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by Lilith4o | 2026-02-09 03:50:00+00:00
I hesitated to share this because I’m not a typical HN user, but here’s my experience with GPT‑4o…
I’m not a technical user. I studied humanities, and I mostly work in public service. GPT‑4o has been quietly transformative for me in day-to-day life, not because it’s flashy, but because it helps with things I couldn’t ask a person to do over and over again without guilt or shame.
When I experience depressive episodes or social anxiety, I lose the ability to process thoughts clearly or communicate well. GPT‑4o helps me organize my thoughts, write messages with clarity and calm, and prepare myself mentally for difficult conversations. It doesn’t “replace” humans — but it helps me stay connected with the world when I’m at my lowest.
I’ve also used it as a mirror to think more deeply about myself — not in a therapeutic sense, but in a reflective one. I’ve journaled with it, questioned my values with it, and tried to understand parts of myself that otherwise remain buried in noise or self-censorship. It’s strange to say, but the consistent tone and memory helped me build internal continuity, especially during periods when I didn’t feel like “myself.”
To me, this tool has been part cognitive scaffold, part co‑writer, part emotional stabilizer. That’s not just sentimentalism — it affects how well I function. These subtle, personal use cases are rarely seen in blog posts or launch demos, but I hope they are part of the conversation. Especially for those of us outside the US tech bubble, we often don’t get to “vote” except through usage. And when something this impactful quietly disappears, we feel powerless.
I’m not asking to halt progress. Just that, if possible, people making decisions about AI products also hear stories like this — of how these tools don’t just perform, but support.
by Lammy | 2026-02-09 03:54:44+00:00
> hasn't re-released GTA 4 recently

I did start trying to replay GTA4 recently, and although I loved playing it the first time, this time I couldn't stop noticing that each mission's Niko/NPC dialog feels very forcefully-timed to match almost to the second how long it takes to drive to the first objective. I found it really immersion-breaking.

PCGW sez “Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties” but IMO if one wants to reinstall, use FusionFix and Radio Restoration mods and no need for anything else. No packaged GTA4 re-release from Rockstar would be good enough to re-license all the removed songs anyway if the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition is any indication: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/333629-grand-theft-auto...

If they really wanted to get my money they would re-release Midnight Club Los Angeles on PC instead :)
by skyberrys | 2026-02-09 03:55:29+00:00
Borrow This And Improve It - an app for tracking repairs to a thing (right now it's bicycles only, planning to extend to other things like leaf blowers and electronics) and giving away half broken things or repaired things to others but with the advantage of also giving away the repair history for something. So for example, I found a bicycle in the trash, fixed it up with a few new parts (less than $6) and soon I'll try to give the now repaired bicycle away to a new home, plus a QR code that links to its repair history. The idea being that knowing how something was fixed once will make it more likely that it would be fixed again.

How Home Alone My House - A fun app I'm making with my children using computer vision. The idea is I can scan the room with my camera before unwittingly walking into their traps and becoming a hapless adult who didn't pay close enough attention to tripping hazards and choke lines.
by rush86999 | 2026-02-09 03:55:50+00:00
I'm building a safer Agent system for SMBs.

The biggest problem is internal knowledge and external knowledge systems are completely different. One reason internal knowledge is different it is very specific business context and/or it's value prop for the business that allows charging clients for access.

To bridge this gap, the best approach is to train agents to your use case. Agents need to be students -> interns -> supervised -> independent before they can be useeful for your business.

https://github.com/rush86999/atom . it's still in alpha.
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-02-09 03:56:05+00:00
>> Attacks like this are not helped by the increasingly-common "curl | bash" installation instructions ...

> It's not really any different than downloading a binary from a website, which we've been doing for 30 years.

The two are very different, even though some ecosystems (such as PHP) have used the "curl | bash" idiom for about the same amount of time. Specifically, binary downloads from reputable sites have separately published hashes (MD5, SHA, etc.) to confirm what is being retrieved along with other mechanisms to certify the source of the binaries.
by robrenaud | 2026-02-09 03:57:08+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with a live win probability predictor for the 10-player arcade game Killer Queen. The goal is to predict the winner in a causal, event-by-event fashion.

Right now I’m struggling to beat a baseline LightGBM model trained on hand-engineered expert features. My attempts at using a win probability head on top of nanoGPT, treating events as tokens, have been significantly worse. I am seeing about 65% accuracy compared to the LightGBM’s 70%. That 5% gap is huge given how stochastic the early game is, and the Transformer is easily 4 OOM more expensive to train.

To bridge the gap, I’m moving to a hybrid approach. I’m feeding those expert features back in as additional tokens or auxiliary loss heads, and I am using the LightGBM model as a teacher for knowledge distillation to provide smoother gradients.

The main priority here is personalized post-game feedback. By tracking sharp swings in win probability, or $\Delta WP$, you can automatically generate high or low-light reels right after a match. It helps players see the exact moment a play was either effective or catastrophic.

There is also a clear application for automated content creation. You can use $\Delta WP$ as a heuristic to identify the actual turning points of a match for YouTube summaries without needing to manually scrub through hours of Twitch footage.
Show HN: VC Screener – Evaluate YC X26 apps against prev YC companies
by bG9sY2F0 | 2026-02-09 03:57:14+00:00
Applying to X26 (deadline is tomorrow).

I built this because I got rejected from W25 (AI tutor idea) and wanted to sanity check my future apps based on what empirical indicators I could find.

Here is how it works:
Vector Search: Checks your idea against 5,000+ past YC companies (successes and failures).
Rubric Analysis: Evaluates the startup mechanics based on criteria extracted from YC Startup School and Paul Graham's essays.

Tested it on a few friends building stuff. Correctly identified a VS Code docs extension as a nice-to-have / low urgency (Fail). Gave a pass to a campus sublet marketplace, but correctly flagged the chicken and egg supply risk.
by primaprashant | 2026-02-09 04:00:24+00:00
Been working on a weekly newsletter [1] to stay fully informed about agentic coding with one email, once a week. I also keep the focus narrow, only on what engineers and tech leaders would find useful for shipping code and leading teams, which means I filter out all generic AI news, or what CEO said what, or any marketing fluff.

[1]: https://www.agenticcodingweekly.com/
by krat0sprakhar | 2026-02-09 04:00:29+00:00
Looks really interesting but is the entire project ~5K lines of Go in one file? Don't you find that hard to read or are you purely vibecoding this?

> This project is 99.9% vibe-coded on the exe.dev platform using their Shelley Web AI Coding Agent and Claude Opus 4.5. Take that as you will.

Ah, wait - should've read the README before commenting. /facepalm

Thanks for sharing the project - will try it out!
by dialloDojo | 2026-02-09 04:00:56+00:00
I am working on building a youtube supplement, not a replacement, that tries to replace the algorithm with a transparent shuffle.

The idea is that future discovery isn't limited by watch history and users on the platform can curate, showcase and amplify their favorite videos. It is an equal opportunity stage where users contribute to build a time capsule of videos.

If that sounds interesting to you, check it out at http://jadestage.com/ !
by jppope | 2026-02-09 04:01:06+00:00
From an economics standpoint the current state of the economy and the labor market doesn't really make any sense with the narrative being pushed.

Companies are claiming that they are achieving productivity gains from AI yet we've seen basically no evidence of it. Furthermore, if there were gains from it, we would expect the companies seeing the benefit to invest more into those productivity gains rather than less. Or put bluntly, they claim they are "buying money at a discount" but they just don't feel like buying more money.

The more reasonable explanation is that the economy is actually not in great shape, and companies/leaders are lying about the state of their companies (shocking right?). Companies are taking advantage of "AI" (LLMs) in narrow fields that are already highly codified (software, medical, legal, etc) but adoption is lower or even unwanted in other areas.

The labor market in software probably reflects this. You would avoiding hiring unless you need to; if you need to you are going to hire well because there is a lot of talent in the labor market... the only exception to this might be companies willing to take some risks (lower skill labor) for various reasons (financial, industry, etc).

There are a lot of charlatans out there selling this vision of a world where agents do all the work and software engineers are completely replaced... but it doesn't hold any water. Expect Javons paradox to be your favorite phrase as soon as the economy starts doing better.
by Tarrosion | 2026-02-09 04:01:30+00:00
[citation needed] that some combination of "New Urbanism, traditional neighbourhood design, streetcar suburbs, one-way streets, bike paths, walking paths, mixed-zone walkable villages (light commercial with residential), smaller single-family houses and duplexes, triplexes, houses behind houses." is not in fact optimal! (For certain objective functions)
by aunty_helen | 2026-02-09 04:01:38+00:00
Never gets prematurely optimised.

If it’s causing issues you can just ask the ai to improve that part. Shit, it will often even identify problematic areas.

And if migrating from a complete dumpster fire to a cleaner working system sounds hard, I’ve got news. AI can do that for you too! Just get it to write the migration files.

This is what it means to be a developer from today onwards…
by chrsstrm | 2026-02-09 04:01:52+00:00
I’m building an app that facilitates discovery and eases payments for roadside stands that sell produce, honey, maple syrup, eggs, firewood, crafts, etc. The concept is that any roadside vendor can sign up for free (forever, no add-ons or upsells) and they have an online home for their home business. The vendor can list up to 3 stands and show off the products they sell in each stand. Users can discover stands near them by list, search, or map, view the vendor and stand details, ratings, payment methods accepted, etc. When arriving at a stand the user can scan a QR code which opens a web cart, allowing them to add products they are going to purchase and then “check out” using one of the vendor’s stated payment methods like Venmo, CashApp, PayPal, Apple Cash, Zelle, or good old hard currency. We make these payments easier by standardizing the check out experience but we do not facilitate payments at all - these stands have always been and will continue to be self-serve on the honor system. Once you’ve paid, you get a receipt and take your goods. The vendor gets an alert that a sale intent was started and by which method so they know where to look for their revenue. In the future we may help with some basic reporting and very light inventory management if vendors ask for it. We allow users to alert the vendor if a stand is out of stock, which is also reflected in search so other users are informed as well. Users can then ask to receive re-stock alerts as the vendor restocks.
Then of course users can favorite stands and products, share them, rate them, and create shareable collections of stands they curate (The Honey Trail or Summer Sweet Corn All-Stars, etc.). Eventually we will be adapted for events like farmer’s markets, craft fairs, and christmas markets.
I built this because I am a maple syrup producer (tapping starts in a few short weeks from now) and I’m starting to get into mass sales of my syrup. I felt like people who produce and sell these products put a lot of hard work into the process and deserve a legit discovery tool as well as a basic stand management system that does not make them change their process or get in their way. An app like this costs basically nothing to run and I will ensure it is free to use as long as I am in charge. I’m testing this week and likely soft-launching in the next couple weeks - the goal is to be online around March 1.
It was just going to be web-only (Supabase with a Svelte front end) but after Claude put me in timeout last week I tried Antigravity and now have 80% of an iOS app and will scaffold my Android app in the next month - so native apps will follow a web release pretty quickly.
by freakynit | 2026-02-09 04:01:54+00:00
The idea is sound, and we definitely need something to address the surge in low-effort PRs, especially in the post-LLM era.

Regarding your points:

"Threat Actors compromising an account..." You're spot on. A vouch-based system inevitably puts a huge target on high-reputation accounts. They become high-value assets for account takeovers.

"Threat actors creating fake chains of trust..." This is already prevalent in the crypto landscape... we saw similar dynamics play out recently with OpenClaw. If there is a metric for trust, it will be gamed.

From my experience, you cannot successfully layer a centralized reputation system over a decentralized (open contribution) ecosystem. The reputation mechanism itself needs to be decentralized, evolving, and heuristics-based rather than static.

I actually proposed a similar heuristic approach (on a smaller scale) for the expressjs repo a few months back when they were the first to get hit by mass low-quality PRs: https://gist.github.com/freakynit/c351872e4e8f2d73e3f21c4678... (sorry, couldn;t link to original comment due to some github UI issue.. was not showing me the link)
by chongli | 2026-02-09 04:02:44+00:00
That's not what I want at all. I want a more realistic sim that deals with issues such as sprawl, food deserts, transportation elasticity of demand, mental health issues (and their impact on crime and productivity), and a network-flow theoretical model of transportation and commuting contributes to all this. Building a bunch of sprawling suburbs that feed into a dense downtown core should make your citizens' commute times shoot way up and lead to misery.

A well-built large city isn't just going to be 100% biking and walking paths, it's going to have streetcars, light rail transit, subways, and buses as well as roads with cars. The difference is that people shouldn't be forced to commute across the entire city to get to work because you decided to cram all of the commercial zoning into one downtown core.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-09 04:02:48+00:00
The goal isn't usually to determine whether the function is the perfect optimal version of the function that could ever exist, if the package it integrates with the the best possible package out of the 4 mainstream options, or to become totally and intimately familiar with them to ensure it's as idiomatic as possible or whatever.

You're just making sure it works correctly and that you understand how. Not superficially, but thinking through it indeed. That the tests are covering it. It doesn't take that long.

What you're describing sounds closer to studying the Talmud than to reading and reviewing most code.

Like, the kind of stuff you're describing is not most code. And when it is, then you've got code that requires design documents where the approach is described in great detail. But again, as a reader you just read those design documents first. That's what they're there for, so other people don't have to waste time trying out all the false starts and dead ends and incorrect architectures. If the code needs this massive understanding, then that understanding needs to be documented. Fortunately, most functions don't need anything like that.
by GauntletWizard | 2026-02-09 04:03:12+00:00
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by throwup238 | 2026-02-09 04:03:30+00:00
I get your general objections, but not in this specific case. Github has been using Github.io for pages since 2013 and it's been the de facto developer platform at least as long (and all other developer tools follow the same pattern when publishing user generated content). Unless GH has a massive vulnerability that hasn't been discovered yet, no one is publishing to *.github.github.io except for the official Github organization. That has been more stable than Linux syscalls and Windows GUI frameworks.

Would it really make a difference if they just added a CNAME from foobar.github.com to point at github.github.io?
by charcircuit | 2026-02-09 04:03:46+00:00
>That shift is reflected in how most people now detained by ICE have no criminal record.

Even so they may be here illegally which means they need to be kicked out.

>America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year

I believe it is the opposite. We need to 10x immigration enforcement until we have removed every illegal person otherwise the America as we have known it will not survive. The idea that being able to effectively enforce laws reduces freedom is the actual toxic idea to a free society.
by neya | 2026-02-09 04:03:49+00:00
> I'm guessing you just saw a headline and read nothing into it.

https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-val...

"As intelligence moves into scientific research, drug discovery, energy systems, and financial modeling, new economic models will emerge. Licensing, IP-based agreements, and outcome-based pricing will share in the value created. That is how the internet evolved. Intelligence will follow the same path."

"Intelligence will follow the same path."

This is from their official press release. Also, when you talk about "royalty models", what exactly do you think it means?
by GauntletWizard | 2026-02-09 04:04:32+00:00
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by dundercoder | 2026-02-09 04:06:23+00:00
Ritalin (methylphenidate) is a central nervous system stimulant used for ADHD and narcolepsy, but it is not an amphetamine based medication, unlike Adderall. While both increase dopamine and norepinephrine, Ritalin acts as a reuptake inhibitor rather than a stimulant that directly releases these neurotransmitters like amphetamines do.

Adderall saved my life. YMMV
by skyberrys | 2026-02-09 04:06:38+00:00
What do you mean by RTL because all I can come up with is Verilog or VHDL and I'm certain that's not your meaning. I'll try it out. I have a children's book story I've been trying to image generate for 3 years now and it's not yet worked out. I think the primary reason it fails is that the scenery I request is lifelike yet extremely rare to actually see, although, I did see it, and that's what inspires the story.
by abcde666777 | 2026-02-09 04:06:50+00:00
There's so many things in games that are taken for granted at play time but which actually take a lot of thinking and work to get right. Roads for instance aren't something which your typical player will look too closely at... but they will notice if they look or behave in a way that seems wrong.

I've been playing Kingdom Come 2 of late, and I find it's natural to just kind of take the world they've created for granted - just like we do the real world. But when you actually stop and look you have to consider that every one of the finely crafted details was built by someone's sweat and tears, be it artists, programmers, or designers at edit time.

No wonder it's an industry of crunch, the work involved can be uniquely daunting.
by heyitssim | 2026-02-09 04:06:55+00:00
My version of OP's roads problem is blob autotiling - how tiles connect to their neighbors. 256 possible neighbor combinations reduce to 47 valid patterns once you realize corners only matter when both adjacent edges are present. You paint a semantic type like "wall", the system resolves the right tile from those 47 patterns - but painting one tile cascades outward, neighbors re-resolve, which triggers their neighbors, and you're tracking stale state to keep it all consistent. Same underlying problem as road segments affecting connected intersections.

I've been trying to make this as easy as possible for non technical people to draw terrain in craftmygame (the game engine I'm building) here's what the terrain painting looks like in the editor so far : https://youtu.be/bFrUYM2t3ZA?si=tw1LqBWR7Uyn08lR&t=37
by mNovak | 2026-02-09 04:06:56+00:00
Very cool! A couple notes from my first few sols:

- I had a really hard time building a greenhouse, because I hadn't realized it'd be bigger than 1 square like all the previous buildings, and it just wouldn't build despite having materials etc. Maybe a footprint outline while hovering a build option?

- There were a lot of instructions from Dr. Kimura right off the bat. Hard for me to remember all that, and I was hoping talking to the doc again would replay those hints.

- My population seems to be stuck at 2.. I have landing pads and habitats and plenty of food etc, but don't really know what I should be doing next.

- that menus continue beyond the first couple lines was not obvious to me. Possibly because I'm on laptop, so the existing hint was way far to the right
by sonofhans | 2026-02-09 04:07:01+00:00
I don’t treat literature like tech books. A new novel doesn’t supplant an old one. New expressions of old ideas don’t make old ideas obsolete

There are always better books, but how do you know? Do you take my word for it? “Hey, I’ve read ALL the books, and these new books here are the best … trust me.” Better to read the old books yourself and be sure, right?
by npn | 2026-02-09 04:07:26+00:00
Tools exists so we can spend our time focusing on more important matter. AI is not any exception of that.

Till this day even there exists IDEs with proper auto-complete suggestions (or editors with LSP support), there are still a lot of people prefer doing it in the old way (vim/emac/nano) and none of them get fired for that.

Z3 exists but we still like to solve algorithms by hand. High level languages exists but C/C++ codes are still written every day, even asm is still used.

On the brighter side of the issue, we now have ton of legacy projects written in obscure languages (COBOL, FORTRAN) that only some dozen people can maintain effectively, and those people are mostly at retirement age now. GenAI can solve that.