MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by riskable | 2026-02-26 17:05:11+00:00
The difference is that in a software project you can throw more than one instance of the model at the code. If you tell it to follow your naming conventions and it fails to do so, that can be picked up by an instance of the same LLM that's running checks before you commit anything. Even though it's the same model it'll usually detect stuff like that. You can even have it do multiple passes.

The way most people are coding with AI today is like Baby's First AI™ compared to how we'll all be using LLMs for coding in the future. Soon that "double check everything" step will be built in to the coding agents and you'll have configuration options for how many passes you want it to perform (speed VS accuracy tradeoff).
by s-stude | 2026-02-26 17:05:12+00:00
I analyzed 326 side projects featured on HN between 2024 and 2025 that claimed to earn $500+ monthly; I found that half of them make less than $1,000 a month. (Don't get me wrong, that’s still impressive—especially since I’m not even making $500 yet!)

Common Successful Models:

- Niche Job Boards: Often gross around $1,000/month by referring traffic or charging for featured posts.

- Micro-SaaS/Utilities: Services like online faxing or uptime monitors frequently sit in the $500–$1,000 range.

- Content/Education: Books and interactive courses often provide a steady $500/month floor after an initial launch.
by varunpratap369 | 2026-02-26 17:05:16+00:00
Hi, I'm author. A bit of context on why I built this.

I've spent 15 years in enterprise technology as a Solution Architect. When
our teams
started adopting AI agents with third-party skills, I realized we had the
same blind
trust problem that npm had before npm audit existed — except worse, because
agent
skills can execute shell commands, read environment variables, and make
network
requests by design.

After ClawHavoc hit in January, I saw a dozen scanning tools appear in
weeks. All
heuristic. All pattern matching. The leading one literally says in their
docs: "no
findings does not mean no risk." That bothered me.

So I asked: can we do better than heuristics? The answer is yes — formal
analysis
with soundness guarantees. If the analysis says "no violations," the math
proves
the skill cannot exceed its declared capabilities. Not "we checked and
didn't find
anything" — "we proved it can't."

The key insight: I adapted the Dolev-Yao model (1983, originally for
cryptographic
protocol verification) to model attackers in the agent skill supply chain.
Combined
with abstract interpretation over a capability lattice, SAT-based dependency

resolution, and a trust algebra — you get five provable theorems instead of
five
regex patterns.

Honest about limitations: we miss typosquatting (50% detection — needs name
similarity
module) and dependency confusion (0% — needs registry lookup). These are
v0.2. The
paper documents every gap.

Happy to go deep on any of: the formal model, the benchmark methodology, why
SAT
for dependencies, or the trust score algebra. Ask away.
by soared | 2026-02-26 17:05:20+00:00
Same! I redid my backyard entirely and needed ideas. Gemini took a pile of dirt and gave me countless ideas, improved my plans, recommended materials, etc. a designer gave me two out of the box ideas that Gemini didn’t come up with, but it did everything else perfectly. (Designer said, put a patio out in the yard and put your table there, and take your ugly shed and make it the center of attention, since you’ll never succeeed trying to hide it)
by teleforce | 2026-02-26 17:05:57+00:00
>Accurate and low latency attitude estimation is critical for stable flight of the flapping-wing platform. We implemented a quaternion-based Madgwick filter (80) on the ESP32-S3 (dual-core 240 MHz with floating-point unit) to fuse IMU measurements in real time. This approach was selected for its low computational cost, fast convergence, and robustness under dynamic motion, outperforming complementary filters in accuracy and avoiding the high complexity and matrix operations of extended Kalman filters.

Bravo, quaternion is the (only) way to go, the sooner UAV/UAS system designer realize this the better.
by fasteddie31003 | 2026-02-26 17:06:00+00:00
I started with sketchup to make basic floor plans and house shapes. I had a rough idea of the style of the home. I picked "Transitional English Estate" since the build site is out on a farm that sorta looks like the Cotswolds. I used AI in this process to get rough renders and feedback on the floorplan. I then took that basic floorplan and house dimensions to a Draftsman who did a lot of tweaking to get it up to code and fix issues. I got his plans and took it to a Sketchup Pro on Fivver . They made a detailed sketchup model. I then took that model and took screenshots from different perspectives and tweaked the prompt to get renders I liked. These changes were reencorprated into the blueprints. I did the same thing with the interior. Took screenshots from sketchup and put them into AI and tweaked the prompt. https://imgur.com/a/lSIYTYr
by wildzzz | 2026-02-26 17:06:31+00:00
Over the last 10 years, state medical boards have dramatically cut back on opioid prescriptions (which happens to correlate with the rise of fentanyl use). Even those with chronic pain with a history of prescription were cut back. It's unfortunate because for some people, opioids really are the only thing that works for treating incurable pain but the downside is that they develop tolerances and they become ineffective over time. It really would be a miracle if we could invent a pain medication that is non-addictive.

However, a new type of pain medication doesn't remove the current opioids available on the street. Legalization of marijuana is one thing, it's relatively low risk but I don't see legalization of opioids ever happening because absolutely nothing can replace the warm blanket feeling that they provide.
by herbertl | 2026-02-26 17:06:40+00:00
Reminds me of "Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student" by Max Alper, an excerpt from which I really appreciated:

> You’re not a failure by being a dayjobber, Billy, you’re an artist, just like the rest of us. So what if you aren’t some rich kid from the Upper East Side who had the privilege of being stuck in a practice room since Kindergarten? Sure that kid can shred, but do you really want to be that person? You’re playing shows, making records, and selling merch online, all without daddy’s money to hold you down. You’re making it happen without the head start that Richy Rich got the second he was born. Be proud of that! Knowing that the game is rigged is liberating! Just because the music industry lacks meritocracy doesn’t mean you can’t blow these assholes out of the water through your craft. Your experiences outside their bubble will only foster more creativity as a result.

Source: https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-...

HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693297
by kevinsync | 2026-02-26 17:07:17+00:00
I had a similar thought before realizing that I'm pretty sure what they were demonstrating wasn't art style, but adherence to correct physical dimensions and construction of the buildings referenced, that was then expressed in an art style (or reasonable facsimile thereof). The before prompts would just conjure a random building out of thin air, the after prompts searched the web for reference material and then used that in image generation.

And actually, the link I saw a bit ago was this [0] which is more in-depth and has a lot more examples + prompts.

[0] - https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash/
by waffletower | 2026-02-26 17:07:19+00:00
Not sure how many developers are like me, but I am very open to Claude, very open to Gemini, open to open source models (including gpt-oss), but am very reluctant to use frontier OpenAI models. The Microsoft distrust runs extremely deep, the browser authentication dance demanded of users for ChatGPT was the most extreme of the major frontier models, and early OpenAI API service stability was absolutely terrible. Llama had my back back then.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-26 17:07:19+00:00
A few feature requests:

I got "iTerm2 Default" and I tried to copy the name, but when I click on the text of the name, I get a new theme. I think it would be better that only the word "random" were clickable, and perhaps rename it to "show new theme" or something like that.

Can I go back to a previous theme?

Can I favorite a theme? Tinder for themes
by toast0 | 2026-02-26 17:07:27+00:00
RAM manufacturers don't increase production as fast as possible, because they've been through enough boom and bust.

Rapid increase in capacity leads to oversupply which leads to negative margins. They've been there before, and they don't want to go there again.

RAM manufacturers do routinely setup new fabs and decommision old fabs. Maybe they're trying to hurry up new fab construction in times like these, and they would likely defer shutting down old fabs or restart them where possible. But they're less likely to build new fabs that weren't already part of their long term plans.
by at-w | 2026-02-26 17:07:40+00:00
>each of which ended up making a stronger, more dangerous opioid

This is true of some early opioids like heroin, but with e.g. Oxycontin the problem wasn’t a stronger opioid, it's how it ended up being prescribed.

Purdue's marketing led doctors to prescribe it to more people, in higher doses, and for longer. Oxycontin isn't inherently more dangerous than the dose of immediate release oxycodone or morphine that would have an equivalent effect.

Innovation in opioids shouldn't just be written off. They're still the best (and sometimes the only effective) treatment for a huge number of people, and some new opioids like buprenorphine/combos like Suboxone have real advantages.

The lesson from Oxycontin is more about deceptive marketing and prescribing practices.
by tisdadd | 2026-02-26 17:07:47+00:00
As long as you are over a certain spend. I started something for my own project and went to apply the recommended architecture, which does not work without a quota increase. As it was from a fresh account, the email was we won't look at this until you spend or pre spend so much money. Frankly, for a trail period when evaluating at prior enterprises, that would have made me just say no to their cloud. One expects that the recommended architecture can be deployed in the trial run without hoops.
by ggreer | 2026-02-26 17:07:49+00:00
Intel built a bunch of chip fabs in Oregon, Arizona, Israel, and Ireland over the past couple decades.[1] TSMC has built a new fab in Arizona.[2]

It's difficult to transport petroleum over the rocky mountains, and California requires its own blend of gasoline for use in vehicles, so there is significant demand for oil refineries in the state. Fuel imports have increased significantly due to refinery closures.[3] Some companies are trying to build pipelines to connect the west coast to refineries in Texas, but it's unclear when or if that will happen.[4]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC_Arizona

3. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65704

4. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/california-refinery-...
by edent | 2026-02-26 17:07:59+00:00
OP here. Unless you're still watching Quibi on your curved TV, delivered via WiMax then, yeah, I'd say it was pretty bloody substantiated.

I like technology. I made a decent living from it. But if I had chased every hyped fad that was promised as the next big thing, I doubt I'd be as happy as I am now.
by keeda | 2026-02-26 17:08:07+00:00
Smoking was allowed on planes!

The first time I ever flew as a kid, I was so excited to be on a plane! And then it turned out to be a 5 hour+ flight with negligible entertainment options and I was so bored...

And then, another dude got bored so he moved to the empty back rows of the plane and smoked for the rest of the flight, and the whole plane was suffused with the smell, and I was so sick.

Like, even those who smoke generally hate the smell of that stale second-hand smoke, especially if locked up in an enclosed space for hours.
Tell HN: YouTube Subscription page is being deprecated
by csours | 2026-02-26 17:08:30+00:00
My YouTube Subscriptions page on desktop now has a "Most Relevant" section. On large screens, this takes up half of the page. On smaller screens, this takes up more than half the page. You should expect this "Most Relevant" section to replace the direct content listing in future.

When this happens, you should expect to lose direct access to your subscription listing by upload date. They will probably add a button for direct listings, at least for a while, but you will not be able to link a direct listing.

Later on that button will be removed, and the option will be hidden in settings somewhere.
by sosodev | 2026-02-26 17:08:35+00:00
Doesn't Grok allow users to create lewd content or did they roll that back?

Also, I suspect that we'll soon see the same pattern of open weights models following several months behind frontier in every modality not just text.

It's just too easy for other labs to produce synthetic training data from the frontier models and then mimic their behavior. They'll never be as good, but they will certainly be good enough.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-26 17:08:52+00:00
Recently, the movie "Cleopatra" was on TV. I was watching it with the sound off while I did other things.

There was one scene where Rich Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were arguing with each other. I watched their lips move, and somehow I heard Burton speaking his lines in his voice, and Taylor her lines in her voice. I had to do a double take to see that the sound was actually muted, but my mind re-created it anyway.
by biztos | 2026-02-26 17:08:58+00:00
It's a good question whether Banksy really is a crossover, or only a crossover in market terms. I would definitely call him a high master of stencil technique though, some of that stuff is pretty hard to pull off.

As clever as his art is, I think he's still very much an outsider in the capital-W Art World, which for his part he's often trying to prank. (Which they richly deserve, see Exit Through the Gift Shop.)

Things like the self-destroying painting were high-concept but also completely staged. For another artist getting rich off his contempt for the Art Market, but solidly on the Art World side of the fence, see Maurizio Cattelan.

One person with a foot in both worlds is Alex Face but he's mostly known in South-East Asia. I have a feeling it'd be easier to find examples in Asia than in the West.

https://www.artsy.net/artist/alex-face
by jeffbee | 2026-02-26 17:09:08+00:00
Man, this guy has his head all the way up his anus. A guy who thinks that whether or not the math classes in San Francisco high schools are literally titled "algebra" is an important question, who doesn't realize that Noah Smith is a raging moron, and who considers Elon Musk to be the greatest industrialist in history, has been listening to a tad too much Garry Tan. No wonder he can't figure out how to market appliances. He's just disconnected from the real world.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-26 17:09:15+00:00
In the US, public companies generally must report their financial results according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). They can also report other numbers, and that's what they're doing in footnote (1); they think one particular adjustment GAAP requires them to make might be misleading, and they helpfully disclose that they would have calculated 13% if not for that adjustment. But they are not allowed to say that the GAAP number is wrong or untruthful, nor to put the non-GAAP number in the topline and the GAAP adjustment in the footnote.
by Freak_NL | 2026-02-26 17:09:18+00:00
> This is what AI skills unlocked for me, and I want to walk through how.

That one sticks out.

I hate having to recalibrate how I read comments on websites. We are basically in the spam days of e-mail without any filter in sight — gasp! an em-dash! totally sus… — the cost of writing an extensive comment in faultless prose has fallen to nearly nothing, so it gets posted. Just like spam the reason for doing so seems to be for minimal effect, to move a discussion in some direction by minute degrees, or simply for the attention — perhaps to build up a credible-ish account?
by MarkusQ | 2026-02-26 17:09:32+00:00
It's not unsubstantiated though. The claim is "People frequently assert that 'this time is different' and they are almost always wrong" and it proceeded to provide a reasonable list of analogous manias.

This only doesn't feel like substantiation if you reject the notion that these cases are analogous.

"You shouldn't eat that."

"Why not?"

"Everyone else who's eaten it has either died or gotten really sick."

"But I'm different! Why should I listen to your unsubstantiated claims?"

"(lists names of prior victims)"

"That doesn't mean anything. I'm different. You're just making vague and dismissive unsubstantiated claims."

The claim isn't "AI bad" the claim is more along the lines of "there's a lot of money changing hands and this has all the earmarks of a classic hype cycle; while attention/diffusion models may amount to something the claims of their societal impacts are almost certainly being exaggerated by people with a financial stake in keeping the bubble inflated as long as possible, to pull in as many suckers as possible."

If you want another example (which you won't find analogous if you've already drunk the koolaid):

https://theblundervault.substack.com/p/the-segway-delusion-w...
Show HN: 20x – Open-source agent orchestrator for Linear/HubSpot tasks
by dmitryv | 2026-02-26 17:09:54+00:00
Hi HN,

We're the engineering team at Peakflo (B2B fintech). We built 20x internally because we kept copy-pasting Linear tickets into Claude, manually setting up branches, and babysitting agent output across terminals. Eventually we just built the infrastructure to connect task systems to agents directly — and decided to open source it.

20x is an open-source desktop app (macOS only — Linux and Windows on the roadmap) that orchestrates AI coding agents against your existing task systems.

In practice: a Linear ticket gets pulled in → the triage agent assigns Claude Code + relevant skills → a git worktree is created for branch isolation → the agent writes code with live-streamed output → it pauses for your approval before pushing → a PR is opened.

We started with engineering tasks because current agents perform best there.

The most interesting architectural piece: Self-improving Skills. Skills are reusable instruction templates attached to task types. After each task completes, the agent proposes updates based on what worked. Over time, skills accumulate institutional knowledge, like a runbook that writes itself. Each carries a confidence score that tracks reliability over time.

This is the main differentiator versus hosted tools like Devin or Factory. Unlike those tools, 20x is local-first, open-source, and agent-agnostic — it orchestrates your existing agents rather than replacing them.

A few architectural decisions:

- Local-first: SQLite, no accounts, no cloud sync, everything on-device
- Agent-agnostic: supports Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex
- Integrations: Linear, HubSpot, Peakflo, and GitHub Issues (Peakflo is listed because we dogfood it internally — it was our first integration and how we catch regressions.)
- Git worktrees per task for branch isolation
- Skill updates are written back after task completion

MIT licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/peakflo/20x
Demo: https://youtu.be/3zKmMz6aFek

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, tradeoffs, or what didn't work.
by nebrelbug | 2026-02-26 17:10:10+00:00
I built a TypeScript framework for AI agents that replaces shelling out and parsing stdout. Agents discover and call typed functions with structured inputs and outputs. Permissions are first-class — every operation is allow, ask, or deny — so you get granular control instead of "allow bash: yes/no." LLM-generated code runs in a SES sandbox with no access to fetch, require, or process.
by jdeibele | 2026-02-26 17:10:14+00:00
NetNewsWire can't find that feed.

"Can’t add a feed because no feed was found."

I used the RSS validator at w3.org

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww...

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 1, column 10821: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help]

... category><category>Web</category></item></channel></rss>
^
by sarreph | 2026-02-26 17:10:14+00:00
> They were rare, and special, and you'd have a few photos per YEAR to look back on.

Um yeah I don't know. I fully resonate with the _emotional_ appeal here, but realistically I remember going round to people's houses to be shown analog photo albums that nobody was that bothered about seeing, because they didn't really care -- they weren't their photos.

The special photos (a few a year) still exists in digital form.
by barelysapient | 2026-02-26 17:10:40+00:00
I'd be curious to know if this is really the case.

States have a lot of power to regulate commerce, interstate commerce and the products their citizens have access too.

If indeed they can't, then perhaps its one subject dems and r's could get together on. Instead of blanket tarrifs, tarriffs on products made with slave labor or without strong consideration for environment impact.
by adrianmav | 2026-02-26 17:11:04+00:00
We just shipped mobile apps for Secria with full feature parity to web:

ML-KEM-1024 + X25519 hybrid encryption, one-click alias rotation, key exchange verification, tracker blocking, zero-knowledge architecture.

Coming soon: Secria VPN bundled into the Pro plan.

Happy to share early access links if anyone's interested.

Bugs welcome — we fix fast.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secria-mail/id6756082980

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detailsid=com.secria.weba...
by 999900000999 | 2026-02-26 17:11:07+00:00
Your photos of your dog mean nothing to me.

I have a photo of a friend I’ve since drifted from, it’s her in her army fatigues after basic. She was had just went through a horrible divorce and that was a shining achievement for her.

The story behind the photo is what makes it matter.

Not the format.

However I will agree AI is a poor substitute. You’ll have people creating AI photos of a fake marriage and fake pets in a big fake house, while they sleep in a bunk bed in a halfway house.
by matansfb | 2026-02-26 17:11:34+00:00
I posted Disk-Scout here recently and received some valuable feedback. I’ve since cleaned up the UI and added several requested features.

For context: Disk-Scout is a data-focused tool that aggregates storage drives from Amazon (HDD, SSD, NVMe, external drives) and lets you filter and sort them by meaningful metrics such as price per TB, capacity, form factor, condition, and more.

What’s new since the last version:

You can now save drives to favorites (stored locally) and compare them easily.

One-click region switching – instantly view pricing across different Amazon regions (US, UK, DE, FR, etc.).

Improved filtering logic and performance.

Cleaner, more focused UI.

Better normalization of capacity units and price-per-TB calculations.

The goal is to make storage shopping more data-driven. Instead of manually scanning Amazon listings, you can compare drives objectively using consistent metrics.

I’d appreciate feedback on usability, missing features, or anything that feels unclear.

Thanks for taking a look.