MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zdragnar | 2026-02-04 22:53:27+00:00
Nobody gets fired for choosing SAP, Salesforce etc.

Spending tons of money to get a janky, unreliable system of record, or finding out too late it is missing crucial auditing capabilities, or that it has Big Money bugs, on the other hand, is far worse, especially if you have investors asking what the hell you were thinking.

Your point about users not knowing what they wanted until after the fact is also painfully true. The hardest part about these systems is the people most likely to buy are the ones who have been doing it with a lot of human processes for years. Buying a SaaS or other third party product means having leverage to force them to change to more standard practices. Building in-house means that everyone will fight to high hell to make sure that their special snowflake way of doing things is accounted for and you end up in a worse spot as a result.
by JaydenLawson | 2026-02-04 22:53:46+00:00
Only just starting to implement openclaw here in Australia now, and this looks great. Well done. Infinite applications for this. One I just thought of is social media browsing/interacting/commenting. I've always wanted a tool that would auto-like things based on a set of rules, pre-write comments on posts for me to batch-approve. All the best with the project!
by gibsonsmog | 2026-02-04 22:54:10+00:00
My understanding is that it's quite easy to poison the models with inaccurate data, I wouldn't be surprised if this exact thing has happened already. Maybe not an AI company itself, but it's definitely in the purview of a hostile actor to create bad code for this purpose. I suppose it's kind of already happened via supply chain attacks using AI generated package names that didn't exist prior to the LLM generating them.
by samyar | 2026-02-04 22:54:14+00:00
I live in Kurdistan (Iran) because of sanctions if it was not for crypto buying something online would have been one of the most difficult things i could do. i should have used middleman that give no guarantee to their services and suck. so I'm glad for crypto that i can receive my revenue and buy things. and instantly send money.

note: i read the comments and all of them argue against it because of its energy consumption. I don't find any of them convincing crypto has been good to me and i want it to be good for others too. The only thing that i care about are pedos and drug dealers which makes very upset because it's very true, they use it and i wish there was a way to track them.
by keybored | 2026-02-04 22:54:36+00:00
Technocracy is fascinating because the ideology is either an intentional obfuscation about what politics is at its core, or an ideology for well-educated and absolutely politically illiterate people.

“Don’t make this political.” See, right there? That’s the entire shtick. The negation of the political. Repeat that very political mantra until it takes hold. Until the political philosophy of not-politics has won.

Politics is conflicts of interests between persons and groups. A political problem is a people problem. A technical problem has a technical and objective solution. Fifty different interests does not have a technical solution.

Or does it? Everything is dynamic, and one person’s supposed technical problem is a political problem for another one. But mix the two together? Then it becomes a political problem unless the first one manages to dominate the other.
by braincat31415 | 2026-02-04 22:54:41+00:00
I think most of what you said is incorrect.
You need to chat about this with high school teachers. From my personal experience and that of my friends who have teen kids right now --
Talking to kids about these issues is useless; they will say anything to keep the opium coming. They might be aware that spending a lot of time on social media and cell phones might result in slipping grades and homework not done, but they will spend hours on both, regardless of consequences. A lot of emotional anguish will come from social media, and kids on social media are generally a lot more nasty to each other than in person. There are so many tears because of what he/she said on discord... especially girls, being more emotional, cannot mitigate anything at all. These things suck them in like a drug, and parents' action is often the only way out.
A blocked social media and kids' cell phones on my desk until homework and chores are done was the most important factor that helped to turn their grades around, and I know a lot of other parents who gravitated towards the same thing.
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-02-04 22:54:51+00:00
You're not considering opportunity costs and buyers vs. users.

If your senior developers can slap together something better than an expensive SAAS offering you want them directing that energy at your core products/services rather than supporting tools.

And the people deciding to buy the expensive SAAS tools are often not the people using them, and typically don't care too much about how crappy the tool may or may not be for doing the job it's advertising as doing.
by risyachka | 2026-02-04 22:55:21+00:00
In any usable product making a product is like 20% or less.
Enter compliance, security, payments and a million other things.

Even if you can build it in a day B2B SaaS will continue to prosper because they sell peace of mind, reliability and compliance. Not features.

Also due to economy of scale it will always be cheaper to buy something from a vendor that sells it to many clients than to DIY it.
by straydusk | 2026-02-04 22:55:21+00:00
Exactly this. The framing matters. The code is an intermediate artifact - what I actually care about is: does the product work, does it meet the spec, do the tests pass?

I've found that focusing my attention upstream (specs, constraints, test harness) yields better outcomes than poring over implementation details line by line. The code is still there if I need it. I just rarely need it.
by oxfeed65261 | 2026-02-04 22:55:48+00:00
It seems to be archived on the wayback machine, for example https://web.archive.org/web/20260203163430/https://www.cia.g...

It was available for online browsing or as a downloadable file, I think a zip compressed PDF. I’m sure copies are available, but it would be nice to have an authoritative source.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-04 22:57:05+00:00
If it blocks traffic, legally it needs a permit. (Or is this just some/my municipality?)

No, that would be an incredibly narrow reading of the bill of rights. It's also not how Americans have ever interpreted their rights. Blocking commerce has a long history as a form of protest in the US. It was used in the revolutionary war, the great railroad strike, the pullman strike, the suffrage movement, civil rights, etc. A lot of ink has been spilled trying to draw lines around what "peaceable" means and when a blockage becomes unpeaceable, but it's universally acknowledged that the bar is somewhat higher than whatever local ordinances happen to decide on.

Let's talk some more about the civil rights example though. MLK was famously arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign for demonstrating without a permit. His response was to write his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" [0], where the famous quote that "Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" originates. He directly addresses this issue of permits later in the letter:

For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.

[0] https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
by AloysB | 2026-02-04 22:57:06+00:00
I came here to say the exact same thing. This is so refreshing.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.
No BS, no ads, no sale pitch, no AI, no pretending, nothing. Just a stranger sharing with the world a project he built at home.

Those picture of the welds are inspiring. It is as honest as it gets. Loved it.

Thank you.
by cromulent2 | 2026-02-04 22:58:29+00:00
Thanks! Frontend is Nextjs. Flask, Postgres and Redis in the backend. Hosted on a cheap VPS.

I spent way too much time trying to automate moderation (grouping related submissions, judging similarity, removing offensive submissions) using sentence-transformers and w2v. Finally gave up and settled on using deepseek to moderate for 0.002€ a day.

One thing I'm currently working on is improving the exploration vs exploitation balance in matchmaking (selecting the fakes to present to a player). I want sessions to contain good fakes, but every fake must be played a few times to judge its quality. As a first step, I'm replacing the ELO system for definitions with one that accounts for uncertainty (like Trueskill)
by straydusk | 2026-02-04 22:58:30+00:00
I think people attacking "don't read the code" are not considering the status quo - they're comparing to some perfect world where staff engineers are reading every line of code. That's not even close to happening. Test-driven development is something most engineers just won't put up with... AI's will do it, no problem. If I can automate ten different checks for every commit, is my code really getting looked at less?
by ericblue | 2026-02-04 22:58:41+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been experimenting with running AI agents fully sandboxed (Linux containers / VMs), specifically while configuring and testing OpenClaw (Clawdbot). One issue I kept hitting is that many existing skills for macOS apps like Reminders or Messages assume the agent runs directly on the host and are very permissive in what they allow.

That felt like the wrong security model.

So last weekend I built Mac Agent Gateway, a small open-source project that acts as a local macOS gateway for agents.

The approach is:

- agents stay sandboxed (Linux, VM, container, or remote host)

- a small service runs locally on macOS

- the service exposes a tightly scoped HTTP API that agents access via skills

This allows sandboxed agents to safely interact with Apple apps that are normally restricted to macOS, without giving the agent shell access or broad system permissions.

Current support includes Reminders and Messages. One concrete example: a sandboxed agent can review the last 1–2 weeks of messages, identify what’s important or unanswered, and create follow-up reminders with full context using a reasoning model.

Security-wise, the design is intentionally conservative:

- local-only HTTP interface

- explicitly allow-listed actions

- no shell access

- no filesystem access

- macOS TCC permissions remain enforced

I’ve tested this so far with OpenClaw and Claude, but the design should work with any agent framework that supports a SKILLS.md-style integration.

Repo:
https://github.com/ericblue/mac-agent-gateway

I’m especially interested in feedback on:

- whether the security model and threat boundaries feel appropriate

- what macOS capabilities would actually be useful next

- how others are handling safe OS access for agents

Happy to answer questions.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-04 22:58:48+00:00
> We were founded by deeply religious Christians who were exactly the opposite of that mindset.

This is ahistorical nonsense. You’re really saying the country of “Manifest Destiny” had no attitude of “Fuck you, I got mine” because they were deeply religious Christians?

Not to mention “Christian” has been bastardized so hard that I find it hard to imagine there’s really much overlap between what a “Christian” today believes vs what they believed in 1776. Let’s take, for example, their recorded views on the “personhood” of indigenous peoples (and Africans!) and whether they were capable of being saved by Christ. Never mind the absolute multitude of sects that existed then but don’t exist now and vice versa.

Your perspective is one of myth-building and religious supremacy, which is well-refuted by the significant evidence in the form of history books as well as primary sources.

> Tough the may have traded with natives

How benevolent.

You should really read about what it actually means to perform a genocide on indigenous peoples. The ugly side. Read the diary of Thomas Thistlewood, a self-proclaimed Christian. Let me know how you feel about the passage where he forced an enslaved person to defecate into another enslaved person’s mouth.
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-02-04 22:58:51+00:00
> Any relatively healthy 30-something should handle that just fine no matter how untrained they are.

Are you basing that on anything other than vibes?

> There is clearly some underlying condition causing this, it's not overtraining.

Two cardiologists were unable to identify an issue, and their reported symptoms match OTS pretty much exactly.
From building client websites to launching my own SaaS
by CheckAnalytic | 2026-02-04 22:59:08+00:00
I didn’t start with SaaS.
I started by building websites WordPress for survival.

My first real projects were simple sites — landing pages, directories, small tools.
One of them grew into Around md — a platform that helps people discover restaurants, parks, and interesting places in their city.

No VC. No team.

Just real users searching for where to go and what to explore around them.
Later, I officially opened my company — dricomm.com

Sounds fancy. Reality was not. Analytics…
It was:
• clients asking “why numbers don’t match”
• analytics dashboards nobody trusted
• GDPR emails every few months
• cookie banners everywhere
• and GA4… always GA4

Every site I launched had the same issue: analytics data never felt real.
Pageviews were lower than expected. Funnels didn’t make sense.
Marketing decisions were based on “best guesses”.

And the moment you add a cookie banner — boom: 30–50% of users disappear from your data.

At some point I realized something uncomfortable: I don’t actually know what’s happening on my own websites.

That’s when I stopped trying to “fix GA4”
and started building what I personally needed.

So I built CheckAnalytic.com — slowly, alone, after client work, without a roadmap slide deck.

What I wanted was simple:
• No cookies
• No consent banners
• No legal anxiety
• Numbers I can trust
• Setup that takes minutes, not hours
Not an “enterprise solution”.
Not a “GA4 replacement”.

Just analytics that works for founders who actually ship.

The funny part?
I didn’t plan to sell it. I used it on my own projects first. Around md. Client sites. Side projects.

And for the first time, numbers started to make sense.
Traffic matched feedback.

Marketing experiments became predictable.
Decisions stopped being emotional.

When I shared it with a few other founders, the feedback was always the same: “This finally feels honest.”
That sentence hit me harder than any metric. Because web analytics today isn’t broken technically. It’s broken emotionally.

Founders don’t trust their own dashboards anymore.
So yes — I’m still solo.

Still iterating.
Still answering support myself.
Still improving onboarding, UX, and performance.

But now I’m building for the future:
• privacy-first by default
• EU-friendly without legal gymnastics
• simple enough that you don’t need tutorials

If you’re an indie hacker, SaaS founder, or agency owner — you probably felt this pain too.
So I’m not here to pitch.
I’m here to ask: What made you stop trusting your analytics?

I’ll read every reply. Even the brutal ones.
by esafak | 2026-02-04 22:59:46+00:00
Apparently this is in support of their 2.0 release: https://www.qodo.ai/blog/introducing-qodo-2-0-agentic-code-r...

> We believe that code review is not a narrow task; it encompasses many distinct responsibilities that happen at once. [...]

> Qodo 2.0 addresses this with a multi-agent expert review architecture. Instead of treating code review as a single, broad task, Qodo breaks it into focused responsibilities handled by specialized agents. Each agent is optimized for a specific type of analysis and operates with its own dedicated context, rather than competing for attention in a single pass. This allows Qodo to go deeper in each area without slowing reviews down.

> To keep feedback focused, Qodo includes a judge agent that evaluates findings across agents. The judge agent resolves conflicts, removes duplicates, and filters out low-signal results. Only issues that meet a high confidence and relevance threshold make it into the final review.
by straydusk | 2026-02-04 23:00:12+00:00
I mean, fair enough. Obviously there are different levels of criticality in any production environment. I'm building consumer products and internal tools, not safety-critical systems.

Even in those environments, I'd argue that AI coding can offer a lot in terms of verification & automated testing. However, I'd probably agree, in high-stakes safety environments, it's more of a 'yes and' than an either/or.
by cmeacham98 | 2026-02-04 23:00:20+00:00
While the product sounds mildly interesting, I see it as a major red flag you think it's ok for either a submitter or reviewer to not even read the code they are working with and ship thousand line diffs of LLM-generated code.

That's the lack of professionalism I give my random PoC personal projects where the only user I can break is myself - at work I am reading every line of every PR I submit or review, even if I used an LLM to assist writing the code.
by ls612 | 2026-02-04 23:00:25+00:00
You're right that absent some colossal screwup you could never prove one way or another that it was legit vs planted, but stuff like that changes my priors on what I believe can happen. The fact that it is completely deniable also increases the incentive for the government to do it, and they no doubt have the capability. Capability and motive combined leads me to believe that it likely does happen.
by n013 | 2026-02-04 23:00:40+00:00
At VBA side the code is clean and highly manageable.

Sub RunModule()
Dim eng As New ASF

' Set working directory
eng.InjectVariable "wd", ThisWorkbook.Path

' Execute module file
Dim result As Variant
result = eng.Execute(ThisWorkbook.Path & "\main.vas")

Debug.Print result

End Sub

ASF isn't just a framework, is a modern language that we can run inside VBA.
by rezonant | 2026-02-04 23:01:24+00:00
> In the morning I typically check my work calendar, my personal calendar, the shared family calendar, and the kids' various school calendars. It would be convenient to have these aggregated. (Copying events or sending new events to all of the calendars works well until I forget and one slips through the cracks...)

But... calendar apps already let you aggregate your calendars into a single view. Even if you have them on separate accounts (or some other impediment), you can easily share a read-only version of, say, your work calendar with your personal account so that you can have them combined in the morning.
by sailfast | 2026-02-04 23:01:34+00:00
What if I mentioned to you that a solid chunk of those employees could be given a couple of shares of stock that made a few lucky people billionaires - some that still work there - and it would be a life-changing amount of money?

In addition to some truly gnarly stories / conditions and their staunch anti-Union stance it is also a relativity issue. There is much to go around but it’s not always spread around with consideration for your employees. And there really isn’t a good reason for that in my opinion.

I hear the argument “well I guess they don’t deliver as much value / leverage for the company as others”. I get it, but at a certain point that rings as a completely hollow and greedy justification. Where that is for you is subjective. But for me? Where there are billionaires there is room for generosity.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-04 23:01:39+00:00
It seems as if LinkedIn removed the ability to request connections specifically. I had to request my entire archive.

Also, minor thing, there is no requirements.txt file based on the setup in README.md but I understand that it's only `requests` and it looks like even this is handled in the Python script.

In the README.md, the flag for the Connections.csv is actually `--connections`.

I'm also getting a `429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url:` which sometimes resolves itself after a few requests for some reason. Not sure if `delay` needs to be increased.

For the sake of privacy of my own connections, I think it would be better to have an option to download all Epstein files locally (a great feature in and of itself) and then do a search.

Last edit: I got the results and it's all false positives from people who have common names. Most of the results in the search engine are based on badly done OCR from PDF's. I would have done the OCR with an vLLM, it would be much more accurate. I would highly recommend changing the search engine.

Thank you for this.
by moffkalast | 2026-02-04 23:02:27+00:00
The diffusion is the main advantage of using helium, it takes ~3x longer to leak out, which directly affects flight time.

Hydrogen is actually harder to buy in my experience, helium is sold everywhere for cheap in small canisters for parties, whereas the second requires like, industrial welding suppliers that will want to sell you a large tank for a few thousand or making your own electrolyser and compressor. There's no common use case for it you could piggyback on.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-04 23:03:45+00:00
There is no question that he won the presidential election in 2024.

However, when people say things like "this is what Americans voted for" ... there's a bit more nuance required. His election win is what our electoral process produced. But to conclude from that that an actual majority of Americans preferred his policies to anyone else's ... that's a mistake.

And yes, 51.66% of people voted against Harris - they could have voted for her, but chose to vote for someone else.
by simonw | 2026-02-04 23:04:00+00:00
Urgh, this is nasty:

curl -i 'https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook'
HTTP/2 302
content-length: 0
location: https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell/

They didn't even have the decency to give it a 410 or 404 error.

Same for all of the country pages - they redirect back to the same story: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/morocco/

The thing was released into the public domain! No reason at all to take it down - they could have left the last published version up with a giant banner at the top saying it's no longer maintained.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-04 23:04:19+00:00
Hmmm. They do not mention Wikipedia, but the CIA book kind of had information about countries for a very long time. I get that Wikipedia would objectively make more sense; so while it may make sense to stop investing resources into the CIA book, I still think it would be better to keep tabs on the content of Wikipedia. Kind of like a secondary quality control. It may not be hugely important here, but if 100.000 other websites vanish, I still think it may be an indirect problem for Wikipedia, as all its presented facts may become increasingly more and more circular to itself - which is made worse by AI slop spamming down the global quality.