MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2026-02-25 00:44:29+00:00
I’m really disappointed by this. I’ve been a 1Password user for 18 years.

Over the last several years, since they moved to Electron for the main app, things have gotten worse and worse. The browser extension doesn’t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the extension leaves people more vulnerable to phishing, since they have to copy/paste passwords out of the app.

The features they list, I don’t care about. AI item naming? What? It already automatically named things pretty well without AI. It feels like they just want to use the hot buzz word.

A password manager should be a fairly boring utility. It should be secure, stable, reliable for the long-haul. These ideas are incompatible with taking on investments from a bunch of celebrities.

When I heard about them taking on investors I was worried. Password managers create a fair amount of lock-in, and now they’re starting the squeeze, while failing to deliver on the basic functionality I want out of a password manager… filling passwords in the browser.

It seems like I’ll need to migrate over the next 5 months. I was hoping this day would never come, as it was mostly a good 18 years. I recommend 1Password to a lot of people over the years.

While I don’t want to move to a password manager that will create vendor lock-in, I will probably end up going to Apple Passwords.
by sashank_1509 | 2026-02-25 00:46:28+00:00
I suppose the hope is that the coming AI boom will accelerate development in multiple different spheres (material science, transportation etc) and similar to the Industrial Revolution, humanity will ascend to a new normal, probably one where we are again constrained by execution , this time AI’s complete execution + Humanities execution.

That said, it’s very likely none of that happens and AI + Human execution just means more easy SAAS business and no SAAS business can have code as a moat since AI can replicate that quite easily. The second scenario seems more likely
by lifeisstillgood | 2026-02-25 00:46:34+00:00
We used to call the job Analyst Programmer. I am not sure what thing your code did but I am pretty sure you needed it - but who could understand that gap existed ? Who could explain to an AI that it needed to create this obscure code to solve that problem. And now comes the hard part - persuading your organisation to adopt it.

AI can code - but can it understand what it missing from the organisation and persuade it to chnage - to spend years at industry conferences?

Look at Starliner.
NASA just announced that Boeing stuffed up, not with an engineering mistake (no one still knows exactly what broke) but that the whole organisation is so screwed up and so political Nasa just don’t believe Boeing can fix it.

AI cannot fix our turf wars. That’s not intelligence (humans know going to war is bad, but Putin still exists). I ye the systems we live in, and work in.

Changing those is feasible - once they are coded, transparent and open To inspection in a democracy.

We need programmable introspective systems of organisation - democracies in other words.

The engineering was not the problem - the problem was the organisation was more or less toxic and incapable of doing engineering. Writing code that won’t get used because if politics is a job we and AI can both do.
by slg | 2026-02-25 00:47:00+00:00
If you take the view of history that the ability to forcibly drive other people off their land grants the new inhabitants a valid claim to that land, then Israel's actions are only objectionable because they are happening now rather than in the history books. It's inherently a doctrine of might is right, and the Israelis are mightier than the Palestinians at this current moment in history.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-25 00:47:00+00:00
As an engineer, I do think there’s some mild correlation, but there are other categories which would be much more predictive. And most of the correlation with engineers are actually a confounder effect from things like multigenerational socioeconomic status, or religion.

If you were to control for other variables I doubt there’d be much correlation. After filtering out engineers who belong to other categories with stronger associations to authoritarianism, you’re more likely to be left with the hyper-individual-freedom types than the hyper-authoritarian types.
Show HN: We Gave an LLM Adventure Engine a Body, Now It Feels Exhausted
by oopismcgoopis | 2026-02-25 00:48:24+00:00
'Sup HN,

I love local LLMs for interactive fiction, but I got tired of the "Naked Model" paradox. If you tell a standard RLHF'd model "I drink the health potion," it will gleefully describe you drinking it—even if your inventory is completely empty. They have no object permanence and are biased to be sycophantic assistants.

To fix this, I built BoneAmanita, an architecture that puts a fine-tuned LLM inside a Python-simulated body.

How it works:
It’s a two-part system:

The Brain (GGUF): A custom 3B model (fine-tuned on Llama 3.2 via Unsloth). I scrubbed out the "helpful assistant" RLHF and trained it strictly on atmospheric, sensory, and philosophical prose.

The Body (Python Engine): A local terminal hypervisor that runs a physical simulation. It tracks variables like "ATP" (stamina), "ROS" (trauma), "Voltage," and Cortisol.

The Feedback Loop:
The Python engine intercepts every turn and dynamically rewrites the LLM's system prompt based on its metabolic state. If you stress the engine out with high-entropy actions, its simulated Cortisol spikes. The Python engine injects a strict prompt override forcing the LLM to output short, fragmented, defensive sentences. It literally gets exhausted.

Solving the Hallucination Problem (The Gordon Shock):
To enforce hard physics, the Python engine manages a strict inventory state. If you attempt an impossible action (e.g., washing a car in a forest), an internal interceptor ("Gordon") catches the premise violation before the LLM can "Yes, and..." you. Gordon violently injects a CRITICAL OVERRIDE into the context window, forcing the LLM to coldly reject the action and ground you in reality.

It boots into 4 modes (Adventure, Conversation, Creative, Technical) depending on how strict you want the physics engine to be.

You can pull the brain straight through Ollama:
ollama pull hf.co/aedmark/vsl-cryosomatic-hypervisor

And run the Python hypervisor here:
https://github.com/aedmark/BoneAmanita

It’s completely free, local, and released under The Unlicense.

Come play!
by echoangle | 2026-02-25 00:48:36+00:00
But surely, the different tribes in Australia also moved around and replaced each other? They might all come from the same people that came to Australia first, but that doesn’t mean they are native to the place they currently live in. If a tribe moved from southern Australia to the north and replaced another tribe, who gets the land now? And how do you settle that without some arbitrary statute of limitations?
by superxpro12 | 2026-02-25 00:49:47+00:00
For all the progress, you lose me immediately with the "social credit" system. If there was really true 'progress', then you wouldn't need a one-party system that suppresses all dissent.

Only need to look to the recent changes in Hong-Kong and the obviously hostile takeover of a democratic government to see how "pure" these changes really are.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-25 00:49:54+00:00
Common failure mode I've observed is people building a stateful harness for the LLM and then forgetting to tell the LLM about it. Leads to funny/disturbing results whenever the two "desync" in some way.

Example: a plan/act division, with the harness keeping state of which mode is active, and while in "plan mode", removing/disabling tools that can write data. Cue a mishandled timeout or an UI bug that prevents switching to "act mode", and suddenly the agent is spinning for 10 minutes questioning the nature of their reality, as the basic tools it needs to write code inexplicably ceased to exist, then opting for empirical experimentation and eventually figuring out a way to reimplement "search/replace" using shell calls or Python or whatever alternative wasn't properly sandboxed by the harness writers...

Part of this is just bugs in code, but what irks me is watching the LLM getting gaslighted or plain confused by rules of reality changing underneath it, all because the harness state wasn't made observable to the agent, or someone couldn't be arsed to have their error messages and security policies provide feedback to the LLM and not just the user.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-25 00:49:59+00:00
Software is a "good", as far as economic statistics go.

AI is helping produce more software, right? Including more software that is for sale?[1] Or more online services that are for sale?

[1] One of the interesting things here is going to be liability. You can vibecode an app. You can throw together a corporation to sell it. But if it malfunctions and causes damage, your thrown-together corporation won't have the resources to pay for it. Yeah, you can just have the company declare bankruptcy and walk away, leaving the user high and dry.

After that happens a few times, the commercial market for vibecoded apps may get kind of thin. In fact, the market for software sold by any kind of startup may also get thin.
by al_borland | 2026-02-25 00:50:15+00:00
I haven’t use this on Windows, but the Apple Passwords extension on Chromium browsers (maybe all non-Safari browsers) is rather annoying. Every time I launch the browser I need to type in a random 6 digit code to link the session to the extension. As a result, I never actually close my browser and get annoyed when I see there is an update that wants me to restart the app.
by dev_developer | 2026-02-25 00:50:28+00:00
I kept seeing the same problem — agents get stuck calling the same
tool 50 times, wander off-task, or burn through token budgets before
anyone notices. The big observability platforms exist but they're
heavy for solo devs and small teams.

So I built DriftShield Mini — a lightweight Python library that wraps
your existing LangChain/CrewAI agent, learns what "normal" looks like,
and fires Slack/Discord alerts when something drifts.

3 detectors:
- Action loops (repeated tool calls, A→B→A→B cycles)
- Goal drift (agent wandering from its objective, using local embeddings)
- Resource spikes (abnormal token/time usage vs baseline)

4 lines to integrate:

from driftshield import DriftMonitor
monitor = DriftMonitor(agent_id="my-agent", alert_webhook="https://hooks.slack.com/...")
agent = monitor.wrap(existing_agent)
result = agent.invoke({"input": "your task"})

100% local — SQLite + CPU embeddings. Nothing leaves your machine
except the alerts you configure.

pip install driftshield-mini
GitHub: https://github.com/ThirumaranAsokan/Driftshield-mini

v0.1 — built this solo. Would genuinely love feedback on what
agent reliability problems you're hitting. What should I build next?
by rob | 2026-02-25 00:50:51+00:00
Another fake bot account. This is getting ridiculous. It's every other thread here now.

Timestamp 1: 2026-02-25T00:31:28 1771979488
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145661

Timestamp 2: 2026-02-25T00:32:03 1771979523
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145666

Two detailed large comments in two different threads in a 35 second span from a new account.
by keeda | 2026-02-25 00:50:52+00:00
Two different things. My understanding is that the Goldman Sachs take was about the effect of AI investments (largely the humongous CapEx spends by the hyperscalers) showing up in the GDP.

This is about labor productivity, a standard national-level economic indicator (see https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf and https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB) going up 4.9%, as reported in this article linked in TFA: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-third-quarter-productivi...
by Drupon | 2026-02-25 00:50:58+00:00
It's not a trick question. It has a simple answer. It's literally impossible to specify a question about real world objects without some degree of prior knowledge about both the contents of the question and the expectation of the questioner coming into play.

The obvious answer here is 100 minutes because it's impossible to perfectly encapsulate every real life factor. What happens if a gamma ray burst destroys the machines? What happens if the machine operators go on strike? Etc, etc. The answer is 100.
by blindhippo | 2026-02-25 00:51:31+00:00
I've been using these tools for nearly a year and half on a daily basis. They've become an integral part of my tool box for solving problems.

But writing code was never much more than 35-40% of my job while working for companies/others. Most my time has always gone towards communication, design, and validation. All three of those are not particularly vulnerable to mass AI automation except for the most trivial of scenarios and I have not seen evidence that has changed in over 2 years of so called "improvements".

My "exit plan" ultimately is to be one of the engineers capable of using these tools to scale my impact accordingly so I can focus on higher order problem solving, which ultimately is what is most valuable. I would be more concerned if I was in marketing/sales or frankly middle management.

Maybe this is just "copium" on my part, who knows, this sector is moving fast.
by echoangle | 2026-02-25 00:51:33+00:00
Right, but at least historically, what alternative is there? You can’t really unroll thousands of years of human history and make everyone go back to where their ancestors came from (even just because people ended up mixing after colonizing other places), so you have to take some state as the correct one and then condemn every change after that (or just let everyone do whatever they want).

Otherwise, how would you decide who gets which part of the world?
by almostdeadguy | 2026-02-25 00:51:37+00:00
As any president should in that scenario? I'm sorry, we're going to nuke professional class workers and let tech executives keep their 2026 money from the proceeds and let the losers go jobless? Not likely if you don't want a bloodbath. Let me be clear: fuck Trump, but any president who doesn't do that is out of their mind.
by Drupon | 2026-02-25 00:53:47+00:00
>As such theory of mind indicates that the person asking you is either not aware that they are asking an underspecified question, or are out to get you with a trick.

Context would be key here. If this were a question on a grade school word problem test then just say 100, as it is as specified as it needs to be. If it's a Facebook post that says "We asked 1000 people this and only 1 got it right!" then it's probably some trick question.

If you think it's not specified enough for a grade school question, then I would challenge you to come up with a version that's specified rigorously enough for any sufficiently picky interviewee. (Hint: This is not possible)

>There is nothing “mathematical” about any of this though.

Finding the correct approach to solve a problem specified in English is a mathematical skill.
by wayeq | 2026-02-25 00:54:43+00:00
maybe because they are trying to act ethically toward a murderous neighbor that is conducting asymmetric warfare and those are the best tools to accomplish that.

or, maybe because they came to the conclusion that the repercussions on the world stage of even more horrific media coming out of Gaza is too steep of a price to pay.

i don't know which, but i do know it is naive to conclude that because they COULD end the war in a day and did not, they are driven by morality and ethical concerns rather than pragmatic ones.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-25 00:55:06+00:00
I dunno, I don't think the models are fully capable yet, but they are still shockingly good, especially recently. A real parrot is worthy of some consideration, not zero, though some of that is attributable to the fact that it is alive.

The funny thing is if I go to google and click the first result, it shows me an AI preview anyway. No winning. ;) (Though I would prefer if the Earth was not cooked alive.)
by sergiomattei | 2026-02-25 00:55:31+00:00
I built my own harness on Elixir/Erlang[0]. It's very nice, but I see why TypeScript is a popular choice.

No serialization/JSON-RPC layer between a TS CLI and Elixir server. TS TUI libraries utilities are really nice (I rewrote the Elixir-based CLI prototype as it was slowing me down). Easy to extend with custom tools without having to write them in Elixir, which can be intimidating.

But you're right that Erlang's computing vision lends itself super well to this problem space.

[1]: https://github.com/matteing/opal
by scoofy | 2026-02-25 00:55:35+00:00
I do? It's a trivially comparable thing? I'm not even talking about ALL prescription drugs. I'm talking about the fact that some have interactions that can kill you. Having "life savings gone" consequences from a random app install is that level of danger.

A non-trivial number of people should probably have to go see a specialist before being able to unlock sideloading in my opinion... which means we probably all would have to. It's annoying, but I actually care about other people.
by Gaishan | 2026-02-25 00:55:45+00:00
One way would be to think of your game idea like a Cause that you believe in and want others to support. How would you promote and disseminate that to find fellow believers?

Talk about it and show what you're building. Those most engaged will be your short list to spend more time with and "date" to become a co-founder.

It's probably worth the effort to have a good idea around what the project needs in a cofounder too.

Have fun building!
by 2muchclout | 2026-02-25 00:56:00+00:00
> In the second part of the question you asked if you should just learn all of the skills...buddy, does that question not answer itself?

Yes I agree, I don't think I worded my post well. I want to learn all the skills and such, because I enjoy learning. My post was more centered around if I was behind the times and thinking in the past by not using it.

> Since I could be labeled as an "AI hater" based on those comments, I want to be clear that I'm saying all this to keep you from falling into a trap and not to further my own agenda

I don't think AI hater label would be fair, you're making a similar point that I was trying to make which is that specifically for art in video games, it might be to someone's detriment.
by superxpro12 | 2026-02-25 00:56:43+00:00
I often find myself wondering about these things in the context of star trek... like... could Geordi actually code? Could he actually fix things? Or did the computer do all the heavy lifting. They asked "the computer" to do SO MANY things that really parallel today's direction with "AI". Even Data would ask the computer to do gobs of simulations.

Is the value in knowing how to do an operation by hand, or is the value in knowing WHICH operation to do?
by stenaai | 2026-02-25 00:56:45+00:00
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by defrost | 2026-02-25 00:56:55+00:00
> But surely, the different tribes in Australia also moved around and replaced each other?

Read article, chase up the papers, evidence says "no".

The Tasmanians and the Noongars (Southern most to east, southern most to west) have genetically been in place a long time and had no one to replace.

The article mentions "genetic diversity" between east, west, centre, north, south, etc - that comes from not mixing.

"But surely..." <-- gut feelings? You should joinn Quadrant.

> If a tribe moved from southern Australia to the north and replaced another tribe

Do you have any evidence of that?

> who gets the land now?

There's a wealth of material on Mabo, Land rights, Native title, et al that address all that - if you're generally curious it's there to read.

eg: starting with, say https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/mabo-case
by MarkusQ | 2026-02-25 00:57:03+00:00
You just moved the goal post.

Saying that experts are less likely to do X doesn't say anything about the relative harm of their doing so. If some rando on the streets is shouting their opinion about what causes Alzheimer's and asserting it's God's Own Truth, it's going to cause less overall harm that a carefully worded (but equally wrong) statement from an expert. (And the fact that we tend to hold experts in higher regard is the reason we should be more concerned about them stating their opinions as facts than about amateurs doing the same.)
Show HN: JadeAI – Resume builder with AI parsing, 50 templates, and self-hosting
by twwch | 2026-02-25 00:57:06+00:00
Hello HN,

I built JadeAI, an open-source, AI-powered resume builder designed to take the friction out of crafting professional, ATS-friendly resumes.

Why build another resume builder?
Most existing tools either lock your data behind a subscription, have clunky editors, or lack deep AI integration. I wanted something that is:

Developer-friendly: Self-hostable via Docker with zero-config (SQLite by default).

Privacy-conscious: You can use your own API keys (OpenAI/Anthropic), and they are stored locally in your browser, not our database.

Powerful: It doesn’t just "write" text; it parses images/PDFs, analyzes JD matching, and offers 50+ templates out of the box.

Key Technical Highlights:

Modern Stack: Built with Next.js 16 (App Router) and React 19.

Extensive Templates: 50 professionally designed templates using Tailwind CSS 4.

Smart Parsing: Upload an old PDF or even a screenshot of your resume; the AI extracts the structured data perfectly.

Hybrid Auth: Supports Google OAuth for sync, or a "Zero-Config" mode using browser fingerprinting for instant use.

Export Engine: High-fidelity PDF export powered by Puppeteer and Chromium, plus DOCX/JSON/TXT support.

Tech Stack:

Framework: Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript

Styling: Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui

Database: Drizzle ORM (Supports SQLite & PostgreSQL)

AI: Vercel AI SDK v6

Drag & Drop: @dnd-kit

Repo: https://github.com/twwch/JadeAI
by chriswarbo | 2026-02-25 00:57:48+00:00
> Why is it insecure, well, Pi tells you >No permission popups.

Pi supports permission popups, but doesn't use them by default. Their example extensions show how to do it (add an event listener for `tool_call` events; to block the call put `block: true` in its result).

> there's no secure way to know whether what they're asking to is what they'll actually do

What do you mean? `tool_call` event listeners are given the parameters of the tool call; so e.g. a call to the `bash` tool will show the exact command that will execute (unless we block it, of course).
by bberenberg | 2026-02-25 00:58:16+00:00
I've built something similar to this internally and absolutely agree that timing is the real challenge.

Getting an AI to navigate a process is now easy. However, the difficult problem is having it understand:
1. How to screenshot or, even better, capture a GIF of exactly the right points in time
2. How to move the mouse and pause at the right points in time such that a human understands it
by kube-system | 2026-02-25 00:58:35+00:00
They’re all

> controlled either directly or indirectly by two companies

While many manufacturers make Android phones they all functionally play by Google’s rules as a contractual condition to get proprietary gApps.

Amazon even tried to pull off an Android fork without gApps but failed.

The only third option is Huawei’s HarmonyOS if you live in China.