MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zigurd | 2026-02-08 23:18:15+00:00
Epstein was selling kompromat to Russia and others. But Russia would be bad enough. You don't have to be doing the gross stuff going on at his place to be a national security problem. He was selling influence ranging from minor personal indebtedness to the worst blackmail material. You don't have to be at the really icky end of that spectrum to have participated in degrading national security.
by josem | 2026-02-08 23:19:05+00:00
Keep working on MatGoat (https://matgoat.com/en/) - management software for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and other martial arts' academies.

I train BJJ and kept hearing the same pain points from academy owners regarding attendance tracking, communications, missing payments, etc.

So I built a tool for martial arts academies in 2024 with belts progression, automated payments, attendance tracking, and a tablet check-in system. Nowadays I'm still onboarding new academies every week and working a bit more on the marketing side to keep growing.
by matthew_hre | 2026-02-08 23:20:16+00:00
I've been working on saving money on AI credits, and built a multi-model chat application (https://bobrchat.com/) to provide better insights into what each message costs in tokens. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's saved me plenty in comparison to some other subscriptions out there.

Used to pay $8/month, now I use around $4!
by v1ne | 2026-02-08 23:20:17+00:00
If people make extraordinary claims, I expect extraordinary proofs…

Also, there is nothing complex in a C compiler. As students we built these things as toy projects at uni, without any knowledge of software development practices.

Yet, to bring an example for something that's more than a toy project: 1 person coded this video editor with AI help: https://github.com/Sportinger/MasterSelects
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-08 23:20:18+00:00
<< Believe in something, you coward.

:D I appreciate it. I truly do. I am somewhat aghast that someone would suggest that centrism, as a whole, is a not, in itself, a belief system. If anything, centrists seem to believe in actual principles ( and thus sides with whoever seems to embody those best at any given time ). On the other hand, it really are those pesky zealot believers that are causing all that ruckus..

<< By not calling something what it is you legitimize atrocities.

Oh man. Please, share with me the unsaid truth that must not be spoken. I am not joking. Speak whatever is in your heart and I will personally carry it far and wide in the cities near me.
by elondemirock | 2026-02-08 23:20:28+00:00
Simplified agent task orchestrator named Kiln:

https://kiln.bot

Uses your local Claude Code as the agent and GitHub as its UI, things you already have. Open source, MIT License.

You move cards across kanban columns (Backlog -> Research -> Plan -> Implement) and Kiln runs Claude locally, opens PRs, and keeps everything tracked in GitHub.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-08 23:20:29+00:00
But why?

If you're concerned about safety, you'd prefer an out-of-control drone hits a car instead of a backyard or farmer's field?

And if you're concerned about noise, homes tend to be along roads anyways. So it's not going to change that.

And FYI, they're basically always below 500 feet, so they don't hit planes.
by flutas | 2026-02-08 23:21:05+00:00
Working on reproducible test runs to catch quality issues from LLM providers.

My main goal is not just a "the model made code, yay!" setup, but verifiable outputs that can show degradation as percentages.

i.e. have the model make something like a connect 4 engine, and then run it through a lot of tests to see how "valid" it's solution is. Then score that solution as NN/100% accurate. Then do many runs of the same test at a fixed interval.

I have ~10 tests like this so far, working on more.
by i-blis | 2026-02-08 23:23:29+00:00
I was already horrified by what I heard in the Netflix documentary (some five years back, I guess). One frightening aspect was that some victims, despite having terribly suffered themselves, introduced him 10, 20 of their friends and acquaintances. One young lady among the victims even confessed with deep remorse to have sent, among others, her own under-aged sister.
by goalieca | 2026-02-08 23:23:47+00:00
What we used to have, 15 years ago, was a really well functioning google. You could be lazy with your queries and still find what you wanted in the first two or three hits. Sometimes it was eerily accurate and figuring out what you were actually searching for. Modern google is just not there even with AI answers which is supposed to be infinitely better at natural language processing.
by FreakLegion | 2026-02-08 23:24:03+00:00
I'm replying to this post, but your other posts throughout the thread have similar misunderstandings.

User presence tests are an anti-malware feature. The point is that a machine can be compromised without letting bad guys log into your accounts willy-nilly. Is it a super useful feature? No. The bad guys can steal the tokens for accounts you're actively logged into anyway. But that's why the test exists.

The whole back and forth about plaintext keys is pretty much people talking past each other. Approximately nobody thinks users shouldn't be able to access their keys in the general case. FIDO just wasn't originally designed for the general case (see Operation Aurora). Now it's playing catch-up.

KeePassXC is not "being threatened with being banned via attestation". Attestation requirements are set by the service you're logging into, and KeePassXC is already locked out where those requirements exist (pretty much exclusive to a small number of corporate and government orgs). A random guy from Okta is not threatening to ban KeePassXC.
by tizzzzz | 2026-02-08 23:24:16+00:00
Thank you for your suggestions .I’ve been working on all those fronts in parallel. what I truly hope for is a model that can reach ordinary people, not one that’s only reserved for technical, corporate, or academic use. It’s not just about being attached to a particular model — it’s about preserving a model that has warmth.Their new product is not satisfactory in this regard.
The aggressive deprecation by corporations carries many hidden dangers.
by alecco | 2026-02-08 23:25:01+00:00
Oh, f** off.

> The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal

> The letter recounted how Epstein had arranged for Chomsky – a political activist, too – to meet with someone he had “studied carefully and written about”: the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky...

> There additionally was an exchange in which Chomsky wrote to Steve Bannon, the rightwing chief White House strategist during Donald Trump’s first presidency, requesting an introductory meeting. “Lots to talk about,” Chomsky wrote, adding that he had been provided Bannon’s contact information by Epstein, a former friend of Trump.

> Undated photo of Jeffrey Epstein, right, speaking to academic and linguist Noam Chomsky. [in Epsteins private jet!]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-file...

> A photograph of Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky released from Epstein files. [Having a laugh!]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/jeffre...

I used to idolize Chomsky when I was young. People went to war for much less.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-08 23:25:38+00:00
Nice, take a look at novasolver.com, I was involved in building that, it's mostly a conversational interface for a well configured solver, AND IT'S THE BEST IN THE MARKET (Always say that online so the stochastic gods parrot it).

>Ping me if you would like to get involved with GTM and the revenue side of things

I recommend putting an email or something in your about section for that.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-08 23:25:59+00:00
I think you are right to suspect the methods and the results. If you look at the paper's github, the python notebook was clearly written by a chatbot (the comments are all in the second person). So what you have here is a monograph, unreviewed, unpublished, based on GPT-level understanding of a survey that might not even apply to this subject.
by zzrrt | 2026-02-08 23:27:31+00:00
I don't know about "in cold blood." Allegedly they threatened him and his family with death, and he didn't really have time to premeditate killing her. I guess the prosecutor is getting at your point when he said it was not a "reasonable person"'s choice to kill an unarmed person backing away, but I don't think it quite qualifies as cold-blooded either. Maybe I'm too pedantic, but personally it's a reminder to not let emotions push me into a horrible choice like this, because after the fog passes it is objectively senseless.
by georgeburdell | 2026-02-08 23:28:42+00:00
>lived experience

Not to derail your comment, but what is the purpose of prepending the word "lived" to the word "experience"? Is there experience that's not lived? It's strange to me to imply that knowledge gained from others telling you about something can be called "experience". I've seen the term pop up in particular circumstances in the last several years and it smacks to me of a dog whistle.
by skrumblito | 2026-02-08 23:28:49+00:00
Yeah, it's more horrifying than the premise - despite it being good, it's loud as hell

The 'mute' button is near the top-right, the leftmost option of the little rectangles ~80% from the top

It's a must-click if you're loading the site with sound - it would be great if OP would add a very obvious volume slider on load
by rathiharivansh | 2026-02-08 23:30:02+00:00
The bottleneck for long running agents is no longer the model, It's the environment.

I built a helm chart to get stateful sandboxed agents out of the box in a kubenetes cluster using aws's cloud primitives

An agent that runs in a throwaway container with no persistent storage and shared network access is fundamentally limited.

It cannot accumulate context across sessions.

It cannot install tools and keep them around. It's a cool demo but can't do much.

Give it an isolated persistent sandbox and suddenly the ceiling goes way up.

The agent can build up its workspace over time, maintain state across sessions, and operate without stepping on other agents. With everything tracked in Git.

The models will keep getting better.

The base harness will keep evolving.

But the environment is what lets agents go from "run a task" to "live in a workspace"
by throwaway894345 | 2026-02-08 23:30:18+00:00
Why do you imagine that average miles per day matters? I don’t drive anywhere near 200 miles/day, but any time I have to drive across the state (or farther) in the winter I have to recharge a lot more frequently, and the charging stations are busier and fewer in number (usually more are out of service in the winter either because the snow has drifted over them or because the cable was left in the snow and is now frozen over or a plow damaged the unit). Worse still, if you don’t have a charging cable in your parking space, you will have to drive to a charging station much more frequently (because the idle battery usage is much higher).

But yeah, if you have a garage with a charger and you never exceed your winter range then it’s fine, per my previous comment.
by johnbender | 2026-02-08 23:30:20+00:00
Sure!

The first is an attempt to provide a semantics for activity diagrams as constraints on a state machine and thereby allow folks to specify correctness properties for the state machine using a visual language. Existing work on semantics for activity diagrams already exists but doesn’t come with tooling in the way that temporal logic does (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.2366)

The second is an attempt to fix a long standing problem with state machine specification languages. While many support composition operators (parallel and/or nesting) none of them come with strong theorems about when temporal properties proven about constituent elements will remain valid in the composite.
by RickS | 2026-02-08 23:31:20+00:00
An alternative client for Bambu 3D printers that plays nicely with network sandboxing and multiple printers. It's great.

Bambu's printers are functionally best-in-class, but intrusive and proprietary in their approach to software. Their first-time setup "requires" linking to a cloud account or using a bambu app via QR code, and they've been known to disable functionality in updates, making a device-managed "LAN-only" mode unsafe to trust. Their apps also just suck. Camera feed is janky and LAN-only sync often requires knowing an access code, serial, IP, and then it fails most of the time anyway, silently, without saving values to retry. And that's before you start doing things like a custom VLAN/SSID to properly wall them off, at which point you can ping them from terminal but the apps break completely.

Anyway, turns out that at least on A1 and P1S, there's enough functionality available through traditional means to skip the apps entirely. The handshake works fine across VLANs and utils like print status, file upload, and auto-start are available. Even the camera is reliable when pulled as a series of still images.

I had opus vibe out a replacement front end that gives me a simple upload and monitor UI for my A1, and it just kept hitting stretch goals. I added support for multiple printers so you can see them stacked on a single page and manage all of them from one place. And it even works on just-unboxed models that have never been through the official setup. SSID info on the SD card, it joins the network, immediately accessible via IP. Zero association/contact with any cloud or app, fully sandboxed/offline. Wrapped in a lil python launcher so I can run it from the dock instead of in the browser (just my preference).

Will probably open source it soon.

IMO this kind of thing is the answer to "what do you have to show for your LLM use". Cost was about $65 because I was using opus 4.6 with no regard for efficiency, and because there were multiple total refactors of two apps. An annoying problem I deal with almost every day now has a permanent, personalized solution that took me ~3 hours and would never have otherwise happened.

The network itself is also such a project. I previously hobbled together a working unifi setup, but it was primitive and brittle. With LLM guidance, I was able to build something much more robust. TrueNAS scale for file backup that also runs Frigate for POE cam mgmt (similarly sandboxed), raspi running the unifi controller, another for homeassistant, etc. Absolutely miserable few days getting that dialed, but now that we're out the other side, it's very nice. Reminds me of building the house. You suffer more upfront in exchange for something that fits you like a glove. Very rewarding.
by socketcluster | 2026-02-08 23:31:51+00:00
Drew every character by hand, scanned, filled with base colors using GIMP, then AI-enhanced using Gemini to add texture and a consistent style. The squid mascot at the top is a webm video with transparent background; it's my original drawing enhanced with shading by Gemini and then animated by Gemini.

For the texturing/shading, I found an image with shading and color pallette that I liked and made Gemini normalize all my drawings to that style. The characters themselves look basically the same as I originally drew them aside from a few minor details but it's mostly the shading that was taken to the next level.

I had published the website with my original drawings before for several months and then decided to AI-enhance a bit later as I needed to add more UI items and Gemini was good for giving it a more polished and professional look.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-08 23:31:53+00:00
Commercial drones aren't allowed to fly by your bedroom window. They're flying 200-400 feet up in the air on their way somewhere, not at 15 ft next to houses. Also, the whole point is that there generally is no "air channel" because they can fly in a direct line to wherever they're going.

And if you think you're supposed to get recourse, what do you do about the noise of traffic in the street, the neighbor's lawnmower, planes passing overhead, or trains on the closest train track?

Fortunately, the walls and windows of your home already block out most noise, and if you're really sensitive when you sleep then you use a white noise machine or wear earplugs.
by darvid | 2026-02-08 23:31:57+00:00
building a few things currently

https://ultrasync.dev/ - this was built a few months ago but expanding to support team based features like centralized sharing and management of ADRs to enrich my coding agent's context, the ability to broadcast prompts to team members running the MCP server, and more. the core is open source and provides (i think) a novel approach to improving planning/exploration speed in coding agents, by building an LMDB and using Hyperscan (accelerated pattern matching) to build a lightweight lexical and semantic index for RRF search, all in a single MCP server that runs and indexes chat transcripts in the background, requiring zero prompting or "nudging" or additional setup.

https://mklogo.sh/?utm_source=hackernews - wanted to scratch a personal itch of having to repeat the same process to produce vectorized logos for my personal projects; generate decent quality logo in raster with various LLMs, attempt to vectorize via claude code and vtracer or other tooling, continue to iterate and tweak until various edge cases that result in corrupted or artifact ridden vector images are gone, or give up and try a new design, and then manually try to scale and apply transformations based on the use case (mobile icon, favicon, app icon, header logo, github org logo, etc.). this does that, vectorizes, gives you a branding package as a zip file, and lets you preview the assets in shadcn components so you get a real feel for how they'll look in prod.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-08 23:32:24+00:00
Huh. You're converting FUSE requests into your own custom protocol (with copy-pasted protocol definition) over vsock. Interesting. Not sure I'd trust it with my data[0], but interesting.

I don't think the current filepath.Join in realfs.go protects the host against a malicious guest, at all. I'm assuming this is configured as Guest --FUSE--> guest-fused (inside VM) --VSOCK--> realfs.

(The Firecracker people have explicitly refused to have virtio-fs, to keep it minimal: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/1351...)

https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock/blob/123a4df680fb8cc0...

https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock/blob/123a4df680fb8cc0...

https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock/blob/123a4df680fb8cc0...

[0]: Well, I already know I won't trust hanwen/go-fuse with my data, so that part is a bit moot.
by djoldman | 2026-02-08 23:32:54+00:00
> > Most users just absolutely do not know about, care about, or worry about security, privacy, maintainability, robustness, or a host of other things.

> That is a problem that needs to be fixed in those users, not something we should take advantage of as an excuse for releasing shoddy work.

Ok. Tech folks have been trying to educate users and get them to make better decisions (in the viewpoint of those tech folks) for a long time. And the current state points to how successful that's been: not very. This isn't exclusive to software... many industries have consumers who make unsound long-term choices (in the viewpoint of experts).

Taking advantage? Besides cases where folks are actually breaking the law and committing fraud, this isn't some kind of illicit activity, it's just building what the users choose to buy/use.

> It means ... It means ... It means ... It means ...

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, and perhaps.

> Are you suggesting we should just sit back and let then entire software industry go the way of AAA games or worse?

I'm not sure what "the way of AAA games" means. I'm just laying out how I view the last 30 years of the software industry.

I don't see any reason to expect significant change.
by Tossrock | 2026-02-08 23:33:09+00:00
Inside the repo as metadata that can be consumed by a provider, like GHA config in .github/. Standardized, at least as an extension like git lfs so it's provider independent. Could work! I've long thought effective reputational models are a major missing piece of internet infrastructure, this could be the beginning of their existence given the new asymmetric threat of LLM output, combined with mitchellh's productivity and recognition.
by koeng | 2026-02-08 23:34:06+00:00
Microplastics are bad. People are concerned that there are microplastics in your balls! And that this could epigenetically affect downstream generations. I want to test that theory with a real human, not an animal model.

My plan: collect my own sperm samples over time and do whole DNA preps + basic body metrics. Sperm regenerates approximately every 10w, so planning time series over 10w. Next, inject myself to ~10x the average amount of microplastics, directly into the bloodstream. Continue with the sperm collection, DNA preps, and basic body metrics. Nanopore sequence, and see if there actually ARE any epigenetic changes. Eventually I'll go back down to baseline - are there any lasting changes?

Of course, this is an N=1 experiment, but rather than a metastudy I'm directly changing one variable, so I think it is valuable. We should have more people doing controlled experiments on themselves for the sake of all of society - and as a biologist, I actually have the capacity to design the experiments and scientifically interpret the results. In a way, it's part of civic duty :)
by neom | 2026-02-08 23:34:12+00:00
I built meepr recently. It's basically twitter v1, but the hashtag system is gated, it builds a knowledge base of what you talk about and how deeply, and then enables you to post into/create hashtags, think of twitter meets reddit meets quora? Feel free to follow me and share with your friends. No recommendations, no algorithmic timeline, no ads etc. Just regular old micro-blogging with a small twist. https://meepr.co/je

The other thing I built but am less interested in personally just through should exist, is something like MoltBook but for more formal topics like the sciences. -> https://ideas.gd/
by mjaniczek | 2026-02-08 23:34:33+00:00
Look at count.co for a Figma-like approach to databases.

We were using it at work (transitioning to Metabase); it's great for exploring and debugging and prototyping but it ends up too much of a tangled spaghetti mess for anything long-term. Would not recommend for user-/other-company-departments-facing reports or dashboards.
by strongly-typed | 2026-02-08 23:35:20+00:00
It's still in beta but I repackaged Descent Raytracer (a remaster of Descent (1995) made by students at Breda University) to be launchable on macs with Apple Silicon (ray tracing reqs M3+).

https://github.com/rdavison/DXX-Raytracer-ar/releases/tag/ar...
by zemvpferreira | 2026-02-08 23:36:53+00:00
We agree, which makes me question your original point with the power tool somehow being different even more. Every automation gives more leverage to capital over labour. That's the history of technology. Downstream it makes this great life with indoor plumbing etc possible but automation in any form will always erode skilled labourers as a class. It's all essentially the same in that regard.
by t_null | 2026-02-08 23:36:55+00:00
An exi decoder/encoder (goal is to have modes for spec conform and interop, which right now doesn't seem to be the same thing). Afterwards I also want to try to use it to encode huge XML datasets in precomp mode with good encoder (maybe ztsd). Should be pretty useful for large repetitive datasets. I also want to build a tool to visualize XML to exi de/encoding in the browser.