MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 13pixels | 2026-02-10 15:11:33+00:00
This extends further than most people realize. If agents are the primary consumers of your product surface, then the entire discoverability layer shifts too. Right now Google indexes your marketing page -- soon the question is whether Claude or GPT can even find and correctly describe what your product does when a user asks.

We're already seeing this with search. Ask an LLM "what tools do X" and the answer depends heavily on structured data, citation patterns, and how well your docs/content map to the LLM's training. Companies with great API docs but zero presence in the training data just won't exist to these agents.

So it's not just "API docs = product" -- it's more like "machine-legible presence = existence." Which is a weird new SEO-like discipline that barely has a name yet.
by oblio | 2026-02-10 15:11:42+00:00
> If I got code like Joel describes for a code review, I'm sending it back asking for it to be clearly commented.

I'd argue that most code written today is never code reviewed. Heck, most code today isn't even read by another human being, and I'm talking about code generated by other humans! :-)

Most code written today (and most likely most code ever written) is poorly written code.

Now, these days there are many companies with good engineering practices, so there are lots of islands where this isn't the case.
by zukzuk | 2026-02-10 15:11:42+00:00
We've been using Zulip for our company chat for 2 years now. It does what we need it to do — while letting us control where it's deployed and where the data is stored (!!). But the UI is dated and awkward. The general feeling I get is that everyone at our company is okay with Zulip, but no one loves it. It just has that air of mediocrity about it. It's "okay".
by andershaig | 2026-02-10 15:11:44+00:00
I'm going a bit broader with my system but it's similar. Instead of trying to predict future behavior, I'm focusing on capturing new, meaningful information, preparing it for human review (no fully automatic writes) and pairing with an ongoing review process, deduplication and treating it like a resource I manually curate (with help to make that easier of course).

I think context needs to be treated primarily globally with the addition of some project specific data. For example, my coding preferences don't change between projects, nor does my name. Other data like the company I work for can change, but infrequently and some values change frequently and are expected to.

I also use Claude Code a lot more for thinking or writing these days so there's less separation between topics than there are in separate repos.
by hiccup_socks | 2026-02-10 15:11:45+00:00
>I don't really care what communists think since you aren't rational people. If you have any actual statement to make and for me to deconstruct again while pointing out your inability to follow through with basic logic or facts, please let me know.

just fyi, this part of your comment is hilariously childish.

(im an outside observer of your conversation, please dont unleash your advanced logic and facts on me, mr. rational!)
by jmclnx | 2026-02-10 15:11:59+00:00
With noscript active, I was able to see most of it.

>Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' as it has become the number 1 site for tracking the Epstein files

and the expense is 46,486 USD. He said he is happy to cover expenses and that Vercel worked good for your needs.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-10 15:12:10+00:00
I wonder how many programmers working today are coming through universities though? I'm self-taught, most of my programmers friends are as well, same with most of my colleagues back when I worked. I can remember maybe the name of 3-4 people in total, out of maybe ~30 or so, who went to university for computer science before they started working.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-10 15:12:20+00:00
While I haven't looking into it all that deeply, I'd say it's a replacement for vSphere and cobbled together hardware and networking, all with a centralized management interface/API.

Traditional hosting still, to some extend, struggle to provide the API, on demand, drive requirements for modern developers, who expect to be able stand up a bunch of virtual machines in a minute or so, especially if you also want a new private network, maybe some IPs and storage pools.

Having a single provider for your entire stack, software, hardware and network avoids the annoying back and forth with vendors, blaming each other. Having just one support contract for your entire stack is a pretty large plus.
by 13pixels | 2026-02-10 15:12:27+00:00
the "exploit the user's agentic LLM" angle is underappreciated imo. we already see prompt injection attacks in the wild -- hidden text on web pages that tells the agent to do things the user didn't ask for. now scale that to every e-commerce site, every SaaS onboarding flow, every comparison page.

it's basically SEO all over again but worse, because the attack surface is the user's own decision-making proxy. at least with google you could see the search results and decide yourself. when your agent just picks a vendor for you based on what it "found," the incentive to manipulate that process is enormous.

we're going to need something like a trust layer between agents and the services they interact with. otherwise it's just an arms race between agent-facing dark patterns and whatever defenses the model providers build in.
by neom | 2026-02-10 15:12:28+00:00
Not necessarily. Supply chains and vendor management into scale is very difficult and very very expensive, I think we prob spend north of $200MM to get to $150MM ARR, but the economics started to shake out thereafter based on CAGR. To do this without owning 0% of the company while still recognizing needing a lot of cash in the system to keep everything lubricated, (for example Michael Dell might be fine personally extending a $500MM line of credit to the business, if the business has $50MM in venture funds on some predictable growth rate) - basically you use true risk capital via the smallest amount of equity you can give to de-risk downstream capital requirements. I don't know anything about how Oxide is growing their business so this could be total nonsense in their case, but it's how we built a generational business (digitalocean)!
by sebringj | 2026-02-10 15:12:33+00:00
Hey HN,

Tried posting this yesterday evening but timing was off and it got buried quickly (4 points, no comments). Reposting now during peak hours.

I built Autonomo MCP because AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude, etc.) are great at generating code but terrible at actually running and validating it in real apps. They hallucinate, rely on slow screenshots, or break on multi-device flows.

Autonomo MCP gives agents a fast (~50ms), structured JSON view of app state (semantic UI IDs, network calls, errors, logs) across web + iOS + Android + desktop simultaneously. Local-first, MCP-integrated, no cloud leaks.

- Swap vision bloat for tiny tokens - Cross-device validation (e.g. tap mobile → see web update) - Early stage, just launched: https://github.com/sebringj/autonomo

Would love feedback: Does this solve a pain point for anyone building agentic dev tools? What platforms/workflows would you want next? (Android/Kotlin and C#/.NET are on the TODO list.)

Thanks for any stars, comments, or tries!

– Jason
by bikenaga | 2026-02-10 15:12:39+00:00
Original article: "A 15 Mpc rotating galaxy filament at redshift z = 0.032" - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/4/4306/8363602?lo...

Abstract: "Understanding the cold atomic hydrogen gas (H i) within cosmic filaments has the potential to pin down the relationship between the low density gas in the cosmic web and how the galaxies that lie within it grow using this material. We report the discovery of a cosmic filament using 14 H i-selected galaxies that form a very thin elongated structure of 1.7 Mpc. These galaxies are embedded within a much larger cosmic web filament, traced by optical galaxies, that spans at least $\sim 15$ Mpc. We find that the spin axes of the H i galaxies are significantly more strongly aligned with the cosmic web filament ( $\langle |\cos \psi|\rangle = 0.64 \pm 0.05$) than cosmological simulations predict, with the optically selected galaxies showing alignment to a lesser degree ( $\langle |\cos \psi|\rangle = 0.55 \pm 0.05$). This structure demonstrates that within the cosmic filament, the angular momentum of galaxies is closely connected to the large-scale filamentary structure. We also find strong evidence that the galaxies are orbiting around the spine of the filament, making this one of the largest rotating structures discovered thus far, and from which we can infer that there is transfer of angular momentum from the filament to the individual galaxies. The abundance of H i galaxies along the filament and the low dynamical temperature of the galaxies within the filament indicates that this filament is at an early evolutionary stage where the imprint of cosmic matter flow on galaxies has been preserved over cosmic time."
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-10 15:12:41+00:00
Even then, is the message "stop using chrome after this date because half the internet will break" (because where will all those non-paying people go to?), or "stop using LE and start paying someone for a free service"?

I bet google themselves would be scared of anti-trust lawsuits over this. Even if they weren't, i don't think they'll really go so far as to compromise the security of half of the internet just to get their way on this one small improvement.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-10 15:12:41+00:00
Right, but then you have the questions of 1) why do leptons have (a multiple of) the same fundamental unit as quarks, and 2) why does that multiple equal the number of quarks in a baryon, so that protons have a charge of exactly the same magnitude as electrons?

I mean, I guess you could say that charge comes from (or is) the coupling of the quark/lepton field to the electromagnetic field, and therefore if it's something that's quantized on the electromagnetic side of that, then quarks and leptons would have the same scale. I'm not sure that's the real answer, much less that it's proven. (But it might be - it's a long time since my physics degree...)
by seec | 2026-02-10 15:13:03+00:00
The guy is more than has been at this point.
It's nothing special, almost ugly in some ways.

Apple has way too much influence on the world at the moment and people coming from Apple as well.
Can't wait before we came move on to some fresh stuff, but that you mean the boomers let go of their powers and they definitely don't want to do that.
by veunes | 2026-02-10 15:13:09+00:00
My point wasn't that it's impossible, but that it creates a massive layer of overhead. Previously the project "state" lived in the developer's head; now for the agent to be effective, you have to constantly offload that state into design docs and task files. The job shifts from "writing code" to "managing external memory" for the agent. Those who have mastered this (like you) are indeed flying, but those trying to just chat with the code without this discipline are hitting a wall
by maerF0x0 | 2026-02-10 15:13:10+00:00
> You don’t own the asphalt in front of you.

Correct, but you _need_ the asphalt in front of you for both safe driving and also to avoid cascading hard braking events. I also don't own the asphalt under me or behind me too, so it's kinda a silly statement tbh.

This youtube talks about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE
by unethical_ban | 2026-02-10 15:13:25+00:00
Nothing open source and self hostable will be a "platform" then. Being dependent on a central platform/identity server is the way they control you and increase the friction of leaving.

I think the client side could still be a "platform" like pidgin, allowing login and simultaneous participatiin in multiple servers, without needing to be fully centralized.

What disappoints me about this list is the lack of consideration for video calls and screenshare.
by anthk | 2026-02-10 15:13:28+00:00
Qames/quake from 9front =). It can run LibreQuake with Malice as a MODs, and that's it. Quake, Quakeworld and everything for vanilla, no modern changes like QuakeSpasm or worse, DarkPlaces. If someone backported HL2 to the original Quake with reduced physics and still run under a Pentium III fast enough, it would be something astonishing.

I see impressive stuff with reimplementations such as Surreal Engine, but they will require far more powerful machines.

If Surreal had a software renderer (not requiring AVX or similar) running under an SSE2 machine, that would yield even more respect, because if your reimplemented engine runs in legacy machines the portability would explode. Just have a look on Scummvm on how many platforms and OSes can it run. Or the Super Mario port for PC, where some fork supports even 3DFX under DOS, and GL 1.2. Thus runnable under TinyGL with no 3D accelerators and even under Plan9/9front with custom tweaks.
by waldopat | 2026-02-10 15:13:40+00:00
I think this also shows up outside an AI safety or ethics framing and in product development and operations. Ultimately "judgement," however you wish to quantify that fuzzy concept, is not purely an optimization exercise. It's far more a probabilistic information function from incomplete or conflicting data.

In product management (my domain), decisions are made under conflicting constraints: a big customer or account manager pushing hard, a CEO/board priority, tech debt, team capacity, reputational risk and market opportunity. PMs have tried with varied success to make decisions more transparent with scoring matrices and OKRs, but at some point someone has to make an imperfect judgment call that’s not reducible to a single metric. It's only defensible through narrative, which includes data.

Also, progressive elaboration or iterations or build-measure-learn are inherently fuzzy. Reinertsen compared this to maximizing the value of an option. Maybe in modern terms a prediction market is a better metaphor. That's what we're doing in sprints, maximizing our ability to deliver value in short increments.

I do get nervous about pushing agentic systems into roadmap planning, ticket writing, or KPI-driven execution loops. Once you collapse a messy web of tradeoffs into a single success signal, you’ve already lost a lot of the context.

There’s a parallel here for development too. LLMs are strongest at greenfield generation and weakest at surgical edits and refactoring. Early-stage startups survive by iterative design and feedback. Automating that with agents hooked into web analytics may compound errors and adverse outcomes.

So even if you strip out “ethics” and replace it with any pair of competing objectives, the failure mode remains.
by bell-cot | 2026-02-10 15:13:43+00:00
It's not spelled out, but my first thought is Genesis 40-41. In a regime where displeasing Pharaoh gets his personal servants imprisoned and killed, things do not look good for all those magicians and wise men who failed to interpret Pharaoh's dream. And likely similar for many who previously held authority over harvested grain.

Daniel 2 is a fairly similar story. Nebuchadnezzar explicitly orders all of Babylon's wise men to be destroyed. Which is averted by Daniel - who ends up appointed as chief prefect over the wise men. Kinda hard to imagine that the new broom isn't gonna do some housecleaning there.

(There are also passages where the OT is solidly pro-bureaucracy. Exodus 18, for example.)

I'd bet there's plenty more, but I'm no biblical scholar.
by yosamino | 2026-02-10 15:13:55+00:00
There is a lot of truth in what you write, so I am just going to point out the UnifiedPush project[0].

Of course with the, rather large, caveat of that not working outside of

> TestFlight or an analogous Android channel

This implements a push service (caveat: Android only) that is less restrictive than what google provides, and allows the reuse of an existing notification server (ntfy, prosody, etc) by other installed apps.

Since f-droid exists, this allows for a halfway decently user-friendly-ish way to completely self host outside of relying on googles server's and zulip, for example, could offer the ability to receive notifications through it if there's an a unified push distributor available on the phone.
It seems that there is at least awareness for this in the project [1].

But with google tightening the noose around alternative ways to install apps, who knows how long this will be even possible.

[0] https://unifiedpush.org/
[1] https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter/issues/1198
by zacksiri | 2026-02-10 15:14:04+00:00
Just released API Access for my agentic movie search product. So companies can build smart search into their streaming app / tracker apps:

Here is a demo link:

https://memovee.com/platform/demo?guest_account_id=019c481b-...

Try queries like:

- "Top 10 movies of 2024, sort by highest rating first"

- "Top 10 zombie apocalypse movies"

- "Find me some good movies that take place in space, no horrors please"

- "Some good movies that will make me appreciate life"

- "Find me movies like Bladerunner"

Or whatever else you can think of. You can also tell it to "filter out movies with less than 300 votes sort by highest rating first" etc...
by elevatortrim | 2026-02-10 15:14:35+00:00
In the case of alcohol and tobacoo, I do not think these products are engineered for addiction, they are engineered for taste and addiction is a side-effect. If they could be produced to have the same short-term (< a few hours) effects while avoiding the long term effects (addiction), the companies would (hopefully) choose to do that. I do not imagine these companies to build these products in a way that maximises their addiction.

social media platforms however, ...
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-10 15:14:35+00:00
I'm working on a new theory of management. I was explaining leadership to someone and they said I should write a book about it. In the same week I was explaining another aspect and got the same response. I think management has been overcomplicated by people trying to codify it. I think MBAs and systems like EOS try to dumb everyone down to inhuman lowest-common-denominator robots. That is the main cause of the productivity crisis.

That's why people leave their jobs, and magically find they are 100% more productive without a boss. No BS, and they are inspired.

I think you could get further faster by being a human, being inspiring, being a leader. I think you could learn more from Nelson than whatever nasty dehumanising theory most bosses have been reading.

I'm struggling to find the motivation to write up my notes (neurodiversity both helping me see the problem and stopping me do anything about it). I'm struggling to name the theory. I am struggling ( with some limited success) in noticing what I do differently. I'm also struggling with recovering from a major burnout from succeeding creating highly motivated teams in really tough organisations.

I thought all along that I would be better with a collaborator watching me and noting the differences between what I do and what everyone else is doing, then interviewing me about it.

Maybe I could publish bits of it, little tidbits of blogs (who would find them?) or social media videos (I really don't want to have to record and edit videos). Not sure how to get progress.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-10 15:14:35+00:00
Ok, which field? How much money will be needed? What potential experiments are lined up in those fields that need money to go forward?

Particle physics has told us a lot about the base nature of our model and the affirmation of the standard model. The fruits of these labors still take decades to make their mark on our world.

And, we still are working on those other things at the same time too. It turns out with 8 billion people on the planet and modern technology we can get an absolute fuckload done at once.
by mdrzn | 2026-02-10 15:14:39+00:00
1) Covering the ~$50k hosting bill for Jmail on Vercel sounds generous, but a self-hosted VPS on Hetzner could serve the same purpose for ~€30/month, which is orders of magnitude cheaper and avoids vendor lock-in.

2) This comes as the CEO of Vercel, Guillermo Rauch, is already facing community backlash for publicly supporting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, a move that’s led to boycotts and migrations off the platform among developers. All my homies hate Vercel.
by alt227 | 2026-02-10 15:14:56+00:00
It seems we are talking about different things.

The majority of car collisions happen on urban roads where the majority of cars are.

The majority of fatal collisions occur on rural roads, where vehicles are travelling faster.

I live in the UK.

https://www.simplyquote.co.uk/insights/where-do-most-car-acc...
by bibolop2026 | 2026-02-10 15:15:05+00:00
Security research PoC from Bountyy Oy. ComfortSans uses OpenType ligature tables to visually replace one string with another at the font rendering level.
Type bountyy.fi, your screen shows google.com. The DOM, view-source, copy-paste, DevTools all show the original text. Only the rendered pixels change.
No JavaScript. No browser exploit. Just a font doing what fonts are allowed to do.
The attack surface: any context where an attacker can load a custom font and the user trusts what they see on screen. Crypto addresses, domain names, install commands.
No security tool inspects font ligature tables. Source and build instructions in the repo.
by prodigycorp | 2026-02-10 15:15:32+00:00
What would this have costed had they used render or railway? Maybe, what, $200 a month?

Vercel's pricing is so ridiculously convoluted that you can't even cleanly compare usage. With render/railway/(insert provider of choice) you can at least predict that you're your biggest cost is going to be egress.

edit: I just saw that it gets 450m pageviews. I'm guessing on the upper end this costs ~$1k with railway + cloudflare?
by bri3d | 2026-02-10 15:16:50+00:00
They’re players in a newish market segment called “hyperconverged,” basically “you buy a rack and it runs your workload, you don’t worry about individual systems/interconnect/networking etc because we handled it.”

Oxide seem to be the best and most thorough in their space because they have chosen to own the stack from the firmware upwards. For someone who cares in that dimension they are a clear leader already on that basis alone, for other buyers who don’t, hopefully it also makes their product superior to use as well.
by zahlman | 2026-02-10 15:16:54+00:00
> Given all of this, here is what I believe is the sequence of execution in Baptiste Mispelon's example:

Yep, all correct. Great example for a blog post on my todo list, too.

> (Python 3.13 does print a nice stack trace [that] points to the whole set of 'from ...' statements.)

As far as I can tell, Python has always offered this stack trace. Starting in 3.7, the ultimate error message indicates the module and filename where the import failed, and starting in 3.8 it adds a "(most likely due to a circular import)" advisory to the message and notes that the module is "partially initialized". (It can detect that the top-level code of the partially initialized module is on the stack, which establishes that there is a circular import; but it doesn't prove that the specific name-binding failed because of the circular import. As noted in TFA, some circular imports work, and it's also possible to just have a typo in a name being imported.)

> When I first did this I was quite puzzled until the penny dropped. What's happening is that running 'python a.py' isn't creating an 'a' module but instead a __main__ module, so b.py doesn't find a sys.modules["a"] when it starts and instead creates one and starts loading it. That second version of a.py, now in an "a" module, is what tries to refer to b.B and finds it not there (yet).

Also correct, and long observed (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/744373). I could have sworn I've seen a specific reference for the problem but I can't find it now; normally it comes up in the more general context of understanding circular imports.