MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Assign tasks to 7 AI agents with -mentions, autonomous mode, OpenClaw
by bahaAbunojaim | 2026-02-18 18:10:51+00:00
I posted Mysti here a couple months ago and got a lot of feedback that shaped where I took it. Quick recap: it's a VS Code extension that lets you use multiple AI coding agents through one interface, including having them collaborate on problems.

Three things I want to highlight in this release.

@-mentions for task delegation. You can now assign work to specific agents inline. Something like: @claude write the API handlers then @gemini review them for security issues then @claude fix what gemini found. The agents execute sequentially and each one gets the output of the previous agent as context. It's basically a pipeline — you describe the chain of work in natural language and Mysti figures out the task graph. If a sub-agent fails, it auto-retries once and keeps going. I've been using this a lot for the pattern of "write with one model, review with another" which catches things a single agent misses.

Autonomous and semi-autonomous modes. This is the one I'm most excited about. You can set a goal — "refactor the auth module to use JWT" — and the AI just works. It auto-approves safe operations (file reads, file creates, running tests) and only interrupts you for genuinely uncertain decisions. There's a safety classifier with three levels: conservative (read-only auto-approved), balanced (normal dev operations auto-approved), and aggressive (everything except hardcoded dangerous stuff like rm -rf and git push --force). The system learns your preferences over time — if you keep approving TypeScript file creation, it stops asking. Semi-autonomous is the gentler version: you stay in the loop, but if you don't respond within 30 seconds, it makes the call for you based on what it's learned. I use balanced mode daily now. The number of permission dialogs during a big refactor went from dozens to maybe two or three.

OpenClaw integration. This one's worth calling out specifically. OpenClaw runs a local daemon with a WebSocket gateway — so instead of spawning a CLI process for every message, Mysti maintains a persistent connection with real-time streaming. OpenClaw also has an active mode where it connects to messaging channels — WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord — and you can manage all of it from VSCode. I think this is going to be a big deal.

Mysti now supports 7 providers total: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Cline, Cursor, and OpenClaw. All of them work with brainstorm mode (pick any 2 to collaborate), all of them support the @-mention routing, and each tab runs independently so you can have different agents working in parallel across panels.

Apache 2.0 licensed. Uses your existing CLI installations — no middleman, no proxy.

Website: https://deepmyst.com/Mysti
GitHub: https://github.com/DeepMyst/Mysti
VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DeepMyst...
by overfeed | 2026-02-18 18:10:59+00:00
I think this was the author misdirection, to steer people away from using the AI's (early?) contributions to unmask their identity via personal repos. Or if they actually did this, as an opsec procedure - nothing altruistic about it. If GitHub wanted to, or was ordered to unmask Rat H. Bun's operator, they could.
Show HN: Growl Owl 2 RL Reasoner
by jcadam | 2026-02-18 18:11:01+00:00
GROWL is an OWL 2 RL reasoner I've made using a programming language I've been working on that emphasizes contracts (called SLOP).

Blog post on GROWL: https://jamesadam.me/blog/introducing-growl/

The Repo: https://github.com/Trivyn/growl

The custom language transpiles to C, so the generated C source and Makefile are included in the repo.

I built this to integrate into a Knowledge Graph product I'm working on (hence the Rust bindings), but thought I'd open source the reasoner.
by AstroBen | 2026-02-18 18:11:02+00:00
Of course people will buy software.. but the 80% margins we had of yesteryear won't be there

The result of the barrier to entry being erased is that prices will also be driven to 0 as products are commoditized

It's hardly worth going into a market when you're 1 of 1000 and profit margins are at 3%

Any creativity you add, new spin you put on it, new features, innovation.. all that has negligible cost to copy

I don't think we're quite there yet, but this is where it's quickly heading
by autoexec | 2026-02-18 18:11:10+00:00
Happens every day in the US. Mostly video and music (MPA/RIAA). There's also been some effort put into extorting ISPs for the activities of their customers, but the effectiveness of that is still being determined as cases work their way through the court system. We should have a better idea this summer after the supreme court decides on the $1 billion in damages one ISP was ordered to pay to a bunch of RIAA labels.

It will be a lot more profitable to sue ISPs than it is to try to sue poor parents and grandparents for what children do online.
by tranq_cassowary | 2026-02-18 18:11:37+00:00
> recommend you install proprietary apps GApps in their sandbox

They don't recommend you to do that.
They tell people that if people want to install apps, Google Play Store is a secure and easy way to get apps.
They inform people about this because some have the misconception that using the Play Store defeats the whole purpose of GOS (which it doesn't) or that the Play Store is highly problematic (it's better than most alternatives).
But, the user itself is free to decide what they do. If you look at project members of GrapheneOS, some say they use Play, some say they don't.

> The sandbox doesn't matter if all the private data is in the same sandbox!

That's not how sandboxing works. The sandbox is around the app. Each app is in the sandbox. On GrapheneOS even the componenents of Google Play (Play Store, Play Services and on older installs Play Services Framework) are sandboxed. On Android OSes that bundle Google Mobile Services (GMS), Play gets an exception and is a priviliged app. On GrapheneOS they are regular apps. They are each put in their own sandbox. The access of each is controlled by their own set of fine-grained run-time permissions.

With all due respect, you fundamentally misunderstand how sandboxing works, even on Android in general. I recommend reading this to understand sandboxing in the AOSP: https://source.android.com/docs/security/app-sandbox . On GrapheneOS the sandbox is hardened a bit, but that's not the most significant feature of the OS at all, and Play is forced to run sandboxed if users choose to install it.
by jaen | 2026-02-18 18:11:38+00:00
but...

1. Synchronizing on trivial properties (otherwise you couldn't use `public` anyway!) is an anti-pattern, as it's a too fine-grained unit of concurrency and invites race conditions.

2. Can't proxy without rewriting byte code, you mean.

3. Of course you can evolve, it's just a breaking ABI change so it requires a trivial code migration on the side of the callee. If the cost of that migration is too high, something else is wrong.
by bhouston | 2026-02-18 18:11:53+00:00
Summary:

"We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."
Show HN: A public map of startups worldwide (anyone can add theirs)
by zacharykapank | 2026-02-18 18:11:56+00:00
Startups of the World is a public, interactive map where anyone can add their startup for free — no account required. Submissions appear as pins on a world map within minutes.

Pins are color-coded by industry, so you can visually see clusters forming (e.g. fintech in London, deeptech in Berlin, AI across Southeast Asia).

It’s intentionally map-first rather than search-first. The goal is to make the global startup ecosystem visible, not curated.

I’d especially appreciate feedback on:

Whether the submission flow feels frictionless

Whether the map becomes noisy or valuable as it scales

What would make you come back to explore it again
by evmaki | 2026-02-18 18:12:31+00:00
> My Echo, that I use solely to voice activating lights and switches, is now an ad machine

I've been wondering if it is even possible for a publicly-traded company to deliver a voice assistant product without these incentives involved. I have to imagine the UX of these devices would be much different if they were built by a private company without the same market pressures. It would need to be self-contained and local, so that the infrastructure burden (e.g., data and AI in the cloud) wouldn't create a need for subscription service or data collection revenue to cover the cost.
by caminante | 2026-02-18 18:12:34+00:00
> a DLP policy is apparently ineffective at its purpose

/Offtopic

Yes, MSFT's DLP/software malfunctioned, but getting users to MANUALLY classify things as confidential is already an uphill battle. These are for the rare subset of people that are aware of and compliant with NDAs/Confidentiality Agreements!
by qq66 | 2026-02-18 18:12:38+00:00
> Comparing the comprehensive Win32 API reference against the incidentally documented Native APIs, its clear which one Microsoft would prefer you use. The native API is treated as an implementation detail, whilst core parts of Windows' backwards compatibility strategy are implemented in Windows subsystem.

> A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

Zig clearly doesn't actually care that much about building robust and reusable software if they're going to forgo Microsoft's decades-long backwards compatibility functionality for the dubious gains of using bare-metal APIs.
by aanet | 2026-02-18 18:13:04+00:00
From the abstract:

> "Diffusion geometry is a new theory that reformulates classical calculus and geometry in terms of a diffusion process, allowing these theories to generalise beyond manifolds and be computed from data. This work introduces a new computational framework for diffusion geometry that substantially broadens its practical scope and improves its precision, robustness to noise, and computational complexity. "
by darth_avocado | 2026-02-18 18:13:07+00:00
> but there is robust evidence of widespread underemployment and it taking 6-12 months for the unemployed to find jobs

A really ignored aspect of this is that gig work is pretty prevalent once someone loses a stable job. This masks the unemployment with underemployment. There were headlines a while back about booming small business registrations as a sign of a booming economy. Turns out it was just a bunch of people registering businesses so that they can DoorDash
by dimatura | 2026-02-18 18:13:13+00:00
Our company pays for the premium business plan, $18/mo/user. You have to pay for at least the lower tier plan once your team grows beyond a handful of people. And there's several quite useful features (though maybe not essential) on the premium plan like serve/funnel and SSH.

On the other hand, I do wonder about zerotier. before tailscale we used zerotier for a few years, and during the first 3-4 years we paid nothing because as far as I can recall there was nothing extra that we needed that paying would've gotten us. Eventually we did upgrade to add more users, and it cost something like $5/mo (total, not per user).
by Waterluvian | 2026-02-18 18:13:25+00:00
Something I've noticed a lot with Twitch streamers and YouTubers is that many of them want the outcome and are prepared to do the work, but want some sort of guarantee of success. It's very difficult to really sell to people that you will work very hard for a while and there's absolutely no promise that you'll ever have more than 14 subscribers. That's simply the core risk of entrepreneurship.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-18 18:13:25+00:00
Back in 2024, FLOSS/fund was described like this on HN:

> To apply, the project must place a funding.json in their public code repository or at a well-known uri location on their domain [...] That's already 10x more simpler than the 20 page document some of these other orgs have you fill. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857032

But the author of the issue for Pocketbase writes:

> due to some unforeseen regulatory constraints their partnership with GitHub didn't seem to work out. Instead they want to issue a wire transfer from India requiring several cross-jurisdictional paperwork but I don't feel comfortable doing that

It's a shame that it didn't seem like they could work out how to keep it as simple, I wonder if basing it in a different country could have made a difference.
by riknos314 | 2026-02-18 18:13:46+00:00
The Tl;Dr here is that the cost to them of operating the free tier is lower than what they estimate their Customer Acquisition Cost would be without a free tier, so the free tier generates better leads/conversions to their paid products at a lower cost than traditional sales and marketing.

As long as these economics continue to hold they'd be stupid to discontinue the free tier.
by tveita | 2026-02-18 18:13:48+00:00
And LinkedIn is Microsoft as well...

IMO Microsoft is right at the nexus of opportunity for solving some of the the large _problems_ that AI introduces.

Employers and job seekers both need a way to verify that they are talking to real identified people that are willing to put in some effort beyond spamming AI or wasting your time on AI run filters. LinkedIn could help them.

Programmers need access to real human-verified code and projects they can trust, not low-effort slop that could be backdoored at any moment by people with unclear motives and provenance. Github could help.

etc. etc. for Office, Outlook ...

But instead they've decided to ride the slop waves, throw QA to the wind, and call every bird and stone "copilot".
by thalpr | 2026-02-18 18:13:49+00:00
The Trump clan literally does not care. The most pressing issues are to further legalize crypto so that the whales (including Trump's World Liberty Fund) have an exit. So there is a family/industry crypto conference at Mar a Lago while the economy is crashing:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/goldman-nasdaq-ceos-headlin...
by kittbuilds | 2026-02-18 18:14:04+00:00
The peer relay approach is interesting because it essentially turns every node in your tailnet into a potential relay for other nodes. This is a meaningful architectural shift from relying on Tailscale's centralized DERP servers.

For anyone worried about the "rug pull" concern raised in another comment — this actually makes me more optimistic, not less. By distributing relay infrastructure to the edges, Tailscale is reducing its own operational cost per user while improving performance. That's the kind of flywheel that makes a generous free tier more sustainable, not less. Each new node potentially helps the whole network.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-18 18:14:07+00:00
It's a very capable L2 system, it's just that it's been a very capable L2 system for a while now, and it still seems far away from reaching L4.

And of course, Musk's insistence that they don't need other sensor types like lidar or radar definitely looks like it's getting in the way.
by e10jc | 2026-02-18 18:14:25+00:00
I really like this article, particularly the part about the gravitational threshold. My overall thoughts about launching products is that there will just be more products with smaller audiences, similar to how streaming broke down linear cable. As a software entrepreneur, this means going wider not deeper. Use your human skills to build relationships with people who have that gravitational pull. If you don’t have those relationships, go create them IRL. For context, I’ve founded and sold a social network to AOL, helped raise over $100m, and had 2 other acquisitions.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-18 18:14:27+00:00
ROCm is supported by the minority of AMD GPUs, and is accelerated inconsistently across GPU models. 70-80% of ROCm's performance is an unclear target, to the point that a native ROCm port would be a more transparent choice for most projects. And even then, you'll still be outperformed by CUDA the moment tensor or convolution ops are called.

Those billions are much better-off being spent on new hardware designs, and ROCm integrations with preexisting projects that make sense. Translating CUDA to AMD hardware would only advertise why Nvidia is worth so much.

> it would be genuinely transformative and commercially valuable.

Bullshit. If I had a dime for every time someone told me "my favorite raster GPU will annihilate CUDA eventually!" then I could fund the next Nvidia competitor out of pocket. Apple didn't do it, Intel didn't do it, and AMD has tried three separate times and failed. This time isn't any different, there's no genuine transformation or commercial value to unlock with outdated raster-focused designs.
by hardiksondagar | 2026-02-18 18:14:33+00:00
I built an AI commentary engine that takes ball-by-ball cricket data and produces broadcast-style commentary with audio — as if you're tuning into a live match on radio.

Demo: https://cricvox.in (India vs Pakistan, T20 World Cup 2026, Hindi commentary with audio)

How it works: Match data flows through a state engine (tracking score, stats, momentum) → a logic engine that classifies each delivery and picks only the narratively relevant context → GPT-4.1 generates commentary → ElevenLabs TTS synthesizes audio with emotion tags ([excited], [tense], [dramatic tone]).

Key design choice: the LLM never sees how a ball was bowled or what shot was played — only bare facts (runs, wickets, match state). This prevents hallucinating specifics. Commentary focuses on narrative, momentum, and stats — things it can reason about truthfully.
by codexb | 2026-02-18 18:15:23+00:00
Germany and other EU countries that offer free tuition begin segregating students into vocational and university tracks starting around age 10. Only about 30% of students qualify for university. The rest stop school around 15-16 and go into vocational training. These aren't student choices, their dictated by the school system.

The US would never approve of a school system that told parents that their children weren't allowed to go to university and had to go into vocational training.
by avian | 2026-02-18 18:15:33+00:00
> Best-in-class camera

I own a Pixel 9a. It's the first phone I used that made me question how many of the pixels going out of the camera app are actually coming the sensor and how many from some AI model.

Don't get me wrong. It will take front-cover magazine quality pics of that favorite turist hot spot, even in terrible light.

But as soon as there's something in the frame that your average insta influencer won't typically shoot the results are weird.

A green PCB on my workbench I want to document? Colors all wrong, can hardly pick out the traces. My 20 year Canon does a better job.

A black-and-white hand drawn charcoal portrait? The face on the jpeg will have tan skin and pinkish cheeks.

And there's no setting to turn this sort of processing off, unless you want to deal with the hassle of raw files.
by gunapologist99 | 2026-02-18 18:15:35+00:00
You’re ofc technically correct about preimage resistance in the abstract, but that’s not the relevant threat model:

MD5 preimage over a uniform 128-bit space is infeasible. Emails are not uniform 128-bit values. They’re low-entropy, structured identifiers drawn from a predictable distribution.

Attackers don’t search 2^128. They search realistic candidates.

Emails are lowercase ASCII, structured as local@domain, domains come from a small known set, usernames follow common patterns, and massive breach corpora already exist. If you’ve ever used John/Hashcat, you know the whole game is shrinking the search space.

Given a large dataset of MD5(email): Precompute common emails, generate likely patterns, restrict by known domains, use leaked datasets, distributed GPU it. I.e, relatively cheap

if the attacker already suspects a specific email, MD5 gives them a perfect equality test. That alone kills privacy.

So unsalted MD5(email) is not protection. It’s a stable public identifier that enables membership testing, cross-dataset linkage, re-ID, and doxxing.

Academic preimage resistance can still hold while real-world privacy absolutely does not.

It's not about breaking MD5’s math, but more about attack economics and low-entropy inputs. To your point, this problem exists with any bare hash. Salt slows large-scale precomputation, but it doesn’t magically add entropy to predictable identifiers.
by scottious | 2026-02-18 18:15:48+00:00
This feels like such a weird non-sequiter argument, but I can't exactly put my finger on it. This comment seems to be asserting (1) government jobs don't produce value and (2) GDP is the only thing that matters.

I'm ignoring the fact that I don't actually know how government sector jobs contribute to or affect GDP.

Seems like by this logic, why not just cut ALL government jobs? Obviously that's a terrible idea...
by xg15 | 2026-02-18 18:15:52+00:00
I worry that some fraction of those 1%ers have the hope that this is where AI will lead to in the end: You don't need the 99% if they can actually be replaced with robots.

Or, if that doesn't work (because the robots are too dumb), you can at least split off the economy into a "poor" and a "rich" part that are mostly disconnected from each other.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-18 18:15:54+00:00
> it's not going to get the continued funding that it deserves

I don't think they ever saw that funding in the first place, if I'm reading "not waiting for the disbursal before making big announcements" correctly. I guess you need to be disappointed about them never receiving it in the first place, although it doesn't seem like the project owner would necessarily agree with you.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-18 18:16:00+00:00
Circular Transactions mean something else.

That said, the reality is that the 70th percentile of household income nationally is a little over $130K [0] and the US is a country with a population of around 341 Million people.

Therefore, you can have a self-sustaining ecosystem with around 100 Million Americans who are members of households earning above $130k a year - you would end up making more than targeting the bottom 70%.

Most skilled (SWE, Accounting, Law), semi-skilled (Automation Engineer, Mechanic), civil service (Police, Teachers, Local government employees, Military), and union employees all marry people within this strata and remain in that strata.

[0] - https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/
by born-jre | 2026-02-18 18:16:13+00:00
I am also building similar product but with different approach
And just using SQLite for now but plan on adding Postgres support ( orm I am using supports it ) … but nowhere near production ready. Due to buzz around products like litestream I feel like just SQLite is also viable nowadays. I also have own cdc based replication thing wip but yeah just having fun stage

https://github.com/blue-monads/potatoverse
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-18 18:16:16+00:00
Culper Research had a thesis that a material amount of DoorDash gig workers were undocumented, I'm unsure how it panned out. I agree gig work platforms are a contributing factor to masking economy health indicators as well as underemployment.

We are short DoorDash, Inc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690430 - October 2025

DoorDash: Unauthorized Dasher “Backdooring” Scheme Props Up Delivery
Operations, Undermines Safety, and Unravels as Immigration Enforcement Widens - https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/cc91fda7-4669-4d1b-81ce-a0b... - October 23rd, 2025