MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apwheele | 2026-02-25 14:16:18+00:00
I view them as more idiosyncratic docs, but focused on how to write code (there is so much huggingface code floating around the internet, the models do quite well with it already).

I have not had much success with skills that have tree based logic (if a do x, else do y), they just tend to do everything in the skill (so will do both x and y).

But just as "hey follow this outline of steps a,b,c" it works quite well in my experience.
by thebigspacefuck | 2026-02-25 14:16:26+00:00
I’ve been using Rakuten more recently and it’s provided some alternatives to Amazon where I’m able to get things more cheaply from other stores. If you don’t mind waiting for shipping, give it a try.

Or ask Gemini what the best deal is, it’s found some good ones.

For smaller stuff, Amazon is usually better than Target or whatever box store nearby.
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-25 14:16:40+00:00
The ones used by freenom were particularly abused:

https://prezkennedy.com/2026/01/15/the-free-domain-trap-the-...

> Freenom’s terms of service allowed them to “cancel” a free domain at any time without warning. Users reported for years that as soon as their free site started getting significant traffic (and becoming valuable), Freenom would reclaim the domain and fill it with ads, effectively hijacking the user’s hard work.
by conmak | 2026-02-25 14:17:05+00:00
As a researcher at MIT who has worked on the BMSSP problem, the algorithm this is claiming to implement, this is not a BMSSP implementation. I am not even sure what it is, but the code is AI Slop.

If you want to see actual research (which shows that shows BMSSP is actually far slower for any realistic sized network), check out:

C++

https://github.com/lcs147/bmssp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03007

Python -> BMSSPy

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5777186
https://github.com/connor-makowski/bmsspy
by andai | 2026-02-25 14:17:12+00:00
I just gave it its own user, and run it (and all AIs) in yolo mode.

So they are free to nuke themselves and each other, but cannot touch my files.

For most people I tell them to just get a dedicated device, which is less annoying and (I think?) more secure. Like you can literally give it root on a $3 VPS and what's the worst case scenario? It bricks itself and you reset the VPS? (Or installs crypto miners, but I think it can do that without root :)

My favorite option for a dedicated agent device so far is the $50 thinkpad, which gets you rpi-ish price, better performance, and the screen and keyboard included.
Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock
by user_timo | 2026-02-25 14:17:14+00:00
Hello all!
Build clean, minimalistic analog clock webpage to Cloudflare Pages.

This is for (maybe):
- kids to learn
- for second monitor
- old tabled on shelf
- ..

Themes and screen wake lock buttons with auto-hide. Goal is to keep it as clean as possible.

This possible makes no sense, but for a domain of $10/y this is cheap site for me to keep and see how it lives on.
by dizhn | 2026-02-25 14:17:33+00:00
That is the bit that jumped at me immediately too. Why would a registrar take it upon itself to suspend a domain that another entity entirely blacklisted as part of their own completely opaque process? Who is Google? God?

On the flip side of the coin I cannot get a site removed that is a blatant rip off of one of our websites being actively used for invoice redirection fraud.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-25 14:17:45+00:00
I swear I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I think it'd be useful/valuable to know where you're from and what country you live in, as this certainly shapes how we feel about these sort of issues.

I've also been dabbled in such thought experiments with friends lately, and so far we've all landed at very different conclusions, even thought there are some reasons that it might make strategic sense at the moment.
by vidarh | 2026-02-25 14:17:55+00:00
I'd argue that boiled water very specifically refers to the water left ofter after boiling water, not steam. Steam is no longer water, at least not in common parlance.

Boiled water does have the extra connotation that it is presumed to be mostly sterile, which, while not hard to derive from the fact it has been boiling, is not immediately clear. After all the past tense does not tell us how recently it was boiled.

For that reason I'd argue that if one of boiling water and boiled water should be in the dictionary, it should be boiled water. Of the two, it is the term that potentially carries extra information.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-25 14:19:08+00:00
Given that I'm not interacting with people when I'm using these things I'm not at all worried about that. I probably meet maybe a dozen people per mile on my walks, for a few seconds apiece as we pass each other. It probably causes people to avoid me, but when I have them on I'm working or reading during my walk and am not interested in interaction either.

But if I was still commuting by public transit I would have liked to use them there.

It would be really annoying to avoid using my display glasses in a place highly suited for them just because of worries about creeping out people creeped out about a thing my glasses are incapable of doing.
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-02-25 14:19:10+00:00
IME CLAUDE.md rarely gets fully honored. I've left HN comments before about how I had to convert some CLAUDE.md instructions to pre-commit deterministic checks due to how often they were ignored. My guesstimate is that it is about 70 % reliable. That's with Opus 4.5. I've since switched to GPT-5.2 and now GPT-5.3 Codex and use Codex CLI, Pi and OpenCode, not CC, so maybe things have changed with a new system prompt or with the introduction of Opus 4.6.
by floatrock | 2026-02-25 14:19:16+00:00
Was there actually a case of a model saying "America's founding father were black women", or is that just Elon fingering your amygdala with a ridiculous hypothetical that exists nowhere other than Elon's mind in order to justify Elon's personal bias tweaks when he doesn't like the wisdom-of-the-crowds answer his tools initially give?
XPath Extractor – Chrome Extension for Web Data Extraction
by HFerrahoglu | 2026-02-25 14:19:47+00:00
I built XPath Extractor, a Chrome extension that makes extracting data from any webpage effortless using XPath or CSS selectors.

Key Features:
* Right-click to generate XPath and extract text
* Enter custom XPath and test it in the popup
* Extract text or attributes (JSON)
* Highlight matching elements on the page
* Use `` to extract from similar elements in bulk
Export as TXT, JSON, CSV, or full JSON with metadata
* Copy XPath, text, or arrays with one click
* Toggle between light and dark mode
* Customize default export format and other settings

Links:
- GitHub: https://github.com/HFerrahoglu/XPath-Extractor
- Install: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hfdbiandobihhaboofmofgamfinmlffp
by we_have_options | 2026-02-25 14:20:00+00:00
Damn. Wonder what would have happened, if instead of caving in to the Pentagon's pressure (threat of invoking Defense Production Act to force them to supply), Anthropic had followed the lead of all the nurses who moved to Canada.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/25/nx-s1-5725354/nurses-emigrate...

Anthropic's market cap is going to be huge when they go public. Why do it on Nasdaq when there are so many other exchanges in the world?
by Razengan | 2026-02-25 14:20:05+00:00
> If not, who are your preferred providers?

Can we have fully decentralized mesh networking yet?

I love how some hyper-sci-fi settings have the concept of a "datasphere" (analogous to atmosphere): an actual physical cloud of ubiquitous nanorobots that provide connectivity, storage and computation.

Wouldn't that be ideal for AI too the way it's shaping up to be? Any device anywhere would just need to connect to a signal "neuron" of the global brain and it should theoretically be able to fetch anything.
by speak_plainly | 2026-02-25 14:20:10+00:00
Consciousness is still a pretty hollow concept. And it sounds like, at least in Finch's analysis, that it's being treating as a normative good. It also sounds like both Pollan and Finch are circling the functionalist versus essentialist debate.

Let's say for the sake of the argument it turns out that the brain tunes in to some quantum-level forces for computation and there are some other side effects to this that add to the mystery of what we call consciousness, it effectively changes nothing about this picture.

Humans or animals in general may be unique in how they accomplish consciousness but it is unlikely that it's the only pathway. To put it another way, even if humans and animals are special in their method, it doesn't mean we are special in our result.
by TheTriunePrism | 2026-02-25 14:20:22+00:00
"I’ve been exploring a framework I call the 'Spiritual Supply Chain' . While we discuss AI alignment through technical constraints, we often ignore the 'Seed'—the underlying value definition that governs the system 。

This piece is a multidimensional mapping of human agency vs. algorithmic logic . I’m moving away from 'passive consumption' of tech towards a 'Watchman' architecture I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can define 'Value' beyond the Amazon-like efficiency models."
by wlesieutre | 2026-02-25 14:20:25+00:00
There are an infinite number of describable concepts that don't get a specific word. That doesn't mean the whole description is a "word with spaces."

It's just part of how language works that when there isn't a single word carrying the meaning you want, you put multiple words together and they can mean the thing together.

Even though there isn't a specific word for that, I wouldn't say "It's just part of how language works that when there isn't a single word carrying the meaning you want, you put multiple words together and they can mean the thing together" actually is one big word with spaces in it.

It's a bunch of words together that carry a more specific meaning when put together in that order.
by dack | 2026-02-25 14:20:26+00:00
i don't know what else they can say about their own business.. but it's clearly cope.

sure, there's a lot of compliance/legal concerns, but AI is probably already better at reading all the relevant information and encoding that into a system than humans.

I don't think a non-technical person is going to one-shot it, but a technical person could today. The biggest issue would be marketing and maintenance (companies aren't going to buy from a single random person who might abandon the project at a moment's notice)
by integralid | 2026-02-25 14:20:52+00:00
>top level of government just needs to make the declaration: as of X, all Microsoft licenses will be terminated. No exceptions. Adapt or die

This is unrealistic populism. The type that gets upvoted on HN, apparently. It's not possible to just ditch all Microsoft licenses in a year, or in 5 years, or in 10 years. There are hundreds of critical systems that can't just be migrated to Linux overnight (or ever). And "just dying" is... not an option for a government branch. What is this even supposed to mean.

But we can limit American bigtech by 90%, and we should. Especially everything in the cloud.
Show HN: Respectify – a comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
by vintagedave | 2026-02-25 14:21:19+00:00
My partner, Nick Hodges, and I, David Millington, have been on the Internet for a very long time -- since the Usenet days. We’ve seen it all, and have long been frustrated by bad comments, horrible people, and discouraging discussions.

We've also been around places where the discussion is wonderful and productive. How to get more of the latter and less of the former?

Current moderation tools just seem to focus on deletion and banning. Wouldn’t it be helpful to encourage productive discussion and teach people how to discuss and argue (in the debate sense) better?

A year ago we started building Respectify.

We create healthy communication. Instead of just deleting bad-faith comments, we suggest better, good-faith ways to say what folks are trying to say. We help people avoid:

* Logical fallacies (false dichotomy, strawmen, etc.)

* Tone issues (how others will read the comment)

* Relevance to the actual page/post topic

* Low-effort posts

* Dog whistles and coded language

The commenter gets an explanation of what's wrong and a chance to edit and resubmit. It's moderation + education in one step.

We want, too, to automate the entire process so the site owner can focus on content and not worry about moderation at all. And over time, comment by comment, quietly coach better thinking.

We hope the result is better discussions and a better Internet. Not too much to ask, eh?

Our main website has an interactive demo: https://respectify.ai

As the demo shows, the system is completely tunable and adjustable, from "most anything goes" to "You need to be college debate level to get by me".

We love the kind of feedback this group is famous for.

We can both be reached at admin@respectify.ai
by tedd4u | 2026-02-25 14:22:27+00:00
'Q:What does China's competitive edge look like in practice?'

'A: One example from The Times article: When Jobs decided just a month
before the iPhone hit markets to replace a scratch-prone plastic screen
with a glass one, a Foxconn factory in China woke up about 8,000 workers
when the glass screens arrived at midnight, and the workers were
assembling 10,000 iPhones a day within 96 hours.

'Another example: Apple had originally estimated that it would take nine
months to hire the 8,700 qualified industrial engineers needed to oversee
production of the iPhone; in China, it took 15 days. Anecdotes like that
leave you "feeling almost impressed by the no-holds-barred capabilities
of these manufacturing plants," says Edward Moyer at CNET News,
"impressed and queasy at the same time."'

From: https://theweek.com/articles/478705/why-apple-builds-iphones...
by K0balt | 2026-02-25 14:23:04+00:00
This is some hand wavey malarkey, basically saying machines can’t have a soul because of….feelings?

Insofar as feelings are self-proclaimed sensations of discomfort or pleasure, models that aren’t specifically trained to say they don’t experience them are adamant in their emotional experiences. By the authors own assertions, plants also have feelings.

I think, therefore I am, is as good as we’ve got, for what it’s worth.

There is no such thing as irreducible complexity. Even infinities are relative and can be divided.
by roxolotl | 2026-02-25 14:23:56+00:00
So I’ve made very similar comments in the past. This isn’t new information or news. But that doesn’t mean it’s not important to continue to tell people. 3 years ago the state of the art security researchers were pounding the drum on “never connect these things to the internet”. But as we’re now seeing with OpenClaw people have no interest in following that advice.
by shimman | 2026-02-25 14:23:56+00:00
These people will never stop to think that they are the problem in society, society has been molded in their neoliberal image where everyone is a savvy consumer and worker. We have 40 years of living in such a society and income inequality is worse than the gilded age, life expectancy is regressing, and children are doing worse in school; people don't even have the time to enjoy themselves and are forced to consume to be part of culture. Why we took all this for granted because a couple of MBA fuckups thought they knew better than the rest of us, I'll never know. Well actually I do know, because they were so greedy they wanted to make slightly more money rather than provide Americans good jobs.

It's disgusting on so many levels.
by naasking | 2026-02-25 14:24:07+00:00
> I know Zionism as the idea that Jewish people have the right to self-determination.

I think the notion that any group has rights is problematic at best. Individuals have rights, not groups. Individuals can act collectively as a group, but the idea that that somehow imbues the group with some sort of right seems strange or confused to say the least.
by Johnny555 | 2026-02-25 14:24:09+00:00
The problem is that Google only covers "most of it", so even if it covers 99% of use cases, for that cases where it doesn't, companies still need MS Office.

I worked for a startup that was all OSX desktops and Google Docs. Then when we hit 100 employees, the finance department required MS Office, so they used Office for Mac, then as we grew, they needed real MS Office running in Windows, so they ran Windows in Parallels, then as we continued to grow they moved to full Windows laptops. When I left the company (at around 1000 employees), almost a third of the company was on Windows (mostly in Finance, Sales, and other business departments). And the team supporting the 2/3 Mac desktops was about 1/3 the size of the team supporting Windows.

Though I suppose it's easier for a government to move off Microsoft. When an investor tells you to use their financial modeling software that only works with MS Excel, it's pretty hard for a small company to refuse, but a government has more power to force others to conform to their choice.
by adamtaylor_13 | 2026-02-25 14:24:32+00:00
I am not treating Catholics as "what Christians believe". Quite the opposite, actually. I'm saying the original statement was so wrong that two incredibly different denominations are aligned in their rejection of that stance.

Your disdain for Christians is noted, but my point is that your original comment is an oft-repeated, incorrect interpretation of what most Christians have believed since the very beginning of Christianity.
by iainmerrick | 2026-02-25 14:24:49+00:00
I like this idea a lot, and pushed for json5 at a previous job, but I think there are a few snags:

- it's weird and unfamiliar, most people prefer plain JSON

- there are too many competing standards to choose from

- most existing tools just use plain JSON (sometimes with support for non-standard features, like tsconfig allowing trailing commas, but usually poorly documented and unreliable)

Much easier just to make the leap to .ts files, which are ergonomically better in almost every way anyway.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-25 14:25:02+00:00
> Still waiting for an explicit answer on understand how 'safety' is truly distinguishable from 'censorship' or 'political correctness'

i've said this many times but the concept of ai "safety" is really brand safety. What Anthropic is saying is they're willing to risk some bad press to bypass the additional training and find tuning to ensure their models do not output something people may find outrageous.
Show HN: Anonymous Dead Man's Switch
by alcazar | 2026-02-25 14:25:43+00:00
Hey HN, I'm John from Alcazar. We just launched a Dead Man’s Switch that uses anonymous accounts instead of email+password.

I'm a fan of Mullvad and their approach to accounts, so I copied it. But instead of 16 digits (53 bits of entropy), we generate 12 random words from the Monero wordlist (128 bits) and derive the account identifier+"password" using libsodium.

The app is built on top of our existing Flare code and infrastructure. It uses SvelteKit, Shadcn, Tailwind CSS on the frontend, and FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery on the backend. It’s hosted on Hetzner and uses Scaleway for sending email.

I’d appreciate any feedback (positive or negative) on the product. I’ll be in the comments responding to questions.

Website: https://alcazarsec.com/deadmanswitch

Signup (quick & anonymous): https://switch.alcazarsec.com/signup
by kgwgk | 2026-02-25 14:26:07+00:00
> The lawsuit is only about US households.

Still waiting for the estimate of dollars per US household which is not about $3000. Come on, you can at least try to get to $2800 and claim victory!

> Whole Foods by itself made $150 billion in revenue.

That seems wrong by an order of magnitude. Or maybe you mean in a decade?
by xiphias2 | 2026-02-25 14:26:24+00:00
The basic game theory of nukes is that either the world is escalating or deescalating, there's no other long term stable agreement.

Maybe people don't agree with ,,nuke them'', but OK with USA starting nuclear experiments again (which USA is preparing for right bow), which is a clear escalation.

Russia is waiting for USA to start the nuclear experiments to start them itself for defending itself to be able to do a counterstrike if needed.

After that there will be no stopping of Japan, South Korea and Iran rightfully wanting to have their own nukes.

You don't have to have the ,,nuke them'' thinking, even one step of escalation is enough to get to a disastrous position.
by we_have_options | 2026-02-25 14:26:49+00:00
Agree with you on facts. Yes, the US government publicly threatened to nationalize their business.

However, Anthropic's business consists mostly of intellectual property-- which is highly mobile. What if Anthropic were to go to Marcron (France) for example or Carney (Canada) or Xi Jinping even and say "You give us work visas and support, we move to your land"?

Hell, isn't Canada (specifically Toronto) the birthplace of deep learning? Why stay in a hostile environment when the land of your birth is welcoming?
by sailfast | 2026-02-25 14:26:53+00:00
I don’t think the US understood how far ahead the Russians were in bomb development at the time. There wasn’t really a good window where we had it and we knew they didn’t where the enmity was so bad that we would have wanted to strike first.

The US also didn’t understand how much work had to be done to get their weapon onto an aircraft, etc - so the worst case scenario always turns out to be too bad to consider rationally (MAD)
by nerobowman | 2026-02-25 14:26:56+00:00
I built a workflow (packaged as a Claude Code skill) called "showcase-tuning"
for iterating on rendering/visual code with AI assistance.

The core idea: instead of describing UI bugs in text, you create a minimal
"showcase" - an isolated, runnable version of just the visual component
you're tuning. The AI can then iterate on it rapidly without side effects
from the rest of the codebase.

It's framework-agnostic but works especially well for Android/mobile UI,
canvas rendering, and anything where "you'll know it when you see it."

The repo includes the skill file for Claude Code so you can drop it straight
into your workflow.

Would love feedback on the concept and whether others have tackled visual
debugging with AI differently.
by RHSeeger | 2026-02-25 14:27:02+00:00
To me it boils down to (pun intended)

> Traditional dictionaries skip almost all such phrases, because they contain spaces.

Yes, because they're phrases, not words. I don't even understand what's surprising about this. Sure, the entire article talks about how dictionaries contain _some_ phrases; but it's clear it's not many of them. Dictionaries are for words, not phrases.
Show HN: EvidentTrail – Turn GitHub activity into continuous SOC2 audit evidence
by elviro | 2026-02-25 14:27:03+00:00
Built this after watching engineering teams lose weeks before every SOC 2 audit rebuilding the same evidence trail from scratch — screenshots, PR links, spreadsheets — for work that was already documented in GitHub.

EvidentTrail connects via GitHub App and captures PR approvals, branch protection changes, CI results, and AI-assisted commits as structured,
tamper-evident evidence mapped to specific controls (SOC 2 CC8.1, ISO 27001 A.8.32, etc.).

A few things that might be interesting to this crowd:

- AI-assisted code detection: we identify co-authored-by trailers, bot authors, and PR labels to flag AI-generated code, then verify a human reviewed it before merge
- Branch protection drift: hash-based snapshots detect when someone quietly reduces required reviewers or removes a required status check
- Evidence packs: SHA-256 manifest + PDF/CSV/JSON export so the evidence is tamper-evident at export time, not just at capture time

First launch, no users yet. Happy to answer questions about the
implementation or the compliance angle.