products getting delayed or additional charges added resulting in chargebacks and lost products and have simply stopped selling to the US altogether.
by underlipton | 2026-02-20 22:44:09+00:00
I've been convinced for some time that access to some resource component that determines the quality of search/AI results is divvied up likewise. Why waste resources on users who have no audience or influence? If they're frustrated, who cares? Instead, identify the people who people already listen to, and make sure their experience with the platform is optimal. Even if the service is horrible for the vast majority of users, the gatekeepers and tastemakers will insist that they're just imagining things.
by ajuhasz | 2026-02-20 22:44:27+00:00
We give an overview of our the current memory architecture at https://juno-labs.com/blogs/building-memory-for-an-always-on...

This is something we call out under the "What we got wrong" section. We're currently collecting an audio dataset that should help create a speech-to-text (STT) model that incorporates speaker identification and that tag will be weaved into the core of the memory architecture.

> The shared household memory pool creates privacy situations we’re still working through. The current design has everyone in the family shares the same memory corpus. Should a child be able to see a memory their parents created? Our current answer is to deliberately tune the memory extraction to be household-wide with no per-person scoping because a kitchen device hears everyone equally. But “deliberately chose” doesn’t mean “solved.” We’re hoping our in-house STT will allow us to do per-person memory tagging and then we can experiment with scoping memories to certain people or groups of people in the household.
Show HN: Super Launch – A platform for you to get discovered and grow traffic
by yuni_aigc | 2026-02-20 22:44:39+00:00
I've been launching side projects for a while and realized that after the initial Product Hunt spike, there's not many places to get consistent visibility. So I built Super Launch — a curated directory where indie developers can list their startups and keep getting discovered.

Here's what it offers:

Submit your product and reach thousands of potential users looking for new tools
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Analytics dashboard — track views, clicks, and engagement for your listings
It also automatically imports trending products from Product Hunt daily, so there's always fresh stuff to discover. Categories cover AI tools, SaaS, open source, affiliate programs, and more.

Would love feedback from fellow indie hackers. What features would make this more useful for you?

https://super-launch.app
by tracker1 | 2026-02-20 22:44:55+00:00
I kind of wish Dependabot was just another tab you can see when you have contributor access for a repository. The emails are annoying and I mostly filter, but I also don't want a bunch of stale PRs sitting around either... I mean it's useful, but would prefer if it was limited to just the instances where I want to work on these kinds of issues for a couple hours across a few repositories.
by reenorap | 2026-02-20 22:45:42+00:00
The entire blue light madness is based on a poor study where N was around 8. And the difference in sleep was something like 15 mins. The entire study was based on crap but somehow the entire world has run rampant on the idea that blue light has this profound effect. It just goes to show that bad science is easily propagated, even when there's even more sources of information.