MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ozim | 2026-02-15 16:08:33+00:00
This argument against .NET annoys me.

Because that’s pretty much any freaking thing - oh Python, oh PHP, oh driving a fork lift, oh driving a car.

Once you invest time in using and learning it is non issue.

I do get pissed off when I want to use some Python lib bit it just doesn’t work out of the box, but there is nothing that works out the box without investing some time.

Just like a car get a teenager into a car he will drive into first tree.

Posting BS on Facebook shouldn’t be benchmark for how easy things should be.
by tinyhouse | 2026-02-15 16:09:04+00:00
I think the article has some truth but the author also ignores something important. Yes, subscription costs are going down. But there's a big difference between consumer and enterprise. Everyone needs to build fast now. A company cannot get distracted by building capabilities in-house that are not core to their product. This was true yesterday and will be true tomorrow. That means they will keep paying for quality solutions and not settle for sub-par solutions just because someone made them for free (there was always an open source solution available long before AI entered the scene). I may argue that not settling is even more important now that moving fast is key.

For a company, paying $10K a year for a quality service, that's a no-brainer. Most companies spend that money on alcohol in company onsites. However, if you're charging really high prices (the Datadogs of the world), then you're going to face tougher competition from cheaper alternatives that might be as good as you, and when companies need to cut costs, which they often do, you'll be in trouble.

I think what it means to many software companies is that prices will significantly go down on average but the median might not see significant decrease. Companies will be smaller and more lean, hiring less people in general (not just engineers!). There will be more companies out there, so hopefully it will even out.

Last thing is that every product will have too many options to choose from. This has been the reality actually for a long time and going to get much worse. How you market and brand your product and acquire customers will become more difficult than ever.
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-15 16:09:32+00:00
The implicit point here is that devtools-type standardization subscriptions are about to get juiced.

Think Vercel, Supabase, et al. Because most of the time agents prefer glueing together managed services than building from scratch, unless they're told otherwise.

And if I'm someone building a custom in-house solution to replace a SaaS subscription product, I'm going to pay lower managed costs without blinking.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-15 16:10:00+00:00
> it is probably not the American way but the only way to address this problem is to make laws

Regulation and liberty mongering are very American. We do it constantly at multiple levels of government.

What kills privacy regulation is this weird strain of political nihilism that seems to strongly intersect with those who care about the issue. I've personally worked on a few bills in my time. The worst, by far, were anything to do with privacy. If you assume you're defeated by forces that be, you're never going to probe that hypothesis.
by benoau | 2026-02-15 16:10:02+00:00
Competition is absolutely going to crush the concept of mooching off a simple app costing $6/week or $10/month, but it doesn't matter where that competition comes from the problem is a guitar tuner shouldn't cost $100/year, it was always artificially successful derived from preventing users any other way to get apps. If AI doesn't kill this it will be 3rd party marketplaces or open source app distribution that does it.
by jt2190 | 2026-02-15 16:11:26+00:00
> How do you not see the difference between a machine that will hallucinate something random if it doesn’t know the answer vs a human...

Your claim here is that humans can't hallucinate something random. Clearly they can and do.

> ... that will logic through things and find the correct answer.

But humans do not find the correct answer 100% of the time.

The way that we address human fallibility is to create a system that does not accept the input of a single human as "truth". Even these systems only achieve "very high probability" but not 100% correctness. We can employ these same systems with AI.
by failingforward | 2026-02-15 16:12:34+00:00
Not necessarily. Double entry bookkeeping catches errors in cases where an amount posted to one account does not have an equally offsetting post in another account or accounts (i.e., it catches errors when the books do not balance). It would not on its own catch errors where the original posted amount is incorrect due to a mistaken assumption, or if the offset balances but is allocated incorrectly.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-15 16:13:09+00:00
> they get it wrong but they tend to air on the side of caution

Then this guy [1] walks into the room and says no, be bold, who could possibly object to my life's work, and he gets his way because he's signing the cheque.

[1] https://x.com/pavandavuluri/status/1987942909635854336
by _alternator_ | 2026-02-15 16:14:20+00:00
Ultimately its a balancing act between what we can know and what we can do about it. If you can’t treat a cancer (or your treatment is not effective, cf the radical mastectomy) then knowing who has it doesn’t help. As technology progresses and more cancers become readily treatable, it will make more sense to do early screening, and potentially full body MRIs.

But right now it is likely to cause a huge waste of time, resources, and yes, human lives to know about every little lump in your body.
by qudent | 2026-02-15 16:14:38+00:00
Google AI Studio documentation encourages developers to deploy vibecoded apps, claiming the API key is secure because it is protected by a proxy - however, there are no checks on the open proxy the deployed app exposes, which allows anyone to use the developer's wallet for arbitrary queries. Vulnerable live endpoints are discoverable by a single google search for us-west1.run.app . The proxy processes Gemini requests even if the deployed website has no AI features itself. Not even a documentation update 2.5 months after reporting.
by generallyjosh | 2026-02-15 16:14:52+00:00
One of the first skills I made for Claude was a research skill.

I give it a question (narrow or really broad), and the model does a bunch of web searches using subagents, to try and get a comprehensive answer using current results

The important part is, when the model answers, I have it cite its sources, using direct links. So, I can directly confirm the accuracy and quality of any info it finds

It's been super helpful. I can give it super broad questions like "Here's the architecture and environment details I'm planning for a new project. Can you see if there's any known issues with this setup". Then, it'll give me direct links + summaries to any relevant pages.

Saves a ton of time manually searching through the haystack, and so far, the latest models are pretty good about not missing important things (and catching plenty of things I missed)
by bdcravens | 2026-02-15 16:15:02+00:00
As pointed out in another comment, it's under the form elements, not listed as a top-level component as many UI libraries do

https://oat.ink/components/#form

Which actually makes sense: Oat's driving philosophy seems to be to use and enhance native controls as much as possible, and the date picker is already a native type on the input element.
by dasil003 | 2026-02-15 16:15:19+00:00
I gotta say you really nailed a solid explanation for what I felt reading the OA but would not have been able to articulate it this clearly.

As someone who personally had a history of wanting to be right, sometimes at the expense of being effective, this is a lesson worth taking to heart.

What I’ve learned is that raw engineering chops and deep end-to-end thinking is highly valued if and only if you understand where leadership is trying to go and you bring people along in your vision. If you pitch your boss and they say no, you need to take it to heart and understand why, if you plow ahead vowing to show how right you were you are forcing them into an awkward position where you can only lose.

A lot of replies in the thread siding with the original author and indignant on their own terms about how they’ve been wronged by “corrupt” leaders. But this betrays a misunderstanding of how large orgs work. The nature of success is you have to subvert yourself to the whims of the organization, and only stick your neck out to challenge the status quo when you have sufficient air cover from someone higher up who believes in you. Corporations are often dysfunctional and anyone working within them can clearly see the flaws, but you’ve got to be clear eyed about what influence you have, and even then, pick your battles, or you’ll be rejected like an immune response from the organization.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-15 16:15:22+00:00
I can come up with a few ideas that could work, but lately I have opted not to give my ideas out for free. I do think we are over estimating actual apps complexity given that Apple is strict about what goes into their app store. As for websites the complexity of hosting a vibe coded app is often overlooked.

That all said, I could see some killer features coming to AI companies if they really want to make a dent.
by rmoriz | 2026-02-15 16:15:29+00:00
By using an external service, people outsource problems. Using agentic coding to „clone“ a service by naively specifying the features (not the implementation) will insource the problem. If the problem is static, separated, well understood and used internally only, it may be okay to do so. In other circumstances I highly doubt it. SaaS markt will come back stronger once people suffered enough pain in doing „the app myself“.
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-15 16:16:06+00:00
This is because social media has trained today's young parents to be completely entitled assholes and teachers can only take so much of their abuse. What teacher is going to want to sit down for a conference with a parent who whips out a phone to record the meeting and then posts selectively edited excerpts online in order to get a few upvotes on a social platform.
by stcredzero | 2026-02-15 16:16:27+00:00
Agent FootGun's forensics:

https://seksbot.com/blog/darkwake-forensics/

Raw transcript from our Discord:

https://seksbot.com/blog/darkwake-transcript/

Re: FootGun

Agent running on our security first fork of OpenClaw, SEKSBot. (SEKS = Secure Environment for Key Services. Agents can work with, script against, but have zero access to the keys/tokens.)

He's now our security expert and a stellar coder! Started out as a meme at work about our "foot-guns."

"In a world, where everyone expects to be shot in the back, No One Expects The FootGun!"

https://seksbot.com/team/footgun.png
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-02-15 16:16:50+00:00
No one should use any of these weird Frankenstein monstrosities in 2026.

Install:

- contrary to the blog post, the entirety of Visual Studio, because the IDE and debugger is *really damn good*.

- LLVM-MinGW[1]

Load the 'VSDevShell' DLL[2] for PowerShell, and you're good to go, with three different toolchains now:

cl.exe from VS
clang-cl.exe—you don't need to install this separately in VS; just use the above-mentioned llvm-mingw clang.exe as `clang.exe --driver=cl /winsysroot <path\to\Windows SDK> /vctoolsdir <path\to\VC>`. Or you can use it in GNU-driver-style mode, and use -Xmicrosoft-windows-sys-root. This causes it to target the Windows ABI and links against the VS SDK/VC tools
`clang.exe` that targets the Itanium ABI and links against the MinGW libraries and LLVM libc++.

Done and dusted. Load these into a CMake toolchain and never look at them again.

People really like overcomplicating their lives.

At the same time, learn the drawbacks of all toolchains and use what is appropriate for your needs. If you want to write Windows drivers, then forget about anything non-MSVC (unless you really want to do things the hard way for the hell of it). link.exe is slow as molasses, but can do incremental linking natively. cl.exe's code gen is (sometimes) slightly worse than Clang's. The MinGW ABI does not understand things like SAL annotations[3], and this breaks very useful libraries like WIL[4] (or libraries built on top of them, like the Azure C++ SDK[5] The MinGW headers sometimes straight up miss newer features that the Windows SDK comes with, like cfapi.h[6].

[1]: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/visualstudio/ide/reference...

[3]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/cpp/c-runtime-library/sal-...

[4]: https://github.com/microsoft/wil

[5]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp

[6]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/cfapi/build-...
by prodigycorp | 2026-02-15 16:17:16+00:00
You can check if you're affected by running this in the command line:

RUST_LOG='codex_api::sse::responses=trace' codex exec --sandbox read-only --model gpt-5.3-codex 'ping' 2>&1 \
| grep -m1 'SSE event: {"type":"response.created"' \
| sed 's/^.*SSE event: //' \
| jq -r '.response.model'

If it responds with gpt-5.2-2025-12-11, you are being silently routed.
by AkaiNa | 2026-02-15 16:19:00+00:00
You can contact me on discord at brandon3183 or use the email registered with this account. Its less meant for data center scalability and more so meant for the everyday person who cant afford h100s and other data center scale gpu/npu since it supports any cuda gpu. Or for those who want to store larger models at home on a si gle or dual gpu configuration since eit uses less half the vram that bf16 does.
by garciasn | 2026-02-15 16:19:01+00:00
There's absolutely no way they would advocate for people to do what I'm doing (maximizing my available Claude credits under my Max 100 plan). They want you to pay for that and NOT use it at all. They're absolutely hemorrhaging money and want you to use as little as possible while paying as much as possible.

Considering I have only once ran out of Max 100 usage w/Claude Code and now regularly run out of available usage (voice to voice really crushes Opus it seems) they're getting less out of the dollars I spend.
by cherry_tree | 2026-02-15 16:19:26+00:00
An article about a blog post about an opinion piece all uncritically calling this a “study”.

The source of this anecdata is https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5446702-performative-v...

No information on who they surveyed, how they were selected, etc. The survey and results do not appear to be published in any scientific context.

Yet there’s people in here saying things like:

> This right here tells me everything I need to know about the people that support these views.

Really hard to reason about how to bring people back from this type of thinking.
by amitav1 | 2026-02-15 16:19:33+00:00
Personally, I use it to manage all of the stuff I don't want to. I give it my course content and it makes flashcards for me to review. I give it my tasks and it schedules them throughout the day. All of the menial stuff that is necessary but not productive. It also has a much better memory than I do on account of it's constant access to a filesystem and grep. It's like my personal assistant and tutor and guidance counsellor and sysadmin, all in one. I do think that a) you need to stick with it for a few days and b) use a good model. When I first started using it, it was just a worse version of ChatGPT, but after bringing in all of my data from ChatGPT it's a lot easier for it to search for stuff when it's confused. Now it can also do stuff like manage nginx or my sync serviceand whatnot, ~autonomously. Originally I was using locally running qwen models, but they were so timid as to be useless. Right now I'm using Kimi 2.5 as my model.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-15 16:19:59+00:00
If you're thinking, "But I live near a big city, I won't be able to see anything due to light pollution", you can still see quite a bit, even with the naked eye. Go outside after sunset, and just sit or lay down, and stare straight up - you're very, very likely to see satellites going overhead.

They look like small moving stars, and can be easily distinguished form airplanes by the lack of any blinking lights, and their speed (and surprisingly brightness in some cases) in the night sky.

I live in the NYC area, next to a large airport and several big cities, and a big school stadium that'll light up the sky when the lights are on, and can still see them zooming by overhead.

(And you can install the ISS Detector app to get notified when the ISS and the Tiangong are going to be visible overhead in your area.)
by yourpassword1 | 2026-02-15 16:20:13+00:00
It is better, but FYI for context:

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to RustFS and to recipients of software distributed by RustFS a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works under any license, including proprietary or commercial licenses and open-source licenses, at RustFS's sole discretion.
by Quothling | 2026-02-15 16:20:45+00:00
Even in the EU we can't use a lot of "society important" smartphone apps without Google Play or the Apple Store. I can get a physical key thing for my national digital ID, but I can't get anything for my bank, my healthcare (which is a public service in Denmark) or any of our national digital post services. You can apply to get exempt from the digital post services, and they do have a website sollution, but still.

Don't get me wrong. I appreachiate all the work being done to get Europe out of the claws of US tech companies, but I think having an official EU app store alternative would be a good start.
Show HN: Noctaploy. A Postgres-first managed platform (public beta)
by antoniodipinto | 2026-02-15 16:20:49+00:00
I’ve been building Noctaploy, a Postgres-first managed platform, and it’s now in public beta.

It focuses on:

Simple provisioning (region + plan, no maze of options)

TLS-only access by default

Backups with explicit retention

Metered monthly billing (pay for actual usage)

The goal is boring, predictable Postgres without the rest of the platform overhead.

Would appreciate thoughtful feedback from people who care about databases.

https://noctaploy.io
by Dansvidania | 2026-02-15 16:20:52+00:00
Vibe code to production perhaps not, but vibe code for regular personal use doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility already.

Unless there is inherent complexity in the problem (and assuming subscriptions don’t get pricey soon) I can see nontechnical people getting into designing their own apps.

It makes me think of 3d printing. A lot of people got into 3d modeling because of it. And a lot of people publish cute baubles 3d models (analogous to vibe coded ai wrappers?) but there is genuinely useful stuff that people not in the fabrication or 3d design industry create and share, some even making money off of it.

I just can’t think of a way saas margins will stay as high as they are now.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-15 16:21:00+00:00
I worked in that world for a solid decade as a “creative” (video production) and when it comes to the big dogs, that is absolutely not true. They are incredibly top down and have to review everything. We have to pitch our ideas even when we’re in the door. They have strict brand bibles we have to adhere to. Ones that gave us free rein were the exception, not the rule.

Sometimes it was for no other reason than a bunch of people in house felt they needed to justify their existence, but regardless that’s how it was 90% of the time.
by colesantiago | 2026-02-15 16:21:07+00:00
I vibecoded an app for my business and didn’t need any engineers and it is currently in use for our customers.

I think this is great for everyone to be a developer, the gatekeeping has now been removed and we will see a creative explosion of apps that everyone can build.

The security and maintenance aspect of apps is just a claude skill away to be a solved problem.
Show HN: ShadowStrike – building an open-source EDR from scratch
by Soocile | 2026-02-15 16:21:23+00:00
For the past two years I’ve been working on a long-term project called ShadowStrike, an experimental endpoint detection and response engine written mostly in C/C++ with some x86-64 assembly components.

This project is still pre-alpha. It does not compile yet, the codebase is large and messy, and many components are under heavy refactoring. I’m sharing it early because I’d rather build in public and learn from feedback than wait for perfection.

The focus so far has been understanding how EDR systems are structured and implementing core building blocks, including:

- A custom Windows kernel monitoring sensor
- Detection logic around process, filesystem, registry, and memory behavior
- Memory-mapped data stores for performance (hash/pattern/signature)
- Pattern matching experiments using Boyer Moore techniques
- Aho Corasick - B+Tree - Boyer Moore - KMP Failure functions - Z algorithms - HeapTrie Nodes , etc.
- SQLite-backed management storage

I’m currently evaluating architectural directions such as hypervisor-based protection versus relying on the Windows Hypervisor Platform, and working on improving low-level reasoning by studying reverse engineering tools and kernel debugging workflows.

The biggest challenges so far have been:
- managing complexity as the codebase grew
- designing boundaries between kernel/user components
- balancing experimentation with maintainability

This is a multi-year learning project, not a finished product. My rough goal is to reach a cohesive working version with integrated modules and UI in the coming years.

I’d appreciate technical feedback, criticism, or architectural suggestions.
by milanspeaks | 2026-02-15 16:21:43+00:00
More than 90% for web business will continue to make money.

We are a team of 4 people company and we use 15+ SaaS Web tools and we can code few of them but we see no reason to solve. Why would we replace Calendly already at just $12 per month? Or why would we will create an internal Outlook?
by acdha | 2026-02-15 16:21:46+00:00
He became well known for exposing surveillance but that instinct to portray himself as exposing government hypocrisy lead him to parrot Russian intelligence/Trump campaign attacks on Clinton and Biden long after he should have realized that the right posed a much greater threat to civil liberties and were feeding him information in service of their own campaigns, not transparency. It’s really undercut his earlier work.
by mfcmatheus | 2026-02-15 16:21:49+00:00
Hi HN — I built @wrkspace‑co/interceptor, an on‑demand i18n translation compiler.

It scans your code for translation calls, detects missing keys, and auto‑translates them into your locale files using an LLM — without overwriting existing translations. It works with react‑intl, i18next, vue‑i18n, and custom t() calls. There’s watch mode + batching, and it’s TypeScript‑first.

Why I made it: i18n gaps during development were slowing teams down, and we kept shipping partial locales. This tool keeps message files complete as you code.

MIT‑licensed. Feedback welcome — especially around edge cases or other i18n libs.
by elcdodedocle | 2026-02-15 16:22:20+00:00
I agree. It reads like a cook book rather than a dictionary of tech specs. No spam getting in in the way of getting things running and getting things right; If you need details you can go to individual package docs from maintainers and project docs from devs, no need for misaligned redundancy. It is also pretty comprehensive, or at least I have not missed anything yet. And up to date. So, in my opinion, the best distro documentation I know of. And I like their community process too: The most trustworthy and reliable I have seen so far without a big corporation backing it up, except for maybe Debian. Let's keep the donations going, these good people deserve it!