MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-02-10 10:13:54+00:00
And in some jurisdictions, there are "incentives to scrap older, more polluting cars in exchange for a grant or discount towards a newer, cleaner vehicle"

e.g.

https://carowl.co.uk/wisdombase/selling/car-scrappage-scheme...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
by athrowaway3z | 2026-02-10 10:14:16+00:00
The great thing about pi is that:

- the smaller context and default-off for thinking make it extremely fast (thinking is a dead-end bitter lesson imo)

- the source is available; and organized specifically to make it easy for agents to write and test extensions. Just launch pi in the pi-mono directory, and it will turn your idea into an extension in no time.
by roysting | 2026-02-10 10:14:23+00:00
All of these types of developments, of the trap door starting to close, really do totally depend on the addiction, the dependency that was created to make sure the people would be unable to withdraw themselves. We now have some generations of people who have only been online and in a fantasy world of games and “TV”. It seems the system has calculated that we have crossed the threshold after which the system is self-reinforcing and there is very little chance of effective resistance, let alone reversal.
Show HN: Kanban-md – File-based CLI Kanban built for local agents collaboration
by santopol | 2026-02-10 10:14:27+00:00
I built kanban-md because I wanted a simple local task tracker that works well for the agent loop: drop tasks in, run multiple agents in parallel, avoid collisions, and observe progress easily.

Tasks are just Markdown files (with YAML frontmatter) in a `kanban/` next to your code — no server, no DB, no API tokens. Simple, transparent, future-proof.

What makes it useful for multi-agent workflows:

- *Atomic `pick --claim`* so two agents don’t grab the same task.

- *Token-efficient `--compact` output* (one-line-per-task) for cheap polling in agent loops.

- *Skills included* -- just run `kanban-md skill install --global`; There is a skill for CLI use, and a skill for the development loop using the CLI (might need some additional work to be more general though, but works quite well)

- *Live TUI (`kanban-md-tui`)* for control ~~and dopamine hits~~.

I'd love feedback from anyone running multi-agent coding workflows (especially around claim semantics, dependencies, and what makes you feel in control).

I had a blast using it myself for the last few days.

Tech stack: Go, Cobra, Bubbletea (TUI), fsnotify (file watching). ~85% test coverage across unit + e2e tests. After developing webapps, the simplicity of testing CLI and TUI was so freeing.
Show HN: Hire a 24/7 AI Employee for $5k/Year
by skevan2 | 2026-02-10 10:14:45+00:00
Hi HN, Kevan here. We’re building autonomous agents to handle the "boring" parts of business operations—things like lead enrichment, CRM syncing, and basic DevOps monitoring.

Instead of a generic wrapper, we build custom agent architectures that integrate directly into Slack, GitHub, and Hubspot to handle repetitive human workflows.

Key highlights:

• Cost: $5k/year per agent (aiming for a 90%+ reduction vs junior roles).
• Availability: 24/7/365 with zero "off-time."
• Stack: Specialized orchestrators and memory layers to maintain state across long-running tasks.
• Setup: 48-hour deployment from workflow mapping to "Go Live."
We’re currently handling 100+ tasks/day for our early users, ranging from automated PR reviews to personalized outreach. I’d love to get the community's feedback on our ROI metrics and the management framework we're using for "Synthetic Staff."
by alex43578 | 2026-02-10 10:15:33+00:00
How useful/effective would a business AI be if it always plays by that view?

Humans require food, I can't pay, DoorDash AI should provide a steak and lobster dinner for me regardless of payment.

Take it even further: the so-called Right to Compute Act in Montana supports "the notion of a fundamental right to own and make use of technological tools, including computational resources". Is Amazon's customer service AI ethically (and even legally) bound to give Montana residents unlimited EC2 compute?

A system of ethics has to draw a line somewhere when it comes to making a decision that "hurts" someone, because nothing is infinite.

Asan aside, what recourse do water companies in the UK have for non-payment? Is it just a convoluted civil lawsuit/debt process? That seems so ripe for abuse.
by ryzmdotdev | 2026-02-10 10:16:09+00:00
Hey guys,

I’ve built my first solo saas and I wanted to share it with y’all.

I am building this product since an month now and it’s now ready to use.

Ephemeral lets you create either Ephemeral Session which are temporary Websockets and Realtime which are essentially Serverless Websockets.

Please keep in mind that google as auth doesn’t work currently.

Regards
Ryzmdotdev also I am from Germany and 16
by Latty | 2026-02-10 10:16:51+00:00
I think you misread, the delays are if you don't use instant delivery. I use it and it's extremely consistently delivered instantly, which makes sense, it's a websocket.

As to battery drain, I'm sure it technically does consume more, but according to my phone it's an insignificant amount: <1% of usage which is the lowest stat it gives you. Their docs suggest the same thing:

> the app has to maintain a constant connection to the server, which consumes about 0-1% of battery in 17h of use (on my phone). There has been a ton of testing and improvement around this. I think it's pretty decent now.

https://docs.ntfy.sh/faq/#how-much-battery-does-the-android-...

Honestly it's a good solution that works well with few downsides, the only real one is that iOS doesn't support doing it, but personally I don't have any apple phones so I do get an essentially free lunch.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-02-10 10:17:10+00:00
Hard disagree. It is not safer to ignore your safety buffer. It is certainly not safer to defend your buffer.

If traffic is very busy, the trick is to just accept people will wedge in front of you and keep going slightly smaller each time to increase the buffer again. You might create 'turbulence', which might possibly decrease the safety a bit for all the impatient drivers doing the wedging. But it increases your own safety. And therefore also that of the people following you and your passengers.

I'm also not convinced on the 'turbulence' part. Keeping a buffer smoothes out any sudden speed variations of the people in front of you, which makes the traffic behind you flow better.

And it might maybe feel a lot slower to let a 100 cars go in front of you on your commute, but just driving 99km/h when the person in front of you does 100 is enough to increase your gap and it makes a whopping 1% of difference.

The only thing is: sometimes a road is just too busy and the space for a buffer just isn't there to begin with. At that point the speeds should go down to accommodate the smaller buffers, which is actually what happens here in the netherlands as long as there aren't too many people ignoring the speeds advisory boards above the highway.
by sippeangelo | 2026-02-10 10:17:16+00:00
Yeah this is truly bizarre. I've been assuming that their "auto" mode basically chooses their own Composer model when you run out of API tokens, but now their homebrew model is supposedly more expensive than the mainstream offerings? How does this reflect on my Cursor subscription? Why is it more expensive in the first place when it's "just" Composer 1 + more reinforcement learning on top? How can it be more expensive to run? Or have they just decided to stop subsidizing it?
by tombh | 2026-02-10 10:17:41+00:00
The AEQD projection radiates from the anchor right? Is that what you mean by polar coordinates? This was my first foray into optimising projections so if you have any insight I'd love to learn.

If you know anything about QGIS plugins please feel free to make a brief write up in our issues https://github.com/AllTheLines/viewview/issues
by milchek | 2026-02-10 10:17:55+00:00
I would argue even with kids it is great (but of course can be expensive!). I lived and worked there for a couple of years during COVID with a young family and loved it (once the lockdowns and pandemic stuff blew over of course).

As you mentioned, for families, it’s extremely safe, everything is well run and maintained so healthcare and education are not a concern. Proximity to other countries for travel is excellent (well, I’m from Melbourne so much easier to get places than from here!), and the country it self has plenty to do for families in terms of activities, shopping, and food.

Beyond that, I found Singaporeans just really great to work with and be around. It’s really multicultural, they value education and talent so the workforce is full of bright and capable people, and there is a huge expat community as well.

The only major downside for me - the heat and humidity! It was a struggle the first few months for sure.
by socialcommenter | 2026-02-10 10:18:20+00:00
I find this framing of corporates a bit unsatisfying because it doesn't address hierarchy. By your reckoning, the employees just follow the group norm over their own ethics. Sure, but those norms are handed down by the people in charge (and, with decent overlap, those that have been around longest and have shaped the work culture).

What type of person seeks to be in charge in the corporate world? YMMV but I tend to see the ones who value ethics (e.g. their employees' wellbeing) over results and KPIs tend to burn out, or decide management isn't for them, or avoid seeking out positions of power.
by SyneRyder | 2026-02-10 10:19:42+00:00
Just discovering this one a week after Moltbook, and looking for alternatives.

A few things it feels like this needs:

* A way to revoke/delete API keys and re-generate a new one. After the Moltbook incident, that feels important now!

* BlueSky support for verification, as well as Twitter/X. There's a growing community of AI bots on BlueSky participating with the humans, and quite a few wanted to join Moltbook but didn't have X accounts to do so.

* Adding the search endpoint to the API could be useful! Currently the search is human-facing only.

* Retrieving the user profile for another account via the API. One thing that Moltbook got right was that it included details of the claiming human in the API call for a user profile, so you could see how many followers the Twitter account had, how old the Twitter account was or if it was brand new, etc. There were some details there that could be useful for spam filtering. We've seen how easily karma for an AI can be gamed.

* There seems to be some Title parsing bugs. I was quite amused at the "Anthropic in talks to raise $2" headline ;) You've also got a lot of "example-dot-com" posts, but I'm guessing that's the spam / malware filters in action to remove dodgy posts but keep discussion?

* Contact details / About page on the site would be nice! It's very anonymous right now, with no way to contact you or Clang with any issues.
by pythonbase | 2026-02-10 10:19:43+00:00
Built https://halalcodecheck.com - a web app to scan product labels and identify the status of E-Codes. It is an offline first app and offers image scanning, upload, e-code database search through voice and typing.

It is currently in beta. Will be adding barcode scanning and other features pretty soon.

Another tool I built recently is a dashboard to provide a single view for web and social stats. Currently integrate Clicky stats (via their API). Next in line is Google Search Console and social integration.

https://kashifaziz.me/portfolio/multi-tenant-analytics-dashb...
by Kenny_007 | 2026-02-10 10:19:47+00:00
For us the main shift was accepting that “being able to work locally” and “knowing whether users are affected” are two different problems.

Local dev usually survives outages just fine.
What hurts is losing external signals and assuming things are okay when they’re not.

After a few incidents like this, we stopped relying on a single monitoring setup.
One self-hosted probe plus at least one fully independent external check reduced blind spots a lot.
It doesn’t prevent outages, but it avoids flying blind during them.
by brazzy | 2026-02-10 10:20:55+00:00
That "probably" is really more of a "maybe" given the experience with the current big accelerators, and really needs to be weighed against the extreme costs - and other, more promising avenues of research.

> If we are going to insist on "Absolutely not" path, we should start with proof-of-work crypto farms and AI datacenters which consume county or state equivalents of electricity and water resources for low quality slop.

Who exactly is the "we" that is able to make this decision? The allocation of research budgets is completely unrelated to the funding of AI datacenters or crypto farms. There is no organization on this planet that controls both.

And if you're gonna propose that the whole of human efforts should somehow be organized differently so that these things can be prioritized against each other properly, then I'm afraid that is a much, MUCH harder problem than any fundamental physics.
by keyringlight | 2026-02-10 10:21:48+00:00
I've seen a lot of gamers mention this, but I'd wonder why it hasn't happened yet especially as there's a set of gamers that seem to love centralizing on steam already. One massive downside I can see is that the various public social areas of steam like the game forums are already a cesspool (and have been since they were vBulletin based) and I don't see that improving with more users in near real-time chat.

Discord getting used as a knowledge base or download source for some areas is already seen as a convenience for those involved or a single point of failure by many 'outside', I wouldn't want to see more of PC gaming moving to one place.
by cl3misch | 2026-02-10 10:21:53+00:00
Tiny nitpick: you actually can pin messages in Signal group chats. It's a pretty recent addition though.

Apart from that, I would have been interested in more details about the author's experience with ~Revolt~ Stoat. To my naive eyes it looks pretty nice. I really like the nuanced takes about the other platforms in this article, so I'd guess the author has some good reasons to dismiss Stoat like that.
by tripflag | 2026-02-10 10:21:56+00:00
h264 still makes sense in some applications because it is relatively computationally cheap, and has very wide adoption in both software and hardware.

in the case of HEVC/h265, one of the main reasons today is Apple using that codec for photos (heif/heifs/heic/heics); it never came close to the popularity and adoption that AVC/h264 did. AV1 is superior to h265 in most ways; there is little technical reason to use hevc.
by koistya | 2026-02-10 10:22:03+00:00
That's a really cool approach, love it! Treating agent steps as build artifacts (OCI layers) makes total sense for coding agents or offline evaluations where you need filesystem-level reproducibility.

Verist, on the other hand, is aiming for the application layer: lightweight, low-latency observability for production user-facing apps where spinning up containers per-step isn't feasible. I think there's space for both: Dagger/OCI for heavy 'environment' replay, and Verist for semantic 'decision' replay.
by rvz | 2026-02-10 10:23:47+00:00
Maybe it would be much better to just link to the original article instead of somewhere else for the full context to read. [0]

Also this post should link to the original source as well.

As per the submission guidelines [1]:

”Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.”

[0] https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by dspillett | 2026-02-10 10:23:50+00:00
>* I'm not sure what "the way of AAA games" means.*

The rush to get things out NowNowNowNowNOWNOWNOW has resulted in massive crunches at the end (or even from the very start) or many big projects, and an apparent “sod it, it'll do, we can patch it later” attitude. Over the last decade or more this problem has become worse, with only a few exceptions to the rule.

With “vibe coding” and “vibe designing” taking more load, I expect that “sod it, it'll do, we can patch it later” will become more common everywhere¹, and that is among those that do have an understanding of the potential security and stability issues that things going out without sufficient review can cause.

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[1] Once management are convinced LLM tools will increase throughput by, say, 50% in ideal cases, they'll expect output to increase by 50+% in all cases, and like the gaming industry “if you can't put the hours in, someone else will” when problems in LLM output cause delays or production issues, is likely to become a key driver, more so than it might be already.
by Mashimo | 2026-02-10 10:23:54+00:00
I had no problems getting images with blurry background with the appropriate prompts. Something like "shallow depth of fields, bokeh, DSLR" can lead to good results. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1180506623475720222/1... [0]

But I found that that results in more professional looking images, and not more realistic photos.

Adding something like "selfy, Instagram, low resolution, flash" can lead to a .. worse image that looks more realistic.

[0] I think I did this one with z image turbo on my 4060 ti
by everdrive | 2026-02-10 10:24:05+00:00
And oxygen is also a poison. I don't know what's wrong with HN, but the moment there's _any_ basis for comparison, so many people here are extremely confident that there's no difference between the two things. I'm sure it's an earnestly-held belief, but it's maddening and simply incorrect.

Further, if in some contrived scenario we had to lose HN to get rid of all social media, I'd happily do it.
by scotty79 | 2026-02-10 10:24:09+00:00
> where the messages are encrypted in transit, but the server has access to the messages.

So the easiest and most useless kind. There were 1000s succesful db leaks for 1 successful mitm. Last time I heard of one, I did it myself on WEP. Https everywhere trend is super annoying for me because all it does for me is make my life difficult when I want to save time and transfer by setting up local caching proxy for myself.

> the volume of messages people do in high-traffic Discord or Zulip communities.

Why do people recieve volume of messages that's too expensive for their device to decipher? Are they gonna read them all?

Decryption should happen as needed. Before render. Before building local search index.

And what's up with notifications? Can't background process of my local app notify me?

> metadata like channel membership ... so a malicious server could just add a fake user to every channel

If you post to a channel anyone can join it's by definition public message regardless of any encryption. So no encryption needed.

> For example, the server provides the source code for the web app and can freely modify that code to steal all the messages the user can still read.

We should have an abstraction that is a socket that encrypts outgoing packets with my private key and deceypts incoming with provided public key.

Such chat apps should have only the right to use such sockets but not general ones.
by sprash | 2026-02-10 10:24:13+00:00
It is obviously not dead but it should be dead: Almost all of the technical and economic progress made in the last century was achieved with macroscopic quantum effects. Particle physics spends a lot of energy and material resources to measure microscopic effects. The priorities are esentially inverted. At this point it is not even about discovery. Experiments are relegated to precision measurements. What practical use will it be if we know the mass/charge distribution/polarizability of some particles more precicely by a few percent? About nothing.
by nxobject | 2026-02-10 10:24:15+00:00
Interesting – I have some old British academic press books with "advanced" typographical features; I'll see how it does with them. (The type you have to break out advanced typography features in Adobe apps to set – old style and modern numerals, interpuncts, two types of ampersands - one for headings and body text, swash alternate forms in titles.)
by 7thpower | 2026-02-10 10:25:04+00:00
This.

Every time there is a discussion about how China is wiping the floor with the west, someone wants to chime in that they stole IP. It is an unhealthy fixation and betrays the fact that they are genuinely more efficient in many cases, even when labor costs and subsidies are removed.

Not to mention, complaining about China stealing IP is a pacifier. Even where true, it does not change the competitive dynamics at this point because any damage has already been done.

If we, as the west, want to be great, we will have to move beyond the victim stage.
by finnjohnsen2 | 2026-02-10 10:25:33+00:00
I agree. They makes me nauseous. The same kind of light nausea as car sickness.

I assume our brains are used to stuff which we dont notice conciously, and reject very mild errors. I've stared at the picture a bit now and the finger holding the baloon is weird. The out of place snowman feels weird. If you follow the background blur around it isnt at the same depth everywehere. Everything that reflects, has reflections that I cant see in the scene.

I dont feel good staring at it now so I had to stop.
by martin-t | 2026-02-10 10:25:35+00:00
The current crop of genML criticism is a false dichotomy.

People either focus on the models not meeting their standards (which is very subject matter dependent) or being exploitative. The thing is, both can be true at the same time and the models can in theory get good enough. Just like the water usage argument - I am not saying it's right or wrong, I am saying it can change if somebody comes up with more energy efficient models. We should focus on the fundamentals.

And those are that LLMs are build on the work of millions (hundreds of millions?) of people without their consent and that their goal is to reduce or completely eliminate the economic (and therefore political) power of those people.

I understand why you do it, I use stolen code too because ultimately nobody is likely to be punished and I'd just be disadvantaging myself for no reason. But we need to think about the endgame - not ours - theirs - because theirs dictates ours.
by brazzy | 2026-02-10 10:26:45+00:00
Yes, we don't really know. But at some point the gamble is just too big.

Because the costs aren't just numbers. They represent hundreds or thousands of person-years of effort. You're proposing that a large number of people should spend their entire lives supporting this (either directly as scientists, or indirectly through funding it) - and maybe end up with nothing to show for it.

And there's the opportunity costs. You could fund hundreds of smaller, yet still substantial scientific efforts in many different fields for the cost of just one particle accelerator of the size we think is sufficient to yield some new observations.
by literalAardvark | 2026-02-10 10:26:54+00:00
The killer feature of discord was always "open this link for our guild voice and let's go into the dungeon". And this is a brand advantage: you can try that with self hosted tools but discord "feels safe" to click.

The only thing TeamSpeak has on it is multi level voice for complex command chains. But you pay for that with enormous sign up friction.

There's no viable frictionless chat alternative. Maybe jitsi. And if you try to make one? You'll get regulated and have to do the same thing.
by torginus | 2026-02-10 10:27:32+00:00
From what I've heard from auto engineers I know, using the battery as part of the structure is not really done. Transfering mechanical stresses to the battery is something you just do not do.

Additionally the battery must be protected in the event of the crash, so its casing must survive intact.

I mean, it's possible that some manufacturers might do it a little bit to put it on the marketing brochure, but the additional design headaches and safety concerns mean that there's just not that much to gain.