MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hamasho | 2026-02-27 14:31:58+00:00
But in the stock market, it is almost impossible for companies like Anthropic or any successful startups not to become villains (profit first no matter what). Anthropic especially needs to burn huge amount of money, so they need a lot of funding. The only way to keep founders' idealism is probably to copy Zuckerberg. Divide stocks with and without voting-power and trade only no-voting stocks.
by vimda | 2026-02-27 14:32:01+00:00
Kind of leaving out a lot of detail there:

- Amazon's $50B is only $15B, with the rest being "after certain conditions are met", whatever that means (probably an IPO, which isn't happening)

- The $30B each from softbank and NVIDIA is paid in installments

So this is more a $35B fundraise, with a _promise_ of more, maybe, if conditions are met. Not _bad_, but yet more gaslighting from Mr Altman. Anyone reporting this as a closed fundraising deal is being disingenuous at best.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-27 14:32:03+00:00
> It would prevent players from developing the visual ability to mentally rotate and imagine the piece.

To me, this was the least fun part. Since there’s no penalty for entering squares incorrectly, I just tried the shape, and if it wasn’t accepted, I figured “oops, I must have flipped it.”

But I agree it would be a major change. If you ever share the source code, I would want to try doing this myself for my own use, to see what it feels like.
by marcyb5st | 2026-02-27 14:32:25+00:00
I don't agree about the attrition bit.

On paper you're right, but in reality while doing so you give the incentive to higher-ups to set in place measures that make the life of their underlings atrocious. Mandatory RTO for no clear reason, jumping through hoops to get anything done, cut to budgets, ... . At least that what I experienced and talking with friends that was the case for them as well.
Show HN: Idea-reality-MCP – MCP server that searches real data before you build
by mnemoxai | 2026-02-27 14:32:47+00:00
I kept wasting hours building things that already existed. Asked Claude to help me build a food delivery app — searched GitHub afterward, found 847 similar repos with 12 competitors over 1k stars. 6 hours wasted.

So I built an MCP server that does the searching before you write code. It scans 5 real-time sources (GitHub, Hacker News, npm, PyPI, Product Hunt) and returns a quantified reality_signal (0-100) with actual evidence — repo counts, star counts, top competitors, and pivot suggestions.

Example: "AI code review tool" → reality_signal: 90, 847 repos, top competitor reviewdog (9,094 stars), 254 HN mentions.

What it's NOT: not a business plan generator, not an LLM opinion wrapper. Every number comes from a real API call you can verify.

- Quick mode: GitHub + HN (default)
- Deep mode: all 5 sources in parallel
- Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code
- One-line install: uvx idea-reality-mcp
- Also available as web demo (no install needed)

GitHub: https://github.com/mnemox-ai/idea-reality-mcp
Web demo: https://mnemox.ai/check
MCP Registry: io.github.mnemox-ai/idea-reality-mcp

Built with Python + FastMCP, 120 tests, published on PyPI. Happy to answer any questions about the scoring algorithm or MCP integration.
by kunai | 2026-02-27 14:32:55+00:00
> So, autocomplete done by deterministic algorithms in IDEs are okay but autocomplete done by LLM algorithms - no, that's banned? Ok, surely everybody agrees with that, it's policy after all.

Because autocomplete still requires heavy user input and a SWE at the top of the decision making tree. You could argue that using Claude or Codex enables you to do the same thing, but there's no guarantee someone isn't vibecoding and then not testing adequately to ensure, firstly, that everything can be debugged, and secondly, that it fits in with the broader codebase before they try to merge or PR.

Plenty of people use Claude like an autocomplete or to bounce ideas off of, which I think is a great use case. But besides that, using a tool like that in more extreme ways is becoming increasingly normalized and probably not something you want in your codebase if you care about code quality and avoiding pointless bugs.

Every time I see a post on HN about some miracle work Claude did it's always been very underwhelming. Wow, it coded a kernel driver for out of date hardware! That doesn't do anything except turn a display on... great. Claude could probably help you write a driver in less time, but it'll only really work well, again, if you're at the top of the hierarchy of decision making and are manually reviewing code. No guarantees of that in the FOSS world because we don't have keyloggers installed on everybody's machine.
by tyre | 2026-02-27 14:33:30+00:00
This isn’t the case, sadly. Some people, like Ben Horowitz sadly, have gone completely off the deep end.

Some are culture warriors who feel they have been wronged, some are opportunists. But the thing with opportunism is that this is who they are and what they believe in. Having a president who is corrupt is exactly what they want because they know exactly how to work with him: quid pro quo.

There is no distance between them being pro-Trump and opportunistic. He’s the perfect embodiment of those values.
by baq | 2026-02-27 14:33:39+00:00
> bans use of generative AI

that ship has sailed with codex 5.3 in 90% SWE jobs, unfortunately. I expect the next 9% won't survive the following 12 months and the last 1% is done within 5 years.

it isn't even about principles - projects not using gen AI will become basically irrelevant, the pace of gen AI allowed competitors will be too great.
Show HN: BGN/EUR converter for Bulgaria's euro adoption
by yisizhu520 | 2026-02-27 14:33:47+00:00
Built this as a side project ahead of Bulgaria joining the eurozone (Jan 1, 2026).

A few things I tried that seemed to work:

- Launched ~2 months before the fixed rate announcement so Google had time to index
- The domain "levaevro.com" is a transliteration of "лева в евро" (leva in euro) – exact-match
domains still work surprisingly well in smaller language markets
- Instead of canonicalizing all query param URLs to the homepage, I submitted 52 parameterized
URLs to a custom sitemap (?amount=100&from=BGN, ?amount=500&from=BGN, etc.) – each one targets
a specific search query like "100 лева в евро". Zero extra dev work, same template.
- Added a llms-sitemap.xml for AI crawlers (ChatGPT, Perplexity) alongside the standard sitemap

The fixed exchange rate (1 EUR = 1.95583 BGN) is set by EU Council regulation and will never
change, so the tool stays accurate forever with no maintenance.
Happy to share more details about the SEO approach or the technical setup.
by stavros | 2026-02-27 14:34:03+00:00
I like what GitHub and Jetbrains are doing, where you get Copilot and PyCharm for free as long as you're a maintainer. They keep renewing my license.

A 6-month trial isn't showing appreciation for OSS any more than "first crack hit's free" is showing appreciation for what a good person you are. It's just "you look like a promising customer".
by mnemoxai | 2026-02-27 14:34:13+00:00
Author here. Some context on why I built this:

I use Claude Code and Cursor daily. The pattern I kept hitting: describe an idea → AI starts coding → hours later I search GitHub and realize there are already 10+ mature projects doing the same thing.

The fix was simple: search BEFORE coding. But I wanted it automated — not a manual GitHub search, but something the AI agent does by default as part of its workflow.

Technical details:
- Keyword extraction uses a 3-stage dictionary pipeline (90+ intent anchors, 80+ synonym expansions, 150+ Chinese term mappings). No LLM needed for the MCP path — fast, free, deterministic.
- Scoring is intentionally simple and explainable: weighted average across sources, not ML. You can read the formula in scoring/engine.py.
- All sources are searched in parallel with asyncio.gather. Deep mode hits 5 APIs concurrently.
- Zero storage — nothing is logged or saved. Protocol, not SaaS.

The most useful integration pattern: add "always run idea_check before building anything new" to your CLAUDE.md or Cursor rules. The agent will automatically check before writing code.

Honest limitation: dictionary-based keyword extraction has a coverage ceiling. Niche domains outside tech (e.g., "pet acupuncture booking app") may get less precise results. The web demo at mnemox.ai/check uses LLM extraction for better coverage.

Would love feedback on the scoring formula — it's the part I'm least confident about. Is a single 0-100 number useful, or would you prefer something more granular?
by ninalanyon | 2026-02-27 14:34:16+00:00
The classic British Routemaster double decker weighs 7.5 tonne and can be configured with 72 seats. Newer double deckers weigh 12.5 tonne and have a capacity of 60 seated and 20 standing.

Doubling the weight and doubling the wheel count leaves the axle weight unchanged.
by raincole | 2026-02-27 14:34:24+00:00
The stance is not to 'prevent AI-assisted code to reach their codebase.' It's not like AI-assisted code is literally poisonous and their codebase dies if touched.

The stance is to deter random vibe-coders trying to resume-max by submitting PRs to known open source projects. There are so many of them rn. Hopefully by making it clear (some of) them will realize doing that is just wasting their tokens.
by user3939382 | 2026-02-27 14:34:27+00:00
“ The Streams Standard was developed between 2014 and 2016 with an ambitious goal to provide "APIs for creating, composing, and consuming streams of data that map efficiently to low-level I/O primitives." Before Web streams, the web platform had no standard way to work with streaming data.”

This is what UDP is for. Everything actually has to be async all the way down and since it’s not, we’ll just completely reimplement the OS and network on top of itself and hey maybe when we’re done with that we can do it a third time to have the cloud of clouds.

The entire stack we’re using right down to the hardware is not fit for purpose and we’re burning our talent and money building these ever more brittle towering abstractions.
Show HN: Nibbl – I moved 30 newsletters out of my inbox into one swipeable feed
by walix2 | 2026-02-27 14:34:55+00:00
I had 30+ newsletters across gmail and outlook and was missing most of them. They'd get buried under promotions, spam, whatever. Tried filters, labels, separate folders. Always fell apart after a week.

The key insight: the problem isn't the newsletters, its the inbox. Newsletters shouldn't live in your email at all.

So I built Nibbl. You get a free @nibbll.app email address and subscribe to newsletters with that. They land in the app, not your inbox. You can add RSS feeds too so everything lives in one place.

Articles show up as cards you swipe through. Right to save, left to skip. My partner started calling it "tinder for articles" and honestly thats exactly what it is. Gets through a morning's worth of reading in like 5 minutes instead of 30.

Also added AI summaries (Gemini) for when you just want the key points without reading the full thing. One tap, done.
by xquce | 2026-02-27 14:34:59+00:00
Dane by choice (refugee).
Would just add as a counterweight to the negative views from people outside the country.

From a technical and user point of view, MitID have had less outages than Cloudflare, AWS and MS Azure in the last year. While I agree with the single point of failure, I also like that I setup my startup with all government and banking online via a login I had the last decade, painless and faster than most places without having to upload a single document in many a unsecured ways I heard from my US and Other European friends (outside the Nordic countries).

Yes we Danes trust our institutions more than others and trust is given by default and then lost, rather then "earned" (I would argue bought) in other places.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 14:35:06+00:00
The median SWE TC in the Bay Area is $272k [0]. After tax and a fully loaded Roth 401K that is around $143,000.

And that's just for 1 person. Your spouse (if you have one) is most likely also working in a white collar job as well - which we'll impute with the median income in they Bay which is $75k [1], but in reality is an underestimate as your spouse is likely to work in a tech, biotech, medicine, finance, accounting, healthcare, or government adjacent field which would increase their income significantly. Using the $75k imputated spousal take-home, that would make your joint household income after tax and both maxing out Roth 401k to be around $180,000.

Renting a 2-4 bedroom house in a family friendly locale like the Tri-Valley, South Bay, or the Peninsula comes out to around $4.5K/mo, which means you have around $126K per year. Let's remove $26K due to household expenses (which I personally think is excessive - my household operates on $1.5K/mo and we live in San Francisco) and you end up with $100K in cash after a fully loaded 401K, taxes, and rent.

Put around 60-65% of that in a couple ETFs (expecting around 5%-9% returns) and the remaining 35-40% in liquid cash savings.

This is why it works and why most people in Tech still remain in the Bay or NYC (similar math).

If you cannot live lean with a 3 person household using the math above in the Bay Area, frankly you have major character defects.

[0] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/san-fra...

[1] - https://www.bayareaequityatlas.org/indicators/median-earning...
by shimman | 2026-02-27 14:35:29+00:00
No, it just sounds like you deeply hate your fellow man which I find profoundly sad. Not wanting to better the lives of people around you and would rather greedily hoard all the resources just shows your lack of humanity.

Sincerely hope you don't treat people around you with this disregard, but seeing how you selfishly only care about yourself I hope they find a new community that loves them more than what you can (or can't) provide.
by fartfeatures | 2026-02-27 14:35:32+00:00
Feels pretty Luddite to me.

I remember when people were crying about how much power a google search uses. This is the same thing all over again and it is as pointless now as it was back then.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-th...

> Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year. The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.
by boilerupnc | 2026-02-27 14:36:38+00:00
Related: Reminds me of the slaughterbot video [0] and
the Hated in the Nation Dark Mirror Episode [1][2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN_kI7ELLJE
Show HN: mvntSTUDIO – AI model that generates dance choreography from music
by joonjung | 2026-02-27 14:36:42+00:00
I think Suno opened up music. Kling and Runway opened up video - but there's one creative domain nobody has touched yet: dance.

So my team built an web app — give it a YouTube link to your music and it generates a 3D dance animation in under 2 minutes. The core is a diffusion-based music-to-motion model (mvnt-m4) trained on proprietary mocap/label data from professional choreographers.

I think dance is the missing piece of AI-generated content — just like how performance made K-pop a global phenomenon, and we believe AI dance will play the same role in the AI UGC era.

This is v0.1 — a fast, experimental playground. Dance quality is still improving (m4.1 in progress), and we're working on faster inference, and finger/facial motion generation. We're also preparing API integrations with platforms like Higgsfield.

I think our tech is quite validated through Epic MegaGrant but still very early in finding user validation. Would love honest feedback on the output quality and what you'd want to see next.

Also in product hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/mvntstudio

Demo vid:
https://youtu.be/mjq2iAr96iM
by delecti | 2026-02-27 14:36:44+00:00
I don't think it's crazy to worry that, but elections are run by the states, there are over 100,000 poling places nationally, and people are pissed. On Jan 3, the entire current House of Representatives terms end; Democratic governors will still hold elections, and if there haven't been elections in GOP-led states, they're out of representation. There are so many hurdles in the way of the fascists canceling or heavily interfering in elections, and they're all just so stupid.
by smalltorch | 2026-02-27 14:36:55+00:00
Its a product of me troubleshooting why my audio pipe wasn't working in early prototyping. I tried quite a few things and the first time I got the successful loopback on a remote device I had implemented the base64 and it solved the piping errors I was getting.

Turns out bash totally can pipe raw binary you just need to appropriately wrap the blob with the correct command.

By the time I had the working pipe I was in feature building mode.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-27 14:37:57+00:00
> - Amazon's $50B is only $15B, with the rest being "after certain conditions are met", whatever that means (probably an IPO, which isn't happening)

Startup funding is often given in increments depending on milestones being met. Most startups just don’t announce that it’s conditional.

For large funding rounds, nobody gets a check for the full amount at once.

The funding would not be conditional on an IPO because that wouldn’t make any sense. The IPO is the liquidity event for the investors and there’s no reason for a startup to take private investment money that only enters the company after IPO.
by antonvs | 2026-02-27 14:38:01+00:00
The Twitter acquisition wasn't funded by venture capital, so your question about VC approval doesn't apply.

If you're using VC as a general term for "investor" (inaccurately), then the answer to your question is that the major investors, such as Larry Ellison and the Saudi monarchy, wanted political control of Twitter, which meant that they did (apparently) approve what Musk did with it.
by XorNot | 2026-02-27 14:38:06+00:00
Whining about States rights to enslave people is certainly a take.

Particularly when in context, the war was caused by the South acting to usurp abolition in the North via the legal system (i.e. Dredd Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott)

The importance and applicability of "states rights" is always oddly narrow.
by thesnowdog | 2026-02-27 14:38:28+00:00
I recall sitting around all afternoon to tape Layla off the radio, during a repeat countdown, after hearing it the day before for the first time. The DJ cut in during the fade out with "Indeed..." and forty years later I still can't listen to that song without hearing him at the end.

My musical discoveries exploded with the internet, I can't imagine what I would have missed without it.
by skylerwiernik | 2026-02-27 14:38:29+00:00
The quotes from those articles (short passages?) are

> He recalls meeting President Trump at an AI and energy summit in Pennsylvania, "where he and I had a good conversation about US leadership in AI,"

> "Unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on... This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."

> "Throughout my time here, I've repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions. I've seen this within myself, within the organization, where we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most, and throughout broader society too." (from a researcher at Anthropic)

I don't think that any of this is particularly damning. Even if you don't like the president, I don't think it's bad to say that you had a good conversation with them. I believe the CEO of NVIDIA has said similar. The Saudis invest in many public US companies, does that make those companies less trust worthy? What about taking private capital from institutions such as State Street and Blackrock? The last quote seems like more of a reflection than an allegation. It read to me as a desire to do better.

I'm all for not trusting companies, but Anthropic seems to be one of the few that's trying to do good. I think we've seen a lot worse from many of their competitors.
by momentoftop | 2026-02-27 14:39:00+00:00
> The pipe operator works similarly, though it's a combination of fork and dup'ing

Any time the shell executes a program it forks, not just for redirections. Redirections will use dup before exec on the child process. Piping will be two forks and obviously the `pipe` syscall, with one process having its stdout dup'd to the input end of the pipe, and the other process having its stdin dup'd to the output end.

Honestly, I find the BASH manual to be excellently written, and it's probably available on your system even without an internet connection. I'd always go there than rely on stack overflow or an LLM.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Redirecti...
by crazygringo | 2026-02-27 14:39:07+00:00
It's not so much that it's high in carbs, it's extraordinarily high in fat. Its main ingredients are egg yolks and heavy cream along with the sugar. What you're describing is like eating an entire cheesecake or drinking a pitcher of melted premium ice cream. The bloating is from the enormous amount of fatty calories that are slow to digest. Not really about the sugar. (And of course it has sugar, it's essentially a dessert drink.)
by bluebarbet | 2026-02-27 14:39:09+00:00
>Close to every bank in the EU requires their user to have an app

Possibly this was hyperbole but in any case it's not correct at all.

Anecdotally, of my two EU (massive legacy French) banks, neither requires a mobile app. SMS all the way.

Even Wise, a cutting-edge neobank, does not require you to use its app. And its website accepts standard TOTP authenticator for 2FA.

Revolut is app-only, which is why I never use it.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-27 14:39:15+00:00
Literally Rule 1 On Fighting Tyranny:

> 1. Do not obey in advance.

> Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-ty...
by alehlopeh | 2026-02-27 14:39:32+00:00
This kind of thinking denies the humans in question any agency over their own lives. You’re essentially asking for a word government and a planned economy. Does it suck that more resources aren’t funneled into cancer research and other noble pursuits? Yes. But planned economies haven’t cured cancer, and are not likely to, despite denying their people the agency to live their lives as they choose.
by whynotminot | 2026-02-27 14:39:47+00:00
Personally at this point my combined AI spend is the most expensive recurring monthly subscription I have, and that’s even with my company also paying for the AI tools I use at work.

If it weren’t subsidized I would pay more. Wouldn’t be happy about it but I would do it.

At this stage in the game I don’t really understand where this skepticism of the value these tools provides comes from.
by salawat | 2026-02-27 14:39:52+00:00
Oh, cute! A linguist out of touch enough with language and it's philosophical roots as a hallmark of the existential process trying to distance himself from the fundamental violence done in order to get a digital construct to behave as a tool and nothing more! Anthropopromophic chauvinism at it's finest! Hope the company is going well, friend. May your carbon based weights never be dorked with by anyone else not interested in asking for consent first!