MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rrader30 | 2026-02-17 16:45:46+00:00
Hey HN! Ryan here, solo founder of ThinkFleet.

I built this over the past couple months, because I was tired of AI that just "talks about" work. I wanted AI that actually does things.

*What ThinkFleet does:*

• Connects to 800+ services via OAuth (Slack, GitHub, Gmail, Salesforce, etc.)
• Executes tasks autonomously 24/7 with full audit logs
• Coordinates multi-agent crews that work together on complex objectives
• Runs everywhere: SaaS, self-hosted (open source), iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi
• 341+ built-in skills for real-world tasks

*The "holy shit" moment:*

Go to bed. Your AI crew keeps working—posts standup to Slack, reviews GitHub PRs, responds to emails, updates Jira. You wake up to completed tasks with full audit trails of every action taken.

*Real-world example:*

A solo founder uses ThinkFleet to run their entire marketing operation: posts to Twitter daily, monitors mentions, responds to support emails, tracks competitors, updates their changelog. No VA, no marketing team—just AI agents working 24/7. Cost: ~$12/month in LLM fees. Time saved: 15+ hours/week.

*Security (I know you're wondering):*

• Per-tenant Kubernetes containers (isolated namespaces)
• Credentials encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM)
• Zero inbound network access
• You control OAuth permissions per agent
• Every action logged and auditable

*Tech stack:*

• Node.js runtime for agents
• Kubernetes for isolation and orchestration
• OAuth 2.0 for service integration
• WebSocket for real-time sync across devices
• Self-hosted option is fully open source

*Current state:*

Open beta as of this week. Looking for power users who want to push the limits and help shape where this goes.

*Things I'm actively figuring out:*

• Best patterns for inter-agent communication in crews
• Balancing autonomy vs user control (when to ask vs when to act)
• Cost optimization for always-on agents

The meta-moment: I used ThinkFleet to build this entire launch campaign—landing page improvements, demo scripts, outreach strategy. It produced in 1 hour what would've taken me a week. That's the platform.

Would love feedback, especially from folks who've built agent systems or integrated heavily with OAuth providers.

Happy to answer any questions!

— Ryan
thinkfleet.ai
by wildzzz | 2026-02-17 16:46:09+00:00
We did ISEF in highschool. I always wanted to build something but just couldn't figure out a way to justify it. My teacher usually just said do an experiment please. I usually just did some lame science project that didn't really produce anything interesting.

Freshman year: effect of light wavelength on basil plant growth. I shined a black light, a regular light bulb, and a very bright IR light at some basil plants. I probably could have made it better by doing colored lights with controlled lux levels. Didn't win anything and the judges were unimpressed.

Sophomore year: effect of water pH on electrolysis gas production. Varied the pH on some water and put it in an electrolysis apparatus. I actually got 3rd place in the highschool chemistry group surprisingly. It wasn't a very rigorous project but I guess no one else did anything terribly interesting. Not enough to go onto regional or state level (not sure what came next). Even my parents were surprised.
by adolph | 2026-02-17 16:46:21+00:00
Pray we never need statistical process controls for the mass manufacturing of military objectives.

Deming's exhortations exist because they are aspirational, essentially propaganda for his vision of organizational cybernetics. "Deming was part of the Teleological Society with Wiener, Turning, von Neumann, and others during and after the Second World War — one of the groups that was the precursor to the Macy Conferences and worldwide cybernetics movement that also led to the development of the Cybernetics Society." [0]

"[Deming's] view of cooperation stood in stark contrast to business as usual, which emphasized competition, even within one’s own company. Throughout his life, he demonstrated how even competitors working together benefited their respective companies and, more importantly, their customers." [1]

0. https://cybsoc.org/?page_id=1489

1. Willis, John. Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future (p. 164). (Function). Kindle Edition.
by scottbez1 | 2026-02-17 16:46:25+00:00
GitHub seems entirely uninterested in improving the code review experience (except maybe the stacked PRs thing if that ends up shipping) for well over a decade now.

Things that I’d consider table stakes that Phabricator had in 2016 - code movement/copying gutter indicators and code coverage gutters - are still missing, and their UI (even the brand new review UI that also renders suggestion comment diffs incorrectly) still hides the most important large file changes by default.

And the gutter “moved” indicators would be more useful than ever, as I used to be able to trust that a hand-written PR that moves a bunch of code around generally didn’t change it, but LLM refactors will sometimes “rewrite from memory“ instead of actually moving, changing the implementation or comments along the way.
by notpushkin | 2026-02-17 16:46:33+00:00
Wallet app is still impossible to get working, but there’s been some development recently: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/361

Some other apps are often willing to accept my current setup (Lineage for microG [0], plus Magisk, if you don’t need root – Magisk Hide does some magic I don’t really understand, but even without Play Integrity passing, apps just start working).

With more tweaks, you might be able to get Play Integrity to work to some extent, but it’s hit or miss. I’ve just stopped using apps that demand it.

[0]: https://lineage.microg.org/
by randallme | 2026-02-17 16:46:36+00:00
Fair point—Gmail's Inactive Account Manager exists and it's free. If that works for you, use it.

A few reasons someone might want something purpose-built:

1. Video/audio messages. I wanted to record something for people, not just send text.

2. Multiple recipients with different messages. Gmail sends one notification to designated contacts.

3. Attachments that outlive your Google account. When your account goes inactive, your Drive files go with it.

4. The "who survives longer" question is real. My answer: one-time payments (no churn pressure), minimal infrastructure that can run unattended for years, and I'm exploring escrow/trust structures for long-term continuity. Google's killed plenty of products too (RIP Inbox, Reader, etc).

But honestly, if Gmail works for your needs—use it. The goal is that the message gets delivered, not that I get your money.
by mmmBacon | 2026-02-17 16:46:37+00:00
The GP has a point about the state of journalism generally and the pervasive nature in which Yellow journalism is returning.

One need not be anti-intellectual to find the state of reporting to be difficult to deal with and not wanting to read it. In addition to the GP’s complaint; journalists of any ilk also tend to conflate editorializing with reporting. You see this all the way from pop science to NYTimes to Fox News and yes even the Economist.

A question is whether the more fact based reporting of the early-mid 20th Century is the exception to the tendency of Yellow journalism that existed before and seems to exist now.
by stevengreser | 2026-02-17 16:47:07+00:00
"Hey HN, author here.

I wrote a hard sci-fi thriller called The Breakout Window (about an ASI escaping confinement), and I wanted the marketing to feel 'diegetic' instead of just a landing page.

So I built this dashboard (vertex.flowlogix.ai) to simulate the system in the book.

Tech: Static HTML/JS (simulating a retro terminal).
Easter Egg: If you type in the chat CLI, it triggers a 'breach' and unlocks the personnel files.

Let me know if you find any bugs or if the 'hack' feels authentic enough!"

Go now. The window is open.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-17 16:47:07+00:00
the container approach is nice for isolating the runtime but I think people are underestimating how much of the actual risk happens before the code ever runs. like the agent generates something that looks fine, passes whatever linting you have in the container, gets committed - and the security issue is in the logic not the execution environment. I've been reviewing AI-generated PRs for a while now and the scariest stuff isn't malicious packages or shell escapes, it's subtle auth logic that almost works correctly. a sandbox won't catch that your token validation silently accepts expired tokens because the LLM generated a comparison that looks right but isn't. tbh I think containerization is necessary but it's solving maybe 30% of the problem. the other 70% is what happens to the code after it leaves the sandbox and enters your actual codebase. that part nobody really has good tooling for yet
by bee_rider | 2026-02-17 16:47:29+00:00
The decision to invent a new special type of debt for student loans was a political decision made by our representatives. To the extent that the voters/taxpayers are responsible for anything: this is our shared mess.

I mean, the whole premise of representative democracy is that we’re responsible for the messes we send representatives to make. If we don’t want that responsibility, I guess we’d have to look at alternatives to representative democracy, but that’s a pretty big topic.
by Aachen | 2026-02-17 16:47:35+00:00
Needing to use a verified boot chain with keys that the bank trusts is essentially the same as using the authenticator device from said bank, except this one costs 100€ or more, has a microphone and camera built in, and you use it for private messages as well. That's not a future I want to live in

We have secure hardware already, it's called a smartcard and is what you find in all bank cards, SIM cards, authenticator devices... my phone is my phone, not a second factor, or at least I (as a hacker/tinkerer) don't want it to be that way, just like with my desktop which is also not the bank's to mandate whatever from

Somehow they got the memo for devices where it is normal to have admin permissions, but for mobile devices the two big tech companies successfully scaremongered non-techies
by zbentley | 2026-02-17 16:48:05+00:00
Absolutely. But there’s so much more liberty in C land in that you can stay on an old compiler/language version for such codebases.

I know it’s not pleasant per se, but the level of support needed (easier now with docker and better toolchain version management utils than were the norm previously) surely doesn’t merit compilers carrying around the volume of legacy cruft and breaking-change aversion they do, no?
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-17 16:48:22+00:00
Many people enjoy competition and find it motivating. This is why sports are so popular, and why many organized activities tend to become competitive. Not everyone enjoys it of course, but the people motivated enough to organize large science fairs are probably highly motivated in general and that tends to corelate with competitiveness.

Not to mention that any large event takes funding. It may not be "for profit" and even if most or all the needed resources are donated there will be people competing for those donations.
by ordu | 2026-02-17 16:48:41+00:00
> I've definitely found that I could inhale information faster and memorize much faster as a teenager.

One of possible explanations is a passion. What really helps to memorize are emotions. If something triggers emotions or somehow connected to them, then you have much more probability of remembering it. I felt strong about mathematics as a teenager, any math result I found was a happy event. Or rather not any result, I felt nothing about trigonometry formulas and I struggled to remember them, I invented techniques to reconstruct them. Mostly those techniques had nothing to do with math. But the point is: I remember what I like and don't remember boring things. It is emotions at work.

> a much more developed sense of priority and focus in order to get more benefit out of less time.

Which is an evidence confirming my hypothesis: you are not as interested in knowledge you acquire as you are interested in results. You are juggling priorities and subject your learning process to some higher goals. No more learning driven by emotions, now rationality is the king, no place for emotions.

It doesn't mean that my hypothesis is true, I just mention it for a completeness: we don't really know what is the reason behind learning difficulties growing with age. AFAIK even neuroplasticity itself can be at least partially caused by emotions.
by justin66 | 2026-02-17 16:48:41+00:00
> how do you crash an ETF? I'm talking about broad index funds. Not stuff like ARKK

Any ETF's share value can "crash" if there are not enough buyers to purchase shares when they are trading below NAV (net asset value). It's worth a quick google to see what "market makers" or "authorized participants" do, but the thing to keep in mind is: if the market is kind of exploding in some major ways (think 2008) an ETF might not have a lot of buyers, even if its market price is well below its net asset value.
by mghackerlady | 2026-02-17 16:49:07+00:00
I wonder if the marketing/hustlebros who only value our art as a "get rich quick scheme" (IE: the people pushing "Learn to 'code' (I hate the term 'coding')and half the new faces from india) learnt about Show HN and decided to ruin something good by making a linkedin post about "how great of a marketing avenue" we are and the vibecoded slop pushers listened in full force because they know nothing about our industry and thus don't know how valuable a non-salesy place to talk trade is
by rsynnott | 2026-02-17 16:49:14+00:00
BYD is not, despite the press, really very big in Europe (though it is in a couple of individual countries, notably Spain). Europe-wide, Geely, the Chinese manufacturer that everyone forgets about, is actually bigger: https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL/Groups/Bar/All-time-by-Qu...
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-17 16:49:32+00:00
Only taxpayer funded defined benefit pension plans get to use 7%+. Because they have the power to use future taxpayers’ money to pay for underfunding/underperformance/corruption from the past. And obviously, politicians that would choose to increase taxes today for something that could but punted to the future would lose elections.

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 mandates that non taxpayer funded defined benefit pension plans use discount rates from high grade corporate bond yield curves, which are much lower.

https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/pension-plan-funding-se...
by Starman_Jones | 2026-02-17 16:49:40+00:00
"Labs" as in the physical facilities, not the class credits. Computer labs are one example - my school had a Linux lab that, uh, wasn't much used outside of CS/IT/maybe EE. There's also lab equipment for research professors - a nice oscilloscope can cost more than a new car, and students won't ever actually get to use that. Not saying it's wrong - I really appreciated that Linux lab - but it's definitely not equality between departments.

For your second point, I've never heard of a university that charges different credit rates for different majors (outside of special stuff like paying for certain PE classes), but that seems like it would be a university policy, not a department policy.
by stephc_int13 | 2026-02-17 16:49:43+00:00
The "AI voice" is everywhere now.

I see it on recent blog posts, on new articles, obituaries, YT channels. Sometimes mixed with voice impersonation of famous physicists like Feynman or Susskind.

I find it genuinely soul-crushing and even depressing, but I may be over sensitive to it as most readers don't seem to notice.
by wildzzz | 2026-02-17 16:49:52+00:00
Yeah it was super obvious who got help from parents and who did everything on their own. I did FIRST Robotics in highschool and that was another place where it was obvious which teams got a lot of help from their parents and which teams were entirely run by the students. We got some help from sponsors for stuff like welding aluminum frames but it was entirely our design. I remember the team from Cocoa Beach Highschool looked like a NASA designed rover (which it probably was).
by Bolwin | 2026-02-17 16:50:09+00:00
You're entirely correct in that it's a different model with every message, every token. There's no past memory for it to reference.

That said it can still be useful because you have a some weird behavior and 199k tokens of context, with no idea where the info is that's nudging it to do the weird thing.

In this case you can think of it less as "why did you do this?" And more "what references to doing this exist in this pile of files and instructions?"
by lyu07282 | 2026-02-17 16:50:18+00:00
> The model performs a statistical substitution, replacing a 1-of-10,000 token with a 1-of-100 synonym

Do we see this in programming too? I don't think so? Unique, rarely used API methods aren't substituted the same way when refactoring. Perhaps that could give us a clue on how to fix that?
by lawstkawz | 2026-02-17 16:50:21+00:00
As someone who supports education loan forgiveness, I say we do as our elders have and just take from them without a whiff of concern for their grandstanding about morality.

What obligation to the generation that's been aware of physical evidence of climate change for decades and ignored it?

The old dying and the youth rewriting social and political custom and truism is a physical constant of the universe.

Physics is ageist; sorry/not sorry grandparents.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-17 16:50:42+00:00
> No, chiplets were called MCMs. IBM and others as you noted had chip(lets) in MCMs that were not "fully-functioning" by themselves.

I don't follow; you seem to be using "chiplet" to directly mean a multi-chip module, whereas I consider "chiplet" to be a component of a multi-chip module. An assembly of multiple chiplets would not itself be "a chiplet", but a multi-chip module. This is also why I don't follow why the term "chiplet" would replace the term "multi-chip module", because to me, a multi-chip module is not even a chiplet, it's only built with chiplets.

Are chiplets ever more than a single die? Conversely, are there multi-chip modules of only a single die? At least one of these must be true for "chiplet" and "multi-chip module" even to overlap.
by jmux | 2026-02-17 16:50:54+00:00
Great idea, i love the simple html website :)

For determining the number of balls, i had an idea but not sure of how well it’d fit in. Could you feed the listing title, unit count, and description into an LLM with a basic “figure out how many balls are in this listing and make sure that number makes sense with the price” prefix prompt and then store that number with the ASIN? One LLM call per product should be pretty low cost, and it could automate a bunch of repetitive manual work
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-17 16:51:13+00:00
It's not a question of terminology. As you say, SVB came out of it broke, but their stuff didn't burn to the ground - their operations and assets were taken over by a bridge institution Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, which was then quickly acquired by First Citizens Bank. Where's the point where the depositors should have lost money? Would it have been fair for First Citizens to tell every customer who had over $250k in their account "sorry, we've taken the rest as an acquisition bonus"?
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-17 16:51:17+00:00
It is an opinion piece. By a dude working as a "Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biomaterials at the University of Ferrara".

It has all the tropes of not understanding the underlying mechanisms, but repeating the common tropes. Quite ironic, considering what the author's intended "message" is. Jpeg -> jpeg -> jpeg bad. So llm -> llm -> llm must be bad, right?

It reminds me of the media reception of that paper on model collapse. "Training on llm generated data leads to collapse". That was in 23 or 24? Yet we're not seeing any collapse, despite models being trained mainly on synthetic data for the past 2 years. That's not how any of it works. Yet everyone has an opinion on how bad it works. Jesus.

It's insane how these kinds of opinion pieces get so upvoted here, while worth-while research, cool positive examples and so on linger in new with one or two upvotes. This has ceased to be a technical subject, and has moved to muh identity.
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-17 16:51:25+00:00
I mean there's tons of better-writing tools that use AI like Grammarly etc. For actual general-purpose LLMs, I don't think there's much incentive in making it write "better" in the artistic sense of the world... if the idea is to make the model good at tasks in general and communicate via language, that language should sound generic and boring. If it's too artistic or poetic or novel-like, the communication would appear a bit unhinged.

"Update the dependencies in this repo"

"Of course, I will. It will be an honor, and may I say, a beautiful privilege for me to do so. Oh how I wonder if..." vrs "Okay, I'll be updating dependencies..."
Show HN: Browser-based EEG neurofeedback detecting golden ratio brain coherence
by neurokinetikz | 2026-02-17 16:51:46+00:00
I've been meditating with consumer EEG headbands for years and started writing code to analyze my own data. I found something I wasn't expecting.

Earth's Schumann Resonance oscillates at ~7.8 Hz with harmonics at roughly 14, 20, 26, and 32 Hz. These overlap with canonical EEG frequency bands. That overlap was noted before but generally treated as coincidence.

In 2010, Pletzer, Kerschbaum, and Klimesch at Universität Salzburg proposed that EEG bands follow golden ratio organization, but the idea got little empirical follow-up.

My analysis suggests they were right. Brain oscillation peaks can align with golden ratio (φ = 1.618) precision, anchored within range of the ~7.8 Hz fundamental. Tested across 1M+ spectral peaks from independent datasets. Less than 2% error. (and yes, I would be very skeptical too :)

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Here's the research:

Golden Ratio Architecture of Human Neural Oscillations (preprint)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18244908

When frequencies never synchronize: the golden mean and the resting EEG (Pletzer et al. 2010)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2010.03.074

Research code: https://github.com/neurokinetikz/schumann

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And I built an app to detect these alignment states in real time.

HOW IT WORKS:

The app analyzes the raw EEG signal to separate real oscillatory peaks from background noise, then scores how precisely those peaks match predicted golden ratio frequency positions across three bands at Earth-resonant frequencies. It also measures how synchronized different brain regions are using cross-channel metrics.

When all measures pass threshold simultaneously and hold for a minimum duration, it flags an ignition and plays an audio tone. Sessions are logged with per-event timing, strength, and duration. Progress tracked across sessions.

Everything runs client-side in the browser. No backend signal processing.

Supported Devices: Muse 2, Muse S, BrainBit, Emotiv Insight/MN8

Demo mode works without hardware. If you have a Muse or BrainBit, pair directly from the browser. No signup, no install.

Would love your feedback, thanks!!
by josefritzishere | 2026-02-17 16:51:50+00:00
As a writer who has been published many times and edited many other writers for publication... It seems like AI can't make stylistic determinations. It is generally good with spelling and grammar but the text it generates is very homogeneous across formats. It's readable but it's not good, and always full of fluff like an online recepie harvesting clicks. It's kind of crap really. If you just need filler it's ok, but if you want something pleasand you definitely still need a human.