MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nivens_McTwisp | 2026-02-21 17:21:33+00:00
Retrieval engine. Indexes text, finds what you're looking for.
No embeddings. No vector database. No GPU. No learned parameters.
Words are positioned in a graph and neighbors vote on relevance.
pip install getgrip
grip ingest --source ./your-code
grip search "authentication handler"
Free up to 10K chunks. No signup. No API key. Works offline.
Benchmarks (21,708 queries, 6 BEIR datasets): 0.464 NDCG@10
core engine, ~0.58 with optional MiniLM reranker. Beats BM25
on all 6. Logs with timestamps in the repo.
Confidence scoring (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW/NONE) so your LLM knows
when to say "I don't know" instead of hallucinating.
getgrip.dev | GitHub: github.com/Grip-Hub/getgrip.dev
by simonw | 2026-02-21 17:22:08+00:00
Language matters. If you have a term that's widely understood you can have much more productive conversations about that concept.

"Agent" is a bad term because it's so vaguely defined that you can have a conversation with someone about agents and later realize you were both talking about entirely different things.

I'm hoping "Claw" does better on that basis because it ties to a more firm existing example and it's also not something people can "guess" the meaning of.
by simianwords | 2026-02-21 17:22:15+00:00
> To avoid timeouts, try using background mode. As our most advanced reasoning model, GPT-5 pro defaults to (and only supports) reasoning.effort: high. GPT-5 pro does not support code interpreter.

You are wrong from the link you shared. It was about ChatGPT not the api.
The documentation makes it unambiguously clear that gpt 5 pro does not support code interpreter. Unless you think they secretly run it which is a conspiracy, is it enough to falsify?
by Smartchat | 2026-02-21 17:22:35+00:00
1. I can't post links (I've already tried), my comments with links are getting shadowbanned. Check out Jon Brodkin's article on Ars about AT, not today's, but the previous one, 6 days ago. Nora's name was there, but now it's silently gone.

2. We learned about Nora's involvement from Patokallio. We learned about Nora's non-involvement... also from Patokallio. They could have reached a settlement with AT that includes hiding Nora's name.

3. Regardless of who Nora is, it is interesting to see the extent of this censorship: so far only gyrovague.com and arstechnica.com, but not tomshardware.com and not tech.yahoo.com. This shows which sites are working closely with the AT defamation campaign, and which are simply copywriting the news feed.
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by omrfc | 2026-02-21 17:22:52+00:00
I built a CLI tool that automates Coolify installation on Hetzner and DigitalOcean. Before: 30 minutes of manual work (create VPS, SSH in, install Docker, configure firewall, install Coolify). After: npx quicklify init — ~4 minutes, zero manual work. One flag (--full-setup) also auto-configures firewall + SSH hardening after deploy. 19 commands total: backup/restore, domain binding, monitoring, logs, and more. Would love feedback!
by al_borland | 2026-02-21 17:22:55+00:00
I asked for a realistic alternative solution and you offered none, just more criticisms for the status quo.

There are already incentives for honest work… a paycheck, benefits, etc. Not to mention being a net positive to society. There is also the option to start a business, which has unlimited upside.

Some people put a lot of effort into breaking the law and making life worse for other people. If that effort was directed in a positive direction, they could be successful, without being a criminal.

This also goes for the white collar criminals that get a pass while running large companies or governments. If those efforts were directed in a better direction, life would also get better for everyone.

I wish there was as much sympathy for the victims as the criminals.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-21 17:23:00+00:00
I think people would do best to retool away from “coder” towards some specilaization where coding is part of the job. Don’t be a coder, be an X that codes.

If we think of coding becoming like writing, then you can see how it might be a ubiquitous skill - but still some differentiation. Some small number of highly skilled people do it full time. Some people do is as a big part of their job (journalists, etc). Still others it’s not core to the job, but it helps (a lot of white collar work).
by UncleMeat | 2026-02-21 17:23:16+00:00
Today it includes "under God" in the text.

There are really two values expressed in the pledge. "Liberty and justice for all" and "the nation is below God." I'm happy saying that the former is a national value, though it is rarely achieved in practice. The latter... oof.

It is definitely propagandistic. Even if we ignore the religious component, it more expresses an idea that "liberty and justice for all" is already achieved rather than being a goal to strive for.
by PromptFix | 2026-02-21 17:23:37+00:00
Hi Everyone

I’m the solo builder behind PromptFix, a tool I built after noticing that most people struggle to get consistent results from AI because their prompts are vague or poorly structured.

PromptFix analyzes a prompt and returns:

an overall quality score

category subscores (clarity, structure, context, constraints)

specific improvement suggestions

a rewritten “best version” of the prompt

The goal isn’t to replace prompting — but to help people learn why prompts work or fail.

It connects to my existing backend API and works on web, Chrome extension, and now a mobile version I’m building with Expo.

Some interesting things I learned while building this:

Most prompts fail due to missing constraints rather than wording

Users heavily reuse improved prompts once they see structured examples

Developers tend to want transparency instead of “magic rewriting”

I’d really appreciate feedback from this community — especially around:

features you’d want as power AI users

workflows you think are missing

whether scoring prompts is actually useful or distracting

Happy to answer any technical or product questions.

Thanks
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-21 17:24:13+00:00
> It's funny how people say that: "You'll get more conservative as you grow older". So far that hasn't happened.

It's not from 20 to 40, it's from like 50 to 70, as peoples critical thinking skills go and they become more gullible, more susceptible to manipulation and misinformation. It remains to be seen if it will happen with a tech savvy elderly population though.
by Falimonda | 2026-02-21 17:24:27+00:00
I built this because I'm fascinated by the word embeddings. The simple, canonical (?) example of king - man + woman = queen is such an accessible concept.

I figured that an LLM (Claude Opus 4.6) could extend the concept to apply to a number of mathemtics topics and it did!

There's an aspect to this which I feel could really help people who are not mathematically inclined to really internalize core conepts to the point that actual math makes more sense to them.

Appreciate any feedback I can get on it!
by obelisk79 | 2026-02-21 17:24:28+00:00
I wasn't implying you were doing that. I don't play the 'this isn't fusion or xyz cad' argument when someone brings a suggestion. I'm only stating that not every idea will work properly in the context of FreeCAD, but comparisons are considered when such suggestions are made.

The thing you are complaining about is the immediate dismissal the forum used to shoot back at people with ideas. Most likely a conditioned (and very toxic) response from receiving a lot of equally non-constructive feedback using things like F360 as their litmus.

Either way, there is the Design Working Group which evaluates ideas and feedback with a fair lens about what will work in context of FreeCAD and what is feasible to implement without causing unnecessary disruption to existing users. It is a complex social paradox to deal with.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-21 17:25:14+00:00
That's because we / our (USA) country is owned. As Carlin said, "It's a big club. And you ain't in it."[0]

But what isn't properly addressed when people link to this is that the real issue he's discussing is our failing educational system. It's not a coincidence that the Right attacks public schools and the orange man appointed a wrestling lady to dismantle the dept of education.[1]

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXHSMmaq_s

1. The Trump Administration Plot to Destroy Public Education - https://prospect.org/2026/01/13/trump-mcmahon-department-edu...

Aside: I was in the audience for this show (his last TV special). Didn't know it'd be shot for TV. Kind of sucked, actually, cause they had lights on the audience for the cameras and one was right in my eyes. Anyway, a toast to George Carlin who was ahead of his time and would hate how right he's been.
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-21 17:25:21+00:00
Section 122 caps at 15% and expires in 150 days without Congress. So I would assume this is a "negotiating position", not a trade regime.

I'm more interested to see how the Fed reads it, since tariffs map directly into cost-push shocks that force a dual mandate tradeoff between inflation and employment. Covered this angle recently: https://philippdubach.com/posts/dual-mandate-tensions/
by severino | 2026-02-21 17:26:01+00:00
In my country there are regulations in effect too that mandate the use of MFA; however, using an application is not the only way to implement MFA, as I said, in Spain banks can use SMS, coordinate cards, etc., and they are all valid MFA methods.
I think what these laws are missing is the obligation for the service (the bank in this case) to provide a MFA device if the user doesn't have one.
by Barbing | 2026-02-21 17:26:09+00:00
Could save a lot of time.

Over the long run, I imagine it summarizing lots of spam/slop in a way that obscures its spamminess[1]. Though what do I think, that I’ll still see red flags in text a few years from now if I stick to source material?

[1] Spent ten minutes on Nitter last week and the replies to OpenClaw threads consisted mostly of short, two sentence, lowercase summary reply tweets prepended with banal observations (‘whoa, …’). If you post that sliced bread was invented they’d fawn “it used to be you had to cut the bread yourself, but this? Game chan…”
by rcore | 2026-02-21 17:26:10+00:00
> That’s all great, but there are websites that still don’t have dark modes. It doesn’t make any sense in 2026 that Gmail doesn’t have a dark mode. If the activity you’re doing most at night is reading email, you might consider an alternative email client.

This reads funny on a website that does not respect your device's dark mode. Guess I'll look for an alternative blog.
by xyzzy123 | 2026-02-21 17:26:38+00:00
You become dependent on the supplier.

The downside in general is that other countries lose production capacity in steel, heavy industry, semiconductors, machine tools etc - industries that took decades to build and can't be easily replaced.

Also they gradually lose the ability to meaningfully innovate in those sectors because there's no grounding against production reality anymore.

This has geopolitical consequences further down the line.
by al_borland | 2026-02-21 17:27:10+00:00
Delivery drivers and train conductors are both headed for automation. I think trains are mostly already there. They mostly have a human for emergencies, as far as I know.

This is something I’ve been thinking about, but nothing speaks to me enough to jump ship. Anything I think of also means taking a huge pay cut, so it seems to make sense to stay on the current track until the wheels fall off to maximize my savings to soften the transition. It’s also possible that I may never need to switch careers before retirement, so it could be a moot point.
by mmooss | 2026-02-21 17:28:59+00:00
I'd love to see actual, authentic material that was rewritten through the years. One possibility is a passage from the Bible, though that's not usual English. Another is laws or other official texts - even if not exactly the same, they may be comparable. Maybe personal letters written from or to the same place about the same topic - e.g., from or to the Church of England and its predecessor about burial, marriage, or baptism.

The author Colin Gorrie, "PhD linguist and ancient language teacher", obviously knows their stuff. From my experience, much more limited and less informed, the older material looks like a modern writer mixing in some archaic letters and expression - it doesn't look like the old stuff and isn't nearly as challenging, to me.
by rekabis | 2026-02-21 17:29:16+00:00
In the military, you are taught to always park such that the vehicle (even a tank or a fixed-wing aircraft) can be immediately started and moved forward. This ensures that the vehicle can get out of the immediate area and up to speed as quickly as possible.

Backing out always confers a significant delay, and I would also argue that many people are exceedingly hesitant when backing out because they have almost no mental model about the physical extent of the vehicle.

I mean, the number of times I have seen people back out, yet leave nearly a full car length between their rear bumper and any obstacle behind them, is near-100%.

Meanwhile, I can get into a totally strange vehicle and - provided I first did a walk-around to visualize it - can back up to within 15-30cm of any obstacle without tapping it. It all comes down to holding and maintaining a visual model of the vehicle in your mind, so you can better estimate how close you really are to anything behind you.
by npilk | 2026-02-21 17:30:24+00:00
This is cool, I love the concept.

I wonder how much our understanding of past language is affected by survivorship bias? Most text would have been written by a highly-educated elite, and most of what survives is what we have valued and prized over the centuries.

For instance, this line in the 1800s passage:

> Hunger, that great leveller, makes philosophers of us all, and renders even the meanest dish agreeable.

This definitely sounds like the 1800s to me, but part of that is the romance of the idea expressed. I wonder what Twitter would have been like back then, for instance, especially if the illiterate had speech-to-text.
by roryirvine | 2026-02-21 17:30:46+00:00
Following that up in the UK companies registry, the director of Ascensio System Limited started using a service address in London since May 2025. The same filing, however, notes that his usual residential address has remained unchanged, and appears to be in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

The beneficial owner is Onlyoffice Capital Group Pte. Ltd in Singapore.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

It all seems surprisingly murky - you'd normally expect a relatively small organisation to have a more straightforward structure, even allowing for its international nature.
by amluto | 2026-02-21 17:31:22+00:00
It might be very effective marketing. The big non-Chinese OEMs trust and use Korean and Japanese DRAM, and they might have been unwilling to put DRAM from CXMT into their products. (CXMT is newish, does not have access to ASML gear, which ASML would like you to believe makes it harder to make high-quality DRAM, DRAM is historically not a very large fraction of the cost of most non-huge-memory machines, and a bad DIMM is an expensive mistake for a company like Dell or HPE that is on the hook for repairs.)

But now CXMT seems to have gotten at least Dell, HP (I wonder if there’s article meant HPE), Acer and Asus to buy and attempt to qualify samples. If CXMT lands some serious purchasing agreements while still selling well above cost, that’s a win for them.
by djoldman | 2026-02-21 17:31:23+00:00
For the folks looking at tools to help manage personal and work identities on the same computer: don't.

Never access personal accounts from a work computer or work accounts from a personal computer under any circumstances.

This goes for laptops, desktops, and especially cellphones.

If an employer asks that you violate the above, ask for a dedicated device owned by your employer to access a work account. If they refuse, that's a big red flag. "Oh just use your phone to check your email/slack" - 1. don't assume everyone has a cellphone and 2. if you want folks doing work on a device, pay for it.

Managing multiple personal accounts on computer A or multiple work accounts on computer B is totally fine.

As an aside, company general counsels might be shocked at how often their employees log in to slack/email/etc. from their personal cellphone: suddenly any and all company and customer intellectual property has a way to leave the network. And it's not even a "pull" from the employee as the other employees just "push" them messages.
by tovej | 2026-02-21 17:31:53+00:00
DAG-scheduling is a solved issue. If you really need to impement an autonomous LLM agent workflow engine, use a DAG. Just have the LLM declare the edges.

My suggestion is to not do any of that but use a traditional workflow engine / project management tools if you need to boost productivity in processes /projects. You're code quality will improve and your programming skills won't deteriorate. At no cost in productivity.
by Jordan-117 | 2026-02-21 17:32:55+00:00
Silently? It tells you right there in the article: "Nora [last name redacted]". Maybe they could add a more fulsome explanation in an editor's note but it seems pretty obvious in context.

If AT is appropriating some random person's name as an alias, it seems helpful to report on that publicly in order to expose the practice and help clear up the misinformation.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-21 17:33:21+00:00
> so can you.

I don't feel obligated to provide evidence based on some vague suspicion about "verified" accounts. If they want to find it, go ahead.

> So far, every post you have made has convinced me of the opposite of what you claim because you haven't been able to produce even one example.

Absence of evidence is not evidence. If you find yourself swayed that way, evaluate your epistemology.
by riku_iki | 2026-02-21 17:33:48+00:00
> steel, heavy industry, semiconductors, machine tools

the question is if single country can carry all these industries at loss for prolonged period of time.

Another approach is to rely on international supply chain and speed of innovation, we can't produce steel domestically profitably today, fine, we may buy it from diversified international supplier network, and rebuild it fast tomorrow if needed using new tech, and focus on many other high margin verticals, instead of putting many billions of resources into infra which could be obsolete tomorrow.
by abeppu | 2026-02-21 17:34:19+00:00
I mean, in this case the government spent thousands because there was a small amount of circumstantial evidence that suggested there was clandestine communication happening during wartime.

What was the immediate government spending on Japanese American internment, where there was no evidence or investigation into the ~120k people whose lives were disrupted, and who were transported, housed, fed and guarded for multiple years?

Arguably, spending thousands on investigating something specific is less wasteful than the alternatives the government was willing to take at that time.
by tolerance | 2026-02-21 17:34:51+00:00
Well. Color me convinced a bit. I took a little time to compare where your at now to where Ring began with Doorbot. It’s not improbable that this can take off.

I’m not a product guy. Or a tech guy for that matter. Do you have any preparations in mind for Apple’s progress with AI (viz. their partnership with Google)? I don’t even know if the actual implementation would satisfy your vision with regard to everything staying local though.

Starting with an iPad for prototyping made me wonder why this didn’t begin as just an app. Or why not just ship the speaker + the app as a product.

You don’t have sketches? Like ballpoint pen on dot grid paper? This is me trying to nudge you away from the impression I get that the website is largely AI-scented.

After making my initial remarks (a purposely absurd one that I was actually surprised got upvoted at all), I checked your resume and felt a disconnect between your qualifications and the legitimate doubt I described in my comment.

To be honest my impression was mostly led by the contents of the website itself, speculation about the quality/reliability of the actual product followed.

I don’t want to criticize you and your decisions in that direction but if this ambition is legitimate it deserves better presentation.

Do you have any human beings involved in communicating your vision?
by Smartchat | 2026-02-21 17:35:00+00:00
Silently. Last article. Not today's.

One with title 'Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site'

I'll try to add the link with comment edit:

This has Nora's name https://web.archive.org/web/20260210195502/https://arstechni...

The current version has not
by basch | 2026-02-21 17:36:16+00:00
Interestingly enough when you tell Facebook you’re not interested in a post you can answer why: doesn’t match interests, spam, sexual, insult, don’t like creator. One of those isn’t like the other.

There’s a couple other pseudo-erudite slop holes you can fall into. One is scientific breakthroughs, one is psychedelic philosophical ramblings, and one is historical summarizations. They all kind of fall into a Ripley’s Believe it or Not style of trying to be mind blowing.

If you say not interested to every suggested post of something you don’t follow, it’ll try a couple topics and then revert for a bit to exclusively things you do follow.
by yunohn | 2026-02-21 17:36:34+00:00
What is the firm example that provides meaning to “claw”? I guess we don’t have any concrete analytics, but I would be willing to bet that the fraction of people who actually used openclaw is abysmally small, vs the hype. “Agent”s have been used by a disproportionately larger number of people. “Assistant” is also a great existing term (understood by everyone), that encompasses what the blogs hyping openclaw discussed using it for as well.
by buzer | 2026-02-21 17:37:11+00:00
> you agree to American terms and conditions, arbitrated by American courts.

"Designated Countries. We use the term “Designated Countries” to refer to countries in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland."

"If you reside in the “Designated Countries”, you are entering into this Contract with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn Ireland”) and LinkedIn Ireland will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services."

"If you live in the Designated Countries, the laws of Ireland govern all claims related to LinkedIn's provision of the Services" "With respect to jurisdiction, you and LinkedIn agree to choose the courts of the country to which we direct your Services where you have habitual residence for all disputes arising out of or relating to this User Agreement, or in the alternative, you may choose the responsible court in Ireland."

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement

I'm not sure from where you got your information.