MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nharada | 2026-02-16 17:02:17+00:00
+1

First, I agree with most commentators that they should just offer 3 modes of visibility: "default", "high", "verbose" or whatever

But I'm with you that this mode of working where you watch the agent work in real-time seems like it will be outdated soon. Even if we're not quite there, we've all seen how quickly these models improve. Last year I was saying Cursor was better because it allowed me to better understand every single change. I'm not really saying that anymore.
by slashdev | 2026-02-16 17:02:23+00:00
I bet the same thing happens when the AI bubble pops.

"but this time is different, it's not a bubble, there's real value there"

Economists use the term “bubble” to describe an asset price that has risen above the level justified by economic fundamentals, as measured by the discounted stream of expected future cash flows that will accrue to the owner of the asset.

I think there's little argument that is happening, the question is more about to what extent is it a bubble.

The entire global software industry is worth less than $1 trillion dollars. Or in other words smaller than the current valuation of just OpenAI + Anthropic.

Planned capital investment this year by the Magnificent 7 alone is $600B. More than 2/3 of the total global software industry. In one year. Good luck buying any computer hardware this year, there will be a shortage of everything, including electricity.

It's a bubble. But when does the music stop?
by MattJ100 | 2026-02-16 17:02:29+00:00
Be aware that this post has known issues that the author is not interested in fixing. In their own words (in response to clarifications by one of the OMEMO folk):

"I'll make an edit later about the protocol version thing, but I'm not interested in having questions answered. My entire horse in this race is for evangelists to f** off and leave me alone. That's it. That's all I want." [censorship of profanity mine]

You won't find this quote in the article with Ctrl+F, it's in the screenshot, where they omitted the original constructive comment by one of the OMEMO contributors that they chose to moderate, which you can find here: https://www.moparisthebest.com/tim-henkes-omemo-response.txt

So, by all means, read the blog post. But just be aware that its ultimate goal was not to be an unbiased accurate technical article.
by Saikat2020 | 2026-02-16 17:02:30+00:00
Hi HN,

I built HiYo because I kept wondering two things:

1) How much of what I’m reading online is AI-generated?
2) Why is the web still mostly a single-player experience?

HiYo does two things:

• Detects AI-written text directly on webpages (runs on-device) - Select any text on a webpage, right-click, and check if it was written by AI. Uses both statistical analysis and on-device ML.
• Lets you chat anonymously with others browsing the same site

No accounts. No email. Just open a page and see if others are there.

The AI detection runs locally in the browser — no text is sent to a server.

I’m especially curious about:
– Do you think AI detection is useful long-term?
– Would you ever use a live chat layer on websites?

Would love brutal feedback.
by grumbel | 2026-02-16 17:02:37+00:00
> structured language that eliminates ambiguity

That has been tried for almost half a century in the form of Cyc[1] and never accomplished much.

The proper solution here is to provide the LLM with more context, context that will likely be collected automatically by wearable devices, screen captures and similar pervasive technology in the not so distant future.

This kind of quick trick questions are exactly the same thing humans fail at if you just ask them out of the blue without context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-16 17:02:43+00:00
>with little power and without triggering its fan.

This is how I know something is fishy.

No one cares about this. This became a new benchmark when Apple couldn't compete anywhere else.

I understand if you already made the mistake of buying something that doesn't perform as well as you were expecting, you are going to look for ways to justify the purchase. "It runs with little power" is on 0 people's christmas list.
by sanghoonio | 2026-02-16 17:03:05+00:00
I built this to visualize how wind patterns carry air pollution across Northeast Asia. While yellow dust has been a geological phenomenon for millennia, some Koreans are still quick to blame China for all of our air quality issues. I still see the sentiment reinforced online. It even came up visiting relatives in Korea for the first time in 15 years. Just how much of the dust is actually from Central Asian deserts, Chinese manufacturing hubs, or Korea itself? Perhaps this map can help answer that.
by wasmperson | 2026-02-16 17:03:41+00:00
> Instead of slow React renders (50ms?), every interaction is a client-server round trip.

This is true only if you use zero javascript, which isn't what the article is advocating for (and even with zero javascript there's quite a bit of client-side interactivity built-in to CSS and HTML). Besides: in practice most interactions in an SPA also involve network round trips, in addition to that slow react render.
by Oras | 2026-02-16 17:03:53+00:00
The article itself feels AI-generated. I would expect an article about productivity and economy to include charts, links, and citations, but this one didn't.

However, I did a search, and the author's name is indeed the dir­ector of Stanford Uni­versity Digital Eco­nomy Lab, and the article itself shows up on FT when I googled the title.

I suppose PressReader is not showing the full details?
by autoexec | 2026-02-16 17:03:54+00:00
> Blocking access to the information is the wrong way to deal with this problem.

Blocking (or more accurately: restricting) access works pretty well for many other things that we know will be used in ways that are harmful. Historically, just having to go in person to a court house and request to view records was enough to keep most people from abusing the public information they had. It's perfectly valid to say that we want information accessible, but not accessible over the internet or in AI datasets. What do you think the "right way" to deal with the problem is because we already know that "hope that people choose to be better/smarter/more respectful" isn't going work.
by fatherzine | 2026-02-16 17:04:08+00:00
this is the business model bet. the codebase is a big ball of mud that only a superhuman ai can comprehend, therefore everyone must use superhuman ai make changes in the codebase. the selling point is iteration speed, especially early iteration speed

cf. SV conventional wisdom: he who ships first wins the market

in fairness, there is real value in iteration speed. i'm not holding my breath on human comprehensible corporate code bases moving forward. a slew of critical foundational projects, mostly run by the big names, may still care about what used to be called "good engineering practices".
by markstos | 2026-02-16 17:04:09+00:00
To better understand the feedback, see another example that was posted recently, about "Brownie Mary":

https://urbanists.social/@raineyday@beige.party/115793532206...

It's an inspirational true story and well-written. Then notice if the writing style feels familiar. The short sentences. It becomes the visual equivalent of these realistic AI photos, where it looks mostly right, but some feels a little off in the same way that something else you read recently felt a little off.

I'm glad I read the Brownie Mary Story and this Wall Street Raider story as well, but I also don't look forward to a future flooded with content that's "in the style of a professional writer" without some of the details and authentic voice that helps writing really connect.
by andout_ | 2026-02-16 17:04:23+00:00
This is close to what we're doing with [Encore](https://encore.cloud). The framework parses your application code through static analysis at compile time to build a full graph of services, APIs, databases, queues, cron jobs, and their dependencies. It uses that graph to provision infrastructure, generate architecture diagrams, API docs, and wire up observability automatically.

The interesting side effect is that AI tools get this traversability for free. When business logic and infrastructure declarations live in the same code, an AI agent doesn't need a separate graph database or MCP tool to understand what a service depends on or what infrastructure it needs. It's all in the type signatures. The agent generates standard TypeScript or Go, and the framework handles everything from there to running in production.

Our users see this work really well with AI agents as the agent can scaffold a complete service with databases and pub/sub, and it's deployable immediately because the framework already understands what the code needs.
by e12e | 2026-02-16 17:04:52+00:00
> (...) he should be fired for it.

I don't know about that - I'd say it's the managers responsibility to make sure employees don't feel pressured to work when they're to ill to function.

And also brings to mind the IBM one million dollars story:

(...)

A very large government bid, approaching a million dollars, was on the table. The IBM Corporation—no, Thomas J. Watson Sr.—needed every deal. Unfortunately, the salesman failed. IBM lost the bid. That day, the sales rep showed up at Mr. Watson’s office. He sat down and rested an envelope with his resignation on the CEO’s desk. Without looking, Mr. Watson knew what it was. He was expecting it.

He asked, “What happened?”

The sales rep outlined every step of the deal. He highlighted where mistakes had been made and what he could have done differently. Finally he said, “Thank you, Mr. Watson, for giving me a chance to explain. I know we needed this deal. I know what it meant to us.” He rose to leave.

Tom Watson met him at the door, looked him in the eye and handed the envelope back to him saying, “Why would I accept this when I have just invested one million dollars in your education?”
Show HN: DroidClaw – Turn old Android phones into AI agents
by spikey_sanju | 2026-02-16 17:05:20+00:00
Hey all, I built an open-source tool that lets you give an Android phone a goal in plain English. It reads the accessibility tree, sends the UI state to an LLM, executes actions via ADB, and loops until the task is done.

The core loop: dump accessibility tree via uiautomator → parse and filter to ~40 relevant elements → LLM returns {think, plan, action} → execute via ADB → repeat.

Some technical decisions worth noting:

- Primary input is the accessibility tree, not vision. Vision (screenshots + multimodal model) is only a fallback for when the tree is empty (WebViews, Flutter).

- Stuck detection: if the screen state doesn't change for 3 steps, recovery kicks in with back navigation, home, or app re-launch.

- Two execution modes: AI-powered workflows (JSON, LLM decides navigation) and deterministic flows (YAML, fixed sequences, no LLM calls).

- ADB over WiFi + Tailscale for remote control. The phone becomes an always-on agent you can trigger from anywhere.

- Supports Groq (free tier), OpenAI, OpenRouter, Bedrock. Ollama support just landed for fully local inference.

- One-line install: curl -fsSL https://droidclaw.ai/install.sh | sh

Built with Bun + TypeScript. 35 example workflows included covering messaging, social, productivity, research, and lifestyle tasks.

https://github.com/unitedbyai/droidclaw
https://droidclaw.ai
by ratrace | 2026-02-16 17:05:24+00:00
The first video says that Thiel is answering the question "What do you make of people celebrating Luigi?" and his response was "There may be things wrong with our healthcare system, but you have to have an argument and find a way to convince people" and that shooting random CEOs "isn't going to work".

Somehow I'm supposed to be led to believe this makes Thiel come across as stupid. My only guess as to how is because the OP must think that shooting CEOs in the street is an obvious rational good and that opposing such is idiocy, or reactionary fascism (in leftist usage, a synonym for idiocy), or so on.
by joshuaknauber | 2026-02-16 17:05:51+00:00
Have been talking to more designers recently that are starting to experiment with claude code for prototyping.
A common pattern was that removing the coding step was a wow moment, but tweaking designs was hard.

Cursors design mode solves more or less solves this for cursor, but we need something generic. Flare is an attempt of making a general solution for this problem, simply integrating into any app and giving you your changes as a ready-to-paste prompt.

There's plenty of potential for expanding this, text-editing, more css compatibility, adding new components, mcp server for directly injecting the changes and more.

Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts!
by drnick1 | 2026-02-16 17:05:51+00:00
The Signal desktop app works fine, but you are right, it is still tied to a mobile account and a phone number. This is the main downside to Signal. I read that the Molly fork will support multiple accounts and a self hostable server. It probably won't be federated, but that is not really a problem when you can use multiple accounts and avoids a lot of headaches that come with federation.
by HelloNurse | 2026-02-16 17:06:18+00:00
Powerful, "capable" plugins are obvious; NSA cannot stop people from writing them, and they have little reason to restrict their use.

I think what NSA is likely to keep confidential are in-house plugins that are so specialized and/or underengineered that their publication would give away confidential information: stolen and illegitimate secrets (e.g. cryptographic private keys from a game console SDK), or exploits that they intend to deny knowledge of and continue milking, or general strategies and methods (e.g. a tool to "customize" UEFI images, with the implication that they have means to install them on a victim's computer).
by adrian_b | 2026-02-16 17:06:55+00:00
ARM Aarch64, IBM POWER and most RISC CPUs have had 32 general-purpose registers for many decades, and this has always been an advantage for them, not a disadvantage.

So there already is plenty of experience with ABIs using 32 GPRs.

Even so, unnecessary spilling could be avoided, but that would require some changes in programmer habits. For instance, one could require an ordering of the compilation of source files, e.g. to always compile the dependencies of a program module before it. Then the compiler could annotate the module interfaces with register usage and then use this annotations when compiling a program that imports the modules. This would avoid the need to define an ABI that is never optimal in most cases, by either saving too many or too few registers.
by tonyedgecombe | 2026-02-16 17:06:56+00:00
> This last, I dunno, 35 years or so, Visual Basic, Delphi, whatnot, producing code has been very easy

I’m not so sure about that. It’s very easy to take your own knowledge for granted. Most people can’t do what we do. Most of my customers couldn’t even express what they wanted.
by halJordan | 2026-02-16 17:07:14+00:00
What actually insane is what assumptions you allow to be assumed. These non sequitors that no human would ever assume are the point. People love to cherry pick ones that make the model stupid but refuse to allow the ones that make it smart. In compete science we call these scenarios trivially false, and they're treated like the nonsense they are. But if you're trying to push ant anti ai agenda they're the best thing ever
by throwworhtthrow | 2026-02-16 17:07:15+00:00
If this is actually true, I think you can find a more reliable source than Elon Musk.

I'm not saying you should never listen to a word he says. His actions shape the world after all, so it's important to understand how his words precede his behavior. But I'm baffled why anyone would take Elon at his word, or even slightly hedge their perception of reality based on Elon's claims of fact.
by MattJ100 | 2026-02-16 17:07:36+00:00
Yeah, iOS is definitely a weaker spot and we're aware of it. Monal is currently working on an overhaul of their UI (they have a grant allocated for it: https://nlnet.nl/project/Monal-IM-UI/ ).

There is also a new app in the works between Cheogram and Snikket. There is a beta available, but it's still young (and we won't apply any Snikket branding until E2EE is complete).

Thanks for sharing your experience!
by hakfoo | 2026-02-16 17:07:40+00:00
I always wondered how ARM lost the plot there.

Considering the original ARM use case was a desktop-computer shaped thing with some degree of expandability, they had to solve the same problems that the PC did in bringup/enumeration/device abstraction. These should be solved problems.

At some point between Archimedes and iPhone, they lost this functionality. I assume there was a moment where they assumed that they were only doing SoCs with fixed peripherals and jettisoned all their knowledge and tooling in the space.
by tjansen | 2026-02-16 17:08:11+00:00
I am not familiar with Nextcloud News. In the first version, it probably won't offer much for you, besides having a catalog of feeds, the ability to search them, and subscribe with one click, which is usually not offered by non-cloud RSS readers.

For people who do not want to use self-hosted services (which generally includes me), it offers simplicity. Open the page, choose Google as auth provider, confirm, and you will get a friendly start page. Click on 'follow' on one of the feeds, and you can start reading immediately. The UI is more like Facebook or X, so basically, you just need to scroll. Either in a feed of your choice, or all your feeds. It's designed to work well on small mobile screens, tablets, and desktops, with great keyboard support on the latter. Larger screens use two or three columns.
by brightball | 2026-02-16 17:08:16+00:00
Grok also said to drive. Also made an eco case for washing your car.

> If you're really trying to be an eco-warrior about a 50-meter trip, the real win is washing it in the first place so you're not driving around with a rolling dirt magnet that creates more drag and uses more fuel. Drive. It's the only option that actually gets your car clean.
by numeri | 2026-02-16 17:08:20+00:00
and if I was to guess, the latest generation of models (Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-codex, etc.) differ from Opus 4.5, GPT 5.2 primarily in the addition of deeper, more difficult (most likely agentic and coding-based, like Terminal Bench) tasks to their RLVR training.

I could be completely off, as my intuition here is fully based on public research papers, but it seems to explain the current state of things fairly well.
by MrJohz | 2026-02-16 17:09:42+00:00
Is TNotW really the same concept as Harry Potter? It has a university in it, which I guess is similar to a school, and after a while the main character ends up there, but it's a very different concept - it's classic high fantasy that includes a period of learning and study, whereas HP is primarily boarding school fiction with magical elements. Similarly, The Magicians, as I understand it, is also more about a university, and is perhaps closer in lineage to Buffy or Charmed than to Harry Potter - it has more of that focus on the interpersonal relationships between characters, and a more complex morality.

The better comparison is probably with Percy Jackson, which isn't quite the same concept (being an American series, where boarding school fiction isn't quite as well-known a genre) but matches the ages, sense of discovery, and relationships to authority figures far better.

This isn't directly relevant to your point, but I really find it wild that people see two stories that have magic and a school in them and go "look, it's the same thing", especially when the genres and tropes of the two books are so utterly different. For that matter, Harry Potter is also nothing like Earthsea, which is another common reference point. I wonder if Americans just don't have as much experience with boarding school fiction to be able to categorise Harry Potter as a series?
by haxel | 2026-02-16 17:09:48+00:00
I also ride bike, and used to bonk, but it didn't take long for my body to adapt to using fat as fuel. Half the battle was mental: accepting that I truly didn't need to eat anything; my body already had all the fuel it needed.

Then I could wake up, ride hard for hours (hilly terrain), and feel no need to eat until the afternoon.
by nutjob2 | 2026-02-16 17:09:54+00:00
> I have a good sense of their _edges_ of intelligence

They have no intelligence at all. The intelligence is latent in the text, generated by and belonging to humans, they just slice and dice text with the hope they get lucky, which works for many things, amazingly. This question really illustrates it what LLMs lack: an internal model of the idea (the question) and all the auxiliary logic/data that enables such models, usually referred to as "common sense" or world models.

Smart humans not only build mental models for ideas, but also higher order models that can introspect models (thinking about our own thinking or models) many levels deep, weigh, merge, compare and differentiate multiple models, sometimes covering vast areas of knowledge.

All this in about 20 watts. Maybe AGI is possible, maybe not, but LLMs are not where it will happen.
by wang_li | 2026-02-16 17:09:58+00:00
You're talking about a tragedy of the commons situation. There is an organic query rate of this based on the amount of public interest. Then there is the inorganic vacuuming of the entire dataset by someone who wants to exploit public services for private profit. There is zero reason why the public should socialize the cost of serving the excess capacity caused by private parties looking to profit from the public data.

I could have my mind changed if the public policy is that any public data ingested into an AI system makes that AI system permanently free to use at any degree of load. If a company thinks that they should be able to put any load they want on public services for free, they should be willing to provide public services at any load for free.
by h14h | 2026-02-16 17:10:26+00:00
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other model providers have created tools (the LLMs) with unprecedented new capabilities. The key problems are a) these new tools have weird limitations that make them hard to deploy effectively, and b) these tools are so fundamentally new that creating useful products out of them is an exercise in discovery and requires incredibly novel, forward-thinking vision.

Pete, more than anyone in the OSS community IMO, exemplifies both of these qualities. He is living very much on the bleeding edge, so yes, the 10s of projects he's shipped faster than most devs can ship 1 are not as polished as if he'd created them by hand. But he's been pushing the envelope in ways that few, if any, are, and I'd argue that OpenClaw is much more the result of Pete living on that edge and understanding the trade-offs of these tools better than just about anyone.

Personally, I'm much more jealous of the fact that Pete has already had a successful exit under his belt and had the freedom to explore & learn these tools to the fullest. There is definitely a degree of luck involved with the degree to which OpenClaw took off, but that Pete discovered it is 100% earned IMO.
by throwaway13337 | 2026-02-16 17:10:53+00:00
He's wrong about SEO being the differentiator. Quality matters.

It's a huge trope to think your product didn't work for the market because the marketers beat you. I used to be that kind of developer until I made some products that people actually wanted.

But he's right that the software market is changing. Software will be easier to build and require less people to build it. So more, smaller companies will compete for market share. Margins will be cut and the consumers will get more of what they want for a lower price.

I think this is called a working market. It's what it looks like when capitalism actually works.

This could be the end of enshitification.