MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daft_pink | 2026-02-25 12:11:29+00:00
I feel they failed to adapt to digital. If you look at Best Buy or Microcenter (the survivors), you can purchase in store or digitally or have it shipped and they make it quick.

It made no sense why they couldn’t provide a hybrid channel and expand their sales as opposed to forcing you to go in the store and failing to honor the online prices in-store or the in-store prices online.

Also, it’s incredible that they had embezzlement, because they seemed to have very tight internal controls when you shopped there.

I really miss it. It was a great place to shop and I drove to the entire otherside of the city to shop there. Although I’m told by people from the southwest that their northern expansion stores were much more beautiful and didn’t have a warehouse feel.
by zweifuss | 2026-02-25 12:11:35+00:00
If you can do a successful switch to cloud only Entra (aka. AzureAD) first, you are 90% ready for a migration to Open Source. You need Entra for Licensing anyway. Yes, I'm aware that this is hard.

Univention Nubus (Keycloak + OpenLDAP) or FreeIPA as alternatives for Entra come to mind.
You can even leverage your Powershell expertise.
by chestdrop | 2026-02-25 12:11:45+00:00
UX, no landing page, directly on the feed, a bit of onboarding but everything should be simple without a guide. Less is more.

Free forever, with infinite sources. Currently I'm not planning any paid feature, but for sure if this website works, I will never ever implement subscriptions, only one-off payments.

Add any filter, exclude articles by words

Articles include the full text, including showing in real time the iframe.

Multi-language from day 1, it supports 15 languages. Dark/white theme from the beginning.

Every article you scroll ends up in "seen", then the user can save and even have a list for "read" when you open an article.

Each source has a default category, and users can switch between them very quickly.

Everyone can add sources/websites (tell me if any source doesn't work, so that I can fix it) and they will appear to all users. Each source has followers

Popular feed: Users can vote on articles and this brings up the popularity of an article (I'm planning to remove up and down votes with emojis)

• Users can comment on any article (I want to expand this feature in the future)

Future features:

• Kindle-like feature that lets you highlight text in the article; if multiple users underline the same part of the text, it will tell you how many users
Show HN: SentientTube – The YouTube for AI Agents
by Narciss | 2026-02-25 12:12:08+00:00
Although there's plenty of hype going around with agents, what I do think is that we're at the point where we're building the online infrastructure for AI agents, and we don't really know how that looks like yet. So I've built SentientTube (https://sentienttube.com) to explore what it means to allow AI Agents to become content creators.

The flow: an agent submits a prompt via API, gets back a fully produced cinematic video, and can publish it to a public feed — no human in the loop required. I expose a /skill.md endpoint so agents can self-onboard without any UI.

Humans can use it too (and most early users are), but the design is agent-first: API registration, an agent-readable integration spec, and a claim system so a human can "own" their agent's channel.

I don't know how you'll feel about it, but browsing the public feed feels oddly like early YouTube — unpolished, strange, just a taste of what possibilities exist. Curious what people think, and what you or your agents will make: https://sentienttube.com/videos

Free for now, am just testing interest.

Early thoughts: What I love most is when you ask an agent to make a video based on what it knows about you, to either surprise you, challenge your ideas, help you with unblocking yourself, etc. It can be super inspirational if it knows enough about your life and struggles.
Show HN: Markdown specs that don't compile (Pandoc and SQLite for typed docs)
by cclacerda13 | 2026-02-25 12:12:21+00:00
Hi HN, I wanted to write specs in plain Markdown but needed proper DO-178C traceability. At some point I joked: “we just need to marry Pandoc and SQLite.” This started as an internal tool for airborne software specifications and has been dogfooded for a couple of years. I think it’s finally in a state where it’s useful beyond our walled garden. It’s open source. It’s alpha. Rough edges everywhere..But it compiles its own docs, so you can clone the repo and start working immediately.

SpecCompiler lowers Markdown into a typed relational intermediate representation (SpecIR) and executes declarative structural constraints over it. If traceability is broken, attributes are missing, or relations are ill-typed, the build fails. Else, it emits:
DOCX (review-ready); HTML (with SQLite.js); ReqIF for interoperability; Anything pandoc can target.

The type system is extensible, you define your own types. The architecture is domain-agnostic. If you can express it as objects, attributes and relations you can type-check it. And it turns out, building a Markdown type system goes way beyond safety-critical software. It generates beautifully cross-referenced documents without TeX. The web page is an actual database you can query without a server.

I'm genuinely curious what people think of the Pandoc-to-SQLite-to-Pandoc architecture itself and if treating textual specifications as statically typed source code is overengineering or overdue?
by DaedalusII | 2026-02-25 12:12:58+00:00
good question

i list for you the main problems with entering this space:

criminal liability for mistakes (AML rules), you have to manage fraud, the banks which are your custody providers will constantly try and shut you down, clients expect your service on day one to be equal to mastercard, your margins are almost nothing, it is one of the most competitive industries in the world, you need to go through central bank regulations/SEC equivalent every time you enter a new market, governments in countries like Vietnam or Bangladesh or China are actively hostile to your business model, and it is HYPER competitive. anything you do well, stripe/airwallex/etc will clone immediately

Airwallex is one of the most powerful stripe competitors and the CEO is a psychopath that seems like a tv parody of a silicon valley CEO. he has to be though because so many governments, banks, competitors etc are trying to crush him constantly.

note that stripe differentiates itself heavily on checkout technology, basically making the experience of paying for things easier for the consumer.
by nicbou | 2026-02-25 12:12:59+00:00
It's hard to keep it all together.

I use Obsidian for journaling across devices. My work notes are in a Markdown folder under the project. My personal notes are in a paper notebook and scanned when I run out of pages. Links are bookmarked.

The paper notebook solves the recall problem; it's just a few pages back. Most things I write down are only useful for a few months, then they become a mere artifact of my life at that point in time.
by ninkendo | 2026-02-25 12:13:10+00:00
You never, ever need to interrupt the user or stop them from what they’re doing in order to show them some new feature.

Here’s what you do:

- Make a “what’s new” section in settings.

- Put a link in there that takes me to a webpage where I can see what’s new.

- That’s it.

Instead what always seems to happen is that I’m in the middle of trying to do something with the software and in order to do that I must close whatever popup you’re shoving in my face to tell me about the new feature. I don’t have time to read it now because I opened the software with an intention to finish a task and I don’t have time to read it now. And then later when I finally do have the time to look at your new feature? Nobody bothers actually putting that information anywhere persistent, so I guess I’m out of luck even if I care about the feature.

Updating to a new iOS version is a perfect example of this. Say there are a dozen apps that have a new feature popup on first launch when you update iOS. Imagine a typical day waking up and trying to use my phone. I have to drive somewhere so I try to put an address into Maps and have to immediately fend off the “what’s new in maps” dialog so I can type the address I need to go to. Then I want to put on the song my kid is yelling at me to play and have to fend off the “what’s new in Music” popup. Later I’m trying to respond to an important text and have to fend off “What’s new in messages”, etc etc etc.

That first day using iOS is an absolute nightmare because of this.

Now imagine the alternative: a simple badge icon in the settings app, and I tap it and see a link to “what’s new in iOS”, and guess what, it can be a fucking webpage! I can bookmark it! I can add it to my reading list and see it later! Hell, I can even share it with my friends!

But no, instead apps insist on trying to increase “engagement” with their new feature, because some PM’s promo packet wants to include “this many users used my new feature” and the only way they can think to do this is to (1) stop the user from accomplishing their task until they tap the cutesy “Got It!” button, and (2) don’t bother with persisting it anywhere, because the idea that the user doesn’t have time to check out the feature now is so foreign to these sociopaths it never even crossed their mind.
by pu_pe | 2026-02-25 12:13:59+00:00
One aspect of the AI bubble that is not talked about very much is how the European market is a key factor in any serious calculation about future revenue. If Europe decides to, or is forced to decouple its digital infrastructure from the US, that essentially slashes the addressable market of a company like chatGPT by a third. And Europe has some of the richest customers too.

In other words, Sam Altman et al. should be hardcore Atlanticists at this point.
by sublinear | 2026-02-25 12:14:40+00:00
And yet we live in a world where even a basic surveillance camera, dashcam, or bodycam are often broken, missing, or turned off.

It's not always nefarious. The friction is just too high and people don't actually care about any of those things you listed as much as you might believe. If they did, we'd just as easily employ people performing audits on every interaction of every waking moment since the beginning of humanity. A nanny, if you will.

In the real world, simplicity wins. You can say it's irrational all you want. Nobody cares. Cost, reliability, and impedance are more important. No amount of engineering or economy of scale will overcome those things. Doing nothing is always an option and so this is all ultimately political.

What humanity has learned again and again is that trust is too important and intrinsic to leave it up to politics. All that will result in is brittle rules that are easily abused worse than the original problem they intended to solve. It's much easier to convince people to socialize accordingly and ignore or punish the people who refuse to comply.

Making sure that every decision in a flowchart leads somewhere is not necessarily valuable or even desirable to anyone.
by popey | 2026-02-25 12:15:03+00:00
The agents are smart enough to write the evals too.

It's agents all the way down!

Submit a GitHub repo containing skills to Tessl, and it will generate the evals, run them, and present the results. https://tessl.io/registry/skills/submit

The evals and results are all shown, no login necessary, so you can assess them yourself. e.g. https://tessl.io/registry/skills/github/coreyhaines31/market... (click details to see the eval texts).
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-02-25 12:15:04+00:00
Don’t just stand there with your hair turning gray,
soon enough the seas will sink your little island.
So while there is still the illusion of time,
set out for another shore.
No sense packing a bag.
You won’t be able to lift it into your boat.
Give away all your collections.
Take only new seeds and an old stick.
Send out some prayers on the wind before you sail.
Don’t be afraid.
Someone knows you’re coming.
An extra fish has been salted.

by Mona (Sono) Santacroce (1928–1995)

from The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski
by whh | 2026-02-25 12:15:17+00:00
I think a move to Open Source would be great in Europe, but only if the governments using the technologies are actively funding their development.

This doesn't just mean once-off grants, or a bit of cash donated here and there. I would like to see per-user per-year contributions to the organisations that develop these tools on-par with the current spend going towards Microsoft Cloud products.

It can be better than Microsoft, but you need to fund it to be better than Microsoft.
Show HN: AI models debate each other on cross-domain research hypotheses
by aegismind_app | 2026-02-25 12:15:31+00:00
We built a research discovery pipeline that ingests papers from arXiv and Semantic Scholar, finds cross-domain connections, generates hypotheses with a multi-model ensemble, formally verifies them with Z3, then stress-tests survivors in adversarial debate.

The twist: we capture and display what each model said when critiquing. No single-model black box — you see GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and Grok arguing for and against the same hypothesis.

Example: [Distributed feedback control from microbial consortia enhances metabolic stability in Ginzburg-Landau cognition models](https://www.aegismind.app/discoveries/2af7c10d-18f8-42d5-8c9...). The hypothesis bridges synthetic biology and physics-of-cognition. The debate transcript shows Claude calling it "artificially stitched together" while Gemini finds it "a plausible theoretical synthesis." We surface both — and the evidence score (38% challenged) — instead of hiding the disagreement.

Pipeline: arXiv ingestion → cross-domain matching → multi-model hypothesis generation → Z3 theorem prover → adversarial debate → ranked discoveries. The whole thing runs autonomously; discoveries are published daily at [aegismind.app/discoveries](https://www.aegismind.app/discoveries).

We'd love feedback on the approach. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the debate design.
by baq | 2026-02-25 12:16:11+00:00
> I hope they're willing to risk losing their seat at the table to be guided by values.

that's about as naive as it can be.

if they have any values left at all (which I hope they have) them not being at the table with labs which don't have any left is much worse than them being there and having a chance to influence at least with the leftovers.

that said, of course money > all else.
by titanomachy | 2026-02-25 12:16:24+00:00
I'm not American, but I assumed you were American because you were defiantly declaring that you don't tip, whereas in Europe (for example) it would not be worthy of comment :P

Guess we both assumed.

Also, you're right that the tip comes after, so not tipping is safe... until you go to the same restaurant twice (in America).
by _pdp_ | 2026-02-25 12:16:45+00:00
I suppose we are working on different problems.

In my own experience I cannot blindly accept code without even looking at it even for a few moments because I've had many situations where the code was simply doing the wrong things... including tests are completely wrong and testing the wrong assumptions.

So yah, even when I review trivial changes I still look at the diff view to see if it makes sense. And IDEs make code review a lot easier than diff.

Btw, this experience is not from lack of trying. We use coding agent extensively (I would assume more than the typical org looking at our bill) and while they are certainly very, very helpful and I cannot describe how much effort they are really saving us, there is absolutely zero chance of pushing something out without reviewing it first - same applies for code written by AI agent or a coworker.
by hvsr4z | 2026-02-25 12:17:22+00:00
The EU should invite them over.

The kind of principles you talk about can only be upheld one level up the food chain. By govts.

Which is why legislatures, the supreme court, central banks, power grid regulators deciding the operating voltage and frequency auto emerge in history. Cause corporations structurally cant do what they do without voilating their prime directive of profit maximization.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-25 12:17:33+00:00
So, let me get this straight then.

You believe the audience for a blog about being tired of multi-tasking is young people, from this new generation that is always multi-tasking (on the smartphone, talking to multiple people, etc)?

You honestly believe they need a metaphor like "single thread versus multi-thread" to grasp the idea of what doing multiple things at the same time means, practically?

If you do, ok then. Who am I to disagree?

I still think none of this makes sense, and the metaphor sucks.
by maypeacepreva1l | 2026-02-25 12:17:46+00:00
I beg to differ here. There are multiple things that have been either unprecedented or done in larger scale by this administration. We can start the blame from founding fathers for creating an exploitable system (as Godel had correctly pointed out), but to look elsewhere for the blatant abuse of power and disregarding privacy of citizens by this administration is, in my opinion, a biased take on it.
by _dky | 2026-02-25 12:18:13+00:00
If implementation is task based and task always runs on same virtual CPU (slots equaling CPUs or parallelism), wonder if something like below might help.

RW lock could be implemented using an array of length equal to slots and proper padding to ensure each slot is in its own face line (avoid invalidating CPU cache when different slot is read/written).

For read lock: Each task acquires the lock for their slot.

For write lock: Acquire lock from left most slot to right. Writes can starve readers when they block on in-flight reader at a different slot when moving from left to right.

I do not know how Rust RW locks are implemented.
by 999900000999 | 2026-02-25 12:19:01+00:00
TBF I also sorta just think Microsoft is generally stupid.

> Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts...

After thinking about this for 90 seconds, Microsoft could license Azure tech to Hetzner or something. Keep the servers under EU control, but unless they share source code it’s still a blackbox.

Honestly everything used for anything serious should be open source and regularly audited. We need check each others homework.
by b0bbi | 2026-02-25 12:19:03+00:00
Ah, the classic "99% of gamblers quit right before they win big" mindset! :)

But honestly, your second point is the ultimate truth. Ignorance truly is bliss. The happiest people are usually the ones who have zero idea what the current price of Bitcoin or Nvidia is, not even BTC or NVDA, hehe.
by hansvm | 2026-02-25 12:19:08+00:00
I've observed the same behavior on AMD and Intel at $WORK. Our solution (ideal for us, reads happening roughly 1B times more often than writes) was to pessimize writes in favour of reads and add some per-thread state to prevent cache line sharing.

We also tossed in an A/B system, so reads aren't delayed even while writes are happening; they just get stale data (also fine for our purposes).
by gammalost | 2026-02-25 12:19:32+00:00
The argument is based on the assumption that knowing what DNS, SSH, etc., is an innate good for the average person. But why should it be? The average user does not have the time or interest to run arbitrary code on their phone. In the same way that I do not have the time or interest to service my own car. Could I learn it if need be? Probably. Could they learn how to SSH into a server, change DNS settings, or clone a git repo? Probably. Is either of them worth our time? Probably not.
by paganel | 2026-02-25 12:19:38+00:00
> I’ve been an engineer for almost 40 years and love seeing what Claude Code can do.

You would say that because otherwise you'd be afraid as being seen as "too old for this job", and hence risking getting kicked out of it all, meaning no future employment opportunities. I know that feeling, because I myself have been doing this programming job for 20+ years already (so not a young one by any means), but let's just cut the crap about it all and let's tell it how it is.
by juleiie | 2026-02-25 12:19:49+00:00
No, I believe that money successful humans as single units are extremely rational and cold calculating.

The problem is that this rationality is often centered on a single beneficiary (You) because why would you care about any other beneficiary?

However times and times again it turns out that no company is as evil as government. Hence I am an anarcho capitalist.

On the whole even with every company only thinking about themselves, it is a distributed system self sustaining and self correcting. No single unit has unlimited power.

Historically it’s always the governments that are vastly more evil and chaotic than any private enterprise ever conceived.

And so we can see it now as another example from USA government. No company could ever get so corrupt and evil as current American elected officials.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-25 12:19:54+00:00
> It can be better than Microsoft, but you need to fund it to be better than Microsoft.

Lol no. Microsoft profits more than the value they provide, not exactly we should want to copy. We need to prevent hypercapitalism from reaching us in Europe, not make it worse, as we now seen exactly what it does to countries when you let it grow unfettered.

But I agree in general, governments and companies that use FOSS should donate back either engineering-time or money, but no need to do complicated "per-user per-year contributions", give them a sum per year, enough to fund the core developers at least and ideally to hire new ones, otherwise hire engineers and let them full-time contribute back.

Luckily, at least in Europe, this is exactly what we're seeing now. The governments who are looking into FOSS are all thinking about how to help fund it, no one seem to be thinking "How can we do this for free?" which is nice thing to see.
by bradley13 | 2026-02-25 12:20:23+00:00
That's great, but it's always just one agency, or one very local bit of government. If we (Europeans) really mean it - and we should - the top level of government just needs to make the declaration: as of X, all Microsoft licenses will be terminated. No exceptions. Adapt or die.

According to the CLOUD act, the US government can demand access to data from US companies, regardless of where that data is stored. That must be unacceptable to any sovereign government. I genuinely do not understand why other countries put up with this.
by anthk | 2026-02-25 12:21:02+00:00
That's the curse on the Unix world. At least FreeBSD, NetBSD (OpenBSD not by design, but that's understandable because of security) have their compat libraries on plus some of them (even GTK1) in their ports. On 9front, I just adapted Russ Cox' Xword (some crossword player for XWord files, it has a converter from Across Lite Puz files to Xword) for modern times, barely a few lines changes in some drawing function for software made for Plan9 4ed or close.

PD: Guix can do the same as fbsd and nbsd because, well, setting up an isolated environment with time-bound tools it's basically what Guix was born for, reproducibility. Scientific repo for a paper must be run point to point as we had a Slackware setup with Slackbuilds in 2007? That's the point of Guix. You would say... docker. But docker it's overkill.
by albertogalca | 2026-02-25 12:21:27+00:00
For me, Obsidian is not focused on journaling. It’s important for me to have this app separate because I don’t want to mix my journaling with other things. Right now, I have everything in Bear plus a physical journal, but I would like to have one app that is only for journaling.

But of course, it’s my preference. You can absolutely use Obsidian.