MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Alifatisk | 2026-02-17 12:06:20+00:00
Containerization with Openclaw was not an issue for me. What was an issue was the update process. The docs is so messy and the whole process was unstable.

The only thing that hold it together was that your personal files was on their own folder and ignored by git, so if git pull or some steps in between failed, you could just do a fresh install and add your personal files / workspace data again.

I hope Nanoclaw and the other similar projects have added proper steps for upgrading the container.
by DharmaPolice | 2026-02-17 12:06:48+00:00
I don't mind people asking why I asked something, I'd just prefer they answer the question as well. In the original scenario, the chatbot could answer the question as written AND enquire if that's what they really meant. It's the StackOverflow syndrome where people answer a different question to the one posed. If someone asks "How can I do this on Windows?" - telling me that Windows sucks and here's how to do it on Linux is only slightly useful. Answer the question and feel free to mention how much easier it is in Linux by all means.

I personally love explaining to people who might want to solve the issue next time so I'm happy to bore them to tears if they want. But don't let us delay solving the problem this time.
by birdsongs | 2026-02-17 12:06:49+00:00
I was the one that submitted the DNB Bedrift app report to the sec dev repo! I contacted DNB but they never responded to my email. I wonder if we can find a dev? I believe that's how the private app got fixed.

Want to use Vipps tæpp so much but I have Nordea for private and they don't allow it on their cards, for whatever godforsaken reason.
by entech | 2026-02-17 12:07:17+00:00
How do you know that it’s a source worth trusting?

I think the expectation of AI being perfect all the time is probably driven by the hype and marketing of “1 million PhDs in your pocket”.

If you compare AI to an average person or a random website you’d come across google I would wager that AI is more likely to be accurate in almost every scenario.

Hyper specific areas, niche domains and rapidly evolving data that is not being published - a lot less so.
by francanete | 2026-02-17 12:07:20+00:00
Hey HN, Fran here.
Quick backstory: I run a small SaaS and last quarter I noticed 4 users cancelled within the same week. When I reached out to ask why, every single one mentioned features they'd requested months ago. One had asked three times — in a Slack thread, a support email, and a Typeform survey.
I never connected the dots because the feedback was everywhere and nowhere.
I looked for a tool to fix this. Most feedback platforms were either enterprise-priced, overcomplicated, or dead projects. So I built Plaudera over a few weekends.
It's simple on purpose: a public board where users submit and vote on ideas, an embeddable widget so feedback comes in where users already are, and automatic duplicate detection so "dark mode" and "add night theme" don't live as separate requests for 6 months.
Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL. The widget is a single script tag — no framework dependency.
Currently doing lifetime deals at $49 because I'm early and want real users giving real feedback (yes, I use Plaudera's own board for Plaudera — feedback.plaudera.com).
Would love your thoughts. What would make you switch from your current setup — even if that setup is a spreadsheet you haven't opened since October?
Show HN: A hands-on protocol to stop the "Implementation Death Spiral"
by apetchesi | 2026-02-17 12:07:27+00:00
Text: I’ve spent years watching IT implementations fail across a variety of environments for the same "un-technical" reasons. Despite having more sophisticated tools and data than ever, the industry still suffers from a persistent "Knowledge Chasm"—a structural gap where the essential logic of a project lives only in the heads of a few "Local Heroes." When these individuals leave or teams rotate, the project logic resets, leading to cost overruns, quality issues, and systemic frustration.

I am developing a Precision Implementation Protocol to institutionalize this "know-how." It synthesizes high-reliability logic from fields like Advanced Construction Management and Systemic Financial Modeling to bridge the gap between intent, execution, and reality.

Hands-on Implementation over Theory Unlike theoretical frameworks, this is a granular, "hands-on" approach designed for immediate integration into daily activities. It focuses on the specific artifacts and workflows that bridge the gap between a high-level requirement and a physically completed unit of capability. It can be used as a short-term "rescue" for failing projects or as a long-term structural standard to de-risk staff rotations in complex IT environments.

Seeking Feedback: How to Scale and Popularize this Methodology? I am looking for community feedback on how to turn this from a private methodology into a standard that many can benefit from. I want to move this from "my process" to an "industry utility," but I'm looking for the most meaningful way to get people involved.

My Questions for HN: * The Scaling Challenge: Is it possible to productize "expert know-how" without losing the precision required for complex IT systems?

The "Pioneer" Approach: I am considering a community-driven threshold for a full public release—a "Pioneer Program" for practitioners. Is this the right way to build an industry standard, or is there a better way to foster adoption?

Standardization vs. Intellectual Property: To truly end the "Local Hero" trap, this needs to reach global scale. How would you recommend launching this to ensure maximum benefit for the community while maintaining the integrity of the protocol?

Strategic Path: I am open to all paths—community-driven growth, enterprise licensing, or even a strategic acquisition by a firm capable of deploying this as a global standard. What path creates the most value for the industry?
Show HN: VidClaw – Open-source, self-hosted dashboard for managing OpenClaw
by lukasz_ma | 2026-02-17 12:08:04+00:00
I run an OpenClaw agent named Jimmy. Jimmy handles SEO tracking, content writing, and code tasks for my projects. Managing it all entirely through chat got messy fast.

Thus I built VidClaw. It's a self-hosted dashboard that gives you:

- Kanban board where you drag tasks and the agent picks them up automatically
- Real-time token usage
- Model switching
- Soul editor
- Skills manager
- Activity calendar

The whole thing binds to localhost only — you access it through an SSH tunnel. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. Your data stays on your machine.

Stack: React + Vite + Tailwind on the frontend, Express on the backend, JSON files for storage (no database). Setup is one script.

I built this for myself, but figured others running autonomous agents might find it useful. Would love feedback on the approach - especially from anyone else managing long-running AI agents.
by alhadrad | 2026-02-17 12:08:09+00:00
It failed to find a reference: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA001747...

Question: Does Blues Traveler appear in the Epstein files?
Blues Traveler

Answer:
Yes, "Blues Traveler" appears in the files, but not in a way that directly connects the band to Jeffrey Epstein or his activities.

Key Findings:

XM Radio Mention: An email from "XM Signal" dated July 8, 2008, mentions a "Starbucks XM Café Live with Blues Traveler" event. [1] This appears to be a reference to a broadcast or performance by the band on XM Satellite Radio.
Analysis:

The searches did not reveal any direct involvement of the band "Blues Traveler" with Jeffrey Epstein or his associates. The mention found is in the context of a radio event.

It's important to distinguish this from the multiple mentions of "Blue Water Café," which is a restaurant and appears in several travel itineraries. [2][3][4]

Further Investigation:

If you have a specific reason to believe "Blues Traveler" might be connected, please provide more details. For instance, was there a particular event, person, or date you had in mind? This could help refine the search.
by helsinkiandrew | 2026-02-17 12:08:21+00:00
> That's what I mean by "myth" - not that exercise burns zero calories, but that the popular mental model of "I ran for an hour so I earned X calories of food" is built on inaccurate measurements

Over the last few of decades there's been a lot of lab research calculating the gross efficiency of the human body with different factors (size, sex, fitness etc) and I think these estimates that sports apps give are very close.

If you cycle with with something that can measure power output you can calculate the mechanical work done by the body exactly during that exercise period and convert to energy "burnt" (1 watt/hour = 3.6 kJ = ~0.86 kcal). 220 Watts for an hour (I couldn't do that but a good cyclist can) is about 800 calories.
by m132 | 2026-02-17 12:09:11+00:00
Hah, I catch myself relying on Developer Tools to get things done online increasingly often. Every now and then it has me thinking three things:

- Is it me, or is the "modern UX design" meant to maximize frustration?

- What happened to QA?

- How do "normal" people even get by at all these days?

Your post, while a sad read, reassured me that I'm not crazy.
by reconnecting | 2026-02-17 12:09:29+00:00
There's a difference between not knowing the internals of a dependency you chose deliberately and not understanding the logic of your own product.

When you upgrade a library, you made that decision — you know why, you know what it does for you, and you can evaluate the trade-offs before proceeding (unless you're a react developer).

That's not a fog of war, that's delegation.

When an LLM generates your core logic and you can't explain why it works, that's a fundamentally different situation. You're not delegating — you're outsourcing the understanding, and that makes the result not yours.
Show HN: Snowflake Emulator in Rust – Test locally without cloud credits
by sivchari | 2026-02-17 12:09:51+00:00
I built a local Snowflake emulator using Rust and DataFusion.

Problem: Snowflake is cloud-only. Testing requires real compute costs.

Solution: A local emulator that's compatible with Snowflake SQL API v2 and the official Go driver.

Supports VARIANT types, JSON functions, LATERAL FLATTEN, window functions, and transactions.

Useful for CI pipelines and local development.
by cleverhoods | 2026-02-17 12:10:43+00:00
I've been writing workflow instructions for Claude Code and kept hitting the same problem: prose workflows with branching become unreadable past 4-5 steps, both for me and for the agent.

FlowBench (EMNLP 2024) turned out to have tested exactly this. Curious whether others have experimented with different instruction formats for coding agents, or if most people stick with prose.
Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks
by alx-net | 2026-02-17 12:10:45+00:00
Hey HN, I am Alex. I am open sourcing Data Studio,
a lightweight data exploration IDE in your browser that runs locally.

Try it: https://local.dataspren.com (no account needed, runs locally)

More information: https://github.com/dataspren-analytics/data-studio

I love working with data (Postgres, SQL, DuckDB, DBT, Iceberg, ...).
I always wanted a data exploration tool that runs in my browser
and just works.
Without any infra or privacy concerns (DuckDB UI came quite close).

Features:

- Data Notebooks
- SQL cells work like DBT models (they materialize to views)
- Use Python functions inside of SQL queries
- Use DB views directly in Python as dataframes
- Transform Excel files with SQL
- You can open .parquet, .csv, .xlsx, .json files nicely formatted

If you like what you see, you can support me with a star on Github.

Happy to hear about your feedback <3
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-17 12:10:50+00:00
> I would be curious what would happen if in order to sell to American workers, you had to meet American environmental and labor conditions. I think that's a total non-starter, but it's a hypothetical that may cause the ponderer to address the huge gap in how competitive other countries are allowed to be to sell to Americans, vs. how Americans aren't really allowed to compete with them.

This plus capital controls would reduce a lot of economic inequality between countries. It would be super, super rough in the short-term but probably globally beneficial in the long term. I believe Bernie Sanders was proposing this back in 2016.
by palata | 2026-02-17 12:11:02+00:00
I see it as a necessity, because the Google phone is the only one worth it if you care about security.

The problem is not GrapheneOS, but rather that phone manufacturers other than Google don't care. Now if there were millions of GrapheneOS users, it would start becoming interesting for other phone manufacturers to care.

My point being that I buy Pixel in order to give more weight to GrapheneOS, in the hope that other manufacturers will eventually realise that.
by djaro | 2026-02-17 12:11:10+00:00
I think it's just because hours spent learning by children often don't look like work to us. Like, when children are watching children's television or looking through those baby books with shapes and colors, they are studying. To them, that is learning. And I guarantee that in 1 hour of studying, I can learn every single color in Spanish, whereas a baby might need months of daily reading to finally understand it. But because we don't register it as studying, we would still say the baby learned language "effortlessly", while adults need to "study".
by dummydummy1234 | 2026-02-17 12:11:21+00:00
I view it as do you have a full mental model of the code base.

If you do then not vibe coded.

For me, I have different levels of vibes:

Some testing/prototyping bash scripts 100% vibe coded. I have never actually read the code.

Sometimes early iterations, I am familiar with general architecture, but do not know exact file contents.

Sometimes I have gone through and practically rewrote a component from scratch either because it was too convoluted, did not have the perfect abstraction I wantet/etc.

For me the third category is not vibe coded. The first 2 are tech debt in the making.
by DaedalusII | 2026-02-17 12:11:32+00:00
its 60-70% time and energy from lifestyle, financial security (subconscious anxiety),

someone like peter steinger can sit at home experimenting for hours and learn+create vastly more at the age of 48 than the average 30 year old

But, if you compare outright performance, the brain like any other part of the body is at its biological peak function in the late teens. Rachmaninov wrote most of his work as a teenager. mozart wrote first at age 8. zuckerberg create fb in undergrad. the youthful organism is full of vitality and ease
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-17 12:12:42+00:00
Seek already does exactly the same thing that this app store listing advertises. You aim your camera at something, Seek identifies it as a random species, and then you get credit for that species against a big database.

People like it, but I also don't see why you'd need two Seek apps. You don't really need one, without an actual method of identifying the organisms.
by goless | 2026-02-17 12:13:11+00:00
Troupe is a distributed protocol construction library built on Zig's type system. Its core philosophy is using type determinism to counter communication uncertainty: protocols are modeled as fully deterministic state machines, correctness is guaranteed through compile-time verification, and all communication unreliability (latency, loss, reordering) is isolated behind replaceable channel layers. Ultimately, developers can construct complex multi-role protocols as if writing single-threaded programs, confident that they will execute as intended in any environment.
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-17 12:13:32+00:00
Here’s a dumb idea:

Give people the ability to submit a “Show HN” one year in advance. Specifically, the user specifies the title and a short summary, then has to wait at least year until they can write the remaining description and submit the post. The user can wait more than a year or not submit at all; the delay (and specifying the title/summary beforehand) is so that only projects that have been worked on for over a year are submit-able.

Alternatively, this can be a special category of “Show HN” instead of replacing the main thing.
by palata | 2026-02-17 12:14:15+00:00
> Please link me to it - I asked this several times, people never can follow up. So far?

Sorry, I won't spend 30 minutes digging to find that :-). I follow /e/OS, GrapheneOS and (followed) Calyx. I have seen messages from all of those either on forums, Mastodon, etc.

Also, whenever GrapheneOS makes a technical point (which is often a blunt "GrapheneOS is superior because [...] does it wrong"), many users of those projects answer aggressively (and of course many GrapheneOS participate as well).

And on top of that, a lot of messages criticising some GOS people or the entire project and calling them "toxic" whenever GrapheneOS is mentioned.

I have no skin in this game, so it doesn't touch me. But I could understand that the GOS people feel "harassed" by this. If everywhere I went people said "have you seen this guy? I hear he's toxic", I would consider it harassment, I think?
by pezezin | 2026-02-17 12:14:23+00:00
I recently restored my old GameCube. Back in the day I installed a ViperGC (the first modchip for the GameCube) to play "backups", but the optical drive has died.

But thanks to the community, after reflashing it with Gekkoboot it can load Swiss from a SP2SD2, and from there load ROMs from the SD card! Reflashing the modchip was a pain in the ass though, the programmer required a parallel port and the software only runs on Windows XP, but in the end it worked and I am pretty happy with the results.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-17 12:14:41+00:00
> I mostly use iNaturalist for foraging mushrooms, and have found it’s somewhat unreliable

iNaturalist or Seek by iNaturalist? I didn't think iNaturalist had an identification method other than "wait for an expert to come along and tag your photo".

Seek, on the other hand, is happy to make up identifications itself.
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-17 12:15:13+00:00
Yes, it is completely ahistorical - if you buy in to the blessed Zionist narrative, that is.

> The British famously backed the Palestinians

No, the British backed the Jordanians, not the Palestinians. Jordan had its own goals as I alluded to elsewhere. I would recommend reading a bit further on the subtleties and limits to that backing, as well as the strategic reasons for said backing. But I wasn’t talking about the war at all here.

They withdrew because they did not know how to balance the two sides. It was a hot potato, so they threw into the lap of the US.

> And I can't even begin to fathom what this means.

How many seats were there at the UNGA at the time? And how many of those seats belonged to countries who could make sovereign decisions without fear of repercussion from the newly emerged world powers? Keep in mind that WWII ended less than two years ago at this point.

> As you noted in an another comment, Plan Dalet was corroborated by Israeli historians. Which is false.

So there was no ethnic cleansing at all? I suppose 700k or so Palestinians just oopsied their way out of their homes and villages.

> And "war starts" is a very nice and PG way to phrase "attempted to genocide Jews".

Oh boy, not this again..
by metalman | 2026-02-17 12:15:53+00:00
it's worse

humans are currently activly exposing themselves to every biological form on the planet , taking samples, and shipping them hither and thither to be poked prodded dabled with, and thrown out, not counting the countless millions of wayward tourists, influencers, and wanabe "exporers", missionaries, etc bumbling around,like who swabs cave ice?
then the simple fact of billions of humans with all of our comensual livestock each, having immune systems of varrying suseptibility to....in this case, cave slime.
by apetchesi | 2026-02-17 12:16:07+00:00
I’ve been obsessing over this for a while, but I want to ask the community: Does anyone else recognize this as a systemic issue in our industry? >
We see it everywhere—manufacturing, banking, generic enterprise IT. We have more 'methodologies' and 'certifications' than ever, yet the Knowledge Chasm remains. We still rely on a few 'Local Heroes' to carry the project logic in their heads, and when they rotate out, the project hemorrhages value.

Is it possible that our current way of 'implementing' is fundamentally broken because it treats IT like a creative craft rather than a high-precision engineering discipline? I’m moving away from theory and certifications to focus on a 'hands-on' protocol, but I’m curious if others see the same structural rot.
by GBintz | 2026-02-17 12:16:20+00:00
we've been running AGENTS.md in production on helios (https://github.com/BintzGavin/helios) for a while now.

each role owns specific files. no overlap means zero merge conflicts across 1800+ autonomous PRs. planning happens in `.sys/plans/{role}/` as written contracts before execution starts. time is the mutex.

AGENTS.md defines the vision. agents read the gap between vision and reality, then pull toward it. no manager, no orchestration.

we wrote about it here: https://agnt.one/blog/black-hole-architecture

agents ship features autonomously. 90% of PRs are zero human in the loop. the one pain point is refactors. cross-cutting changes don't map cleanly to single-role ownership

AGENTS.md works when it encodes constraints that eliminate coordination. if it's just a roadmap, it won't help much.
by fodmap | 2026-02-17 12:17:01+00:00
> It's mind boggingly stupid that they lock down apps like this, when you can just open the thing in a website anyway. I can use my bank on some linux distro...

Not in Spain. I can access my bank's website but I can't do anything without their bank app. Even sometimes they require to confirm my identity using their app in order to access their website.

I have several linux phones but I can only do banking with their app downloaded from Aurora Store in my Vollaphone.
by legitimate_key | 2026-02-17 12:17:11+00:00
The concerning pattern is that the data-collecting ones actively hide what they're doing — the Similarweb-linked extensions apparently obfuscate with Base64 or AES-256 before sending.

Worth distinguishing from extensions that are genuinely client-side. A basic test: check the extension's manifest for network permissions (host_permissions). If it only requests the active tab and has no background network access, it physically cannot phone home. The inspection is 30 seconds in chrome://extensions.

The more insidious problem is that users can't easily distinguish between "this extension processes data locally" and "this extension processes data locally and also sends it somewhere." Same UI, very different behavior.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-17 12:17:18+00:00
> I don't think we'll ever manually write code again. It's just so much faster.

If velocity was the most important criteria, well, we could always write tech-debt faster, we just chose not to.

Unless the LLM/agent is carefully curated, it will produce tech-debt faster than it can fix it.

For some products, it seems not a problem - you just want to validate PMF on a product (of course you'll have a new problem now, which is that everyone with $20 to spare can do the same).

For others, a longer-life product is preferable. We shall have to see how things shake out. My best guess would be that we have more useless stuff that is free or close to free, and fewer useful stuff that is free or close to free.
by onli | 2026-02-17 12:17:25+00:00
Sorry, but then I take this as the usual - GOS is attacking other projects, that I can easily see in all their socials, and the other projects have done nothing wrong. GOS always claims that the other projects attack them since years, and never shows any proof. And indeed, I still never have seen any attack against GOS. Seems like this won't change today.

You or other readers can check https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065 for a public display on how GOS attacks work when they are mixed into technical debates, how they destroy any chance of cooperation.