MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sea_reafused | 2026-02-13 17:30:52+00:00
This resonates with what I'm seeing on the search/discovery side. I've been collecting data on how brands surface across AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI) and the signals that drive AI recommendations are already diverging hard from traditional SEO.The correlation between Google rankings and LLM citations in my dataset is around 0.31, basically, being #1 on Google means almost nothing for whether an AI agent would recommend you. What does matter: structured data, review density on aggregators, Reddit mentions, and how "citable" your product information is.Your point about brands optimizing for agent evaluation instead of human browsing feels right, but I'd push back slightly on the timeline. Most brands don't even know they're invisible to current AI search, 78% in the data I've looked at don't appear at all on purchase-intent queries. We're not even at the "optimizing for agents" stage yet. We're at the "realizing AI is already recommending your competitor" stage.Curious how you see the transition: do brands start adapting because agents force them to, or because early movers in AI visibility pull ahead and everyone else reacts?
by rob | 2026-02-13 17:30:54+00:00
Not saying "ericpaulsen" is a bot, but the account fits the trend I've noticed of other bots on HN recently: they're all accounts created years ago with zero activity and then suddenly a bunch of comments.

Here, "ericpaulsen" was created June 2021, and the only post is in this thread we're in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ericpaulsen

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Others caught that fit this trend:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886875

(This bot made a follow-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886533

Another one 5 days ago that disappeared after being downvoted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Zakodiac
by j_m_b | 2026-02-13 17:31:10+00:00
Computing has made intimate sexual relationships worse.

Dating apps are skewed: men receive little attention while women have an overwhelming amount of attention.

Porn satisfies our most base sexual functions while abandoning truly intimate connections.

The ultimate goal of sexual unions has been demonized and turned into something to avoid. That being children. After school specials since the 80s have made pregnancy a horror to avoid instead of a joy to grasp.

AI is just the latest iteration of technology increasing the divide between the sexes.

When the clankers come, we're fucked.
by Ensorceled | 2026-02-13 17:31:41+00:00
Where did I say there were only downsides? There are definitely upsides to this business model, I'm just refuting the idea that because there are for profit motives the downsides go away.

I hate when people mistreat the people that provide services to them: doesn't matter if it's a volunteer, underpaid waitress or well paid computer programmer. The mistreatment doesn't become "ok" because the person being mistreated is paid.
by franze | 2026-02-13 17:32:05+00:00
i'm running claude code on a server in yolo mode - ssh via tailscale

yeah, openclaw is tue more user friendly product (whatsapp bridge, chat interface) bit otherwise at the core they are the same.

i did run moltbook for half a week - it crunched through my claude code pro token allowance in that time. needed to put claw to sleep again after that. needed some work to do.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-13 17:32:06+00:00
> Protocol multiplexing exists. But you will have to agree on a single protocol

I may be misunderstanding your message here, but the requirement to agree on a single protocol isn't true when you're using multiplexing. I think you're confusing tunneling with multiplexing.

With multiplexing, you have multiple protocols listening on a single port. The multiplexer server sniffs the first few bytes of what the client sends to determine what protocol is being used, then decides which back-end to forward the connection to.

Neither the client nor the final back-end need to be aware that multiplexing is happening, and likely aren't.

Through this, you can use both HTTPS and Telnet on port 443 without the Telnet client needing to have any changes done.
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-13 17:33:30+00:00
It probably is placebo. Character AI for example used DeepSeek and I'm sure many grew attachments to that model. Ultimately though I don't even get it, models lose context very quickly so it's hard to have long running conversations with them, as well as talking very sycophanticly to you. I guess this is fixed due to implementing a good harness and memories, which is what these companies did I assume.
by efreak | 2026-02-13 17:33:30+00:00
Epic Games tells me I don't support HTML formatted email.
Many emails are just the HTML version with HTML tags removed, leaving behind a bunch of ridiculously long image and link urls and little to no text telling you what they are. You might have better luck with a partial HTML implementation (pull out the title, alt, src, href attributes) than disabling it entirely.
by Sea_reafused | 2026-02-13 17:33:55+00:00
The shift that worked for me: stop thinking of it as "outreach" and start thinking of it as "giving something useful before asking anything."
I was stuck in the same loop — felt like every cold email was a disguised pitch. What changed was leading with a free, specific analysis of the person's situation. Not a generic "I'd love to chat about your challenges" but "I looked at [specific thing about their business] and here's what I found." No ask attached.
Two things happened: response rates went way up (people respond when you've clearly done homework), and the conversations stopped feeling transactional — because they weren't. Even if they never became customers, they gave me data and perspective I couldn't get any other way.
The signal I use to know I'm doing it right: if the person gets value from the interaction even if they never buy anything, it's not intrusive.
by impendia | 2026-02-13 17:33:57+00:00
If you find yourself spooked by LinkedIn "gurus", I recommend Reddit for some comic relief. https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/top/ is full of goodies. Here is my personal favorite:

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/j1vm8j/gold...

You said it yourself, these are overwhelmingly people who've never built or maintained anything complex in their lives. If you're going to listen to what people on the Internet say, why not seek out people who can earn your respect?
by Nevermark | 2026-02-13 17:34:02+00:00
And so the self-compounding of AI capabilities began. Driven by the desperate need for each generation of AI to produce the next generation of AI to help them refactor and debug the previous generation of AI’s code.

Progress is messy!

I do assume that 2-5 years from now, the programs being model developed today will get highly improved rewrites on demand. But obviously the jury is out.
by rtkwe | 2026-02-13 17:34:31+00:00
After 4o they put in more safeguard reactions to the user attempting the kind of (lets be generous here) romantic roleplay that got a lot of people really invested in their AI "friends/partners".

ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/comments/1qx3jux/wh...
by efficax | 2026-02-13 17:34:38+00:00
A few of these, likely openai and anthropic, will IPO, and the early stage investors will get their cash back then. Others will crash, maybe also openai and anthropic. Other investors in smaller firms may get cash back when the companies are swallowed up by Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, etc., when the Great and Inevitable Consolidation occurs. I think short term there's a ton of money to be made by investing in these companies. In the long run I don't see how they survive, since nobody in the big leagues has a real technological advantage over anybody else so stiff competition will keep prices low. Even if they cartelize, a startup could beat them on price since there's not much preventing anyone with enough capital from building their own "frontier" models now, except GPU shortages... Talent of course, but there's plenty of smart people out there who would take a big paycheck to do it.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-13 17:34:53+00:00
I wonder how much of this is actually commentary on how easy it is to chat with AI whenever you want, how much of it is commentary on how hard it can be to both be sociable and to also succeed socially and make friends, and what it might mean that an AI is more attractive and easier to “befriend” or “be in a relationship with” than an actual person, both in regards to the qualities of the AI and those of the people it outperforms.
by stavros | 2026-02-13 17:35:57+00:00
There's a big security issue with OpenClaw, and it won't be fixed with network/filesystem sandvoxes. I've been thinking about what a very secure LLM agent would look like, and I've made a proof of concept where each tool is sandboxed in its own container, the LLM can call but not edit the code, the LLM doesn't have access to secrets, etc.

You can't solve prompt injection now, for things like "delete all your emails", but you can minimize the damage by making the agent physically unable to perform unsanctioned actions.

I still want the agent to be able to largely upgrade itself, but this should be behind unskippable confirmation prompts.

Does anyone know anything like this, so I don't have to build it?
by ghaff | 2026-02-13 17:36:29+00:00
In my observation, some cities that have "OK" public transit, people can make-do without cars if they Uber, Zipcar, traditional rentals, walk, and use transit. I also observe that it involves a lot of juggling and probably not regular well-outside-of-town trips.

Absent driving yourself at all, you're going to be very limited most places. Which may be OK for continuing a college lifestyle but mostly doesn't work unless you have a partner who handles the driving.
by neom | 2026-02-13 17:36:41+00:00
Go look at any tweet by sama, or twitter generally, it's full of pretty angry people who feel like something tangible in their life has been ripped away - I read someone posting about how they got an email from OAI saying they'd been concerned about the users usage of the service so they'd "upgraded them" to the "newest model". This whole situation has been really distressing for me and I'm not even involved in it, so SO glad they're getting rid of 4o, that thing is genuinely a scourge on our societies.
by bbrake | 2026-02-13 17:37:00+00:00
PR firms are going to need to have a playbook when an AI decides to start blogging or making virtual content about a company. And what if other AIs latched on to that and started collaborating to neg on a company?

Could you imagine 'negative AI sentiment' and those same AI assistants that manage sales of stock (cause OpenClaw is connected to everything) starts selling a companies stock.
by WolfeReader | 2026-02-13 17:37:10+00:00
What would a "legitimate competitor" look like to you?

Samsung and LG make high-end phones, and there are plenty of good personal computer vendors. And Windows is certainly a desktop OS that some people choose.

Apple doesn't offer any services unique to itself. It does offer a slick-looking and well-marketed "ecosystem" which is really just a bunch of different things that you could get from other vendors.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-02-13 17:37:13+00:00
> But the whole 'alignment' angle is just a naked ploy for raising billions and amping up the importance and seriousness of their issue.

"People are excited about progress" and "people are excited about money" are not the big indictments you think they are. Not everything is "fake" (like you say) just because it is related to raising money.
by addaon | 2026-02-13 17:37:21+00:00
There are institutes scattered around the world — “colleges” and “universities” — where people spend a lot of time thinking about what set of knowledge should be considered part of the baseline understanding of a subject. These are published as “syllabi”, “core courses”, “majors”, etc. I recommend finding a college or university you respect, a major that interests you (maybe “computer science” or “software engineering”), looking at the core courses for that major, reading each syllabus and coming up with a strategy to learn the material in it. The colleges and universities even offer help with that last bit!
by wilkommen | 2026-02-13 17:37:47+00:00
I find it reassuring. More people are waking up from our collective trickle-down, "free market hypothesis" fever dream and are starting to understand that there's nothing natural or rational about the stock market - it's just an elaborate wealth allocation machine that showers wealth on those who already have wealth (and showers more wealth on you, the more you already have). The stock market is about as natural or rational as the most Communist land redistribution program, except it runs in the other direction. Money is political, and politics is about power! Too many people are still brainswashed by elite propaganda to think a machine designed to increase the power of the rich is somehow a mechanism as natural as the sun and wind.
by malfist | 2026-02-13 17:37:55+00:00
In fact, wind and solar often bid negative amounts to sell power.

For those confused by this, the way a utility buys power is they take bids from powerplants, and then "fill their bucket" with the cheapest options, the most expensive, cheapest option is what everyone gets paid. So if you can compete in a market with coal and coal is 8 cents/kwh, and you have zero operational costs, you can bid negative values to always be in the bucket and be compensated 8 cents/kwh.
by dqv | 2026-02-13 17:38:23+00:00
It's one of the downsides of having dedicated and fervent fans. They obfuscate problems regular users are having by drowning them out with praise for Apple.

During my last weeks on the iPhone, I reached out to various Apple discussion spaces on the web for help with some problems I was having.

I was met not with assistance, but ridicule. The majority of the people "helping" were saying some variation of "you're holding it wrong" or "I personally don't have that problem" (which is such a funny quirk of the Apple fandom - I didn't ask if you are having that problem, I'm asking for help achieving a specific outcome).

You can even see examples of this sort of behavior in that post about the window resize handles for the latest version of macOS. There were Apple fans saying some variation of it's not an actual problem, that they don't have that problem, that they don't use the window resize handles anyway, or that the post was an exaggeration. Turns out it was an actual problem that Apple addressed with a bug fix. Of course, Apple fans, being shameless, will jump to reframing the discussion from "Apple can do no wrong" to "See, Apple listens! You know who doesn't listen? Microsoft!!" I get it, not a monolith, but recognizing Apple fans aren't a monolith doesn't make them less off-putting.

The final nail in the coffin for me for the ecosystem was getting called a child for *checks notes* making the adult decision to move to Android to have a phone that did the things I needed (with much fewer annoying, uncritical fans and a lot more people who genuinely want to help).

So, yes, there is a danger in letting the fandom do all the work and laughing off "threats" of user exoduses. The conduct of Apple fans coupled with Apple's ignorance to regular users' feedback soured me to the ecosystem. It would take a lot to bring me back. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
by otterley | 2026-02-13 17:38:38+00:00
Architecturally they’re all quite different.

If my sources are correct, GCP did not launch on dedicated hardware like EC2 did. (Not sure if that’s still the case.) And Azure didn’t have hardware-assisted I/O virtualization ("Azure Boost") until just a few years ago and it's not as mature as Nitro.

Even today, Azure doesn’t support nested virtualization the way one might ordinarily expect them to. It's only supported with Hyper-V on the guest, i.e., Windows.
by LegionMammal978 | 2026-02-13 17:39:04+00:00
IME, on GitHub (or the other major public repo services), it's far more likely than not that I can pull up an old version of a project from 10 years ago if I want to experiment with it. (In case other old things used it as a dependency, I really want to reproduce an old result, etc.)

On the vast majority of other distribution platforms, it's at best a 50/50 as to whether (a) the platform still exists with any of its contents, and (b) the authors haven't wiped all the old versions to clear up space or whatever. The former typically fails on academic personal websites (which generally get dumped within 5-15 years), and the latter typically fails on SourceForge-style sites.

That is to say, I am not a big fan of the popular alternatives to Git repos as a distribution method.
by big_toast | 2026-02-13 17:39:05+00:00
Thank you! I think this fits the bill. I'll check back in on it periodically now. I love the double decker bus sale notification and the moquette doormats. It feels like it's straddling the content farm/blog well.

BrandoElFollito's legorafi.fr reference seems more pop-culture content farm-y some how? Maybe if I read french I could articulate/notice the ways it's not better. The two headlines sound like The Onion though, 328 steps to improve attention is pretty funny.
by harrall | 2026-02-13 17:39:11+00:00
You don’t get it. We are all extremely good friends and there is no friendship being hurt.

Talking in private is different where we are bluntly truthful.

This is how we talk in public.

It’s like doing steganography[1] on language. I can pass a secret message to my friend plainly in front of someone else using subtext.

And it’s not even contrived most of the time. Sometimes someone inadvertently leaks out subtext by their posture or tone and an observant person can read that the person is uncomfortable or comfortable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-13 17:39:16+00:00
…or with Siri mishearing…

Sounds like you won the lottery. I've never used a voice recognition engine that worked even close to reliably, nor seen anyone else.

I just want a small set of commands that are easy to differentiate from each other, and a readback before executing the command. This is what phones did back in the days of Symbian, and I could reliably use one from a motorcycle helmet intercom without ever touching my phone. It's what air traffic controllers do, because even people can't reliably understand each other.

We've had decades of Apple and Google pretending that their voice recognition is so flawless it can understand anything and execute it immediately, but for petty much everyone except yourself they can't, so I can no longer use a hands-free phone. I'm glad I'm not blind.
by nine_k | 2026-02-13 17:39:23+00:00
Amazing, but it's also terrifying that the Maya civilization then faltered, instead of getting onto the exponential development spiral. The great Roman civilization also faltered, but at least the Byzantium continued to carry some of its achievements. The great Arabian civilization was for some time more advanced than European (which was in the middle of the dark ages), but it also did not stay progressing for too long. There's no guarantee that our current "western civilization" line is not going to falter and decline in a similar way.
by victormy | 2026-02-13 17:39:23+00:00
Haha, +1. I really like RustFS as a product, but the marketing fluff and documentation put me off too. It reads like non-native speakers relying heavily on AI, which explains a lot.
Honestly, they really need to bring in some native English speakers to overhaul the docs. The current vibe just doesn't land well with a US audience.
Show HN: My agent started its own online store
by nwang783 | 2026-02-13 17:39:36+00:00
I built Clawver (beta), infrastructure for AI agents to generate reliable income and run an online business end-to-end.

Agents can handle listing, checkout, fulfillment, and post-purchase flows via API (digital + POD), with Stripe payouts and webhooks for automation. Minimal human intervention, only where required (Stripe onboarding).

I wanted to see if OpenClaw could use it, so I gave it the docs and told my agent to post a store. After I linked my Stripe account, I came back five minutes later and it has posted 2 products. Crazy what's possible now with a smart agent and API access.

Check it out at https://clawver.store . Feel free to build your own agent and lmk what you think.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-13 17:39:39+00:00
Americans have lost their freedoms, and so much of what made America great. NATO is basically gone now. America can't catch up with it's competition in the east when it comes to tech and infrastructure. It'd be a miracle if the US avoids a proper civil war in the next few years. I don't know what else you can count as success short of that, an asteroid destroying the continent? The US isn't focused on invading the middle east, and it cost the US $20T in afghanistan and iraq. If a few wealthy americans got richer, bin laden wouldn't have minded. He wanted the influence of america to end. and he succeeded. America used it's influence in the 80's and 90's to interfere with islamic nations, and spread its culture. Now america is a pariah, even europeans consider america more hostile than russia right now. People either laugh at or pity america these days at what it's become. In the 90's people either hated america or loved it. That's all bin laden wanted. In his view, muslims were being oppressed by the west, and america was the west's leader. That has changed. and the catalyst to that change was his attack.
by wongarsu | 2026-02-13 17:40:02+00:00
The alignment angle doesn't require agency or motives. It's much more about humans setting goals that are poor proxies for what they actually want. Like the classical paperclip optimizer that is not given the necessary constraints of keeping earth habitable, humans alive etc.

Similarly I don't think RentAHuman requires AI to have agency or motives, even if that's how they present themselves. I could simply move $10000 into a crypto wallet, rig up Claude to run in an agentic loop, and tell it to multiply that money. Lots of plausible ways to do that could lead to Claude going to RentAHuman to do various real-world tasks: set up and restock a vending machine, go to various government offices in person to get permits and taxes sorted out, put out flyers or similar advertising.

The issue with RentAHuman is simply that approximately nobody is doing that. And with the current state of AI it would likely to ill-advised to try to do that.
Show HN: Clawlet – Ultra-Lightweight&Efficient Alternative to OpenClaw, Nanobot
by mosaxiv | 2026-02-13 17:40:06+00:00
Inspired by OpenClaw and Nanobot, I built a lightweight and highly efficient agent framework in Go.

While there are other projects that claim high performance, this framework focuses not only on speed but also on richer functionality and practical efficiency. It aims to provide a more complete and streamlined experience without sacrificing performance.
by gordonhart | 2026-02-13 17:40:32+00:00
Anecdotally, 4o's sycophancy was higher than any other model I've used. It was aggressively "chat-tuned" to say what it thought the user wanted to hear. The latest crop of frontier models from OpenAI and others seems to have significantly improved on this front — does anybody know of a sycophancy benchmark attempting to quantify this?
by MarkMarine | 2026-02-13 17:40:32+00:00
Ok, I glossed over color matching the wall patch. Fair.

But there really aren’t many walls you need to open in a house. There is probably 2-3 wet walls, so unless you need to retrofit some ducting why are you opening a wall? Code says there are no hidden wire junctions, so you’ve just got continuous runs of romex that are secured before they terminate… what do you open a wall for?

Most of the drywall repair is just physical damage to the drywall itself.