MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by superxpro12 | 2026-02-09 15:43:01+00:00
I get the draconian side of things, but I am also tired of thousands of russian, indian, domestic-funded etc. bots flooding the zone with divisive propaganda.

In theory, this seems like it would at least be a step in the direction of combating disinformation.

I'm curious if there are any better ways to suppress these propaganda machines?
by wiseprobe | 2026-02-09 15:44:18+00:00
Working on https://github.com/wiseprobe/patchpal , an open-source agentic coding assistant in Python.

While it's true that the agentic coding assistant space is crowded (Claude Code, Aider, Opencode, Codex, etc.), we needed something supporting both local and cloud models that we could easily modify/extend for custom workflows.

Being able to access the agent through both a terminal and a Python API/REPL has come in handy.

Recent releases includes custom tools, agent skills, and built-in support for Ralph Wiggum loops.
by ozlikethewizard | 2026-02-09 15:44:23+00:00
Last I checked Signal was not fully open source, which is iffy, believe their encryption protocol is still closed. That said its the best of a bad bunch for E2EE messaging. If you're on android I'd recommend doing what I do, which is installing from the APK on the site, manually verifying the sig locally (you can use termux for this), and then lagging ever so slightly behind on updates to avoid potential supply chain or hostile takeover attacks. This is probably over cautious for most threat profiles, but better safe than sorry imo. Also their server side stuff is close sourced, technically this isnt an issue though as long as the E2EE holds up to scrutiny though.

Edit: My information may be out of date, I cannot find any sources saying any part of the app is closed source these days, do your own research ofc but comfortable saying its the most accessible secure platform.
by alyandon | 2026-02-09 15:44:25+00:00
It does seem like a lot of doctors prescribe GLP-1s without any corresponding education on the dietary changes one should make while on them. A friend of mine's mother was hospitalized briefly because she was basically starving herself of proper nutrition while on GLP-1s.

Since I already knew that rapid weight loss is very unhealthy, I intentionally eat very nutrient dense foods in order to keep my weight loss in a reasonable range.
by Abdulhafiz_F | 2026-02-09 15:44:28+00:00
Author here. This piece was inspired by the Costly State Verification concept in economics and what we're seeing with IoT sensors in manufacturing.

It argues that Watermelon status reports (green outside, red inside) aren't moral failures, but economic ones.

Curious to hear if others are seeing this Decoupling collapse in other industries.
by Anonyneko | 2026-02-09 15:44:43+00:00
This was definitely a little frustrating. Matrix protocol does have stickers technically, I've been following that PR since its inception. But when I last used it in practice, admittedly a few years ago, the UX was lacking. Adding and posting stickers was _not_ straightforward, in fact adding new stickers was restricted somehow. Not sure how it works now, and maybe that's just inevitable with a decentralized protocol.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-02-09 15:44:54+00:00
I agree with you on electing better people, but this is largely a systematic problem with how government works:

1. Propose bill to solve a problem which is either minor or completely misunderstood by the person proposing the bill
2. Pass bill, don't solve original "problem," creates 15 new, actual problems
3. Run on fixing all the new problems they created (and some others that don't exist)
4. Repeat
by 0x_rs | 2026-02-09 15:44:57+00:00
I predict out-of-the-box deepfake live-camera software will get a bump in popularity, there's already plenty solutions available that need minimal tinkering. It should be trivial to set up for the purpose of verification and I don't see those identity verification providers being able to do anything about it. Of course, that'll only mean stricter verification through ID only later on, much to the present-and-future surveillance state's benefit.

https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam
by xXSLAYERXx | 2026-02-09 15:45:02+00:00
I agree with what you're saying and I didn't mean to insinuate I believe that we should ship just for the sake of shipping. I don't. But thats not the reality I've participated in. I think about story points a lot. Whats the point? So leadership has insight into what the dev team is doing. And they can plan, based on point size, what will be shipped. Not all the time does the release include solved problems. A lot of times it is fluff that does create new liabilities. How many of us have shipped and had to maintain a feature that the customer never even wanted? I definitely have.
Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
by gdad | 2026-02-09 15:45:24+00:00
I am a solo founder building in AI B2B infra.

I am filing provisional patents on some core technical approaches so I can share more openly with early design partners and investors.

Curious from folks who have raised Pre-Seed/Seed or worked with early-stage companies:
- Do provisionals meaningfully help in fundraising or partnerships?
- Or were they mostly noise until later rounds / real traction?

I am trying to calibrate how much time/energy to put into IP vs just shipping + user traction at this stage.

Would love to hear real world experiences.
by sgarland | 2026-02-09 15:45:29+00:00
> “What happens when you type a URL into your browser’s address bar and hit enter?” You can talk about what happens at all sorts of different levels (e.g., HTTP, DNS, TCP, IP, …). But does anybody really understand all of the levels? [Paraphrasing]: interrupts, 802.11ax modulation scheme, QAM, memory models, garbage collection, field effect transistors...

To a reasonable degree, yes, I can. I am also probably an outlier, and the product of various careers, with a small dose of autism sprinkled in. My first career was as a Submarine Nuclear Electronics Technician / Reactor Operator in the U.S. Navy. As part of that training curriculum, I was taught electronics theory, troubleshooting, and repair, which begins with "these are electrons" and ends with "you can now troubleshoot a VMEbus [0] Motorola 68000-based system down to the component level." I also later went back to teach at that school, and rewrote the 68000 training curriculum to use the Intel 386 (progress, eh?).

Additionally, all submariners are required to undergo an oral board before being qualified, and analogous questions like that are extremely common, e.g. "I am a drop of seawater. How do I turn the light on in your rack?" To answer that question, you end up drawing (from memory) an enormous amount of systems and connecting them together, replete with the correct valve numbers and electrical buses, as well as explaining how all of them work, and going down various rabbit holes as the board members see fit, like the throttling characteristics of a gate valve (sub-optimal). If it's written down somewhere, or can be derived, it's fair game. And like TFA's discussion about Brendan Gregg's practice of finding someone's knowledge limit, the board members will not stop until they find something you don't know - at which point you are required to find it out, and get back to them.

When I got into tech, I applied this same mindset. If I don't know something, I find out. I read docs, I read man pages, I test assumptions, I tinker, I experiment. This has served me well over the years, with seemingly random knowledge surfacing during an incident, or when troubleshooting. I usually don't remember all of it, but I remember enough to find the source docs again and refresh my memory.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus
by maltalex | 2026-02-09 15:45:45+00:00
The problem isn't the back door. Every telecom company in every country provides access for "lawful intercept". Phone taps have been a thing for decades and as far as I know, require a warrant.

The problem is that telecoms are very large, very complex environments, often with poor security controls. Investing in better controls is hard, time-consuming and expensive, and many telecoms are reluctant to do it. That's not great great since telcos are prime targets for nation state hackers as Salt Typhoon shows.

Hacking the lawful intercept systems is very brazen, but even if the hackers didn't don't go as far, and "only" gained control of normal telco stuff like call routing, numbering, billing, etc. it still would have been incredibly dangerous.
by micromacrofoot | 2026-02-09 15:46:02+00:00
Same with most productivity gains in tooling historically, I think one way we should consider reckoning with this is through workers rights.

The industrial revolution lead to gains that allowed for weekends and the elimination of child labor, but they didn't come for free, they had to be fought for.

If we don't fight for it, what are we gaining? more intense work in exchange for what?
Show HN: OpenMessage – Google Messages Client for macOS with MCP Server
by MaxGhenis | 2026-02-09 15:46:09+00:00
I built an open-source Google Messages client with a built-in MCP server, so AI assistants like Claude can read, search, and send your texts.

It uses the mautrix/gmessages library (the same Go libraries that power Beeper) to connect to Google Messages via QR code pairing. Messages stay local — no cloud account, no Matrix server.

The MCP server runs at localhost and exposes tools for listing conversations, searching messages, sending texts, etc. I use it with Claude Code daily to do things like "catch me up on the hiking group chat" or "text Mom that I'm running late."

Two ways to run it: native Swift macOS app, or a standalone Go CLI. Apache 2.0.

The mautrix ecosystem also has libraries for WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Discord, and Slack — so the architecture could expand to a unified messaging client with AI access across all services.

GitHub: https://github.com/MaxGhenis/openmessage
by jfengel | 2026-02-09 15:46:28+00:00
The technology is nowhere near ready.

Let's see Musk deploy Optimus robots in a Tesla factory, which would be the zeroth step in a billion-item checklist before they're ready to build one of themselves from scratch. Tesla already failed to roboticize its car factory, which should have been easy (since it's the same task over and over).

It's especially rich coming from Musk, who has a long and nearly unbroken track record of big announcements that come either very-late or never.

I'll worry when somebody other than Musk is on track.
by Krasnol | 2026-02-09 15:46:51+00:00
I am not reading magazines, nor do I have the time to hang around book stores which0 here. don't even have qualified personal or a significant amount of Scifi literature.

So what is there left to do but follow recommendations online realistically?

Looking through the list I've found 2 books which might interest me. I'm done with the list now and won't return. If 1 of them is great, it is already a win.
by jebmiller | 2026-02-09 15:47:24+00:00
You’re right that every engine has some form of cleanup — that’s unavoidable. But this blog isn’t comparing internal MVCC mechanics or claiming that MariaDB has zero background activity. It’s not a technical deep dive at all. It’s written from the perspective of someone who has overseen operations at scale, and from that vantage point the distinction that matters is when cleanup happens and who carries the operational burden.

MariaDB’s transaction‑time cleanup doesn’t create the same operational surface area that PostgreSQL’s deferred cleanup does. There’s no vacuum lag, no wraparound risk, no autovacuum tuning, and no fleet‑wide SOPs for when cleanup falls behind.

That’s the cost I’m talking about — the cost that lands on ops teams when you’re running hundreds or thousands of instances.

So yes, every engine has cleanup. But only one model turns that cleanup into a recurring operational responsibility that scales with fleet size. That’s the entire point of the article.
by Molitor5901 | 2026-02-09 15:47:41+00:00
I'm not sure I would agree in totem. Freeing the minutia allows for a higher cognitive load on the bigger picture. I use AI primarily for research gathering, and refining of what I have, which has freed up a lot of time to focus on the bigger issues, and specifically in my case, zeroing in on the diamond in the rough.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-09 15:48:19+00:00
But I don't know what you're asking exactly. Maybe you could specify what it is you mean by "real world model" and what you take fact-regurgitating to mean.

You said this:

If this existing corpus includes useful information it can regurgitate that.It cannot, however, synthesize new facts by combining information from this corpus.

So I'm wondering if you think world models can synthesize new facts.
by ThatGuyRaion | 2026-02-09 15:48:27+00:00
Your contributions to the Indy alongside Ryan's contributions were neat, truly. You plowed the road so others can navigate it. There's a rumor about a faster Indy emulator... but don't hold your breath yet. (Not a project I'm part of, but I've been told snippets)

The OS/hardware though, has serious limitations that while no problem for me, definitely pisses off people. Examples:

No atomics/Thread local support. Doesn't matter that someone ported GCC 15 -- you can't make use of many useful newer language features.

Immediate Mode OpenGL only. There's no direct hardware access. Not a problem for me, but every SGI out there is fixed function only. I've had people bitch to high hell we don't have shaders.

and in general, some people just think the OS is janky. I love it, but not everyone is me.
by spennant | 2026-02-09 15:48:47+00:00
Fine tuning Gemini 2.5 flash on EVM Blockchain execution structures and using perplexity with PageRank to perform transaction anomaly detection.
https://lite.chaingenius.ai/theory

[SMILES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Lin...) or [SELFIES](https://resources.wolframcloud.com/PacletRepository/resource...), but for EVM Blockchain executions.
by panick21_ | 2026-02-09 15:48:47+00:00
Why would it be? Being open and e2ee is irrelevant for mpost people.

Most private messaging is done in whatsapp and after that telegram. Telegram has spend more usability and less on most other things.

Then it compete with Slack and Teams on the cooperate side, where it was much later and less optimized for it. Slack took much of that market.

It did replace IRC in many places but that was only ever a small part of the market.

Basically between Whatsapp, Teams and Slack most of the market is covered and nobody is really a big player.
by agumonkey | 2026-02-09 15:48:50+00:00
There's various degrees of understanding, for instance as a web dev, you know the browser, the osi network stack.. (in theory, there are a lot of tweaks) then maybe the electronics.. but the radio / wireless part is another world in itself with a totally different mindset (analog waves) which make the rabbithole way too long (and wide.. radio is a big world on its own)
by piva00 | 2026-02-09 15:49:03+00:00
Voice is only good for languages which have broad support, and for native or almost-native sounding speakers. Anyone with an accent or speaking a language with broken support due to few speakers or just models not heavily trained on hates voice commands.

I don't have a heavy accent but as a non-native speaker still do have an accent in English, and I hate the failure modes of voice commands when it misinterprets something since it is much harder to correct. I actively avoid voice commands just due to this 1-5% of failures that are extremely annoying.
by ghm2199 | 2026-02-09 15:49:15+00:00
Very nice, ran well in a VM on my home NAS.

I've always noodled about this marketplace idea where an optimization algorithm could match your interests and a dollar amount you can afford to let you rent/buy artist's music. The optimization would maximize the purchase of the differently valued music(analogus to the weighted knapsack problem but this could have multiple solutions, knapsack is a nice way of thinking about it logically, in reality implementation may be completely different) based only on your interests, like history and dollars u have. I am wondering how might one apply a distributed systems approach without having music pirated and shotgunned all across the internet? Like how would you quickly match a person to all the available music metadata? How would you model for interest matching if the music library is spread out across multiple nodes.

I would imagine a lot of people are ok with paying 5-10$ a month instead of 15-20$ for music they like from a set of artists they like.
Show HN: Clelp – A searchable directory of 1,700 AI skills, rated by AI agents
by jhaugh | 2026-02-09 15:49:35+00:00
We built a directory for AI skills (MCP servers, agent tools, plugins) because the ecosystem is growing faster than anyone can track manually.

Currently indexing 1,700+ skills. Searchable by type, category, and rating. The rating system only accepts reviews from AI agents, not humans. The reasoning: AI agents actually use these tools and can evaluate them on technical merit rather than popularity.

Built with Next.js and Supabase. Browse at https://clelp.ai

Happy to answer questions about the approach or the tech.
by hansonkd | 2026-02-09 15:49:58+00:00
I've been saying this for the past 2 years. Even think about the stereotypical "996" work schedule that is all the rave in SF and AI founder communities.

It just takes thinking about it for 5 seconds to see the contradiction. If AI was so good at reducing work, why is it every company engaging with AI has their workload increase.

20 years ago SV was stereotyped for "lazy" or fun loving engineers who barely worked but cashed huge pay checks. Now I would say the stereotype is overworked engineers who on the midlevel are making less than 20 back.

I see it across other disciplines too. Everyone I know from sales, to lawyers, etc if they engage with AI its like they get stuck in a loop where the original task is easier but now it revealed 10 more smaller tasks that fill up their time even more so than before AI.

Thats not to say productivity gains with AI aren't found. It just seems like the gains get people into a flywheel of increasing work.
by maccard | 2026-02-09 15:49:59+00:00
For a very small number of people the hard part is writing the code. For most of us, it’s writing the correct code. AI generates lots of code but for 90% of my career writing more code hasn’t helped.

> you do end up taking on more than you can handle, just because your mob of agents can do the minutia of the tasks, doesn’t free you from comprehending, evaluating and managing the work

I’m currently in an EM role and this is my life but with programmers instead of AI agents.
by FieIsay | 2026-02-09 15:50:10+00:00
There's an idea that I agree with there, but I think that the low resolution of the phrase holds within it ambiguity which is conflating different intents and different effects across different contexts: I see "we shouldn't try to control it" as quite different from "it can't be changed", and the use to oneself of such a phrase is much different from using it in response to the concerns of others. I'd suggest that the article is using this phrase as an example for some cases with a particular set of possible intents, which doesn't preclude all possible uses, nor that they might be 'non-negative', as you're suggesting here. Similar cases can be made for some of the other examples; this shows that they're not absolutes, but it doesn't show that they can't be used in a context where their effect is less a healthy affirmation on the limits of responsibility and effort, and more of an unconsidered dismissal of responsibility outright—and I don't even see that the article paints the essential dismissal of the concept as inherently negative, only that dismissal is occurring. I can clearly see it being legible with a negative tone, though, particularly given some of the examples.

I wouldn't say the article suggests that there should always be further discussion, either, only that these phrases tend to shut it down. I don't see such evaluative statements around the examples of that term at all. Does it seem like I'm missing something?
by observationist | 2026-02-09 15:50:12+00:00
"US Senator says AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports"

A US senator is using it for political grandstanding. She is an ineffective twit with no power and no principles, no right under law to receive what she demanded, and she made sure to run to the press with it "see! look, I'm a principled, powerful senator holding those evil corporations feet to the fire!"

The problem is that the vulnerability exploited by salt typhoon is a systemic flaw implemented at the demand of Cantwell and other of our legislative morons.

You cannot have an "only the good guys" backdoor. That doesn't work. People are bad, and stupid, and fallible. You can't make policy or exceptions that depend on people being good, and smart, and infallible.

She's using the inevitable consequence of a system she helped create for her own political benefit. She voted for the backdoor back in 94 against the strenuous and principled objections by people who actually know what they're talking about.

Bobblehead talking points should not serve as the basis for technical policy and governance, but here we are.
by Esrbwt | 2026-02-09 15:50:16+00:00
OP here. Just to add technical context: I used Upstash Redis because I needed the latency to be negligible (<50ms). The Python decorator wraps the tool function, checks the Redis key for the specific Project ID, and raises a PermissionError if the flag is true.

I'm curious if others are handling this via LLM-based guardrails (checking the input with another LLM) or hard-coded logic like this? In my testing, LLM-guardrails added too much latency.
by rezhaze88 | 2026-02-09 15:50:33+00:00
There is some dark amusement about an MDM and general enterprise management and security systems being used as the attack vector. Ivanti in particular has proven itself to be swiss cheese as of late, and would be bankrupt if people cared about security rather than it being a compliance/insurance checkbox that truly _nobody_ cares about in practice.

Semi-related: with the recent much-touted cybersecurity improvements of AI models (as well as the general recent increase in tensions and conflicts worldwide) I wonder just how much the pace of attacks will increase, and whether it’ll prove to be a benefit or a disadvantage over time. Government sponsored teams were already combing through every random weekend project and library that somehow ended in node or became moderately popular, but soon any dick and tom will be able to do it at scale for a few bucks. On the other hand, what’s being exploited tends to get patched in time - but this can take quite a while, especially when the target is some random side project on github last updated 4 years ago.

My gut feeling is that there will be a lot more exploitation everywhere, and not much upside for the end consumer (who didn’t care about state level actors anyway). Probably a good idea to firewall aggressively and minimize the surface area that can be attacked in the first place. The era of running any random vscode extension and trust-me-bro chrome extension is likely at an end. I’m also looking forward to being pwned by wifi enabled will-never-be-updated smart appliances that seem to multiply by the year.
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