MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jMyles | 2026-02-26 15:33:20+00:00
I pray that we can all get to the following simple standard:

* AI and states cannot peacefully coexist, and AI is not going to be stopped. Therefore, we must begin to deprecate states.

I think it's very unlikely that this is unrelated to the pressure from the US administration, as the anonymous-but-obvious-anthropic-spokesperson asserts.

We're at a point now where the nation states are all totally separate creatures from their constituencies, and the largest three of them are basically psychotic and obsessed with antagonizing one another.

In order to have a peaceful AI age, we need _much_ smaller batches of power in the world. The need for states that claim dominion over whole continents is now behind us; we have all the tools we need to communicate and coordinate over long distances without them.

Please, I pray for a gentle, peaceful anarchism to emerge within the technocratic leagues, and for the elder statesmen of the legacy states to see the writing on the wall and agree to retire with tranquility and dignity.
Show HN: Sayiir – A simple durable workflow engine (Rust core, Python/Node.js)
by ybsoft | 2026-02-26 15:33:38+00:00
Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions are great — but sometimes you just need "run these steps, resume where it stopped if something crashes," without the infrastructure and learning curve that comes with a full platform, and whole mental model to internalize

So I built something simpler and maybe i over simplified things..

It sticks with philosophy of "workflows as code", so no dsl , no no-code, or visual designer. just a developer friendly lib..

Sayiir is a library you pip/npm/cargo install. Define steps as normal async functions, it checkpoints each output. On failure, completed steps are skipped, execution picks up where it left off.

No replay, no determinism rules, no separate server to deploy, no activities — just your good old existing async functions with durable execution underneath.

Rust core, Python/Node.js bindings. MIT licensed

Docs: https://docs.sayiir.dev
Playground: https://docs.sayiir.dev/playground/
by whatshisface | 2026-02-26 15:33:43+00:00
Here's why no LLM rules make sense:

Imagine you know a guy named Patel. He pirated every movie ever made and is a prolific writer. So prolific, in fact, that he has a blog, called "Patel's Log." On this blog is a review of every movie ever made.

At first, you think that's neat. It's not exactly a book of all knowledge, but it's a significant human achievement, perhaps even historic.

Things take a turn for the worse when you're reading a review in the Times. You recognize Patel's distinctive style, and call him up to ask if the Times stole his post. He says that a Times columnist asked for his opinion, and he sent them a link. It turns out the columnist copied his blog post verbatim: but he says he can't complain without being inconsistent, since he pirated every movie ever made.

You find this humorous, until you recognize his style in the Atlantic - then the Post. Eventually you're disappointed when the Ebert staff publish an opinion piece in favor of Patel's Log matching (PatelLM), and you're forced to wonder if that' what Ebert would have thought.

Your boss sends you copy-pasted PatelLM content in a morning Slack message about a movie she watched over the weekend. Your friends quote Patel's Log verbatim on Discord. Hollywood starts using PatelLM to indirectly plagiarize other movies. Soon, Patel's posts begin to echo each other as the supply of novel perspectives is overwhelmed by PatelLM. Film criticism become a dessicated corpse, filled with plastic and presented in a glass case with a pin through its heart. Thought is dead. There is only Patel.
by simonsarris | 2026-02-26 15:33:54+00:00
I mean, did you know most dental floss has PFAS? You have to go out of your way to get PFAS free

Do you know what "countertop sealer" is made of? It's PFAS! Lots and lots of people rub PFAS on their food surfaces on purpose!

The stuff is everywhere even if you think you are avoiding it.
by waleedk | 2026-02-26 15:33:59+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Waleed. CodevOS is the system I've been building to explore a question: what happens when you stop thinking of AI as a coding assistant and instead think of the problem of having a human-AI joint software dev team?

The 106 PRs in 14 days was one person — me — with AI agents doing the implementation. The article walks through the ideas that make this work:

- Multi-model review: Three independent AI models (Claude, Gemini, Codex) review every phase. They catch different things — Codex finds security edge cases, Claude catches runtime semantics, Gemini catches architecture problems. No single model found more than 55% of the bugs.

- An agent that helps you organize agents. You work with an Architect agent that spawns Builder agents that work simultaneously in isolated git worktrees. While one is implementing a feature, another is fixing a bug, and you're reviewing a third's PR. Your job shifts from writing code to keeping the pipeline fed.

- Natural language is the source code. Specs, plans, and reviews are version-controlled in git alongside the source code — treated with the same rigor as the code itself. The AI's instructions live in the repo, not in someone's chat history that's already been compressed. You always know why something was built and how it was designed.

- Deterministic execution. Instead of asking the AI to follow a process and hoping it does, a state machine (Porch) enforces it. Human gates, build-verify loops, mandatory review phases. The AI can't skip steps, and if it exhausts its context window, the next agent picks up from the exact checkpoint.

- Annotation over editing. Most of the work is writing and reviewing these natural language documents — specs that define what to build, plans that define how. The documents guide the agents. You're directing, not coding.

- Whole lifecycle, git at the center. From idea through specification, planning, implementation, review, PR, and merge — the entire development lifecycle is managed. Git is the backbone: worktrees for isolation, branches for workflow, PRs for integration.

It's free and open source:

npm install -g @cluesmith/codev

(and https://github.com/cluesmith/codev for the code)

The article includes a controlled comparison against unstructured Claude Code — honest about the tradeoffs (costs more, takes longer, but catches more bugs and ships with tests).

I'm genuinely looking for feedback on this. What resonates? What doesn't? What would you do differently? This is still early and I want to hear what the HN community thinks. Happy to answer questions too.
by user_timo | 2026-02-26 15:34:01+00:00
Features added to clocksimulator after posted it here:

- Screen burn-in protection(use dark mode)

- Tick movement for seconds hand

- Mechanical movement for seconds hand

- Timezone URL parameters

- Numbers on the clock cannot be selected with mouse

- Iframe embedding feature

Most of these are suggestions what came up here from you all, thank you:)
by YuriKozlov | 2026-02-26 15:34:07+00:00
The more we automate the world, the more we need AI not just as a tool, but as a normative agent.

Human institutions can't keep up with machine speed. Existing legal theory is still pre-scientific: unfalsifiable and non-computable.

For AI to act as a genuine normative agent, law itself must become computational — with explicit premises, formal failure conditions, and executable logic.

This is what JudgeAI is working on.

Full paper linked above.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-26 15:34:10+00:00
It also geographic. There's a bunch of quizzes online where in 10 or 20 questions, it can tell you exactly what area in the US somebody is from. It comes down to the terms you use that you might not even realize are not universal. Highway vs freeway, what you call a sugary carbonated drink, and so on.

OTOH I think a lot of these methods don't matter that much because of plausible deniability. Stylometry and other stuff processes is always probabilistic, and can be dismissed.
by cardanome | 2026-02-26 15:34:13+00:00
Apple is one of the very few companies committed to (hardware) quality. They make sure their entry level models are very decent. You can't buy a apple product that is complete shite.

Yes, the software side is getting worse in recent years but is it at least slightly better than the competition for average consumers.

Plus being a tech monopolist they can offer a whole ecosystem of software and hardware that works great with each other. So the value proposition is greater than the sum of its parts.

That is the problem with OpenAI, they have only one thing. Google can bleed money all day long and they don't need to care because they have other profitable business ventures.

The way to make money with LLMs is to either be technically superior which only works short term until the competition catches up or create a monopoly. The second option is dead in the water with the advent of the Chinese models. I guess they can lobby to have them banned and create a cartel with their other US based competitors. Otherwise they are screwed. That is why they are allowing military use of their model now. They need that sweet government money to survive. Also they keep talking about AGI so the government gets scared about the Chinese reaching it first and supports them. Complete scam.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-26 15:35:02+00:00
To me, it feels like saying "you can't be a public benefit corporation unless all the labor involved in delivering that public benefit is cheap".

Which just doesn't seem like it should be true?

Sure, some "public benefit" missions could scale sideways and employ a lot of cheap labor, not suffering from a salary cap at all. But other missions would require rare high end high performance high salary specialists who are in demand - and thus expensive. You can't rely on being able to source enough altruists that will put up with being paid half their market worth for the sake of the mission.
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-26 15:35:26+00:00
Wikipedia is emphatically not the place to start for this field. For chemistry, physics, mathematics and parts of biology, sure - any field which has not (yet) been politicised generally is covered quite well on Wikipedia. History has always been politicised and coverage of historical subjects on Wikipedia reflects and is fully dependent on which faction has captured the subject at hand. Even the ('perennial') sources allowed to be used on Wikipedia have been heavily politicised. If you want something resembling an objective take keep away from Wikipedia for anything which is in any way politically sensitive no matter whether you happen to agree to the factions which rule the roost or whether you oppose them. If you're looking for confirmation of your biases, sure go there but keep in mind that what you're reading there is not history but ideologically biased historical fiction.
by __jonas | 2026-02-26 15:35:37+00:00
Government services need to be as easily accessible and clear to understand as possible, they may be used by the elderly, people with learning disabilities or people who don’t speak the language of the country that well (like those who would want to enter it for tourism as in TFA) - designing them with the assumption that the user is a 5 year old who needs everything explained to them in simple terms is a good approach.

The fact that it’s slightly more tiring for users like you who already know all the details and just want to get to the point is at most a minor drawback that’s easily justifiable by the accessibility gains.
by ben_w | 2026-02-26 15:35:59+00:00
> Its very clear that the opposition to immigration is almost entirely about small boats and illegal entry.

No, that's just the current talking point.

A decade ago, small boats not in the news, somehow managed to still be a big talking point on Brexit campaign. Worse, part of the Brexit campaign was scare-mongering that the EU had made it so the UK had no control over its borders, no control over its immigration laws, and even had one poster further scare-mongering that the UK would be forced to allow in the entire population of Turkey* even though Turkey wasn't actually in the EU nor did anyone think it would get in any time soon and the UK had a veto on expansion anyway (plus the more fundamental pretentiousness in thinking they'd want to come en-masse anyway, given that Turkish people are like everyone else, in that almost none of them really care for the idea of moving to the UK).

Even for "unlawful entry" of asylum seekers who were still allowed to lawfully claim asylum, the UK was part of the Dublin III system, which oh-so-conveniently meant the UK could argue that all the other countries most people would need to go through to get to the UK should have taken them first, to which I'd like to say this:

J'ai obtenu la note D au GCSE de français, et pourtant j'ai étudié la langue à l'école. À votre avis, comment un demandeur d'asile lambda originaire de l'ancien Empire britannique va-t-il s'en sortir?

Most asylum seekers do, in fact, stop at the first safe country; the UK has always only had a tiny fraction of the total, and loses its collective mind anyway.

* Note my careful phrasing and also their careful phrasing; they note the population to give the implication, I did not say they said all of them will come in, only that they said all of them must be allowed to, when EU membership never did any such thing: https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-brexit-turkey-loses-its-bi...
by casey2 | 2026-02-26 15:36:12+00:00
NVE seems more "like I was sold the NRx accelerationist fraud and/or a host of other disinfo but don't want admit I was duped."

Of course the actual people doing harassment, exploitation and violence are just dark triad personality types

for everyone else the standard advise applies: BE ANGRY [at sin—at immorality, at injustice, at ungodly behavior], YET DO NOT SIN; do not let your anger [cause you shame, nor allow it to] last until the sun goes down.
by moochmooch | 2026-02-26 15:36:21+00:00
unfortunately, make is more well written software. I think ultimately Dockerfile was a failed iteration of Makefile. YAML & Dockerfile are poor interfaces for these types of applications.

The code first options are quite good these days, but you can get so far with make & other legacy tooling. Docker feels like a company looking to sell enterprise software first and foremost, not move the industry standard forward

great article tho!
by barelysapient | 2026-02-26 15:36:32+00:00
Should California be treated differently than the rest of the world?

In addition to banning these manufacturing processes in California, we should ban the products manufactured with these processes from California. This would require products to "green up" in order to access California's vast market.

By allowing dirty products manufactured elsewhere, we've simply moved the problem and its harms out of our line of sight. And frequently to a place where the people are poor, non-white and under represented.
by latexr | 2026-02-26 15:36:39+00:00
> Public benefit corporations in the AI space have become a farce at this point.

“At this point”? It was always the case, it’s just harder to hide it the more time passes. Anyone can claim anything they want about themselves, it’s only after you’ve had a chance to see them in the situations which test their words that you can confirm if they are what they said.
by PowerElectronix | 2026-02-26 15:36:58+00:00
Same with everything, right? You could say the same with nukes, electricity, internet, the computer, etc... But if you look at it without paying attention to the "ultimate tool for humanity" hype, it doesn't really look that much of a threat or a salvation.

It won't end civilization for dropping the guardrails, but it will surely enable bad actors to do more damage than before (mass scams, blackmail, deepfake nudes, etc.)

There are companies that don't feel the pressure to make their models play loose and fast, so I don't buy anthropic's excuse to do so.
by phendrenad2 | 2026-02-26 15:37:20+00:00
This is the conclusion anyone who look at things rationally must come to. The problem is, there's an endless influx of people, drunk on space-age optimism from their K-12 education system, that think "I reject that reality, there MUST be a way to have it all". They haven't learned that the universe hates us and wants us to suffer, not the opposite.
by kotaKat | 2026-02-26 15:37:20+00:00
The screenshots of the backend “Assistant” in [1] pretty much seem like this is what Burger King is expanding upon. It seemed already able to determine out-of-stocks and was gathering cleanliness data for the bathrooms.

It also sounds like they’re basically confirming [1] as well out loud — “He adds that the company is currently testing the AI drive-thru technology in fewer than 100 restaurants.”

Of note, I recall back in the mid-2000s there was a swing-down device near the order packing zone in the Burger King kitchen and it had a screen and a keypad on it and was labeled the “Manager’s Assistant” (or maybe “Kitchen Minder”?) device. From what I understood it was tracking production, providing reminders to check the bathroom, and providing projected order volume information.

https://www.goicc.com/kitchen-minder-tech-support
by bartread | 2026-02-26 15:37:55+00:00
Yeah, that's not how zero hour contracts work.

In practice zero hour contracts mean that if a company wants you to work you often need to work because if you don't they can simply not give you any more hours in future. I.e., the big difference between a zero hour contract and gig work is that in that the company controls the hours, not you.

And this isn't just because the companies are scummy, but for somewhat sensible operational reasons. Zero hour contracts are common in places like supermarkets because they allow companies to flex their staffing levels with, for example, seasonal demand (although there are other solutions to that problem that are better for employees!). On d day to day basis they might still need more shop floor workers on a busy Saturday than on a quiet Monday, so it means they need to be able to control the scheduling rather than workers controlling the scheduling to ensure they always have appropriate staffing levels. If you gave complete control to workers you'd regularly find you had too many people working at quiet times and too few at busy, and even if you put controls in place to avoid too many workers at a time, you'd never be able to guarantee that you'd have enough at busy times which wouldn't really be an acceptable outcome for anyone.

But going back to your point of misunderstanding: zero contracts are perhaps more like the worst aspects of gig employment married to the worst aspects of non-gig employment, which means that they operate quite differently to gig employment.
Show HN: ArteSync – A package manager for AI coding agent skills
by tsump | 2026-02-26 15:37:57+00:00
I built ArteSync, a CLI package manager for managing "agent skills"—prompt instruction files that extend AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, or Gemini CLI.

The problem: as I accumulated skills across projects, I found myself manually copying files between repos with no way to track versions or share updates reliably.

ArteSync treats any public GitHub path as an installable source and locks it to a commit hash, similar to how npm/Cargo handle dependencies:

arsync install myorg/myrepo/skills/my-skill#main

This fetches the files, writes a skills.arsync manifest, and generates a skills-lock.arsync lockfile (commit-pinned). Running arsync install with no arguments does a hard checkout to the exact hashes in the lockfile—so teams get reproducible skill environments. arsync update checks for upstream changes and rewrites the lock.

It's early and experimental (breaking changes possible), but it's usable:

npm install -g artesync

Happy to answer questions.
by ezekg | 2026-02-26 15:38:22+00:00
I think you'd have a better reaction if you allowed some public repos to be viewed before handing over the keys to the castle, so to speak. Even better would be allowing a public repo to preview itself via better-hub.com/{org}/{repo} would be slick. Expensive for you, but might help onboarding. As it stands, the call to action is poor, so unfortunately there's no way I'm going to login with GitHub and give a bunch of permissions to a new app posted on HN, no matter who built it.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-02-26 15:38:26+00:00
That's a post hoc argument.

The real danger is "We make mountains of money, but everyone dies, including us."

The top of the top researchers think this is a real possibility - people like Geoffrey Hinton - so it's not an extremist negative-for-the-sake-of-it POV.

It's going to be poetic if the Free Markets Are Optimal and Greed-is-Rational Cult actually suicides the species, as a final definitive proof that their ideology is wrong-headed, harmful, and a tragic failure of human intelligence.

But here we are. The universe doesn't care. It's up to us. If we're not smart enough to make smart choices, then we get to live - or die - with the consequences.
by pocksuppet | 2026-02-26 15:38:41+00:00
Fare-charging for public transit has significant frictional overhead. I think in Luxembourg they just made it all free and it didn't cost much money because they didn't need to spend anything on collecting fares. The D-Ticket in Germany too: in some cities, almost everyone has a D-Ticket so the frequency of ticket checks was drastically reduced.

Another counterpoint: if the bus isn't overloaded, taking an additional passenger costs next to nothing, while delivering significant value to the passenger. Don't we want to create as much value as possible?
by MattijsMoens | 2026-02-26 15:39:51+00:00
You are absolutely right that relying purely on statistical pattern matching is a losing battle when it comes to deterministic correctness. A pure LLM will always just be guessing the next token, which is exactly why RLHF fundamentally fails as a permanent security perimeter.
I can't spill the beans on the internal architecture to specifically answer your question about whether the reasoning process itself is grounded neurosymbolically or if the determinism is strictly enforced at the constraint level.
What I will say is that the constraints in Kairos are not a simple traditional output filter or a basic regex blacklist playing whack-a-mole with bad words after the fact
You make a totally fair point about edge cases that is the classic, fatal flaw of most constraint layers. My claim is that by structuring the execution physics the way I have, I've eradicated the semantic surface area where those edge cases usually live. there is certainly a possibility that I might have missed an edge case somewhere in the architecture that the constraints don't cover. However, the major architectural advantage of building a structural constraint layer rather than relying on alignment is agility. If a determined attacker does invent a perfect zero day, I can instantly hotfix the architecture on the fly. There is absolutely no model retraining, fine tuning, or probabilistic hoping required to patch a vulnerability.

If someone finds a hole, I plug it. Immediately