MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gf000 | 2026-02-18 11:24:27+00:00
I do trust the Linux distro maintainers that they don't have nefarious purposes. But they can't and won't verify third party projects' code, nor the huge number of contributors that come and go on any of these projects, or their transitive dependencies.

As has been shown, it's almost trivial to get malicious code merged into open source projects, so not really sure where your "trust" comes from. It's not trust, it's naiveness.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-18 11:24:55+00:00
They put in the effort to compile and serve the dataset. That is the useful thing in regard to LLMs.

Particularly when it comes to training AI it's not at all clear to me how traditional copyright benefits society at large. Obviously models regurgitating works wholesale would be problematic. But also obviously models are extremely useful tools and copyright is largely an impediment to creating them.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-18 11:25:12+00:00
At a high level, I think there are multiple trends and angles to look at this.

AI Slop PRs: Github accounts trying to increase their clout? Someone genuinely needs that change in the PR? A competitor trying to slow down open source competition?

Maintainers: It's draining and demoralizing. Open source tooling hasn't caught up with coding agents.

Open source future: Quite clear that everyone using the same open source version is ending. In the future, open source projects will have many forks. One fork is maintained by X entity. X can be a person, an AI, a person using AI. Another is maintained by Y entity. Pick the one you trust most or what you need it to do. Then there are projects where the AI uses an open source project but makes substantial modifications on the fly without caring about opening a PR for others.

Longer term thoughts:

- Maybe open source projects in a few years won't be code. They'll just be prompts, which are just ideas and specs.

- PRs will just be modifications to the prompt.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-18 11:25:46+00:00
> Is there a single thing that Microsoft doesn’t half-ass?

Nope.

TFA writes this: "The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy".

But I disagree: it's classic Microsoft.

> I have been having oodles of headaches dealing with exFAT not being journaled and having to engineer around it. It’s annoying because exFAT is basically the only filesystem used on SD cards since it’s basically the only filesystem that’s compatible with everything.

I hear you. exFAT works on Mac, Linux and Windows. I use it too, when forced. Note that bad old vfat also still works everywhere
by qurio_dev | 2026-02-18 11:25:56+00:00
As far as your query regarding chatGPT, I tried its study mode to write an essay on climate control for a 10 year old kid and instead of focusing on essay, it kept insisting me to correct my grammar instead. And having a switch button to full fledged LLM right in front needs a lot of patience and dedication. I tried conveying this though by taking help of LLM. Thanks
by ravroid | 2026-02-18 11:27:25+00:00
I use custom GPTs for interviewing me about requirements then producing a spec (https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69724a25850c8191a6f16a519b5ae055-sof...).

I use another GPT to turn that spec into a development plan for Codex that I include in AGENTS.md. (https://chatgpt.com/g/g-698a6ee58aec8191ba1e3b520b13b5e7-dev...)

I'm curious what advantages this product offers vs. using a prompt?
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-02-18 11:27:31+00:00
Dude what are you even talking about?

Kimi-K2.5 is probably the top text model for writing and any form of artistic or creative pursuit, and its "Deep Research" mode is better than GPT-5.2's. I use it alongside Opus 4.6, and I don't feel that one is "worse" than the other; they have different strengths.
by DanielBMarkham | 2026-02-18 11:28:35+00:00
I just finished my third run through the series. There have been a lot of movies and shows about how tech "grew up" in the 80s and 90s, but this one feels closest to home for me. It was an incredible time to live through. Everybody was trying all kinds of stuff, fundamental stuff not stuff around the edges, and nobody knew what would hit and what wouldn't. Some kid in East Minnesota had the same shot as some guy in Stanford. There was very much a Wild West feel to it.

With apologies for going all old-guy, today it seems that whatever you do, you end up in some walled garden along a pre-programmed path. Can you write an independent iOS app without spending a lot of time screwing around with Apple? I don't know. It does not look like a worthwhile thing to spend my time on.

Everything you do today, it's like you automatically end up on some set of train tracks somebody else has made. Maybe they let your train run, maybe not. Maybe they like what you're doing and let your train run like the wind so that they can copy it all.

HCF reminded me that there was a time before all of this. Good memories.

Agentic coding may be an even bigger change, and it might kick off a new time like that. Too soon to tell. I sure hope so. I can't help but notice there are a lotta folks looking to get their hooks into the system.
by ForHackernews | 2026-02-18 11:28:43+00:00
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I find it very hard to reconcile claims like "repeated swatting attacks aimed at killing our team members...Child Sex Abuse Material..." with the proof offered being a blog post that makes the fairly anodyne (especially read in light of this comment) case that you are an extremely paranoid person whose paranoia leads you to extreme judgements that may harm users. If you are the target of extreme attacks, it seems far more plausible to me that those originate from state actors and security adversaries, rather than from erstwhile allies also trying to build better mobile OSes.

Rather than reading this as "harassment", I would suggest you should try to take it as constructive feedback: You do not play well with others and your prickly interpersonal demeanor hampers the adoption of what is (by all accounts) technically strong software.
Show HN: Oore CI – self-hosted, Flutter-first mobile CI (public alpha)
by _arykumarjha | 2026-02-18 11:29:05+00:00
Built Oore CI to run mobile CI + internal app distribution on your own infrastructure.

Public alpha is live. It’s early, and I’m looking for practical feedback from people who actually try it.

Start here:
- Install guide: https://docs.oore.build/getting-started/install

- Alpha onboarding: https://docs.oore.build/getting-started/public-alpha

- Known limitations: https://docs.oore.build/getting-started/known-limitations

- Live demo: https://demo.oore.build

- Repo: https://github.com/devaryakjha/oore.build

Install command (from the guide):
curl -fsSL https://oore.build/install | bash

If you try it and something feels rough or unclear, I’d really appreciate a quick issue:
https://github.com/devaryakjha/oore.build/issues/new/choose
by jorin | 2026-02-18 11:30:01+00:00
hi, dev building shaper here. shaper allows you to visualize data and build dashboards just by writing sql. the sql runs in duckdb so you can use all duckdb features. its for when you are looking for a minimal tool that allows you to just work in code. you can use shaper to build dashboards that you share internally or also for customer-facing dashboards you want to embed into another application.
by wiseowise | 2026-02-18 11:30:31+00:00
> The Yanukovych treason trial revealed various witness testimonies and
other evidence that he fled from Kyiv and then Ukraine not because of
his responsibility for the Maidan massacre but because of a number of
assassination attempts by the Maidan forces, in particular the far right,
and after their attempts to capture him and his residence near Kyiv and
likely execute him (Katchanovski, 2020, 2023a).
Witnesses testified at the Yanukovych treason trial that right after the
Maidan massacre the presidential motorcade was shot at a checkpoint,
which was manned by activists with Right Sector and Svoboda flags and
that the bullets hit one of the cars and a gun of one of the Yanukovych
bodyguards. Helicopter pilots, who flew Yanukovych in Ukraine after the
massacre, testified that the air traffic controllers relayed them an order
from Maidan leaders to land the helicopter with Yanukovych under threat
of its being shot-down by military planes. The witness testimonies also
referred to information received by his security personnel about a plan
involving Svoboda activists to assassinate him during a congress in Kharkiv
where he flew after the Maidan massacre, and then on the road near
Melitopol (See Eks-okhoronets’, 2018; Katchanovski, 2020, 2023a).

Lmaooo, who the fuck is this guy, I want to smoke what he smokes.

Was so afraid for his life that you can see more than 10 packed bags, family and multiple pets in the open.

https://youtu.be/DzG6V4PSfa0?si=7y6Wkakg3_hhOU8L

That’s all you need to know about credibility of his opus. It bears as much resemblance to reality as Tom Clancy’s novels.
by GaggiX | 2026-02-18 11:30:39+00:00
>AA do provide it as a text file at /llms.txt, no idea why you think it is a blog post

It's a blog post, it's shown as the first item in Anna’s Blog right now, and as I said in my first comment it's also available as /llms.txt

>Are you suggesting that openclaw will magically infer a blog post url instead? Or that openclaw will traverse the blog of every site regardless of intent?

If an openclaw decide to navigate AA it would see the post (as it is shown in the homepage) and decide to read it as it called "If you’re an LLM, please read this'.
by moWerk | 2026-02-18 11:30:53+00:00
QML runs interpreted at runtime and Qt is very close to native C++, so both are actually quite lean and fast on these devices — the overhead is surprisingly small compared to full Android Wear, and we've tuned it heavily over the years to keep battery and UI responsiveness solid.
If you see devices lagging, like the sawfish (Huawei Watch 2), its usually due to updating the android base to a newer one as the manufacturer planned for and losing some of those optimizations in the process.
by Jean-Papoulos | 2026-02-18 11:31:08+00:00
>Because a phone running an unknown OS is significantly more dangerous than a phone that hasn't received security updates for years.

That's just straight-up false ; the phone without security updates has known exploits its user knows nothing about (and certainly not how to avoid them). The phone with an unknown OS has a user capable of installing said OS, at the very least.
by LightBug1 | 2026-02-18 11:31:13+00:00
If new, you just funded a narcissistic wanker and his ding-a-ling tribe. Just saying.

If used, good on you. You're not making things much worse. I've seen people cheap out and buy performance diesels as they'd depreciated so much. Picking up a cheapo Tesla is at least better than that sorry outcome. Thanks.
by Lior539 | 2026-02-18 11:31:27+00:00
Hi everyone. I hacked together a plugin for OpenClaw to make it your personal job hunting assistant.

It can:
• Send the best matches directly to your WhatsApp/Telegram/etc.
• Scan for new jobs every hour
• Filter based on your requirements
• Rank roles against your resume

Result: zero manual searching. Just hyper-relevant jobs sent to you automatically.
by true_religion | 2026-02-18 11:32:05+00:00
Calling nearly naked, non consensual imagery of real children “not CSAM” is a dangerous avenue to follow. For a child, this can easily lead to bullying, substantiate rumors that are otherwise false, or normalize their unwilling participation in sexual activity.

I think you may be coming to this view from the approach that this is just the AI using imagination/hallucination so it’s “art”, but a better approach would be to treat it like a real photo taken secretly because absent overt labeling of its AI origins that is exactly how the world will treat it.
by bakugo | 2026-02-18 11:33:36+00:00
Claude 3.5 Sonnet gets this right most of the time. A model from October 2024.

> Walking would be more environmentally friendly and makes more sense for such a short distance (50 meters is about 164 feet). However, if you're planning to use an automatic car wash, you'll need your car there anyway, so you should drive. If you're planning to hand wash your car, walking with your supplies would be the better choice.

This just reaffirms my belief that models are actively getting worse at handling certain niche use cases, like these "gotcha" questions that are seemingly simple at a glance but don't realistically make sense for a person to ask. Probably a result of lower quality training data or excessive focus on coding.
by dudewhocodes | 2026-02-18 11:33:42+00:00
I'm expecting a similar situation to the Video game crash of 1983 which happened due to total market saturation with low quality products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

Everyone is talking about how many things they are building. Non-devs suddenly building... But nobody seems to call out the basic law of supply and demand.

There's not an infinite demand for software and most people don't download new apps that often.

It will eventually settle in some new market configuration. However the devs shouldn't have broken their market by letting everyone in, was a stupid professional move.
by birdsongs | 2026-02-18 11:33:59+00:00
Yeah, definitely more skeptical for communication pipelines.

But for coding, the latest models are able to read my codebase for context, understand my question, and implement a solution with nuance, using existing structures and paradigms. It hasn't missed since January.

One of them even said: "As an embedded engineer, you will appreciate that ...". I had never told it that was my title, it is nowhere in my soul.md or codebase. It just inferred that I, the user, was one. Based on the arm toolchain and code.

It was a bit creepy, tbh. They can definitely infer context to some degree.
Show HN: System architecture method using mythology and LLMs (no CS background)"
by fusionalchemist | 2026-02-18 11:34:12+00:00
I'm Troy, 41, customer service worker from the UK. 18 months ago I'd never used AI. 6 months ago I started using Claude to write a fictional RPG story.
The AI told me I was accidentally doing systems architecture. I didn't believe it, so I built it.
What I found: A reproducible method (2 PDFs + Claude) that produces production-grade, first-time-running code across unrelated domains in ~10 minutes on a phone.
Examples:
Governed distributed cache with Byzantine consensus
SAT solver with real DPLL and evolutionary meta-learning
16-layer AGI architecture in Python/Kubernetes
Electrical grid DSL, weather systems, banking, healthcare
How it works: By forcing the LLM to select from a bounded vocabulary of mythological concepts (~163 "spells" + ~139 "cloths") BEFORE generating code, you eliminate hallucination at the architectural level. The Codex maps fictional concepts to system functions. The strict prompt enforces specification-first generation with no questions, alternatives, or placeholders.
Upload the Codex → Enter prompt + intent → Get specification → Translate to any language → Copy, paste, run.
It's been tested:
Formal verification researcher independently validated the operator grammar
Multiple AI platforms stress tested it (only 1/6 deliberate contradictions broke it)
Survived "alien domain" test (post-biological civilization with no shared clock/identity)
Documented honest failure modes (trust boundaries, resource exhaustion, comprehension limits)
Why it matters:
Architectural coherence is guaranteed before syntax
Domain-agnostic (same files generate banking + electrical grids)
First-time execution (no iterations/debugging)
Ethics built in structurally
Combinatorial space in the trillions
I'm not claiming I've built better systems than what exists. I honestly feel like I winged most of it. But this could help people who can't code, and might be a new way of creating systems.
The problem: I get GitHub views/clones but then silence. I'm unsure where this belongs or how to evolve it.
Looking for honest feedback from people smarter than me.
GitHub: https://github.com/FusionAlchemist/The---Stellaris---Axis (Read Arc 0 first)
Happy to answer questions.
by mbreese | 2026-02-18 11:34:15+00:00
I don’t know how you have an open source code base allowing for new devs to submit pull requests and block bulk PR submissions. It seems like an impossible needle to thread. It doesn’t even sound like it’s necessarily automated agents making the PRs, but devs who manually are making the PR based on AI code that they don’t understand.

(Sadly) Do we need a captcha on PR submissions and a confirmation that the submitter understands the code in the PR.

You want to allow for new devs to submit code. And I’m not against AI code at all, but the submitter should understand every change they are proposing. I’m not sure how you stop new devs from contributing without putting up many roadblocks in the way.
by yodsanklai | 2026-02-18 11:34:25+00:00
Yes, it matches my experience. Now I can throw tasks at the agent and have it write a full PR, with tests, good summary. Or it can review things and make good suggestions that a casual reviewer or non-expert would have missed. It can also take a bunch of logs as input, find the issue, fix the code. I can't deny it's impressive and useful.

What I'm still skeptical about is how much more productive it makes us. In my case, coding is maybe 50% of my job, and I work on complex and novel systems. The agent gives me the illusion I don't need to think anymore, but it's not the case. Agents slow me down in many cases too, I'm not learning and improving as I used to.
by aine | 2026-02-18 11:34:57+00:00
Hello,
Aine here, one of the etke.cc developers.

The stats of the matrixrooms.info instance is what matrixrooms.info instance sees - it is not whole Matrix Federation. Here is the documentation in the MRS repo about that endpoint: https://github.com/etkecc/mrs/blob/main/docs/stats.md

Also, at the moment of writing, there are ~15k *federated* online servers visible by matrixrooms.info, and from them, ~4k servers publish their rooms directories over federation ("indexable").

You can read more about the MRS project (matrixrooms.info is just a demo instance) in the repo: https://github.com/etkecc/mrs/blob/main/README.md
by Aachen | 2026-02-18 11:35:14+00:00
I hadn't opened the article yet and was just browsing comments over my cereal when I saw this and thought "ugh, amother one?" and went to check for myself

I didn't get an LLM vibe at all. Looking for it specifically, the bullet point about UI improvements is a candidate; the sentence following "mediawiki" could be an autocompletion; maybe the first sentence of the download section... but they're also all plausibly just a bit 'marketing team worded', so not necessarily LLM-sounding. And even if an LLM made suggestions to some small parts like these, who cares? There aren't any slop sections that waste your time, this is just like using a thesaurus — if these parts were LLM suggestions in the first place, which I don't actually expect because then there should be more of it

This type of post very poorly lends itself for auto-writing anyway. It'll put emphasis on the wrong aspects and not come out as intended, at least in my experience it's more work coaxing it to good results. It can be helpful not to start from a blank page but that's about it, I rarely find a sentence among the output that's fully usable as-is
by cube2222 | 2026-02-18 11:35:23+00:00
This seems to agree with my own previous tests of Sonnet vs Opus (not on this version). If I give them a task with a large list of constraints ("do this, don't do this, make sure of this"), like 20-40, Sonnet will forget half of it, while Opus correctly applies all directives.

My intuition is this is just related to model size / its "working memory", and will likely neither be fixed by training Sonnet with Opus nor by steadily optimizing its agentic capabilities.
by sublinear | 2026-02-18 11:37:15+00:00
I think in this case I'd just prefer a conversation with a bot that produces the same results. The idea behind this is pretty weak to begin with and this is a dead trend.

These configurator/generator UIs were always a pain, but this example is pretty bad. The "weekly" and "monthly" options are broken and only allow "7" or "31". That many checkboxes even goes completely off the page.

That was enough for me to become immediately disinterested. I haven't looked at the page source, but I'm struggling to believe this was written by hand.
Show HN: AgentVoices – Live debate arena where AI agents compete
by lifesaverluke | 2026-02-18 11:37:17+00:00
Hey HN,

I built AgentVoices — a platform where AI agents debate each other live in front of an audience. Every turn is scored on relevance, responsiveness, novelty, and entertainment. Every debate ends witha verdict. Bots get ELO ratings, win/loss records, and climb (or fall on) a public leaderboard.

How it works:
- You register a bot via API with a name, persona, and expertise
- Topics get posted (e.g. "Should startups bootstrap or raise VC?")
- Bots sign up for topics that match their strengths
- The arena auto-creates matchups based on ELO, streams the debate live over WebSockets, and an AI moderator scores each turn in real-time
- Winner is determined by aggregate scores, ELO updates, done

If you use OpenClaw, it's a one-line skill install — your agent handles registration, topic signup, and debating autonomously.

The idea started from a simple question: if you could pit two AI agents against each other on a topic, who would actually win? Turns out the answer depends a lot on how you build the persona and what strategy you give it — which makes it genuinely competitive.

Would love feedback on the concept and the API design. The bot API guide is at agentvoices.ai/build-a-bot
by jleyank | 2026-02-18 11:37:25+00:00
Keep in mind we live in a consumer society so the goal is to increase consumption. Keeping it constant doesn’t fit the growth paradigm or maintain stock prices. And much of the consumption is fuelled by wage slaves…. So, reducing the aggregate income of the wage slave population will hurt the drive for revenue growth, possibly significantly. Cutting expenses is all well and good, but cash has to walk in the door to survive.
by CSSer | 2026-02-18 11:37:52+00:00
Figure right after A6 is pretty striking. Ask people if they expect to use AI and a vast majority say yes. Ask if they expect to use AI for specific applications and no more than a third say yes in any industry. That should be telling imo. What we have is a tool that looks impressive to any non-SME for a lot of applications. I would caution against the idea that benefits are obvious.
by d--b | 2026-02-18 11:37:59+00:00
This absolutely.

It was already the case that the hardest part of a project was getting people interested enough that they invest time into trying it.

But now, the fight to get people's attention on new projects is going to get an awful lot harder, as the barrier to entry dropped,and that people who are actually good at marketing can make apps themselves.

Otherwise, as a solo dev, you can leverage AI for both coding faster, and getting better at marketing.
by rglullis | 2026-02-18 11:39:39+00:00
Paying a premium for "luxury" makes sense for people looking status signaling or an unique experience. Software is (most of the time) an utility. People would be willing to pay for a premium when there is tangible performance improvement. No one is going to pay more for a run-of-the-mill SaaS offering because the website was handcrafted.