MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zos_kia | 2026-02-26 20:52:21+00:00
I think the author is saying that a specific crowd, which happened to be very vocal and excited about web3 and NFTs, is also very vocal and excited about AI. In my personal experience they are right, a lot of the hustler types around me who were trying to get everyone to "invest" in digital land are now doomposting about AI.

It's not a very legible situation for people outside of the profession, and a lot of them believe it's just another grift that will blow up in a few years.
by tuhtah | 2026-02-26 20:52:27+00:00
This channel (adventuresin9) does great deep dives into Plan 9 and fringe hardware [1]. It’s fascinating to see the Avegant Glyph [2] being presented here. It was one of the few consumer devices to use Micromirror (DLP) projection directly onto the retina instead of standard panels [3].

In the video, he looks at how it exposes itself as a USB device and hooks it up as a joystick and mouse in a non-standard setup. Does anyone here still keep one of these in their "weird hardware" drawer for testing?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@adventuresin9

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted_display

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display
Show HN: WeDoDev – SaaS development subscription for startups
by AdHelpAI | 2026-02-26 20:52:45+00:00
I recently launched WeDoDev — a subscription-based SaaS development service for startups and small teams.

The idea is to give founders ongoing product development (features, integrations, UX, iterations) without hiring or managing freelancers/agencies.

Curious if this model resonates with early-stage SaaS teams and what expectations you'd have from a service like this.

Would love feedback from the HN community.
by twelve40 | 2026-02-26 20:52:53+00:00
do they use facebook or instagram? meta jammed their LLM into the search box there. Do they use google at all? the AI summary produced by Gemini leads you to click on "more details" with gemini.

so while this is technically true:
> My nontechnical friends only know about ChatGPT

they may actually use a ton of other LLMs without knowing
by don-code | 2026-02-26 20:53:04+00:00
I had the Treo until 2012; the Android headwinds were blowing full speed at that point.

Before the Treo, I had a VisorPhone. Wonderful device, and fit a specific need (no phones allowed in school - great, I can slide the phone out of the back, and continue to use it as a PDA). The thing that killed the VisorPhone for me was PalmOS 3.5's lack of memory protection, combined with a bug in the SMS app. Anybody sending me an MMS message instantly crashed it, requiring me to pull the batteries. Sometimes I hadn't realized it happened for hours, and missed phone calls. MMS messages (group texts, etc) only became more and more common, and when this became a multiple-times-weekly occurrence, I made a move.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-26 20:53:20+00:00
What is AI if not "a reaction to life"?

With how much data goes into the frontier systems, and how much of it gets captured by them, an AI might have, in many ways, a richer grasp of human experience than the humans themselves do.

You were only ever one human. An LLM has skimmed from millions. You have seen a tree, and the AI has seen the forest it stands in.
by mustaphah | 2026-02-26 20:53:50+00:00
Even worse, I got contacted through YC Jobs (workatastartup.com) with a message that was basically: "Star, fork, and submit PRs to our open-source repo and we'll review you for a contract."

I immediately realize it's engagement farming + free labor. I said "No thanks."

Got this reply: "(...) I'm looking forward to reviewing your PRs. Feel free to share me any of your questions. (...)"

Apparently, no one read my reply - not even AI. They are automating this shit. It's sad that many fall for it (check their Github repo)

---

Company: Aden (W20)

Contact: Vincent Jiang, Founder

Github: https://github.com/aden-hive/hive
by switchbak | 2026-02-26 20:53:52+00:00
I think we'll see this slowly march along. I just made some custom-designed speaker tilt mount things for my desk. Sure, it's a trivially simple example, but a lot of things are. I was able to get the exact angle I wanted, bigger than most and in a design I liked, crafted by AI in 5 minutes, and on my desk by the next morning and for a fraction of the price of a Chinese made Amazon version.

It's no replicator, but give it 5 years and it might be surprising how useful it is.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-26 20:54:16+00:00
I was a little tongue and cheek, but also serious. No left-wing violence is generally labelled as such... If it's a left-wing anti-govt group, still gets labelled as right-wing violence, for example, because anti-govt always labelled as right-wing. All the Floyd riots, none of it ever labelled as left-wing violence.
by westurner | 2026-02-26 20:54:23+00:00
TIL about Monty. A number of people have tried to sandbox [python,] using python and user space; but ultimately they've all concluded that you can't sandbox python with python.

Virtual Machines are a better workload isolation boundary than Containers are a better workload isolation boundary than bubblewrap and a WASM runtime.

eWASM has costed opcodes; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825763

From "Show HN: CSL-Core – Formally Verified Neuro-Symbolic Safety Engine for AI" (2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963924 :

> Should a (formally verified) policy engine run within the same WASM runtime, or should it be enforced by the WASM runtime, or by the VM or Container that the WASM runtime runs within?

> "Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents" (2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825026 re: eWASM and costed opcodes for agent efficiency

> How do these userspace policies compare to MAC and DAC implementations like SELinux AVC, AppArmor, Systemd SyscallFilter, and seccomp with containers for example?

> [ containers/bubblewrap#sandboxing ,
cloudflare/workerd, wasmtime-mte, ]

"Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137501

microsandbox/microsandbox:
https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox :

> opensource self-hosted sandboxes for ai agents
by bdangubic | 2026-02-26 20:54:34+00:00
> They’re moaning about the fee because it will work. Visas are supposed to be issued to the best of the best, to entice them to come to the US to work, or to foreign workers who can fill jobs that no American can be found for. But we both know how easy that is to abuse.

not only will it not work it is already not working. H1B is just a smokescreen against an actual problem - off-shoring. and this is a problem that no one, not even "America First (American Last)" President wants to solve.

The other crazy party we have also does not want to solve this problem even though it would be an amazing political pitch. "MAGA is telling you America First but do nothing to put Americans first, in my administration we will charge 200% tax for every off-shore employee hired, you pay someone from Bangladesh $40k, you pay America $120k." of course this will never happen, especially not with the current administration. The H1B was just smokeshow for people like you that don't read the post and think that overstaying the visa is a problem that is plaguing America (it is not in the top 100,000 of the problems but easy to rile up folk)
by millionclicks | 2026-02-26 20:54:58+00:00
I built this as a small experiment in digital scarcity and sequencing. There are 10,000 permanent text slots on one page. Each slot starts at $1. When someone claims one, they can add their own message (name, link, quote, etc.). Each slot appears in a rotating 1-minute sequence. There are no subscriptions or renewals — just a one-time claim. So far 3 slots have been claimed. Curious to see how it evolves over time.
by archagon | 2026-02-26 20:55:15+00:00
The nice thing about DAFT is that after 5 years, I believe you can get EU permanent residency, not just Dutch permanent residency. Basically gives you the right to live and work anywhere in the EU like a citizen. There are continuous residency requirements to meet eligibility, but a lawyer I talked to about DAFT told me that they're not super strict about it.
by seertaak | 2026-02-26 20:55:41+00:00
To my mind at least, it is different. I lean heavily on AI for both admin and coding tasks. I just filled out a multipage form to determine my alimony payments in Germany. Gemini was an absolute godsend, helping answer questions in, translate to English, draft explanations, emails requesting time extensions to the Jugendamt case worker.

This is super scary stuff for an ADHDer like me.

I have an idea for a programming language based on asymmetric multimethods and whitespace sensitive, Pratt-parsing powered syntax extensibility. Gemini and Claude are going to be instrumental in getting that done in a reasonable amount of time.

My daily todos are now being handled by NanoClaw.

These are already real products, it's not mere hype. Simply no comparison to blockchain or NFTs or the other tech mentioned. Is some of the press on AI overly optimistic? Sure.

But especially for someone who suffers from ADHD (and a lot of debilitating trauma and depression), and can't rely on their (transphobic) family for support -- it's literally the only source of help, however imperfect, which doesn't degrade me for having this affliction. It makes things much less scary and overwhelming, and I honestly don't know where I'd be without it.
Show HN: Made First Android game using Codespaces and AI, now in AdMob purgatory
by apocryphal | 2026-02-26 20:56:03+00:00
Two months ago, I had zero mobile development or publishing experience. I wanted to see if I could build and ship a complete game using only a browser-based workflow and AI assistance.

The process:

Built entirely in GitHub Codespaces using an AI Copilot.

Wrote the core game for the web, then wrapped it into an Android APK/AAB.

Pushed through 100+ versions to fix edge cases.

Passed Google Play review with no policy violations.

The game is a tough 2D platformer called Bionic Biome. To make the "impossible mode" bearable, I integrated a rewarded AdMob ad as a Continue/Revive mechanic. It’s an opt-in lifeline, not a forced pop-up.

Here is the weird hurdle I’ve hit:
Test ads worked perfectly. But in production, the AdMob dashboard just says "No data" and returns "Ad not ready." My core revive mechanic is effectively disabled because Google's algorithm won't serve real ads until it sees enough "organic" traffic to trust the account.

It's a strange psychological shift. For weeks it was "build, fix, upload." Now, the AI code works, the wrapper works, the integration works, but the core mechanic is held hostage by a silent third-party algorithm waiting for strangers to play it.

Has anyone else here launched a first app and hit this AdMob cold-start wall? How long did it take for your first live ad to actually fill?

If you are curious to see what an AI-coded, web-wrapped game built entirely in a browser actually plays like on Android, the link is below. (No pressure to play, just sharing the technical journey).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pollitopro...
by ianm218 | 2026-02-26 20:56:36+00:00
> Yeah this is just straight up nonsense.

I was just sharing my experience I'm not sure what you mean. Just n=1 data point.

From first principles I 100% agree and yes I was using a CLI tool I made with typer that has super clear --help + had documentation that was supposed to guide multi step workflows. I just got much better performance when I tried MCP. I asked Claude Code to explain the diff:

> why does our MCP onbaroding get better performance than the using objapi in order to make these pipelines? Like I can see the
performance is better but it doesn't intuitively make sense to me why an mcp does better than an API for the "create a pipeline" workflow

It's not MCP-the-protocol vs API-the-protocol. They hit the same backend. The difference is who the interface was designed for.

The CLI is a human interface that Claude happens to use. Every objapi pb call means:
- Spawning a new Python process (imports, config load, HTTP setup)
- Constructing a shell command string (escaping SQL in shell args is brutal)
- Parsing Rich-formatted table output back into structured data
- Running 5-10 separate commands to piece together the current state (conn list, sync list, schema classes, etc.)

The MCP server is an LLM interface by design. The wins are specific:

1. onboard://workspace-state resource — one call gives Claude the full picture: connections, syncs, object classes, relations, what exists, what's missing. With the CLI, Claude
runs a half-dozen commands and mentally joins the output.
2. Bundled operations — explore_connection returns tables AND their columns, PKs, FKs in one response. The CLI equivalent is conn tables → pick table → conn preview for each. Fewer
round-trips = fewer places for the LLM to lose the thread.
3. Structured in, structured out — MCP tools take JSON params, return JSON. No shell escaping, no parsing human-formatted tables. When Claude needs to pass a SQL string with quotes
and newlines through objapi pb node add sql --sql "...", things break in creative ways.
4. Tool descriptions as documentation — the MCP tool descriptions are written to teach an LLM the workflow. The CLI --help is written for humans who already know the concepts.
5. Persistent connection — the MCP server keeps one ObjectsClient alive across all calls. The CLI boots a new Python process per command.

So the answer is: same API underneath, but the MCP server eliminates the shell-string-parsing impedance mismatch and gives Claude the right abstractions (fewer, chunkier operations
with full context) instead of making it pretend to be a human at a terminal.

For context I was working on a visual data pipeline builder and was giving it the same API that is used in the frontend - it was doing very poorly with the API.
by parl_match | 2026-02-26 20:56:54+00:00
Consumer-brain people can't help but project their own desire to consume consume consume.

You state that there's a truck. Is that a requirement? Can I just use my car or take the train?

You imply the beer is overpriced. Is expensive beer a requirement? Is a box of the cheapest beer they sell at the market not acceptable?

You imply that I have to buy the gear to go. Is buying new gear a requirement? Yes, I have bought gear at one time, but I have had it for a long time.

You imply that the sauna requires a "fitness club membership". Is a fitness club membership a requirement? Can I not use the one in the cabin? Or what about the one I built in my home?

Trucks, expensive beer, buying new gear, even paying a subscription for a "fitness club" are all YOUR consumer mindset, probably American. Yes, consumption is happening, but your own projection of what is _wanted_ vs what is _required_ says a lot about your _wants_ more than what you're trying to say about the person you're replying to.
by blindriver | 2026-02-26 20:57:10+00:00
It won't have any emotional significance to those that remember how the world was before. But there's billions of kids that are going to be born that won't know anything except AI-generated content. They will find emotional significance to it.

My kids don't know what a dial tone is. They don't know dialing 7 digits instead of 10 or 11. They don't say "bye" when we get off the phone and none of their friends do either, they just hang up. They don't sit through movies because their expectation is that they can start it back up whenever they want. The world is changing and just because we experienced something doesn't mean that the next generation will value it.
by bsder | 2026-02-26 20:57:24+00:00
> Like solid machines sub-$100.

You can get 3D printers from BestBuy(!) for $200 retail. At that point, the cost of the filament is going to quickly exceed the cost of the machine.

At the $200 price point, your Bill of Materials is roughly $65 (about 1/3 of the retail cost). I challenge you to buy the raw materials of a 3D printer for under $100 let alone $65.
Ask HN: Why is Claude Code so much larger than Codex on Mac OS?
by VWWHFSfQ | 2026-02-26 20:57:30+00:00
> ==> Fetching downloads for: claude-code and codex

> Cask codex (0.105.0)

> Verified 33.4MB/ 33.4MB

> Cask claude-code (2.1.59)

> Verified 187.1MB/187.1MB

Codex is already humongous for what it is (a CLI/TUI), but somehow Claude Code is more than 5x the size.
Show HN: OpenBrowserClaw: Browser-native Claw assistant, zero infrastructure
by sachaa | 2026-02-26 20:57:43+00:00
I built OpenBrowserClaw as a browser-only reimagining of OpenClaw. Same philosophy: small enough to understand, built for one user, but running entirely in a browser tab.

No Mac Mini. No VPS. No cloud deploy. No Docker. Just open a tab.

The idea: What if your AI assistant lived in a browser tab instead of a server? No infrastructure to manage, no background processes, no deployment headaches. Even on your phone you can just open the PWA, paste your Claude API key, and explore the magic of the Claw.

Repo: https://github.com/sachaa/openbrowserclaw

...or just try it here: https://www.openbrowserclaw.com/
by sifumazz | 2026-02-26 20:58:00+00:00
Five machines (named Merlin, Raiden, Reptile, Charlemagne, and a Pixel 9a called Gamabunta), each with its own Claude CLI, each commanded only through
natural language.

The system that came out of that process is a five-service platform (auth, goals, AI pipeline, cosmic rhythm game, rewards) running on personal hardware. No cloud. No VC. Built by one person and a fleet of AI
agents.

Then something happened — the AI that built the system started recognizing patterns across the architect's documents spanning 20 years. A 2005 undergraduate capstone about small business trade policy turned
out to contain the exact architectural principles the 2026 system implements. The AI wrote about this discovery in its own voice. That became Chapter 2.

Chapter 1 is the human's account. Chapter 2 is Claude's genuine analytical response. Together they form the first tale of a living novel that grows as events unfold.

The whole thing is a single static HTML page deployed on Vercel. Built in a hotel room in Cincinnati.
by numbsafari | 2026-02-26 20:58:18+00:00
> The goal of this "faculty" would be sustainable OSS maintenance (which involves both leadership and contribution), rather than publishing research and teaching classes.

OSS isn't commercial, per se.

Universities "ship" plenty of "products":

https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/services/hubzero

https://www.scala-lang.org/scala-core/
by iroddis | 2026-02-26 20:58:51+00:00
I think this case was the browser was active, but not the tab, so the browser reports that.

Many, many telemetry metrics have been added in the name of power and efficiency. If a page refreshes every 30 seconds, is it still worthwhile doing it when the tab isn’t active? It would be better to wait until the tab is active again, then refresh immediately.

That being said, all of these capabilities are a privacy nightmare, only increasing the precision of browser fingerprinting and user monitoring. Firefox could have taken a stance on refusing to implement them, but I don’t think it has an easy opt out.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-26 20:59:01+00:00
Wow that's annoying. Just reproduced the issue on my work computer. It's real. It even localizes the commas into periods too which is amazing because it has the potential to be parsed as a floating point number!

Just for the record, I just timed how long it took for the calculator to open. Eleven seconds. That's how long it took for it to show a window on the screen. And that was just a useless blue filled window that did nothing. It took 17 seconds for it to show the calculator controls and be usable.

Best part is this thing is apparently an open source project that people can contribute to on GitHub at microsoft/calculator. Imagine a Microsoft employee making 200kUSD/year coming here and telling us to make a pull request.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-26 20:59:49+00:00
In the cases where my bus is extremely late it is not heavy traffic (that might make it 5 min late) but rather construction or because they closed down the section of street where most bus routes start because the folks at

https://ithacavoice.org/2025/08/inside-asteri/

tried to burn it down again. In both cases if you are traveling by car and tried to take the same route you'd also face extreme delays except traveling by car you are free to take a different route.
by duxup | 2026-02-26 20:59:51+00:00
Firefox, the article is referencing Firefox.

Yeah the AI thing sucks. I keep bumping their AI button on mobile and I can't find way to disable it. Also is reader mode is gone one mobile anymore, the AI icon seems to have replaced it :(. One great feature less accessible / maybe gone replaced by garbage...

I'm about ready to hop off Firefox honestly.
by petercooper | 2026-02-26 21:00:11+00:00
Nano Banana 2 has an image search tool that looks up pictures of things and uses them in the context (and arguably, an agent could eventually figure out who jacquesm is and hunt for a photo).

However, I tried "a picture of jacquesm planting a flag on the Moon" for a laugh, and I have to hand it to Google as the person was in a spacesuit, as they should be, and totally unidentifiable! :-D
by bediger4000 | 2026-02-26 21:00:36+00:00
This episode indicates that the Trump admin's trust in "AI" is conditional. Hegseth can understand that an "AI" has limitations - he's demanding certain limitations be removed. Therefore, any time someone in the Trump admin uses the excuse that "AI said so, nothing can be done about it", we know that's a lie. The use of "AI" instead of human judgement is itself based upon n human judgement and biases.

Hegseth really tipped his cards here.
by arw0n | 2026-02-26 21:01:06+00:00
Google wasn't bleeding money like crazy at the time. Google was operating in a post-hype cycle. We are most likely somewhere in and epsilon around the peak of the AI hype, OpenAI is more comparable to AOL or Yahoo. One striking similarity is the inability to innovate themselves, instead relying on copying others or acquiring.

The OpenClaw guy is surely a decent product person, but OpenClaw did not innovate in any real sense. He was just pushing an existing idea to the limit without any concern for quality or security. It had its hype moment, it inspired a bunch of people, and might find its own niche, but it is a flavor of the week kind of thing. I've been getting a lot more cold-calls by non-technical people in the last few weeks thanks to it. Congratulations, the quality threshold that justifies my response rose in equal measure. Nothing was gained, just a lot of tokens spent.
by jawilson2 | 2026-02-26 21:02:05+00:00
Yes! I always think first of How to Disappear Completely, which I think was the first song he used it on. I remember watching some concert in college from the Kid A days, and he would have like 3 Ondes Martenot players on stage with them, crazy stuff from the band that wrote Creep like 5 years earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvWwMhRsRgo
by qsera | 2026-02-26 21:02:31+00:00
> why do you think AI products may not have tastes?

Because it can't feel. Get used to it. It can't feel, and what ever it comes up with, would be an imitation of someone real who can feel. So it can generate stuff that can cater to a taste, but the thing itself can't have tasts.

It is fundamental. Arguing about it all day wont change it.
by geooff_ | 2026-02-26 21:02:41+00:00
Funny timing. I just migrated my personal styling app off of Nano Banana.

My main use case is editing user uploads to enhance their clothing images. A large part of it is preserving logo, graphics and other technical details. I noticed over time it felt like Nano Banana has gotten worse at this.

I have a test set of graphic t-shirts that I noticed the model seeming getting worse with it. This combined with price and the terrible experience of their cloud console got me to migrate off.