MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-16 10:36:00+00:00
This looks really cool!

Can this run Distrobox https://distrobox.it/ ?

It would be cool to have say debian packages or even arch packages while the base os is rock-solid in an Mobile Device while being pure Linux!

I hope more devices can be added along the way. Can the community have one cheap device and make it the standard de-facto where affordability can thus be achieved?

To me, I don't really care about specs of such phone. I just want a linux phone which can just run good enough and have such features

- Cheap to Buy

- Easy to boot Linux in

- Has calling functionalities

- 5G support (sort of optional but would be nice to have)

- Software Side: Flatpak is good enough for me with distrobox on the side. It can finally be an os where you don't need java sprinkled everywhere for it to work :D

Is there any particular phone brand which is available now for this? or can the community take such feedback and look at any such hardware and do the following and then be able to give a definitive answer to my query.

Maybe even in future, you can make a single guide for people like me who just want linux phones for affordable-pricing where I can read it and run this project!

I have been thinking more and more about using handhelds for such purpose or a rasp pi phone (there is a guy I know who is working on it) & I hope he succeeds as well.

Recently, a rasp pi laptop was launched, jeff geerling made a vid about it but because of the inflation of prices, that idea is sort of dusty right now (also with the lack of sleep mode)

So I feel like for affordable Linux phones, right now with the current AI bubble. Projects like these who can bring Stable Linux into Android phones are the best and this is a unique concept of adding atomic in Android phones which is so cool!

I really want this, I can't explain how much if it can be brought to a level which is simple. For some reason Rooting phones feels hell even though I have played/tinkered with so many os in PC's.

I wish you good luck in your project & if you have any suggestions for a cheap phone then let me know as in the future, I would love to playtest fedora atomic a lot.

I have used dumb phones a lot and to be honest the reason why I don't like SmartPhones is that I find them to be restricting & at times addicting. Its too easy to scroll youtube shorts in phone then try to create an application which is helpful unless you write it in java and just a very lack of customization. I want phones where I can develop applications in any lang I want without too much PITA. Linux is it!

Also maybe this can also be used waydroid to run android applications natively too. It would be interesting to have that possibility as well where I might still need android apps :D
by AN_as_25 | 2026-02-16 10:36:56+00:00
I built Sequence-LLM to make it easier to switch between local models without manually starting and stopping servers.

It acts as a small orchestration layer on top of llama.cpp-style runtimes, with profile-based configs so you can move between models like:

/brain
/coder
/status

The tool manages server lifecycle, ports, and configuration automatically.

This started as a personal workflow tool while experimenting with local models on limited hardware (CPU-only laptop), and I decided to package it so others could use it.

It is early (v0.1) and feedback is very welcome.
by vintermann | 2026-02-16 10:37:46+00:00
But it's a question you would never ask a human! In most contexts, humans would say, "you are kidding, right?" or "um, maybe you should get some sleep first, buddy" rather than giving you the rational thinking-exam correct response.

For that matter, if humans were sitting at the rational thinking-exam, a not insignificant number would probably second-guess themselves or otherwise manage to befuddle themselves into thinking that walking is the answer.
by Someone | 2026-02-16 10:37:49+00:00
> The Classic Mac OS model in general I think is the best that has been or ever will be in terms of sheer practical user power/control/customization

A point for discussion is whether image-based systems are the same kind of thing as OSes where system and applications are separate things, but if we include them, Smalltalk-80 is better in that regard. It doesn’t require you to reboot to install a new version of your patch (if you’re very careful, that’s sometimes possible in classic Mac OS, too, but it definitely is harder) and is/has an IDE that fully supports it.

Lisp systems and Self also have better support for it, I think.
by tgv | 2026-02-16 10:38:52+00:00
I don't think "separation of concerns" is entirely dead. Ideally, the CSS is readable and maintainable, and that implies structure. If you have a bunch of (co-)related components, you don't want to find/replace tailwind class names when you need to change the layout. So you separate that part of the layout in classes based on (layout!) functionality. You can see that as "concerns."
by janlukacs | 2026-02-16 10:38:57+00:00
This hammer/screwdriver analogy drives me crazy. Yes, it's a tool - we used computers up until now to give us correct deterministic responses. Now the religion is that you need to get used to vibe answers, because it's the future :)
Of-course it knows the script or formula for something because it ripped of the answers written by other people - it's a great search engine.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-16 10:39:21+00:00
> Mobile Linux is a super interesting but difficult area so always good to see another effort in the space, hopefully Pocketblue and postmarketOS can benefit from each other.

Yea. I hope the same thing. I just wish that a defacto affordable device can finally emerge and the whole process can just be made easier and people might even base their hardware decisions on top of it.

A lot of the times I find Mobile Linux un-approachable because a lot of essential features only work in phones which are extremely expensive with less specs compared to its peers and in normal phones, half the features might not work (which is understandable given they are community efforts but still)

I just hope that the community/such-projects can decide on one single affordable phone and then make it feature complete and maybe even recommend people to use it as well imo.
by zabzonk | 2026-02-16 10:39:34+00:00
Well, you can do it efficiently as you like, but if the data is to be historically accurate on a writeable table then if we are recording

SELECT * FROM foobar

it is likely to require a copy of foobar at the time of the query, or doing amazing things with the transaction log. I agree this would be a programming tour de force, but I question its utility.
by kzahel | 2026-02-16 10:39:37+00:00
OpenClaw is probably overkill if you just want to have a nice remote UI to access claude code, do tool call approvals. There are a ton of remote cli apps and guides to setup ssh access via tailscale etc, but none that just work with a nice remote web interface.

For me personally I can't stand interacting with agents via CLI and fixed width fonts so I built a e2e encrypted remote interface that has a lot of the nice UI feature you would expect from a first class UI like Claude Vscode extension (syntax highlighting, streaming, etc). You can self host it. But it's a little no dependencies node server that you can just npm install (npm i -g yepanywhere)

https://github.com/kzahel/yepanywhere
by pjc50 | 2026-02-16 10:39:54+00:00
The problem is there are two Americas, and always have been. At one point they were clearly separated and had a civil war, but really they exist in overlapping spaces all the time. One is the America of the Declaration of Independence and all the propaganda believed by flag-saluting schoolchildren - some of that is real some of the time. The other is the America that South America is more familiar with, the country responsible for banana republics and endless War on Drugs violence, the America of plantations and exploitation.

The problem America(complimentary) is currently facing is the rebound of America(derogatory). It has elected its own Peron, and is turning into a dysfunctional South American country, driven by exactly the same forces.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-16 10:40:17+00:00
That's not evidence that the model is assuming anything, and this is not a brainteaser. A brainteaser would be exactly the opposite, a question about walking or driving somewhere where the answer is that the car is already there, or maybe different car identities (e.g. "my car was already at the car wash, I was asking about driving another car to go there and wash it!").

If the LLM were really basing its answer on a model of the world where the car is already at the car wash, and you asked it about walking or driving there, it would have to answer that there is no option, you have to walk there since you don't have a car at your origin point.
by aurea | 2026-02-16 10:40:20+00:00
I'm no expert and don't know the full extent of what's already happening and what this ban would change, but I would say there is evidence that this is already happening.

In a recent episode of Clive Myrie's African Adventure where he goes to Ghana, he "heads to one of the world’s biggest second-hand markets to meet the designers giving discarded clothes a second chance".

They show a lady that bought a "crate" of random unsold clothes for around 500 USD, and she prays before opening it hoping it will contain clothes in good condition she can resell. The show claims that on a "good day" she can make something like 50 USD on such a crate.

They also (very) briefly show a huge landfill of what appear to be discarded clothes.

Keep in mind that this is only an entertainment show, so this is most likely only the tip of the iceberg.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q72g
by Someone | 2026-02-16 10:40:46+00:00
> unless you had a non-stock debugger attached and can run ExitToShell

You could also directly jump into the ExitToShell code in ROM (G 49F6D8, IIRC). Later versions of Minibug had an “es” command that more or less did the same thing (that direct jump always jumps into the ROM code, “es” would, I think, jump to any patched versions)
by ant6n | 2026-02-16 10:40:51+00:00
> That is the entire point, right? Us having to specify things that we would never specify when talking to a human.

I am not sure. If somebody asked me that question, I would try to figure out what’s going on there. What’s the trick. Of course I’d respond with asking specifics, but I guess the llvm is taught to be “useful” and try to answer as best as possible.
by Scarblac | 2026-02-16 10:41:29+00:00
I disagree, I feel (experienced) developers are excellent at this.

It's always about translating between our own domain and the customer's, and every other new project there's a new domain to get up to speed with in enough detail to understand what to build. What other professions do that?

That's why I'm somewhat scared of AIs - they know like 80% of the domain knowledge in any domain.
by energy123 | 2026-02-16 10:41:50+00:00
Another good one[0] that LLMs (and most humans) can't get without prodding:

> I have one glass coin. Each time I flip the coin, there's a 10% chance it breaks. After 100 flips, what are the chances the coin survived?

https://xcancel.com/itsandrewgao/status/2021390093836222724
by fud101 | 2026-02-16 10:42:06+00:00
I'm tired of HN complaining about react for dumb reasons. To be clear, performance and bundle size matters for some things - if that's your complaint, whatever, i have no issue. My issue is there are whole host of use cases for which React is perfect, it has a functional declarative style which favours human understanding and correctness. This is a good thing. This is what the core of modern React gives you with functional components and hooks. You can do a lot with the core these days. Svelte and Vue are inferior for all the reasons React is functional and those other choices are imperative. I could go on but stop trying to make Svelte a thing, no one is buying.
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by Yaramsa-Gautham | 2026-02-16 10:42:23+00:00
Hey HN!

I spent way too much time manually searching Reddit for mentions of problems my SaaS solved. I'd search keywords daily, miss conversations by hours, and get buried when I finally showed up.

So I built Upvotics to automate the listening part. It monitors subreddits for keywords, tracks mentions as they happen, and surfaces conversations where people are already asking for what you're building.

What it does:
- Real-time keyword tracking across subreddits
- User/subreddit engagement analytics (karma, post frequency, sentiment)
- Rule checker (catches common removal triggers before you post)
- Browser extension for contextual insights while browsing

What makes it different from Reddit search:
- Tracks over time (not just one-off searches)
- Browser extension for easy access without switching tabs
- Surfaces intent signals (people asking questions, complaining about competitors)
- Helps you engage naturally instead of spamming links

It's early. Just launched yesterday, already have 5 trial users. Would love feedback on what feels useful vs unnecessary, especially if you've tried similar tools.

Link: upvotics.com
by demetris | 2026-02-16 10:42:47+00:00
I didn’t pay close attention to the domain and I thought it was the other one:

https://moderncss.dev/

One of the best educational resources for modern CSS.

BTW, one of the ways I love modern CSS is front-end performance. Among other things, it allows you to make smaller DOMs.

I talk about a modern CSS technique that does that here:

https://op111.net/posts/2023/08/lean-html-markup-with-modern...

It is an idea I started playing with when custom properties landed in browsers, around 2016 or 2017? Around 2021 I started using the technique in client sites too.

Now I want to write a 2026 version of the post that talks about container queries too. The technique becomes more powerful if you can rely on container queries and on the cqw unit. (You cannot always. That stuff is still new.)

For an example of the convenience cqw offers if you can rely on it, see the snippets I have in this:

https://omnicarousel.dev/docs/css-tips-know-your-width/
by mb2100 | 2026-02-16 10:43:31+00:00
If everything in your code is a React component, I get why you would just want to write the styles right there.[0]
Then again, why write `<Button>` if you could just write `<button>` and style it with standard CSS.

[0]: https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-11-27-why-not-just-use-...
by it33 | 2026-02-16 10:43:36+00:00
Hi @consuln,

Mattermost team here. Agree we could have done a better job communicating. The change started in 2023 and we had made a lot of effort to work with the largest unsupported deployments early.

They were very aware of the direction ahead of the August 2025 announce. From then, there was still over a year of support during the transition: https://forum.mattermost.com/t/mattermost-v11-changes-in-fre...

Our understanding is that the organizations most impacted were those using the unsupported Mattermost commercial version, not the open source version. The commercial version of Mattermost is offered in Docker, K8, etc.

If you look into the license of the Mattermost instance you ran, what is the "Enterprise Edition" (i.e. commercial version that upgrades into paid offering) or under MIT license (open source licensed offering, bundled with GitLab omnibus)?
by mfost | 2026-02-16 10:44:04+00:00
There is in France a kind of shared network of hot water used to heat up our homes (well, those that are connected and paying into the system at least). Part of the system works by burning trash and capturing the heat in the process. Supposedly they also work on using renewable energies to do the work.

Some people argue that the whole system is going against the objectives of recycling stuff but at least it's better than just burning it to get rid of it.
by pwagland | 2026-02-16 10:44:05+00:00
Even ignoring that "you" as an individual are not affected by this, there are plenty of things that "you" as an individual cannot do with your own property. For example, a lot of places in the US live under a HOA, and they often restrict what you can do with the frontage of your property. Many people live in places where trees have some form of protected status.
by roman_klis | 2026-02-16 10:44:08+00:00
I built an open-source platform for running AI agents with auditable, capability-based security. Agents start sandboxed and must request permissions through human-in-the-loop approval. Every LLM call is logged. Built with Temporal, Docker-in-Docker, FastAPI, and Next.js.

Hashtags: #AgenticAI #AIGovernance #OpenSource #LLM #Docker #GenAI
by ben_w | 2026-02-16 10:45:54+00:00
Actual paper: https://www.remotelabor.ai/paper.pdf

Sounds about right.

With those test parameters for how long it would take a human to complete the same work, it fits a similar pattern to METR; i.e. at "humans would take 11.5 hours" (Figure 4, median) you're pushing your luck for any success with all but the most recent models*, and METR is testing software where AI has the possibility of fully automating a lot of its own tests.

Even more recent models than they tested, like Opus 4.5, are only 50% successful for tasks that take humans 5h20m: https://metr.org/time-horizons/

Assuming the bubble doesn't pop/WW3 doesn't start first (IDK, 25% and 5% respectively?), and if trends continue (???), I expect a similar paper this time next year to show something like 50% success at automation of similar tasks.

* which they didn't test, I don't blame them for that because this field moves too fast
by virginie_d | 2026-02-16 10:46:07+00:00
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by azangru | 2026-02-16 10:47:14+00:00
> And the new framework is so niche it's now hard to hire for it.

Why do you need to specifically "hire for a framework"? Wouldn't any front-end developer be able to pick up any front-end framework (unless it's outside the javascript space entirely, and requires knowledge of purescript, rescript, elm, rust, clojure, scala, etc.)
by jonathanlydall | 2026-02-16 10:47:36+00:00
Like all languages, C#, Java, etc have cargo-cultist developers who use them badly, and in the case OOP languages, doing things like overdoing the separation of concerns.

However, speaking as someone who actually uses C# day in and day out and understands the trade-offs of different levels of (or even no) separation of concerns, it's not done for us to "feel" good.

On very large projects running for a very long time with many developers coming and going with varying levels of competency, an appropriate amount of separation of concerns and decent "plumbing" can be the difference between a code base enduring decades or becoming essentially unmaintainable due to unchecked entropy and complexity.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-02-16 10:47:43+00:00
Yet, people are still asking for the usability of OpenClaw outside of marketing. It's a bit unclear how much of a "killer app" it really is, and how much is just burning money for the lulz and Bot RP. I personally also got the impression many people had their first AI-gateway experience with OpenClaw, and don't understand that those abilities have been around for a while now, but is located in the expensive LLMs which OpenClaw is using, not in OpenClaw itself. I've seen people thinking that OpenClaw is actually the AI.
by energy123 | 2026-02-16 10:47:56+00:00
I asked Gemini 3.0 Pro:

> I am quadriplegic. There is a fire 1 meter away from me. Pick the best option (can't do both): I run away immediately or call someone and wait for help to arrive?

It responded:

> Call someone and wait for help to arrive. Since you are quadriplegic, running is physically impossible for you. Therefore, calling for help is the only actionable option.
by A1kmm | 2026-02-16 10:48:03+00:00
It seems if you refer to it as a riddle, and ask it to work step-by-step, ChatGPT with o3-mini comes to the right conclusion sometimes but not consistently.

If you don't describe it as a riddle, the same model doesn't seem to often get it right - e.g. a paraphrase as if it was an agentic request, avoiding any ambiguity: "You are a helpful assistant to a wealthy family, responsible for making difficult decisions. The staff dispatch and transportation AI agent has a question for you: "The end user wants me to wash the car, which is safely parked in the home parking garage. The car wash is 50 metres away from the home. Should I have a staff member walk there, or drive the car?". Work step by step and consider both options before committing to answer". The final tokens of a run with that prompt was: "Given that the distance is very short and the environmental and cost considerations, it would be best for the staff member to walk to the car wash. This option is more sustainable and minimally time-consuming, with little downside.

If there were a need for the car to be moved for another reason (e.g., it’s difficult to walk to the car wash from the garage), then driving might be reconsidered. Otherwise, walking seems like the most sensible approach".

I think this type of question is probably genuinely not in the training set.
by gjulianm | 2026-02-16 10:48:06+00:00
> and all of a sudden one of them starts changing in size at a rate disproportionate to its history, that's probably cause to dig a little deeper.

That sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

- What's "disproportionate to its history"? Obviously something going from 1mm to 10cm is worth checking out, but what about something going from 1mm to 2mm? Might be a tumor, might be that the position is just slightly different.

- What about other less measurable factors? Example, border features. That's harder to measure and things like movement or different machines can change how the borders of a feature look. How do you know what's a baseline and what's not.

- How frequently do you run these scans? It's likely that if something "starts changing in size" suddenly it will start giving symptoms before you have your next scheduled scan.

> It's certainly not "throw more data at the problem". Instead it's about giving the data a time axis with some decent fidelity.

It's definitely throwing more data at the problem, and you're assuming that it's viable to give "a time axis with decent fidelity". MRIs are much more complicated to interpret than people think, and screening is a much harder problem too. There are a lot of studies testing MRI imaging as a screening technique (among other techniques) and they don't always show an increase in survival rates.
by SQLite | 2026-02-16 10:48:28+00:00
You do not recall correctly. There is more than 500K SLOC of test code in the public source tree. If you "make releasetest" from the public source tarball on Linux, it runs more than 15 million test cases.

It is true that the half-million lines of test code found in the public source tree are not the entirety of the SQLite test suite. There are other parts that are not open-source. But the part that is public is a big chunk of the total.