MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brandensilva | 2026-02-16 17:28:14+00:00
Right, he indicated he's losing $10-20k a month on OpenClaw. Might as well let OpenAI absorb those losses and join the rocket ship.

The guy is a multi millionaire from selling his old software so I'm doubtful it is about the money for him at this point as much as it is the experience working with this tech on another level.
Show HN: AsdPrompt – Vimium-style keyboard navigation for AI chat responses
by contrary2belief | 2026-02-16 17:28:32+00:00
I use Claude throughout the day and kept getting annoyed by the same thing: selecting text from responses with the mouse. Overshoot, re-select, copy, click input, paste. Especially bad in long conversations where you want to reference something from 30 turns ago.

asdPrompt is a Chrome extension that adds hint-based navigation (like Vimium) to AI chat interfaces. Cmd+Shift+S activates the overlay, hint labels appear next to every text block. Type a letter to select a block, then keep typing to drill down: block → sentence → word. Enter copies, or you can press an action key (e, d, x) to inject a follow-up prompt ("elaborate on [selection]") directly into the chat input.

Works on claude.ai, chatgpt.com, and gemini.google.com. Adapts to light/dark themes. Free. Built the initial MVP in 2 days using Claude Code — the adapter architecture, NLP segmentation pipeline, and Playwright test harness would have taken a month without it.

Tech details for the curious: site-specific DOM parsers behind an adapter interface, text segmentation via compromise.js with regex fallbacks for technical content (paths, camelCase break NLP libraries), bounding rectangles calculated via Range API + TreeWalker, overlay isolated in Shadow DOM. Tested with Playwright visual regression.

The landing page has an interactive tutorial where you can try the full drill-down mechanic without installing. Happy to talk about the implementation.
by Muromec | 2026-02-16 17:28:43+00:00
>Free to ingest and make someones crimes a permanent part of AI datasets resulting in forever-convictions? No thanks.

Is this the UK thing where PII is part of the released dataset? I know that Ukrainian rulings are all public, but the PII is redacted, so you can train your AI on largely anonymized rulings.

I think it should also be against GDPR to process sensitive PII like health records and criminal convictions without consent, but once it hits the public record, it's free to use.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-16 17:29:17+00:00
In my investigations ages ago [1] I felt the trick was to go lower that an AST. ASTs by nature generally have to be language-aware and vary so much from language to language that trying to generally diff them is rough. I didn't solve the language-aware part, but I did have some really good luck with using tokenizers intended for syntax highlighting. Because they are intended for syntax highlighting they are fast, efficient, and generally work well with "malformed"/in-progress works (which is what you want for source control where saving in progress steps can be important/useful/necessary).

It still needs to be language-aware to know which token grammar to use, but syntax highlighting as a field has a relatively well defined shared vocabulary of output token types, which lends to some flexibility in changing the language on the fly with somewhat minimal shifts (particularly things like JS to TS where the base grammars share a lot of tokens).

I didn't do much more with it than generate simple character-based diffs that seemed like improvements of comparative line-based diffs, but I got interesting results in my experiments and beat some simple benchmarks in comparing to other character-based diff tools of the time.

(That experiment was done in the context of darcs exploring character-based diffs as a way to improve its CRDT-like source control. I still don't think darcs has the proposed character-based patch type. In theory, I could update the experiment and attempt to use it as a git mergetool, but I don't know if it provides as many benefits as a git mergetool than it might in a patch theory VCS like darcs or pijul.)

[1] https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff
by spwa4 | 2026-02-16 17:29:18+00:00
If it's a bubble that big it's

1) the only reason any part of the economy is growing at all

2) the only reason US banks aren't bankrupt due to the commercial real estate debacle they got themselves into

In other words, if this is a bubble, if this pops, we're back in the 2008 situation. Where banks will go bankrupt one after the other like dominoes (in the sense that this amount is large enough that large banks will fail their financial obligations). And you can argue as much as you want based on "real" valuation metrics but none of your investments, not even cash dollars or even gold, will come out of that one intact.

Fortunately, there's the counterargument: you know what else is higher than ever? The revenue produced by the software industry. To the point that at the moment you can say, as crazy as it sounds: if revenue of the big software firms keeps growing the way it IS currently growing, this is not enough investment.

In case you're wondering what exactly that means, not enough investment. Think of it like this: you're selling shoes. If you invest too little in new shoes (or whatever resources you need to sell shoes), then you will have to tell customers coming in "sorry, all out of shoes, take your money elsewhere". Currently it's not enough investment. If this growth rate keeps up for 1.5 years, Amazon will have to close the store to anyone who wants more machines. That's where the "spend more now" madness is coming from. Is it unjustified?

Well, it appears not.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2026-02-16 17:30:18+00:00
No yeah I wasn't disagreeing with the article,but it's also false that it helps with the calorie restriction itself, depending on the food I eat I can get easily more than 2000 calories in one meal. It's all the things together that make the intermittent fasting work.

Not only that, but intermittent fasting works because of all the food nutrients, when I tried before I was just thinking about food all the time and it was a horrible experience.

Lot of micronutrients, high protein, high fiber, food with slow glucose absorbition, no starch, build up to fasting (start with 12, then next week 18, then 24).
Also sleep a lot the day before fasting and drink a lot of water
by amluto | 2026-02-16 17:30:27+00:00
My personal experience is that it’s worthwhile to put instructions, user-manual style, into the context. These are things like:

- How to build.

- How to run tests.

- How to work around the incredible crappiness of the codex-rs sandbox.

I also like to put in basic style-guide things like “the minimum Python version is 3.12.” Sadly I seem to also need “if you find yourself writing TypeVar, think again” because (unscientifically) it seems that putting the actual keyword that the agent should try not to use makes it more likely to remember the instructions.
by realusername | 2026-02-16 17:30:57+00:00
For the devices we're talking here like the OnePlus 6, the adjustments are very minor since this device has Linux mainline support.

In AOSP, not even the call app is usable nowadays. AOSP doesn't have any functional UI anymore.

So depends what's your definition of a phone stack, if it includes a call app, an agenda or a keyboard, AOSP doesn't fit it.
by troupo | 2026-02-16 17:31:09+00:00
> I mean, yeah, if you were picked to present "on stage"

Ah yes. Federighi, the VP of Platform Development, literally responsible for the development of iOS and MacOs "was picked", and had no power to say no to the overwhelming power of the all-powerful head of design Alan Dye.

> but was shouted down in all the meetings

So, VP of Platforms was shouted down by whom exactly?

But sure, let's keep telling everyone that it was only Alan Dye who was responsible for Liquid Glass.

BTW I remind you it was the same Federighi who introduced the awful design changes in the MacOS a few years ago proudly presenting the new settings app and saying that everything will be meticulously designed in the final version (was it Sonoma? Can't remember).
by surajrmal | 2026-02-16 17:31:12+00:00
The current chat app is decidedly the victor. It's been around since 2021 and there is no sign of a replacement. Google messages remains separate for person chat, but arguably texting and work chats occupy different spaces, just as Whatsapp and Slack do. Folks joke about chat features also making their way into YouTube and Google Photos, but the fact they are not forcing you into the other chat ecosystems is something a lot of users strongly prefer. The 2010s was definitely an awkward period for Google but arguably that was just watching them fumble through social via Google+ and everything else was a reaction to that. 2020s has been a lot more focused with strategy actually focusing on existing products instead of spinning up new ones (outside of AI)
by palata | 2026-02-16 17:31:22+00:00
Thanks! I have been "hacking" with games in the past (getting infinite lives and such) or bypassing some licence check (back then it was with OllyDbg).

I guess I'm struggling to transfer that to "real-life" scenarios. Like getting something useful out of reverse engineering (getting infinite lives is interesting to see that I can tamper with the game, but it's not exactly useful).
by tjansen | 2026-02-16 17:31:59+00:00
> I think you're in a tough market, but I'll agree that Feedly hasn't gotten much love, and is clearly aiming for a more enterprise market.

Yes, enterprise is certainly where the money is (Feedly's plans start at $1600/month...), but as a solo dev working on a side-project, that's not an accessible market for me anyway. So I try to create a service that's simple and cheap.

> My AI agent is (probably) going to do a better job of choosing the most relevant stuff.

The idea would be basically: the feed reader know the user's interests because of the subscriptions, and knows the last time the user logged in. So it can filter what happened since then; it can also order the posts by relevance, allowing the user to catch up.
And in a second step, an agent could even write the posts dynamically, summarizing information gathered from the user's feed, possibly even adjusted to the user's level of knowledge and offering background info where needed.

> And personally, less interested in podcasts in my RSS app. That's something for Pocket Casts / AntennaPod. I like my audio separate from my RSS.

There are some feeds that are more like a mixture of text and podcast. I usually read only the text, but sometimes it catches my interest and I want to listen to one or two posts. That's when I start hating the lack of podcast support in Feedly.
by thesz | 2026-02-16 17:32:10+00:00
> Then spin up a new agent to decide which approach of the three is best on the merits. Repeat this analysis in fresh contexts and sample until there is clear consensus on one.

If there are several agents doing analysis of solutions, how do you define a consensus? Should it be unanimous or above some threshold? Are agents scores soft or hard? How threshold is defined if scores are soft? There is a whole lot of science in voting approaches, which voting approach is best here?

Is it possible for analyzing agents to choose the best of wrong solutions? E.g., longest remembered table of FizzBuzz answers amongst remembered tables of FizzBuzz answers.
by tomxor | 2026-02-16 17:32:29+00:00
This study is measuring the wrong thing. Any diet that restricts calories will cause weight loss, that's just physics not biology. So long as the person strictly sticks to that diet it will work.

Strategies like intermittent fasting or diets that moderate what you eat rather than quantity are focused on the later aspect "strictly sticking to that diet". Because being strict is not sustainable, will power is limited and inconsistent, so wasting it on strategies that are hard to stick to is both futile and a waste of will power. Changing what and when you eat accounts for biology instead of just physics, because those variables have a huge impact on satiety.

The study has a minimum interval of 4 weeks, which does not take much will power. Not to mention the psychological impact of being part of a study.
by mbgerring | 2026-02-16 17:32:51+00:00
I don’t understand what the current crop of political leaders thinks is going to happen in a world where China dominates proven clean energy technology, nobody besides the U.S. is engaging in a trade war with China, and a once-in-several-generations infrastructure buildout is in progress everywhere else that the U.S. is actively trying to shut down at home.

By the time the U.S. figures this out, there will be whole regions of the world currently without a power grid where people will be driving Chinese electric cars powered by Chinese solar and batteries. Those countries will have no incentive to participate in the U.S. financial system, since they won’t need U.S. dollars to purchase oil, and they will be entirely out of the reach of the mechanisms the U.S. uses to police other countries.

The scale of the extremely predictable disruption to the global political order will be huge. I work in the energy industry and I am, let’s say, an 80th percentile SME on this subject, but this is so obvious that I know other people must see this. I don’t understand what the plan is here.
by aftbit | 2026-02-16 17:33:02+00:00
Trump is up to ~3 million deportations now, while Obama did 3.1 million throughout his entire presidency. Obama's peak was 409k in 2012. Trump's peak was 605k in 2025. Unless this "concerted campaign" (i.e. broad based American public pressure) succeeds in changing Trump's strategy or reducing his power, he'll be well ahead of Obama before the midterms in 2026, let alone before the end of his presidency.

Once they chew through the undocumented people in America, I wonder where the DHS is going to find the other 80 or 90 million people to deport?

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006472108222853298
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-16 17:33:18+00:00
At first this shtick of being an offensive irreverent leader was different and new. But when you let that become your entire life and your company’s identity, you risk losing everyone else. Palantir still doesn’t make sense as a company. It’s just a low tier software consultancy that has ties to the current administration to get overpriced contracts. And they’re willing to do all the evil dirty work others will not. So analysts are right to doubt their story. And it’s the job of the CEO to convince them with real information not insults.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-16 17:33:41+00:00
> Had processor speeds not increased at that time, Java would have been relegated to history, along with a lot of other languages that became mainstream and popular (Ruby, C#, Python)[1].

I'd go look at the start date for all these languages. Except for C#, which was a direct response to the Sun lawsuit, all these languages spawned in the early 90s.

Had processor speed and memory advanced slower, I don't think you see these languages go away, I see they just end up being used for different things or in different ways.

JavaOS, in particular, probably would have had more success. Seeing an entire OS written in and for a language with a garbage collector to make sure memory isn't wasted would have been much more appealing.
by KevinMS | 2026-02-16 17:33:47+00:00
> We have 10 too much capacity without building any more gas generation.

YOU STILL HAVE TO RUN THEM. Maintenance, upkeep, crews, and then you have to subsidize any loses they have for sharing the load to keep them online. Basically any wind farm is TWO power plants, the wind farm and its backup. They never count that backup in these cost assessments.
by linksnapzz | 2026-02-16 17:33:47+00:00
Assuming you're asking in good faith, the parent could be referring to the 'market for lemons' in employment, where in lieu of being able to easily determine worker quality, employers start using second- or third-order- proxies for questions about, say, a candidate's likelihood of having a criminal record.

Or, you might just be doing the meme:
https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918?s=20
by plexui | 2026-02-16 17:34:25+00:00
This makes sense. Most SAST tools have years of engineering behind them specifically for static analysis, while LLMs are general-purpose models trying to approximate reasoning from patterns.

The interesting question isn’t whether LLMs outperform SAST today, but whether they can complement them — for example, identifying logic-level issues, insecure design patterns, or unusual edge cases that rule-based tools might miss.

It feels like the future is hybrid: deterministic scanners for known classes of vulnerabilities, and LLMs for higher-level semantic and architectural analysis.
by kzahel | 2026-02-16 17:34:27+00:00
ADE! first time I've heard that acronym. (I assume it means Agent development environment?)

Your interface looks pretty cool! I built something similar-ish though with a different featureset / priority (https://github.com/kzahel/yepanywhere - meant to be a mobile first interface but I also use it at my desk almost exclusively)

It sounds like you have some features to comment directly on markdown? That sounds pretty useful. I love how Antigravity has that feature.
by Muromec | 2026-02-16 17:34:28+00:00
>That's up to the person for the particular role. Imagine hiring a nanny and some bureaucrat telling you what prior arrest is "relevant". No thanks. I'll make that call myself.

Thanks, but I don't want to have violent people working as taxi drivers, pdf files in childcare and fraudsters in the banking system. Especially if somebody decided to not take this information into account.

Good conduct certificates are there for a reason -- you ask the faceless bureaucrat to give you one for the narrow purpose and it's a binary result that you bring back to the employer.
by hananova | 2026-02-16 17:34:33+00:00
In many sane countries, companies can ask you to provide a legal certificate that you did not commit X category of crime. This certificate will then either say that you did not do any crimes in that category, or it will say that you did commit one or more of them. The exact crimes aren't mentioned.

Coincidentally these same countries tend to have a much much lower recidivism rate than other countries.
by alexjplant | 2026-02-16 17:34:41+00:00
> Anything else and more is sectarianism and people bragging about their choices not having verified their true claimed efficacy or benefits.

Everybody's looking for a silver bullet and wants to advocate for their specific one by tearing competing theories down. The reason that IF works is because it's more difficult to eat at a caloric surplus when you can only fill your stomach for 8 hours a day. Full stop. There might be modest ancillary benefits but as far as weight loss it really is as simple as calories in versus calories out. There are tons of variations on this theme dependent on goals and tolerance for discomfort but simple math wins ten times out of ten.

For the layperson IF or keto or something similarly extreme is effective but difficult. It requires strict adherence to a lifestyle that impacts one's social life and makes eating prepared foods difficult. Worst of all it leads to impromptu cheat days in moments of weakness that spiral out of control and negatively affect consistency. For people trying to lead a normal life I personally think eating at 80% TDEE with 1:1:1 macros is the most sustainable - you eat at your leisure, get sufficient protein for lean muscle mass and still eat carbs for energy and fun. Combine this with some light cardio and body weight/kettlebell stuff while watching TV and you'll see great functional fitness gains in addition to quick and steady weight loss.

Of course it's hard to build an online quasi-religion around moderation so this type of thinking isn't mainstream despite its efficacy.
by wmeredith | 2026-02-16 17:34:55+00:00
> How do you not see the difference between a machine that will hallucinate something random if it doesn’t know the answer vs a human that will logic through things and find the correct answer.

I see this argument over and over agin when it comes to LLMs and vibe coding. I find it a laughable one having worked in software for 20 years. I am 100% certain the humans are just as capable if not better than LLMs at generating spaghetti code, bugs, and nonsensical errors.
by ddevnyc | 2026-02-16 17:35:05+00:00
One thing I would really appreciate in this repository (and many like it) would be a simple, short, snippet of code that shows a typical use case of whatever the repo is selling me. Life's too short to dig around in the guts of the repository to find stuff like this out, it should be front and center. I want to know about the ergonomics and hackability of what I'm about to delve into.
by theptip | 2026-02-16 17:35:09+00:00
The whole premise is very unimaginative. It just takes one step on the infinite series and does not ask what the asymptote is (if there even is one).

If every coked up SDR can build a tech stack, then every junior SWE can get superhuman SEO.

If every product has superhuman seo and engineering, and there are 10 or 100x more products, then probably everyone uses the exact right one for their needs, and quality for your specific usecase is higher. (More competition means more quality, more of every differentiator, including lower prices. )

In a world of zero marginal cost of production (turning ideas into reality with a prompt), maybe it’s hard for anyone to eke out profit margin; I can’t see what anyone’s edge would be in this world. The end state here is much more disruptive than “dang, a coked up sdr out-competed me on my SaaS ide-“.
by jorl17 | 2026-02-16 17:35:18+00:00
Is Claude Code really what makes them money, or is it their models? Both? Neither?

Do they believe that owning the harness (Claude Code) itself will lead to significantly more money? I can sort of see that, but I wouldn't think they are necessarily betting on it?

I use Anthropic's models wherever, whenever I can, be it cursor, copilot, you name it. I can't stand Claude Code for some reason, but I'll kill for those models.

On the other hand, I've seen some non-tech people have their "Holy shit!" moment with Claude Co-work (which I personally haven't tried yet) — and that's a market I can see them want to hold on to to branch out of the dev niche. The same moment happened when they tried their excel integration — they were completely mindblown.