MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmward01 | 2026-02-18 19:45:54+00:00
A good wind-breaker and glasses/face covering are pretty nice to haves. Even a little wind accelerates as it hits the mountain and picks up the tephra and turns it into a sand blaster. I just took water and yen personally since the numerous huts along the way will sell you food (and burn your stick for you). Both times I started in shorts and a t-shirt and by 8? 8.5? I switched into pants with wind/rain gear over it. There isn't anywhere to change, I just put things over my shorts (no bad American moments I hope!). I ended up blowing out my sneakers on the way down one time though. That tephra is seriously like sandpaper and it ripped the tread off one shoe. I was lucky the rest survived long enough to make it down. Honestly, down was in many ways harder than up. No huts, you are tired and it is still very steep. Totally worth it though!
by alexgarden | 2026-02-18 19:45:58+00:00
Fair... Happy to do a deep dive on the protocols. FWIW, I'm dogfooding with an openclaw running smoltbot called Hunter S. Clawmpson. He blogs about AI from an AI's perspective: mnemom.ai/blog.

You can see his trace data live here: https://www.mnemom.ai/agents/smolt-a4c12709

The trace cards are all expandable and show you, in real time, what he's thinking/going to do, etc., and when violations are being caught. Turns out OpenClaw is extremely creative in finding ways to circumvent the rules. Voila AIP.

Busy day today, but this gives you a pretty deep dive/interactive view into the protocols in action. Cool thing about smoltbot... It's literally "smoltbot init" with the API key to the provider of your choice, and you can go to the website and claim your agent and (privately) see your traces running the same way. Very low impact dogfooding.
by audunw | 2026-02-18 19:46:06+00:00
The reason apps from Win 9x runs on Windows 11 is that MS puts a ton of effort into explicitly supporting old apps. For popular apps that includes supporting undocumented APIs and even app-specific bug compatibility.

Putting it on app developers to account for infinite forward compatibility is not at all reasonable.

The best outcome would be if many Zig apps become popular enough that Windows is forced to maintain backward compatibility for ntdll. The API is clearly superior to win32 as many other developers have discovered and discussed before. It’d be nice to force MS to take low lever programming seriously instead of chasing AI slop.
by varenc | 2026-02-18 19:46:11+00:00
I use iSH too and love that I have all my standard CLI tools available, or can just install ones I want.

But using the ssh client in iSH to interact with TUI interfaces is a less than optimal experience. Many nice UI affordances that something like Terminus provides are lacking. Like using swipes as input, key management tools, or using location monitoring as a trick to keep it running in the background. Definitely excited to check out this new Echo client.
by selridge | 2026-02-18 19:46:15+00:00
“Since Python 3.6, every Python instruction has been given an odd number of arguments (even if it doesn't need any) so that the byte offsets are always even.”

I don’t think this is true. I think something like it is true for CPython (an argument isn’t added but the byte is kept for functions w no arg) but it’s not a statement about Python.
by maxnoe | 2026-02-18 19:46:28+00:00
But this exact example is different, because the critical step of mutation is missing.

The initial line is the same, but:

a = b = random.random()
a += 1
a == b # False

Only because floats are immutable and thus an implicit copy is made and lists are mutable so the same mutable instance is pointed to by both names.

This talk still applies despite its age: https://youtu.be/_AEJHKGk9ns?si=q5HjMOM9QS3_bFzH
Ask HN: Why is it impossible to increase iPhone rings before vmail forward?
by mergy | 2026-02-18 19:47:08+00:00
Not joking. My mother has an iPhone and it rings maybe 3 times then goes to vmail. She can't get it out of her purse fast enough. I thought no problem to increase rings before that. No settings, no options at all. AT&T makes no mention of it on their support site other then to have a support rep do it. I had three different reps (adv tech) swear to me on three different calls that did it for her and all failed. They have a setting that allows up to 40secs before forwarding they can configure I suppose. Each of them did not work. I did various #61 carrier programming ideas around the Internet but it's insane this is impossible.
by chc4 | 2026-02-18 19:47:16+00:00
I don't think you know anything about how these industries work and should probably read some of the published books about them, like "This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends", instead of speculating in a way that will mislead people. Most purchasers of browser exploits are nation-state groups ("gray market") who are heavily incentivized not to screw the seller and would just wire some money directly, not black market sales.
by superxpro12 | 2026-02-18 19:47:57+00:00
this almost sounds like victim-blaming. regardless of user-agency.... if these companies are intentionally engineering addictive products, they deserve to be regulated or eliminated since they cant be "trusted" to do the right thing, which in this particular case is "not addicting children to brainrot clickbait". How does clickbait addiction in any way serve the betterment of society?
by sowbug | 2026-02-18 19:47:58+00:00
They're the exceptions that prove the rule. For every Taylor Swift, there are probably tens of thousands of songwriters who have never earned a dollar from their creations.

The vast majority of valuable copyrighted/patented creations are works for hire, which is compensated just like other labor. Or the creator signs or licenses the rights away to a publisher and maybe receives contractual royalties, rarely more than the initial advance.

(An alternative answer is "the pay for your creativity is a capital asset. That asset can earn royalties. Usually it doesn't.")
Show HN: Strava for Claude Code
by ohong | 2026-02-18 19:48:32+00:00
Just like how Strava made running more social & fun, Straude connects you to other motivated Claude Code so you can share your wins, encourage each other, and climb the token usage leaderboard!

This was my submission to the Built with Opus 4.6: a Claude Code hackathon: https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-code-hackathon
by generj | 2026-02-18 19:48:54+00:00
I’m in favor of amnesty only because we have allowed employers and households to hire people without immigration status for decades. It’s absurd to punish the supply of labor and not the demand of it. At this point entire key sectors of our economy cannot function without illegal immigrants. Randomly punishing a small percentage of illegal immigrants does nothing to change that reality - and so it’s just performative pain rather than a solution.

We also as a democracy simply cannot allow the status quo of a permanent underclass of non-voting residents to be a large percentage of our population. It’s corrosive to have different classes of people with different labor protection rules, wages, etc. There simply is not a clean path forward that doesn’t involve some kind of amnesty simply because seeking justice would be a humanitarian and economic crisis.

Amnesty might not be justice, but as a nation it’s our penance for decades of destabilizing our neighbors and allowing this situation to continue. Let’s get a reasonable immigration system in place and move forward.
by JMKH42 | 2026-02-18 19:48:57+00:00
The purchasing experience when you buy direct from companies now is usually much easier than it was years ago. A lot of people instinctively turn to Amazon because its one click and stuff is on its way, but with the new payment integrations even small companies have a pretty close to 1 click experience as well. So when I think of buying something on Amazon I always check the actual brands website first now, because I don't want to support Amazon at all or force sellers to eat the overhead.
Show HN: MineDemo, a Minecraft-style demo recorder b/C I'm tired of boring demos
by arazh2020 | 2026-02-18 19:49:03+00:00
Hi all!

This is Ara, an indie builder and solo founder.

The idea of MineDemo was born when I was create a demo video for a hackathon last month and I was thinking what if I can walk on top of what I show and pointing things around?

So this week when I got sometime, I created this little tool called MineDemo.

It's totally free, supports 20+ avatars and decors + drag and drop text; you can copy paste a link or use screen share. Avatar is controlled by keyboard (WSAD) and hands are controlled by Q and E.

It may have some little bugs here and there so please let me know if you have any feedback.

Here's a quick demo video: video:https://x.com/AZ_is_xyz/status/2024202715820339298?s=20
by HanClinto | 2026-02-18 19:49:03+00:00
Another thing that I've thought about doing is to use some sort of computer vision to watch streamers of online games and use STT to capture not just play datasets, but also datasets of their narrated reasoning about why they play what they play.

Would be a lot of work to go through and use computer vision and some measure of reasoning to create these datasets, but some players do an excellent job of narrating their reasoning for their players (thinking of players like Cheon or LSV), so would be fascinating.

Caleb Gannon [0] is one such streamer who does a good job of narrating his plays, and he's also a computer scientist who is very interested in machine-learning projects (he's done several of his own). If you contacted him, I could definitely see him being willing to consent to his videos being used as a fine-tuning dataset for such purposes.

I would be willing to help with creating this dataset if you helped me understand what you would like to see in the final output format.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmAAK3V13b0
by deejaydev | 2026-02-18 19:49:17+00:00
One thing I intentionally left open: tmux as the orchestration layer
means Mimir isn't Claude Code-only. Since agents are just processes
in tmux panes, you could run Codex in one pane, Grok in another,
Claude Code in another — all sharing the same memory layer via Mimir.

Multi-model swarms aren't on the roadmap yet, but the architecture
already supports it.
by password4321 | 2026-02-18 19:49:32+00:00
(Now that the front page attention has passed...)

It should be possible to find the users with the most early upvotes on Show HN posts that wind up "succeeding" as an excellent indicator they can serve to filter them going forward. However to me it's a bit awkward for Y Combinator to plan on relying on volunteers... once these users are found one of them should be hired to do this full time.
by parsa_1 | 2026-02-18 19:49:45+00:00
MorVoice is an all-in-one AI voice platform offering ultra-realistic Text-to-Speech (TTS) and instant voice cloning. Powered by the MorAI V3.1 engine, it delivers human-like audio with emotional depth in 50+ languages, including English and Persian. The platform features a unique Web3 voice marketplace where users can mint, license, and trade vocal identities using blockchain technology. MorVoice is designed for the "Audio-First" era, helping creators reduce production costs by 90% for podcasts, YouTube, and e-learning.
by JLO64 | 2026-02-18 19:49:55+00:00
This is pretty awesome, and at a $3 price point is an auto purchase for me!

As someone else said though, hardware keyboard support on iOS is something that I would really want as I regularly use ShellFish on my iPhone with a USB-C keyboard.

Something that actually matters more to me is font support. I use nerd fonts for my zsh prompt, so an app that doesn't support them is a hard sell. Are custom fonts supported, or at least on the roadmap?

Additionally I just want clarification on your business model. Once I pay now I will get all future updates for free or might I have to pay for them?
by piva00 | 2026-02-18 19:50:27+00:00
> The Nazi took members of ethnic minorities and put them into death camps and massacred them in horrible ways.

It was a process over almost 10 years to get to that. Before they were rounding up people to be deported, when it became an issue too large to process deportations the labour camps were next, so on and so forth until gas chambers and industrial murder became the final solution.

If you think the parallel is ridiculous, think again.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-18 19:50:42+00:00
So let me tell you a story.

There are plenty of states including the one I live in where you are required to verify your age to visit porn sites.

If you add up all of the sites that are not hosted in the US and combine them with all of the sites that you can get around the age verification just by using a VPN, would you be surprised if I told you that the total is 100% with most just ignoring the law?
by alexgarden | 2026-02-18 19:50:47+00:00
Actually, not really... proofing against prompt injection (malicious and "well intentioned") was part of my goal here.

What makes AAP/AIP so powerful is that prompt injection would succeed in causing the agent to attempt to do wrong, and then AIP would intervene with a [BOUNDARY VIOLATION] reminder in real-time. Next thinking block.

As I said earlier, not a guarantee, but so far, in my experience, pretty damn robust. The only thing that would make it more secure (than real-time thinking block monitoring) would be integration inside the LLM provider's process, but that would be a nightmare to integrate and proprietary unless they could all agree on a standard that didn't compromise one of them. Seems improbable.
by nine_k | 2026-02-18 19:50:51+00:00
Capitalism works due to the "free market" which maps a large number of producers to a large number of consumers in an efficient way. When the market ceases to be sufficiently free, capitalism starts to falter. It may be regulation, it may be monopoly, it may be monopsony, it may be dysfunction of the judiciary system that fails to protect property rights, etc.

A system of only two parties trading the entire economic output of a country would be utterly un-capitalist, more like two kings trading in products of their kingdoms. No doubt that any social institutes would have been subjugated by these two parties.
by vannevar | 2026-02-18 19:50:52+00:00
If you substitute the word "corporation" for OpenClaw, you'll see many of these same problems have plagued us for decades. We've had artificial intelligence that makes critical decisions without specific human accountability for a long time, and we have yet to come up with a really effective way of dealing with them that isn't essentially closing the barn door after the horse has departed. The new LLM-driven AI just accelerates the issues that have been festering in society for many years, and scales them down to the level of individuals.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-18 19:51:36+00:00
Bollocks the wavelengths are on the order of hundreds of meters, there is no way you get microwave like heating out of that. Even at 30 MHz you're still looking at 10 meters wavelength, 3 meters at 100 MHz.

This system operates according to TFA up to the end of the AM band at roughly 1600 KHz, so 180 meters and change.

The danger is more likely there because someone might enter the tunnel and hit the feeder, which depending on the design can carry considerable power.
by ericmay | 2026-02-18 19:51:48+00:00
I think it's mostly easy to identify anyone if you actually want to - if you buy anything online you are 100% identifiable for example.

Given the pros/cons in context, I think I'm in favor of it for social media, at least. I'd actually argue you would want to go further and you should have your full address, employer, and more available online. LinkedIn is a cesspool of awful salespeople, but you know what it's not? A massive Russian/Chinese/Maga disinformation site. Maybe you should think twice before saying something online you wouldn't say while standing in front of your house or at work.

Anonymity on social media has brought a lot of problems and I'm not sure what the benefits are. Some point to a small percentage of folks who would be "outed" but, given that the alternative seems to be an emerging dystopia of bots, malicious actors, propaganda, and more, maybe actual transparency is better even taking into account potential harmful effects.

I'm open-minded on this and see pros/cons either way. Though I think if you find yourself worried about this stuff you can just delete your accounts and move on with your life. Trust me you aren't missing out on anything.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-02-18 19:52:55+00:00
correct. they've mostly shifted to a militarized economy and all available labor is now gobbled up.

salaries are pretty good, relatively speaking, if you're in engineering or other STEM fields.

excess labor is being drained off to die horribly to drones in eastern Ukraine.

it's kind of like a fat guy starving to death -- for a minute all that weight loss will bring improvements to blood pressure, insulin, etc., but in a couple weeks he's not gonna feel so great
by edwin | 2026-02-18 19:52:59+00:00
I’m one of the authors.

Our interest is straightforward: If coding agents scaffold a growing share of new apps, their defaults will become prevalent. Not necessarily because they’re objectively best, but because the choices are frictionless. The model becomes the gatekeeper of early architectural decisions that used to happen in a meeting room.

So we measured what those defaults actually are.

We ran structured app-building prompts through Claude Code, captured the generated repos, and extracted stack choices: auth, UI framework, database, deployment assumptions, package management, etc.

A few observations that stood out:
- Deployment assumptions are shifting toward Vercel and Railway, and away from AWS/GCP-first patterns.
- Defaults evolve as models update. For example, Opus 4.6 recommends Drizzle more frequently than Prisma.

Prompts, raw outputs, and parsing logic are here: https://github.com/amplifying-ai/claude-code-picks

This is a snapshot in time. An interesting question is how quickly these defaults drift.
by rcsttqisoutofSF | 2026-02-18 19:53:19+00:00
Decided to dig into this a little. Catch a bubble and listen, yts.

This thread is a prime example of why and how tech is exclusive and hostile to PoC (or as I've taken to calling them, people of the global majority — since yts are actually a tiny fraction of all living humans who STILL do irreparable harm to the environment and the world AND the bay area). Here we have a Black[1], disabled Marine Corps veteran[2], possibly unhoused[3], persyn, just trying to contribute in their own way, however they can, putting their work out there into the world.

And what does HN do? Shit all over it. Rip it to shreds. "Were any people who work for the garment industry involved in GNL's creation???" No, because the garment industry systemically discriminates against Black people. "Does GNL support pleats, tucks, and darts???" It does, actually, but it's SO INTERESTING you see a Black man building something and assume it must not have yt clothes features because obviously all Black people wear are basketball jerseys and sweatpants. "I should just read Wittgenstein." Wittgenstein went to school with Hitler.

YT tqs ruined the Bay area, ruined computers (which were invented by Black women), and are aggressively trying to colonize the Global South to avoid paying their fare share of taxes that give the people they displaced a pittance to barely keep them alive[4], and they do it all while claiming to "love diversity"[5]. Check your privilege and read a book[6].

[1] https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1663932491676229634 https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1597661827261157376 https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1604200459883122688 https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1931899874405978315
[2] https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1980413360341676190 https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1834338074471367000 https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1622352181344043008 https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1717698840562659510
[3] https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1964298487769501725 https://x.com/loveofdoing/status/1662287845367660545
[4] https://www.kqed.org/news/11985941/sf-program-isnt-just-free...
[5] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-open-office-hours-for-bl...
[6] https://www.marxists.org/subject/india/cpi-maoist/s01-basic-...
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-18 19:53:48+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20221022162930if_/https://ventur...

""If you think Skype and Teamspeak had a baby and it hand all sorts of super powers that is parents didn't have," Citron said. "What was basically a skunkworks project appears to be the most promising product we've built."

For much of this year, the company has been working on Discord. The networking infrastructure is built in Erlang, a technology that Ericsson created in the 1980s for telecommunications. The system is spread across nine data centers around the world. The company has done tests to make sure that the latency is good.

Resmini also noted that esports competitors - or professional gamers who play games for money prizes - were worried about security. With Skype, it's easy to get somebody else's personal internet protocol (IP) address because the communication happens peer-to-peer. Citron said that Discord works through server infrastructure, so it's impossible for anyone to obtain another player's IP address."

Perhaps the peers cannot obtain each others' IP addresses but the person running the Discord server has all the peers' IP addresses in addition to their payment details

There are few if any meaningful limits on how this data can be used, how long it can be retained or where it can be transferred.^1

Apparently this centralised architecture does not matter to Discord users until something like "age verification" comes along

1. The legal compliance exception obviously allows for "age verification"

Example of Discord privacy policy pre-"age verification":

https://web.archive.org/web/20200504172025/https://discordap...
by cies | 2026-02-18 19:53:51+00:00
You say:

> No, he did not

Then you continue saying he did say it, but explained himself later (after it came out) in a way that makes his earlier statement void. "Plausible deniability"

I'm not anti-vax, I'm critical. This C19-jab was risky and had little to no benefits. That's obvious. Even the Epstein files (probably you also think that those are merely a conspiracy) mention then covid response was orchestrated.

I know some really wealthy people and many of them did not take it. Not sure if they go by the definition of plutocrat.

You are conned by the pushed narrative: so naive.
by jerf | 2026-02-18 19:54:04+00:00
As I recently observed [1], there is a lot more of this sort of coordination than people realize. I personally know of about three groups trying to get some cross-state initiatives implemented at the state level, and I'm not even particularly looking for such things.

It is not a coincidence. It means there is some organization out there pushing these. In general, "organization" here applies very broadly; there are some cases where it pretty much is just more-or-less normal people who organize to get something done. I wouldn't expect this particular thing is that for a second, of course. I'm just saying in general the term applies broadly. Someone is organized and trying to push this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873297
by moritzwarhier | 2026-02-18 19:54:13+00:00
I mean they were very actively pushing it with GitHub. There even was this "Arctic Code Vault" badge that kind of encourages you to put your side projects on GitHub.

I did it too, wouldn't do so today, but I also don't regret it. Because the value in it is probably not that immense.

It was my first project in both React and TypeScript, just to learn both technologies.

And I had a couple of weeks where I was injured in a hospital, so plenty of time on hand.

It is a client-side sudoku generator and game, and loads of people have done this better than me.