MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rf15 | 2026-02-18 12:26:21+00:00
> Signal is the E2EE chat app and protocol. It's FOSS software, and can be self-hosted (though with much difficulty)

I can not emphasise this point enough: it is difficult and unsupported to a degree that Signal can not be considered self-hostable to any remotely useful degree.

It should be in the non-starter category.
by Duralias | 2026-02-18 12:26:27+00:00
Going by how little it is spoken on here I assume it is a localized phenomena, but the word of Fluxer.app is spreading among my spaces and it is open source and selfhostable and federation in the future.

The official instance and full time dev is funded by a cheaper discord nitro like premium sub.

It very recently became public and since that makes people think it is vibe coded I recommend reading the making off blog post https://blog.fluxer.app/

It isn't yet 1:1 with discord, no phone app yet, but it is by far the most discord like discord alternative (closer than Stoat), but open source and selfhostable.
Copy-left open-source license for AI code use
by program_whiz | 2026-02-18 12:27:02+00:00
I'm thinking that we need a new open source license that copies an existing license, such as GNU AGPL license (or any flavor really), but has language specific to AI training:

```
This code may be used by AI models freely, but any model trained with this code, or using this code as part of inference, in whole or in part, with or without modification, must be made public under a "Copyleft AI License". All trained model weights, as well as model training and inference source code, and a copy of this source code, must be published in an open-source format with a copy of this license to this website (github.com).
```

The basic idea is that people can freely use the code to train an AI/LLM model, but in doing so will be required to publish the weights and model-related code as well to the same place where they took the code. It also covers the case that they may not be training on the code, but they are scraping it as source material for whatever they are doing in inference.

This hopefully gives legal recourse to any code owners.

It also forces AI companies to think twice and/or develop better filtering, allowing people to better "opt out" of being used for AI.

It also forces companies to publicly publish the best model training and weights, if they use open-source code to train.

Finally, it gives some legal standing to smaller sites (such as gitea or gitlab, or private sites) that are being relentlessly scraped.
by raincole | 2026-02-18 12:28:04+00:00
Sure, and this is exactly why people buy software and vibe-coding can't replace it. Still don't get it? Windows, Photoshop, Figma, whatever popular software are full of issues. But people have worked around these issues and posted their workarounds and experiences online. The cost to live with these issues are amortized among the huge number of users.

When one got an issue with their in-house vibe-coded solution, where can they look for help? Nowhere, except hoping it can be fixed by throwing more token at it.
by ifh-hn | 2026-02-18 12:30:16+00:00
I had to look up what "morged" meant, it's either morph and merge or a youtuber. I'm going with the first.

I can't find a link to the learn page so can only see what's on the article. Is this a real big deal? Genuine question, driveby downvote if you must.

Even if this was a product of AI surely it's just a case of fessing up and citing the source? Yeah it doesn't look good for MS but it's hardly the end of the world considering how much shit AI has ripped off... I might be missing something.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2026-02-18 12:31:08+00:00
> deanonymization of the internet

This is going to happen anyway because 'the powerful' want to track what everyone does and says. AI is going to accelerate this because now they have a much more efficient means to filter and identify the people that are doing and saying things that the powerful don't like. The powerful will also be able to get real world ID credentials for their bots if they wanted or needed them, so this will not stop the problem of bots.
by spicyusername | 2026-02-18 12:31:39+00:00
My main critique is that it's not clear where the loss of identity came from?

Is it that large corporations ruined being a programmer? Don't work for one.

Is it that silicon valley culture ruined being a programmer? Don't live on the west coast.

Is it that LLMs ruined being a programmer? Don't use them.

Or is it just that you're getting older, and it's not so much about programming as it is about the world not being the same one you grew up in. The inevitable alienation of aging.

Personally, I think programming is just as rad as it always was. More so even. It's never been easier to learn, there's more cool languages than ever, hardware is cheap, we just invented alien technology, basically every person has a computer in their pocket, basically every company needs programmers function, etc, etc.

Everybody is so down about the current moment in time, and no doubt there's plenty to be down about, but a quick read of history will tell you that it's always like this. Nothing to be down about. It's just business as usual. Social and news media have wormed their way into everyone's vibes and feeling bad is addictive.

The only thing we can do is have a good attitude, roll up our sleeves, try to fix what's broken, and keep on keeping on. The responsibility of every age.
by littlestymaar | 2026-02-18 12:31:55+00:00
> If you've been using each new step is very noticeable and so have the mindshare. Around Sonnet 3.7 Claude Code-style coding became usable

Yet I vividly remember the complaints about how 3.7 was a regression compared to 3.5 with people advising to stay on 3.5.

Conversely, Sonnet 4 was well received so it's not just a story about how complainers make the most noise.
by redmageinc | 2026-02-18 12:32:29+00:00
Heya. React 18 + TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, React Router:

Real-time chat (Socket.io) with typing + presence

Channel organization (categories + text channels)

Direct messages (1:1)

Wiki/docs knowledge base (Markdown editor + version history)

Roles & permissions (RBAC: admin/mod/member)

Moderation (reports, kick/ban, mod queue)

Message tools (edit/delete/pin, Markdown, GIF picker)

File uploads (image sharing)

Dark mode + mobile-responsive UI
by Vinnl | 2026-02-18 12:33:07+00:00
"Enshittification" caught on, but also sounds like it just means "turned to shit" (rather than: companies run at a loss to capture the market with a good product, then once they do, turn the product to shit to extract as much money as possible, since customers can no longer leave).

Surprise surprise, people are using it to mean the former.
by mattmaroon | 2026-02-18 12:34:38+00:00
Oh I was in no way saying I agree with any of that, just explaining how his mind seems (to me) to work.

He hyped electric cars to the point where someone in here in 2017 told me I was nuts to buy an ICE car because there wouldn’t be any gas stations left in five years. That’s why his share prices are out of proportion to reality.

Now that it turns out the EV market isn’t growing as fast as it seemed when it was all early adopters, and autonomous delivery isn’t ready and won’t be for at best a few years, he’s gotta hype the next thing.
by fwystup | 2026-02-18 12:34:57+00:00
My opinions about the study:

- Don't state the obvious: I wouldn't hand a senior human dev a copy of "Clean Code" before every ticket and expect them to work faster.

- File vs. Prompt is a false dichotomy: The paper treats "Context Files" as a separate entity, but technically, an AGENTS.md is just a system prompt injection. The mechanism is identical. The study isn't proving that "files are bad," it's proving that "context stuffing" is bad. Whether I paste the rules manually or load them via a file, the transformer sees the same tokens.

- Latent vs. Inferable Knowledge: This is the key missing variable. If I remove context files, my agents fail at tasks requiring specific process knowledge - like enforcing strict TDD or using internal wrapper APIs that aren't obvious from public docs. The agent can't "guess" our security protocols or architectural constraints. That's not a performance drag; it's a requirement. The paper seems to conflate "adding noise" with "adding constraints."
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-18 12:36:40+00:00
This seems like a problem simply stated but not simply solved. I think Grokipedia or whatever it was called was a real exercise in “no one cares about cached LLM output”. The ephemeral nature of LLM output is somehow a core property of its utility. Kind of like I never share a Google search with a coworker, I share the link I found.
by rgoulter | 2026-02-18 12:36:43+00:00
> Agile should still mean exactly the same thing as it did in the manifesto

I recall Dave Thomas (one of the signers of the manifesto) made the point: He points out "agile" is an adjective, "agile" is not a noun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
by GSiesto | 2026-02-18 12:37:33+00:00
That's very interesting,

I've worked with image recognition in the past, and building a generic solution for this kind of use cases was very difficult. It often fails on edge cases.

However, with the rapid advancements in AI image recognition, I think we are getting closer to solving this with confidence every day. It's definitely an interesting direction for future features and something I could explore implementing locally, though it is quite resource intensive for now. It needs a few spins.

And I agree about the urgency of preserving old documents. Loss of clarity is effectively a loss of history. Making these tools accessible and cheap (or free) is definitely part of the solution.

Thanks for the insights!
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-18 12:38:38+00:00
honestly the opposite has been true for me. I ship faster alone now than I did with a small team two years ago - the AI handles the boring scaffolding and I focus on the parts that actually matter. the real problem isn't that solo devs can't compete, it's that the bar for what counts as a product just dropped through the floor. everyone and their dog has a landing page and a waitlist now. so yeah you need marketing, you always did, but now you also need to not look like every other vibe-coded weekend project. I think the solo devs who were already good at taste and knowing what to cut will do fine. the ones who were just technically skilled but building things nobody asked for - AI doesn't fix that, it just makes it faster to build something nobody wants
by tyingq | 2026-02-18 12:39:04+00:00
My experience so far has been they are somewhat good at troubleshooting code, patterns, etc, that exist in the publicly viewable sphere of stuff it's trained on, where common error messages and pitfalls are "google-able"

They are much worse at code/patterns/apis that were locally created, including things created by the same LLM that's trying to fix a problem.

I think LLMs are also creating a decline in the amount of good troubleshooting information being published on the internet. So less future content to scrape.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-18 12:39:23+00:00
“Good at marketing” means a lot in the agentic coding era

You will do far better if you’re out there, talking to potential or current customers, understanding their needs deeply, and solving them.

It very much pays to be a solo dev, but you have to be very “heads up” and spend more time with humans. IMO it’ll difficult to get by just as a heads down pure dev.

Finally LLMs don’t know everything. Even if they knew everything, they don’t know your clients full situation. Moreover your client wants your specific n=1 opinions/experiences, not whatever average of ideas lives in the LLM.

Know your industries business well. You’ll do well coaching clients not just on the tech, but the intersection of tech and the gaming business. If you’re in a position you could critique an LLM on a topic, or offer a different perspective, that has strong market value.
by KoftaBob | 2026-02-18 12:39:28+00:00
> We are a non-profit project with two goals:

> 1. Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity.

> 2. Access: Making this knowledge and culture available to anyone in the world (including robots!).

Setting aside the LLM topic for a second, I think the most impactful way to preserve these 2 goals is to create torrent magnets/hashes for each individual book/file in their collection.

This way, any torrent search engine (whether public or self-hosted like BitMagnet) that continuously crawls the torrent DHT can locate these books and enable others to download and seed the books.

The current torrent setup for Anna's Archive is that of a series of bulk backups of many books with filenames that are just numbers, not the actual titles of the books.
by drakythe | 2026-02-18 12:39:43+00:00
Thanks to the crashed economy I was on the hook for hundreds of other people’s bad decisions and the degree I went for did not result in a job despite prospects being more than good when I began the program.

People who want loan forgiveness anbd to rework the financial aid system aren’t looking for a get out of jail free card, they’re looking yo even the playing field a bit.
by wongarsu | 2026-02-18 12:39:46+00:00
At the time I (and many others) had a much more positive view of Microsoft. In 2018 Nadella was bringing a lot of positive change to Microsoft. The release of VSCode and WSL among the more visible trends that signaled a new direction. A world in which Microsoft wasn't the preferred owner of Github, but could at least be a good steward and an open-source friendly company.

Now in 2026 things look different. While the fears that Microsoft would revert to 90s Embrace, Extend, Extinguish mostly haven't come to pass, their products are instead all plagued by declining quality and stability, and a product direction that seems to willfully ignore most of the user base
by qurio_dev | 2026-02-18 12:40:07+00:00
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I'd love to know: did the AI feel too "stubborn" in your first few turns, or did it hit that sweet spot of guiding you toward the answer?

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You can email me as well if you need more credits for beta access as paid subscription is on hold until beta testing is completed
by nl | 2026-02-18 12:40:10+00:00
I'm not sure that's what they meant. Read like this:

> the tractor and plow are doing a lot more work than 3 farmers, yet we've got more jobs and grow more food.

it sounds to me like they mean "more job and grow more food" in the same context as "the tractor and plow [that] are doing a lot more work than 3 farmers"

But you could be right in which case I agree with them.
by hijodelsol | 2026-02-18 12:40:24+00:00
A 2 person startup cannot provide a dedicated developer for your account, a personal contact for each of their thousand customers, is at high risk of being acquired/changing their business model/founders abandoning it, etc.
For enterprise, long-term stability and personal contact matters more than price. A typical SaaS contract is 0.x% of yearly revenue of big corps and nobody wants to be the one person risking the business for such miniscule savings. Another often overlooked part: Employees are the biggest cost center, much larger than any contract. So retraining a single team of 10 employees can often be more expensive and more disruptive to the business than just sticking with a legacy provider and established processes.
by imiric | 2026-02-18 12:41:22+00:00
There's nothing ambiguous about this question[1][2]. The tool simply gives different responses at random.

And why should a "superintelligent" tool need to be optimized for riddles to begin with? Do humans need to be trained on specific riddles to answer them correctly?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054076

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037125
by horsawlarway | 2026-02-18 12:41:23+00:00
This is my take as well. Everyone (correctly, in my opinion) assumes that customers won't bother to recreate a SaaS themselves with AI because it requires at least some skill, time, and knowledge.

But SaaS doesn't die because of all the customers creating one-off solutions themselves. It does the "desktop program" -> "mobile app" pricing transition.

It drops monumentally in price because now a very small (sub five) group can clone an experience and charge pennies on the dollar.

Why pay $15/month/user if some other reasonably stable company offers you $1/month/user?
by cullumsmith | 2026-02-18 12:42:11+00:00
Nice. I run a very similar setup, but opted for a stack of OpenLDAP / MIT Kerberos / PowerDNS on my "domain controllers."

OpenLDAP does multimaster replication and is the backend for DNS records and the Kerberos database.

The hardest part was figuring out OpenLDAPs configuration syntax, especially the correct ldif incantations for things like nested group memberOf= queries, schemas, and ACLs. It's somewhat inscrutable... Nowadays an LLM could do it for you at least.

At $job we use Linux / sssd, and I always found it super bloated and rather unreliable. It's nice coming home to FreeBSD and old boring stuff like pam_krb5 and nslcd. It just works.

The "ipa" command provided by FreeIPA for managing users/groups/etc is super convenient though.
by onli | 2026-02-18 12:42:28+00:00
Yes, you are right. I read a lot about European FOSS projects (and my own blog is member of a planet for german Foss articles). Migrating away from github has been a topic for a while in that scene now. First just because github is not Foss, then accelerated because of Microsoft, and Microsoft now mismanaging Github with ai bullshit accelerated it even more. Plus the push for independence of us services, Trumps imperialism is a big factor as well.

So absolutely not the start of the movement, but it seems to be accelerating more and more.
by M95D | 2026-02-18 12:43:41+00:00
Depends on what code they wrote. If they used LLMs to write it, it could contain proprietary nvidia parts. Someone would then have to review that, but can't, because maybe the nvidia code that came from the LLM isn't even public.

So the strategy to publish independently, wait and see if nvidia lawyers have anything to say about it, would be a very smart move.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-18 12:44:03+00:00
>Why should hospitals be for-profit organizations? Sounds like all the wrong incentives.

You're conflating private ownership with the organizations nominal financial structure. It has nothing to do with the structure model of the organization and everything to do with resources wasted on TPS reports. This waste has to come from somewhere. Something is necessarily being forgone whether that's profit, reinvestment in the organization or competitive edge that benefits the customer (e.g. lower cost or higher quality for same cost). The same is true for a for profit company, or any other organization.

FWIW the hospital is technically nonprofit as is typical for hospitals. And I assure you, they still have all the wrong incentives despite this.
by general1465 | 2026-02-18 12:46:06+00:00
> If you want old dogs to learn new tricks, teach them

These guys are epitome of arrogance. I have been doing this for N years, you have nothing to teach me! Then the same guy will be staring for several hours straight on a prototype board which is hard shorted because he accidentally created a junction in his schematic. ERC (electrical rules checker) would catch it, if guy would bother to run it...
by mpeg | 2026-02-18 12:46:19+00:00
If you're interested in this kind of thing, I took part in a CTF last year organised by Microsoft that was about this exact kind of email injection, with different levels of protection

They published the attempts dataset [0] as well as a paper [1] afterwards

[0]: https://huggingface.co/datasets/microsoft/llmail-inject-chal...

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09956
by friendzis | 2026-02-18 12:46:24+00:00
> I just don't see a world where every corporation is building their own accounts, crm, hr software.

This is the world we live in. Majority of top level managements are now reevaluating each and every 3rd party tool they use and prospects of re-building that themselves. Don't forget that at those levels they are easily dealing with at least six figures per tool.

The tools are complex, clunky to use, complaints are often directed to the tools. We now the pain points, we know what the tools do, how hard would it be to instruct AIs to make better version addressing the deficiencies we face?

At some point some of them will realize the old truth that any business system is at least as complex as the business process it models. Those processes are indeed quite complex.

But you don't know what you don't know and extreme carefulness does not get you promoted to the top level management. So will indeed see attempts (typically unsuccessful) to rewrite common 3rd party tools left and right.
by horsawlarway | 2026-02-18 12:46:32+00:00
I'm not sure this matters. Enterprise is always slow to move anyways, and frankly, not usually worth the trouble for early startups.

What happens instead is that the new cheaper competitor proves themselves in the 1-10 seat company range for a few years. Then 5 to 10 years later, when the enterprise is evaluating renewals again, they go "Why are you so much more expensive? Look "X-two-guys" over there only charge 5% as much as you for the same product!" to the current SaaS they buy from.

Will they all move? No. But enough will, eventually.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-18 12:46:59+00:00
Yeah but if it’s 100x easier to do something, it takes much less motivation to push through and finish it.

If you look at every game dev forum in existence, or you’ve ever talked to people about why they got into CS there are probably 1000x more people who want to publish a game than have done it.

If there was a a tool that provided a 10x-100x speed boost it would push enough of those people over the edge and make a significant impact on number of games released.

That’s to say nothing of boosting existing game devs.
by NamlchakKhandro | 2026-02-18 12:48:31+00:00
you're all living in the past btw.

Only laggards are using MCP.

Everyone else is using skills to provide updating knowledge and cli tools for extra functionality.

100% Everything above discussed: solved with skills.md

It's hilarious watching all of you being academic about the recent invention of the wheel and acting like you're smart.
by coderai | 2026-02-18 12:50:07+00:00
I live in a place where unfortunately 2/3 of the year we have 0–15°C. Sometimes I look for quick weekend escapes — not to far-away countries, but somewhere closer (like Italy or Spain) where the weather might be nice for the weekend. So I combined automatic search of cheap flights with good weather.

The idea is simple: tell us your departure city, budget, and preferred temperature — we scan thousands of flights and weather forecasts every week to find you the best sunny weekend deals.

Technical stack:
- Cloudflare Workers for backend (serverless, fast)
- Flight data from Amadeus API + Kiwi.com
- Weather from OpenWeatherMap
- Email via Resend

It's completely free, no ads, no spam. Just a weekly email if we find a good match.