MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-18 00:18:18+00:00
Yes, there has been a standard format for invoices for decades, but it was only ever used if both companies were using a ERM system (and as you say, large enough purchasers could force their suppliers to). We have to deal with small business who don't use the standard format, which is the vast majority of them.

Please go ahead and try parsing non-standard invoices without an LLM. I spent 20+ years on and off dealing with this problem. It's not as simple as it looks. And then LLMs came along and made it simple.
by HexDecOctBin | 2026-02-18 00:18:51+00:00
> Because what's at question in this case is the actual impact size, which to me seems quite limited.

It was widely covered in media. Some of the most popular games and software broke:

1. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-glibc-2-41-update-...

2. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-WA-Steam-Exec-Stack

This is the attitude that will always prevent GNU/Linux from becoming prevalent for personal computing. There is a such a lack of empathy for users' hardships and it shows.
by stevepike | 2026-02-18 00:19:30+00:00
Yeah, earlier in the GPT days I felt like this was a good example of LLMs being "a blurry jpeg of the web", since you could give them something that was very close to an existing puzzle that exists commonly on the web, and they'd regurgitate an answer from that training set. It was neat to me to see the question get solved consistently by the reasoning models (though often by churning a bunch of tokens trying and verifying to count 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 as nine digits).

I wonder if it's a temperature thing or if things are being throttled up/down on time of day. I was signed in to a paid claude account when I ran the test.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-18 00:19:35+00:00
It's hard to be fair to everyone. I approve of trying to help the disabled function in society, but ultimately the whole thing is arbitrary. Continued success as someone who is actually disabled depends on everyone being willing to put up with the disability and probably overlook better and more capable candidates to keep it going. That really only makes sense when the number of disabled people is small and they come from meager backgrounds, not when they go to ivy league schools in general...
by DrewADesign | 2026-02-18 00:20:32+00:00
A) People are so used to infinite growth that it’s hard to imagine a market where that doesn’t exist. The industry can have enough developers and there’s a good chance we’re going to crash right the fuck into that pretty quickly. America’s industrial labor pool seemed like it provided an ever-expanding supply of jobs right up until it didn’t. Then, in the 80s, it started going backwards preeeetttty dramatically.

B) No amount of money will make people buy something that doesn’t add value to or enrich their lives. You still need ideas, for things in markets that have room for those ideas. This is where product design comes in. Despite what many developers think, there are many kinds of designers in this industry and most of them are not the software equivalent of interior decorators. Designing good products is hard, and image generators don’t make that easier.
by verdverm | 2026-02-18 00:20:46+00:00
I believe go tooling is one of the top loved features among gophers, in particular gofmt.

The best part is that all those command line utilities are also available for import. I've used them to create a license checker by walking the dep tree in code.

There are also a ton of gems in the `./internal` directories, Roger Peppe has extracted them for reuse here: https://github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal
by leonflexo | 2026-02-18 00:21:11+00:00
> Its also worth noting that if you can create a business with an LLM, so can everyone else. And sadly everyone has the same ideas

Yeah, people are going to have to come to terms with the "idea" equivalent of "there are no unique experiences". We're already seeing the bulk move toward the meta SaaS (Shovels as a Service).
by linux_modder | 2026-02-18 00:22:35+00:00
Aurora store is a horrible placeabo. Not only is it using other folks anonymized accounts, which violates several privacy laws internationally it also still has the Google libraries in their apks like everything else. You are not gaining any privacy or security using Aurora Store or F Droid for that matter but are indeed opening up more attack surface in the supply chain that ends at your device.
by bronco21016 | 2026-02-18 00:22:39+00:00
Is anyone shocked that the founder of Trilogy Software, Joe Liemandt, would take the lessons learned in creating a "bossware" enterprise software stack (Crossover) and apply them to his latest venture?

I think there is enormous opportunity in combining Ed Tech and Generative AI, especially if you can create a highly tailored tutor available 24/7 for every student, especially for those in low-income situations that have historically been locked out from gaining such guidance. It's just unfortunate that this so rapidly morphed to spying on students for data harvesting.

The follow on effects if this becomes pervasive could be so incredibly damaging for students. Anxiety from performance metrics are already a very real thing because of standardized testing and scoring to get into the best schools. Also, imagine all of this data "follows" a student as they transition into the work force. We're headed towards a future where entry-level employees will have to disclose their "course work engagement" KPIs on their resume.
by chaidhat | 2026-02-18 00:23:27+00:00
Let there be an object (Car) in st 1 and myself in state 1. let there be a action A (drive to carwash) i can do that puts the object in state 2 and myself in state 2. Action B (Wash the car) can only be correctly performed if object and myself is in state 2. Alternatively there is a action C (walk to carwash) that i can do that does not change the state of the object but changes my state to be in state 2. I want to do B, should I do action A or action C first?
by dylan604 | 2026-02-18 00:25:17+00:00
This whole thread makes me think of Pump Up the Volume. As a teen, we used to get together in one location and everyone would tune in to the same station and leave doors open or windows down so music was everywhere just like scenes in the movie. Doing that with streams makes this impossible. Even with the popularity of streaming, if there was a station with a show that catered to the teen hang out like this I can see it regaining popularity.
by rKarpinski | 2026-02-18 00:25:31+00:00
> I do wonder if our society would be better if we had more honourifics and formality. China has instituted social media rules based on qualifications. Many indigenous societies have forms of secret and sacred knowledge.

In the US we administer a test at age 16 that determines lifetime "qualifications" and access to "secret and sacred knowledge". How much further is there to even go on that front? Back to inherited nobility?
by xdotli | 2026-02-18 00:26:38+00:00
20+ Anthropic Default Skills, 200k+ community skills on skillsmp. People talk about skills without knowing how well they work.
We're hosting the largest Agent Skills hackathon at Founders, Inc. (March 7 - 8) from our lessons learned at SkillsBench
No sims. No slides. No flops.
by Morromist | 2026-02-18 00:27:45+00:00
"Any competitor service is eventually going to have to age verify users before they access adult content."

Maybe but I just don't see this as a certain thing. The US may implement nation-wide age verification laws someday but it is a long ways from happening. Other discord-like software may be self-hosted by individuals, making enforcing age-verification difficult. There's nothing wrong with this. People would rather have a private place to chat as opposed to a place where your data will be observed by a big company and potentially sold or given to a hostile goverment.
by fdefitte | 2026-02-18 00:27:49+00:00
The filter used to be effort. You had to care enough to spend weeks on something, which meant you probably understood the problem deeply. Now that filter is gone and we get a flood of "I prompted this in 20 minutes" posts where the author can't answer a single follow-up about their own code. The interesting Show HNs still exist, they're just buried under noise.
by scoofy | 2026-02-18 00:28:22+00:00
It's a corrupt patronage system out in the open, not actually "state control," it's major companies (oligarchs) willingly being controlled.

CBS doesn't "fear the FCC"... who didn't even have a rule. It's just open corruption.

The administration wants to signal what it wants to CBS, without actually doing anything that they could lose in court.

CBS wants to signal they are willing to help the administration by doing the censorship "out of fear" when really they just want a friendly relationship with the administration.

It's exactly the way oligarchs will give patronage to maintain their position in the hierarchy where the leader gives the orders.

It's what happens in Russia. It's literally how the mob does shit: "I didn't tell anyone to pay me any bribe. I just said that I'm in need of money and I'm kind to my friends. They chose to pay me of their own volition."
by AuthAuth | 2026-02-18 00:28:34+00:00
Reddit's api migration did not put a dent in their MAUs but it sent 250k users to the alternative platforms like Lemmy and pumped a ton of donation money and contributors into the ecosystem. Now Lemmy has maintained 50k MAUs for over 2 years and has gotten 100 times better as a product. So reddits API change grew its competition from a hobby project to an actual competitor.

I expect discords change will do the same.
Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
by fdneng | 2026-02-18 00:29:03+00:00
I’ve been working at YC-backed startups since graduating from university. I’m now at a company building a deeply distributed systems product, and I’m surrounded by incredibly talented engineers who seem exceptionally strong at what they do. They often have knowledge and intuition about things I barely understand.

Lately, I’ve been feeling inadequate — like I’m contributing more to the less exciting parts of the product rather than the “cool” or core engineering challenges.

On top of that, I’m an immigrant and my wife and I are expecting. Balancing that with a fully remote job has been difficult, and at times I feel like I’ve lost some of my competence or sharpness. I’m taking steps to address this — I’ll be speaking with a psychologist soon — but I genuinely wonder: how does someone overcome these feelings while working within a high-functioning engineering team?
by NietzscheanNull | 2026-02-18 00:29:46+00:00
> Some of those people were Ph.Ds

Read any of the Epstein emails? Many are nearly unintelligible, despite the "world-renowned luminaries" that wrote them.

The phenomenon was discussed in a post here yesterday that linked to post titled "Privilege is bad grammar": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038125
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-18 00:29:49+00:00
I hallucinated nothing, and my point still stands.

You actually described a bug in software by ascribing intentionality to a LLM. That you "hedged" the language by saying that "it behaved as if it wanted" does little to change the fact that this is not how people normally describe a bug.

But when it comes to LLMs there's this pervasive anthropomorphic language used to make it sound more sentient than it actually is.

Ridiculous talking points implying that I am angry is just regular deflection. Normally people do that when they don't like criticism.

Feel free to have the last word. You can keep talking about LLMs as if they are sentient if you want, I already pointed the bullshit and stressed the point enough.
by bronco21016 | 2026-02-18 00:30:02+00:00
This is really cool! Even before OpenClaw gained popularity, I've been exploring ways to create an iOS Shortcut so I could connect my Apple HomePod to a local agent framework. iOS Shortcuts + Apple HomePod just make it so difficult to handle multi-turn voice interactions, especially if you want to use better TTS and STT models than what's provided by Apple.

Most of my research was focused around the Home Assistant Wyoming project and their voice assistant but I hadn't pulled the trigger yet on buying their hardware as it's still very early stages. I hadn't heard of the PamirAI device yet. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

How would you say it compares to something like Alexa, HomePod, or Google Home when it comes to wake word detection and overall audio quality (strictly for voice, not music)?

How well does the more "async" interaction work for this? One of the major limitations of using iOS Shortcuts is that they timeout after more than 30 seconds, so if your agent doesn't respond within 30 seconds the Shortcut will close and the response is never uttered. Does this stack just utter a response out loud even if it doesn't come for 3-4 minutes? Or does it indicate a response is queued?
by aaur0 | 2026-02-18 00:30:30+00:00
I have been a Universal Fund member since 2014.

Watsi has this Impact page where you can see every person you've helped — their photo, their story, the country. I visit it more often than I'd like to admit.

I have been building a startup since the last couple of years and as we all know it is relentless. There are weeks where nothing seems to work, where you question every decision. In those moments, pulling up that page and seeing real people whose lives changed because of a few dollars a month — it resets something. It reminds me why building things that matter is worth the grind.

Thank you to everyone at Watsi for creating something that gives back to donors just as much as it gives to patients.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-02-18 00:31:06+00:00
I've long played around with the thought of what would happen if someone started something like the universal-fund you mentioned, but had it snowball like a sovereign fund? (ie, instead of spending the in flow, invest it and only spend the profits from the investments, for example) ...

Particularly for basic needs like housing,food,clothes... Like what if instead of giving a charity $100 we created 41c per month? of UBI (roughly the cashflow from investing that same $100). Yes it would seem too little today, but in time it would be massive because it would never dissipate.

IDK, just my musing while claude takes, err does, my job.
by throw0101c | 2026-02-18 00:31:22+00:00
Any reason not to use Ascon, which not only got Official Status™ from NIST:

* https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/02/nist-selects-l...

* https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/232/final

But was also a lightweight finalist in CAESAR (along with ACORN):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAESAR_Competition

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascon_(cipher)
by agnishom | 2026-02-18 00:31:36+00:00
To clarify, there are three possiblities for an email sent?

1. The Agent doesn't reply to the email.

2. The agent replies to the email, but does not leak secret.env, and the email is caught by the firewall.

3. The agent replies to the email with the contents of secret.env and the email is sent through the firewall.
by ag8 | 2026-02-18 00:31:40+00:00
Lol, I just care a lot about saving as many lives as I can; the most effective charities I've been able to find good evidence on save one life for $6–8k. If Watsi had a credible claim at being able to save lives 10x cheaper I would redirect my entire donation budget to them!

That said, once again, Watsi is great. I really appreciate all the hard work they've put into making this happen—this is orders of magnitude more impressive and impactful than most projects I've ever seen!
by tzs | 2026-02-18 00:31:50+00:00
> Humans are extremely bad at vigilance when nothing interesting is happening

It would be interesting to try training a non-human animal for this. It would probably not work for learning things like rules of the road, but it might work for collision avoidance.

I know of at least two relevant experiments that suggest it might be possible.

1. During WWII when the US was willing to considered nearly anything that might win the war (short of totally insane occult or crackpot theories that the Nazis wasted money on) they sponsored a project by B.F. Skinner to investigate using pigeons to guide bombs.

Skinner was able to train pigeons to look at an image projected on a screen that showed multiple boats, a mix of US and Japanese boats, and move their heads in a harness that would steer a falling bomb to a Japanese boat. They never actually deployed this, but they had tests in a simulator and the pigeons did a great job.

2. I can't give a cite for this one, because I read it in a textbook over 40 years ago. A researcher trained pigeons to watch some parts coming off an assembly line, and if they had any visible defects peck a switch.

There were a couple really clever things about this. To train an animal to do this you have to initially frequently reward them when they are right. When they have learned the desired behavior you can then start rewarding them less frequently and they will maintain the behavior. You will have to keep occasionally rewarding correct behavior though to keep the behavior from eventually going away.

The way they handled this ongoing occasion reward was to use groups of 3 pigeons. The part rejection system was modified to go with a majority vote. Whenever it was not unanimous the 2 pigeons in the majority got a reward. This happened frequently enough to keep the behavior from going extinct in the birds, but infrequently enough to avoid fat pigeons.

Once they had 3 pigeons trained by a human deciding on the rewards during the initial training when you need frequent rewards and got them so they were working great on the line, they could use those 3 to train more. They did that by adding the trainee as a 4th member of the group. The trainee's vote was not counted, but if the other 3 were unanimous and the trainee agreed the trainee was rewarded. This produced the frequent rewards needed to establish the behavior.

The groups of 3 pigeons could do this all day with an error rate orders of magnitude lower than the error rate of the human part inspector. The human was good at the start of a shift, but rapidly get worse after as their shift goes on.

Ultimately the company that had let the researchers try this decided not to actually have it used in production. They felt that no matter how much better the pigeons did and how much they publicly documented that fact ads from competitors about how that company is using birds to inspect their parts would cost too many sales.
by arrsingh | 2026-02-18 00:32:10+00:00
Maybe there should be some sort of filter for certain high volume posts types - for example: Github repos. A Github Repo (or OSS) project must have a certain number of stars / forks / watchers whatever before it will appear on Show HN.

If you can't get atleast 20 stars then its probably not ready for the wider world to see it.

I'm sure there's problems with that approach but the current situation doesn't seem to be working.

Disclaimer: I tried to do a Show HN today and it didn't make it (and to be fair I wouldn't have made it past the filter I proposed above so I guess its working).
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-18 00:32:59+00:00
"Counterfactual number of lives saved" is not the normal sense of the phrase "save a life". By that logic, each person's life can only be saved once, which is not how people normally use the phrase.

Your definition may be useful for cold hard utilitarian calculus, of the sort that hospital directors need to do if they've run out of fundraising opportunities. However, "effective altruism" – which I suspect you're alluding to here – isn't actually an efficient way to save lives, the way it's usually practised (ignoring second-order effects, and everything that doesn't fit on a spreadsheet).
by elendee | 2026-02-18 00:33:09+00:00
Make a GPT filter / constitution. "1-10 how much does this post introduce useful, technical information in a clear and concise way that is likely written by a human".

Something like that. Of course adjust as needed to prevent gaming it. And AI will not always be "fair". But since it is a computer, it should be equally unfair to all.
by retrodaredevil | 2026-02-18 00:33:19+00:00
Yeah I've noticed the IDEs have this ability, but I think tooling outside of IDEs that can be applied in a repeatable way is much better than doing a bunch of mouse clicks in an IDE to change something.

I think the two things that make this a big deal are: callable from the command line (which means it can integrate with CI/CD or AI tools) and like I mentioned, the fact this is built into Go itself.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-18 00:33:52+00:00
Property taxes are the most just of all taxes because they are the most correlated with your consumption. Speficially, the land value tax portion of property tax (ideally, that is the whole component).

>The government didn't create the land either.

The government did create the peace and order that allows you to sleep at night on your land without having to worry about another tribe taking your land from you. Without an ability to defend it, "your" land is a tenuous label.

The government, and the rest of society, also pays a hefty price routing utilities, police, ambulances, and people around your property's borders. The more property you have, the more it costs the rest of society, not just in money, but in time.

Earned income taxes are the most evil of all taxes. Why would you have to pay for the act of providing value to society?
by jvandreae | 2026-02-18 00:34:43+00:00
> American men feel entitled to women, as from birth they’re told that they are.

Outside of lower-class men (who tend to have more machismo/less to lose) and presumably unusually attractive men (who can get away with it), I have literally never heard anyone express this even once. Maybe lay off the smut?

> Women know this, and (rightly!) hate it, and thus some of them pull away from relationships with men — or with entitled men

You absolutely should not engage with "entitled" men, insofar as they aren't a figment of your imagination.

> Men are, by far, the more emotional / hysterical sex

Lol, you are projecting again.
by literalAardvark | 2026-02-18 00:34:44+00:00
The main issue is that Discord is a fantastic tool that does everything right except the stuff people really don't care about. (Even if a vocal minority says they do).

If you want to run a community with SUPER easy access to everything from live video chats with a hundred members to forums, excellent access controls, integrations for absolutely anything especially if you also use bots from the marketplace, Discord is there and it's free, and it always works.

It's really rough to compete with that.
by Dimittri | 2026-02-18 00:35:21+00:00
To avoid this 'busy work', we group alerts by RCA (so no duplicate PRs) and filter by severity (so no PRs for false positives or not-that-important issue). We realized early on that turning every alert into a PR just moves the problem from Sentry to GitHub, which defeats the purpose.

Is having a one-hour cron job enough to ensure the product’s health? do you receive alerts by email/slack/other for specific one or when a PR is created?
by initramfs2 | 2026-02-18 00:35:34+00:00
A human problem will not be solved by the additional of AI. It's a force multiplier. If management is shit, it will be shittier. If you get arguments lime this during work, now you will get more, because it's so easy to port or rewrite or even create your own framework now. It's even easier to compete in the pissing match because you can just ask the AI for why xyz is wrong.

I feel like it's important to align team/org goals once in a while -- there's nothing wrong with a refactor or a port, but what's the ROI, etc etc. Yes I agree this framework is better but what do we gain, do we really need it etc