MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lkey | 2026-02-16 16:11:33+00:00
'some fun' here is owning and having sex with a women shaped object that can never say no?

I don't think that's a good impulse to indulge, and its worth figuring out why that feels 'normal' to you (and others here). I'm not saying y'all're bad people. I want folks to think about this and change their minds. When feminists talk about rape culture this is what they mean.

Notions of ownership and objectification of people underwrite both slavery and the devaluation of women and children.

> AI/Robots are not really bound to traditional gender concepts

Not by nature, but we immediately project those concepts onto them, like we do to other people.
Straight male transphobes actually are the most likely to gender and treat their AI companions like their loving girlfriends. It's really funny how little 'biological pronouns' matter when 'she' is affirming them.

> in almost every movie they are either coming to kill us or serving as sex dolls (or both).

Yes! Exactly! This is systemic misogyny. It is important to be able to identify and critique the systems that reproduce and normalize this stuff.

"In almost every missive from abroad our legions report of inhuman savages that are an existential threat to our way of life... but their women are unrestrained, exotic, and are actually eager for the guiding hand of our civilization"

Could have been written by any imperial culture in recorded history. The fact that [technically AI are not real people] isn't what's relevant, it's how your beliefs are being shaped by this very old message.
by JadeNB | 2026-02-16 16:11:36+00:00
> For a community that prides itself on "one small tool for a specific purpose," people sure like to use VIM for a thousand different purposes by hacking plugins. This used to be derided as the microsoft way decades ago.

I'm not sure that this is the meaning of the slogan. The slogan says that a programmer shouldn't try to make one tool to do all things, not, I think, that users shouldn't be given the freedom to adapt their favorite tool to do all the things that they want to do. (Imagine, for example, if one applied this understanding of the slogan to C, and regretted the thousand and thousand thousand different purposes to which users were putting it!)
by abustamam | 2026-02-16 16:11:51+00:00
Having worked on teams that wrote bad (S)CSS and teams that wrote bad tailwind, I prefer bad tailwind.

With tailwind, I can guarantee that changing a style in one component will only change that component. With css, there is no such guarantee. So of course the (wrong) way many devs fix it that is to add a new class, probably doubly specific, sometimes with important, and then everyone is sad.
by tkejser | 2026-02-16 16:11:53+00:00
INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a good start, but it does not get you to full metadata flexibility. The columns you need just aren't there. It is good to have a standard for the metadata - but the standard isn't ambitious enough (a point I also make in the blog and as you observe, the sample query isn't possible on Information Schema alone)

The Floe engine is a full database on top of Iceberg and Delta storage. The system views are just the tip of the iceberg. We will be blogging more about what we are building.
by bko | 2026-02-16 16:11:54+00:00
> I think it should be removed from consideration. Not expunged or removed from record, just removed from any decision making. The timeline for this can be based on severity with things like rape and murder never expiring from consideration.

That's up to the person for the particular role. Imagine hiring a nanny and some bureaucrat telling you what prior arrest is "relevant". No thanks. I'll make that call myself.
by keernan | 2026-02-16 16:11:57+00:00
One of the most impactful books I ever read was Alvin Toffler's Future Shock.

Its core thesis was: Every era doubled the amount of technological change of the prior era in one half the time.

At the time he wrote the book in 1970, he was making the point that the pace of technological change had, for the first time in human history, rendered the knowledge of society's elders - previously the holders of all valuable information - irrelevant.

The pace of change has continued to steadily increase in the ensuing 55 years since.
by mattacular | 2026-02-16 16:12:01+00:00
I find it to be more difficult. Especially if I can't pane the files in view comfortably (ie. beyond 2 or 3 it gets significantly harder to work across them).

Some frameworks or coding styles really lean into having lots of tiny files. That necessitates a more complicated directory structure for the project. Locating files eventually tends to requires search capability rather than being able to look through the tree in a sidebar.

None of this is "hard" per se but I find the opposite is nicer to work with typically.
by ForHackernews | 2026-02-16 16:12:04+00:00
You're overstating the case, but I think there's a strong possibility people will prompt AIs to produce bespoke apps that solve their niche use-case rather than paying a developer to do it.

I pay for a SaaS app that tracks my finances, but it's not that great and missing some features I would like. Very soon I expect I'll be able to get a better, local-first replacement tailored to my needs by prompting Claude & Friends.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-16 16:12:13+00:00
That is the classic Flow model or Redux model (if you prefer the common implementation name over the Facebook paper name). Build a central store. Pass the single store down to all necessary components via prop-drilling, then later Contexts (and HOCs) to skip layers as a nice-to-have.

Redux is a lot less fashionable today, but hasn't entirely disappeared as an M and C option.
by xzjis | 2026-02-16 16:12:36+00:00
Gemini 3 Flash is clearly a generation ahead of other LLMs, and as a result, it gave me the correct answer:

> Since your goal is to wash the car, you should drive.

> While 50 meters is a very short walking distance (roughly a 30-45 second walk), you cannot wash the car if it remains parked at your current location. To utilize the car wash facilities, the vehicle must be physically present at the site.
by bandie91 | 2026-02-16 16:12:40+00:00
> The main header JS starts using range requests to first load the real HTML, and then it watches requests for resources; the resources have been rewritten to be deliberately broken 404 errors (requesting from localhost, to avoid polluting any server logs)

what if a web server on localhost happens to handle the request? why not request from a guaranteed unaccessable place like http://0.0.0.0/ or http://localhost:0/ (port zero)
by stared | 2026-02-16 16:12:52+00:00
Awesome soft!

It works surprisingly nicely with AI agents (I mean, like Cursor or Claude Code, I don't let it run autonomously!).

Here on detecting malware in binaries (https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-binaryaudit/). I am now in process of recompiling and old game Chromatron, from PowerPC binary to Apple Silicon and WASM (https://p.migdal.pl/chromatron-recompiled/, ready to play, might be still rough edges).
Show HN: PolyClaw – An Autonomous Docker-First MCP Agent for PolyMCP
by justvugg | 2026-02-16 16:13:08+00:00
I built PolyClaw, an OpenClaw-inspired autonomous agent for the PolyMCP ecosystem.

PolyClaw doesn’t just call tools.
It plans, executes, adapts — and creates MCP servers when needed.

It’s designed for real multi-step, production workflows where agents must orchestrate tools, spin up infrastructure, recover from errors, and deliver complete results end-to-end.

⸻

What PolyClaw Does
• Plans complex multi-step tasks
• Executes and orchestrates MCP tools dynamically
• Adapts when steps fail or context changes
• Creates and connects MCP servers on the fly
• Runs Docker-first for safety and isolation
• Built with Python and TypeScript

PolyClaw is not just a tool caller — it’s an infrastructure-aware agent.

⸻

Run PolyClaw with Ollama

You can launch PolyClaw directly from the PolyMCP CLI:

polymcp agent run \
--type polyclaw \
--query "Build a sales reporting pipeline and test it end-to-end" \
--model minimax-m2.5:cloud \
--verbose

What happens behind the scenes:
1. The agent decomposes the task.
2. It determines which MCP tools are required.
3. It spins up or connects to MCP servers.
4. It executes steps in sequence (or parallel when needed).
5. It validates outputs.
6. It adapts if something fails.
7. It returns a complete result.

All containerized. All isolated.

⸻

Why This Matters

Most AI agents:
• Call tools statically
• Assume infrastructure already exists
• Break on multi-step failure

PolyClaw:
• Builds the infrastructure it needs
• Orchestrates across multiple MCP servers
• Handles retries and adaptive planning
• Is safe to run in Dockerized environments

This makes it viable for:
• Enterprise workflows
• DevOps automation
• Data pipelines
• Internal tooling orchestration
• Complex multi-tool reasoning tasks

PolyClaw turns PolyMCP from simple tool exposure only with Polyagent e unifiendpolyagent or codeagent but turn into full autonomous orchestration agent too.

Repo:
https://github.com/poly-mcp/PolyMCP

Happy to answer questions,
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-16 16:13:46+00:00
> It’s important that court records be public then, because otherwise there’s no way to tell what the law is.

So anyone who is interested in determining if a specific behavior runs afoul of the law not just has to read through the law itself (which is, "thanks" to being a centuries old tradition, very hard to read) but also wade through court cases from in the worst case (very old laws dating to before the founding of the US) two countries.

Frankly, that system is braindead. It worked back when it was designed as the body of law was very small - but today it's infeasible for any single human without the aid of sophisticated research tools.
Show HN: I built a way for my family to access my accounts in an emergency
by Sayuj01 | 2026-02-16 16:13:49+00:00
I realized something uncomfortable about my life.

We’ve moved most of our lives online, like for banking, investments, subscriptions, crypto, cloud storage, etc. But what if someone needed to step in and manage any of it during a crisis? Not just access but clear instructions.

So I built a tool for myself.

A secure way to document digital accounts so the people I trust know exactly what to do if they ever need to. It only gives them access when it's actually needed. Until then, everything stays encrypted and invisible.

Turns out I'm not the only one with this thought. So I turned it into Lineage: keeplineage.com
Show HN: Sentinel Core – Open-source AI video search with real-time dashboard
by ab-abg | 2026-02-16 16:14:00+00:00
We just released a major update to Sentinel Core, our open-source AI-powered video intelligence engine.

The new release includes a real-time multi-camera dashboard, semantic video search, and an upgraded detection pipeline.

Sentinel Core is built around an AI-native architecture:

- YOLOv8 for real-time object detection

- CLIP for semantic search (text-to-video queries)

- FAISS for vector indexing

- FastAPI backend with WebSocket streaming

- Fully air-gapped deployment capable

You can now:

- Stream multiple RTSP/IP camera feeds in a live grid view

- Search footage using natural language (e.g. “blue car near gate between 2-5pm”)

- Perform cross-camera semantic retrieval

- Configure zone-based alerts

- Run everything locally without cloud dependency

We designed this as a foundational engine for modern surveillance and physical AI systems.

Would appreciate feedback on:

- Architecture decisions

- Performance optimizations

- Semantic search accuracy

- Deployment improvements

Happy to answer technical questions.
by logicchains | 2026-02-16 16:14:25+00:00
>Through that lens, these changes make more sense. They're not designing UX for a human sitting there watching the agent work. They're designing for horizontally scaling agents that work in uninterrupted stretches where the only thing that matters is the final output, not the steps it took to get there.

Even in that case they should still be logging what they're doing for later investigation/auditing if something goes wrong. Regardless of whether a human or an AI ends up doing the auditing.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-16 16:14:57+00:00
It's crystal-clear that a model that was trained specifically to fool expert interrogators in a Turing test would, in fact, be able to do so. You'd have to sandbag the model just to keep it from tipping its hand by being too good.

We don't have any such models right now, AFAIK, so we can't run such a test. They wouldn't be much good for anything else, and would likely spark ethical concerns due to potential for misuse. But I have no doubt that it's possible to train for the Turing test.
by q3k | 2026-02-16 16:15:05+00:00
> I was recently trying to analyse a 600mb exe (denuvo/similar). I wasted a week after ghidra crashed 30h+ in multiple times.

During the startup auto analysis? For large binaries it makes sense to dial back the number of analysis passes and only trigger them if you really need them, manually, one by one. You also get to save in between different passes.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-16 16:16:44+00:00
> Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss.

My personal experience is quite the opposite. In fact, this is the first time I have heard anybody claim that intermittent fasting, when done correctly, does not make you lose weight. Sounds like a study done by people who sell weight-loss drugs or meals.

Intermittent fasting is one of the more reliable ways to lose weight.
by exceptione | 2026-02-16 16:17:03+00:00
I am the first to admit that SSR worked fine since PHP. But two points I like to make

1) choose boring technology; 2) it is the library, stupid

First question should be: what type of web application are we talking about? If your blog does not render or your e-commerce site stops working without javascript, shame on you indeed.

If we are talking about SPA's, aka those replacing traditional desktop applications, and you want to throw out React, then we have something to discuss. Because, how are you going to replace MUI/MUI(x)? I keep hearing about the coolness of alternatives, and I am certain open to it, but in the end it needs to be not just better in some aspects or even fundamentals, while completely lacking in practical matters. A simple benchmark I keep going back to is to see if $hotness is able to replace [1], which shows you just one component of many in a cohesive system.

I don't contend with the principles in the article, but I do with conclusions like "ripping out react would be the solution".

1. https://mui.com/x/react-data-grid/tree-data/
by alephnerd | 2026-02-16 16:17:16+00:00
EU member states do and often with collaboration with Israeli vendors - especially in the CEE and Southern Europe. It even became an ongoing scandal in the EU [0][1].

Northern and Western European states tend to use American products, but the difference between "American", "Israeli", "Czech", and "Indian" blurs because of how much overlap the industry has transnationally.

Italy, Czechia, Poland, and Netherlands all have significant domestic capacity in the space as well, but a large portion of it is via American and Israeli tech.

[0] - https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-spyware-probe-slams-gover...

[1] - https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-national-secur...
by gruez | 2026-02-16 16:17:19+00:00
>Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel, as part of Discord's new global age verification system rollout.

>As PCGamer note, Persona's lead investors during two recent rounds of venture capital funding were Founders Fund, who valued them at $1.5 billion in 2021. The Founders Fund was co-founded by Peter Thiel in 2020.

>Palantir have, among other things, worked extensively with the USA's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE, [...]

The article tries to imply that Persona might be sending your ID scans to Palantir or doing other unsavory things with it, because it's linked to Thiel, but is there any evidence for this? For instance, is Thiel known for meddling in the affairs of the companies his fund invests in, or pushing them together for collabs like what Musk does (eg. with x/x.ai/spacex)?
Ask HN: What are some active IRC servers/channels in 2026?
by qzx_pierri | 2026-02-16 16:17:44+00:00
Like many, I've finally given up on Discord. I just setup znc again after a decade, and I'm interested in some active channels in which I could hangout and chat.

I'm not looking for anything specific, but obviously tech focused communities would be nice. But channels with no particular theme are cool too, as long as there is activity.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-16 16:17:52+00:00
If dream of having a weekend-project turned $30k ARR SaaS is dead, good. It's an example of a tiny sliver of people losing their golden goose, so that everyone else in society can operate more efficiently.

One guy loses $2400/mo in revenue

200 pool cleaners can now easily track their clients filter change dates without paying $12/mo for a calendar script (something that 20 years ago would have been a one time $3 purchase).
by renegade-otter | 2026-02-16 16:18:03+00:00
From what I understand, they effectively rewrote all Scala/JVM/Python services to go through the xAI engine for their feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JOlCvA4Qs

I am not sure how that works at scale or how much money that burns, OR if this is even true, but a Rust monolith of this kind, where everything is a Black Box, could very will be maintained by 30 people.

That said, X is a complete dumpster fire where I want to pour Clorox into my eyes after 30 seconds.

I miss being plugged into a 24/7 feed of professional reporters, and at the same time - thank you, Elon, for fixing my addiction.
by ramon156 | 2026-02-16 16:18:10+00:00
Has OP been at a company where sales people do this? I have, and I can tell you they have not gotten far.

There was one PM at my ex-job that showed a dashboard for... well... i honestly didnt understand. I think it was some uptime checks. It broke during his presentation.

There's a company I hired at that "built an ERP in 5 days and is shipping the product in June". Same thing happened, it broke when presenting. Basic feature suggestions just returned a "Yes, we can do that!" (they meant they can tell Claude to do it, not that the product could do it).

Maybe at some point non-engineers can prompt build, but for now I'd say we're pretty safe. I think engineers give themselves too little credit. Being able to read code is an amazing tool that can only be sharpened through skill.

Lastly, I think I commented this ~2 years ago as well. If your product is vibe-codable and is replacing customers, it's a shit product. Similarly, if you can outsource your product on fiverr, its's a shit product.
by unstatusthequo | 2026-02-16 16:19:12+00:00
Personal experience says otherwise. Low carb/slow carb diet plus fasting 100% did it for me. 40 lbs gone, and have kept it off even while backing off of the initial rigidity. Everything in moderation, especially alcohol. Beer is a huge carb load, so that had to go entirely. Pasta as well. Potatoes too. Sure, I have a couple fries (or chippies for the BBC crew), but it’s all about those being scarce. It’s actually pretty easy to intermittent fast. Eat dinner and be done before 8pm and have lunch around 1pm the next day. Have coffee or tea in the morning.

What really accelerated weight loss for me was extremely rigid ketogenesis. Felt amazingly sharp and dialed in every morning, slept well, shredded pounds.
Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
by turth | 2026-02-16 16:19:16+00:00
I like to use org files a lot, but I wanted some way to browse and edit them on my phone when I'm out. Yesterday I used Codex to make this simple one-file web server that just displays all my org files with backlinks. It doesn't have any authentication because I only run it on my wireguard VPN. I've been having fun with it, hopefully it's useful to someone else!
by kaibee | 2026-02-16 16:19:29+00:00
In my experience this is what Claude 4.5 (and 4.6) basically does, depending on why its grepping it in the first place. It'll sample the header, do a line count, etc. This is because the agent can't backtrack mid-'try to read full file'. If you put the 50,000 lines into the context, they are now in the context.
by pas | 2026-02-16 16:19:52+00:00
It makes sense to have separate entry points for landing pages, no need for fancy providers and heavy imports.

In practice people are more than willing to wait for an SPA to load if it works well (figma, gmail/gdocs, discord's browser version used to be pretty good too, and then of course there are the horrible counter-examples AWS/GCP control panels, and so on).
by thesz | 2026-02-16 16:19:53+00:00
> It will accelerate the work and change your role from what it is today to something different;

We yet to see if different is good.

My short experience with LLM reviewing my code is that LLM's output is overly explanatory and it slows me down.

> something that takes time and experience to work with.

So you invite us to participate in sunken cost fallacy.
by benterix | 2026-02-16 16:20:23+00:00
> I get it; I do. It's rapidly challenging the paradigm that we've setup over the years in a way that it's incredibly jarring,

But it's not the argument. The argument is that these tools provide lower-quality output and checking this output often takes more time than doing this work oneself. It's not that "we're conservative and afraid of changes", heck, you're talking to a crowd that used to celebrate a new JS framework every week!

There is a push to accept lower quality and to treat it as a new normal, and people who appreciate high-quality architecture and code express their concern.
by toss1 | 2026-02-16 16:20:25+00:00
And if the Big Tech companies think it is so important to get all those compute and/or memory chips sooner and in larger supply, it should be no problem at all for those Big Tech companies to pay for the costs and then have priority access to all (or their portion of) the output for the future years.

OTOH, if they are insisting on not investing their funds or stock, and it is simply pressure on TSMC to take on the risk, TSMC should be very wary of taking on risk for those players (unless TSMC sees another advantage of producing into a likely glut or supply canyon shortly after the new fabs come online).
by jdhahana | 2026-02-16 16:20:28+00:00
Thanks, it’s super refreshing to hear this take. I fear where we are headed.

I robbed a drug dealer some odd 15 years ago while strung out. No excuses, but I paid my debt (4-11 years in state max, did min) yet I still feel like a have this weight I can’t shake.

I have worked for almost the whole time, am no longer on parole or probation. Paid all fines. I honestly felt terrible for what I did.

At the time I had a promising career and a secret clearance. I still work in tech as a 1099 making way less than I should. But that is life.

What does a background check matter when the first 20 links on Google is about me committing a robbery with a gun?

Edit: mine is an extreme and violent case. But I humbly believe, to my benefit surely, that once I paid all debts it should be done. That is what the 8+ years of parole/probation/counseling was for.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2026-02-16 16:20:51+00:00
I am sure it's personal, but when I fast 24 hours (once per week), the next two days I look for less food, to the point that I can skip lunch without noticing.

The big deal for me is not eating stuff with flour (starch?) or sugar.

I already eat healthy, although I switched from chicken to a full protein tofu that's low on calories and that has been a blessing for protein intake (along with egg white). I can eat 60g of protein at lunch in about 350 calories.

That gives me everything I need for the gym.

My snack is apple with a teaspoon of pure pistachio butter, which calms down my desire for sweets (I love pistachio)