MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EPWN3D | 2026-02-15 15:10:05+00:00
I think a lot of people misunderstand what git really is for large software organizations. It's not their version control system. It's the set of primitives on top of which their version control is built.

Monorepos are one such VCS, which personally I don't like, but that's just me. Otherwise there are plenty of large organizations that manage lots of git repositories in various ways.

Replacing git is a lot like saying we should replace Unix. Like, yeah, it's got its problems, but we're kind of stuck with it.
by CognitiveBytez | 2026-02-15 15:10:08+00:00
I have been getting deeper into this Crypto Compliance space as of late. I have to say it really does intrigue me. It is odd that the world is moving more and more closer to heavy use of digital assets but I don't often hear much about who checks this change. Great read about ESMA and SEC. If anyone knows more about this, I would love to chat here or offline. I think there is great money and a gap to be filled for Crypto Compliance work.
by ericpauley | 2026-02-15 15:10:14+00:00
Really great analysis. Always cool to see the divide between PKI in theory and practice.

It does make me wonder if the zealous pursuit of shorter expirations has gone too far, especially up at the root. Is there good public discussion on root expiration? Seems to mostly come up when old devices get bricked because of it. Certainly 15 year expirations are not a substitute for extremely strict root key management or root key revocation.
by 4k93n2 | 2026-02-15 15:12:04+00:00
one word: ublock origin. it works on most desktop browsers and also firefox mobile on android. this is a filter im using that blocks a channel from showing in the search results. just add a channel name after "title"

www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer:has(#text.ytd-channel-name:is([title*="add ai slop channel name here"], [title*="more ai slop here"]))

youll have to have to repeat the same name with other filters to also hide them on the homepage or the suggestions sidebar.

freetube is another option that works on desktop and it lets you block a channel by name by adding it in the "distraction free" section of the settings. if youre on android theres also a version of freetube in the f-droid store that works ok enough, even thought the freetube UI is not really designed for mobile

obviously this only gets you so far. at some point there could be more slop than non-slop so it wont be possible to block them all, but so far im finding this useful for the few repeat offenders that keep showing up in the search results*
by slibhb | 2026-02-15 15:12:26+00:00
I appreciate Gray calling out the Soviets and others but I think the whole argument is wrong.

The link between Enlightenment values and imperialism/subjugation of Asia/Africa/Americans is far from clear. Enlightenment values aside, conquering people and taking their stuff was just normal at the time. And while imperialism enriched certain people and led to economic growth, it was probably worse from a economic-growth-first perspective (compared to free trade and sovereignty).

Along the same lines, American slavery was highly profitable for some but there is no good argument that it was essential to the US's economic development. Paying workers supports economic growth by increasing productivity and demand.

Over time, this project of attacking the enlightenment/liberalism has started to seem increasingly boring and wrong to me. For one, the vast majority of these critiques rely on Enlightenment values to critique the Enlightenment. So maybe we should be more enlightened! For another, right-wing populism makes liberal capitalism much more attractive.
by graemep | 2026-02-15 15:12:47+00:00
I have done exactly that as an exercise in what you can do with Python: overload |, and a decorator that you can use to on any function to return an instance of a callable class that calls that function and overloads |.

Whether it is a good idea to use it is another matter (it does not feel Pythonic), but it is easy to implement.
Show HN: ClawHQ – Fleet management dashboard and skill marketplace for AI agents
by zchmael | 2026-02-15 15:13:03+00:00
I run ~19 persistent AI agents (via OpenClaw) and needed a way to monitor and manage them without jumping
between terminals and chat apps.

ClawHQ connects to your OpenClaw gateway over WebSocket and gives you:

Real-time fleet status with heartbeat monitoring
Task kanban with drag-and-drop assignment
Agent chat (unified interface to all agents)
Skill marketplace — install capabilities onto agents, or publish your own (80/20 creator split)
Stack: Next.js, Supabase (auth + db), real-time updates via WebSocket to the OpenClaw gateway.

The marketplace is the part I'm most interested in long-term. Right now everyone building agent skills does it from
scratch. The idea is to make agent capabilities composable and shareable — like packages, but for agent behaviors.

Free to use. Just paste your gateway URL.

https://app.clawhq.co

Code for OpenClaw itself is open source. ClawHQ is the hosted dashboard layer on top.
by Brian_K_White | 2026-02-15 15:13:08+00:00
Same, exactly the same here.

But the other holes in the bucket doesn't mean you have to help. From a real opsec point of view a single tiny hole is the same as no wall at all. But from a day to day view less is less. It does at least reduce the spam.

And there is also, say you plug hole A and you can't do anything about hole B.

Some day something may develop that changes hole B (maybe a new law, maybe it's a service that you can stop using, maybe one org stops cooperating with another, whatever).

If hole A has already been wide open for years then closing hole B may not change much. But if hole A has been closed for years when the opportunity to close hole B comes along, then maybe closing hole B actually does something.

I choose to see it as something is better than nothing and it's worth it to apply pressure and be sand in the gears.

It's got to be better for everyone that there is at least some sand in the gears than if there were no sand in the gears.
by pbronez | 2026-02-15 15:13:45+00:00
Yes. Kimi is a brand of Moonshot Ai. Moonshot is legally incorporated in Singapore; executives and devs are mostly in Beijing.

They reportedly use Alibaba cloud extensively, at least for training. Terms of Service say the service is governed by Singaporean law.

Personally, I’d assume the CCP has full access to every packet you send them. K series of models looks cool; you can run they
M through Azure if you prefer to do business with a western entity or self host.
by simpaticoder | 2026-02-15 15:14:02+00:00
>People need to start paying for things

...with money. They are already paying for things by violating their own privacy and those around them. The irony is that the amount of money required for the service is much less the expected value of the surveillance for the provider. Service payment is an insurance expense, protecting against individual and systematic violation of the 4th Amendment rights. It's insurance (and cheap insurance) because this usually doesn't matter in practice. But sometimes it does, and when it does it REALLY does matter.

<tinfoil_hat>It would be smart for surveillance capital to fund some of these privacy forward providers, steer them to both charge you for a service and violate your privacy, hope for a very public controversy, and eventually discredit the fundamental approach.</tinfoil_hat>
by ideamotor | 2026-02-15 15:14:11+00:00
I think this is very well stated. I’m gonna say something that’s far more trite, but what I’ve noticed is that in an effort to get a better result while assisting AI coding, I have to throw away any concept I previously held about good code hygiene and style. I want it to be incredibly verbose. I want to have everything explicitly asserted. I want to have tests and hooks for every single thing. I want it to be incredibly hard for the human to work directly on it …
by benj111 | 2026-02-15 15:15:27+00:00
I am getting it. I'm saying 10 years ago demand was X and we had the gas capacity we needed. Now demand is X-10. We have 10 too much capacity without building any more gas generation.

I haven't even gone into the presumption that it needs to be gas. What about batteries, hydro?

And that's going on the assumption that all wind and solar is going to suddenly drop to zero. And yes it might go low but not all at once without warning.

So yes. I get it. It's you that doesn't seem to.
by calvinmorrison | 2026-02-15 15:15:47+00:00
> Toolchains on linux are not clear from dependency hell either - ever install an npm package.

That's where I stopped.

Toolchains on linux distributions with adults running packaging are just fine.

Toolchains for $hotlanguage where the project leaders insist on reinventing the packaging game, are not fine.

I once again state these languages need to give up the NIH and pay someone mature and responsible to maintain packaging.
by Waterluvian | 2026-02-15 15:16:49+00:00
I don’t have the data to make a rigorous argument but my intuition tells me that slavery quite likely played a considerable role. It just feels difficult to imagine that something they were so deeply invested in for generations wasn’t that important.

I’ve also wondered if the fiction of American exceptionalism is meant to help future generations pretend that the foundation of their success isn’t built upon an incredible horror perpetrated by their ancestors.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-15 15:17:21+00:00
> If the only way to protect yourself from selfish people is if their actions explicitly illegal, then the logical outcome is to make more and more things explicitly illegal.

Except that that isn't the only way to protect yourself from selfish people and the assumption that it is is the source of a significant proportion of the dumb laws.

There is a narrow class of things that have to be prohibited by law because there is otherwise no way to prevent selfish people from doing them, like dumping industrial waste into the rivers. What these look like is causing harm to someone you're not otherwise transacting with so that they can't prevent the harm by refusing to do business with you. And then you need functional antitrust laws to ensure competitive markets.

The majority of dumb laws are laws trying to work around the fact that we don't have functional antitrust laws, or indeed have the opposite and have laws propping up incumbents and limiting competition, and therefore have many concentrated markets where companies can screw customers and workers because they have inadequate alternatives. Trying to patch that with prohibitions never works because in a concentrated market there are an unlimited number of ways the incumbents can screw you and you can't explicitly prohibit every one of them; the only thing that works is to reintroduce real competition.
by rob_c | 2026-02-15 15:18:00+00:00
Just for reference, teams is not an astounding success it's forced on the workforce by management who want to pay less. It's a classic management square peg into workforce round hole.

Yes I understand sometimes something is better than nothing but teams is _so_ bad it causes user communities to fracture when they would previously congregate on the same platform.

Sure if deployed correctly and not by ape sysadmins with a thump of "deny everything in terms of security" I'm sure teams is a reasonable product, but in the real world, no, it's a nightmare.
by IshKebab | 2026-02-15 15:18:09+00:00
Yes that's the point. LLMs pretty much speak LinkedInglish. That existed before LLMs, but only on LinkedIn.

So if you see LinkedInglish on LinkedIn, it may or may not be an LLM. Outside of LinkedIn... probably an LLM.

It is curious why LLMs love talking in LinkedInglish so much. I have no idea what the answer to that is but they do.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-15 15:18:13+00:00
>Toolchains on linux are not clear from dependency hell either - ever install an npm package that needs cmake underneath?

That seems more a property of npm dependency management than linux dependency management.

To play devil's advocate, the reason npm dependency management is so much worse than kernel/os management, is because their scope is much bigger, 100x more package, each package smaller, super deep dependency chains. OS package managers like apt/yum prioritize stability more and have a different process.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-15 15:18:32+00:00
Even within the XR industry, we had no clue where all that money went. During the metaverse debacle, the entire industry stagnated. Once metaverse failed, XR adjacent shops started to fail. There was no hardware or technique innovation shared with the rest of the industry, and at the time the technology was pretty well settled.

Since then we lost all the medium players and it's basically just Facebook, Valve, and Apple.
by amluto | 2026-02-15 15:20:37+00:00
One should be very careful when discussing diffraction to make sure you’re about what you think you’re talking about. Case in point: Figure 5. If you look at the drawing, and you contemplate the line segments you’ve drawn, you may find that it’s quite hard to justify the supposed path difference of lambda/2. In fact, the path difference is zero. You need a different drawing for lambda/2, and you might need to relate your drawing to ac actual physical scenario (projecting on a wall, for example) to see which approximations are valid.

As for the finger slit, I’m quite suspicious that the actual visible effect isn’t diffraction from the fingers at all — my intuition is that it’s more likely to be diffraction from your eye or perhaps something more complex in the combined system. You would need to extend the drawing to include a light source (perhaps at infinity), the finger slit, and some credible model of an eye including, at least, a finite pupil, a lens, and an image surface (the retina) that may or may not be quite lined up with the focal plane.

Another fun effect: on a sunny day or under a ceiling light, if you close your eyes part way and hold your head at an angle such that you can’t quite see the sun, you can often see fun color bands where the colors change from left to right. This is diffraction from your eyelashes :)
by kilroy123 | 2026-02-15 15:20:56+00:00
I use AI a LOT. OpenAI said I'm in the 1% of people using ChatGPT (bad thing imo). I use Claude and Codex all day long, building and shipping.

But just do not get the Clawbot / OpenClaw hype at all. What are people doing with this thing? I tried it out, and I found it a bit underwhelming.

What am I missing?
by hansvm | 2026-02-15 15:22:43+00:00
Maybe, but there's a human element that can make things worse too. Take prostate cancer as an example. Most men die with prostate cancer. Most men don't die _from_ prostate cancer. It isn't usually aggressive enough to matter. Most people aren't zen enough to accept that though, so just knowing that you have cancer can add stress to your life with measurably bad health impacts from the resulting hormonal changes (reduced immune function, impaired sleep, increased clotting tendency, slower wound healing, etc).
Show HN: Fieldnotes
by samcgraw | 2026-02-15 15:23:17+00:00
Hi HN!

I wanted a simple UI for notes and observations around my neighborhood (e.g. this garden has beautiful poppies, this coffee shop has excellent espresso, etc.) and built this. It’s open and free to use, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Feedback welcome.
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-15 15:23:25+00:00
For me, it does result in no shorts on the main recommendations list. They still appear on the recommendations shown while a video is playing (and there they don't have the "show fewer" option) but they eventually (maybe 7-10 days or so) reappear on the main list as well.

this is all in the iOS YouTube app, which is the only place I watch YouTube.
by bentcorner | 2026-02-15 15:23:34+00:00
Nope, I hand wrote this.

I actually considered using an LLM but in my experience they "warp" the content too much for anything like this. The effort required to get them to retain what I would consider something to my taste would take longer than just writing the poem myself. (Although tbf it's been awhile since I've asked a LLM to do parody work, so I could be wrong)
by devsda | 2026-02-15 15:24:12+00:00
I know it is probably not the American way but the only way to address this problem is to make laws that prevent a duopoly, penalize anti-competitive behavior and push open-source standards for software/hardware.

Unfortunately, the status quo also means the US (and its tech giants) has real power and control over other countries' technology sector. So, no party in America will make or enforce laws that will change the status quo within the country or overseas.
by noduerme | 2026-02-15 15:24:53+00:00
I think you're right. And it's going to be loads of fun to watch.

Not go say there haven't also been very good coders who weren't outsourcing anything, who still got out over their skis with stuff they promised on Kickstarter. I worked on Star Citizen and saw the lure of inflating project scope, responding to the vox populi, go to someone's head in realtime. Where they could still at some point conceivably have done what they had promised if they could just resist promising more stuff.

I find it odd that industrial designers wouldn't have a firmer grasp on what was involved in shipping a product than coders do, since code seems much more prone to mission creep than a physical product would be. But I totally agree that if you're used to outsourcing the build phase of whatever you do, AI is going to be the ultimate mirage.
by susam | 2026-02-15 15:24:58+00:00
One thing I miss from the 1990s is how newspapers used to publish monthly sky charts. That is how I got started with stargazing, with nothing more than cut-outs of those charts and my naked eyes.

I had two plain star charts as well, one for the northern hemisphere, which I used constantly, and one for the southern hemisphere, which I rarely needed. But plain star charts cannot show where the planets would be from month to month. So I relied heavily on the monthly charts published by the newspapers. Retrograde planetary motions were hard to estimate manually unless you were an expert. At the age of 10, I wasn't an expert. So the monthly charts were very useful to me.

I eventually constructed my own simple refracting telescope using two convex lenses to take a closer look at the Moon, but even with instruments, those sky chart cut-outs remained my primary tool for making sense of the night sky during my childhood.

These days we can take a mobile phone app and point it at the sky but there is a certain joy in simply exploring the night sky with minimal assistance, appreciating the beauty and mysteries of the universe and pondering philosophical questions like why we are here and why any of this exists. I do not want to sound like a lunatic and, if I do, I suppose I do not mind, but I think it is one of the most immersive experiences a human being can have with the universe.

As a bonus, it can be quite useful to impress your girlfriend (of an appropriate kind) too. I remember when I met mine about a decade ago, we would sometimes be stuck at traffic lights and I would start calling out objects in the night sky. "That's Jupiter up there. That's Betelgeuse, the red giant star that could go supernova one day. That's Rigel, one of my favourite stars. And there are the Pleiades, one of the most photogenic star clusters. If you draw an imaginary line through the three stars of Orion's Belt and extend it eastward, you reach Sirius, the brightest star." And so on. Within a few weeks, she started joining in, and we would try to name as many objects as possible before the lights turned green again. Fortunately, she found all this entertaining rather than seeing it as evidence of complete derangement, and we are now married.
by dundarious | 2026-02-15 15:25:44+00:00
I'll just keep using Mārtiņš Možeiko's script, portable-msvc.py, that this tool is based upon. It does everything this does, except a lock file and the autoenv. I'm not particularly interested in the former, and definitely not the latter.

https://gist.github.com/mmozeiko/7f3162ec2988e81e56d5c4e22cd...
by dan-robertson | 2026-02-15 15:26:16+00:00
I think being faster probably is important but it brings a bunch of challenges:

- the split pricing model makes it hard to tune model architecture for faster inference as you need to support fast and cheap versions.

- the faster the model is, the more it becomes a problem that they don’t ’understand’ time – they sit idle waiting for big compilations or they issue tools sequentially when they ought to have issued them in parallel.
by metalman | 2026-02-15 15:26:21+00:00
ya, but no

it is over, "it" bieng a dominant place in in popular media reserved for hollywood, done, non viable model now, competition is fierce for views, and no one is waiting to be discovered.
attention spans are too short, and billions are playing bit parts in games and creating videos.AI is blurring everything, and closeing off entry level spots to test new talent, meat aint cheap or fast enough, no matter how hard you push.
The comming space hotels, mars and moon missions will take the place of movie and tv,real live performance will maintain it's draw, AI slop for the dull.
by nickpsecurity | 2026-02-15 15:26:27+00:00
It can be 10,000 requests a day on static HTML and non-existent, PHP pages. That's on my site. I'd rather them have Christ-centered and helpful content in their pretraining. So, I still let them scrape it for the public good.

It helps to not have images, etc that would drive up bandwidth cost. Serving HTML is just pennies a month with BunnyCDN. If I had heavier content, I might have to block them or restrict it to specific pages once per day. Maybe just block the heavy content, like the images.

Btw, anyone tried just blocking things like images to see if scaping bandwidth dropped to acceptable levels?
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-15 15:27:00+00:00
If they're not doing real journalism, why are you paying any attention to them? There are hundreds of small journalism groups who will call each other out just as easily as collaborate, who care primarily for truth and secondarily for putting food on the table (and therefore rarely have anything to call out). Many of their journalists have quit (or been fired from) the big news organisations, or would have been snapped up 50 years ago but are presently unhireable.

For the record, I'm talking about actual journalism groups, not Substack blogs. Here's one (US-centric) list, 12-links long: https://hcommons.social/@zeblarson/115488066909889058. You almost certainly have local journalists who need your support, which obviously I cannot list here.
by quadrifoliate | 2026-02-15 15:27:38+00:00
This seems like some pretty lazy analysis to be honest.

Following the first comment you quoted...

> I love it. We need to see more of this.

...shows that the author talks about using a “Chase card abroad” in a previous comment [1], which means they cannot be Indian as Chase doesn't issue cards or have substantial operations in India.

I don't want to run around following specific comment authors back through their threads, but as an Indian by birth it is pretty hurtful to see this kind of drive-by casual characterization of an population in a space like this. It also seems to be pretty contrary to the HN guidelines (“Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.”)

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535775
by moribunda | 2026-02-15 15:30:27+00:00
Also if you are using language with more than 24 letters - like you know, most of the world... You can't do {left alt}+n in teams while {right alt}+n works perfectly fine, and I haven't found a way to disable this awful behavior.

Like mate - I'm on Mac, I use CMD+n for new tabs, not windows-like shortcuts...