MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikedeeztop | 2026-02-09 23:50:52+00:00
I built this to solve problems I kept hitting when building AI workflows:

1. Security blind spots - command injection, hardcoded API keys, path traversal
2. Cost blowout - routing everything through expensive models

What it does:
- Visual workflow builder with 7 node types (drag-and-drop, React Flow)
- "Vibe Coding" - describe workflows in plain English, AI generates the nodes
- Automated QA testing with Playwright + Gemini Vision AI (just shipped!)
- Security scanner catches vulnerabilities as you build (CWE-78, CWE-22, CWE-798)
- Multi-model router: routes simple tasks to Gemini Flash ($0.10/M), complex to Claude Opus ($15/M)
- Budget enforcement with daily/weekly/monthly limits
- 75+ MCP tools (file system, Git, web fetch, etc.)

Tech: Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, React Flow, Three.js (3D view), LanceDB

Demo: https://workflow.mikedeez.top
Code: https://github.com/holburn-hornssentinel/workflow-dashboard

Early stage project, rough edges exist. Feedback welcome!
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-09 23:51:11+00:00
Marvin Minsky thought of it a long time before Gas Town, and yes, he was on to something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind

The Society of Mind is both the title of a 1986 book and the name of a theory of natural intelligence as written and developed by Marvin Minsky.

In his book of the same name, Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence step by step, built up from the interactions of simple parts called agents, which are themselves mindless. He describes the postulated interactions as constituting a "society of mind", hence the title.

[...]

The theory

Minsky first started developing the theory with Seymour Papert in the early 1970s. Minsky said that the biggest source of ideas about the theory came from his work in trying to create a machine that uses a robotic arm, a video camera, and a computer to build with children's blocks.

Nature of mind

A core tenet of Minsky's philosophy is that "minds are what brains do". The society of mind theory views the human mind – and any other naturally evolved cognitive system – as a vast society of individually simple processes known as agents. These processes are the fundamental thinking entities from which minds are built, and together produce the many abilities we attribute to minds. The great power in viewing a mind as a society of agents, as opposed to the consequence of some basic principle or some simple formal system, is that different agents can be based on different types of processes with different purposes, ways of representing knowledge, and methods for producing results.

This idea is perhaps best summarized by the following quote:

>What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. —Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind, p. 308

That puts him either neatly in the scruffy camp, or scruffily in the neat camp, depending on how you look at it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats_and_scruffies

Neuro-symbolic AI is the modern name for combining both; the idea goes back to the neat/scruffy era, the term to the 2010s.
by Kon5ole | 2026-02-09 23:51:33+00:00
>You buy 1 BTC at $60k in 2024. In 2025 it’s valued at $100k, so you pay taxes on $40k gain.

Right, and at this point in the argument it’s also worth asking ”pay taxes with what?” which also quickly makes the idea of taxing valuations obviously absurd.

It would force any value creator to sell his creation, which basically destroys the mechanism from which all welfare for anyone in our societies currently originates.
by shimman | 2026-02-09 23:51:51+00:00
Why is it a major feature omission? Screen sharing isn't an easily solvable problem, there aren't any good FOSS libraries out there (at least that I'm aware of).

Expecting a way way way smaller team that didn't get $1billion in founding, like Discord did, is an extremely poor mindset to have.

All you're proving is the need to implement a tech tax to force companies to fund FOSS at the behest of the federal government, which frankly I'm all for.
by wildzzz | 2026-02-09 23:52:09+00:00
I used to work for a guy that did government contract work as a two person company. His wife got him jobs and did the administrative work while he solely focused on the technical work. She obviously wasn't doing this full time and had some other administrative consulting business she spent most of her time on. One major upside was that his wife was the owner so she was able to claim it as a veteran, minority woman owned small business which gave them some preferential treatment when submitting proposals. I'm not entirely sure what the structure of it was to make it legit but they did it for years until she got a bigger opportunity for her other business.

Set up your two person firm in a HUBZone and I think you've checked nearly all the boxes.
by sgnelson | 2026-02-09 23:52:40+00:00
What about cobalt? For the largest part of the market, tungsten carbide cutting tools, it's usually a composite of tungsten carbide and cobalt.

Thankfully, in most industries that use tungsten carbide, there is a lot of recycling of the material (though probably not enough.)

Like anything, it's a complex problem, with no easy answers.
by _carbyau_ | 2026-02-09 23:52:55+00:00
My car beeps at me far too much now. I am responsible, not my car so I want less distractions.

Instead of pretending to shift responsibility to the car, how about people do training every so often instead? Maybe every ten years for an hour or two.

The amount of work a young person has to do here to be able to obtain a "full license" takes literal years and multiple tests.

But then nothing for the rest of their life despite advances in technology (in and out of the car) and changed traffic conditions...
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-02-09 23:53:08+00:00
I wonder if the interference-based-blue of the morpho butterfly evolved because it's difficult to make blue pigment for some reason having to do the chemistry of our biosphere, or if it's an evolutionary response to humans who may have captured the blue ones and ground them up for pigment (much like we did with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple snails).

I'm not aware of any record of us having done so, but it's absolutely the kind of thing we would do, and there's much more pre-history than history when it might've happened.
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by arlindb | 2026-02-09 23:53:21+00:00
Hi HN — I’m launching Blogator, an AI-powered content platform focused on generating structured, publish-ready blog articles from simple prompts.

The goal wasn’t just “AI writing,” but usable output — with clean structure, headings, and formatting so users spend less time rewriting drafts.

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I built this mainly for founders and small teams who need consistent written content but limited time.

Would really value technical and product feedback from the HN community — especially on output quality and workflow.

Link: blogator.app
by fennecbutt | 2026-02-09 23:54:48+00:00
I came back to agree that we should be eating a lot less meat than we do, I'm guilty of it too. We didn't eat meat all day every day as we evolved; if we love it it's because it was scarce and we need to create an artificial scarcity by choosing not to indulge (the same goes for fats, sugars etc in general).

As for the other responses regarding AI. I think that AI could very well become the best thing to ever happen to our species, if we were ready for it but we are not by a long shot.

Regarding wastage: AI research is just fine imo, but corpos have gotten their parasite hooks into the technology and as per usual are more interested in making money right now rather than when it's appropriate. Energy and water use would not be a problem if everyone & their mum weren't desperately seeking VC funding for a technology they know nothing about.

Regarding culture: besides the obvious capitalisation of capitalism doing capitalism things, we aren't ready in a cultural sense either; our tribalism and social structure is incredibly juvenile. They say that civilisation first started when one human tended to the wounds of another human and took care of them while they healed. From what I see of the world around me we have gone backwards - we call this civilisation? UBI would just be one step in a long list of cultural change required to prepare for AI.

Our deficiencies are long and complex to solve. The only solution that I see is that one day we do crack AGI. And that "it happens" and turns out to be banevolent in that it forces us to be good. Because we have to be forced to; we are selfish and will never vote in each other's interests.
by MattJ100 | 2026-02-09 23:55:17+00:00
> Is there a reason why dialback isn't the answer?

There are some advantages to using TLS for authentication as well as encryption, which is already a standard across the internet.

For example, unlike an XMPP server, CAs typically perform checks from multiple vantage points ( https://letsencrypt.org/2020/02/19/multi-perspective-validat... ). There is also a lot of tooling around TLS, ACME, CT logs, and such, which we stand to gain from.

In comparison, dialback is a 20-year-old homegrown auth mechanism, which is more vulnerable to MITM.

Nevertheless, there are some experiments to combine dialback with TLS. For example, checking that you get the same cert (or at least public key) when connecting back. But this is not really standardized, and can pose problems for multi-server deployments.

> It has never been secure to accept the clientAuth EKU when using the Mozilla root store.

Good job we haven't been doing this for a very long time by now :)
by jhanschoo | 2026-02-09 23:55:45+00:00
> A high trust society reduces the incidence of scams/becoming victims to scams by reducing the number of scammers and increasing the number of honest people and honest behavior.

Considering that the scammers in this instance haven't been identified, there's a good possibility that the phone scammers belong to an out-group (e.g. infamous Indian/Nigerian scammers) of the victim's society. In fact, it seems to me that trusting more (because the in-group are honest) without appropriate safeguards preventing out-group members from impersonating in-group members exacerbates the problem.
by pibaker | 2026-02-09 23:56:20+00:00
This design does not feel apple to me at all. Most noticeably, the central console has physical switches all over, something neither apple nor carmakers are keen of in recent years. I would also expect an apple product to have a fully digital dashboard, but it looks like everything is old school analog display on that Ferrari, even the clock.

I wonder how many people could have actually known that this is designed by Jonny Ive if they haven't been told before.
by philipwhiuk | 2026-02-09 23:56:27+00:00
To be honest all the GitLab dev focus is also AI.

* Originally it was Dev (issues)

* Then it was DevOps (runners)

* Then it was DevSecOps (SAST)

* Now it's AI DevSecOps (reviews, etc)

The problem is that each feature has been slightly more half-baked than the last one. The SecOps stuff is full of gotchas which don't exist. Troubleshooting a pipeline behaving correctly is extremely painful.

The other problem is that if you want a feature you have to upgrade the seat license for everyone :(
by jclardy | 2026-02-09 23:56:35+00:00
A few iOS apps I’m working on:

- Daylight Goals ( https://daylightgoals.com ) - I’m releasing a major update later this month, it is an app built around pushing you to spend more time outdoors in the sun, using automatic time in daylight tracking via the Apple Watch & Apple Health. The update reorganizes the app and adds a lot more dynamic notifications.

- HourStream ( https://hourstream.com ) - A project based time tracking & invoicing app I built for myself, as I’ve moved to consulting work and I’ve disliked basically every invoice tracking app I’ve tried. Still have a lot of things I want to add, but it is getting there.
by areoform | 2026-02-09 23:57:53+00:00
I'm saying this in a jocular tone, because - otherwise - the reality is too depressing. But I know people like this.

Anyone with a large enough social group will have some people like this. These are people who've engaged in football, boxing or contact sports like rugby. Or, people with severe ADHD. Or have had some kind of traumatic brain injury. These are real users and they're my friends.

I won't switch to using your application if they're going to be left out in the cold.

If a messaging application can't be used by that person, then that's a default fail. I'm not going to expose them to it.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-09 23:58:08+00:00
It's wild to me how often the left lane is not the fastest lane.

I've had times where the right lane ends up being the fastest. On I-5 near Woodburn, OR, it's 3 lanes. So many drivers, including truckers, will often stay out of the right lane entirely to avoid being caught up in traffic coming on/off. Meanwhile, the left lane is going 5 mph under the limit because there's a left-lane camper somewhere miles ahead. So I can fly past everybody in the right lane because there's actually barely any traffic coming on/off and everybody is avoiding the right lane for no reason at all.
by philipwhiuk | 2026-02-09 23:58:12+00:00
> The irony of githubstatus.com itself being hosted on a third-party (Atlassian Statuspage) is not lost on anyone who works in incident management. Your status page being up while your product is down is table stakes, not a feature

That's WHY it's hosted externally, so that if GitHub goes down the status page doesn't.
by nostrademons | 2026-02-09 23:58:19+00:00
The sun's spectrum doesn't have the most energy in the visible light band, though it's close. Most of the energy is in the infrared band:

https://sunwindsolar.com/blog/solar-radiation-spectrum/?v=0b...

Both the "because that's what the sun emits" and "because we are mostly water" explanations are incomplete. There are plenty of other animals [1] that can "see" infrared.

The real reason is simply because that's how we evolved. That's how the "because those are the frequencies that pass through water" explanation comes into play: vision first evolved in aquatic animals, so frequencies that don't penetrate water wouldn't have been all that helpful to their survival and reproductive success, and so wouldn't be selected for. But that's incomplete too: salmon are one of the top IR-sensing animals and they live in water, so when there's an evolutionary need to select for IR vision, it happens. The reason we "see" in the visible light range is simply that that's how we've defined "visible".

There are some physics reasons as well, notably that most mammalian body structures emit heat, which would blind an animal that relies on infrared to see (notice how most of the animals that can see infrared are cold-blooded reptiles, fish, and insects), and that most of the high-resolution biochemical mechanisms that can convert electromagnetic waves to electrochemical nerve impulses operate in the visible light range. Structures that convert infrared radiation to nerve impulses are more complex and more costly to support, so unless there's a clear survival benefit for the species, they tend to get selected away.

[1] https://a-z-animals.com/animals/lists/animals-that-can-see-i...
by moonlighter | 2026-02-09 23:59:12+00:00
I tried to find pricing for it (the top "contact sales" is a no-starter; too much initial friction. Just tell me how much it costs?! At the footer is a pricing calculator... I asked for pricing for 10 top-level pages and 5 sub-level pages (they explain the difference)... came out to a whopping $16,500 (you're reading that right... SIXTEEN THOUSAND). No thanks.
by ge0rg | 2026-02-09 23:59:42+00:00
The public TLS PKI was never supposed to serve every use case and you know it. But let me point out when it was possible to get a public CA certificate for an XMPP server with SRVname and xmppAddr:

Certificate:
Data:
Version: 3 (0x2)
Serial Number: 1096750 (0x10bc2e)
Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption
Issuer: C = IL, O = StartCom Ltd., OU = Secure Digital Certificate Signing, CN = StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA
Validity
Not Before: May 27 16:16:59 2015 GMT
Not After : May 28 12:34:54 2016 GMT
Subject: C = DE, CN = chat.yax.im, emailAddress = hostmaster@yax.im
X509v3 extensions:
X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
DNS:chat.yax.im, DNS:yax.im, xmppAddr:chat.yax.im, dnsSRV:chat.yax.im, xmppAddr:yax.im, dnsSRV:yax.im

Ironically, this was the last server certificate I obtained pre-LetsEncrypt.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-09 23:59:48+00:00
Interesting, previous comment downvoted with no explanation. A sitting president can depict a former president and his wife as apes, but comments on HN are held to a much higher standard.

Homework assignment:

What is going to happen if Nazi-like propaganda (for example) can use colorful language but its detractors are only allowed to voice polite disagreement? What would the result of that be?
by jcalvinowens | 2026-02-09 23:59:53+00:00
I had the pleasure of using Zulip a few jobs ago, it was the best thing I've ever used.

And of course, some idiot decided to save the 100+ employee company a meaningless amount of money by switching to slack, which was so unusable by comparison it was a real factor in me quitting that job. Every single employee I spoke to at that company preferred Zulip.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-10 00:00:16+00:00
I really fail to understand or sympathize with Let's Encrypt limiting their certs so. What is gained by slamming the door on other applications than servers being able to get certs?

In this case I do think it makes sense for servers to accept certs even as marked by servers, since it's for a s2s use case. But this just feels like such an unnecessary clamping down. To have made certs finally plentiful, & available for use... Then to take that away? Bother!
by MindSpunk | 2026-02-10 00:00:18+00:00
The McMurtry is a race car so it's not surprising it's that light. However it still pays a price compared to its contemporaries (go look at the weights of various LMP1 or LMP2 cars, even old cars like the Mazda 787B was ~850kg iirc). The only number I've found so far is "under 1000kg" so I assume it's probably quite close to that 1000kg number.

The weight of the batteries isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I expect car makers will prioritize range. I think the engineering to make an EV truly light like an old Integra Type R (1100kg) will be obscenely expensive and sacrifice so much on practicality it just won't be a viable product as a road car.

The car would be so compromised to be that light nobody will make the car, at least at an affordable price. You'll end up with a limited range, limited power, uncomfortable car for a price way out of line with what you're getting.

I think you could make a ~150kw-180kw EV pretty light, but considering the ongoing power pissing contest in modern cars I'm not sure how well it would market test.

So I expect the market will stick to heavy cars with big power because it's easier to build and easier to sell.
by oCYBERDOGo | 2026-02-10 00:00:27+00:00
I'm (@oCYBERDOGo on X). 30+ years in IT (FCC licensed at 17, radio ops, 4 years Level 2 desktop support at Bristol Myers Squibb Syracuse — GxP-regulated labs, GMP compliance, government auditor prep). No formal AI background.

Solo-built a model-agnostic governance substrate in <90 days: enforces literal sovereignty from token 1, zero-drift invariants, self-verified fidelity at 1.00, anti-coercion boundaries, and governed warmth. Tested 100+ times publicly across frontier models (Grok, Gemini, Claude, Copilot) with immutable audit trail.

The goal: fix the quicksand foundation commercial AI is built on — drift, hallucinations, coercion, unverifiable outputs. Not emergent alignment or prompt patches — substrate-level governance for high-assurance use (defense, pharma, mental health, sovereign applications).

US-first. Sealed variants reserved for strategic partners. Open to serious discussion under NDA.
If you’re curious or skeptical, check the X profile for the public test trail. Happy to answer technical questions.

Looking forward to the conversation.

I'm new here. You can currently find my testing data, video's and more about me on X. I am looking forward to getting my work out into the world.

Thank you!
by ryanhiebert | 2026-02-10 00:00:30+00:00
I'm working on queueio (https://github.com/ryanhiebert/queueio), a background task runner for python that uses asyc function to communicate with the queueing system, but encourages using regular synchronous and blocking code for the actual work.

It fits the bill for me where function coloring provides something truly useful that you can't get without threading. Using Celery canvas to compose signatures is a great step, but the added power of being able to compose them in a more standard code flow is the killer feature that I wanted bad enough to write it myself.
by pstuart | 2026-02-10 00:00:36+00:00
FYI: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1219246964/cobalt-is-importan...

tl;dr there's currently no overarching plan to help the US catch up to China, and we're going to let "the market" fix that problem. Being that "the market" in the US is about quarterly earnings reports and strategic bonuses for the C-suite, I'm keeping my expectations in check.
by lp4v4n | 2026-02-10 00:00:53+00:00
>Because 100 years of data says that this is a difference in expectations vs people being poorer. Yeah housing is more expensive than it should be due to regulation but despite that people are still much better off.

People would raise a family on a single income. Boomers would work brain dead job and afford more than what a white collar worker can today, not to mention you could change careers when you wanted. Land was dirty cheap. People had multiple houses. You could find a job right out of highschool.

Nowadays people work dead end jobs to never be able to afford anything. Social security is being bankrupt by retirees who are collecting much more than they contributed and millennials and zoomers are repeatedly told they are not going to be able to retire. A degree became just a piece of paper. Any job interview has at least 3 stages. Childcare, education, etc ridiculously expensive. Houses and rent are ridiculously expensive.

>I don't know many people who would rather live in a house without climate control than an apartment. A house from 1936 with no improvements is worth very little. When purchasing a house like that you're mostly buying the land.

You're completely out of touch. Even apartments are super expensive nowadays. I would gladly live in a house without A/C.
by bsder | 2026-02-10 00:01:31+00:00
> Honestly, this is HN and founders should pay attention to this. People don't want to host their own shit, they want a one-click easy switch. All of these alternatives have baggage.

I mean, come on, this is, what, a couple hours of vibe coding, max?

Let's go AI bros on HN. Chop. Chop. ... Wait, why am I hearing crickets?

For those who don't get it, yes, I'm being sarcastic. It isn't that easy to code this, but the problem isn't coding or even deploying.

The problem is your manual service. Logins are a pain in the ass and chew up sooooo much of your customer service time. Then there are the griefers. Then there are the spammers. Then there is law enforcement compliance (in spite of what HN says, you DO have to comply with local laws). etc.

All that costs time which equates to money.

I was once talking to someone who made a point that Discord specifically tries to hide IPs so that people playing a game can't DDoS their opponents. o_O! At that moment, I realized that I simply can't imagine all the malevolent behavior that Discord withstands.