MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Open-source self-hostable backend – try to break my live instance (48h)
by ravikantsaini | 2026-02-25 04:08:02+00:00
So I've been working on this open source project called Nuvix for a while now — it's basically a self-hostable backend with auth, database, file storage, and a unified API all bundled together.

Anyway, I spun up a live instance on the cloud and figured instead of just asking for feedback the usual way, why not just... let people in and see what happens.

So here you go:
Dashboard: https://studio.kraz.in
Login:
email: test@kraz.in
password: testpass

You've got 48 hours. Poke around, break stuff, do your worst. If you find something weird or something that breaks, drop it in the comments or open an issue on the repo — https://github.com/nuvix-dev/nuvix.

Genuinely curious to see what people find. Be brutal.
by 1659447091 | 2026-02-25 04:08:09+00:00
You have to specifically identify and name the people in the photos, otherwise all it knows is that it's a person and throws it into that folder. And if you don't use icloud none of it leaves your device. It does the photo processing locally on the phone. It only knows what you tell it.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/108795

https://applemagazine.com/find-people-and-pets-in-photos/
by jama211 | 2026-02-25 04:08:16+00:00
>When the time to build collapses, all product/sales/design/marketing mistakes are forgiven

I must be living in topsy turvey land because this is literally the opposite of what is true. When the time to build collapses, those things become the criticality of the entire product. From a customer perspective, those were always the things that mattered, the customer story. No customer cares how a thing was coded, they’ve ALWAYS cared about all those other things.
by dataflow | 2026-02-25 04:09:15+00:00
> Think of Amazon is a search engine for products.

> [Amazon's] own purchasing arm

...so we can't think of Amazon as just "a search engine", right?

You might as well hand someone a toy and say "Think of this as a toy gun. But this is where it gets a bit more complicated: 40% of these have a trigger that shoots bullets." Whom are you kidding?

Clearly with the scheme you described, these are morally two separate entities colluding with each other to use each others' huge powers in the market to raise prices and pocket more profit for themselves.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-02-25 04:10:09+00:00
This meme is just cope at this point, and it’s frustrating to watch engineers pretend that it was actually the architecture that was hard or whatever.

No author, this isn’t the same as SPAs and CI/CD.

This isn’t just happy tools helping us focus on the business side.

We’re devaluing all white collar work. The thing that keeps the US economy afloat. Even if this tech requires human oversight, why would companies keep you when they can hire someone overseas at 1/10th the cost and get to 80% of the productivity with AI.

Anthropic just dropped their safety pledge. Do you think they’ll hesitate as they transfer wealth from workers to their shareholders?

Please people. Stop being avoidant. Stop pretending it’s a meritocracy and you’re at the top. Stop pretending the one thing about the job AI can’t do is the job.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-25 04:10:25+00:00
Reading the thread, there are two non-issues and one big issue.

1. Can a company change their ToS to clarify that you can't "hack" their Oauth for other tools -- Yes, no question

2. Should they enforce the ToS, absolutely

The elephant in the room is Google has no support infrastructure and setup no notice drip campaign before they started banning out-right.

They could've easily rate-limited or even blocked requests authed from apps outside Anti-gravity, but banning entire accounts is pretty ridiculous. It'll just lose them very eager AI enthusiasts who are the audience they NEED to grow their new experiments.

It's bad business and not in their best long-term interests. Big fail. This is the way a startup may act because they're going broke on traffic -- not Google.
by pts_ | 2026-02-25 04:10:32+00:00
Trivializing code has reached an insufferable nadir. It is like saying math or medicine is the easy part, or cooking or carpentry. Often those who say it cannot code or read code, and are good at marketing, so they simply keep on promoting it and be dismissive of other work. Disillusioned to see it at the top of HN, and hand waving away methodical and substantial activities can only bode badly.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2026-02-25 04:10:56+00:00
99.9% of the code i write is easy, but that's just because of the sort of work i do. Its not far from basic CRUD. Maybe with pubsubs and caching thrown in for fun.

But that doesn't mean there isn't some tricksy stuff. All the linear algebra in graphics programming takes awhile to wrap your head around. Actually, game programming in general i find a bit hard. Physics, state management, multi threading, networking...
by jama211 | 2026-02-25 04:11:17+00:00
There’s a need for something to understand those things, but from a user perspective it doesn’t matter if that’s a human or an LLM.

Besides, loads of software that’s human written has people maintaining it that don’t understand what it’s doing or how it interacts with other systems or where bugs or edge cases will show up etc etc too. In fact I’d say most software is like this.

LLM’s probably make less security holes than humans at this point.
by kranner | 2026-02-25 04:11:26+00:00
Happy for you, but GitHub has plenty of webcam feed URLs, webcam viewers, Roku code etc. You "built" it for some value of 'building' but it certainly doesn't seem the same kind of 'building' as described in the first three sentences of your post.

It's nice you got something out of it in just two hours. If the LLM companies are doing their caching right, the next person to ask for this set of apps with prompts close enough to yours can get it in five minutes.

Also there's a typo in the URL.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-25 04:11:36+00:00
I claimed Hamas had a larger and more powerful military than many European countries. This is a fact.

> What? You mean countries like Monaco and Liechtenstein?

No, my claim is much stronger. I mean Hamas's army was comparable to countries like Denmark (20k active soldiers), Finland, the Czech republic (27k active) and maybe even the Netherlands (40k active). Estimates of the size of Hamas's army pre October 7 range from 20k to 40k active combatants, with US intelligence estimates converging on 30k. This is looking just at fighters and excludes Hamas's political wing.

> Simply counting the # of soldiers or rockets is disingenuous when this is obviously an asymmetric war.

Counting things like soldiers and military arsenals is the standard way to evaluate military strength. And of course there is a force asymmetry, Israel is a global power and its air force is probably the second most effective in the world. That doesn't mean we shouldn't evaluate Gaza's military the way we would any other.

> Please explain what you mean by "war-fighting infrastructure ".

Well, for example, Hamas built the largest underground military tunnel system in the known world, a vast standing army numbering in the tens of thousands, gathered plenty of intelligence on Israel, militarized their population, and has a history of combat, for starters. But it goes way beyond this, and extends to the broad financial and military support they enjoyed from the IRGC.

> "Depends on what you mean by "standards of the Middle East", but just compare Israel($52k) and Gaza ($3455) for 2023:"
I'm not comparing it to Israel, which is a standout in the middle east, and among the most technologically developed countries in the world. I'm comparing it to other middle eastern countries. It wasn't exactly destitute, despite its murderous, anti-woman, anti-gay, and antiy-jew jihadi philosophy. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE-xjBRKkPL/

> It's clear that the method of combatant recognition employed by the IDF is flawed, given they're killing aid workers and people from the UN.

Have you considered that the some aid workers were also Hamas militants? Or that the UN, through UNRWA, employed Hamas militants? Many of the so-called aid-workers israel killed turned out to actually have been part of Hamas. There is unfortunately extensive evidence that UN employees participated in the 10/7 attacks and the subsequent fighting. And Hamas uses world central kitchen and other aid organization vehicles and infrastructure, so distinguishing is not easy in the first place.

> How did you develop your understanding of this situation? And what are you trying to communicate here?

I have developed my understanding of this situation from decades of study on this topic, and at least a thousand of hours of research over the past 2.5 years. In the span of 15 years, I've gone from leading so-called pro Palestine rallies to my current positions. What I am trying to communicate is that reality is more nuanced than many (including a younger version of me) like to think. Reality is nuanced, and at odds with the picture you paint.
by rsync | 2026-02-25 04:11:51+00:00
False.

You can sign up for US mobile service, which is a Verizon MVNO, right this moment with no personally identifiable information at all.

Remember: neither the visa nor MasterCard payment networks have any support for customer name. Everyone pretends that they do, but they do not. In the absence of an additional security layer like “verified by visa “there is no way to verify cardholder name.
by jadenPete | 2026-02-25 04:11:58+00:00
The article cites Amazon prohibiting sellers from selling their products for less on other platforms as anticompetitive behavior. I don’t doubt that this is happening, nor that it’s anticompetitive.

That being said, anyone who’s operated a two-sided marketplace knows that one of the biggest problems is consumers using your site as an index, and then seeking to dodge your fee by meeting with the seller on another platform, where they don’t have to pay it. This was a big problem for my startup.

This is a negative externality, because they’re extracting value from your platform (the list of sellers, products, prices, ratings, etc.), without paying for that value. If left unchecked, this could make running the platform financially unviable. One way to prevent this is to paywall your platform, but not every consumer wants to pay a subscription.

I think it’d be fair for Amazon to prohibit sellers advertising other platforms on its own, but prohibiting them from offering lower prices outside of Amazon outright definitely seems anticompetitive.
by ifh-hn | 2026-02-25 04:12:47+00:00
That's true regarding the one file convenience but from another angle it's a separation of concerns, especially considering it's a pdf accessed very occasionally.

I maybe half agree with you about the encrypted overlay filesystem but only in respect to files, not passwords though. I tend not to keep files in KP, if I need a singular encrypted file I'd probably 7zip it (7z format) with a password and encrypt the filenames. The password goes in KP as does the location.
by OptionOfT | 2026-02-25 04:12:57+00:00
I'm on the other side. I work a lot with these tools and find that time after time there are subtle bugs, and lack of structure.

And that's fine, I use it as a tool, but am I faster? Not where detail matters, and I tend to do a lot of work in that area.

Generating dashboards? Absolutely. Converting to JavaScript vNext UI framework? Yes.

Kernel code? No.
by skydhash | 2026-02-25 04:13:23+00:00
Software engineering is more information processing engineering. Code is just the shovel with which we build the trench. Everything is about data, and we build the things that control and process the data based on various events according to some wants and needs.

LLMs are more like a trench digger with a cat's personality. It can helps in some cases, but are more likely to destroy a field. And good luck if you have some difficult terrain to pass through.
by remenoscodes | 2026-02-25 04:13:39+00:00
Just saw this — I posted a different take on the same problem the same day (git-native-issue, commits instead of files). Two independent projects converging on refs/issues/ is good signal.

The markdown files approach gives you grep/ag/rg search for free, which is a real advantage. And the repo-prefix + sequential ID scheme is definitely more memorable than UUIDs for daily use.

A couple of questions after reading the code:

- With a single refs/issues/latest branch for all issues, what happens when two contributors work offline on different issues and then push? Seems like it would produce a merge even though the issues are independent, does that cause friction in practice?

- On the ID scheme: gen_repo_id() generates 6 chars from a 22-letter alphabet. Two clones getting the same prefix is unlikely but not impossible. Have you considered what happens if it collides?
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-25 04:14:24+00:00
If no one talks about it, why is this .gov.cn article discusses the problems currently posed by the existing social credit system? There isn't indeed a nation-wide score, but given the size of Chinese municipalities (often larger than most countries in the world), it's far from anecdotal.

https://credit.fgw.sh.gov.cn/xyyj/20220902/8693d5ba378d4f578...
by atulatul | 2026-02-25 04:14:32+00:00
Another aspect besides not recognizing everyone from your company is like this- even if someone knows for sure that a person from a different company is helping themselves to snacks, people are may avoid pointing it out. People may prefer to avoid conflicts or make someone else look bad. They are more likely to act if they see someone stealing from their desk, home, etc. That's kind of their domain.

Also, a few other things may also be there- people won't make noise if someone steals snack packets, but they may make noise if someone steals laptops.

Also, if one person steals it may get pointed out more than if a lot of people steal- where stealing is culture, etc.
by jcalloway_dev | 2026-02-25 04:15:49+00:00
This is exactly the kind of scratch-your-own-itch story that produces genuinely useful tools. The fact that you ruled out Excel because the barrier was too high is actually a really important insight — there's a massive gap between "technically possible" and "actually usable."

Curious about a few things:

How are you handling price updates for the non-standard assets like physical gold? Manual entry, or did you find an API that covers it?

Also, the multi-currency angle with TL is interesting — currency fluctuation probably creates a whole secondary layer of complexity for your P&L view. How are you displaying that — in a base currency, or showing each position in its native currency?

Last question — have you shown this to anyone outside your own use case yet? Sometimes the constraints that feel personal turn out to be the exact constraints a much bigger group shares. Would love to see where you take it.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-25 04:16:05+00:00
> and nobody got into it because programming in Perl was somehow aesthetically delightful. (The language is referred to as write only line noise for a reason)

Today we call it "vibe coding" when people use an AI to write software without reading the code, or even learning how coding works. But people have been doing that for ages. Most "Perl programmers" back in the day never even attempted to learn the language, and often weren't software developers. But despite their horrible coding skills, the Perl worked anyway. And thus the language got a reputation for being hard to read, despite it being amazing that it worked at all.

Perl is still far and away my favorite language. I get things done so much faster in it, and programs I wrote 25 years ago work perfectly today on the latest systems. (Maybe that's the problem? If it were a real language, it would've broken 5 different times by now! And then I get paid to fix it... I think I understand software engineering now...)
by agentifysh | 2026-02-25 04:16:06+00:00
hmmm looks like assembyAI is still unbeatable here in terms of cost/performance unless im mistaken

edit: holy shit parakeet is good.... Moonshine impressive too and it is half the param, can it run on CPU like even Apple M1 ???? big advantage over parakeet

what exactly is the minimum hardware for medium streaming with moonshine ?
Show HN: I built a hitman for rogue agents: dead man's switch and spend controls
by JackDavis720 | 2026-02-25 04:16:18+00:00
I've been building autonomous AI agents and kept running into the same problem:
once an agent is deployed, you have no good way to control what it spends,
detect when it goes rogue, or kill it remotely.

So I built AgentWallet — a lightweight governance layer you can wrap around
any agent that can make HTTP calls.

Core features:
- Dead Man's Switch: agent must ping a heartbeat endpoint on an interval.
Miss it and it auto-terminates.
- Spend controls: set per-transaction and daily limits. Transactions above
threshold get blocked or flagged for approval.
- Kill switch: one API call terminates all agents instantly.
- Audit log: full transaction history per agent.
- Cross-agent governance: rules cascade to child agents.

It's open source and free to self-host. It charges per transaction (like Stripe but for agent spending).

npm install @jackd720/agentwallet

Live demo (interactive): agentwallet-v2-sdk.vercel.app
GitHub: github.com/JackD720/agentwallet

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or design decisions.
by paul7986 | 2026-02-25 04:17:23+00:00
Google glass was a joke of a technology in terms of being useful. Meta's when they are working are actual a useful product especially for those who already wear sunglasses and use their phone to take pics/vids. Besides normal pic/videography you can now capture moments when your hands arent free (skiing, rollercoaster, tubing, kayaking, etc)
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-25 04:17:58+00:00
https://www.apa.org/topics/research/multitasking

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0903620106

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12710835/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4174517/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12172848/

https://otl.du.edu/plan-a-course/teaching-resources/the-mult...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11543232/

https://ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-25 04:18:09+00:00
>manufacturing is dying across the West.

Died a long time ago and went to hell in handbasket :(

>If your inputs (labor) are more expensive you can't compete

Houston had always been less expensive than Detroit, LA, Chicago, New England and just about anywhere else in the US for this kind of thing, but it was really the cheapness of the foreign labor that made it irresistible to Wall Street. It had always been that way but didn't really matter until after the value of the dollar had been dropped so low that they had to pay workers what amounted to exorbitant sums while the labor still ended up with less discretionary cash, and that was at the lower-value dollar.

You should have seen Houston in 1979 when the Nixon Recession was raging worse than ever, long after he had sailed into the sunset. It was no Pittsburgh[0] but there were still two steel mills and of course one of them was US Steel where they had expanded to the industrial suburb of Baytown Texas specifically because the labor was cheaper than up north.

Wall Street took that differential to the bank and lit their cigars with $100 bills :\

Eventually led to champagne and caviar with each round of layoffs.

Nixon "opened up" China, but Reagan was not yet here to put the nail in the coffin.

I agree it would take a whole lot more unfair advantages just to get closer to a level playing field.

The way to real manufacturing growth is to build much higher-value-added products per worker.

The difficult problem to overcome is that most of the low-cost raw materials have been coming from China for so long, and the ideal thing would have been coming from more than one place the whole time.

But no, the absolute cheapest must be sought.

Mexico could have been ready by now but they would have had to do it on their own in an organized way like China and India so it pales by comparison, especially high tech in spite of all the brilliant Mexican engineers and innovators.

Lower-cost labor in India might be abundant enough but it'll take a while before the supply chain can compare to what China has built with all the dollars they have had in their hands for so long.

[0] Made up for it with oil, as heavy industry goes.
Show HN: Parallel AI agents that research a stock simultaneously
by sharmasachin98 | 2026-02-25 04:19:38+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a system that runs multiple AI agents in parallel to perform structured research instead of generating a single summary response.

One use case I tested recently was stock research.

When you properly research a stock like NVIDIA, you usually open multiple tabs:

- Financials
- Earnings reports
- Analyst sentiment
- Competitors
- Recent news
- Risks
- Market positioning

Most AI tools generate one combined answer, which often becomes shallow or blended.

So I built a workflow execution agents that:

- Spawns multiple specialized agents at once
- Assigns each agent a focused responsibility (financials, competitors, risks, etc.)
- Runs them in parallel
- Normalizes structure
- Compiles everything into a single structured research report

Instead of one AI response, you get multiple independent research threads that are merged into a coherent output.

The goal isn’t “better summaries.”
It’s structured multi-angle research without manually orchestrating prompts.

Here’s a short demo using NVIDIA stock:

https://youtu.be/QBmFK843Kuo

Would love feedback on:

- Does parallel specialization meaningfully improve depth vs single-thread LLM prompts?
- Where else would this model be more useful (beyond stock research)?
- What would you want to see measured (quality benchmarks, latency, cost breakdown)?

Happy to answer technical questions.
by fragmede | 2026-02-25 04:20:58+00:00
What Micoloth is missing or what I'm saying, is that people are using Wolfram Alpha but don't feel the need to post to Instagram or wherever about it, so Micoloth isn't hearing about it. Micoloth is assuming that because they aren't hearing about it, it isn't happening. I'm pointing out that things can happen that you don't hear about.
by ivanb | 2026-02-25 04:21:21+00:00
It is probably the best Common Lisp compiler when it comes to type checking. However, it leaves a lot to be desired. For example, it cannot specialize an element type for lists. With lists being the go-to structure, if you attempt to (declaim) every function, you will immediately see how vague and insufficient the types come out compared to even Python.

The ability to specialize list parameter types would greatly improve type checking. It would also help the compiler to optimize lists into unboxed arrays.

Please don't tell me that static type checking doesn't lend itself to CL. The ship has sailed. It does work with SBCL rather well, but it can be better.

Some may blame the Common Lisp standard. It indeed doesn't specify a way for list specialization, but the syntax is extensible, so why not make it as a vendor extension, with a CDR? AFAIK CDR was supposed to be to Common Lisp what PEP is to Python.

I would use vectors and arrays, but in CL ergonomics is strongly on the side of lists. For short structures vectors and arrays don't make sense.

I think it is also a time to outgrow the standard and be more brave with extensions. A lot has changed since the standard. It is still very capable, but as powerful as CL is, some things just cannot be practically implemented in the language and have to be a part of the runtime. Yes, I'm talking about async stuff.

So I got the idea to see how difficult it would be to bolt on async runtime to SBCL. To my surprise the project is hosted on awfully slow SourceForge and project discussions are still happening on mailing lists. Sorry, but I am too corrupted by GitHub's convenience.