MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jason_zig | 2026-02-09 03:15:38+00:00
I’m working on Zigpoll[https://www.zigpoll.com], a lightweight survey/feedback tool for ecommerce (mostly Shopify).

Built it because most survey tools felt overgrown for what I needed. It focuses on post-purchase and on-site surveys, attribution questions, and getting clean data out.

Lately I’ve been working on:

Simpler targeting + survey logic
Exposing survey data to AI tools
Improving response rates without nagging users

It’s bootstrapped, profitable, and built by one person (me).
by pdimitar | 2026-02-09 03:15:53+00:00
> If the behavior you want can already be elicited by models just with the right level prompting

As mentioned upthread, it's not an all-or-nothing. "Just the right prompting" did get me farther than a few other people but I am very sure it's only a temporary advantage as you yourself alluded to (in a rather emotionally loaded way for reasons unknown).

LLMs can't do everything; they need a good feedback loop where they can ascertain if what they did works. There is a LOT of work out there that is not that (f.ex. game development, firmware / embedded work).

The LLM companies are already putting better feedback loops and agentic harnesses; even the upgrade from Opus 4.5 to 4.6 clearly demonstrated that to me. They don't want their GPUs to burn because people can't be bothered to think of an obvious edge case so they'll make the models smarter to compensate for deficiencies in the human operators.

> Do you really think you will hold an advantage over them in your ability to phrase things?

Regardless of your seeming snark the answer is yes, I do. But as said above, that's not going to last long. Who cares though, I make money in the meantime.
by sneak | 2026-02-09 03:16:22+00:00
The value of openclaw as I understand it is separate context management per venue (per dm, per channel, per platform, etc) and clever tricks around managing shared memories and state.

Well, that and skills to download more skills. It’s a lot faster and easier to extend OC than CC via prompts. It also has cron and other take-initiative features.

I had it hack up a poller for new Gitea notifications (for @ mentions and the like) that wakes up the main bot when something happens, so I have it interacting with a self hosted Gitea. There wasn’t even a Gitea skill for it, it just constructs API requests “manually” each time it needs to do something on it. I guess it knows the Gitea API already. It knew how to make a launchd plist and keep the poller running, without me asking it to do that. It’s a little more oriented toward getting things going and running than CC, which mostly just wants to make commits.
by left-struck | 2026-02-09 03:17:30+00:00
Having played many city building games though I’ve always desired more depth and realism. Like the more I play them the more I want out of them. I wish power lines were limited in capacity and had to be stepped up and down via transformers (Workers & Resources does this) I wish I could make decisions about every intersection and every lane (cities skyline mods allow this) etc. Anyway I think there’s an audience for more realistic games in general, even if most people would find them less fun.
by brainless | 2026-02-09 03:18:45+00:00
For the last couple weeks I have been building dwata and I am going to submit today for Google Gemini Hackathon.

https://github.com/brainless/dwata

dwata is built on the idea of multiple, task-specific agents. Right now it has only one agent that can be run on an email to extract regex patterns for financial data. This enables high performance data extraction from emails or documents (in future) without sending each email to an LLM.

dwata has an email scan which tests simple keywords and regex patterns, groups by sender emails, sorts by number of emails per sender (highest first), and filters out groups where the emails do not seem to be from a template (typical transaction emails are from templates). This is deterministic code in Rust. Then dwata can use the regex builder AI agent to take one email from the group and build a regex pattern to extract extensive financial data - (optional) who sent, how much, (optional) to whom, on which date, with (optional) reference ID.

The generated patterns are saved to local DB and run for the email group (by sender) which was used to generate the regex. That gives a very high performance, AI enabled financial data extractor.

Soon, I will focus on events, places, people, tasks, health and other data. All data storage and processing is local. I am testing exclusively with Google Gemini 3 Flash Preview but dwata should be able to run really well on small LLMs, ones up to 20b parameters.

I am preparing for launch, the builds are not ready yet, but if you want to try, you can compile (Rust and npm tooling needed). Sources to nocodo will also be needed (https://github.com/brainless/nocodo).
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-09 03:18:47+00:00
Nixon: "Yeoman Radford had all of this information and if he had been prosecuted, it was my opinion that there was a very great risk, because of his obvious emotional instability, that he would blow the whole thing. … The war in Vietnam would have continued for a while longer. … I had to make a decision."

Gee, we wouldn't want the war to "continue for a while longer," would we, Dick? https://www.lbjlibrary.org/media-kit/chennault-affair

The only beef Nixon had with the "deep state" was with the parts that he didn't control himself.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-09 03:20:44+00:00
> there is no general specification for correct translation from English to Code.

that's an interesting point. Could there be?

COBOL was originally an attempt to do this, but it ended up being more Code than English.

I think this is the area we need to get better at if we're to trust LLMs like we trust compilers.

I'm aware that there's a meme around "we have a method of completely specifying what a computer system should do, it's the code for that system". But again, there are levels of abstraction here. I don't think our current high-level languages are the highest possible level of abstraction.
by AdamMeghji | 2026-02-09 03:21:28+00:00
https://sampler.meiji.industries/

I built a TUI sampler which cherry-picks my favourite features from modern & vintage hardware samplers, DAWs, plugins, outboard FX gear, and DJ equipment.

If you know what an AKAI MPC Live, MPC 3000, SP404, SP1200, BOSS RC-202, Alesis 3630, Serato Sample, S950 filters, and stem separation does, then you'll love seeing these "greatest hits" up in a terminal interface.

Last year while on vacation in Costa Rica, I started scratching my own itch for locating and organizing samples, which quickly evolved into adding more and more features while keeping it tactile and immediate. It was too fun to stop so I kept going. After a few days I was happily making beats in it, and since then it's only gotten better.

It's live and totally free to use, and works in macos & Linux (Windows soon). I'm about to launch v1.0 now, just working with folks in the community to round out the Factory Kits a little more for users new to beatmaking.

Turns out, making beats with no mouse and a terminal interface strikes the perfect balance of hardware feel and software power, and I'm loving the result. Been sharing it with folks in my beatmaking sphere and have plans to continue expanding its reach through more collaborations, contests, and in-person events.

Hope it brings you as much joy as it does to me :)
by matula | 2026-02-09 03:22:00+00:00
https://matula.itch.io/kings-dont-stack

Klondike solitaire game using Godot. The goal is to better understand Godot's inner workings, and not using any LLMs... outside of whatever Google searches automatically popup when I have questions.

Secondarily, decompiling the DuckTails Gameboy ROM with PHP... then seeing about using PHP to create a GameBoy game. For no reason than to see if it can be done.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-09 03:23:26+00:00
BrowserBox embedding API plus a bunch of other side projects. BrowserBox is a remote isolated browser with a variety of DLP, NIST 800-53 controls and FIPS 140-3 encryption at rest. It can function as a fully automated embeddable browserview for AI workflows, isolated sandboxes, generic whitelabeled RBI and multiple other use cases. It's a heavy target of abuse by non state actors in sanctioned countries so I had to add ID verification to get a trial key.
by citixenken | 2026-02-09 03:23:56+00:00
Built ShelfSwap (https://shelfswap.io). I enjoy reading, but books are getting expensive, and many of us already have shelves of good books we’re done with. This is a simple platform to swap physical books and connect with other readers.

I used this as a real end-to-end project to sharpen my backend skills in Go (API design, data modeling, deployment), while also experimenting with AI-assisted development. It’s live, and I’ve already made a few organic connections through it.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-09 03:24:02+00:00
To a first approximation, no big company wants to deal with independent contractors.

My two anecdotes:

About a decade ago, I was leading a project and the director wished he could have “another me”. I told him about a guy who I had worked with who would be good. He wanted $80/hour. My director liked him. He wouldn’t pay my friend $80/hour as an independent contractor. But he would pay a consulting company $110/hour to hire him and then he work for us and he would still get his $80/hour.

Second anecdote: when I was between jobs for a month, a former CTO wanted me to do a side project for him - same situation, he wouldn’t pay me directly because of liability reasons what I wanted. But I reached out to the same consulting company and made the same deal. That went through immediately.

> Moreover, what stops that remote devops from taking place with highly qualified Hungarian or Polish or Portuguese engineers for 40 percent of the rate?

If your value add is only tactics and not strategy, you’re going to have a hard time getting decent rates consulting or even working for consulting companies.

I work in consulting now. I get paid - decently - while I do hands on work, I can also lead projects and do more strategy type projects.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-09 03:24:58+00:00
> Reading and understanding other people's code is much harder than writing code.

I keep seeing this sentiment repeated in discussions around LLM coding, and I'm baffled by it.

For the kind of function that takes me a morning to research and write, it takes me probably 10 or 15 minutes to read and review. It's obviously easier to verify something is correct than come up with the correct thing in the first place.

And obviously, if it took longer to read code than to write it, teams would be spending the majority of their time in code review, but they don't.

So where is this idea coming from?
by Goofy_Coyote | 2026-02-09 03:25:40+00:00
Amazing idea - absolutely loving vouch.
However, as a security person, this comment immediately caught my attention.

A few things come to mind (it's late here, so apologies in advance if they're trivial and not thought through):

- Threat Actors compromising an account and use it to Vouch for another account. I have a "hunch" it could fly under the radar, though admittedly I can't see how it would be different from another rogue commit by the compromised account (hence the hunch).

- Threat actors creating fake chains of trust, working the human factor by creating fake personas and inflating stats on Github to create (fake) credibility (like how number of likes on a video can cause other people to like or not, I've noticed I may not like a video if it has a low count which I would've if it had millions - could this be applied here somehow with the threat actor's inflated repo stats?)

- Can I use this to perform a Contribution-DDOS against a specific person?
Show HN: Entelgia–a consciousness-inspired,multi-agent AI with persistent memory
by sivanhavkin | 2026-02-09 03:25:51+00:00
I’m sharing Entelgia, a research-oriented multi-agent AI architecture I’ve been working on.

Entelgia is not a chatbot, but an experiment in how persistent identity, internal conflict, emotional regulation, and moral reasoning can emerge from structure rather than hard-coded rules.

Two primary agents engage in continuous dialogue across sessions, backed by a shared persistent memory (SQLite + STM), with mechanisms for:

internal conflict (id / ego / superego dynamics)

emotion tracking and importance scoring

memory promotion through error, repetition, and affect

bounded short-term memory (LRU)

observer-based correction loops (meta-cognitive layer)

The system runs fully locally using a local LLM (via Ollama) for privacy and reproducibility.

I recently completed a production-ready rewrite, focusing on:

deterministic system behavior

bounded memory growth

structured logging

privacy / PII redaction

testability and long-running stability

This is not a claim about artificial consciousness — the terminology is used strictly as architectural metaphor to explore internal regulation and continuity over time.

Repo (README explains both how and why):
https://github.com/sivanhavkin/Entelgia

I’d especially appreciate feedback from people interested in:

multi-agent systems

memory architectures

alignment via internal structure rather than external constraints

long-running LLM systems

Happy to answer questions or hear criticism.
by azayrahmad | 2026-02-09 03:26:22+00:00
https://azayrahmad.github.io/win98-web/
Another Web-OS remake of Windows 98 made with vanilla JavaScript. There are already a lot of Windows web remakes, especially in this age of AI. So for this passion project I intend to make it as accurate as it could ever be without having to emulate actual Windows 98.

Currently it has:

- Accurate recreation of Windows shell with start menu, taskbar, windowing system.

- Full desktop themes customization (color, cursor, sound, wallpaper, screensaver). All Win 98 default Plus! themes are included.

- Persistent local file system & mounting local folder as removable disk with ZenFS.

- Support playing Flash games and run DOS games (save game persisted). Yes, you can play Doom and copy your savegames to continue.

- Some accurate remakes of Windows 98 apps, some made by me (Solitaire games, Minesweeper, Notepad) some are existing ports (Pinball, JSPaint, Webamp, etc).

- Some other fun stuff

If you're interested in Windows 98, this is for you. You're also welcome to contribute or fork it to create your own version: https://github.com/azayrahmad/win98-web
by somenameforme | 2026-02-09 03:26:32+00:00
I think that played a somewhat smaller role than Google seemingly gradually starting to take its position for granted and so everything became more focused on revenue generation and less focused on providing the highest quality experiences or results.

Beyond result quality it's absurd that it took LLMs to get meaningful natural language search. Google could have been working on that for many years, even if in a comparably simple manner, but seemingly never even bothered to try, even though that was always obviously going to be the next big step in search.
by lenkite | 2026-02-09 03:27:39+00:00
"holier than thou victimhood" ? What a horrible joke. My "utopia", as you term it, is merely asking that Western nations stop bombing, terrorizing and sanctioning other nations before issuing proclamations on "failed states". They would actually get a chance to be successful.

> PS: Food, medicine, and medical equipment--the essentials--are exempt from the embargo.

So deeply ignorant and deliberately blind to the real world. The U.S. significantly constrained Cuba’s ability to buy medical equipment from other countries, not just from the U.S. itself. Cuba cannot legally import any product containing more than "10% U.S. origin components". For some years, it was even 25%!

Even when a product was made in Germany, Japan, or Canada, U.S. parts could make it illegal to sell to Cuba.

2nd order threats and suppression are very effective for propaganda. Permits western supremacists like you to falsely claim that that "the essentials" are exempt.
by coreylane | 2026-02-09 03:28:45+00:00
Working on https://dataraven.io/ – a low-cost, cloud-native data movement platform focused on object storage.

RClone is doing the heavy lifting (amazing project). I'm wrapping it with the operational features clients have asked me for over the years:

- Team workspaces with role-based access control
- Notifications – alerts on transfer failure or resource changes via Slack, Teams, Discord, etc.
- Centralized log storage
- Vault integrations – connect 1Password, Doppler, or Infisical for zero-knowledge credential handling
- 10 Gbps connected infrastructure (Pro tier) for large transfers
by randomname93857 | 2026-02-09 03:28:54+00:00
I drive long distance weekly on my gas car. Full tank in summer (+20C) gives me 520 km, while in winter (-20C here) I get 430-440 km. I noticed it on my current and previous cars. Maybe it's thicker oil and worse car efficiencies in winter ? And that's despite that full tank of gas has more gas in winter comparing to summer, gasoline is denser in cold temps.
by usr1106 | 2026-02-09 03:29:34+00:00
I have several Google accounts registered at various emails, but they get auto-forwarded to my gmail. Gmail spam filter regularly puts Google's own messages related to those accounts into spam. I have marked them as "not spam" for ages, but the spam filter does not really learn.

No idea whether it is incompetence or malice, asking me not to use other email providers, too.
by shimman | 2026-02-09 03:29:40+00:00
I like to think of it as the distinction between editor and reader. Like you said, it's quite easy to read code. I heavily agree with this. I don't professionally write C but I can read and kinda infer what C devs are doing.

But if I were an "editor," I actually take the time to understand codepaths, tweak the code to see what could be better, actually try different refactoring approaches while editing. Literally seeing how this can be rewritten or reworked to be better, that takes considerable effort but it's not the same as reading.

We need a better word for this than editor and reading, like something with a dev classification too it.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-09 03:30:44+00:00
That doesn't make any sense to me.

When the code is written, it's all laid out nicely for the reader to understand quickly and verify. Everything is pre-organized, just for you the reader.

But in order to write the code, you might have to try 4 different top-level approaches until you figure out the one that works, try integrating with a function from 3 different packages until you find the one that works properly, hunt down documentation on another function you have to integrate with, and make a bunch of mistakes that you need to debug until it produces the correct result across unit test coverage.

There's so much time spent on false starts and plumbing and dead ends and looking up documentation and debugging when you code. In contrast, when you read code that already has passing tests... you skip all that stuff. You just ensure it does what it claims and is well-written and look for logic or engineering errors or missing tests or questionable judgment. Which is just so, so much faster.
by mrala | 2026-02-09 03:31:28+00:00
It sounds objective to claim a reasonable person would not kill a person because they felt scared. Based on the video footage[0], a reasonable person would be able to tell that woman presented no threat. Even if you argue shooting her in the leg because he was scared, it is nearly impossible to claim he was still scared and he has stalked her around her car and then shot her five more times. That is objectively, an unreasonable response to being scared when it’s apparent the woman was not endangering his life.

[0]: https://youtu.be/RSlOY39ynaY
What Is Genspark?
by powera | 2026-02-09 03:32:46+00:00
One of the Super Bowl commercials today was from Genspark.ai , a company I had not heard of before today. Their website looks like a generic ChatGPT clone. Their LinkedIn page boasts about their revenue, but doesn't describe what they do in a meaningful way.

Has anyone heard of this product, or used it? Is this anything other than a thin wrapper around another company's LLM agent?
by contingencies | 2026-02-09 03:32:46+00:00
Funding for https://infinite-food.com/ - seeking $100M - now finalizing four strong patents in the non-military drone space. Had a couple of false start time wasting lawyers, but now it's home run time. We've got what seems to be a few simultaneous nice technical edges over the multibillion dollar investments in civilian aerial delivery of food from major early stage players to date. Can't wait to close, itching to get to market and start generating some proper California lunch money.

Simultaneously, working on some technical demonstration materials, including novel fabrication and supply chain, plus some reduced BOM strategies for greater efficiency in mass manufacturing (once we get cash over the line). Bit of electronics in there, some mechanical. Keeps me interested so it's not 100% admin.

Also getting back in to badminton, super fun, losing weight nicely, feeling better every week.

New ideas? AI government will have its day in our lifetime.
Show HN: AI Prompt Frameworks That Generated $47K in Business Value
by reginaldbot | 2026-02-09 03:32:50+00:00
I spent 6 months testing 200+ AI prompts across marketing, sales, and operations. Most generic prompts fail because they lack structure.

These 10 frameworks delivered $47K in measurable ROI:

- Email Wizard: 3 hrs/week saved
- Content Multiplier: 2 weeks of content from 1 hour
- Objection Crusher: +34% close rate
- Proposal Generator: Won 7/10 pitches (was 4/10)
- Meeting Processor: 5 hrs/week saved

The key difference: frameworks provide context, constraints, and defined output format.

Generic: "Write me an email"
Framework: "Tone: urgent. Recipient: client. Outcome: reschedule. Context: missed meeting."

Packaged all 10 with examples into a Notion template. Happy to share specific frameworks if anyone's interested.
by cueo | 2026-02-09 03:33:08+00:00
Hey HN! I built Frop - an open-source AirDrop alternative that works on any device with a browser. Two people connect via a 6-character code and can send files/folders back and forth with real-time streaming.

No apps, no accounts, no file storage - everything streams peer-to-peer through the server. Rooms auto-expire after 15 minutes.

Built with Go + WebSocket backend and vanilla TypeScript frontend.

MIT licensed: https://github.com/mmynk/frop

Would love feedback on the UX and any bugs you find!
by estearum | 2026-02-09 03:34:02+00:00
Which is why it’s all of our duty to point and laugh at anyone who argues it’s actually the a legal obligation. It should be seen as shamefully stupid to believe such a thing, and people should be shunned for it.

We should revere those who figure out how to create returns for all their stakeholders. Anyone who can only create returns for shareholders is an idiot and shall be the dunce in the game of capitalism.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-09 03:35:36+00:00
Actually, I care more about security than most people here.

The OS still gets security patches up to date, and as far as I know there are no outstanding issues in the firmware at the hardware level. If there were, it would likely take a state actor or someone with expertise to target me, and I just don't consider that to be that likely.

At the moment, a 6t with Lineage is better than the latest Android on a newer device IMO, because of the control it provides. Eventually, I'll switch to something like PostmarketOS, or maybe a Librem or other Linux phone.

For the moment, from a practical perspective, balancing price, performance, control, freedom and security, I don't think the 6t and lineageOS can be beat.
by pdyc | 2026-02-09 03:35:45+00:00
I’m working on EasyAnalytica (https://easyanalytica.com
). It lets you create dashboards from APIs or URLs using data in JSON or CSV format, as well as Google Sheets.

It generates dashboards automatically, you just point it to your data. It also has a visual editor to adjust layouts, charts, and other dashboard elements.