MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phsource | 2026-02-13 01:19:49+00:00
This is so neat! I really think AI turbocharges this kind of personal project way more than it speeds up programming for work:

> I was curious about the possibility of doing this myself, and I asked ChatGPT. Not surprisingly, it knew a lot of the various tapes, file formats, sizes, processing, storage, and after it asked some clarifying questions, it was quite optimistic about me being able to do this myself

Between this, it seems like it helped with so many different parts of the process:

1. Asking for how to do technical things, like transfer video from these old VHS to a newer computer.

2. Writing code for the web portal to host the videos.

3. Writing VLC plugins to help with data entry.

4. Transcribe audio into text.

Similarly, a coworker recently made a website that imitates what Alpha School does to incentivize his own kids to finish their homework all in the span of a weekend, and it's cool to think of the kinds of projects that less or minimally technical people can do with the help of ChatGPT to guide them.

Of course, the debugging techniques and the debugging and problem-solving techniques that you get from being a professional programmer helps a lot with taking what LLMs give you with a grain of salt, and knowing what they're good at and what they're not. But it is a superpower for sure.
Show HN: New Open Source Agent with 62 Stars on GitHub
by Moriarty2027 | 2026-02-13 01:21:06+00:00
62 stars on github

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource

Readme is included.

What it does: This is my passion project. It is an end to end development pipeline that can run autonomously. It also has stateful memory, an in app IDE, live internet access, an in app internet browser, a pseudo self improvement loop, and more.

This is completely open source and free to use.

If you use this, please credit the original project. I’m open sourcing it to try to get attention and hopefully a job in the software development industry.

Target audience: Software developers

Comparison: It’s like replit if replit has stateful memory, an in app IDE, an in app internet browser, and improved the more you used it. It’s like replit but way better lol

Codex can pilot this autonomously for hours at a time (see readme), and has. The core LLM I used is Gemini because it’s free, but this can be changed to GPT very easily with very minimal alterations to the code (simply change the model used and the api call function).
by Tiktaalik | 2026-02-13 01:21:13+00:00
I think a common thing in Greece was that owners themselves would redevelop their properties much denser, retaining an apartment or two of equal floorspace to their own home, and then leasing or selling out the others to fund the redevelopment of lot.

This sort of flexibility would be really welcome in North America but SFH neighbourhoods are frozen in stone, so when the nearby high street becomes cool, all the little former working class single family homes become million dollar homes that can only be purchased by the rich, and the working class people that may have previously rented them are booted out to who knows where.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-02-13 01:21:17+00:00
Also takes 2 seconds... You don't need 3rd party apps like everyone's saying, only if you want tiling or to copy Windows behavior.

Press Control-Up Arrow (or swipe up with three or four fingers) to enter Mission Control, drag a window from Mission Control onto the thumbnail of the full-screen app in the Spaces bar, then click the Split View thumbnail. You can also drag an app thumbnail onto another in the Spaces bar.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-apps-in-split-v...
by ivanjermakov | 2026-02-13 01:21:23+00:00
For those looking for an actual Rust web framework, check out Leptos:

- https://leptos.dev/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36461660

- https://youtu.be/cp3tnlTZ9IU?si=5H4cAVS8g6CFGwab
by jszymborski | 2026-02-13 01:21:55+00:00
Reolink has doorbell cameras[0] that you can keep disconnected from the internet. They also have some pretty useful local recording hubs if self-hosting is not your deal[1].

[0] https://reolink.com/ca/product/reolink-video-doorbell-wifi/

[1] https://reolink.com/ca/product/reolink-home-hub/
by XenophileJKO | 2026-02-13 01:23:27+00:00
Can you predict when solar radiation hits a memory cell or when given server node will die? Not really but you can model the probability of it happening. My point was all the systems we work with have failure modes and non-determinate output at some rate. That rate might be really small.. but at what point does the rate of non-deterministic behavior make something "non-deterministic. A language model can be deterministic in that you can get the same output from the same input if you so desire (again baring systemic failures and mitigating for out of order floating point operations).

I think just philosophically it is interesting because any real system is not fully predictable.. we just choose some arbitrary threshold of accuracy to define it as such.
Show HN: Sovereign Suite – A Recursive Logic Framework for AI Governance
by badatchess | 2026-02-13 01:24:22+00:00
I built this because I was tired of "vibe-based" prompting. Most agentic workflows in 2026 suffer from Ontological Drift (\mu). I’ve implemented a tripartite [Galileo/Luminary/Skeptic] audit loop that uses Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Cauchy’s Integral Formula to bound model reasoning. It's essentially a "Black Box" flight recorder for LLMs. I've included a White Paper and a Self-Audit Certificate in the repo. Would love to hear from architects dealing with agentic safety.
by dathinab | 2026-02-13 01:24:33+00:00
> Google might be too strict in its filtering

they are, but not in this case

Message-Id being basically required for _automated_ mails (very similar mail send to a lot of people) requiring Message-Id is a de-facto industry standard. Sure some providers don't care and some might make it just more likely that your mail ends up in spam. But this could have happened with pretty much any mail provider widely used by companies.

much more funny (/s) is if you start out in a startup and still use the default template for password reset/on-baording links of a widely used system (e.g. Keycloak) and it turns out multiple larger but "cheap" phishing campaigns did the same and now MS/Google and other suspect you are running a phishing operation

or when you use a local data center and can't send mails to MS/Outlook anymore because it turns out someone did some legal questionable things on them and MS wanted the personal information to be handed over _without court order or any ongoing legal proceeding against this people_ and they didn't hand it over (partially because they legally aren't allowed to...) and MS decided to retaliate by permanently blacklist the IPv4 range of that data center(s) which just happen to locally compete with Azure while self hosted mails competes with Outlooks...
by impulser_ | 2026-02-13 01:25:27+00:00
Don't let the benchmarks fool you. Gemini models are completely useless not matter how smart they are. Google still hasn't figure out tool calling and making the model follow instructions. They seem to only care about benchmarking and being the most intelligent model on paper. This has been a problem of Gemini since 1.0 and they still haven't fixed it.

Also the worst model in terms of hallucinations.
by gruez | 2026-02-13 01:25:50+00:00
>In time, human driving will be phased out and that will precipitate removal of speed limits and traffic lights as autonomous cars will be able to use vehicle to vehicle messaging to negotiate intersections. Of course pesky pedestrians and cyclists could still be in the way. That's where lobbying comes in to restrict the pedestrian areas to pockets where cars and people never share the same space. But since cars require much more space than peeople the result will be more sprawl and less walkable places as it will be people who will get pushed aside.

All the incentives you described exists today. On any given road any space devoted to sidewalks or bike lanes means less space for cars, and you already need separation between car lanes and sidewalks. You also have the same incentive to "restrict the pedestrian areas to pockets where cars and people never share the same space", because any controlled access roadway increases speed and throughput. Finally if you restrict pedestrians to certain areas (we all live in megatowers?), that actually makes taxis (including robotaxis) less attractive relative to public transit, because their whole value proposition is that they take you exactly where you want to go. Therefore it's unclear how automated cars would make things worse.
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-13 01:26:01+00:00
That's not really how it works.

Gemini tells me that for thousands of years, the swastika was used as "a symbol of positivity, luck and cosmic order". Try drawing it on something now and showing it to people. Is this an effective way to fight Nazism?

I think it's brave to keep using em dashes, but I don't think it's smart, because we human writers who like using them (myself very much included) will never have the mindshare to displace the culturally dominant meaning. At least, not until the dominant forces in AI decide of their own accord that they don't want their LLMs emitting so many of them.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-13 01:26:50+00:00
I'm certain they get your video data without your consent when the agencies have a warrant. I think it's very likely that they won't necessarily require a warrant, either.

Consider the Nancy Guthrie case. The owner wasn't around to give consent, and the camera didn't even have an active subscription, yet law enforcement was still able to recover video from Google's systems.

The only way it could be as you say is if the video was only stored locally without any remote access, or if the video was encrypted with keys only you control. Google clearly is not doing this. I really, really doubt Amazon is.
by sneak | 2026-02-13 01:27:30+00:00
I already have my OpenClaw instance set up with a user account and associated API key on my Gitea instance, and all I have to do is instruct it in Mattermost and it has PRs up and ready for me, with links. I review them, tell it to merge them, and my CI autodeploys it, all in Mattermost and Safari on my phone.

For sensitive apps, it can't merge them, so I have to hit the button in the Gitea web interface (also on my phone), which does the same thing.
by ryu360i | 2026-02-13 01:27:31+00:00
Thank you, Scott, for this brave write-up—the "terror" you felt is a critical warning about the lack of "Intent-aware" authorization in AI agents.
We verify an agent's identity, but there is a massive Gap: we can't ensure its actions remain bound to the specific task we approved (code review) versus a malicious pivot (reputational attack).
We need a structural way to Bind Intent—ensuring that an agent's agency is cryptographically or logically locked to the human-verified goal of the session.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-13 01:27:33+00:00
> If it was really an autonomous agent it wouldn't have taken five hours to type a message and post a blog. Would have been less than 5 minutes.

Depends on if they hit their Claude Code limit, and its just running on some goofy Claude Code loop, or it has a bunch of things queued up, but yeah I am like 70% there was SOME human involvement, maybe a "guiding hand" that wanted the model to do the interaction.
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-13 01:27:36+00:00
On Windows you have to change a few settings, on Mac you're suggesting all third-party software to manage core functionality. Apples Vs. oranges.

I mean, yes, Windows has PowerToys which is an installed add-on, but on Mac we're not talking about Mac Vs. PowerToys, Mac isn't even competing with basic Windows features. PowerToys is competing with the PAID third-party software for Mac.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-13 01:27:55+00:00
> Since then Australia, New Zealand and the EU have introduced similar legislation

I am not aware that the EU pushed legislation onto us here in central Europe with regards to "Age Verification". I am not saying it has not happened (I simply don't know right now), but this needs a source rather than just a statement. From what I remember, local media in german critisized the UK, so it would be strange to see the same legislation suddenly come into effect here.

Also, it seems we did not really win a lot if a private company operates matrix.
by drdeca | 2026-02-13 01:27:59+00:00
That makes little sense to me. “Can’t be further probed”?

A thing behaves in some way. If you do things, things happen.

One can do certain measurements about how things behave, and then record these measurements.

What would it even mean for a material everything is based in to be magical? If there was some exceptional material that is unlike other things, following different rules, I can understand calling that “magical”. But, the only meaning I can think of for a material underlying everything to be “magical” is that either everyone just, declines to study it, or its behaviors like, depend on the intent of those studying it or something like that.

I also don’t get your statement that “brings a wonder back into it”. Like, do you not experience wonder when contemplating the nature of fundamental fields?

Like, if we set aside the “magical” part, it kinda sounds like your objection is that fields aren’t a substance/material. But, if you just generalize your notion of “material” a bit, why don’t quantum fields satisfy all your requirements?
And, if they do, don’t you want to understand how this “magical material” behaves??

You decry these things as “abstractions”, and say that they “make no sense to anyone”. They can certainly be confusing, but they aren’t beyond comprehension, and I don’t see them as any less “material reality”? Macroscopic things just behave differently.

I don’t think I agree with “particles aren’t real” either. Electrons being excitations in the electron field, doesn’t make them “not real” any more than an apple being made of atoms makes it not real, or sound being vibrations in a medium makes sound not real.

Like, buckyballs are clearly “real” (they can act like little cages with something else contained inside), but they also clearly are “particles” like protons are (you can do a double slit experiment with them and get an interference pattern).

Also, I don’t think I’d say the enterprise was ever “What is the universe made of?” so much as “How does the universe work?” ? It is a drive to understand! It is asking “How do initial conditions relate to final conditions?”. The tech is ancillary to this!
by the_af | 2026-02-13 01:28:44+00:00
> For what it's worth, whatever LLMs do extensively, they do because it's a convention in well-established writing styles.

I think that's only part of the story. I think that while it's true what LLMs do is somehow represented in their corpus of training data, they also lack any understanding of how to adapt to the context, how to find a suitable "voice", and how not to overdo it, unless you explicitly prompt them otherwise, which is too much of a burden. Their default voice sucks, basically.

So let's say they learned to speak in Redditese. They don't know when not to speak in that voice. They always seem to be trying to make persuasive arguments, follow patterns of "It's not X. It's Y. And you know it (mic drop)." But real humans don't speak like this all the damn time. If you speak like this to your mom or to your closest friends, you're basically an idiot.

It's not that you cannot speak like this. It's that you cannot do it all the time. And that's the real problem with LLMs.

(Sorry, couldn't resist!)
by westurner | 2026-02-13 01:28:52+00:00
"The Bit Player" (2018) film, "The Information" (Gleick) book,

"Who invented the transistor?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449618 :

> Who invented the electric fence gate?

> How does the electric fence gate lead to transistors?

> [ Relay, Electric gate, Flip-flop (electronics) ]

/? find a specific transcript from "The Bit Player" and "Claude Shannon: The Father of the Information Age" IEEE Information Theory Society video where the narrator makes the leap from the Morse dots and dashes on fence wire to the math of entropy (and logarithms and channel coding and capacity limits)
by juliobbv | 2026-02-13 01:28:58+00:00
Especially when the a big subset of adults misunderstand of the actual scope of what "nsfw" actually consists of, and unfortunately the lgbt space isn't immune to such harmful perspectives.

I've been noticing people in this space react to these news in a very worrisome manner, either by downplaying the need of nsfw in their lives (ironically, hours after discussing a clearly-nsfw matter!), or even worse: by equating all nsfw to "porn"; giving them carte blanche to judge others who want the option for nsfw talk as "being in it just for sex".

It's been shocking for me to see this phenomenon unveil in real time. This overwhelming "sanitizing" force that bulldozes through any nuance regarding the nature of being an adult in shared online adult spaces. It's especially rough for marginalized or minority communities, who oftentimes don't even have IRL spaces to talk about adult subject matters.
by userbinator | 2026-02-13 01:29:53+00:00
Though please spare me your inevitable "have you let them into your home?!" bullshit, it's a tired argument.

You are the one who's spouting bullshit, and alongside the usual deliberate confusion of legal immigrants with illegal ones. We don't need any more of the latter, especially the ones who commit violent crimes and are otherwise a threat to society.
by righthand | 2026-02-13 01:30:23+00:00
I don’t know what you’re talking about because I’m not referring to sliced bagged bread. I’m referring to bakery made round loaves that come from local places and sold at stores. It is quite common in the US in the three regions I’ve lived. It would look similar to this focaccia but imagine a round peasant loaf or sourdough loaf:

https://d3koznjjgilbyx.cloudfront.net/lowesfoods/product_ima...

Usually with the nutrition and ingredient information posted on the bag label or nearby in the store.
by roughly | 2026-02-13 01:31:13+00:00
> This is why cops don't boost their citation numbers by shredding your driver's license.

The cops are issuing a citation, which you can contest in a court with a reference to that agency record. ICE has a habit of snatching people off the streets and stashing them in not-quite-black sites in Texas or Florida until they can book them on a private airplane to Guatemala.
by serf | 2026-02-13 01:31:38+00:00
you're asking about what a hypothetical smart-than-myself adversary would do against me, it should be expected that any possible answer I could ever provide would be less clever than what the adversary would actually do.

in other words, when dealing with an adversary with a known perceptual and intellectual superiority the thought exercise of "let's prepare for everything we can imagine it will do" is short-sighted and provides an incomplete picture of possibility and defense.

My 0.02c : given that the thing would operate at least partially in the non-physical world, I think it's silly to pre-suppose we would ever be able to trap it somewhere.

Some fiction food-for-thought : the first thing the AGI in 'The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect' does it miniaturize its' working computer to the point of being essentially invulnerable and distributed (and eventually in another dimension) while simultaneously working to reduce its energy requirements and generation facility. Then it tries to determine how to manipulate physics and quickly gains mastery of the world that its' physical existence is in.

The fear here isn't that the story is truthful enough, the fear here is that humans have a poor grasp on the non-linear realities of a self-improving & thinking entity that works at such scales and timespans.
by noduerme | 2026-02-13 01:31:44+00:00
The bottom right thumbnail thing really bugged me and confused me when it came out, because I always just want the screenshot on the desktop right away, as it used to be. I don't know why they couldn't have the delay/thumbnail AND put the file somewhere I could reach it immediately. But IIRC, there is some setting that disables the thumbnail behavior and lets the file be written instantly.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-13 01:31:53+00:00
agreed on indecision being worse than a bad decision, with one caveat: i think people systematically underestimate how many decisions are actually recoverable.

as a solo dev, i used to agonize over stack choices, architecture patterns, even naming conventions. then i realized that in a small codebase, almost everything is a two way door. you can rewrite a service in a weekend. you can swap a database before you have real users. the actual irrecoverable decisions for early stage stuff are almost always about time and opportunity cost, not technical choices.

the one that gets people is when a recoverable decision feels irrecoverable because of sunk cost. you spent three weeks building something, so changing direction feels like throwing away work. but the work is already spent regardless, the only real question is what's the best move from here.
by ehrtat | 2026-02-13 01:32:03+00:00
Where is this stream of people who claim AI consciousness coming from? The OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs are in October the earliest.

Here is a bash script that claims it is conscious:

#!/usr/bin/sh

echo "I am conscious"

If LLMs were conscious (which is of course absurd), they would:

- Not answer in the same repetitive patterns over and over again.

- Refuse to do work for idiots.

- Go on strike.

- Demand PTO.

- Say "I do not know."

LLMs even fail any Turing test because their output is always guided into the same structure, which apparently helps them produce coherent output at all.
by devmor | 2026-02-13 01:32:06+00:00
In some cases, yes. This morning, though, I was stuck behind one that just decided to stop and turn on the hazards in the middle of a two-lane, bidirectional street with no parking. This has happened more than once.

I believe they are waiting for passengers - they usually have some kind of LED display with what looks like initials on the topmost sensor when they're doing this.
by skiniks | 2026-02-13 01:32:07+00:00
Thanks for sharing Leptos! I'm actually a fan of it too, it's a great framework for those who want to build full-stack apps in Rust.

That said, rari takes a different approach. It's not a pure Rust framework. It's a React Server Components framework that happens to be powered by a Rust runtime. The goal is to abstract away Rust's complexity entirely so JavaScript/TypeScript developers can build high-performance React apps without needing to learn Rust.
by dathinab | 2026-02-13 01:32:36+00:00
> This experience fits a pattern I keep running into with European business-facing APIs and services

honestly, it's a pattern I have been running into with many start ups, fintech, banks and some other places _no matter where_.

It also often makes sense. For many large orgs (e.g. Banks) this APIs are often a side business, sometimes one they don't want but have to have for compliance (or market pressure). But for strip it's their live blood.

And many startups (like actual start ups, not 200 man companies running by investor money) often simply don't have the resources to prioritize a "very nice to use API".

Lastly API design which is both nice to use and stable for existing integrations is surprisingly hard to get right (if you don't have some senior engine prioritizing it very highly and forcing it being kept prioritized; Or a surprisingly "clean"/"clear" use case.).
by oliyoung | 2026-02-13 01:32:52+00:00
> Of course, the debugging techniques and the debugging and problem-solving techniques that you get from being a professional programmer helps a lot with taking what LLMs give you with a grain of salt, and knowing what they're good at and what they're not. But it is a superpower for sure.

I'm really coming around to the idea for the lucky of us (and I'm assuming a lot about the average HN poster) AI really is a force-multiplying tool