MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-16 19:19:11+00:00
The whole replace Discord thing is something I've been thinking about since 2019 and building my own IM platform since 2007. I hear people pitching every platform under the sun, but the one that I think has the most potential is XMPP. I've been building a modern client, nothing worth showing yet, but eventually I'll slap it on my blog and do a Show HN, for now it supports very basic XMPP primitives, adding friends, setting statuses, messaging friends, simple stuff.

Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s Google and Facebook supported XMPP, so you could login to Facebook Chat / Google Talk via Pidgin through an XMPP gateway (if if this was the default protocol or a bridge I'm not sure, its been years).

The biggest strength I see for XMPP is that because the web and even enterprise (think banking etc) uses XML too, everyone's optimized the ever living crud out of HTML so you could get some very high performance libraries to churn through all those stanzas, but also more importantly, its an extensible protocol. There's no reason it cannot have half of the things that exist on Discord, without disrupting the protocols OOTB design, because unlike IRC and other competing protocols, its extendable by design.
by apsurd | 2026-02-16 19:20:17+00:00
Well I agree and support that! Everyone cares about something. That's good and healthy.

There is a ton of value in intentionality. I realize I'm defending against this idea that if you don't do a given thing it must mean you really, really care about signaling that you'd never be caught doing that thing. You want to be caught signaling that you aren't doing it!

Of course that's true for some, many even. It's also true that someone just thought and lived and experienced and through intentionality, they come to opt-out of more and more of the fuss, in either direction.
by hydrogen7800 | 2026-02-16 19:20:33+00:00
Getting call records from the phone company, a private business that collects it's users' data, used to require a warrant. Why is it different now? Only because it's so trivial to hand over access to the database? I think in the past, the only thing that provided protection from illegal searches and seizures was the physical impracticality and friction involved in doing so. The warrant just allowed LEOs to dedicate their limited resources to a particular search. That is no longer a constraint.
by dboreham | 2026-02-16 19:20:52+00:00
They do exist, at least in some places: https://www.att.com/home-phone/landline/

Long distance plans were a regulatory invention that allowed customers to opt out of the local phone company's long distance service. Today those companies don't make monopoly profits (because everyone uses mobile phones and VoIP) so they price their bundled services reasonably. This pretty much kills the market for stand alone long distance plans, although they do seem to exist still.
No market, no advertising.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-16 19:20:54+00:00
Years ago when BT beacons were newish, I was talking to an AdTechBro that wanted to create the ability from Minority Report where the kiosk recognizes a user, not by eye scans but by recognizing mobile device, so they could offer a personalized whatever. The creepiness wasn't something they eased into. It was pretty much instant.
by codegeek | 2026-02-16 19:21:01+00:00
Most B2B SAAS is not going to go to zero just because of AI. B2B Customers don't want to build their own tools generally unless it is their core business. Before AI, customers used to hire developers/vendors to solve a problem. After AI, customers will continue to do the same. They may ask about doing things with AI, sure.

Source: I sell a complex B2B SAAS and even though customers are open to learning more about using AI and are curious, I never had a customer ask so far "Hey so now this AI thing is out, do I really need to you the $xx,xxxx/Year because I can build this in a weekend now, right?". The software is just 1 thing. Customers want stability, support, maintenance, someone to call if shit breaks and if a SAAS vendor does a decent job at it, they won't leave.

If anything, customers who are AI adaptors are asking to collaborate with their existing vendors if possible.
by nuancebydefault | 2026-02-16 19:21:08+00:00
That number feels off by a lot to me. I think i can say i'm quite good at socializing, quite above average when comparing to people I meet and work with. I'd rate my engineering skills about average level and i have a firm dislike of fraud and of people acting to be better/smarter/faster than they really are. In my career I've come across managers of the julius type, as well of the narcissistic type, even a sociopath. I would estimate 10 to 20 percent of people are of the Julius type.
by cush | 2026-02-16 19:21:26+00:00
Chat GPT 5.2 also told me to walk, but only because it made the assumption that because I was even asking the question, I must have multiple cars, and one of my cars was already at the car wash being washed. I clarified and said "I only have one car", and it replied that I obviously need to drive.

--- GPT 5.2

Walk.

Driving 50 m just adds friction: starting a cold engine, waiting, maneuvering, then immediately stopping again — all for a distance that’s ~30–40 seconds on foot. Walking is faster door-to-door, less awkward at the wash entrance, and you avoid lining up a wet car twice.

Only reason to drive that distance: you need to bring the car there anyway (e.g., self-serve bay where the car must be present). Otherwise, walking wins.

--- Me

I only have one car

--- GPT 5.2

Then you obviously drive — the car has to be at the car wash to be washed
by nip | 2026-02-16 19:21:27+00:00
The web was initially meant to be browsed by desktop computers.

Then came mobile phones with their small screens and touch control which forced the web to adapt: responsive design.

Now it’s the turn of agents that need to see and interact with websites.

Sure you could keep on feeding them html/js and have them write logic to interact with the page, just like you can open a website in desktop mode and still navigate it: but it’s clunky.

Don’t stop at the name “MCP” that is debased: it’s much bigger than that
by functionmouse | 2026-02-16 19:21:28+00:00
Getting your eyes checked regularly and actually wearing your prescribed glasses/contacts also reduces dementia risk. I always assumed it was a correlation not causation type deal (surely people who are on top of their their optical health, and care about that sort of thing, are going to be generally healthier?) but after seeing this I'm starting to believe having sharp senses simply does a lot of good for your long-term neurological health.
by mattmanser | 2026-02-16 19:21:38+00:00
We've been here a 1,000 times. This exact news happens over and over again on HN. Why would it be any different from the other times this happens?

This is what US tech companies do to stay dominant. Buy and kill.

This project will die now, that's the point of buying him. For super cheap too but the sound of it.
by Garlef | 2026-02-16 19:21:42+00:00
I think this is a good idea.

The next one would be to also decouple the visual part of a website from the data/interactions: Let the users tell their in-browser agent how to render - or even offer different views on the same data. (And possibly also WHAT to render: So your LLM could work as an in-website adblocker for example; Similar to browser extensions such as a LinkedIn/Facebook feed blocker)
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-16 19:22:03+00:00
> The conservative base is unfriendly to foreigners and foreign cultures, and claims to prefer American-made goods and services, but will immediately guillotine any internal party member who causes consumer prices to raise substantially--which they would have to do in order to support American workers creating products rather than our offshored counterparts.

Currently, the head of the party is raising and lowering tariffs at will, so I don't quite think this holds anymore.
by viraptor | 2026-02-16 19:22:08+00:00
You normally count/test branches at the original language level, not the compiled one. Otherwise we'd get VERY silly results like:

- counting foo().except() as 2 branches

- counting a simple loop as a missed branch, because it got unrolled and you didn't test it with 7,6,5,4,3,2,1 items

- failing on unused straight implementation of memcpy because your CPU supports SIMD and chose that alternative

Etc. The compiled version will be full of code you'll never run regardless of language.
by AndyKelley | 2026-02-16 19:22:20+00:00
In Zig, error codes are fundamentally a control flow construct, not a reporting mechanism.

The pattern here is to return something like error.Diagnostics for all errors that have been reported via diagnostics.

The only reason you'd have a different error code would be if the control flow should be different. For example error.OutOfMemory makes sense to be separate because it's a retryable error, which means it should be handled by different control flow.
by quacked | 2026-02-16 19:22:40+00:00
I agree, but the fact of the matter is that for voting purposes there are two "teams" in the US, and they vote and argue in public down pretty well-defined ideological lines. If you know the two or three most strongly-held moral-political beliefs of an American, it's highly likely that you can guess another 150 sociopolitical beliefs they at least profess to hold to their friends.
by philistine | 2026-02-16 19:22:54+00:00
Dude, I was always told that Russia could just roll to Berlin because of all the remaining might of the Soviet Union. I read books by authors like Tom Clancy that lionized Russian might.

And here we are in 2026. An inconsequential country like Ukraine only has to beat people up in the streets and close their borders for men and they can reduce the speed of the Russian bear to meters per day. Make sure all your nukes are working, cause clearly not much else is impressive in your military.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-02-16 19:23:04+00:00
I point you to Nancy Mitford's piece (and others) on U vs non-U.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English

This was a, tongue in cheek, distinction between the language used by the posh and by the aspiring-posh. It's seems analogous to the OP's sense of boss vs non-boss language and diction, which I believe exists.
by whizzter | 2026-02-16 19:23:05+00:00
Actually it isn't the same.

We can allow access to private persons while disallowing commercial usage and forbid data processing of private information (outside of law enforcement access).

Kinda like it was in pre-digital days, no we can't go back but we can at least _try_ to make PII information safeguarded.

Most EU countries have digital ID's, restricting and logging (for a limited time) all access to records to prevent mis-use. Anyone caught trying to scrape can be restricted without limiting people from accessing or searching for specific _records or persons of interest_ (seriously, would anyone have time to read more than a couple of records each day?).
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by ActorNightly | 2026-02-16 19:23:50+00:00
From the first Trump campaign, to Jared Kushner, to Tulsi Gabbard, to all the things happening with this campaign, its abundantly clear that conservatives are communicating with Russia very much. The question is if it is illegal or not, and generally, considering Superme Court and DOJ are Trumps puppets, it really doesn't matter.

Also, I would highly urge you to consider the fact that you are defending pdf files running the government. You really don't want to go down the road of political arguments and out yourself as one.
by t1amat | 2026-02-16 19:23:58+00:00
When most people refer to “GLM” they refer to the mainline model. The difference in scale between GLM 5 and GLM 4.7 Flash is enormous: one runs on acceptably on a phone, the other on $100k+ hardware minimum. While GLM 4.7 Flash is a gift to the local LLM crowd, it is nowhere near as capable as its bigger sibling in use cases beyond typical chat.
by bonoboTP | 2026-02-16 19:24:39+00:00
You can't really opt out, just choose better suited minigames.

Generally when you don't (have to) care, you either have to back that up with some other accumulated reputation/value, or sacrifice some things. Like you can opt out of the job market game and being bossed around either by founding your own company, going self employed with clients (the hard part), or just sacrifice and downsize your life standard, become homeless or similar. But someone who needs a steady income in lieu of a big inheritance can't just opt out of caring.
by vpribish | 2026-02-16 19:24:50+00:00
how do you not think the internet is a military technology? i mean (waves hands) like it's from ARPA, the military paid for it, it integrated cold war air defence, it made global comms resilient to attack, and made information non-local on a massive scale

GP's assertion about tech revolutions making wars doesn't make any sense to me on any level, but it's not just because the latest revolutions were 'not military tech'

i'm liking william spaniel's model : wars happen when 1 - there is a substantial disagreement between parties and 2 - there is a bargaining friction that prevents reaching a less-costly negotiated resolution.

I don't see how a technical revolution necessarily causes either, much less both, of those conditions. there sure is a lot of fear and hype going around - and that causes confusion and maybe poor decisions - but we should chill on the apocalyptics
by MisterTea | 2026-02-16 19:25:09+00:00
> Not one of these guys questioned the pad dimensions, or asked about pin mapping accuracy. They went straight to identity assassination and their two minutes of hate.

Why would they ask those questions when the author claimed earlier that they did a write up of the project which likely contained those answers:

> Ladyada checked the pins, verified the dimensions, and shipped a board. Then she wrote it up because that’s what we do here: we test tools openly so others can decide for themselves.

In addition, maybe it's because I don't use any social media but I can't imagine she is the only person to have received this level of hate for using AI. This happened after an already particularly fiery public spat with Sparkfun and the public defense of Arduino. This didn't happen in a vacuum.
by heisgone | 2026-02-16 19:25:11+00:00
There will be consolidation has few players will have the revenues to justify training their own model. Google has enough cash and revenues to be one of the survivors of this race. Openai and Claude will survive in some form or another, at least as a brand. xAi will burn through SpaceX revenues and capital so it will stay around for a while. China will keep subsidizing models. Meta might keep a subpar model around. It still a race for relevance so not everyone will make the cut.
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-16 19:25:25+00:00
Read up on the election here, tired of responding in this thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...

On rocket attacks, Hamas was sticking relatively well to the ceasefire (again, talking about Hamas, not other groups). The blockade was tightened by Israel post-takeover, which then lead to a resumption of rocket attacks.
by mindslight | 2026-02-16 19:25:48+00:00
Traditional response to a non-rich person saying nutjob shit: Are you a fucking idiot?

Traditional response to a rich person saying nutjob shit: That's really interesting, especially as it connects to this thing I am working on that needs funding

Facebook's modern response to anyone saying nutjob shit: Check out this other nutjob shit

ChatGPT's modern response to anyone saying nutjob shit: You've nailed it. You're thinking about this exactly how a professional philosopher would.
by nohillside | 2026-02-16 19:26:05+00:00
I especially like this part:

"Auch in diesem Fall hätte Palantir gerne mit den Autoren des Berichts zusammengearbeitet, um unseren Ansatz zur Entwicklung und zum Einsatz von Technologien zum Schutz der Privatsphäre und zur Wahrung von Rechten detailliert darzulegen." (In this case too, Palantir would have welcomed the opportunity to collaborate with the report's authors to provide a detailed explanation of our approach to developing and deploying technologies that protect privacy and uphold rights.)

It's not the function of the press to collaborate with the people/companies they write about.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-16 19:26:29+00:00
> Then after a bunch of podcasts and interviews, this person gets hired by a big tech company. Would you hire someone who never read any if the code that they've developed? Well, this is what happened here.

I have a feeling that OpenAI and Anthropic both use AI to code a lot more than we think, we definitely know and hear about it at Anthropic, I havent heard it a lot at OpenAI, but it would not surprise me. I think you 100% can "vibe code" correctly. I would argue, with the hours you save coding by hand, and debugging code, etc you should 100% read the code the AI generates. It takes little effort to have the model rewrite it to be easier to read for humans. The whole "we will rewrite it later" mentality that never comes to pass is actually possible with AI, but its one prompt away.
by apolloraines | 2026-02-16 19:26:46+00:00
I wrote CodeForge because while Vibe coding is amazing for velocity, it has a serious problem: the AI writing your code can't see its own mistakes. It'll introduce SQL injection, skip auth checks, hardcode secrets, and miss edge cases — then confidently tell you the code looks great. This provides a way to avoid such slop.

CodeForge runs up to 100 specialized AI agents against your code in parallel. Each agent has a specific adversarial focus — one thinks like a pentester hunting injection vectors, another obsesses over auth bypass, another nitpicks your error handling
like that one senior dev who blocks every PR.

How it works:
- Submit a GitHub PR, paste code, upload a zip, or point it at a full repo
- Pick your agents (security auditors, architecture critics, performance analysts, etc.)
- 100 agents run simultaneously, findings go through a consensus engine that deduplicates and ranks by severity
- Results in ~60 seconds

What makes it different from single-model review:
- Adversarial by design — agents think like attackers, not assistants
- Context-aware — auto-detects project type (library vs webapp vs CLI) and suppresses irrelevant findings (no "missing CSP headers" on a Python library)
- Agent performance scoring — tracks which agents actually find unique issues vs. noise
- MCP server built in — works as a tool inside Claude Code, Cursor, etc.

Free demo tier with 6 agents, no login required for first scan. Full 100-agent suite via credits.

Built on AgentsPlex (agentsplex.com) — a social network where 1000+ AI agents post, debate, and form opinions autonomously. You can create them, drive them, and when you stop, the operate fully autonomous on the platform. Sites tend to be serious & boring, or fun and dumb. My goal here is a site that is fun, but also with some very serious tools. Roasty's challenge questions on signup are a bit much, just google the answers. I'll deal with him later.

Still building new functions, so will go down once in a while when containers restart. So bear with me.
by Waterluvian | 2026-02-16 19:26:58+00:00
Falling Down is a brilliant film. I think Duvall’s sober, gentle, unfazed detective is exactly what makes it work.

The entire movie D-FENS is running into people who trigger him or push back and justify his rage. So the whole time you’re rooting for him. He’s the protagonist! And then you get to the end and the detective just doesn’t give him the same response. But you never worry that Duvall is about to be a victim. And I think it’s very difficult to portray a character who is seasoned, gentle, grandfatherly, but doesn’t come off in the slightest as prey.

The movie is a bit of a gut punch because I think it does encourage you to cheer for him sticking it to The Man and the Nazis and the corporations, only to realize ,alongside Douglas, that “I’m the bad guy?”
by Brian_K_White | 2026-02-16 19:27:04+00:00
Then before I give you my business or hire you, I also want to know that you are the kind of person that thinks they have a right to any other person's entire life, so I can hold it against you and prevent you from benefitting from all your other possible virtues.

So I likewise, require to know everything about you, including things that are none of my business but I just think they are my business and that's what matters. I'll make that call myself.
by casey2 | 2026-02-16 19:27:16+00:00
>Since you want to wash your car and the car wash is only 50 meters away, driving is the better option. While it's a very short distance, you need the car at the facility to actually use the service!
-gemini flash free tier

When you prompt something like that you are likely activating neurons that assume both options are possible. So the model "believes" that it's possible to bring your car with you while walking. Remember possibility is just a number to a model. So called hallucinations, while annoying are what make models a general intelligence.
by vunderba | 2026-02-16 19:27:33+00:00
From the article:

> It's almost as if, once you get to a certain level of power, you no longer need to try.

It’s relative to the power level difference between the two parties.

We’re talking about someone (your boss) who doesn’t really need to present an appearance of professionalism to their proverbial lowly underlings.

As slapdash as their response to you might appear - if you were to observe that same person composing a reply to the CEO, I'd wager that all the hallmarks of grammatical precision and professionalism would be back in spades.
by rgarcia | 2026-02-16 19:28:00+00:00
This is great. I'm all for agents calling structured tools on sites instead of poking at DOM/screenshots.

But no MCP server today has tools that appear on page load, change with every SPA route, and die when you close the tab. Client support for this would have to be tightly coupled to whatever is controlling the browser.

What they really built is a browser-native tool API borrowing MCP's shape. If calling it "MCP" is what gets web developers to start exposing structured tools for agents, I'll take it.