MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PowerElectronix | 2026-02-18 11:58:18+00:00
GDP growth measurements have a big bias due to tariffs on, tariffs off, tariffs on again policies wrecking imports and exports numbers. Consumer spending is up, too, so I too fail to see that gdp growth while jobs are not as up as expected is due to AI making us more productive and not just people spending more after months of increased savings due to tariffs.
by qalmakka | 2026-02-18 11:58:25+00:00
This is a pretty interesting take. If AIs have as their main knowledge base Internet contents, they're basically roleplaying as a human doing research online - they also need to be thought to think critically about whether some information _feels_ reliable or not. Are current LLMs capable of _really_ doing critical analysis or do they just pretend being able to do it?
by globular-toast | 2026-02-18 11:58:42+00:00
Yes, you have to include QA in the continuous integration process for it to work. That means at any time you can just tag the top of the master branch to cut a release, or do continuous delivery if it makes sense (so no tags at all).

It sounds like you are doing a monorepo type thing. Git does work best and was designed for multiple/independent repos.
Show HN: An AI interviewer that probes candidates (and costs $0.99/interview)
by mukulmunjal | 2026-02-18 11:58:45+00:00
Hey HN,

I am Mukul, and my co-founder Tushar and I built InterviewFlowAI (https://interviewflowai.com) to conduct conversational first-round screening interviews over phone or video.

We built this because manual phone screening is broken, especially with the current flood of AI generated resumes. Existing tools require massive enterprise contracts, so we made ours strictly $0.99 per interview.

The hardest engineering challenge was not hooking up text-to-speech. It was optimizing our system prompts so the LLM actually probes for depth. If a candidate gives a vague answer, the AI dynamically asks for specifics before generating a structured scorecard.

Our stack is React JS, Supabase, and AWS. We just crossed our first 100 users and are working hard to keep voice latency low while running these complex background evaluations.

We would love for you to tear it apart. Any feedback on the dashboard UX or how natural the interview flow feels would be amazing.
by soleveloper | 2026-02-18 11:58:45+00:00
Great write-up! There are so many directions you can take it to:

* By training on user data, you can source specific model data images, and then train & classify the airplane model. It might require another model, where only the bbox will be the input, together with distance/calculated measurements of the object ("pixel size"), and the orientation of the plane (side? front? belly?).

* Provide alerts/notification of special aircrafts like helicopters, military, airforce-1, etc'

* When bbox is detected, you can run super-resolution upscaling on the photo/stream of images
by ricardobeat | 2026-02-18 11:58:53+00:00
The main point is that the real meaning has not changed, it just became diffuse because of how often people would twist it or simply parrot words without really knowing what they are. That’s what makes it “painful to watch”.

Agile should still mean exactly the same thing as it did in the manifesto - people over process, short cycles, adaptability. You just described the same thing as the post.
by raphman | 2026-02-18 11:58:59+00:00
Huh, I thought that the MS tutorial was older. The blurry screenshot in it is from 2023.

And there ist another website with the same content (including the sloppy diagram). I had assumed that they just plagiarized the MS tutorials.
Maybe the vendor who did the MS tutorial just plagiarized (or re-published) this one?:

https://techhub.saworks.io/docs/intermediate-github-tutorial...
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-18 11:59:44+00:00
Clearly the real problem in America is the industry with the fastest growing number of jobs, along with the fastest growing salaries coming off a base where it was already one of the highest paid jobs, all numbers which don’t even include equity payments, despite this being an industry which pays far more in equity relative to any other industry.

Maybe AI changes everything, but there is no evidence that immigration has hurt Americans working in software over the past few decades given that software salaries have been growing faster than any other job in the U.S., but also (and this is critical), it’s been rising faster than salaries in any other comparable country as well, including countries with strong tech industries but limited immigration in the industry such as France (the other country with almost as high growth as the U.S. in software dev salary is the UK, which also has high immigration).
by rvz | 2026-02-18 12:00:22+00:00
This is not the first time this happened.

Here is an outage that happened due to AI written code [0] all because it also read the comments and changed the behaviour and the tests still passed. [0] Yet caused and outage.

[0] https://sketch.dev/blog/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co...
by jensenjesper | 2026-02-18 12:01:22+00:00
Hi, I’m the founder of Quantlix.

I built this because deploying models on traditional cloud platforms often feels more complicated than it should be, especially for developers who just want to run inference without setting up infrastructure, clusters, or scaling logic.

Quantlix is designed to make deployment simple:

upload model → get endpoint → done

Right now it runs CPU inference by default for portability, and I’m have prepared GPU support via dedicated nodes. It’s still early, and I’m mainly looking for honest feedback from developers.

If you try it, I’d really like to know:
what confused you, what broke, or what felt unnecessary?

Happy to answer technical questions.
by realusername | 2026-02-18 12:02:09+00:00
The proof is in the pudding at the end of the day, how many privacy scandals Debian had vs how many privacy scandals Android had? One model seems to clearly work better than the other. Talk is cheap, I like to see the results.

And to answer your question, of course they can't check everything, that's why it's a model based on trust and not a model based on verify.

What would happen if let's say VLC would upload your user documents in the background? They would get nuked out of the repository and never be seen again. That's why apps do not tend to do that.

I'm not against sandboxing and a strong technical model myself, it's just that if I have to pick between a trust model and technical features, well the trust model wins hands down 10 times out of 10 as it has a better proven track record.
by mbreese | 2026-02-18 12:02:20+00:00
I’m speculating here, but I think this is at least a plausible explanation. There is no guarantee that the pull request will be accepted. And the new commit has to live somewhere. When you require a fork, the commit is stored in the submitter’s version. If you don’t require the fork, the commit is stored somewhere in the main project repository. Personally, this is something I’d try to avoid.

I don’t know how the Agit-flow stores the commit, but I assume it would have to be in the main repo, which I’m happy to not be used for random PRs.

Requiring forks makes it more convoluted for simple quick pushes, but I can see why it would be done this way.

I suspect the real answer is that’s the way Linux is developed. Traditionally, the mai developers all kept their own separate branches that would be used track changes. When it was time for a new release, the appropriate commits would then be merged into the main repository. For large scale changes, having separate forks makes sense — there is a lot to track. But, it does make the simple use-case more difficult. Git was designed to make the complex use-cases possible, sometimes at the expense of usability for simpler use cases.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-18 12:02:28+00:00
>In the private market are there really so many companies delivering reports no one reads ?

Just this month the hospital in my municipality submitted an application to put in a new concrete pad for a new generator beside the old one that they, per the application, intend to retire/remove and replace with a storage shed on it's pad once the new one is operational.

Full page intro about how the hospital is saving the world, such a great thing for the community and all manner of vapid buzzword bullshit. dozens of pages of re-hashing bullshit about the environmental conditions, etc, etc, (i.e. basically reiterating stuff from when they built the facility), etc, etc.

God knows how many people and hours it took to compile it (we'll ignore the labor wasted in the public sector circulating and reading it).

All for a project that 50yr ago wouldn't have required 1/100th of the labor expenditure just to be kicked off. All that labor, squandered on nothing that makes anyone any richer. No goods made. No services rendered.
Show HN: CertWarden – SSL certificate monitoring app for iOS
by ismailperim | 2026-02-18 12:02:56+00:00
Hey HN! I'm the maker of CertWarden.

I'm a DevOps engineer with 15+ years of experience, and I got tired of manually tracking SSL certificate expirations across dozens of domains — both my own and my clients'. Missed renewals causing downtime is a pain nobody needs.

So I built CertWarden — a simple iOS app that monitors your SSL/TLS certificates and alerts you before they expire. The free tier covers up to 5 certificates, and Pro unlocks unlimited tracking.

Tech stack:
• Native iOS (Swift)
• Backend running on Cloudflare Workers
• Freemium model (5 certs free, Pro for more)

What's next:
• Web portal/dashboard
• Webhook & notification integrations (Slack, Discord, etc.)
• Bug fixes based on early user feedback

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and feature requests. Happy to answer any questions!
by crimsoneer | 2026-02-18 12:02:56+00:00
I mean, the flipside is that we have been tricking humans with this sort of thing for generations. We've all seen a hundred variations on
"A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?" or "If 5 machines take 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long do 100 machines take to make 100 widgets?" or even the whole "the father was the surgeon" story.

If you don't recognise the problem and actively engage your "system 2 brain", it's very easy to just leap to the obvious (but wrong) answer. That doesn't mean you're not intelligent and can't work it out if someone points out the problem. It's just the heuristics you've been trained to adopt betray you here, and that's really not so different a problem to what's tricking these llms.
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-18 12:03:56+00:00
" no socialist or communist nation has been allowed to exist without interference from the US through oppressive economic sanctions that would cripple and destroy any economy regardless of its economic system"

That is what COMECON was supposed to solve, but if you aggregate a heap of losers, you won't create a winning team.

"Socialism is not synonymous with Marxist-Leninist doctrine. It's a fairly simple core idea that has an infinite number of possible implementations, one of them being market socialism with worker cooperatives."

Of that infinite number, the violent Soviet-like version became the most widespread because it was the only one that was somewhat stable when implemented on a countrywide scale. That stability was bought by blood, of course.

No one is sabotaging worker cooperatives in Europe and lefty parties used to given them extra support, but they just don't seem to be able to grow well. The largest one is located in Basque Country and it is debatable if its size is partly caused by Basque nationalism, which is not a very socialist idea. Aside from that one, worker cooperatives of more than 1000 people are rare birds.

"The system has been teaching and conditioning people to do that for decades, but we should really be more conscious and stop doing that."

No one in the former socialist bloc will experiment with that quagmire again. For some reason, socialism is a catnip of intellectuals who continue to defend it, but real-world workers dislike it and defect from various attempts to build it at every opportunity.

We should stop trying to ride dead horses. Collective ownership of means of production on a macro scale is every bit as dead as divine right of kings to rule. There are still Curtis Yarvin types of intellectual who subscribe to the latter idea, but it is pining for the fjords. So is socialism.
by viraptor | 2026-02-18 12:05:44+00:00
> Because the format can't also be strictly defined via structured output, and you have to write it in plain words.

That's not how structured output works. Check the docs https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/struct...

The schema is enforced at the inference time. The non-confirming tokens are removed from the possible responses.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-18 12:06:29+00:00
I think we are entering the phase where corporate is expecting more ROI than they are getting, but want to remain in the arms race.

The firmwide AI guru at my shop who sends out weekly usage metrics and release notes started mentioning cost only in the last few weeks. At first it was just about engaging with individual business heads on setting budgets / rules and slowing the cost growth rate.

A few weeks later and he is mentioning automated cost reporting, model downgrading and circuit breaking at a per-user level. The daily spend where you immediately get locked within 24 hours is pretty low.
by DarkNova6 | 2026-02-18 12:06:37+00:00
Musk didn't found Tesla, he invested into it when it was small. Musk brought good marketing and gave the people who were declined at GM a platform. So far so good.

It was a success. He got more investment, built factories, became market leader. Built an industrial stack where there was none.

And gradually he got crazy. Dodgecoin, Nazi gestures, thinking he has to safe humanity because left radicaly are destroying it.

Instead of cutting down on costs, Tesla insisted it is the only electrical car and priced it as such. Not to mention the cybertruck disaster everybody saw from miiles away.

Meanwhile, the Chinese have the best electrics with the currently best industrial basis for production and cheap resources.

Musk has too much money, got lucky with an investment and started becoming complacent. The rest of the story writes itself.
by leoc | 2026-02-18 12:06:43+00:00
And NeXT was the spiritual successor to Apple's internal "Big Mac" project which never even made it to market before it was killed. (The project leader Rich Page and others started phoning the already-fired Jobs, begghing him to step in, when Big Mac was deep-sixed.) The Mac had come after the Xerox Star, which failed commercially, and the Apple Lisa, which failed commerically: then it too nearly failed commercially, until the desktop-publishing market finally came together around it. And even then industry wiseacres like John C. Dvorak had years more fun mocking it (not completely without justification) as an extravagant toy and a market also-ran.
by amavashev | 2026-02-18 12:06:45+00:00
Drift correlating more with constraint tension than raw step count matches what we’ve observed.

Your external gate instinct is right, but the gate has to be structurally external, not just logically external.
If the agent can reason about the gate, it can learn to route around it.

We’ve been experimenting with pre-authorization before high-impact actions (rather than post-hoc validation) - I've drafted Cycles Protocol v0 spec to deal with this problem.

What’s interesting is that anomalous reservation patterns often show up before output quality visibly degrades — which makes drift detectable earlier.

Still early work, but happy to compare notes if that’s useful.
by ElevenLathe | 2026-02-18 12:07:40+00:00
It costs money to have a disability: doctors, special schools maybe, time off work. If one can downplay or avoid dealing with one, poorer families will, even if not fully openly or consciously. Even in college, if you have a part time job and a full course load, how much time do you have to sniff around the ombudsman's office filling out forms?
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-18 12:07:45+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean, what does "tag a bugfix", "tag the bugfix branch" or "ensure the bugfix ends up in the remote main branch as well as the release" even mean?

What are you trying to achieve here, or what's the crux? I'm not 100% sure, but it seems you're asking about how to apply a bug fix while QA is testing a tag, that you'd like to be a part of the eventual release, but not on top of other features? Or is about something else?

I think one misconception I can see already, is that tags don't belong to branches, they're on commits. If you have branch A and branch B, with branch B having one extra commit and that commit has tag A, once you merge branch B into branch A, the tag is still pointing to the same commit, and the tag has nothing to do with branches at all. Not that you'd use this workflow for QA/releases, but should at least get the point across.
by beAbU | 2026-02-18 12:08:26+00:00
What is it about FSD that results in this valuation though?

If elon builds a time machine and goes to the future to get FSD tech from 100 years from now and rolls it out to all teslas tomorrow, what will change? Will every car driver get rid of their cars and get a tesla? Will that suddenly justify the stupid valuation?

Realistically, I don't think the majority of drivers will care that much. Sure, their sales will go up, but I can't see it going up by that much.

FSD will never be "achieved" suddenly. The tech will incrementally improve every year, across all manufacturers until one day we are manual driving only 1% of the time with FSD doing the rest. Like AGI, there is no moat in FSD. This is the natural outcome of the trajectory that we are on right now, and nothing about tesla is making me believe they will offer anything that other OEMs can't.

No, I think the market is much more cynical than that. Tesla is a meme stock similar to bitcoin or GME. Investors are degenerate gamblers, hoping that it will continue to rise because that's what it does atm, and hoping they won't be the one left behind holding the bag when it crashes one day. It's little more than a voluntary ponzi scheme that most big investors openly buy into knowing full well what's at stake.
by AussieWog93 | 2026-02-18 12:08:56+00:00
Yeah, it does seem vibecoded or at least not really qa'd, but on the flip side this produces the more or less the exact calendar template I've been looking for for a while.

I think this app really speaks to the value of AI driven coding - it's clearly less polished than what an experienced SWE would produce given several days of time but at the same time offers real value and solves a niche problem.

Thanks for sharing OP, will use the app!
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-18 12:09:10+00:00
If the “amount of semantic ablation” in a generated phrase/sentence/paragraph can be measured and compared, then a looped process (an agent) could be built that tries to decrease that..

It might come up with something original - I mean there has to be tons of interesting connections in the training data that no one’s seen before.

But maybe it’d just end up shouting at you.
by mukulmunjal | 2026-02-18 12:09:45+00:00
Hey everyone, Mukul here. To add a bit of technical context, the biggest headache we are actively navigating right now is balancing the audio latency with the time it takes the LLM to process the candidate's last answer and generate a relevant, probing follow-up.

We are currently leveraging Supabase and AWS to handle the backend routing and logic. Keeping the conversation feeling natural without awkward pauses is our absolute top priority. If anyone has experience shaving off milliseconds in real-time conversational AI setups, I am all ears.

Also, I know automated interviews can be a controversial topic when it comes to candidate experience. We really tried to make this feel like a helpful screening chat rather than a robotic interrogation. If you decide to test it out, I would love your brutal honesty on whether we are hitting that mark or totally missing it.

Happy to answer any questions!
by kmatth007 | 2026-02-18 12:10:13+00:00
HTTP 402 Payment Required has been "reserved for future use" since 1997. I built the future use.

AgentRails implements the x402 protocol: when an AI agent hits a protected API endpoint, the server returns HTTP 402 with payment requirements in an X-PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (amount, recipient wallet, network).

The agent signs an EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorization for USDC, retries with the signed payload in an X-PAYMENT header, and gets the data. No API keys, no accounts, no subscriptions. Just a wallet.

On the server side, it's a one-line attribute in ASP.NET Core:

[X402Payment(0.01, Description = "Premium API call")]
[HttpGet("premium")]
public IActionResult Premium() => Ok(new { data = "here" });

On the agent side, any HTTP client that handles 402 responses can participate. The agent parses the payment requirements, signs an EIP-3009 authorization (no gas needed — only USDC), and retries.

The server submits the transaction and returns the data.

Settlement is on Base ($0.001 per tx) or Arc OS(near-zero fees).

Why EIP-3009? The payer only signs a message — no ETH required, no gas fees. The server handles submission.

You can try it right now — the sandbox has a Swagger UI with a step-by-step walkthrough: https://sandbox.agentrails.io/swagger

Site: https://agentrails.io

Solo developer, built with Claude. Happy to answer questions about the protocol, EIP-3009 verification, or the economics of micropayment APIs.
by XCSme | 2026-02-18 12:10:14+00:00
I use structured format in many of live AI systems, maybe my point was not clear.

For some tasks it's impossible to define a JSON schema. Let's say you want the message to end with "Thank you", in any language. Should I add in my schema 200 possible endings? What about all their variations and declinations in various languages?

Sometimes you have to define in natural language how you want the output to look like.
by topocite | 2026-02-18 12:10:18+00:00
Exactly. The idea that ideas are cheap and all that matters is execution is absurd.

Imagine saying this about a great record album in music. Or any masterwork of art.

From growing up with my young brain being programmed by surrealist MTV videos, in a society driven by tiktok brains, creativity will be at an absolute premium.

Just the idea that this is a bad time for the solo developer is so uncreative that it boggles my mind but it is hardly surprising.
by amavashev | 2026-02-18 12:10:51+00:00
Per-key isolation + model locking is a solid baseline — especially for multi-tool stacks where one shared key hides everything.

One thing we’ve noticed though: spend caps stop damage, but they don’t prevent pathological behavior. By the time the cap trips, the agent has already drifted.

We’ve been experimenting with pre-authorization per action (reserve → commit style) rather than just per-key ceilings. It lets you detect anomalous patterns before the burn accumulates — especially in looping or tool-chaining scenarios.

Curious — have you seen most overruns come from loops, retries, or just high-token completions?
by Dumblydorr | 2026-02-18 12:11:18+00:00
I use the app for two things mainly: DnD DMing and sheet music. I think it’s deep but I mostly just make canvases and copy paste in images and then move those around to a useful shape. I put in tables, text, images, and all on canvases. I don’t use links really, I probably should but I use the known Folder structure to get to whichever canvas I’m working on.
by getnormality | 2026-02-18 12:13:10+00:00
Yeah, the vibe of this post is that of a 2000 Viagra spam king coming forward and telling the world "yes, but... what are good and bad, really? Who's to say what's right and wrong?"

Maybe we can't stop you today, but we can keep you on the shit list.

Lol, nothing matters? We'll see about that.