MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by christalingx | 2026-02-26 13:48:55+00:00
Hey HN,

I built AgentReady — a compression API that sits between your code and your LLM. It deterministically strips filler words, redundant connectors, duplicate lines, and boilerplate from prompts before you send them. Same meaning, fewer tokens.

How it works (two-step pattern):

Key design decisions:

Your LLM key never leaves your machine. AgentReady only sees the text to compress. You call OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. directly.
Not a summarizer. It removes linguistic noise (filler, verbose phrasing, whitespace) while preserving all semantic content, code blocks, URLs, and numbers.
~5ms overhead. Deterministic text transforms, no ML inference in the compression path.
0.4% avg accuracy delta tested across GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini (BLEU/ROUGE < 2% delta).
Three compression levels:

Level Savings What it does
light 20-30% Whitespace + boilerplate cleanup
standard 40-50% + filler removal, dedup, connectors
aggressive 50-60% + stop words, short-line pruning
What else is included:

SDKs for Python (pip install agentready-sdk) and Node.js (npm install agentready-sdk)
MCP server for Claude Desktop / Cursor
Monkey-patch mode: agentready.patch_openai() — zero code changes to existing apps
Chrome Extension to convert any webpage to clean Markdown (strips 90%+ of HTML noise)
Works with any LLM provider and frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Vercel AI SDK)
Free during open beta — no limits, no credit card. I want real-world feedback before setting pricing.

Live demo + interactive playground: https://agentready.cloud/hn

Happy to answer questions about the compression approach, quality benchmarks, or architecture.
by projektfu | 2026-02-26 13:49:15+00:00
The best way is to set up samba on a Linux machine, even a raspberry pi, and create a domain. Then you can create group policy to turn off a lot of nonsense and set up your computer by connecting to the domain. No MS account required, although you can associate one of you like.

Windows feels like it has a lot of attrition from home users now and perhaps it is only a matter of time before it's no longer worth writing exclusive software for it.
Show HN: Show your domains and get buyers message you directly
by mrdost | 2026-02-26 13:49:36+00:00
I built a small tool for domain owners who just want a clean self-hosted-style “for sale” page and prefer handling transactions themselves (choosing an escrow themselves, negotiating etc.).

You add a domain, verify ownership via redirect, modify price (5 LLMs appraise your domain for free, you might set a discount) and contact details, and get a simple sale page, your unused domain now redirects to. Buyers contact you DIRECTLY. No signin walls. You keep 100% of your deal, a kind of self-hosted handle-everything-yourself fashion

Also you can share a link to your profile page with all your listed domains, like a portfolio showcase or a domain stall

The idea is minimal infrastructure for direct P2P domain sales.

I'm currently working on Whois/RDAP stuff to display expiration dates, could be very convenient in the future to get notified about expiration dates

Example page:
https://d.omain.co/d/startup.broker

Happy to answer questions and would appreciate feedback.
by jtalk22 | 2026-02-26 13:49:42+00:00
Quick notes:
- Local-first path (stdio/web) remains supported.
- --status is read-only by design in v2.0.0.
- --doctor exits are deterministic (0/1/2/3).
- If registry pages lag, npm + GitHub release are authoritative while metadata propagates.

Install proof:
npx -y @jtalk22/slack-mcp@latest --version
npx -y @jtalk22/slack-mcp@latest --doctor
npx -y @jtalk22/slack-mcp@latest --status
by citrin_ru | 2026-02-26 13:49:46+00:00
> Rail is superb for what it does: moving bulk commodities... The problem is last-mile.

Before around 1950x-1970x rail networks were more dense (at least in Europe) - any significant goods source/destination (like a warehouse, a factory e. t. c.) had a railway spur. Lots of rail tracks / spurs were abandoned /removed when it was widely believed that trucks are the future and railways are outdated.

If all these spurs were kept last mile problem would not be as bad for railways. Also electric trucks are well suited to solve this last mile problem.
by itmitica | 2026-02-26 13:50:05+00:00
I too was convinced at one point the spec is the program.

That it doesn't matter the implementation stack.

But, after wasting too much time in the meta, with nothing really to show for, I returned to controlling the programming process in fine detail. Progressive agentic/vibe coding, if I was to give it a name.

But it could be that I'm slow to understand how it can be done in a better way.
by harmonics | 2026-02-26 13:50:56+00:00
> Settlements used to be covered in smog due to coal fires for example.

Used to? Lots of them still are. Right now there's 150 µg/m³ of PM2.5 outside my window, and it's a "clean" day. Yesterday's concentrations were up to 900 µg (yes, that's correct), and the highest I've seen this winter were 2000 µg (yes, this is also correct). And it keeps getting worse, recently our so-called president mentioned that coal is our strategic reserve and we won't be phasing it out any time soon.

I'm relatively sure most of the "global south" has bad air quality, even if such extreme values are rare.

Here are some random photos of a typical winter day (winter is 8 months per year):

https://pasteboard.co/d2uZDyCd2gvt.jpg

https://pasteboard.co/F1zT2VPXFPKs.webp

https://pasteboard.co/r2S12bHXxzcI.jpg

https://pasteboard.co/w7CfK2Yfaz2l.webp

https://pasteboard.co/ceSDNcQuD4qL.jpg

https://pasteboard.co/z7XJcpoI6FCv.jpg
by sgarland | 2026-02-26 13:51:01+00:00
> Additionally, you may also find that not all the little problems are worth solving, and what’s more interesting are the bigger problems around product-market fit, usability, and revenue.

TFA author (and me), and you have wildly different motivations. I don't know the author, but have said verbatim much of what they wrote, so I feel like I can speak on this.

Beyond the fact that I recognize the company has to continue exist for me to be employed, none of those hold the slightest bit of interest for me. What motivates me are interesting technical challenges, full stop. As an example, recently at my job we had a forced AI-Only week, where everyone had to use Claude Code, zero manual coding. This was agony to me, because I could see it making mistakes that I could fix in seconds, but instead I had to try to patiently explain what I needed to be done, and then twiddle my thumbs while cheerful nonsense words danced around the screen. One of the things I produced from that was a series of linters to catch sub-optimal schema decisions in PRs. This was praised, but I got absolutely no joy from it, because I didn't write it. I have written linters that parse code using its AST before, and those did bring me joy, because it was an interesting technical challenge. Instead, all I did was (partially) solve a human challenge; to me, that's just frustration manifest, because in my mind if you don't know how to use a DB, you shouldn't be allowed to use the DB (in prod - you have to learn, obviously).

I am fully aware that this is largely incompatible with most workplaces, and that my expectations are unrealistic, but that doesn't change the fact that it is how I feel.
by justjoepeanut | 2026-02-26 13:51:48+00:00
I built orchagent because I couldn't find any truly agent-native hosting platfom. The DevOps for running agents is out the box. Write your agent in Python or TypeScript, run `orch publish`, and it's live.

Two run modes:
- On-demand: cron schedules, webhook triggers, API calls
- Always-on: agents running 24/7 (Discord/Slack/Telegram bots, data pollers, monitors) with health checks and auto-restart

Out of the box you get: secrets vault, run history with structured inputs/outputs, LLM cost tracking per agent per run, multi-agent orchestration, team workspaces, web UI for non-technical teammates, and every execution in an isolated sandbox.

Free tier available. Pro $29/mo for private agents and always-on services.

Would love feedback, especially from anyone currently managing agent infrastructure themselves.
by kurouna | 2026-02-26 13:51:55+00:00
First and foremost, I love Emacs and have the utmost respect for its Lisp-based ecosystem. It is undoubtedly one of the most successful and enduring examples of user-extensible software in history.

Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the nature of Emacs: What truly defines it? Is it the Lisp engine, the buffer-centric workflow, or the core philosophy of ultimate hackability? I realize this has been debated many times over the decades, but it feels worth revisiting in the context of the technologies available to us in 2026. A complete rewrite isn't the only answer; out of pure intellectual curiosity, I’d simply like to step back and reconsider its future from where we stand today.

Historically, Emacs began as a set of macros on TECO, not a Lisp-based system. Lisp eventually became its greatest strength, but I wonder if it has also become a constraint. Is it best for Emacs to continue evolving along its current path, or is it time for a more radical shift? What kind of future would be truly exciting for the next generation of hackers?

If we were to design Emacs from scratch today, would we still build it around its current C core and Lisp engine? Or could a different stack preserve its spirit while unlocking new possibilities? For

example:

* A core implemented in a modern systems language like Rust for performance and safety.

* A decoupled UI layer leveraging modern rendering engines or web technologies to natively handle complex layouts and CJK environments without legacy constraints.

* Lisp (or a similar high-level language) retained purely for user-level customization, rather than driving the underlying UI architecture.

Another question is its direction: should Emacs continue evolving into an all-in-one IDE, or should it return to being the "ultimate text editor," delegating heavy IDE responsibilities to LSP-based tools?

What specifications or technologies would make a "Modern Emacs" truly exciting for you? Are there technical or cultural reasons preventing the adoption of a modern stack, assuming the core philosophy remains intact?

Please note: This is not a critique of Lisp or the current Emacs. Whether it's a continuation of its current evolution or a completely new architecture, my only interest is to hear how we all envision its future. This is purely a thought experiment, and I hope you enjoy the discussion!
by Cherie91 | 2026-02-26 13:51:57+00:00
Gravital reports reveal that approximately 1.5 million enterprise AI Agents operate without any security protections or authentication.

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AI tools like Claude Code being exploited for cyberattacks
Mass uploads of malicious skills on Cloud Hub platforms
AI-generated benchmark reports lacking accountability

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by ignoramous | 2026-02-26 13:52:00+00:00
> DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai services ... what we share with non-privacy preserving AIs.

Duck.ai's Privacy Policy goes:

As noted above, we call model providers on your behalf so your personal information (for example, IP address) is not exposed to them. In addition, we have agreements in place with all model providers that further limit how they can use data from these anonymous requests, including not using Prompts and Outputs to develop or improve their models, as well as deleting all information received once it is no longer necessary to provide Outputs (at most within 30 days, with limited exceptions for safety and legal compliance).

This is not much different to the BigLabs, tbh.

Otoh, privatemode.ai, confer.to, trymaple.ai are at least attempting Apple AI-like confidentiality.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-26 13:52:01+00:00
Oh god no, it's not the maintainer. It's frankly a student with no prior experience in both the language and the codebase, asking the maintainer permission for pushing a lot of ai generated code with chatgpt for his resume?

Atleast he has the decency to ask for stuff first and being straight.

Hilarious comment by the way https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/682#discussion...
by adwn | 2026-02-26 13:52:13+00:00
> If I want to know the status of each item, I’d pass -v to the command.

I don't disagree. In my opinion, the default log level for CLI applications should be WARN, showing errors and warnings. -q should turn this OFF (alternatively, -q for ERROR, and -qq for OFF), -v means INFO, -vv DEBUG, -vvv TRACE.
For servers and daemons, the default should probably be INFO, but that's debatable.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-26 13:52:17+00:00
Can you cite some sources? Because most countries have a functioning vaccination program, in part thanks to now-cancelled USAID funding. But vaccination rates have been dropping, just like in the US. https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/press-releases/latin-america-a...

Your comment reads like anti-immigrant propaganda. If USAID were to be restored, the US could use its vast wealth to improve global health. But the current US regime is decisively anti-vax and wants everyone to suffer unnecessarily from preventable disease.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-26 13:52:23+00:00
Consumption tax + land value tax + compensatory UBI should be a winning combination. Someone can hoard all they want but will pay when it comes time to spend the hoard.

You can also reduce or eliminate the tax on essentials like groceries.

Wealthy progressives don’t like it because many of them hold a huge portion of their wealth in housing. They imagine that they can somehow fix inequality without fixing distortions in the housing market.
by schmommy | 2026-02-26 13:52:34+00:00
I’m building a multi-model AI workspace (thetank.io) and the hardest part isn’t “can it write code” — it’s trust:
- preview reliability
- saved state/persistence
- smooth iteration
- fewer hallucinated integrations

For people who’ve used v0/Bolt/Lovable/etc.:
What specific UX or reliability behaviors made you trust (or stop trusting) an AI builder?
by bossyTeacher | 2026-02-26 13:52:37+00:00
You are absolutely right!

- It is not X. It is Y.

- X [negate action] Y. X [action] Z.

The titles are giveaways too: Comfort Over Correctness, Consensus As Veto, The Nuance, Responsibility Without Authority, What Changes It. Has that bot taste.

If you want I can compile a list of cases where this doesn't happen. Do you want me to do that?
by voidhorse | 2026-02-26 13:52:39+00:00
I actually think being a full-time writer is a more feasible professions today than it probably was a few hundred years ago. On the other hand, back in the 1800s random newspapers would pay for serialized stories. That doesn't really happen anymore (save a few surviving exceptions like the New Yorker) but now we have substack and a ton of other avenues writers can use to keep afloat
by cess11 | 2026-02-26 13:52:48+00:00
I suspect the author has little to no experience running a commercial organisation.

Business outcome comes first, and it is only rarely aligned with technical excellence. Closing a deal might involve making an unreasonable promise, and implementing it might not require more than an ugly hack, so you go with the ugly hack and make the money.

Comfort could be important but many people don't perform well when comfortable, so the organisation has to add some degree of confusion and pressure to keep them at a productive equilibrium where they don't fall into either apathy or burst into flames.

And yes, the boss decides, not because they are especially accountable or responsible, but because the power comes from ownership. In some organisations this is veiled and workers get a say most of the time, but in a pinch it'll be the higher-ups that actually have that power.
by doodaddy | 2026-02-26 13:52:51+00:00
I’ve supported the EFF for a long time. I think what they do and stand for is important. But I can’t help but feel utterly disillusioned with all of it now. Each press release just reads as naïve to me. At one point it felt like there was a real possibility that their viewpoint would be thoughtfully discussed and actioned on. But now…I don’t know. The lack of notable “wind” doesn’t help and all the trends just don’t give me confidence that the tide will turn any time soon.

Maybe the part that makes me most sad is that for those of us who have been doing this for, well, our entire lives, it’s just not the outcome any of us envisioned but it’s the outcome that (almost) all of us have been party to even if in some small way.
Ask HN: Are you running an anti-detect headless browser?
by jstanley | 2026-02-26 13:53:03+00:00
I'm doing a project on headless browser fingerprinting. Currently the focus is on headless browsers for threat intelligence. Threat intelligence vendors want to fetch phishing/malware sites so that they can get them taken down, and threat actors want to block bots so that the bots don't see their phishing/malware.

So far it turns out that every threat intelligence bot that we have seen is easily detectable as a bot. We have been submitting our URLs directly to anti-phishing companies, as well as to VirusTotal, and registering LetsEncrypt certificates to populate CT logs.

But obviously this is useful much more widely than threat intelligence. I was told that if I say it's for anti-phishing then there are 12 customers max but if it's for AI browser agents then someone will give me a billion dollars.

So if you're running/building an anti-detect bot I would love to know what you're doing, and maybe point it at our tooling, we might be able to improve your bot, you can check out our Instant Bot Test yourself at https://botforensics.com/instant-bot-test

I have a recent blog post at https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/botforensics.html if you want to learn more.
Is Amazon Shipping Broken for Everyone?
by talkingtab | 2026-02-26 13:53:13+00:00
I have recently had a whole series of amazon shipping failures. I order a set of 16 packages, got one. Talked to customer service got one again. Ordered a thing that said it would arrive on Tuesday, once I bought it, the order said Friday (+3 days). My last small order is lost in a maze of shipping status messages that are clearly fantasy. It said it was to be delivered the next day, but had not really shipped. Now seems to be lost and Amazon only can deal with delivered items. It has no option for help with items lost in delivery.

My sense is that the fantasy of Amazon is now falling apart. They provide shipping status that is dishonest. Is this just an unlucky streak for me? Do they not like me anymore? Or is it for everyone?
by tossandthrow | 2026-02-26 13:53:15+00:00
It seems like a quote clear cut case?

You mention the tradeoffs between rust. Including the high level of uncertainty and increased lead time as you need to learn the language.

The manager, now having that information, can insist on using rust, and you get er great opportunity to learn rust. Now being totally off the hook, even if the project fails, as you mentioned the risks.
by tarasyarema | 2026-02-26 13:53:18+00:00
I believe that it’s a matter of evolution. You start small and find what works fir you and the project. Then iterate and see how to remove yourself from it more.

I actually wrote about this concept here if that’s something the might interest you: https://www.tarasyarema.com/blog/2026-02-18-introducing-sema...
by pverheggen | 2026-02-26 13:53:40+00:00
OP's dismissiveness of soft skills is a big red flag. Unless you're a solo dev, software development is a social activity, and understanding the social dynamics is key to effecting change.

Your efforts to improve quality could be vetoed by your coworkers for a variety of reasons: they don't care, they don't trust your judgement, they see other things as a higher priority... the list goes on and on. Some of these things can't be changed by you, but some can, and that's where the soft skills come into play.
by kardianos | 2026-02-26 13:54:37+00:00
Those are the incorrect choices. You CAN actually do these processes, and still keep the environment clean.

I believe in procedural symmetry: if you ACTUALLY care about people and the environment, then you wouldn't let other poorer do these thing. The USA being richer, can afford to do it right and safer, not through regulation, but through process. There is a difference.

So what would you do if you ACTUALLY cared about the people and environment? Put high tariffs on dangerous process products, reduce regulation (permits, etc), increase standardization and final safety measurements. Then the products we use, we make, safely.

But people don't actually care about the environment. They care about looking like they care about the environment, and sending industrial processes somewhere else. There is a difference.
by everdrive | 2026-02-26 13:55:15+00:00
It's not difficult, however it does violate privacy. It is one more brick in the wall for requiring that all citizens own smartphones. And smartphones themselves are quite bad for privacy. When I frequent a business and they tell me use their smartphone app, my response varies from "no," to "I'm not downloading your fucking app." (depending on how polite the business has been)

100% of smart phone apps are bad. There are NO exceptions to this, by virtue of the fact that you must own and use the smartphone to access them. We stand to lose a lot when we finally lose this fight. (and I'm sure we will)
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-26 13:55:35+00:00
>But the industry and the jobs have shrunken a lot

And those people left jobless still have the right to vote. So you'll have to bribe them with welfare or invest in their upskilling otherwise they'll turn to crime to survive.

It also leaves you economically and militarily vulnerable to the countries you outsourced all your manufacturing too, as you can't fight back an invading army with just your remaining HR and software industry.

>I'd pick the clean air and water, and have people poisoned far away that I don't know and can ignore.

Until they mass migrate out of their polluted hlleholes you helped create, and move into your clean country straining your resources, making it your problem once again. Or, they tool up and economically or militarily crush you, turning your country into one of their colonies.

You reap what you sow. There's no free lunch where you can have your cake and eat it too.
by MrJohz | 2026-02-26 13:55:44+00:00
Yeah, a lot of the examples made me think "wait, there's something else going on there, right?", which would make sense if the author has difficulty communicating or negotiating their proposals.

In the first example, for example, they suggested a new metric to track added warnings in the build, and then there was a disagreement in the team, and then as a footnote someone went and fixed the warnings anyway? That sounds like the author might be missing something from their story.
by throw0101a | 2026-02-26 13:55:54+00:00
> I had my formative years in programming when memory usage was something you still worried about as a programmer.

As 'just' a user in the 1990s and MS-DOS, fiddling with QEMM was a bit of a craft to get what you wanted to run in the memory you had.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM

(Also, DESQview was awesome.)
by voidhorse | 2026-02-26 13:56:08+00:00
This. Most of them weren't exactly bullied.

Outside of having a military, several tech companies are probably more powerful than nation states at this point, and I think some of them realize this. As long as a complete slip into barbarism is still not fully on the table, nations need the data that tech companies have more or less entirely captured and established a complete hegemony around at this point. They also rely directly on their products. I guess the EU is starting to wake up to how problematic this is.