MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by borroka | 2026-02-15 22:37:46+00:00
After two weeks of viral posts, articles, and Mac Mini buying sprees, as it's happening up to now for every AI product that was not an LLM, it kinda disappeared from the consciousness-- as well as from the tooling, probably--of people.

A couple of months ago, Gemini 3 came out and it was "over" for the other LLM providers, "Google did it again!", said many, but after a couple of weeks, it was all "Claude code is the end of the software engineer".

It could be (and in large part, is) an exciting--and unprecedented in its speed--technological development, but it is all so tiresome.
by eszed | 2026-02-15 22:38:09+00:00
I agree with this. Ranked choice is easy to explain to a naive voter: everyone understands how a preference order works, and the result is "the candidate more people like the most". Counting the votes is (a bit) complicated, but I think the (minority of) people who get excited by implementation details out-smart themselves, by worrying that most people won't understand the details. Of course most people won't understand the details, because they don't care about the details. They don't know how votes are tallied now!

My position admittedly breaks down when people lie to low-information voters about the fairness of the process - but, in my defence, people will lie about any system that doesn't produce the results they want. I'd prefer they lodge their objections to a better system than first-past-the-post.
by Tade0 | 2026-02-15 22:38:44+00:00
Basically this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67226394

It's a region-locked subscription available in the EU and a few other countries. Before that they were intensifying efforts to derail adblockers, which already made the site painful to use (and, ironically, easier drop entirely). Personally I had issues loading the feed and posting comments, but until it occurred to me to disable uBlock for a moment, I was chalking it up to "move fast and break things" (emphasis on the latter).
by Ampned | 2026-02-15 22:39:17+00:00
It’s not like Anthropic or OpenAI were not working on “AI assistants” before OpenClaw, it’s pretty much the endgame as I can see it. This guy just single handedly released something useful (and very insecure) before anyone else. Although that’s impressive, I don’t see more than an acquisition of the hype by OpenAI.
by jackhalford | 2026-02-15 22:39:40+00:00
I was thinking of using this to tunnel all of my public sites, do hide my home ip. But in the end whats the issue of showing my home ip? The attack surface stays the same. I just reverse proxy everything through Caddy.

Also weren’t some feature gated behind the cloud version? An appeal for this to replace cloudflare tunnels and tailscale funnel is the _fully_ opensource aspect
by appplication | 2026-02-15 22:40:05+00:00
We’re in a hype state where someone can “generate” millions of dollars in value in a month by making a meme prototype that scratches the itch just right, despite having no real competitive moat, application, value proposition or even semblance of a path to one.

The guy is creative, but this is really just following the well known pattern of acquiring/hiring bright minds if only to prevent your competition from doing the same.
by mrsssnake | 2026-02-15 22:40:18+00:00
> The Enterprise Edition is also open-source under the commercial license which enables free personal/small business use.

Open Source can be pair or commercial. But the license of these software Enterprise Edition, called "Fossorial Commercial License", is not Open Source.
You tell who and how can use the software after the share/sell and call it Open Source.

The main site also advertises "Self Host: Enterprise Edition" as being "100% Open Source" which is simply not true and false advertising.
by Cluelessidoit | 2026-02-15 22:41:14+00:00
The IOS keyboard (literally as I type this) is a fucking pile of shit. It used to be so good (iOS 10, idk or some shit) it’s absolutely awful now. It doesn’t correct words, it doesn’t suggest correct spelling, it’s not intuitive at all. In fact, the only place where ai should thrive and be implemented is fucking texting/type
by Multiplayer | 2026-02-15 22:41:37+00:00
Potentially amazing opportunity for OpenAI to more meaningfully compete with Claude Code at the developer and hobbyist level. Based on vibes it sure seemed like Claude Code / Opus 4.6 was running away with developer mindshare.

Peter single handedly got many of us taking Codex more seriously, at least that's my impression from the conversations I had. Openclaw has gotten more attention over the past 2 weeks than anything else I can think of.

Depending on how this goes, this could be to OpenAI what Instagram was to Facebook. FB bought Instagram for $1 billion and now estimated to be worth 100's of billies.

Total speculation based on just about zero information. :)
by borroka | 2026-02-15 22:41:57+00:00
You don't believe the current version of Claude Code will be able to write complex software on its own.

On the one hand, there is a lot of hype, an incredible amount, actually, but on the other, we have been observing in real time a technological miracle that gets better by the week.

We have no idea what, five years from now, the coding agent will be able to develop.
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-02-15 22:41:59+00:00
> Only way to save Earth is to stop the Wall Street greed machine.

Wall Street here is a boogie man.

Using resources to make life better is actually good. And we keep getting better at it, and doing so in more sustainable and efficient ways.

And if it’s not - you fundamentally believe technology is not beneficial. Then all of industrial society needs to be reversed.
by illichosky | 2026-02-15 22:42:25+00:00
The guy already sold his previous company for a shitload of money. Got bored and did a side project that stirred the Internet on the past month. That is way more than most people here are going to accomplish in a lifetime. Yet, he has some deal with OpenAI to work on whatever he things exciting. I don't see why so much negative comments here other than jelously
by keernan | 2026-02-15 22:42:29+00:00
As a trial attorney for more than 40 years, I'd say these are examples of egregious illegal surveillance of American citizens by the current government:

1. A retired US citizen emailed a DHS attorney urging mercy for an asylum seeker he had read about. Five hours later he received an email from Google advising him the federal government had served Google with a subpoena demanding information about him. Then they followed up by knocking on his door.
The federal government's concerted effort to intimidate citizens should concern every American.

https://archive.ph/b9ON8

2. NYT: https://archive.ph/W5FwO ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants

A memo from a Department of Homeland Security official reviewed by CNN and sent to agents dispatched to Minneapolis last month asked them to “capture all images, license plates, identifications and general information” on “agitators, protesters, etc. so we can capture it all in one consolidated form.” And the official reportedly provided such a form, called “intel collection.”

3. Moreover, ICE officers have traveled to the homes of protesters. Not to arrest them, because they have done nothing illegal. Rather, ICE was trying to intimidate them by letting them know ICE knows who they are and where they live. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/minneapolis-ice-agents
by dang | 2026-02-15 22:42:54+00:00
Recent and related (in reverse order):

An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949 - Feb 2026 (602 comments)

AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008617 - Feb 2026 (28 comments)

The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006843 - Feb 2026 (125 comments)

An AI agent published a hit piece on me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729 - Feb 2026 (945 comments)

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 - Feb 2026 (746 comments)
by mekod | 2026-02-15 22:43:18+00:00
OpenClaw was one of the more interesting “edges” of the open AI tooling ecosystem — not because of scale, but because of taste and clarity of direction.

What’s fascinating is the pattern we’re seeing lately: people who explored the frontier from the outside now moving inside the labs. That kind of permeability between open experimentation and foundational model companies seems healthy.

Curious how this changes the feedback loop. Does bringing that mindset in accelerate alignment between tooling and model capabilities — or does it inevitably centralize more innovation inside the labs?

Either way, congrats. The ecosystem benefits when strong builders move closer to the core.
by bdangubic | 2026-02-15 22:43:26+00:00
it is not complicated at all if you have resolve and understand what the ramifications of not doing anything are. I quit all social media 6 years ago, thought it would be hard, took about a week total to not even think about it. had same “trouble” in school with whatsapp groups and whatnot, threatened to sue, everything got moved to the SMS within a week………
by cies | 2026-02-15 22:43:27+00:00
Very weird comparison.

GPL was made in response to restrictive commercial licensing. Yes is uses the same legal document (a license): but is made in response!

So is propriety seizes to exist, then it's not a problem GPL also seizes to exist.

Also: it's quite obvious to me that IP-law nowadays too much. It may have been a good idea at first, but now it's a monster (and people seem to die because of it: Aaron Swartz and Suchir Balaji come to mind).
by hinkley | 2026-02-15 22:43:46+00:00
Well remember that how your voice sounds to you isn’t what other people hear.

But I’m the guy who blurts out how the voice actor for the gate guard played the brother in that movie with that guy. And I can hear what he’s complaining about. There’s a lot of elements of his voice and the tempo is pretty close.

)usually it’s the tempo and certain phonemes that give people away to me when they are doing a different accent)
by mindslight | 2026-02-15 22:44:01+00:00
It sounds like you just don't like protests?

Of course it is going to seem like everyone is unprincipled when you assume that to start. It's taken us what, three comments here for you to admit to yourself that I'm coming from a principled place? Three comments of you writing off everything I am saying as if I am only saying it in bad faith to try and manipulate you, rather than as part of some consistent worldview that might help explain all of the opposition you see.

And then even after that, rather than accepting it and maybe seeing that some productive understanding could be had, you launched right back into firing off a bunch of wild partisan assertions - presumably hoping that I won't continue to walk the principled tightrope as perfectly, and you can go back to writing me off!

I'll be first in line to criticize how pathetically captured the Democratic party is. I'm not and never have been a Democrat - I just begrudgingly vote conservative now that open fascism is upon us. The Democrats thought they could phone it in in 2024, just like they were able to do in 2020. Their current strategy seems to be pointing out "this is really bad!", but never sticking with it to make a solid stand - just the occasional glimmer of inspired opposition, that is then left to sputter out. Lazily hoping that in 2026/2028 things can somehow go back to business as usual. I actually think the appalling lack of any sort of discussions about how we can possibly rebuild all of our societal institutions that Trump has burnt down is one of the most appalling things about our current situation.
by lambdathoughts | 2026-02-15 22:44:37+00:00
Author here. I've been a developer for 20+ years and have been practicing Stoicism and studying the Bhagavad Gita for most of them. This is a weekly series that applies both traditions to the actual daily reality of building software — not as inspirational platitudes, but as practical frameworks for production incidents, code reviews,
career decisions, team dynamics, and burnout.

The two traditions converge more than you'd expect. Marcus Aurelius's dichotomy of control maps directly to the Gita's karma yoga. The Gita's "lamp in a windless place" is the best description of flow state I've ever read. Both were written by people under extreme pressure making high-stakes decisions — which, depending on your on-call rotation, you might relate to quite a bit.

The first 5 weeks are free. The writing style is... opinionated. There are jokes. Some of them are about Kubernetes.

Happy to answer questions about the series, the philosophy, or why I think the tech industry desperately needs frameworks for the inner life that aren't just "practice gratitude and drink more water."
by alterom | 2026-02-15 22:45:08+00:00
>You think this post was written because of the Discord stuff in the news?

What a preposterously audacious proposition: to think that an article that describes Discord as a "a finely-tuned system that delivers speed, scale, and reliability" (that's a goddamn chat app, glorified IRC) and casts Discord in good light, written while Discord is experiencing a major scandal, might not be entirely unrelated to the scandal.

More so when the said article offers no concrete details about Discord, instead wildly extrapolating from a few quotes from executives, making assumptions, and talking about what could have been done, all in a way that might as well have been ChatGPT's output.

Yeah, we think that shifting the focus from "Discord stuff in the news" (which is: forcing ID verification and face scans while having connections to Peter Thiel's surveillance business), something that benefits both Discord and Thiel, is quite a likely reason for glowing technical articles about Discord taking off on HN all of a sudden.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-15 22:45:11+00:00
Obviously, all the people that disagree with your framing and see AI as the largest possible boost to mankind, giving us more assistance than ever.

From their standpoint, it's all the negativity that seems crazy. If you were against that, you'd have to have something wrong with you, in their view.

Hopefully most people can see both sides, though. And realize that in the end, probably the benefits will be slow but steady (no "singularity"), and also the dangers will develop slowly yet be manageable (no Skynet or economic collapse).
by mjr00 | 2026-02-15 22:45:40+00:00
... Why would they pay 9 figures? It's not like Openclaw required specialized PhD-level knowledge held by <1000 people in the world to build, and that's what Meta and the other AI labs are paying ludicrous salaries for. Openclaw is a cool project and demonstrates good product design in the AI world, but by no means is a great product manager worth 1 billion dollars.
by glenpierce | 2026-02-15 22:45:46+00:00
This gets complicated when you need to start giving your kids some degree of independence. I would also argue this could be implemented in a more accessibility-oriented approach.

Also, not all 13-year-olds are of equal level of maturity/content appropriate material. I find it very annoying that I can’t just set limits like: no drug-referencing but idgaf about my kid hearing swear words.

On other machines:
I do not want certain content to ever be displayed on my work machine. I’d like to have the ability to set that.
Someone who has specific background may not want to see things like: children in danger. This could even be applied to their Netflix algorithm. The website: does the dog die, does a good job of categorizing these kinds of content.
by gildas | 2026-02-15 22:45:48+00:00
The call to window.stop() stops HTML parsing/rendering, which is unnecessary since the script has downloaded the page via HTTP and will decompress it as-is as a binary file (zip.js supports concatenated payloads before and after the zip data). However, in my case, the call to window.stop() is executed asynchronously once the binary has been downloaded, and therefore may be too late. This is probably less effective than in your case with gtwar.

I implemented this in the simplest way possible because if the zip file is read from the filesystem, window.stop() must not be called immediately because the file must be parsed entirely. In my case, it would require slightly more complex logic to call window.stop() as early as possible.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-15 22:46:20+00:00
It's going to be pretty short. Proton would be there for comms, for hosting related stuff I would trust Hetzner before any big US based cloud company. For the AI domain I wouldn't trust any of the big players, they're all just jockeying for position and want to achieve lock-in on a scale never seen before and they have all already shown they don't give a rats ass about where they get their training data and I expect that once they are in financial trouble they'll be happy to sell your private data down the river.

Effectively you can trust all of the companies out there right up until they are acquired and then you will regret all of the data you ever gave them. In that sense Facebook is unique: it was rotten from day #1.

Vehicles: anything made before 2005, SIM or e-SIM on board = no go.

I'm halfway towards setting up my own private mail server and IRC server for me and my friends and kissing the internet goodbye. It was a fun 30 years but we're well into nightmare territory now. Unfortunately you are now more or less forced to participate because your bank, your government and your social circle will push you back in. And I'm still pissed off that I'm not allowed to host any servers on a residential connection. That's not 'internet connectivity' that's 'consumer connectivity'.
by mgilroy | 2026-02-15 22:47:03+00:00
I think it's a reasonable idea. It's mostly going to affect the "luxury" brands who attempt to limit price reductions.

Perhaps it might encourage producers to do smaller runs to confirm interest before massively increasing volumes. The real issue is to get the lowest price you need to hit minimum volumes. It's cheaper currently to burn unused stock than store it for next year. This may change that model. If it doesn't work it can always be changed.
by altdata | 2026-02-15 22:47:17+00:00
The Number Everyone Gets Wrong
Software engineering job postings are up 13.5% from 2023 to 2025.

So is the doomer narrative about job postings overblown? The fact is, AI isn’t killing software engineering — hiring is growing, share of total Software Engineering job postings is climbing.

Except it isn’t. Because here’s the other number: the equal-weighted average across 11 industry sectors shows SWE postings down 11.3% over the same period. Both numbers are simultaneously true.

How is that possible? Because in a classic case of Simpson’s paradox, two sectors — Technology and Financial Services — are so large and growing so fast that they completely mask what’s happening everywhere else.

We analyzed 45.4 million job postings across 37 months (January 2023 through January 2026), spanning 4,000+ companies and 11 industry sectors, sourced from the Revealera jobs database. The data tells a story that’s more nuanced — and more interesting — than either the doomers or the optimists are getting right.

The real signal isn’t SWE decline or SWE growth. It’s AI-SWE convergence. And it’s accelerating.
by ramathornn | 2026-02-15 22:47:38+00:00
Congrats to Peter!

Can any OpenClaw power users explain what value the software has provided to them over using Claude code with MCP?

I really don’t understand the value of an agent running 24/7, like is it out there working and earning a wage? Whats the real value here outside of buzzwords like an ai personal assistant that can do everything?
by saulpw | 2026-02-15 22:49:17+00:00
I've heard the arguments for approval voting, and I'm sure it's all the things you mention and more, but people don't get it. I don't get it. I don't want to vote for both Hillary and Bernie. I want to vote for Bernie, and then only if Bernie can't win, would I let my vote go to Hillary. You can explain to me until you're blue in the face why approval is strictly better even in this situation, but I am emotionally attached to my vote counting for Bernie more than any other candidate, so reason isn't going to work on my lizard brain.

I know, it sucks. Politics is terrible. But we have some momentum behind RC/IRV so we should use it and stop the single-vote FPTP system that's plagued us for centuries. Anything is better than that. So let's join forces and get behind whatever has momentum even if it's not technically the best.
by paxys | 2026-02-15 22:49:26+00:00
Disappointing TBH. I completely understand that the OpenAI offer was likely too good to pass up, and I would have done the same in his position, but I wager he is about to find out exactly why a company like OpenAI isn't able to execute and deliver like he single-handedly did with OpenClaw. The position he is about to enter requires skills in politics and bureaucracy, not engineering and design.
by throw444420394 | 2026-02-15 22:49:46+00:00
What to understand of this whole story:

This is a vibe coded agent that is replicable in little time. There is no value in the technology itself. There is value in the idea of personal agents, but this idea is not new.

The value is in the hype, from the perspective of OpenAI. I believe they are wrong (see next points)

We will see a proliferation of personal agents. For a short time, the money will be in the API usage, since those agents burn a lot of tokens often for results that can be more sharply obtained without a generic assistant. At the current stage, not well orchestrated and directed, not prompted/steered, they are achieving results by brute force.

Who will create the LLM that is better at following instructions in a sensible way, and at coordinating long running tasks, will have the greatest benefit, regardless of the fact the OpenClaw is under the umbrella of OpenAI or not.

Claude Opus right now is the agent that works better for this use case. It is likely that this will help Anthropic more than OpenAI. It is wise, for Anthropic, to avoid burning money for an easily replicable piece of software.

Those hypes are forgotten as fast as they are created. Remember Cursor? And it was much more a true product than OpenClaw.

Soon, personal agents will be one of the fundamental products of AI vendors, integrated in your phone, nothing to install, part of the subscription. All this will be irrelevant.

In the mean time, good for the guy that extracted money from this gold mine. He looks like a nice person. If you are reading this: congrats!

(throw away account of obvious reasons)
by keernan | 2026-02-15 22:49:51+00:00
As a trial attorney for more than 40 years, I'd say these are examples of egregious illegal surveillance of American citizens by the current government:

1. A retired US citizen emailed a DHS attorney urging mercy for an asylum seeker he had read about. Five hours later he received an email from Google advising him the federal government had served Google with a subpoena demanding information about him. Then they followed up by knocking on his door.
The federal government's concerted effort to intimidate citizens should concern every American.

https://archive.ph/b9ON8

2. NYT: https://archive.ph/W5FwO ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants

A memo from a Department of Homeland Security official reviewed by CNN and sent to agents dispatched to Minneapolis last month asked them to “capture all images, license plates, identifications and general information” on “agitators, protesters, etc. so we can capture it all in one consolidated form.” And the official reportedly provided such a form, called “intel collection.”

3. Moreover, ICE officers have traveled to the homes of protesters. Not to arrest them, because they have done nothing illegal. Rather, ICE was trying to intimidate them by letting them know ICE knows who they are and where they live. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/minneapolis-ice-agents