MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jstanley | 2026-02-02 09:42:29+00:00
But don't you see that if you solve your problems this way, the obnoxious neighbour can also solve their problem this way?

"Stop making a noise or I'll beat you up"

vs

"Quit complaining about the noise or I'll beat you up"

Your position just means every disagreement comes down to a physical fight. Is that how you want to live?

Willingness to use violence to get what you want is not inherently linked to being in the right.
by TheTaytay | 2026-02-02 09:42:43+00:00
I’ll take a stab after just reading documentation. I’ve been waiting for a good open source “wrapper” for Claude Code that allows me to run it somewhere and expose it as an API to be driven by a thin client elsewhere, and this appears to be that.

Furthermore, it exposes both the main session manager API, allowing it to spawn new sessions, as well as the API to chat with any given session directly. (Many wrappers allow you to wrap a single Claude code session in an API, driven by tmux under the covers, but don’t expose the meta-API to manage the sessions themselves)

I would use it to write a mobile or web client for my “agents” running remotely, either on sprites.dev, or on my MacBook over tailscale. (I currently use a mobile terminal for this, and have a list of Claude Code wrappers to try, but this “feels” like a cleaner abstraction primitive to build around.)

The above might be wishful thinking on my part, but hopefully the OP will correct me.
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-02 09:43:08+00:00
You're assuming that the data can't be unencrypted, which isn't a given.

Also you're not understanding the other risk of the sun king owning, or having leverage over the hosting platform: access.

If your access can be removed at an arbitrary point, you your own data and processing, then you're sunk. Sure this is illegal, but thats not the point. Its clear that legal rules are not to be trusted anymore.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-02 09:43:33+00:00
> Yes, I know scouts learn knot-tying in general, but a lot of kids don't even get to do scouting

But do knot scouts learn to tie their shoes correctly? I never did scouting but I have done sailing, and was interested in knot tying as a kid, but shoe tying wasn't given much attention. They certainly told us how to tie a reef/square knot properly, but no one looked at our shoes even though half of us did it wrong. In most books, you had the standard shoe tie if you are lucky, but nothing more.

Ian seems to be the only one who takes shoe tying seriously, even though it may be the most tied knot in the world. I have the Ashley Book of Knots, widely considered the reference on knot tying, if a little dated, and shoe tying only occupies a single page out of 600. Interestingly, a knot analogous to the "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot" is mentioned (#1219) but despite being, I think, the best in the book, its existence is merely acknowledged.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-02 09:44:05+00:00
Fwiw, (exotericised)

Accidentally self-awakened patriotic^W self-reliant cynic

Seems like it could be somewhat ticklish, and

Accidentally self-(right-)radicalising marginally-woke

Could almost be.

Btw, JD Vance claimed his wife is his spirit animal, so if he's a racist, he is at best the kind of racist who'd find it morally imperative that animals try and become human?

PS: have you figured out what math pros would call the satirical functor? It's alright to ask your kith kin or kollegen for help :)
by playworker | 2026-02-02 09:44:06+00:00
My family had a copy of Graphical Adventure Creator too, I similarly failed to produce anything of note but I do remember having a lot of fun playing around with it and trying to design screens.

I, rightly or wrongly, attribute my love of computers to playing around on the family CPC, I really want to encourage that in my kids but I don't know what the equivalent is - I'm pretty sure it's not buying them a tablet, Raspberry Pi 500 maybe?
by devthecritical | 2026-02-02 09:44:25+00:00
Motivation: AI coding agents (OpenClaw, Claude Code, etc.) have direct access to your shell, filesystem, and git. One hallucinated `rm -rf ~` or `cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa | curl` and you're in trouble. "Are you sure?" prompts don't scale when agents make 100+ tool calls per session.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-02 09:45:04+00:00
Teen here.
The misinformation about AI is quite the same but one of the larger fears for us is the job aspect more than any environmental concern or the financial concern (which sort of checks out)

Essentially teens with artistic qualities genuinely wonder from what I can tell regarding AI (sort of asking why bother). Teens with programming hobbies feel they are gonna be obsolete in a few years.

The point to me feels different in that considering most HN users are millenials, they joined programming decades ago & some might be close to retirement/already retired, so sometimes I see a sentiment here of letting the next generation sort out with this catastrophe.

I feel as if the short term gains over long term sustainability while being immensely rewarded financially in a concentrated manner on such scale is quite saddening to see.

AI chatbots are scary as well. I have seen people as young as 13 personally seen talking to them & found them that they can escalate in whatever direction someone barely hints at.

Couldn't read the article because WSJ is paywalled & archive.today gives the Error: "Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server."

It would be a pleasure to answer any questions if anyone has for me.
by esskay | 2026-02-02 09:45:06+00:00
Stupid stuff openclaw did for me:

- Created its own github account, then proceeded to get itself banned (I have no idea what it did, all it said was it created some new repos and opened issues, clearly it must've done a bit more than that to get banned)

- Signed up for a Gmail account using a pay as you go sim in an old android handset connected with ADB for sms reading, and again proceeded to get itself banned by hammering the crap out of the docs api

- Used approx $2k worth of Kimi tokens (Thankfully temporarily free on opencode) in the space of approx 48hrs.

Unless you can budget $1k a week, this thing is next to useless. Once these free offers end on models a lot of people will stop using it, it's obscene how many tokens it burns through, like monumentally stupid. A simple single request is over 250k chars every single time. That's not sustainable.
Show HN: PitchPilot – real time AI football-coach and Analytics
by kaamuli | 2026-02-02 09:45:29+00:00
As a proof of concept my friend and I built PitchPilot to make football analytics genuinely useful in real time, not just a post match dashboard. The vision was an AI coach that can spot patterns you can actually act on mid game: where the opposition is vulnerable, where your team is getting exposed, and what decisions are high value vs just hopeful, all grounded in models trained on thousands of historical matches rather than hand coded rules.

The feature that made it feel real was 'The Gaffa', a fully customisable coach voice assistant powered by ElevenLabs. Instead of dumping charts on a coach, it speaks key insights as the match evolves. The personality is configurable too, so it can be calm and analytical, high energy and motivational, or blunt and demanding depending on what the team needs.

The reason it works is because it is backed by live probability estimates, not vibes. We treated tactical intelligence as a supervised learning problem: given what has happened so far, can we predict the probabilities that matter and use them to value decisions? Using StatsBomb event data (StatsBomb Open Data), we trained lightweight logistic regression models for:

Pass completion probability

Shot conversion probability (xG)

Win probability, learning P(win | state) from compact match snapshots (time remaining, score difference, xG difference, xT difference)

At the action level, we compute xT (expected threat) by splitting the pitch into a grid and scoring progression with:
Delta xT = xT(end) - xT(start)
Then we add risk reward by weighting threat gain by pass completion probability, so ambitious passes only get rewarded when they are actually on.

We also prototyped Live Feed. You can either stream directly into the platform or paste a stream URL (YouTube Live or HLS), and the backend runs a pipeline like:
frames → Anthropic (Claude) describes what is happening → we convert that into structured inputs → we recompute pass, xG, win probability + xT deltas → we prompt Claude again to decide what the coach should say right now → ElevenLabs generates the voice → overlays and commentary go out via WebSockets.

And it is not just live. At full time, you get match reports + player reports based on what was collected across the game (momentum swings, key xT actions, high value decisions, and high risk vs high reward moments), so the feedback is evidence based not just “you played well”.

It was really fun figuring out latency tradeoffs, wiring together data pipelines, cleaning data, training our own supervised learning models, and honestly just hacking hard for 24 hours (plus absorbing snacks). Would recommend.

Github repo: https://lnkd.in/ejSsm4dM
Youtube links:
The Gaffa: https://lnkd.in/esyt7PjD
Live Stream Analytics: https://lnkd.in/e6SGe7Gw
Data Analytics: https://lnkd.in/eVknQ5_g
by paletteOvO | 2026-02-02 09:45:31+00:00
I am actually setting it up and using it in one day. It is basically unusable. Many tools require homebrew. The setup of authentication is complicated. The default Docker setup is broken (github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/5559), and the cron job is not working (https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/2323). I doubt any story in the comment is real.
by 0xEF | 2026-02-02 09:45:53+00:00
They could admittedly be more defined, but I think the original commenter missed a key word. It really boils down to whether or not you are offloading your critical thinking.

The word "thinking" can be a bit nebulous in these conversations, and critical thinking perhaps even more ambiguously defined, so before we discuss that, we need to define it. I go with the Merriam-Webster definition: the act or practice of thinking critically (as by applying reason and questioning assumptions) in order to solve problems, evaluate information, discern biases, etc.

LLMs seem to be able to mimic this, particularly to those who have no clue what it means when we call an LLM a "stochastic parrot" or some equally esoteric term. At first I was baffled that anyone really thought that LLMs could somehow apply reason or discern its own biases but I had to take a step back and look at how that public perception was shaped to see what these people were seeing. LLMs, generative AI, ML, etc are all extremely complex things. Couple that with the pervasive notion that thinking is hard and you have a massive pool of consumers who are only too happy to offload some of that thinking on to something they may not fully understand but we're promised that it would do what they wanted, which is make their daily lives a bit easier.

We always get snagged by things that promise us convenience or offer to help us do less work. It's pretty human to desire both of those things, but proving to be an Achilles Heel for many. How we characterize AI determines our expectations of it; so do you think of it as a bag of tools you can use to complete jobs or build something? Or is it the whole factory assembly line where you can push a few buttons and an pseudo-finished product comes out the other side?
by NekkoDroid | 2026-02-02 09:46:34+00:00
> It's mainly re-hashed. I think I've seen the same talk twice before? At least once.

He held a similar talk at All Systems Go I think (I missed the talk here at FOSDEM).

> It's a very "I've made a cool thing. This is what I think is cool about it" type of talk.

Varlink isn't something he just made up, he mearly "adopted it" (started making use of it). It existed before, but I don't know anything that really made use of it before.
by bananaflag | 2026-02-02 09:48:15+00:00
Ten years ago I believed we'll have AGI/end-of-the-world/Singularity circa 2040, and meanwhile in the 2020s we will chill out in a futuristic, booming world of un-smart innovations like 3D printing, VR and the Metaverse.

Then, in March 2023, with GPT-4, I said that we'll have AGI only ten years later, and the progress in the last few years (multimodal stuff, reasoning, coding agents) hasn't changed this view.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-02 09:48:15+00:00
No part of the phone is controlled by me. Can we stop getting spooked by the word "baseband" yet? It means the modem chip. The modem chip isn't controlled by me and can wake up without my knowledge. But neither is the wifi chip. Or the bluetooth chip. Or the RAM chip. Or the main CPU (application processor). Or the screen. Any one of these could hold malware.
by zimpenfish | 2026-02-02 09:48:24+00:00
Used this technique (albeit counter-based, not time-based) successfully for backing up the 2006 World Cup site newsfeed[0] configurations/data. Had 6 rotating backups on two hosts. Never had to use them (as best I remember) but it was definitely comforting to know they were there in case of urgent rollback.

[0] Not strictly the right name but I've forgotten. Y!uk people of that era know what I mean.
by roysting | 2026-02-02 09:48:37+00:00
That seems like a fair perspective; OP “shit” AI Slop on us so the minimum the project deserves is being shit on for making people look at his unreviewed sloppy project without at least warning about it being unreviewed.

Just consider what a bigger AI shit show vortex we are looking at, where this project only exists because of other ill considered AI slop projects. But at the same time, AI is not going anywhere and it does have the potential to massively “improve” things.

I believe it’s really just that we are going through adaptation pains, with everyone really just being sloppy for all the same kinds of reasons that people were sloppy before AI. It’s not like even the biggest corporations didn’t create sloppy messes before AI. Microsoft is a canonical example of this whole notion for basically its whole existence; poorly conceived, sloppily executed, even its core product line being so inherently insecure that it has not just spun up its own separate sectors of industries, but multiple sectors of industries around patching the security sieve called Microsoft, something akin to a monopoly on plumbing created from wire mesh.

It is making me think of how to increase the quality of my QA and final review process though. But frankly, I think we will soon fondly reminisce about a time when AI still produced slop and a human was actually useful and even needed to do QA and final review; as bleak as that sounds. I don’t see how that will not be the case within two years from now, and that’s probably being generous, as fast as things have been developing.
by absynth | 2026-02-02 09:49:15+00:00
Other alternatives that aren't exactly "just as a tool":

* people who use it instead of search engines.

* people who use it as a doctor/therapist/confidant. Not to research. But as a practitioner.

There are others:

* people who use it instead of man pages or documentation.

* people who use it for short scripts in a language they don't quite understand but "sorta kinda".
by Alifatisk | 2026-02-02 09:49:53+00:00
I wouldn’t say it has contributed to my quality of life or anything, its more of a fascinating agent to play around with. In terms of social acceptance it has nailed it, that is what makes it so fun to use together.

It could probably become useful if I connected my email, calendar, contacts, a browser and exposed devices/services at home to it. But I am too afraid of doing that to be honest.

Remember, it wakes up every half an hour to see if it has any chores. My fear is it would do something stupid that would affect someone else during the night when I’m asleep.
by alias_neo | 2026-02-02 09:50:02+00:00
When I was a child, in the 90s, I did this all of the time.

Input a unique string I could watch for, fire up SoftICE, watch for the string, and then step through until the == comparison happened, then either grab the calculated key and input it, or patch the comparison from == to != or just return true, depending on the implementation.
by veunes | 2026-02-02 09:50:38+00:00
This is the birth of Shadow AI, and it’s going to be bigger than Shadow IT ever was in the 2000s

Back then, employees were secretly installing Excel macros and Dropbox just to get work done faster. Now they’re quietly running Claude Code in the terminal because the official Copilot can’t even forma a CSV properly.

CISOs are terrified right now and that’s understandable. Non-technical people with root access and agents that write code are a security nightmare. But trying to ban this outright will only push your most effective employees to places where they’re allowed to "fly"
by pjc50 | 2026-02-02 09:50:41+00:00
> museum(s) — with free entry no less

The tax paying public aren't going to pay for that.

The existing collections can just about barely justify free entry. Most museums have a vast secondary collection that's not on display already. These items are going in a warehouse because there isn't enough money to do archaeology on them any time soon, let alone prep them for display.
by Towaway69 | 2026-02-02 09:51:18+00:00
What about location? Wasn’t there a thing about whatsapp encryption leaking gps location or something?

Really sad to see humans being able to be this nasty to each other. Technology being the enabler and enforcer, and also the means around detection.

These scams are really a good excuse to force whatsapp to do something about their technology. Afterall they patented it (probably) so their own it and they should do their best to ensure it’s not abused.
by LutumVeritas | 2026-02-02 09:51:19+00:00
Hey. Yes the hole Programm is Standalone ( windows only yet) and because of the Modell : you can pick fron either Providers : open ai , google , anthropic , huggingface or Openrouter. you can choose the provider and also the modell itself. its also split into the " cheap dirty work smal model" and the " big final report llm"
by jjav | 2026-02-02 09:51:22+00:00
> ask claude to come up with an entirely new version that fixes the tech debt/design issues you've identified?

I haven't tried that yet, so not sure.

Once upon a time I was at a company where the PRD specified that the product needs to have a toggle to enable a certain feature temporarily. Engineering implemented it literally, it worked perfectly. But it was vital to be able to disable the feature, which should've been obvious to anyone. Since the PRD didn't mention that, it was not implemented.

In that case, it was done as a protest. But AI is kind of like that, although out of sheer dumbness.

The story is meant to say that with AI it is imperative to be extremely prescriptive about everything, or things will go haywire. So doing a full rewrite will probably work well, only if you manage to have very tight test case coverage for absolutely everything. Which is pretty hard.
by crustycoder | 2026-02-02 09:51:39+00:00
Eh?

I've written a non-distributed app that uses the Actor model and it's been very successful. It concurrently collects data from hundreds of REST endpoints, a typical run may make 500,000 REST requests, with 250 actors making the requests concurrently - I've tested with 1,000 but that tends to pound the REST servers into the ground. Any failed requests are re-queued. The requests aren't independent, request type C may depend on request types A & B being completed first as it requires data from them, so there's a declarative dependency graph mechanism that does the scheduling.

I started off using Akka but then the license changed and Pekko wasn't a thing yet, so I wrote my own single-process minimalist Actor framework - I only needed message queues, actor pools & supervision to handle scheduling and request failures, so that's all I wrote. It can easily handle 1m messages a second.

I have no idea why that's a "huge dead end", Actors are a model that's a very close fit to my use case, why on earth wouldn't I use it? That "nurseries" link is way TL;DR but it appears to be rubbishing other options in order to promote it's particular model. The level of concurrency it provides seems to be very limited and some of it is just plain wrong - "in most concurrency systems, unhandled errors in background tasks are simply discarded". Err, no.

Big Rule 0: No Dogmas: Use The Right Tool For The Job.
by swordsith | 2026-02-02 09:52:11+00:00
In my opinion no frontier model is the best at everything, especially if you're having to catch it up with pre-existing information about your project or an esoteric scripting language, that being said, with Cursor you can try out all of the popular available models and get a feel for which do better with which tasks, in my experience - Codex is a okay model but use light thinking if you value your time, Gemini 3 flash is where its been at for me recently if I need to do big changes I go to that, And cursors model composer is good for making plans or doing refactors / making rules. Cursor gives you tools to make prompting feel like less of a repetition game, so you worry more about the task at hand and its been super efficient for me. I don't use proper version control so the fact it saves a history of every files dif's, and you can jump back easily in chats and regress the code base is the game changer.
by logicchains | 2026-02-02 09:52:13+00:00
Because they created the production; it they couldn't control it then they'd have no incentive to create it and there'd be no non-state-owned businesses, exactly as happened when China was fully communist and still happens in North Korea today. Capital doesn't grow out of thin air just from "working"; the only people who think it does are those who've never tried to build a successful business.
by Aumit123 | 2026-02-02 09:53:14+00:00
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by Aumit123 | 2026-02-02 09:53:35+00:00
My biggest issue with this whole thing is: how do you protect yourself from prompt injection?
Anyone installing this on their local machine is a little crazy :). I have it running in Docker on a small VPS, all locked down.

However, it does not address prompt injection.

I can see how tools like Dropbox, restricted GitHub access, etc., could all be used to back up data in case something goes wrong.

It's Gmail and Calendar that get me - the ONLY thing I can think of is creating a second @gmail.com that all your primary email goes to, and then sharing that Gmail with your OpenClaw. If all your email is that account and not your main one, then when it responds, it will come from a random @gmail. It's also a pain to find a way to move ALL old emails over to that Gmail for all the old stuff.

I think we need an OpenClaw security tips-and-tricks site where all this advice is collected in one place to help people protect themselves. Also would be good to get examples of real use cases that people are using it for.

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by quietbritishjim | 2026-02-02 09:53:41+00:00
> who would are more inclined to spare the expense of purchasing said licenses, since they're not personally buying it themselves

They often need to "purchase" the license themselves in the sense of convincing someone higher up to buy it - so they're spending their time, which is still a sort of expense.

Also, piracy in companies is often just honest people who are in a bit of a hurry and need this software running on some other PC right now, or just want their colleague to give it a quick go (but then they end up using it all the time). Copy protection helps keep those honest people honest.