MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2026-02-10 06:15:38+00:00
I tried the demo and it looks like you have to click Mic, then record your audio, then click "Stop and transcribe" in order to see the result.

Is it possible to rig this up so it really is realtime, displaying the transcription within a second or two of the user saying something out loud?

The Hugging Face server-side demo at https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtim... manages that, but it's using a much larger (~8.5GB) server-side model running on GPUs.
Show HN: Self-Healing AI Agents with Claude Code as Doctor
by ramsbaby | 2026-02-10 06:16:08+00:00
I built a 4-tier self-healing system for OpenClaw (AI agent platform running on my Mac Mini 24/7). The interesting part is Level 3: when health checks fail repeatedly, the system spawns Claude Code in a tmux PTY session to autonomously diagnose and repair issues.

Recovery escalation:
- Level 0-1: LaunchAgent KeepAlive + Watchdog
- Level 2: Automated "doctor --fix" (config validation, port checks)
- Level 3: Claude Code spawns in tmux, reads logs, attempts repairs
- Level 4: Discord alert if all automation fails

Production-tested in my homelab over 3 months: 99% recovery rate, recovery time reduced from 45min → 3min avg. Handled 17 consecutive crashes, config corruption, port conflicts.

Built for macOS (stable) with Linux systemd support (beta). MIT licensed.

Curious what others think about AI-powered infrastructure self-healing.
by tiny-automates | 2026-02-10 06:16:38+00:00
agreed, and i'd go further - the harness is where evaluation actually happens, not in some separate benchmark suite. rhe model doesn't know if it succeeded at a web task. the harness has to verify DOM state, check that the right element was clicked, confirm the page transitioned correctly. right now most harnesses just check "did the model say it was done" which is why pass rates on benchmarks don't translate to production reliability. the interesting harness work is building verification into the loop itself, not as an afterthought.
by lazylizard | 2026-02-10 06:16:41+00:00
those votes have every chance of changing everything.

its a first past the post system.

but fact is they always have majority of the popular vote. i dont think it ever declined below 55%. and at best they get 60+%.

there's always a large proportion of singaporeans who want the change. just never enough of them, yet. and maybe there might never be, if most singaporeans are happy with things as they stand.
by gip | 2026-02-10 06:17:21+00:00
> In 2026, I don't use an IDE any more.

I don't think it is the best way to look at it. I think that now every team has the power to build and maintain an internal agent (tool + UX) to manager software products. I don't necessarily think that chat-only is enough except for small projects, so teams will build agent that gives them access to the level of abstraction that works best.

It's a data point but this weekend (e.g. in 2 days) I build a desktop + web agent that is able to help me reason on system design and code. Built with Codex powered by the Codex SDK. It is high quality. I've been a software engineer and director of engineering for 10 years. I'm blown away.
by dangus | 2026-02-10 06:18:08+00:00
So your plan is endless growth? When is the population high enough to stop doing that? How is that supposed to work logistically? In what scenario does that not result in societal collapse within a short few lifetimes?

Endless growth and the inevitable planetary destruction/exhaustion from that process isn’t good for anyone, either.

It’s easier to adapt to a shrinking population than one that is too large to sustain with food and energy.

I hate to say it but tossing bible versus around isn’t going to make your case very well. If we want to talk about things that are grounded in reality maybe let’s not cite a book that says god sent bears to kill children who made fun of a guy for being bald (2 Kings 2:23-24).

Let’s be real: the Christian plan is to trash the earth (Genesis 1:26) until rapture comes around to bail everyone out who has been “good” by doing nothing but praying and fucking.

Any day now!
by simonw | 2026-02-10 06:18:28+00:00
I like the term "asynchronous coding agent", which I define as the category of coding agent which runs in a container somewhere and files a PR when it's done.

OpenAI Codex Cloud, Claude Code for the web, Gemini Jules and I think Devin (which I've not tried) are four examples.

I like that "asynchronous coding agent" is more specific than "asynchronous agent" - I don't have a firm idea of what an "asynchronous agent" is.

One catch though is that the asynchronous coding agents are getting less asynchronous. Claude Code for the web lets you prompt it while it's running which makes it feel much more like regular Claude Code.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-10 06:21:13+00:00
yeah, probably so. but what should matter is whether you're in compliance _now_. But if we do really want to arrest people who were at some point out of compliance in terms of their visa status, let's start with Elon and Melania, and we can talk about going through everyone's else's history and deporting them if they broke the immigration rules.
by hulitu | 2026-02-10 06:22:18+00:00
So what does the 3 horizontal lines do ? Or the 3 dots ? Or the exclamation sign ?

Your "app" icon says nothing about the code quality of your app and coming with such ideas: " the user will press the icons to see what they do" means: uninstalling.

"Do you want to delete all your files ? [Yes] Remind me later[]"
by stevekemp | 2026-02-10 06:23:57+00:00
GitLab is no improvement over github, their features are frequently half-baked, their site is slow, and outages are just as common.

I used to like Gitlab, and I've self-hosted enterprise versions of both github and gitlab, and strongly believe migration from one of them to the other for "improved reliability" will be utterly underwhelming and pointless.

Gitlab used to be able to take the high-ground due to the open-core model, but these days I'm not even sure if that makes an appreciable difference.
Any public labeled dataset of (customer question → seasoned sales response)?
by StupidoMaximo | 2026-02-10 06:24:09+00:00
I’m looking for a dataset where the input is a customer question/objection (ideally with some product + context), and the label is the response a seasoned salesperson would give to sell that product.

Not customer support, not generic persuasion—specifically sales responses grounded in product facts, with a “move the deal forward” intent.

Bonus if it includes metadata like product category, persona, stage (discovery/close), and outcomes (conversion, next step, etc.).

Does anything like this exist publicly? If not, what’s the closest proxy people use (call transcripts, negotiation corpora, synthetic generation, etc.)?
by tiny-automates | 2026-02-10 06:24:11+00:00
i'm building TinyFish (https://tinyfish.ai)- browser automation APIs built for AI agents. most agent frameworks treat the browser like a human would (screenshot, click, pray), which breaks constantly. TinyFish provides structured browser primitives that agents can actually reason about, DOM state, element targeting, action verification, so the agent knows whether it succeeded, not just that it clicked something.

working with a few enterprise teams on their agent pipelines.
by chrismorgan | 2026-02-10 06:24:11+00:00
Ah, explanations that are treated as justifications without actually justifying anything.

“Vertical rhythm” in website layout. Utter nonsense. Valuable in print layout (for adjacent columns or double-sided paper), completely useless in digital (unless you have side-by-side columns with headings or pictures mixed in, but this is seldom seen outside print, partly because the web doesn’t support it well).

“Modular scales” in choosing font sizes. Typically worse than utter nonsense, because you want heading levels to be distinctive, and modular scales will harm this by forcing lower heading levels to be too small.

Force all your app icons into a rounded square or squircle or circle, because consistency. No! Now you can’t find anything easily. Android was so much better before that nonsense started.

Monochrome icons deliberately designed to look the same. Now they’re unmemorable. Colour was a useful signal.

(This comment is generic; I’m not saying anything about LiftKit here, for or against.)
by joe_the_user | 2026-02-10 06:25:03+00:00
The dark matter theory broadly is that there is amount of invisible matter that obeys the laws of Einsteinian gravity but isn't otherwise visible. By itself, it has considerable experimental evidence. It doesn't resemble Ptolemaic theories of planetary motion notably in that doesn't and hasn't required regular updating as new data arrives.

It really fits well with the OP comments. Nothing really contradicts the theory but there's no deeper theory beyond it. Another comment mentioned as "nightmare" of dark matter only have gravitational interaction with other matter. That would be very unsatisfying for physicists but wouldn't something that really disprove any given theory.
by josh2600 | 2026-02-10 06:25:31+00:00
There’s so much in this article where I look at it and I’m like, is this ai slop?

I’m beginning to really appreciate short articles with a few bullet point takeaways.

With respect to version control across systems, when you get into serious stuff where mistakes are measured in lives and/or three commas, there’s just a lot more simplicity in the design of those systems than most people think.

Really big systems often have very simple design principles at their core which are echoed through out the topology.

In secure code like the stuff signal uses, having a hash of the code that is attested by a network of servers and chained back to self-signed identities on the client is the only way to go.

Here’s the hash of the code that’s supposed to be running on my server, here’s the proof that I verified it with all of the hardware and software tools at my disposal from the server, and here’s that hash and attestation embedded into the app on your phone or laptop that’s connecting to my box.

If there’s an easier way to get some semblance of “my device is talking to the right code on the right box,” please enlighten me.
by k310 | 2026-02-10 06:25:51+00:00
For my group, all I need is a file drop for the monthly calendar. PDF is fine, as is text.

I noticed that a Thunderbird pdf when read on a mac with preview, will find the dates and offer to add them to a calendar. It didn't have permissions to export other formats (?????) I gave it permissions, but the pdf worked. Text and pdf are good. People were struggling to populate Word calendar templates, a great waste of space and impossible to read on a small screen.

The catch is that the URL should be updateable with the latest pdf as events trickle in. Fixed, so people can bookmark it!

Can this be done?

Expiration of one month is fine, and while a fixed "forever" url is nice, one that's stable for a month is ok. It just needs to be reloadable with new pdf's for the month. I haven't seen this with free file sharing sites

It's just that users are not computer geeks, and the fewer changes they have to deal with, the better.

Author protection is good. Security by obscurity may be ok for users, although unwelcome guests might warrang a password.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-10 06:26:35+00:00
IRC exposes your IP and you can't even access history unless you're willing to self-host your own bouncer, which costs time, money, and risk even if you already know how to do it, which most people don't. Being IRC only will exclude a lot of people who want to contribute to your project while also adding a lot of friction to the mere act of sharing screenshots, which is problematic if you have any software which renders to something not text.

I grew up on IRC and still use it, I have my own bouncer set up, etc. But the devs on Discord and not IRC probably aren't the devs with the skillset and resources to host their own server and bouncer. IRC just isn't in the running to fill the Discord shaped hole.
by rasz | 2026-02-10 06:27:45+00:00
>I doubt that people think it's the engineering teams that are the problem

Did you forget Microsoft engineering response to Casey Muratori "Extremely slow performance when processing virtual terminal sequences"?

"I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively."

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...

followed by Casey producing evidence for his 'extremely simple' claim in couple of days.
Show HN: Pincer-MCP – Stop AI agents from reading their own credentials
by why_prem | 2026-02-10 06:28:59+00:00
I run AI agents for coding (OpenClaw, Claude Desktop) and realized they could read their own .env files. Tested it - asked my agent to "check configuration" and it printed everything.

The problem: agents need file access to work, but if they can read files, they can read their own credentials. One prompt injection and your API keys are leaked.

Standard solutions don't help:
- Environment variables: agent can read process.env
- Secret managers: agent needs credentials to access them
- Better prompting: can't security-patch an LLM with instructions

I built a proxy token architecture instead. The agent never sees real credentials:

- Agent has: pxr_abc123 (proxy token)
- Real keys: encrypted in OS keychain
- On API call: decrypt key, make call, scrub memory immediately

Built in 1 week. 500 npm installs with zero promotion (people are searching for this).

GitHub: https://github.com/VouchlyAI/Pincer-MCP
npm: npm install -g pincer-mcp

Works with OpenClaw, Claude Desktop, any MCP client.

Looking for security feedback - if you see holes in the architecture, please tell me. I want to know before people trust this with production credentials.
by baalimago | 2026-02-10 06:29:14+00:00
I've never heard anyone speak of "async agents". Autonomous agents, yes. Async? No. Sounds like a information bubble, if you ask me. A quick google trends lookup validates this: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=async%2520agents%2Cauton...

And I agree, "async agents" makes little sense
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-10 06:29:39+00:00
> The PAC, dubbed Leading the Future, formed in August with a more than $100 million commitment to support policymakers with a light-touch — or a no-touch — approach to AI regulation. And that means going after policymakers who want to regulate AI. The super PAC has backing from a number of other prominent leaders in tech, including Palantir co-founder and 8VC managing partner Joe Lonsdale as well as AI search engine Perplexity.
by randycupertino | 2026-02-10 06:29:39+00:00
When my dad passed away somewhere along the years of various moves and owners of the boat my mom or my uncle of my brother in law had lost the title to the boat and it was such a huge family debacle for YEARS because no one could prove who the owner was and they had to go through the estate to contact each owner of the boat through all the years since it was made every single person who ever had possession of the boat before it could be given away or sold to make sure it was not stolen it was the biggest headache for my mom and sisters and I to deal with. Also the hull, trailer and motor all had separate titles.

Now whenever I see an abandoned boat somewhere I'm like... they must have illegally dumped it because they lost the title and couldn't handle the administrative burden!!
by apparent | 2026-02-10 06:30:09+00:00
And that would be totally unfair if the law was kept secret, and then sprung on unsuspecting property owners.

But we all know that's not the case. Prospective purchasers are well aware of zoning laws. Same reason you can't build a fuel refinery on your tidy plot of R1 land. It would put existing owners, who have a reliance interest in existing zoning laws being respected, in an awfully unfair position.
by unethical_ban | 2026-02-10 06:30:28+00:00
Taking away porn access would be great except you can't do it at scale without with eliminating porn from the Internet altogether and prosecuting anyone who shares any, or by eliminating privacy and anonymity from the Internet altogether.

I agree with your take on the damage of porn to the youth but don't yet agree that asking the government to watch every conversation is worth it. (That's what you're enabling long term)
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-10 06:30:34+00:00
That's BS on it's face. Most states don't allow it or they restrict it to big business and government agencies.

It's 11 states, covering roughly a third of the US population. There's a quite few more if you own significant numbers of vehicles. You can s/most/many/ if it makes you feel better.

Most people's money isn't making a return greater than what insurance would cost them.

You wouldn't be making money on a self-insurance bond either. It's locked up with the state or in a surety account. You can also expect to pay a significant fraction of your regular insurance costs to maintain a surety bond.

Second, this completely ignores my point about credit.

Credit lines expire when you die (say in an accident), they're not guaranteed to pay out the full amount at any particular time, and the courts probably shouldn't go around binding third parties to pay out on your behalf.

States' interest here is in guaranteeing that there will always be a minimum amount of money to compensate victims, regardless of what other financial shenanigans you have going on in your life. That's not a standard that lines of credit and investment accounts meet. Self-insurance is simply a terrible option for most consumers, so no one does it.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-10 06:30:41+00:00
China learned from watching the US use export controls against them, and they've adapted them to their rare earths exports[1]. They're not going to be as easily bamboozled as the US has been with nVidia cards.

[1] https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/charting-china/2025/02/...
by adinisom | 2026-02-10 06:32:47+00:00
Appreciate you sharing that. Agree with the overall concern with children using tech and I'd start with banning smartphones in school classrooms. Two observations:

Why stop with image boards? After eliminating all photo uploads, awful people still produced and shared illegal content. So then we eliminated unlicensed camera use. 'Course the real problem still happened.

Hacker News is made possible by Section 230... should it not exist?
by gf000 | 2026-02-10 06:33:01+00:00
Grep and vim are a much smaller magnitude than Linux, so don't mix the two. And you do pay for Linux indirectly, it ain't written by some developer in their basements out of their good heart for a long time. It's written by Intel, Nvidia, cloud vendors' etc - full salaried employees. You just pay for it via hardware or cloud fees.

But to be honest your stance is extremely detached from reality. It's a huge privilege to be able to work on a hobby project, people tend to need food and a place to live, you know?
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-02-10 06:33:17+00:00
StrongDM is attempting that. The code they produced is not inspiring confidence on a relatively small scale [0], and based on what I saw with a cursory inspection I very much doubt I wouldn't find much deeper issues if I took the time to really dig into their code.

Don't get me wrong, "sort of works if you squint at it" is downright miraculous by the standards of five years ago, but current models and harnesses are not sufficient to replace developers at this scale.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46927737
Ask HN: How do you maximize your luck surface area?
by tiny-automates | 2026-02-10 06:33:38+00:00
been thinking about this a lot lately. the original idea is simple : luck = doing × telling.

but after 10 years of actively running this playbook, i think the model undersells what actually happens.

the obvious part: more shots on goal means probability tilts your way, especially because the payoffs are asymmetric. one random conversation, one side project you shipped and tweeted about, one post that lands - the upside is 100x the effort.

the non-obvious part: the shots compound. every attempt leaves behind memory, skills, context, pattern recognition, that improves your odds on every subsequent bet, even unrelated ones. it's not independent coin flips, it's a system that gets better at generating luck over time.

content creation is probably the highest-leverage version of this right now. writing, shipping in public, putting your thinking out there - it's "telling" at scale with near-zero marginal cost. a blog post works while you sleep. a demo video compounds for months.

curious how people here practice this. what's something you built or shared that led to an opportunity you'd never have found heads-down? and has anyone found the ceiling, where more surface area starts hurting focus?
by dagss | 2026-02-10 06:34:56+00:00
Compared to the salary I loose by not taking a consulting gig for half a year, these $800 arent't all that much. (I guess depending on definition of bootstrap, mine might not be, as I support myself with saved consulting income.)

Startup is a gamble with or without the LLM costs.

I have been coding for 20 years, I have a good feel for how much time I would have spent without LLM assistance. And if LLMs vanish from the face of the earth tomorrow, I still saved myself that time.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-10 06:35:27+00:00
The situation you're describing is equivalent to paying your 5% in asset tax the normal way (by giving up 5% of the asset) and then saying "I love enron, let me take out a loan to buy stock with!" Buying stock with a loan is an obviously stupid move, and wanting to "stay invested" is nothing more than a rationalization. Keeping the same percentage of your wealth in the stock is already staying invested. Increasing the percentage for the sole purpose of keeping the same number of shares is a bad idea.

And this hypothetical me, having to pay a wealth tax, is way way over the line of needing a financial advisor, so that advisor will be telling me it's a bad idea to take out loans to buy stock.
Show HN: Canon-C – a semantic C library
by Fikoko | 2026-02-10 06:35:43+00:00
I kept rewriting the same low-level patterns in C — arenas, memory management, error handling, vectors, parsing, file I/O, iteration utilities — and existing libraries either hide allocation, impose frameworks, or lack consistency.

So I built Canon-C, a small, composable set of explicit C modules that:

Treat C as an execution backend, not a semantic authority

Add meaning through libraries, not syntax

Make intent visible directly in the API: ownership, lifetime, and failure handling are explicit

Modules are organized by semantic layers:

core/ — memory, lifetime, scope, primitives

semantics/ — Option, Result, error handling

data/ — vectors, queues, stacks, string builders

algo/ — map, filter, fold, sort, search

util/ — safe string ops, file I/O, logging, timing

Design highlights:

Header-only

No runtime or global state

No hidden allocation (except in clearly marked convenience layers)

Fully explicit behavior

I’d love feedback from anyone doing systems programming, embedded C, or serious C projects, especially on macro-heavy vs. modular design, semantic clarity, and practical usage.
by left-struck | 2026-02-10 06:35:45+00:00
Well probably more people want to be city planners than the number of city planners society actually requires. Also, I think I would draw the line somewhere way before the real world. I want most of the technical details of the real world without having to deal with the politics. I don’t want to attend town hall meetings and stakeholder consultations in my game, but then again maybe someone else wants that.