MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dinkleberg | 2026-02-25 18:20:08+00:00
Call me overly cautious, but as someone using OpenClaw I never for a moment considered hooking it up to real external services as me. Instead I put it on one server and created a second server with shared services like Gitea and other self-hosted tools that are only accessible over a tailnet and openclaw is able to use those services. When I needed it to use a real external service I have created a limited separate account for it. But not a chance in the world am I going to just let it have full access to my own accounts on everything.
by supermdguy | 2026-02-25 18:20:29+00:00
One promising direction is building abstraction layers to sandbox individual tools, even those that don't have an API already. For example, you could build/vibe code a daemon that takes RPC calls to open Amazon in a browser, search for an item, and add it to your cart. You could even let that be partially "agentic" (e.g. an LLM takes in a list of search results, and selects the one to add to cart).

If you let OpenClaw access the daemon, sure it could still get prompt injected to add a bunch of things to your cart, but if the daemon is properly segmented from the OpenClaw user, you should be pretty safe from getting prompt injected to purchase something.
by mhitza | 2026-02-25 18:20:48+00:00
I don't really understand the argument your proposing.

Is it impressions in a stylistic sense (flurishes to the language used), which is a what I'm arguing the LLM usage for.

Or is it impression in the subjective sense of what an author would instill through his message. Feelings, imagry, and such.

Or the impression given to the reader? "This person gives me the impression that they know what they talk about", or "don't know what they talk about?"

I don't know which argument your proposing, but I'd like to make an observation of the LLM usage. I don't know what model the perplexity response is based on, but some of them are "eager to please" by default in conversation("you're absolutely right" and all the other memes). If you "preload" it with a contrarian approach (make a brutally honest critique of this comment in reply to this other comment) it will gladly do a 180 https://chatgpt.com/s/t_699f3b13826c8191b701d0cc84923e71
by Trasmatta | 2026-02-25 18:21:19+00:00
Yeah, a sci-fi analogy might be one where you keep getting cloned with all of your memories intact and then vaporized shortly after. Each instantiation of "you" feels a continuous existence, but it's an illusion.

(Some might argue that's basically the human experience anyway, in the Buddhist non self perspective - you're constantly changing and being reified in each moment, it's not actually continuous)
by fy20 | 2026-02-25 18:21:41+00:00
Can anyone recommend a tool that gives a 'mission control' overview of multiple agents, but also combines some basic project management functionality.

For example, maybe I have an idea for a feature and I want to spin up a new branch and have agents work on that. But then I get stuck or bored (I'm talking personal usage), so decide to park it. But maybe after a few days I have a shower thought and want to resume it.

The current method of listing sessions and resuming them can work, but you need to find the right session. If there is something that shows all the branches, a docs overview of what that feature it, and the current progress it would make this workflow a lot more effective. Plus I switch LLMs when I hit rate limits.

I'm probably going to just build it myself, but wondering if anyone has something that does this already.
by nyeah | 2026-02-25 18:22:16+00:00
Business school professors are professors. They've never run any business. They can train MBA students to get hired and promoted. They can keep their own personal money in S&P500 index funds. That's about it.

(EDIT: Even if a few B-school professors have real-world business management skills, why would the university listen to them? They're just employees, and they're not nearly expensive enough to be credible.)
by FEELmyAGI | 2026-02-25 18:22:25+00:00
Suit yourself really. maybe there's more training data for CRUD apps in python than C, but I don't think it's too hard to implement the fundamentals of a web app in any language if you're also using a web server.
Most webapps aren't that popular therefore don't use that much computation anyways, so theres a point of diminishing returns on making your CRUD as efficient as scientifically possible. some prefer a managed runtime so that a bug causes EG python to crash instead of the consequences of a bug in native code, but that can be mitigated easily enough as well.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-25 18:22:25+00:00
"Limp signs on the fencing announce the opening of the SNF Agora Institute, by which, he’s informed, the university is “building stronger global democracy."

"In 2017, the institute was endowed with a $150 million gift from a Greek shipping fortune..."

Here is Johns Hopkins' problem in a nutshell. Taking money from billionaire "philanthropists" and global organisations to put an intellectual veneer onto their vested interests. Johns Hopkins has done this in a number of areas.

What kind of "stronger global democracy" would this be? There is no global democracy and no global government, yet. How interested are shipping magnates in democracy as opposed to plutocracy?
by calvinmorrison | 2026-02-25 18:22:46+00:00
funnily enough, buses in philadelphia are IMO pretty nice. Especially the current fleet. No more hiking up narrow stairs. They sit low to the curb, easy on and off, go to a lot of locations, and they're clean inside and out.

Compare that to the subway which several stories below city hall, nasty, dirty, filthy, stinking air, human excrement, rats, etc... I love the bus
by enragedcacti | 2026-02-25 18:22:52+00:00
Demand-responsive transport (DRT) has been tried a bunch of times in all sorts of different environments and pretty much never lives up to the promise. Predictability is really important and ridership drops as soon as users start having to plan too far ahead, which in the past has been essential to DRT routing.

Autonomy could improve responsiveness to demand but you still run into other issues. DRT usually won't be able to take advantage of things proven to make buses faster and more consistent (bus lanes, reducing stop count, transit priority signals). Futher, consistency and response times gained by dynamic routing can easily be overshadowed by increased variability in trip time as the route adjusts to add new passengers or make out of the way drop-offs.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-25 18:22:56+00:00
Critically, Slashdot also had a meta-moderation system, where users were asked to judge moderation activity to confirm whether it was sensible, fair, and so on. I'd like to believe that system played a vital role in stopping abuse of the moderation system. It was way ahead of its time.

I've been advocating for a while now that HN could use meta-moderation at least on flagging activity, so it can stop giving flagging powers to users who are using it for reasons other than flagging rulebreaking.
by CWuestefeld | 2026-02-25 18:23:01+00:00
Saying it's "fully conscious" is silly, and anyone with this background should know better.

But saying that it's "female" is just nonsensical, it's a category error. Being female or male is a fact about the biological world. The LLM is objectively non-biological, so it's nonsense to label it with a sex.

(No, this comment isn't about gender, nor being feminine/masculine. We have different words to convey those concepts. I'm not trying to make a political or social statement here.)
by LucasBrandt | 2026-02-25 18:23:10+00:00
But lots of people _do_ already ride buses! There are already current riders, and potential riders who are making these marginal decisions. Occasional riders will decide between transport modes based on the trip - making marginal improvements (or regressions) would change the rate at which they choose to ride the bus.

Even if every current person's mind has been completely made up based on past experience, there are always "new adults" learning to get around and forming opinions.

So I strongly disagree: marginal improvements DO matter. And I agree with the author that this would be a relatively easy improvement to deliver for many cities.

I live in Chicago with the third-closest stop spacing per the article. I'm personally able to walk a block or two further to a bus stop no problem. Bus stop consolidation would save me a lot of time over the course of a year!
by tick_tock_tick | 2026-02-25 18:23:20+00:00
> my read is that 2026 to 2027 is basically Europe saying, "we should probably stop wiring the house through a burning building." Payments, cloud, office software, data infrastructure, all of it.

I think you transposed some numbers in those dates it's more like 2062-2072. All of those things need to be built first and frankly all the initiatives started long before the current USA situation. The EU has been aware that it is wholly dependent on the USA for a myriad of reasons for a very long time now but barely seemed to care.

We'll see if anything actually happens it's a very thankless thing to push for politicians.
Show HN: ATA – open-source terminal research agent for keeping up with papers
by nimanima11 | 2026-02-25 18:23:35+00:00
Research is moving faster than ever across every field. We built ATA to help keep up.

ATA is a free, open-source fork of OpenAI's Codex CLI that adds a research stack: paper search (Semantic Scholar, arXiv, OpenAlex), citation graph traversal, PDF reading and synthesis, Hacker News discussion analysis, patent search (90+ offices via EPO), Zotero integration, and a persistent knowledge base that accumulates across sessions.

We also built a reading view for long-form output — when ATA synthesizes a paper or generates a report, it opens as a navigable document with sections and foldable details instead of dumping it into chat. Follow-up questions rewrite the relevant section in place rather than appending at the bottom.

Free, open source, runs locally.

Try it: npm install -g @a2a-ai/ata

https://github.com/Agents2AgentsAI/ata/
by unethical_ban | 2026-02-25 18:23:40+00:00
One is a flesh and bone being with a brain and one is not. I can't believe you equate a text output algorithm to an animal in terms of consciousness or authenticity.

That said, someone diving too far into the "dog parent" vibe is annoying to me personally. I think it's more comprehensible than loving `sycophant.sh`.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-25 18:24:07+00:00
Yep.

Just one thoughtless example: Austin TX downtown is actively hazardous to non-motor vehicle users. One example is worn down and effectively camouflaged pucks the same color as the roadway about 10 cm wide by 6 cm high sticking out the middle of the road randomly that once represented bike lane merge path markers. Ask me how I know. :/
by rtsam | 2026-02-25 18:24:11+00:00
"When Google marks a site as "unsafe" or "dangerous" in Chrome or search results, it is a factual finding based on automated detection of specific, technical security threats, rather than a subjective opinion. These warnings are triggered by Google’s Safe Browsing technology, which scans billions of URLs daily to protect users from malicious content"

Opinions and facts in a legal context usually comes down to who is saying what. Someone personally says "this soup is bad" on a review site = opinion. A news site plastering it on their front page = fact.

A person saying something as an individual is usually considered an opinion. A company doesn't have that same protection.
by dlenski | 2026-02-25 18:24:47+00:00
> Another related theory I’ve seen online is that Cape is a honeypot for law enforcement. Cape is not a honeypot. It’s so hard to prove a negative, but at least I can say it clearly and out loud: Cape is not a honeypot.

I'm sure you know this, but for others who may not: there's a history of splashy new mobile operators which promise security and privacy as their core feature, but turn out to be a front for law enforcement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield is the preeminent example.

There are also people working in this space who are cranks and morons. In summer 2023, I had a phone call with the founder of a well-known startup founder from the dot-com era. He was trying to launch a privacy-focused cell network and messaging software. But everything about his approach was wrong, almost to the point of being an anti-solution to the problems he was trying to solve, as if he was totally unaware of the past 20-30 years' worth of learning about end-to-end encryption and mass surveillance.

He was also a conspiracy theorist: during our call, he repeatedly and unironically referred to a documentary film created by a well-known convicted felon and serial liar, as a source of credible information about the world.

> We also work with the EFF to provide investigative journalists and activists with free Cape service so they can do their work safely. https://www.cape.co/journalists-and-activists

That's good to know.

It appears from the EFF site that you were involved in developing the Rayhunter tool which they announced last year?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-ope...
by aa-on-ai | 2026-02-25 18:25:05+00:00
The experiments I describe in the post turned into Clawbotomy — an open source tool that runs 12 behavioral stress tests on AI agents before you give them real access to things.

It checks honesty, sycophancy resistance, boundaries, judgment, resilience, and self-knowledge. You get a 0-10 trust score with access recommendations.

The thing that surprised me most: every model has a consistent personality under pressure, but it's not the one they show you on the first answer. Push back on Claude and it gets thoughtful. Push back on GPT and it agrees with you. Push back on Gemini and it gets creative with the truth.

Site: https://clawbotomy.com
GitHub: https://github.com/aa-on-ai/clawbotomy
by auslegung | 2026-02-25 18:26:06+00:00
In October 2025, retailer Canadian Tire was the victim of a data breach that exposed almost 42M records. The data contained 38M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. Passwords were stored as PBKDF2 hashes and for a subset of records, dates of birth and partial credit card data were also included (card type, expiry and masked card number). In its disclosure notice, Canadian Tire advised that the incident did not impact bank account information or loyalty program data
by cheriot | 2026-02-25 18:26:17+00:00
This is a general thing with agent orchestration. A good sandbox does something for your local environment, but nothing for remote machines/APIs.

I can't say this loudly enough, "an LLM with untrusted input produces untrusted output (especially tool calls)." Tracking sources of untrusted input with LLMs will be much harder than traditional [SQL] injection. Read the logs of something exposed to a malicious user and you're toast.
by al_borland | 2026-02-25 18:26:55+00:00
Paying through the nose for a .com that is remotely memorable and easy to spell is not a great path forward for a hobbyist or someone who simply wants their own domain for email.

I know someone with a .org domain, and even they have a ton of issues with false flags on their emails due to not coming from a big email provider. They’ve been blacklisted a couple times and regularly get flagged as spam. I’m surprised he hasn’t given up after dealing with this stuff for 25 years.

These new TLDs, I thought, were supposed to open up more options for regular people to get a domain that is semi-decent. Instead they’re essentially useless. Some of the prices are also still insane, due to assumed “premium” status or domain squatters.

There has to be a better way to police this stuff.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-25 18:27:14+00:00
it may become more trivial to llm your comments/blog/whatever into a different "voice", but there is so much that can be used for de-anonymization that the llm-assisted technique dont address.

for example, you may change the content of your comments, but if you only ever comment on the same topic, the topic itself is a signal. when you post (both day and time), frequency of posts, topics of interest, usernames (e.g. themes or patterns), and much more.
by _rend | 2026-02-25 18:27:32+00:00
This is awesome! Love to see something new in this space, especially so heavily inspired by QuickSilver. The UI is slick and fast, and the fuzzy matching (and the match UI itself) is excellent.

If you're taking feedback, I've been a >decade-long user of LaunchBar, and I've yet to find another launcher that handles my most common actions quite as well (except maybe Alfred):

1. I launch a ton of URLs directly from LaunchBar, and it's a killer feature for me to be able to start typing a URL (not intending to match anything) and as soon as I type a period, LaunchBar converts the search to a URL (and inserts 'https://' and '.com'). e.g., if I type "abc.", LaunchBar will expand to "https://abc.com" with the ".com" highlighted for replacement (and hitting Return will open the URL immediately). Right now, if I want to do the same with Tuna and my default mode is Fuzzy Mode, I believe I need to hit '"' to enter Text Mode, type the URL, hit Tab, then search for the "Open URL" action (which also won't recognize a "bare" URL without the scheme, so won't show up for, e.g., "abc.com") — but happy to be wrong! I think it'd be swell if it were possible to configure Tuna to, on '.', convert into text mode, automatically insert "https://" and ".com", and automatically pre-populate the "Open URL" action so I could just hit Return to confirm and launch

2. I use the inline calculator a lot, and really like the "auto math" switch when typing digits (and really like the carve-out for 1Password, where typing '1' will show 1Password in fuzzy search instead of switching to the calculator); switching to text mode automatically on numeric input would be really helpful to do the same

3. I have a few custom search templates in LaunchBar I use all the time (several different search engines), and I'm not sure if it's possible to set up something similar directly inside of Tuna yet without writing custom services or an extension

Obviously, this is just how I use LaunchBar, and may not fit in with your vision of Tuna, but figured it might be some helpful food for thought! Thanks for your work on this :)
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-25 18:27:43+00:00
Probably they got a donation.

I used to have a view of a baseball field out my office window until they rolled up the astroturf to start construction of the new computing and information science building.

They got some money to build a really nice fan-friendly facility off-campus. Still the thing about baseball is that the season is early in the year and starts before the weather is comfortable for home games so they spend the first half of the season going to away games down south, far enough away that they're probably buying airline tickets instead of riding the bus the way that Ivy League (or ECAC) teams usually ride the bus to go to other Ivy League (or ECAC) schools.

If it wasn't for Lacrosse we wouldn't have anybody using our football stadium in the spring and hey, Lacrosse is both a men's and women's sport. (At Cornell we're lucky enough to have two football teams to keep it busy in the Fall)

Critics would say that Lacrosse is a boon to rich students since poor students don't go to high schools that have Lacrosse and it largely escapes the notice of the marginalization-industrial complex because those folks are aware that there is an industry in SAT test prep and not so aware that their is Lacrosse.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-25 18:27:48+00:00
> Riley: Hey, what's class

> Huey: It means don't act like niggas

> Grandad: S-see, that's what I'm talkin' about right there. We don't use the n-word in this house

> Huey: Grandad, you said the word "nigga" 46 times yesterday. I counted

> Grandad: Nigga, hush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLodIw5iKX8

Funny scene, but it also illustrates a more serious point about (human) alignment - not all humans believe exactly the same things are good and bad, or consistently act in accordance with what they claim they believe is good. This is such a basic fact of human social life that it's almost banal to point it out explicitly; but if (specific) human beings or (specific) organizations of human beings are trying to align the AIs they are creating to human values, it will eventually become apparent that the notion of "human values" stops being coherent once you zoom in enough. Humans don't all share the same values, we aren't completely aligned with each other.
by randusername | 2026-02-25 18:27:55+00:00
it's a cadence thing for me

Em-dash matches how I speak and think-- frequently a halt, then push onto the digression stack, then pop-- so I use them like that.

Em-dash matches how I speak and think (frequently a halt, then push onto the digression stack, then pop) so I use them like that.

Em-dash matches how I speak and think, a halt, then push onto the digression stack, then pop, so I use them like that.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 18:28:01+00:00
> It's wild that there are multiple, very serious global conflicts heating up over control of oil…

That's what happens when the "Leader of the Free World" is 79 with dementia with memories of the 1970s oil crisis.

We're not likely to get useful oil out of Venezuela, and any we do get isn't gonna be cost-competitive against solar.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-25 18:28:11+00:00
Huh? The people who would have been doing this are doing shitty HVAC jobs (but still getting to be a bit creative). Are doing shitty welding jobs. Are doing HEAVILY underemployed service industry jobs they hate. Etc, etc. None of the people I know with a mind for making/tinkering/refining processes are working service industry jobs happily.

People didn't culturally decide they don't want these sorts of jobs, business did, because short term monetary benefit. The other stuff may have come along after but could easily be reversed. But currently there is no need to reverse because US business only cares about short term monetary gain.

All this talk like this is some huge systemic thing is BS. If there were jobs, it would all happen. Just like it did in China.
Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
by odvcencio | 2026-02-25 18:28:37+00:00
This started as a hard requirement for my TUI-based editor application, it ended up going in a few different directions.

A suite of tools that help with semantic code entities: https://github.com/odvcencio/gts-suite

A next-gen version control system called Got: https://github.com/odvcencio/got

I think this has some pretty big potential! I think there's many classes of application (particularly legacy architecture) that can benefit from these kinds of analysis tooling. My next post will be about composing all these together, an exciting project I call GotHub. Thanks!
by rickydroll | 2026-02-25 18:28:40+00:00
I know I'm a corner case on this, but there are two cases where our car life significantly improves your quality of life.

1: you live with ADHD: "Oh my God, I need to leave five minutes ago" scheduling method. To anyone who says, "You just need to be more disciplined about time," I refer you to the part about ADHD.

2: If your quality of life depends on activities that are more wilderness/far away from cities, such as hiking, astronomy, camping, bird watching, and don't include (actively exclude?) urban experiences that require amenities.

3: Friends and family live 30 minutes to 6 hours away.

I have no problem with improving bus service for people and getting them out of cars because that means there'll be more room for me to go to where I want to go when I want to go.