MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EarlKing | 2026-02-26 22:07:37+00:00
It is not about whether or not it is available for free, at cost, or otherwise, but whether or not the activity has the character of commercial product development. It's what the product is used for, not what price it's set at. A 501(c)(3) directly developing, or funding the development, of commercial software is not engaged in charitable, educational, or other exempt activities.

For reference: This is exactly what happened to the Yorba Foundation, and numerous others since then.[1]

[1] https://www.stradley.com/business-vantage-point-blog/irs-con...
by t-writescode | 2026-02-26 22:07:49+00:00
Nice severance; but in this job market, holy shit.

Yeah, you get 5 months of severance and a bunch of devices and such; but, does this CEO really think these employees will find new work in that time? In this job market?

If the profits are still up and growing, why on earth would you evict 40% of the company, to send them into this job market? Why not … try new industries, play around, try to become the next Mitsubishi or Samsung or General Electric. If you’ve got the manpower and talent, why not play with it and see if anything makes money. In-house startups with stable capital, all that.

This seems … wrong.
by tatheery | 2026-02-26 22:08:10+00:00
"Hey HN, I built Huesnatch because I was tired of manually eyedropping competitor screenshots to get their HEX codes.
It runs entirely in your browser—nothing is uploaded to a server. You can upload an image to get a palette or use your device camera to enjoy natural colors.
Huesnatch has a large palettes library to hunt attractive palettes and enjoy these palettes in real design visualization. I want you to share Huesnatch with your Social media famil. I'm especially looking for feedback on the speed of the URL extractor and whether the suggested palette matches what you'd expect. Thanks for checking it out!"
by hrvstr | 2026-02-26 22:08:42+00:00
Really nice project! I was looking for something like this just a couple of days ago.

> designed to run on free/hobby server tiers.(Koyeb/Render etc)

Can you elaborate on this part? Koyeb doesn't seem to have a free tier. I got the docker container running on Render but all configuration is gone after a restart.
by geboss | 2026-02-26 22:09:05+00:00
I've been building Vehique.ai for the past year – basically an AI operating system for car shopping and research. Users describe what they want in natural language, we search live inventory and curate results, they can compare 2-4 cars side by side, and a scout agent runs hourly and daily to find new listings that match their preferences. Here's the thing, I don't have savings, will be graduating in may, and building solo. users keep visiting the product (3000 monthly now) but scaling is tough on my own. been considering applying for yc and other accelerators but also job hunting as backup.

For those who've built marketplace or consumer products or worked on similar problems – am i chasing something real here or should i take a swe job and shelve this? not looking for encouragement, just honest takes on whether this problem is worth the next year of my life.

The tech stack is a multi-agent system with llms. happy to share more details if useful.
by highview | 2026-02-26 22:09:09+00:00
The AI CLI split-pane workflow is the detail that stood out to me. I've been running Claude Code in Windows Terminal and the context-switching is genuinely annoying — you're constantly tabbing between the agent output and your shell. Having yaw auto-detect the tool and open a companion terminal in the same directory is the kind of small UX decision that compounds over a full workday. Tried it this morning. Works as described.
The connection manager is also underrated in the post. Encrypted credential storage + Tailscale auto-detection in one place covers a lot of ground for anyone managing a handful of SSH hosts and databases regularly.
Question for the dev: how are credentials encrypted at rest? Local keychain, or something custom?
by jcims | 2026-02-26 22:09:14+00:00
Interesting to me that Opus 4.6 was described as forward looking. I haven't *really* paid attention, but after using 4.5 heavily for a month, the first greenfield project I gave Opus 4.6 resulted in it doing a web search for latest and greatest in the domain as part of the planning phase. It was the first time I'd seen it, and it stuck out enough that I'm talking about it now.

Probably confirmation bias, but I'm generally of the opinion that the models are basically good enough now to do great things in the context of the right orchestration and division of effort. That's the hard part, which will be made less difficult as the models improve.
by telesilla | 2026-02-26 22:09:24+00:00
Helpful for those who care less about the craft and more about a quick outcome. Werner Herzog said that he watches his footage a few times, takes extensive notes then edits based on his notes. That's how he crafts such extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime stories. But for those who are working on commercial or home movies, why not use AI to build a narrative? It can be like throwing dice and the outcome could be OK. Maybe even good.

Regardless, having a tool that knows the content of your footage is a huge time saver. Good luck with the product.
by palmotea | 2026-02-26 22:09:49+00:00
>> * this is "AGI" in it's most direct and absolute version with zero fluff*

> Given it’s an ambiguous term, sure. But I don’t think a better collaborative AI is what anyone imagined when we said AGI years ago.

He scare-quoted AGI. I think what he means is we won't experience AGI as some kind of utopia of abundance (which is how it is hyped to us), we will experience as massive and brutal layoffs.

Actual AGI will be worse. If Block had that, Dorsey wouldn't be laying off 40%, he'd probably lay off 80% or more.
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-26 22:10:07+00:00
I am not saying that you should tear down anything that works for you.

Trade barriers however are bullshit and don't work. And they are a lie. You are not building IPhones in the US because building an IPhone in the US would cost three times as much as it would doing in Shenzhen. And people would not be willing to pay that. And that's why they get an exception from the trade barriers. And that list of exceptions basically goes on and on and on...

Anyway, what works, works. This is especially true if that industry had been in the area for long, and therefore has access to a lot of skilled and experienced workers.

But it does not make sense to cry and complain that building such a thing from scratch is "banned". No, it is not banned. It's just a stupid idea, and there are laws against stupid ideas using limited natural resources.
by Swizec | 2026-02-26 22:10:10+00:00
> Nice severance; but in this job market, holy shit.

I just talked to a bunch of recruiters (we're hiring) and their main piece of advice was: The market is crazy. Move fast. We're seeing people getting jobs within days of starting to look, bailing on offers after signing because they got a better offer somewhere else, etc. 24 hours is the longest you can leave a candidate waiting. You have been warned

edit: I am in SFBA. Your reality may be different. People have spilled some 2 trillion dollars onto the area in the past 2 years. A lot of that is going to software engineers as everyone tries to shove AI down consumers' throats. Rents are up 60% in 12 months, which is not the sign of a cold employment market :)
by gambiting | 2026-02-26 22:10:53+00:00
So I'll say two things to that:

1) If your car is stolen, suddenly none of this capability exists, or is inaccessible to police for some reason. No one can actually just type in your reg and see where it was last seen, seemingly, even though it would be an easy way to locate criminals. And if you think well, thieves will just change the plates - no, stolen vehicles are frequently recovered on their original plates.

2) I keep saying various FB Police pages posting "we found this car X without MOT or tax, last time it was taxed in 2023!" so like...it's been driving for 3 years without anyone noticing? What are all those ANPR cameras for then??
by rapind | 2026-02-26 22:10:55+00:00
> That’s an indicator code quality doesn’t matter at macro scales.

I think it can though. It just depends. Having high quality code and making good technical choices can matter in many ways. From improving performance (massively) and correctness, to attracting great talent. Jane Street and WhatsApp come to mind, maybe Discord too. Just like great design will attract great designers.

I also think it might matter even more in the age of AI Agents. Most of my time now is spent reviewing code instead of writing code, and that makes me a huge bottleneck. So the best way to optimize is to make the code more readable and having good automated checks to reduce the amount of work I need to do, like static types, no nulls, compilation, automated tests, secondary agent reviews, etc.
by Symbiote | 2026-02-26 22:11:09+00:00
I'm only a tourist when I visit places with NEMA sockets, so I'm sure I see much more worn sockets than a resident of America.

But I often find sockets that have a loose grip on heavier plugs, like a phone charger, or a NEMA-CEE adaptor.

(Half my experience is in Central and South America, where maintenance is probably worse — though in Africa old CEE or UK sockets are usually OK.)
by nevi-me | 2026-02-26 22:11:41+00:00
I'm a bit upset that there's no screenshot of Africa in the call outs at the bottom.

With the detail spec that the author describes, it reminds me that I have an identical CPU but I couldn't get my RAM to run at the advertised 5600Mhz. Hopefully there's updated BIOS so I can try did the issue again. Anyone know if I'd notice meaningful difference by flight from 3600 (what the pc reports) to 5600Mhz?
by varjag | 2026-02-26 22:11:47+00:00
i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead.

Come on now, it's not going to be the only round.
by mrandish | 2026-02-26 22:11:56+00:00
> Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man

The things this definition misses: First, 'intelligence' is a poorly defined and overly broad term. Second, machine intelligence is profoundly different than biological intelligence. Third, “surpassing humans” is not a single threshold event because machine and human intelligence are not only shaped differently, they're highly non-linear. LLMs are a particular class of possible machine intelligences which can be much more intelligent than humans on some dimensions and much less intelligent on others. Some of the gaps can be solved by scaling and brilliant engineering but others are fundamental to the nature of LLMs.

> an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines

There is a huge leap between "surpass all the intellectual activities of any man" and "invent extraordinary breakthroughs and then reliably repeat that feat in a sequential, directed fashion in the exact way required to enable sustained iteration of substantial self-improvement across infinite generations in a runaway positive feedback loop". That's an ability no human or collective has ever come close to demonstrating even once, much less repeatedly. (hint: the hardest parts are "reliably repeat", "extraordinary breakthroughs" and "directed fashion"). A key, yet monumental, subtlety is that the self- improvements must not only be sustained and substantial but also exponentially amplify the self-improvement function itself by discovering novel breakthroughs which build coherently on one other - over and over and over.

The key unknown of the 'Foom Hypothesis' is categorical. What kind of 'difficult feat' this is? There are difficult feats humans haven't demonstrated like nuclear fusion, but in that example we at least have evidence from stellar fusion that it's possible. Then there are difficult feats like room-temp superconductors, which are not known to be possible but aren't ruled out. The 'Foom Hypothesis' is a third category of 'hard' which is conceptually coherent but could be physically blocked by asymptotic barriers, like faster-than-light travel under relativity.

Assuming Foom is like fusion - just a challenging engineering and scaling problem - is a category error. In reality, Foom requires superlinear, recursively amplifying cognitive returns—and we have no empirical evidence that such returns can exist for artificial or biological intelligences. The only prior we have for open‑ended intelligence improvement is biological evolution which shows extremely slow and unreliable sublinear returns at best. And even if unbounded self‑improvement is physically possible, it may be practically unachievable due to asymptotic barriers in the same way approaching light speed requires exponentially more energy.
by blobbers | 2026-02-26 22:12:30+00:00
I think you could apply specific CVEs to specific devices + setting combination, as:

CVE 1 : router brand X software version Y.Z configured with client isolation does not provide sufficient isolation that it cannot be broken with air snitch.

CVE 2 : router brand A software version B.C configured with client isolation does not provide sufficient isolation that it cannot be broken with air snitch.

etc.
by leptons | 2026-02-26 22:12:33+00:00
3D printing is giving my company many benefits over injection molding. We have 6 variations of the case for our device and we're always coming up with improvements and new functionality, and new products. I only see us expanding our in-house resin print farm instead of building out injection molds. No, we aren't selling millions of units, but injection molding is just too expensive for anything but a 1-size-fits-all solution.
by h4ch1 | 2026-02-26 22:12:37+00:00
Wow it's capable of critiquing its' own output?

<OUTPUT>

While the overall aesthetic matches the minimal white-stroke style and technical design you requested, and the provided step descriptions are included, please note that there are a few minor rendering artifacts in this specific generation:

The text on the banner entering the vault in step 8 is illegible.

There is a small typo in the caption for step 6 ("CONFLSCT" instead of "CONFLICT").

Despite these small imperfections, this layout should work well as a guide for your canvas implementation.

</OUTPUT>
Show HN: A drag and drop GUI builder for CustomTkinter
by talhababi | 2026-02-26 22:12:52+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’ve been building a visual GUI builder for CustomTkinter over the past few weeks. The idea was to experiment with a low-code interface for generating real Python GUI applications while still allowing full code access.

Some technical highlights:

Drag & drop widget system

Multi-page project structure

Visual IF/ELSE logic system

JSON-based project state management

Built-in code editor with syntax highlighting

Export system (including standalone executable builds)

One of the more interesting challenges was designing the logic system so that UI actions could be translated into structured JSON and then converted back into executable Python code.

I’m mainly looking for technical feedback:

Does this approach make sense architecturally?

What would you improve in a GUI builder like this?

Is there something fundamentally missing?

Appreciate any thoughts.
by saghm | 2026-02-26 22:13:03+00:00
Personality is not relevant when determining if someone is correct or not, but it does empirically matter in terms of how likely someone is to get something done based on that. If you think being right is the only thing that should matter, you've achieved your goal already once you reach that step, so congrats! If you agree that it's not the success criteria, it makes sense to start paying attention to those other factors, or else you'll end up only being right and not successful.

I'd argue that if these issues are important to you, and you want to convince people, you'll be more effective if you find a more compelling argument than "you aren't allowed to care about what you just told me you care about".
by Animats | 2026-02-26 22:13:23+00:00
Yes. It's a miserable business. Look at the pictures from the inspection of a plating plant. Everything near the process is corroded and covered with crud. Such plants have to be regulated and inspected, to prevent them from becoming a hazard both to the neighborhood and downstream.

Plants which do chemistry on an industrial scale tend to need their own waste processing, which gets the waste products down to a reasonably neutral form.
Regulation is needed to prevent dumping it unprocessed. That's what the EPA really does.
by heikkilevanto | 2026-02-26 22:13:26+00:00
> I find it interesting that a substantial number of people seem to think it's wrong or unethical to cold-email someone about a potential recruitment or business opportunity if they post their email in a public place

I find it interesting that some fucking spammers think that just because they found out my email somewhere, they should be allowed to waste my time and resources for their shit.

That is explicitly illegal here in EU. Unless I have clearly given you my consent, you are not allowed to spam me. Is informed consent really such a difficult concept to understand?
by Izkata | 2026-02-26 22:13:38+00:00
> whereas nix will always produce the same output for a given input.

If they didn't take shortcuts. I don't know if it's been fixed, but at one point Vuze in nix pulled in an arbitrary jar file from a URL. I had to dig through it because the jar had been updated at some point but not the nix config and it was failing at an odd place.
by zdragnar | 2026-02-26 22:13:44+00:00
There's arguments to be made that it could be better, to be sure, but I also remember when GPS driving directions were dedicated devices and you had to pay a few hundred bucks a year to get updated maps. For such an expensive product, it wasn't any better in many regards.

I'm rather happy Google maps exists and can't complain too much about using it for free.
by throwback_dev | 2026-02-26 22:13:44+00:00
The fundamental issue isn’t where you install it — it’s that the trust model is backwards. OpenClaw gives full tool authority to anyone who can send a message, then asks you to layer restrictions on top. That’s opt-in security, which means most users never opt in.

The ClawHub marketplace makes it worse. Security researcher Paul McCarty found 386 malicious packages from a single threat actor. Steinberger’s response that security “isn’t really something that he wants to prioritize” tells you everything about the project’s design philosophy.

What we actually need is default-deny with cryptographic verification — skills signed by their author, sandboxed by default, and semantically validated before execution.

The permission model should be “prove you’re safe” not “trust until caught.”
by WheatMillington | 2026-02-26 22:13:53+00:00
>2. Originality matters more than ever. By design, these tools can only copy and mix things that already exist. But they aren't alive, they don't live in the world and have experiences, and they can't create something truly new.

How can you say this? These models can trivially create things that have never existed, and you can easily test this yourself.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-26 22:13:57+00:00
Well, we'll see how much the AI aspect is true by whether they're thinning out teams equally, or just axing whole initiatives. My impression of Block was that it was mostly a one-trick pony (okay, two if you include CashApp) with a bunch of side initiatives that never seemed to pan out, so I'm expecting it to be more of the latter, with this being more of an admission that they're now in "maintenance mode".

Either way, I think this is how it's gonna be. Regardless of whether AI significantly increases productivity (40%? come on), layoffs will be preemptory. Executives will see the lack of productivity boost as being due to lack of pressure, and imagine engineers are just using the AI to make their own lives easier rather than to work more efficiently. You can't really double output velocity because your users will see it as too much churn, so the only choice is to lay off half the workforce and double the workload for those who stay. "Necessity is the mother of invention." They'll overlook the fact that the work AI tools provide only encompasses 10% of your job even if they're 100% efficient.
by lp4v4n | 2026-02-26 22:14:31+00:00
>Block said Thursday it’s laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount. The stock skyrocketed more than 24% in extended trading.

Society provides support to this kind of decision, it's obvious why it happens.

And nobody really believes this whole "we got too efficient" so now we don't need 40% of our company anymore.
by yassien | 2026-02-26 22:14:34+00:00
GenAI systems don’t usually fail loudly. They fail quietly like interfaces drift, retrieval swaps its grounding set, embeddings change vector space, and valid JSON can still be semantically wrong. Traditional monitoring often won’t flag any of it.
I wrote a short article on : an architecture that treats generative interfaces as boundaries and enforces them like APIs, services, etc. via contract checks that run in CI/CD on every change.

The here is that AI systems need or more monitoring. That is already well understood. The is : treating the generative interfaces themselves as boundaries and enforcing them.
by senko | 2026-02-26 22:14:59+00:00
The post nicely lists a bunch of failed hyped tech:

> 3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and Safe Nuclear Reactors, Smart Glasses, Stadia, WiMAX.

...conveniently doesn't list a bunch of hyped tech that hasn't failed:

> microchips, PCs, the internet, ecommerce, cloud, EVs, 5G

...and presents this as evidence that the current hyped tech (AI) will fail:

> Seems like you say that about every passing fancy - and they all end up being utterly underwhelming.

When the article needs to construct disingenious arguments, I'm not interested in its conclusion.

But wait! If you actually read to the end, there's a plot twist!

> The ideology of "winner takes all" is unsustainable and not supported by reality.

Who said anything about winner takes all? You just burned a "this time is different" straw man and then conclude that "winner takes all" is not realistic?

At this moment I'm wondering if the article was in fact written by a quantized 8B LLM. Surely people don't do such non-sequiturs and then expect to be taken seriously.

But of course not. This is not an argument. This is preaching to the choir.

Preach, brother, preach.
Show HN: ClickNest a tiny self-hosted, AI native web analytics in Go
by ethantheswe | 2026-02-26 22:15:38+00:00
I've been building a bunch of random side projects, as I'm sure we all are. Most analytics tools were either too heavy or required juggling multiple free tiers across different subdomains.

After looking what's out there I couldn't find a lightweight analytics platform that worked on the free tier of fly.io.

It's a single Go binary using DuckDB for events and SQLite for metadata, so there are no external dependencies to manage. Drop a script tag on your site and it auto-captures pageviews and clicks.

The part I'm most excited about: it uses an LLM to automatically name raw click events into something human-readable. Instead of seeing button.btn-primary#checkout in your dashboard, you see "Clicked checkout button". No manual event instrumentation needed.

One fly launch and you have your own analytics instance for free.

GitHub: https://github.com/danielthedm/clicknest