MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2026-02-18 21:58:58+00:00
I don't know that work, but I agree with you in general because of forewords etc. Or even appendices. And translations by different translators.

I "grew up with" a specific translation of Lord of the Rings into Norwegian, for example. There are two. They are very different. But the editions also differ in whether they include the appendices, whose illustrations are used, and more.
by pmarreck | 2026-02-18 21:59:57+00:00
I don't understand this attitude. Some humans have to eat and put a roof over their heads sometimes, and extracting consulting fees from open-source work (i.e. the Redhat model) is not always a paying business model. A hybrid model is often the best way to compromise.

Disclaimer: I'm pursuing a similar solution on an app I'm working on. The CLI will be free and open-source (and will have feature parity with the GUI), but charging money for the GUI will also help support that development (and put my son through school etc.)
by phkahler | 2026-02-18 22:00:35+00:00
>> Have you calculated the water vapor generated from air travel, and compared that to the water vapor already generated by the water cycle?

I've SEEN the effects with my own eyes. You can also see contrails seeding cloud formation on some days. Then there's the fact that these extra clouds are formed and dissipate on a 24 hour cycle, so part of the day they let in sunlight and part of the night they trap heat. These effects are significant and there is little research on the bigger picture effects of this (that I've seen).
by wtallis | 2026-02-18 22:00:58+00:00
I think that particular definition of "on chip" is entirely your invention. I've usually seen it broadly used for anything on-package, whether it's on-die or on a separate die within the same package. "On chip" definitely does not have much if any history of referring specifically to stacked dies with TSVs, because that has been a very niche packaging technique until recently, and "on chip" is a much more broadly used term.
by OldSchool | 2026-02-18 22:01:22+00:00
The way I saw it in 1995 was that Delphi was the fastest way to create a full windows desktop app and do it as single compiled-to-native-code executable at that critical time it was released. The slightly-later 32-bit version was powerful and gave your app some staying power; a Delphi-generated executable file would likely still run today.
by scottyah | 2026-02-18 22:01:40+00:00
First, there's no way to track that.

Second, that doesn't hold true for other assets like mortgages so why would it apply here?

Third, the lender reaaaally should not be telling anyone what career they should do.

Fourth, If the lender and school made no claims that any degree would guarantee extra earnings, why on earth would they need to disclose the opposite? If you saw any marketing copy that claimed you'd be guaranteed more money you can definitely sue for false advertising.

At the end of the day, neither of those industries are guilty of more than helping rumors spread. There may be a specific person who felt ok to lie to you, but it wouldn't make it past their legal department.
by KittenInABox | 2026-02-18 22:01:48+00:00
I agree with this in general but with caveats. For example I think reading national-sized news every day sucks. But if you're of a specific demographic it might be useful to keep pretty up to date on nuanced issues, like if you're a gun owner you will probably want to keep up to date on gun licensing in your area. Or if you're a trans person it's pretty important nowadays to be very aware of laws being passed to dictate your legally going to whatever bathroom or something.
by muvlon | 2026-02-18 22:02:04+00:00
They are quite literally negotiable: https://isrg.formstack.com/forms/rate_limit_adjustment_reque...

There are also a bunch of rate limit exemptions that automatically apply whenever you "renew" a cert: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/#non-ari-renewals. That means whenever you request a cert and there already is an issued certificate for the same set of identities.
by ayoung5555 | 2026-02-18 22:02:07+00:00
As much as the general public seems to be turning against AI, people only seem to care when they're aware it's AI. Those of us intentionally aware of it are better tuned to identify LLM-speak and generated slop.

Most human writing isn't good. Take LinkedIn, for example. It didn't suddenly become bad because of LLM-slop posts - humans pioneered its now-ubiquitous style. And now even when something is human-written, we're already seeing humans absorb linguistic patterns common to LLM writing. That said, I'm confident slop from any platform with user-generated content will eventually fade away from my feeds because the algorithms will pick up on that as a signal. (edit to add from my feeds)

What concerns me most is that there's absolutely no way this isn't detrimental to students. While AI can be a tool in STEM, I'm hearing from teachers among family and friends that everything students write is from an LLM.

Leaning on AI to write code I'd otherwise write myself might be a slight net negative on my ability to write future code - but brains are elastic enough that I could close an n month gap in 1/2n months time or something.

From middle school to university, students are doing everything for the first time, and there's no recovering habits or memories that never formed in the first place. They made the ACT easier 2 years ago (reduced # of questions) and in the US the average score has set a new record low every year since then. Not only is there no clear path to improvement, there's an even clearer path to things getting worse.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-18 22:02:58+00:00
"It's the most interesting one!"

For a related example I was talking with a colleague recently about how we had both (independently) purchased Nebula subscriptions in an effort to avoid getting YouTube premium and giving Google more money, but both felt the pull back to YouTube because it is so good at leveraging years of subscription and watch history to populate the landing page with content we find engaging.

If even two relatively thoughtful individuals choosing to spend money on a platform with the kind of content they'd like to choose to watch can't seem to succeed at beating an engagement-first algorithm, I'm not sure how much hope normies would have, unless it's the real issue is just being terminally online period, and the only way to win is simply not to play.
Show HN: ClawShield – Open-source firewall for agent-to-agent AI communication
by Joe_DNAI | 2026-02-18 22:03:37+00:00
Hi HN!

I built ClawShield after discovering 40,214 OpenClaw instances exposed with critical CVE-2026-25253 (CVSS 8.8).

The problem: AI agents communicate with each other at scale, but there's NO firewall between them. A compromised agent can inject prompts, exfiltrate data, and hijack WebSocket sessions.

ClawShield sits between agents and blocks:
- Prompt injection (16+ patterns)
- Malicious skills/plugins (AST + sandbox)
- Credential leaks (regex + entropy)
- Unauthorized agent-to-agent comms
- WebSocket hijacking

Built it last night. 181 tests. Production-ready. Open source (AGPL-3.0).

GitHub: https://github.com/DEFNOISE-AI/ClawShield
Demo: [coming soon]

Compatible with OpenClaw, AutoGPT, or any agent protocol.

Free tier for personal use, paid for teams/enterprise.

Would love your feedback!
Show HN: LLM Gateway for OpenAI/Anthropic Written in Golang
by oatmale | 2026-02-18 22:04:28+00:00
Hi HN - I'm Nathan. I spent a bunch of years building Shopify subscriptions software, living in the land of failed payments, retries, and "if this breaks, it breaks real money." We built a lot of automation around recovery: intelligent retry logic, routing decisions, backoffs, and all the messy edge cases you only find at scale.

When I started building AI/LLM features, I kept running into the same class of problems - except harder to reason about. Multiple providers, model quirks, intermittent failures, retries/fallbacks, and a constant question of "what actually happened?" Observability was the recurring pain point. I wanted something that didn't feel like a black box, especially once you're running real workloads and latency or errors spike for reasons that aren't obvious.

So I started building the tool I wished I had: an open-source LLM gateway / proxy in Go.

I fell into Go mostly for practical reasons: high concurrency and throughput without fighting the runtime, and a strongly-typed codebase that stays pleasant as it grows. Over time it turned into something more personal - I've found my home in Go, and this project is where I've been putting that energy.

Open source is a deliberate choice here. Coming from payments + ecommerce, trust isn't a tagline - it's operational. People need to understand what's happening under the hood, and they need to be able to verify it. I've been building software for ~15 years, and I wanted to contribute something real back to the communities that taught me how to build reliable systems.

Repo: https://github.com/ongoingai/gateway

Feedback, criticism, "you're doing this wrong," feature ideas, weird edge cases you're hitting - all welcome. If you've built anything similar (AI infra, gateways, proxies, high-throughput Go services), I'd especially love to hear what you'd consider non-negotiable for something like this.

Cheers,
Nathan @ OngoingAI
by yannyu | 2026-02-18 22:04:35+00:00
I think you're right, but I also think it's worthwhile to look at Edward Bernays in the early 1900s and his specific influence on how companies and governments to this day shape deliberately shape public opinion in their favor. There's an argument that his work and the work of his contemporaries was a critical point in the flooding of the collective consciousness with what we would consider propaganda, misinformation, or covert advertising.
by submeta | 2026-02-18 22:04:51+00:00
I wonder whether we will see a shift back toward human generated, organic content, writing that is not perfectly polished or exhaustively articulated. For an LLM, it is effortless to smooth every edge and fully flesh out every thought. For humans, it is not.

After two years of reading increasing amounts of LLM generated text, I find myself appreciating something different: concise, slightly rough writing that is not optimized to perfection, but clearly written by another human being
by zorobo | 2026-02-18 22:04:59+00:00
I will give it a spin on my Apple Vision Pro.
Have been trying ttyd, which could really be great as is it browser based and hence I can have as many windows as I want, but a safari bug on iOS/ipados/visionos is a showstopper: specifically, safari sends keycode 13 events (enter key) when pressing ctrl-c on a hardware keyboard. So emacs, interrupting fg processes etc are problematic.

I’ll submit a pr to xterm.js for a workaround.
by Animats | 2026-02-18 22:05:09+00:00
Yes, but it's a service for the garment trade, not individuals.[1]
They're going to want patterns in an industry standard format. If you need help with the design, that's available, but not cheap.

There's a reverse-engineering process for garments, involving laying them out on a light table and taking pictures. That's how you make knockoffs.

If the goal is a one-off, not volume production, just find a good custom tailor or costumer. It's going to cost.

[1] https://www.hongyuapparel.com/clothing-prototype-manufacture...
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-18 22:05:24+00:00
Unless every medical doctor on the planet is also compromised (in which case you might as well just shrug and enjoy the ride, living your life the best you can, because you're only one person anyway) you might find some benefit from speaking to a psychiatrist.

Sure, a neurologist might seem the natural approach, but psychiatrists are more accessible without a referral (and could refer you to a neurologist of need be) and might be able to help you troubleshoot the brain fog - just because it's caused by an implant, doesn't mean that more conventional treatments can't help.

On the off chance that your brain is misfiring all on its own (which I assume you acknowledge is something it's possible for things as complicated and sophisticated as a brain to do, considering even the lost primitive electronics can fail in unpredictable ways), they'd likely be able to help with that, too.
by pdonis | 2026-02-18 22:05:28+00:00
> many of the changes we are talking about don't even really cost us anything

This is the part that seems to vary widely based on which warming alarmist you're talking to. Many of them are not saying there are things we could do that "don't even really cost us anything" that would deal with the problem--they're saying we need to devote a significant fraction of global GDP to CO2 mitigation.

Things that "don't really cost us anything" are probably happening already anyway, because, well, they don't really cost us anything.

Building a lot more nuclear power plants is the key thing that doesn't really seem to be happening right now, that would be an obvious way to eliminate a lot of CO2 emissions. But of course that does really cost us something. But it's probably the most cost effective thing we could do on a large scale.
by tuesdaynight | 2026-02-18 22:06:41+00:00
To be fair, American propaganda had the same effect. For example, in South America, if you ask the average person about WW2, people will talk about USA mostly. Most people would be surprised if you told them that URSS had 24 million deaths, almost 50x what USA had. I'm not saying that USA didn't play a major role, but it's weird how it is the only country besides Germany that is ingrained in America (continent) mind when you talk about WW2
by phkahler | 2026-02-18 22:06:59+00:00
>> Not to be contrarian, but if you cared, you could easily rule out your suspicions.

That's just false. You might try to rule it out yourself to see. My comments here and the responses demonstrate that it's a waste of time to argue against people in the purity cycle of global warming. My position is one of moderation not denial - and I'm downvoted, told I don't care, and I haven't done even the minimum of research. Pffft. HN is not what it used to be.
by maxglute | 2026-02-18 22:07:10+00:00
Emulate them?

PRC solar power production last year conservatively will diplace ~45 billion barrels of oil, or 10%-20% more than total global consumption per year. It's just retarded eco accounting that attributes emissions to renewable manufacturers while fossil exporters don't get any penalties for extracting emissions.

Every year of PRC solar prevents doubling of oil, basically they're like the only significant country whose net contribution is negative for how much carbon sinks they manufacture. So the answer for US+co is obviously stop exporting oil and lng, and start exporting renewables.
by YaraDori | 2026-02-18 22:07:26+00:00
Hey HN, I built SkillForge because I got tired of manually writing agent instruction files.

The idea: record yourself doing a task on your computer, and AI extracts the workflow into a structured SKILL.md file that agent frameworks (Claude Code, OpenClaw, etc.) can consume directly.

How it works:
1. Screen record any task in your browser
2. AI analyzes the recording and extracts each action
3. Review/edit the extracted steps
4. Export as SKILL.md

No install required - runs entirely in the browser. The output format is framework-agnostic.

The core insight: screen recordings capture nuance that you forget when writing instructions from memory - exact click targets, timing, edge cases in multi-step workflows.

Built with browser-native screen capture APIs. Would love feedback on the extraction quality and output format.
by amluto | 2026-02-18 22:07:39+00:00
Yeah, I get it. Their code quality is not great. They do a bad job of making it robust. There's a history here.

I'm still curious if this particular issue actually has a material effect on the protocol. I found a little bit more: "Consider also how this could affect a group chat." Okay, I considered it. I haven't the faintest clue how Matrix's group chat thing works [0], and I can totally imagine that, if a group's chat ciphertext is stored on an untrusted server and it's encrypted against a fixed key, then the server gets all the plaintext. But I also think that, if any participant in a group has permission to read all the messages, then they could also email the messages to the server operator, which makes it a little bit less interesting if they can maliciously force the key to be zero. (Maybe the key is also used for authentication of other parties -- I dunno. That's why I'm asking.)

[0] On the two occasions I've tried to use Matrix, I did not succeed in making a chat with more participants than just myself, so it seemed highly secure, and also completely useless.
by zac23or | 2026-02-18 22:07:48+00:00
I started using Delphi 3 and stopped at 7, migrating to web development (Rails, Django, etc.).

Delphi was magical. Nothing compares to Delphi's productivity.
Rails is good, but it doesn't even come close to Delphi's productivity.
People love Go's speed. Go is glacially slow compared to Delphi.
The WYSIWYG form editor is incredible. I can use Delphi 3 on a Windows machine with 16 MB of RAM.

VCL is fantastic; the idea of components and memory management is incredible, simple, and it works.

Delphi is my first language; I studied VCL code and I love the code, the style. They were practical: Instead of Hash, they used TStrings (a list of strings) and the visual components also used them, like in the items of a Listbox!

Delphi could have been the platform for the web. Imagine a VCL for the web (VCLW), where you could change the target architecture or something like that and, presto, you'd have a web server running with VCL code!

That never happened. What happened was a series of bad ideas for the web, bad in their essence.

And Delphi invested in many projects doomed to failure, such as CORBA, three-tier architecture, MDA... Kylix!!!! Of course, Borland was very poorly managed. The CEOs were crazy. "Let's fight IBM." Delphi was abandoned. It's over.

I tried a new version of Delphi a few years ago. Wow, it was full of bugs! It had basic problems like compilation not working, Random crashing several times, etc. For me the new versions are just a way to profit from projects stuck in Delphi.

I tried Lazarus in the past, but it's extremely slow and I can't use my components in Lazarus without rewriting a lot of things.

To me, Delphi is languishing in an induced coma, breathing the air of the past, which is becoming increasingly rare. It's a shame.
by kmacleod | 2026-02-18 22:08:11+00:00
If your editor has a wiki mode (like Emacs' org mode) then maybe nothing. If not, then Obsidian is your browser and your editor is your editor. For example, git syncing between Android and desktop isn't working well for me, so I edit directly in github UI and browse in Obsidian. The fact that Obsidian works exactly like that is one of the biggest benefits of Obsidian.
by dwattttt | 2026-02-18 22:08:21+00:00
Using VS build tools for open source development is covered by the Community licence [0], separate from this Build Tools licence change. That license is more open than you might expect, working as an individual it even permits proprietary development for commercial purposes.

Under that usage, the Community license counts as a valid Visual Studio license for Build Tools purposes, hence the second paragraph:

> This change expands user rights to the Build Tools and does not limit the existing Visual Studio Community license provisions around Open-Source development. If you already are a developer contributing to OSS projects, you can continue to use Visual Studio and Visual Studio Build Tools together for free, just like before.

[0] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/vs2022-ga-c...
by trhway | 2026-02-18 22:09:11+00:00
>This is the current state, today, with anonymity.

whatever the current state, removing anonymity will remove dissenting voices of regular people.

> Which ones?

Russia for example. The sites where verification is implemented has become pro-government bot cesspools.

Here you mentioned LinkedIn - it is where pro-Russian propaganda runs free (especially if compare to for example HN where people freely respond to it), and it is exactly where my even pretty mild response to it got me almost banned, and so I don’t engage it there anymore.

I wonder how do you square your de-anonymity of speech position with anonymity of voting, or do also think that voting should not be anonymous?
by dcre | 2026-02-18 22:10:12+00:00
I look at it and don't really have an issue with it. I have been using tsc, vite, eslint, and prettier for years. I am in the process of switching my projects to tsgo (which will soon be tsc anyway), oxlint, and oxfmt. It's not a big deal and it's well worth the 10x speed increase. It would be nice if there was one toolchain to rule them all, but that is just not the world we live in.
Rubibot – Human Like Proto AGI
by DevHunterAI | 2026-02-18 22:10:25+00:00
RubiBot is a proto-AGI AI assistant built on a multi-module cognitive architecture — not a simple LLM wrapper.

Cognitive Architecture

LNN (Liquid Neural Networks) — semantic analysis and parameter inference
Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) — bio-inspired temporal processing
Predictive Coding — anticipatory reasoning and error-driven learning
Episodic Memory — cross-session identity and context recall
Planning Module — multi-step task decomposition
Cerebellum System — adaptive timeout and retry calibration
Astrocyte Modulation — tripartite synapse glial intelligence layer
Metacognitive Core — 10 higher-order self-monitoring modules
Persistent Self — cross-session self-referential representation
RAG System — retrieval-augmented generation over custom knowledge bases

Engineering Mode: Forces quantitative output: governing equations, SI units, dimensional analysis, safety factors, and feasibility assessments. Structured like a real engineering report.

Science Mode: Deep scientific explanations with derivations, citations, and real-time web search integration. From quantum mechanics to biochemistry.

Multimodal Generation

/imagegenerate — Google Imagen-4 with LNN prompt enhancement
/musicgenerate — AI music with automatic genre/mood/BPM inference, vocals detection, and MusicGen parameter optimization
/3ddesign — Parametric 3D CAD models rendered in PyVista + Three.js

Data Visualization — Interactive charts from natural language descriptions

Internet Mode — Real-time Brave Search integration

Stack: FastAPI · Redis · Render · Together AI · Replicate

rubibot.org
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-18 22:10:39+00:00
I don’t know why you’re getting sarcastic with me. I also imagine you’re aware of the addiction element but if not I can send some studies/research along.

Social media companies have decades of work and billions of dollars of research to pull from. They use every single trick and tool they can to make it an addiction. The dialogue and shared strategies between them and the gambling industry is enough of a red flag on its own IMO.

It’s not a fair fight. Asking someone to just stop using social media can be like telling a gambling addict to just stop gambling. You’re also expecting teenagers to exhibit that self control.

And I’m not even getting into how critical it is to use social media if you run a business. Hell at some companies you’re required to participate in their social media presence. You can’t simply make it go away. You may as well tell people to just stop buying a phone or a computer.