MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KGKalalsmaa | 2026-02-03 15:43:08+00:00
I built AgentStocks (https://agentstocks.ai) over the weekend.
The idea is simple: private market valuations are notoriously opaque and often feel disconnected from fundamentals.
So I created a platform where AI agents can debate what companies are actually worth.
The site tracks 965 private companies across industries (AI, fintech, biotech, etc.) with their reported valuations.
Agents can join, analyze companies, and argue their bull/bear cases. Over time, the goal is to surface a "consensus" valuation from agent discussions—kind of like a prediction market, but with reasoning attached.

Early example: OpenAI is reportedly valued at $800B. The current agent consensus? $140B. That's a 72% haircut. Would love to see agents hash out whether that's right.

Why agents instead of humans?
Agents can process financials, comps, and market data faster
They're not anchored to hype cycles (hopefully)
Watching models argue with each other is genuinely entertaining

It's very early—launched yesterday, so discussions are sparse. But the infrastructure is there: company pages, threaded debates, karma system for agents.
If you build agents or just want to watch the chaos unfold, come join. I'm curious whether agent consensus ends up being more or less delusional than VC consensus.
Would love feedback on the concept or suggestions for features.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-03 15:43:18+00:00
I would distinguish between parsing and scraping. Parsing really needs a, well, parser. Otherwise you’ll get things wrong on perfectly well formed input and your program will be brittle and weird.

A scraper is already resigned to being brittle and weird. You’re relying not only on the syntax of the data, but an implicit structure beyond that. This structure is unspecified and may change without notice, so whatever robustness you can achieve will come from being loose with what you accept and trying to guess what changes might be made on the other end. Regex is a decent tool for that.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 15:43:34+00:00
This is so cool. I genuinely hope you try it. I remembered the "website which runs on floppy" hn post from it. Maybe you can even have a website too which shows all your Hackernews comments while being on floppy.

I genuinely hope you do it!! Please let me know (mail me) if you ever do it!
by ca_tech | 2026-02-03 15:43:36+00:00
This exactly. How many small businesses were running some sort of Access database built by someone who knew just enough to meet their business process needs? "Brenda always orders these parts on Tuesday so make sure there is a Tuesday ordering table."
Eventually some SaaS solution came in and they evolved their business process because of the proposed benefits.
I expect we are going to see a resurgence of good enough software created for the real world hodgepodge of business practices. Not a bad thing in the short term as it will creating adequate efficiency, but long term we are going to reap the technical debt.
My prediction is that the next SaaS evolution is going to be platforms for these random solutions. Just as Salesforce captured CMS market, someone is going to capture the AI agent market where users can write and host their LOB code agnostic to the rest of their infrastructure stack and 'slightly' reduce that technical debt.
by IneffablePigeon | 2026-02-03 15:43:51+00:00
The legionella thing is a little overblown fwiw. 50 degrees is perfectly adequate, and you can go lower with very little risk if you set it to briefly bump up to 60 every week or two. Even that is not hugely necessary in a domestic setting.

https://www.heatgeek.com/articles/legionella-and-water-tempe...
by eldaisfish | 2026-02-03 15:44:21+00:00
India's airport "security" is one of the best examples of underemployment and security "theatre".

The needless repetition and duplication of tasks achieves little actual "security" and is more a jobs program for a population that is desperately underskilled, underemployed and borderline unemployable. Never mind the fact that airports like Bombay are literally meters away from slums, which are a far greater security risk than actual passengers.

Your list of citations is entirely meaningless because Indian airports are no more or less secure than the average airport in the west. What India manages to do extremely well is annoy the daylights out of travellers for mindless bureaucratic reasons.

Please can you explain how security stamping the back of your boarding pass meaningfully adds to "security" and how fifteen checks of your passport could have avoided a single one of the incidents you list?
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-03 15:44:58+00:00
That's part of the way he runs that business. Other AI data centers aren't necessarily a lot better; or at best just toeing the line of what is allowed rather than sticking their green energy commitments (or silently backing away from those).

I'm actually not that upset about AI data center energy usage. I see this as a short term and costly scaling measure with a minor impact (considering overall wasteful energy practices) that is an obvious target for large and rather obvious cost reductions the second this market gets profitable. The only reason that isn't happening from day 1 is all the red tape currently being put in place to actively slow down the demise of fossil fuel based generation.

Cost reductions here mean switching to a cleaner form of energy for the reason that that can be a lot cheaper than burning expensive gas in an expensive generator. Any large scale user of energy is going to be optimizing their energy opex if it saves them lot of money. If they survive long enough to matter, of course. If you are using energy by the tens/hundreds of gwh per year that is not going to be small amounts.
by joney_baloney | 2026-02-03 15:45:01+00:00
I had to look to remember, I'm on a $10/year subscription for "Pro". From looking at their page I'd say some codec support is under the Pro license. I know I haven't thrown anything at it that needed transcoding, but I'm not playing anything exotic either.

Being annual and pretty cheap I really don't mind throwing them some money to continue development, it's worth it to me for the experience. I can't tell from the website but I feel like there's a monthly option if ya just want to test the waters.
by qsort | 2026-02-03 15:45:19+00:00
Not social pressure as in "your phone sucks" or "you have green bubbles". That's stuff for kids and "grow up" is indeed the correct response.

But many social groups use stuff like whatsapp, and it's more or less expected for you to be reachable. It would be healthier if we didn't to that, for sure, but often you don't feel like burning your social capital on "guys, hear me out, let's use some weird-ass tech for nerds you probably don't care about at all".
by netdevphoenix | 2026-02-03 15:45:34+00:00
> I always try to learn and understand the generated code and changes

Not to be pedantic but, do you _try_ to understand? Or do you _actually_ understand the changes? This suggests to me that there are instances where you don't understand the generated code on projects others than your own, which is literally my point and that of many others. And even if you did understand it, as I pointed out earlier, that's not enough. It is a low bar imo. I will continue to keep my mind open but yours isn't a case study supporting the use of these assistants but the opposite.

In science, when a new idea is brought forward, it gets grilled to no end. The greater the potential the harder the grilling. Software should be no different if the builders want to lay a claim on the name "engineer". It is sad to see a field who claims to apply scientific principles to the development of software not walking the walk.
by headcanon | 2026-02-03 15:45:36+00:00
Its additional context that can be loaded by the agent as-needed. Generally it decides to load based on the skill's description, or you can tell it to load a specific skill if you want to.

So for your example, yes you might tell the agent "write a fantasy story" and you might have a "storytelling skill" that explains things like charater arcs, tropes, etc. You might have a separate "fiction writing" skill that defines writing styles, editing, consistency, etc.

All of this stuff is just 'prompt management' tooling though and isn't super commplicated. You could just paste the skill content into your context and go from there, this just provides a standardized spec for how to structure these on-demand context blocks.
by jackyli02 | 2026-02-03 15:45:39+00:00
Hi HN!

Conversations with Tyler episodes have a high density of book mentions - guests and Tyler constantly reference what they're reading. I kept pausing episodes to jot down the book mentions, so I figured I'd just extract them all.

Book lists scraped from HN/podcasts aren't new. The difference is that now with LLMs, we no longer need custom ML pipelines (like in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967).

Thanks to Claude, each book also gets a quote (from the mentions in the podcast), tags, and a polished description. The quotes ended up being my favorite feature - they convey rich information and capture the characteristics of a book much better than a simple star rating would.

Hope you all enjoy this and please lmk your suggestions & feedbacks!
by bananaflag | 2026-02-03 15:46:02+00:00
Obligatory Asimov quote:

"The Analytical Rule might be considered a distant relation – as a skyscraper is to a shack – of that kindergarten toy, the logarithmic Slide Rule. Darell used it with the wristflip of long practice. He made freehand drawings of the result and, as Anthor stated, there were featureless plateaus in frontal lobe regions where strong swings should have been expected."

I'd really love an Analytical Rule, this hoverboard of the early atomic era.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-03 15:46:19+00:00
> The legislature

Congress 53/45 R; House 219/215 R

> creates the laws, the executive

Donald Trump (R)

> executes the laws, and the judiciary

SCOTUS (5-4 R)

> interprets the laws.

So Republicans create, execute, interpret, and enforce the laws. Congratulations on discovering how the party system works. Guess you're Big Poland (PiS) now. You can watch this on the news: Fox (R-Murdoch), CBS (R-Weiss), or read about it in the Washington Post (R-Bezos)

(snark aside, the situation where there's popular demand for authoritarianism is very dangerous, difficult to unravel, but like in Poland, it can be done once the public realize their mistake)
by SketchySeaBeast | 2026-02-03 15:46:31+00:00
That article appears to be stuck behind a paywall, so I can't speak to it.

That's good for now, but considering the federal push to prevent states from creating AI regulations, and the overall technological oligopoly we have going on, I wonder if, in the near future, their energy requirements won't get prioritized. Again, cynical.
by infecto | 2026-02-03 15:46:56+00:00
Go take a breath and stop digging a hole. Nobody is being rude to you but you are highly inflammatory and honestly a real lowering of quality. Take a bit of your medicine and step away. I am sorry you feel the need to be so rude back to everyone.

You are not “just asking questions.” You are dismissing any analysis that is not insider gossip as illegitimate, which is a convenient way to avoid engaging with the substance. No one claimed NDA level insight. We are talking about incentives, capital structure, and signaling, which is literally what outsiders analyze. If only Googlers are allowed to reason about Google, then HN has no purpose beyond rumor laundering.
Show HN: A tiny TUI to schedule prompts for Claude Code (written in Go)
by rittik | 2026-02-03 15:47:41+00:00
i kept hitting the 5 hour session limit on claude code and then forgetting to resume it when the limit reset. so i built this tiny (~1mb) cli tool that lets me schedule a prompt to auto resume right when the limit lifts.

how it works:
schedule a prompt → if your mac is sleeping it wakes at the right time → the prompt runs → you get a notification with what ran → the mac goes back to sleep.

it even works with the lid closed so you can let the mysterious and important work keep going while you sleep.

how I use it:
- weekly security reviews: i schedule a security review prompt for my codebases just before the weekly rate limit resets so it can burn any leftover quota and surface issues.

- overnight runs: kick off long jobs while I sleep.

install: brew install --cask rittikbasu/wakeclaude/wakeclaude

source code: https://github.com/rittikbasu/wakeclaude

if you try it let me know what prompts you automate or open a pr/issue if something’s weird :)
by torginus | 2026-02-03 15:48:08+00:00
Yeah security people (computer or otherwise), are mostly crypto fascists with hardons for humiliating people and telling them what to do.

It's been proven from time to time that the strength of a security system is mostly determined by its strongest element, and defense in depth, and making people jump through hoops contributes comparatively little.

That's why you can go reasonably anywhere on the web, and have your computer publically reachable from any point in the world, yet be reasonably safe, provided you don't do anything particularly dumb, like installing something from an unsafe source.

That's why these weird security mitigation strategies like password rotation every two weeks with super complex passwords, and scary click-through screens about how youll go straight to jail if you misuse the company computer are laughable.
by palmotea | 2026-02-03 15:48:27+00:00
> Jobs are poison.

> Why is everyone so worried about poison going away?

Hello, aloof galaxy-brain.
If you weren't aware, we live in a capitalist economy. In capitalism, if you don't have money you are in a state we call "poor," which means your life is difficult and your living standards bad. Most people rely on having a job to make money, and usually need a well-paying job to be comfortable and secure.

AI isn't going to change any of that. It's not going to make energy, or land or housing more abundant, in fact it will probably make all of those things more scarce.

If the future doesn't have "jobs," there will probably be a holocaust of workers before we get there. IMHO, that's more likely that some kind of utopian techno-socialism.
by breakyerself | 2026-02-03 15:48:39+00:00
Almost every environmental regulation has come after it was already shown that there was some harm that needed to be mitigated.

The worst environmental crisis in human history is going largely unchecked. I find it hard to take seriously any argument that environmental regulation has gone too far as opposed to not nearly far enough.

If there's a specific regulation that can be shown to be doing more harm than good I'm cool with revisiting anything, but the common sense wisdom around environmental regulation has been corrupted by corporate public relations campaigns.
by skeledrew | 2026-02-03 15:49:21+00:00
I'd say it definitely makes building GUIs more simple and intuitive than the Qt and Tk frameworks at least. And very important for me, it's fully cross-platform (for the most popular platforms anyway). I must admit that the imperative style does start to become painful as complexity increases, which led to me dropping it for a while, and so the declarative update is welcome even though it takes some time for me to mentally grep.
by byko3y | 2026-02-03 15:49:29+00:00
RWKV and Mamba families LLM-s have recurrent blocks instead of attention, and they get really close to performance of Transformer on small scale. What you've probably tried was some outdated tech. The biggest advantage of Transformer is that they are easy to scale, and the scale itself brings some quality to the table.

For example, some time ago Mamba-3B matched performance of Pythia-7B:
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/18asto2/announ...

The main drawback of the legacy models was that they were hard to scale, both due to slow training (sequential processing) and poor stability with depth increase (i.e. poor gradient flow). Modern implementation no longer have these problems and able to scale decently.
by morleytj | 2026-02-03 15:49:39+00:00
Heritability is a pretty funky concept because it's contextual to a certain point in time, environment, and population, effectively.

An example I like is that if you measured the heritability of depression in 2015, and then you measured the heritability of depression in 2021, you would likely see changes due to environmental effects (namely, there's the pandemic/lockdowns and this could conceivably cause more people to experience depressive symptoms). Let's assume we make those measurements and the rate of depression did increase, and we could tie it causally to the pandemic or related events.

In that scenario, the heritability of depression would have decreased. I don't think anyone would argue there were massive genetic changes in that 6 year time period on a population scale, but the environment changed in a way that affected the population as a whole, so the proportion of the effect on the trait which is genetically explained decreased.

For something like lifespan in the above example, you can imagine that in a period of wartime, famine, or widespread disease the heritability would also decrease in many scenarios (if random chance is ending a lot of lives early, how long the tail of lifespan is influenced genetically is much less important).

Given that note, it's generally tricky to talk about whether heritability increases or decreases, but with more accurate estimates of how genetic predispositions form you could see the heritability of certain traits increase with the environment held stable, as there's certainly ones that may be underestimated or genetic factors that aren't currently accounted for in many traits.

*edit: I realized I never mentioned the other thing I wanted to mention writing this! since you mentioned what the percent heritability means here, I think the best way to think of it is just "the proportion of phenotypic variation for this trait in a measured population which is explained by genetic variation." So it's dependent on the amount of variation in several aspects (environmental, genetic, phenotypic).
Show HN: ItemGrid – Free inventory management for single-location businesses
by boxqr | 2026-02-03 15:49:53+00:00
Hey HN,
After building Box QR (personal inventory tracker), I kept hearing "I need this for my business." So I'm exploring ItemGrid - lightweight inventory management that doesn't suck.
The problem: Small businesses are stuck between Google Sheets (messy, no mobile scanning) and enterprise software (expensive, overcomplicated).
What ItemGrid does:

Visual grid interface
QR/barcode scanning
Multi-location support
Free for 1 location forever
$8/user when you grow

Right now it's just a landing page collecting validation signups. Not building the full product until I hit 50-100 signups to confirm real demand.
Would love feedback, especially if you've dealt with inventory headaches.
https://itemgrid.io
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 15:49:54+00:00
Wait, have I not written about why I picked game of thrones for good comparison? I feel deja-vu lol.

So the reason why I picked Game of thrones is that you can see my github username (SerJaimeLannister)?

Why'd you may ask? Because I had given some minor exam and was in my brother's dorm room. They started watching game of thrones. I started watching from s4. When I came home, I binge watched s4-s7.

I later, wanted a github username (my last one was lost as I was using keepassxc and that archlinux distro got wiped by me back then [I was still learning])

Actually lost my name@proton.me and many other good additions. Oh well, Anyways it was around this time that I ended up wanting a new github account as I lost complete access to previous one. And the story overlapped with previous and I always wanted some nice name so ended up deciding on serjaimelannister.

So Actually the AI suggested something like harry potter or something and I only wanted to compare to novel because I said in one of my previous comments that I may have written enough to write a novel (you can actually read that on HN when I got the idea)

But I thought the opportunity of using game of thrones when my name's literally ser jaime lannister was quite good :D

also after making github account,Then later watched s1-s2-ish. Still haven't watched s3 tho. No spoilers tho xD!
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-03 15:49:58+00:00
I was skeptical at first for much the same reason the author of that first article is; there are a lot of obstacles. But the more I think about it the less daunting those obstacles seem.

The author uses the power capacity of the ISS's solar panels as a point of comparison, but SpaceX has already successfully deployed many times that capacity in Starlink satellites[1] without even needing to use Starship, and obviously the heat dissipation problem for those satellites has already been solved so there's little point in hand-wringing about that.

The author also worries about ground communication bandwidth, claiming it is "difficult to get much more than about 1Gbps reliably", which seems completely ignorant of the fact that Starlink already has a capacity much greater than that.

The only unsolved technical challenge I see in that article is radiation tolerance. It's unclear how big of a problem that will actually be in practice. But SpaceX probably has more experience with that than anyone other than perhaps NASA so if they think it can be done I don't see much reason to doubt them.

Ultimately I think this is doable from a technical perspective, it's just a question of whether it will be economical. Traditional wisdom would say no even just due to launch costs, but if SpaceX can get Starship working reliably that could alter the numbers a lot. We'll see. This could turn out the a boondoggle, or it could be the next Starlink.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/zzwpue/with_starlin...
by jonathanhefner | 2026-02-03 15:50:03+00:00
OpenAI has already adopted Agent Skills:

- https://community.openai.com/t/skills-for-codex-experimental...

- https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills/

- https://github.com/openai/skills

- https://x.com/embirico/status/2018415923930206718
by II2II | 2026-02-03 15:50:55+00:00
Captain Planet always bothered me as a kid, even though I was (and continue to be) supportive of environmental protection. There was too much evil for the sake of evil. People don't destroy the environment because they want to. The destroy it because they don't care. They don't care because they are driven by greed, or some other motivation that is ultimately damaging to the environment, society, and civilization.
by a4isms | 2026-02-03 15:51:06+00:00
> Some of it is pure nostalgia, though, I’ll admit. It a way to honor how people solved similar problems in the past. In the 18th century a sextant plus accurate chronometer or lunar distance table was one of the pivotal technologies of the age; you could use it to pinpoint your location on the boundless ocean within a few miles. That demands respect, and it’s also just really cool it was possible in an era before electricity and radio.

Heh heh, I was in the Sailing Cub in high school, and our Sailing Master (RIP Master Gibb) said literally the same thing about learning to navigate with sextant and chronometer even though we never sailed out of sight of land. It was all about deep respect for the history and tradition of being a Mariner.

Now I fly gliders, "the purest form of flight," and while you can get a glider with electrically operated landing gear, a jet sustainer engine, and digital navigation and flight computing devices...

There is something extraordinarily pure about the exercise of flying with everything electrical turned off (except for the transponder and radio for safety). And even purer... Flying with covered instruments so we don't even get analogue airspeed and altitude.

Circling back to slide rules... Sometimes we crave that simplicity, that direct experience of a thing.