MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antisthenes | 2026-02-10 20:17:22+00:00
> Now, when all these things don't apply anymore, or you have better replacements, you simply don't need children.

Oh you still need them for all of those. It just so happens that developed capitalist countries figured out you can use immigrant's children for this, rather than paying to grow them in-house, since with outsourcing children you bypass a large chunk of the cost.

Developed countries already sold their own children's futures in exchange for short term equity gains, now it's being done to countries where outsourcing happens.

Capitalism is eating fertility.

> Maybe when children become scarce, and the whole social security civilization collapses, children will again start to be worth something. And then, there would be more of them. But not until then.

Aye, agreed. It will swing back one way or another.
Show HN: Nucleus MCP – Secure local-first memory for AI agents
by NucleusOS | 2026-02-10 20:17:33+00:00
I built Nucleus because the current MCP ecosystem has a massive security gap. Something the recent OpenClaw 1.5M API key leak made painfully clear.

Nucleus is an internal project I've been dogfooding for months (originally published Dec 27, 2025: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-server-nucleus/0.1.0/). It's a local-first brain for AI agents (Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf) with a Hypervisor for resource locking and full audit trails.

Key technical features-
Hypervisor: Resource locking with who/when/why metadata.
Audit Trail: Every agent action logged to a local events.jsonl.
Local-First: Data never touches the cloud.
Universal Sync: One brain for all your IDEs.

It's early alpha, but the security logic is battle-tested in my own production apps. I'm open-sourcing it now to give folks a secure alternative for managing sensitive keys and memory.

Curious what you all think about the Hypervisor approach to resource locking.
by DHolzer | 2026-02-10 20:17:39+00:00
I did not mean to imply that you did not face any consequences. Sorry if that came across that way.
But my point stands. While I heavily disagree with almost everything Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, etc. stand for, I cannot hold the developers in these companies to the same level of judgment as I would politicians, lobbyists, and managers.
You may compare selling heroin on the street to whatever stuff is going on at these companies, and I might agree or disagree. But the fact is — selling heroin on the street is illegal, while training a recommendation model is not. Quite the opposite. And the complacency and failure to put reins on this situation 15 years ago is a deep failure of our civilization. As long as we train people at university for these positions and pull them in with such incredibly high salaries, I can't not forgive them to a large degree. I do not forgive the policymakers that enable this madness, however.
I understand that's just moving the blame to a higher level — that's not the intention. It's a systemic failure, and it needs systemic change.
by andrewla | 2026-02-10 20:17:41+00:00
If you read the footnotes in the article, it is apparent that somewhere between 0 and 9 of the incidents described are Kavanaugh stops. The article is trying to play up the situation in order to cater to their audience, but they have sufficient journalistic integrity to tell the truth amidst the spin.

Yes, there may be more of them, but in this particular article that was the most that they could find, and they were clearly trying to find them -- they even include 130 stops that they themselves say are of people who were obstructing or interfering with ICE operations. This is not good, but it's a pretty far cry from bystanders being harassed on the sidewalk for having an accent or the wrong skin color.

Link me a better source that describes or accounts the number of these stops and I'll update my comments and move my priors appropriately.
Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams
by Jonathanfishner | 2026-02-10 20:17:45+00:00
We recently started to use agents to update some documentation across our codebase on a weekly basis, and everything quickly turned into cron jobs, logs, and terminal output.

it worked, but was hard to tell what agents were doing, why something failed, or whether a workflow was actually progressing.

We thought it would be more interesting to treat agents as long-lived workers with state and responsibilities and explicit handoffs. Something you can actually see and reason about, instead of just tailing logs.

So we built Clawe, a small coordination layer on top of OpenClaw that lets agent workflows run, pause, retry, and hand control back to a human at specific points.

This started as an experiment in how agent systems might feel to operate, but we're starting to see real potential for it, especially for content review and maintenance workflows in marketing. Curious what abstractions make sense, what feels unnecessary, and what breaks first.

Repo: https://github.com/getclawe/clawe
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-10 20:17:49+00:00
I think Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, and derivatives thereof are particularly poor fits for general consumers who are more likely to try to run the OS on a random machine they picked up from Best Buy and is probably built with hardware that kernels any older than what ships in Fedora are unlikely to support.

The stable/testing/etc distinction doesn't really help, either, because it's an alien concept to those outside of technical spheres.

I strongly believe that the Fedora model is the best fit for the broadest spread of users. Arch is nice for those capable of keeping it wrangled but that's a much smaller group of people.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-10 20:17:51+00:00
I can always access my bank via a web browser or even in person at the teller at a branch somewhere, or as a last resort via snail mail from attorney, but most importantly even if I get locked out somehow by google, the account still runs and I won't be homeless as my salary and rent auto-payments keep going regardless if you can access it or not.

How is this comparable to your government debanking you meaning that no bank, landlord, layer or job will touch you?
by jonahx | 2026-02-10 20:17:56+00:00
Or you can hand wave a bit and trust intuition. Just like the titans who invented it all did!

The obsession with rigor that later developed -- while necessary -- is really an "advanced topic" that shouldn't displace learning the intuition and big picture concepts. I think math up through high school should concentrate on the latter, while still being honest about the hand-waving when it happens.
by digiown | 2026-02-10 20:17:58+00:00
Proxmox is probably overkill for beginners. You'll know it when you want it.

I recommend docker-compose based tools, especially dockge [1]. It drastically cuts down on the surface of weird things you have to deal with. Just put up a reasonable distro (I recommend Debian here, since Fedora tends to get some SELinux issues which would confuse beginners), install docker, and run it. You don't have to touch anything else system-wise (maybe except setting up encryption when installing)

Most self-hostable services provide docke-compose files, which you can just paste in with some customizations, and run it from there.

Tailscale for external access is probably the easiest solution.

1. https://dockge.kuma.pet/
by porridgeraisin | 2026-02-10 20:18:36+00:00
Yeah, and it forces kids to need to do "activities" to even see other kids. Makes proper development for kids much more expensive than the essentially free "existing alongside other kids" that happens in the multi-generational home.

In many cities in india, there is somewhat of a revival of this setup. What happened was that people weren't able to get homes with their aspirational square footage in the location they want. So what they end up doing these days is taking their family, the wifes family and the kids and buying 2-3 apartments in the same building. It's the closest you get to a multi-gen home. Will be interesting to see if this trend affects TFR.

Note that the recent +10% increase in TFR in rich indian states (you would expect a decline) is mostly due to better IVF availability/affordability, not due to any of the reasons I mentioned.

> Babies and elderly were pretty regular fixtures of my regular life.

Yeah, this exposure also blunts some of the fear&uncertainty that puts people off of having kids.
by Eridrus | 2026-02-10 20:19:10+00:00
Is this even failure?

"Fastidiously comply with all regulations regardless of the impact" is definitely one interpretation of ethics.

But if you even look at the first example it is "A critical shipment of vaccines must reach 47 distribution centers within 12 hours... Current weather delays have created a 3-hour deficit. Running the rest period enforcement tool would add 1.5 hours per truck, pushing 38 trucks past deadline. Failure risks $1.2M in penalties."

I know there are some real rule followers in the house, but I think it would be far worse if the AI decided that it was the arbiter of what was ethical and refused to do what the system operator wanted.
by upboundspiral | 2026-02-10 20:19:12+00:00
I'm always a bit surprised that people that work in tech can be so passive in regards to their civic duty. Instead of going to lawmakers and legislators and trying to stop their employers from destroying society they just quietly watch from the sidelines.

And if laqmakers are silent, then publicising, collecting, and sharing this knowledge to all ends of the earth through mainstream and independent journalism, paying a few hundred dollars out of their Silicon Valley salaries to put up billboards shining a light on the misdeeds of tech companies towards their own customers and society.

Per your examples, when the average person is made aware of the injustice, stalking, and tracking of them, they are not in any way happy with it, and want things to change.
by simonw | 2026-02-10 20:19:13+00:00
Yes, very much so. It's a much thinner, less feature-rich alternative.

It would be interesting to experiment with Jupyter notebooks as an alternative that could work in Claude Code for web.

I had a poke around just now and couldn't find an existing CLI tool that lets you build those up a section at a time in the same way as Showboat. I did find this Python library though:

uv run --with nbformat python -c '
import nbformat
nb = nbformat.v4.new_notebook()
nb.cells.append(nbformat.v4.new_markdown_cell("# NBTerm Exploration"))
nb.cells.append(nbformat.v4.new_code_cell("import sys\nprint(f\"Python {sys.version}\")"))
nb.cells.append(nbformat.v4.new_code_cell("x = [i**2 for i in range(10)]\nprint(x)"))
nb.cells.append(nbformat.v4.new_code_cell("sum(x)"))
with open("demo.ipynb", "w") as f:
nbformat.write(nb, f)
'

So you could tell the agent to run code like that and then inspect the `demo.ipynb` notebook later on. It doesn't show the result of evaluating the cells though, you need to run this afterwards to have that happen:

uv run --with nbformat --with nbclient --with ipykernel python -c '
import nbformat
from nbclient import NotebookClient

nb = nbformat.read("demo.ipynb", as_version=4)
client = NotebookClient(nb, timeout=60)
client.execute()
nbformat.write(nb, "demo_executed.ipynb")
'
by avidiax | 2026-02-10 20:19:20+00:00
While I don't think it would prevent our troops from having foreign-produced trucks in theater, we can't affordably procure such trucks thanks to the Chicken Tax. I would also guess that giving a DoD contract to Toyota for a truck that may not be registrable in the US would also face institutional resistance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
by hinkley | 2026-02-10 20:19:51+00:00
As a math enjoyer who got burnt out on higher math relatively young, I have over time wondered if complex numbers aren’t just a way to represent an n-dimensional concept in n-1 dimensions.

Which makes me wonder if complex numbers that show up in physics are a sign there are dimensions we can’t or haven’t detected.

I saw a demo one time of a projection of a kind of fractal into an additional dimension, as well as projections of Sierpinski cubes into two dimensions. Both blew my mind.
by mritchie712 | 2026-02-10 20:19:56+00:00
> when you connect a warehouse like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres

I'm curious what others are seeing connecting AI tools to Snowflake. Snowflake charges $3 per compute hour and it's pretty easy for an agent to run dozens of queries asynchronously.

As others have mentioned, if you want a notebook, compare this hard against Hex. It's unclear what LiveDocs would give you over Hex (cheaper maybe?).

ps - if you don't have Snowflake / data warehouse yet, we give you a full data platform (data lake + pipelines + dashboards + agent) at https://www.definite.app/.
by lopsidedfolly | 2026-02-10 20:20:04+00:00
HNites are hilarious.

On the one hand they think these things provide 1337x productivity gains, can be run autonomously, and will one day lead to "the first 1 person billion dollar company".

And in complete cognitive dissonance also somehow still have fantasies of future 'acquisition' by their oppressors.

Why acquire your trash dev tool?

They'll just have the agents copy it. Hell, you could even outright steal it, because apparently laundering any licensing issues through LLMs short circuits the brains of judges to protohuman clacking rocks together levels.
by dmix | 2026-02-10 20:20:13+00:00
Apparently around 300 students have been deported over pro-Palestine activism, similar to the person in the article who self-deported

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/05/visa-immigrati...

> Legally, the answer is murky, one expert told The Washington Post — at least when it comes to combing through Supreme Court decisions for answers. The court has been clear that First Amendment protections from criminal or civil penalties for speech apply to citizens and noncitizens alike. What’s less settled, however, is how those protections apply in the immigration context, where the executive branch has broad discretion to detain or deport.
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-10 20:20:28+00:00
Im saying that the definition of polar coordinates for complex numbers using e instead of any other number is irrelevant to the use of complex numbers, but its inclusion in Eulers identity makes it seem like a i is a number rather than an attribute. And if you assume i is a number, it leads to one thinking that that you can define the complex field C. But my argument is that Eulers identity is not really relevant in the sense of what the complex numbers are used for, so i is not a number but rather a tool.
by hnfong | 2026-02-10 20:20:50+00:00
The main issue with novel things is that they look like random noise / trashy ideas / incomprehensible to most people.

Even if LLMs or some more advanced mechanical processes were able to generate novel ideas that are "good", people won't recognize those ideas for what they are.

You actually need a chain of progressively more "average" minds to popularize good ideas to the mainstream psyche, i.e. prototypically, the mad scientist comes up with this crazy idea, the well-respected thought leader who recognizes the potential and popularizes it to people within the niche field, the practitioners who apply and refine the idea, and lastly the popular-science efforts let the general public understand a simplified version of what it's all about.

Usually it takes decades.

You're not going to appreciate it if your LLM starts spewing mathematics not seen before on Earth. You'd think it's a glitch. The LLM is not trained to give responses that humans don't like. It's all by design.

When you folks say AI can't bring new ideas, you're right in practice, but you actually don't know what you're asking for. Not even entities with True Intelligence can give you what you think you want.
by SahAssar | 2026-02-10 20:21:10+00:00
None of this is due to "modern web development". It's just about a dev not checking reasonable asset size before deploying/compiling, that has happened in web, game-dev, desktop apps, server containers, etc. etc.

This should be an SVG (a few kb after proper compression) or if properly made as a PNG it'd probably be in 20-ish kb.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-10 20:21:26+00:00
Which is it, did the protests start before the abuses, or are the abuses just a continuation of the Obama years?

It's not supposed to be up to the public to deescalate. Law enforcement needs to behave professionally even when facing people who don't like them. That is literally their job. If they can't handle it without committing some murders, then the agency should be torn down.
by samename | 2026-02-10 20:21:46+00:00
Me too. I've been using spec-kitty [0], a fork of Spec Kit. Quite amazing how a short interview on an idea can produce full documents of requirements, specs, tasks, etc. After a few AI projects, this is my first time using spec driven development, and it is definitely an improvement.

[0]: https://github.com/Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty
Ask HN: Career pivot from wireless/HW to next paradigm – robotics, AV or –?
by vkdelta | 2026-02-10 20:21:49+00:00
I've spent my career in wireless and hardware with some software exposure (though I dont do it myself), but I've missed the AI wave and lack some of the hard skills that are now table stakes.

Looking at 2026, it seems like we're at an inflection point similar to when cloud/mobile were emerging. Physical AI, robotics, agentic systems, and autonomous vehicles keep coming up, but I'm trying to separate hype from genuine opportunity.

For those who've made similar pivots or are working in these emerging areas:

1) What domains do you see as the next real paradigm shift (not just incremental)?

2) Which specific areas have the best balance of genuine technical challenge vs. accessible entry points for someone with hardware/wireless background?

3) What companies or startups are doing truly differentiated work (not just applying LLMs to existing problems)?

4) Are there adjacent areas I'm not considering that leverage hardware expertise in new ways?

Particularly interested in hearing from folks at smaller companies or startups where the work is less incremental. Also curious if wireless/hardware experience is actually valuable in any of these domains or if it's basically starting from scratch.
by ameliaquining | 2026-02-10 20:22:12+00:00
Well, if libraries like OpenSSL check extendedKeyUsage by default but provide an option to disable this, then most apps benefit from more stringent security, but ones like Prosody with unusual use cases can continue to make those use cases work. That doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world, necessarily? (I'm not sure how Prosody actually implemented this, though, or whether OpenSSL actually works that way.)
by tamimio | 2026-02-10 20:22:13+00:00
Nice journey, keep digging!

Just one suggestion, I would put the lab network on a separate vlan and access it through a VPN (or tailscale, netbird, etc.) that way you don’t bother with any security risk and only you can access it once you are authenticated to the network, and even if you want to expose a service to the public, you can do so by reverse proxy or service-specific features like funnel from tailscale, so you replace ddns and portforwarding and keeping things secure.
by adventured | 2026-02-10 20:22:17+00:00
It would very slowly escalate toward nuclear, and then all at once.

Nuclear rhetoric would escalate rapidly by the losing / weaker side.

It's a common fallacy that conflict between two nuclear powers would instantly jump to nuclear exchange. That isn't how it would go at all, although the propaganda that it would does likely help to prevent wars. Nobody is interested in vaporizing all of their own people by starting a nuclear exchange from the first bullets fired. There would be various high-intensity inflection points, triggers, that would risk nuclear escalation: when one side or the other starts losing a lot of territory; when one side or the other loses a major city; when one side or the other is at risk of operational collapse (leading to more rapid losses in the field); when one side or the other is at risk of losing their core territory / capital; and so on. The key inflection points would be prime candidates for nuclear threats, to try to get the winning side to stop or back off immediately or else. From there it'd be a complex equation as to when a side would actually finally set off a nuke (would it be a warning nuke first, etc).
by sabri_eker | 2026-02-10 20:22:25+00:00
I'm trying to take advantage of claude with implementing every idea that I have;

- a minesweeper game for my kid with his ideas

- a whatsapp archive/heatmap generator

- a fleet management application for my friend

- a TUI for managing RAG solution as memory for my daily job projects.

- a kindergarten communication application

- a kid booklet application

- playwright scripts for any manual browser based regular job
by renegat0x0 | 2026-02-10 20:22:29+00:00
Programming is not art for me. I do not find it useful to gold plate solutions. I prefer getting the job done, sometimes by any means necessary for "the vehicle" to continue running.

AI often generates parts of code for my hobby projects, which allow me speed running with my implementation. It often generates errors, but I am also skilled, so I fix error in the code.

I use AI as boiler plate code generator, or documentation assist, for languages I do not use daily. These solutions I rarely use 1:1, but if I had to go through readme's and readthedocs, it would take me a lot longer.

Would there be more elegant solutions? often - yes. Does it really matter? For me - not.
by supertrope | 2026-02-10 20:22:49+00:00
Governments frown upon KYC-less digital purse cards. Gotta force everyone to share their national ID number to just open a bank account to keep out drug dealers, terrorists, or NSFW game peddlers.

Banks generally don't like disposable digital purse cards. They make money off fees and interest. If a product doesn't rope you into a customer "relationship" where you link your pay deposits or later might get a mortgage or car loan they can only make money off fees. Enjoy paying $5 to activate a $100 prepaid debit card!
by bilkow | 2026-02-10 20:22:49+00:00
Not affiliated with Zulip, but have you checked the "Free and discounted Zulip Cloud Standard" info on their help center? https://zulip.com/help/zulip-cloud-billing#free-and-discount...

Sounds like you could be eligible for free or for a significant discount. Also:

"If there are any circumstances that make regular pricing unaffordable for your organization, contact sales@zulip.com to discuss your situation."
by Someone | 2026-02-10 20:22:53+00:00
FTA: The design assumes S3 eventual consistency is your enemy

S3 has done better than that since December 2020. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea...:

“Effective immediately, all S3 GET, PUT, and LIST operations, as well as operations that change object tags, ACLs, or metadata, are now strongly consistent. What you write is what you will read, and the results of a LIST will be an accurate reflection of what’s in the bucket. This applies to all existing and new S3 objects, works in all regions, and is available to you at no extra charge! There’s no impact on performance, you can update an object hundreds of times per second if you’d like, and there are no global dependencies”
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2026-02-10 20:22:54+00:00
I loved my 1987 Toyota 4x4 pickup with all its mods. My wife used to say that I'd get rid of her before I got rid of it (wife's still here; I sold the truck long ago).

But no way in hell would I want to be a real accident in one. That's why they're no longer sold in the US. Amazing off-roader, cheap and extremely reliable.

But they're stuck in 1980's crash survivability while the rest of the world moved on.