MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-21 16:58:10+00:00
In this case archive.today has a lot of influence over the information we take in because of the rise in paywalls. They have the potential of modifying the news we absorb at scale.

In that context I don't think the question ("actually, who is providing all this information to me and what interests drive them") is one that's misplaced. Maybe we shouldn't look into a gift horse's mouth but don't forget this could be a Trojan horse as well.

The article brought to light some ties to Russia but probably not ties to its government and its troll farms. Rather an independent and pretty rebellious citizen. That's good to hear. And that's valuable information. I trust the site more after reading the article, not less.

The article could have redacted the names they found but they were found with public sources and these sources validate the encountered information (otherwise the results could have been dismissed)
by ajuhasz | 2026-02-21 17:00:09+00:00
The first version will use small batch production techniques like 3D printing and small volume PCB manufacturing. On the photos, we thought it to be more appropriate to show a sketch vs a pretty AI generated photo that is true to anything yet but presents well.

We have some details here on how we’re doing the prototyping with some photos of the current prototype: https://juno-labs.com/blogs/how-we-validate-our-custom-ai-ha...
Show HN: Eliezer – Tiny (~7K LOC) Self-Hosted AI Agent (PWA, Self-Editing)
by dvictor | 2026-02-21 17:00:23+00:00
Eliezer is ~7K lines of TypeScript, MIT open-source

- PWA for mobile/desktop with push notifications
- Self-editing protocol
- Builds and displays interactive apps/widgets right in the chat
- Task and Crons - "notify if sunny tomorrow at 10am")
- Persistent SQLite memory + auto context compaction
- Bring your own LLM API key (Kimi/Claude/Grok/etc.)
- Full visibility/control - You see all tool calls and can abort in all states

Agent repo: https://github.com/Eliezer-app/eliezer
Chat repo: https://github.com/Eliezer-app/clawchat

The chat was originally thought as a plugin for OpenClaw.
Ended up writing the agent too.
Show HN: CLI Image Generation Agent Using (OpenRouter and Free Models)
by Kiran7893 | 2026-02-21 17:00:33+00:00
built a CLI-based image generation agent that takes vague prompts like:
“a warrior in a forest”
And automatically:
Expands it into a detailed cinematic description (lighting, mood, camera angle, art style)
Routes it to the appropriate model via OpenRouter
Downloads the generated image locally

Tech stack:
React Ink (CLI UI)
TypeScript
Modular subagent architecture
OpenRouter (free-tier models supported)
One thing I realized while building this:
You don’t actually need expensive API credits to experiment with AI agents.

There’s a surprisingly strong free stack available:
OpenRouter (multiple free-tier models)
Antigravity (Claude, GPT variants, Gemini access)
OpenCode (GLM-5, MiniMax)
Local models via LM Studio / Ollama / ComfyUI

The biggest barrier isn’t cost — it’s clarity of architecture.

Repo:
https://github.com/kiran7893/Image-generation-agent
by Aurornis | 2026-02-21 17:00:54+00:00
Most people don’t log in to LinkedIn to check the feed. They don’t interact with the feed at all.

It’s used for keeping contacts, having your online resume in a standard place, and maybe messaging people.

The feed is a sideshow. It enrages a lot of people because it’s full of slop, but you need to treat it like almost everyone else: Ignore it. It’s a sideshow.
by kkfx | 2026-02-21 17:00:57+00:00
Honestly? Office automation suites have had their day, along with the people who use them. It's high time people learned to produce documents of typographic quality by writing in markup languages, it doesn't really matter if it's raw LaTeX or some DSL, and it's time the majority learned "the power of text": full-text searchable, easily manipulated, versionable, and manageable, compared to those monsters born in another era with the sole intent of letting untrained secretarial staff use a desktop computer.

Anyone who doesn't get that simply doesn't have enough IT skills to work in this day and age; it's time to say it loud and clear.
by jrecyclebin | 2026-02-21 17:01:00+00:00
Another approach to journal writing is basically the opposite: rather than treating it like a task to fill with very rigid requirements - find a notebook and pen that you'll enjoy spending time with. An easy start is a Midori Ruled A5 (very simple, lay flat notebook) and a Uniball Zento Signature (the most hyped pen in the world right now) and treat them basically like little friends you spend time with. Writing only two sentences is denying yourself quality time writing and reflecting at a leisurely pace if you really come to enjoy it.

I'd also think you're more likely to read back if writing time is a fond memory.
by dunham | 2026-02-21 17:01:26+00:00
Yeah it has been fun. Lots of directions I can take it:

Since I have an LSP, I've got faster turn around and can add editor functionality that requires poking at the compile state. That's my current thread.

I have a C backend on hold, while I think about how I want to represent data without boxing everything and about whether I want to do reference counting or GC. (Reference counting unlocks "counting immutable beans" if I decide to give that a go, but I'd also like to try implementing GC someday.)

I should do some browser interop stuff and write something other than a compiler in my language.

And there are language enhancements: implementing "Do unchained" from Lean, automatic handling of lazy and/or async modalities, deriving implementations of classes, ...
by selridge | 2026-02-21 17:01:33+00:00
That’s not true. Lots of apple’s own first party apps use SBPL to sandbox because the entitlement granularity doesn’t cut it. There’s also lots of apps on the MAS which use temporary-exception SBPL to fully sandbox.

I agree that there is no sense in operating dual systems, but entitlements can’t replace SBPL yet.
by puzpuzpuz-hn | 2026-02-21 17:01:37+00:00
Benchmarks for 5 concurrent hash map implementations in Go: sync.Map, xsync.Map, cornelk/hashmap, alphadose/haxmap, and orcaman/concurrent-map.

Workloads: read-heavy to write-heavy (100%/99%/90%/75% reads), with and without warm-up, plus range-under-contention (iteration while a writer mutates the map).

Key types: string and int. Map sizes: 100 to 1M entries. GOMAXPROCS: 1, 4, 8, 12.

Results are in the README with plots and a summary table.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of xsync, one of the libraries benchmarked here. I did my best to keep the benchmark fair. If you spot issues or think another library should be included, please open an issue or PR.
by beders | 2026-02-21 17:01:47+00:00
It's sad how many people are falling for the narrative that there's more at play here than predict-next-token and some kind of emergent intelligence is happening.

No, that is just your interpretation of what you see as something that can't possibly be just token prediction.

And yet it is. It's the same algorithm noodling over incredible amounts of tokens.

And that's exactly the explanation: People regularly underestimate how much training data is being used for LLMs. They contain everything about writing a compiler, toy examples, full examples, recommended structure yadda yadda yadda.

I love working with Claude and it regularly surprises me but that doesn't mean I think it is intelligent.
by Barbing | 2026-02-21 17:01:52+00:00
>anyone else

Perhaps not other thought leaders.

I would be curious to know:

How many clicks out from HN, and much time on page on average (on his site), and much subsequent pro-social discussion on HN, did those links generate versus the average linkout here? Wouldn’t change the rules but I do suspect[0] it would repaint self-promotion as something more genuine.
Show HN: CLI Image Generation Agent Using (OpenRouter and Free Models)
by Kiran7893 | 2026-02-21 17:02:03+00:00
built a CLI-based image generation agent that takes vague prompts like:
“a warrior in a forest”
And automatically:
Expands it into a detailed cinematic description (lighting, mood, camera angle, art style)
Routes it to the appropriate model via OpenRouter
Downloads the generated image locally

Tech stack:
React Ink (CLI UI)
TypeScript
Modular subagent architecture
OpenRouter (free-tier models supported)
One thing I realized while building this:
You don’t actually need expensive API credits to experiment with AI agents.

There’s a surprisingly strong free stack available:
OpenRouter (multiple free-tier models)
Antigravity (Claude, GPT variants, Gemini access)
OpenCode (GLM-5, MiniMax)
Local models via LM Studio / Ollama / ComfyUI

The biggest barrier isn’t cost — it’s clarity of architecture.

Repo:
https://github.com/kiran7893/Image-generation-agent
by GTP | 2026-02-21 17:02:16+00:00
> That seems uniquely human but I'm not a ethnobiologist.

In my opinion, this is a uniquely human thing because we're smart enough to develop technologies with planet-level impact, but we aren't smart enough to use them well. Other animals are less intelligent, but for this very reason, they lack the ability to do self-harm on the same scale as we can.
by lyaocean | 2026-02-21 17:02:44+00:00
Most of it goes through ITAD channels: storage gets wiped or shredded, reusable gear gets resold, and the rest is recycled by weight. Accelerator cards usually get a second life with smaller clouds/labs, but older SXM generations fall off fast. The useful metric I wish providers published is split by class: reused vs recycled vs trashed.
by slibhb | 2026-02-21 17:02:51+00:00
Yes. They published a great article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drone...

As I remember it the basic idea is that the new generation of drones is piloted close enough to targets and then the AI takes over for "the last mile". This gets around jamming, which otherwise would make it hard for dones to connect with their targets.
by paulryanrogers | 2026-02-21 17:03:05+00:00
The GOP has been transformed by Trump. It's much bolder, more shameless, nakedly corrupt, openly hypocritical, and unafraid of burning bridges with allies who have supported the USA for decades (some for centuries).

As the sun downing continues the direction of influence may start flowing the other way.

At this point my guess is those physically closest to Trump have the most power. They control whom he speaks to last before opening his mouth.
by rglover | 2026-02-21 17:03:17+00:00
I think it has very little to do with the assistant factor and more to do with the loneliness factor (at least in the West, people are getting lonelier, not less). In other words: sell it to them as a friendly companion/assistant, playing on emotions, while creating a sea of surveillance drones you can license back to the powers that be at a premium.

It's a hell of a mousetrap.

Starts playing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
by pvtmert | 2026-02-21 17:03:57+00:00
Interesting take for me is that melatonin (over-)usage can be severely harmful for the individuals.

... over-the-counter melatonin supplements can contain anywhere between 10 to 30 times as much melatonin as is optimal to maintain circadian hygiene. If you have ever taken melatonin and got immediately knocked out cold, had weird dreams and woke up in the middle of the night sweaty or shivering, you likely took too much—which, to be clear, is not your fault, it’s the default in the US and Canada. The mega-doses in stores serve as hypnotics (punches you to sleep), but wreck sleep architecture. The right dose is ~0.3 mg, which is hard to find in pharmacies but can be found online.
by bgoated01 | 2026-02-21 17:04:38+00:00
I have been doing a one-line-a-day journal for the past two years. If I ever feel like writing more I have a separate section for that, but I only ever tell myself to write the one line. It's the first time I have been able to consistently write in a journal for a very long time before I started. My entries are not nearly as "composed" as the examples here, though, just tiny highlights of what happened during the day.
by rekabis | 2026-02-21 17:04:53+00:00
About the only possible suggestion I could make is an addition similar to what the HACK iOS app has: at the top of the comments section is a “bank” icon which leads to various Archive.today domains. Don’t know how it works, but if those entries do exist, it is to archived versions of the page in question. Maybe some sort of a lookup API on Archive’s part?
by dvictor | 2026-02-21 17:06:10+00:00
I built Eliezer because OpenClaw wasn't what I wanted after trying it—too big (400K+ lines), recent supply-chain attacks (Feb '26 npm incident), exposed instances, RCE vulns, and acquisition by OpenAI. Eliezer is ~7K lines of TypeScript, MIT open-source, fully self-hosted (or free 2-month trial hosting): PWA for mobile/desktop with push notifications
Self-editing protocol (modifies its own code safely on request, e.g., improve git rebase handling)
Builds and displays interactive apps/widgets right in the chat (e.g., 3D globe, playable drum machine)
Continuous tasks & crons (e.g., "notify if sunny tomorrow at 10am")
Persistent SQLite memory + context
Bring your own LLM API key (Kimi/Claude/Grok/etc.)
Continuous compaction for visibility/control

Repo and docs: https://www.eliezer.app/ (GitHub link there).
by stets | 2026-02-21 17:06:46+00:00
A week ago I got a receipt printer on eBay to play around with.

I launched Claude code and had it connect and print something, cool!
Then I decided to hook it up to the internet so anyone could send me a message.
Someone asked for a camera pointed at it, so I did.
Of course that was a bad idea…
So I hooked up Claude and made it reject naughty content.

It’s been a week and I’ve added tons of features: a mod panel to play with the queue settings, turn the cutter on and off, ban people, etc.

We even have my laptop playing AI voice reactions to the content that gets printed.
The livestream has been going for like 4 days straight now. I added some basic monitoring, develop features that the audience wants, refill the roll.

I’ve made a tiny tiny amount of money from this. Yes I feel bad about “wasting paper” but also it gives people joy.

I’ve lost control of my life, I’ve become printer man.
by edoceo | 2026-02-21 17:07:01+00:00
I've been getting "Emails aren’t getting through to one of your email addresses. Please update or confirm your email." -- even tho I get messages from them every day. When you press the button to confirm the (working) email it states "Something went wrong".

It happened last week too, I was able to fix it via their chat-help (human). Yesterday, their chat-help (human) was not able fix it and has to open a ticket. I pay for LinkedIn-Premium. So maybe this is just a scam to route me into Verification. Their help documents (https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1423367) for verifying emails doesn't match the current user experience.

Then, in a classic tech-paradox, their phone support person told me they would email me -- on the same address their system reports emails are not getting through to. It felt like 1996 levels of understanding.

We need to get back to de-centralised.
by ForHackernews | 2026-02-21 17:07:16+00:00
Poland was an ramshackle post-communist economy that has grown rapidly (with the help of generous EU handouts) over the past three decades to catch up to the Western side of the Iron Curtain.

If Brits are willing to impoverish themselves to <2,000 USD per capita[0] and then are lucky enough to find a willing benefactor who will pay to rebuild their crumbling infrastructure for ideological reasons, I'm sure the UK could experience similar growth.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/global-metrics/countrie...
by Aurornis | 2026-02-21 17:07:17+00:00
> 1. they are selling you as a target.

This is why people sign up for LinkedIn.

They want to be targeted by companies for jobs. Or when they’re applying for a job, they want to be easily found by people at that company so they can see more information.

If you don’t want those things, you don’t need a LinkedIn page.

> Do the corporations that participate in this scheme provide mutual economic benefit? Do they contribute to the common wealth or are they parasitical?

You wrote a long hand wavey post but you stopped short of answering your own question.

The corporations who pay LinkedIn are doing so to recruit people for jobs. I’ve purchased LinkedIn premium for this purpose at different times.

After “targeting” those LinkedIn users, I eventually hired some of them for jobs. There’s your mutual economic benefit. This is why people use LinkedIn.

> It is a long causal change, so it is fair to ask whether there is any empirical evidence. If this is true we would expect to see ...? Well how about prices going up? Well how about in general people are less able to afford housing, food, cars, etc.

You think the root cause of inflation is… social media companies? This is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence. You’re just observing two different things and convinced they’re correlated, while ignoring the obvious rebuttal that inflation existed and affordability changes happened before social media.

> Somehow the fundamentals of places like linkedin, gmail, google, facebook, etc have eluded people.

I think most people understand the fundamentals of LinkedIn better than you do, to be honest. It’s not a mystery why people sign up and maintain profiles.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-21 17:07:33+00:00
You're right, it's not valid to make any broader conclusions from an anecdote. But it's about just as valid as the author making conclusions based solely on physical "this is what I should expect to happen" hypotheses.

More importantly, as an individual, the only thing that counts is when the n of 1 is you. As another commenter said, you don't need to live your life by studies. It's not like there is much expense or risk in trying a screen reddener, so try it out, and if it works for you, great - it's bizarre that the author thinks it is "aggravating" that a lot of people use things that they say work for them.
by Guestmodinfo | 2026-02-21 17:07:43+00:00
I don't know why the world is so happily criticizing American politicians. Let me tell you Indian context. One of my friends is an African who studies in a university here. She likes it being here and the group of friends that she has made here over bachelor's and master's. I asked her why don't you stay here and get a job here only. She said something about 5 crore rupees (544,000$) being paid by the employer to her or to the government I am not sure because it's such a big amount either way it is unachievable. So I don't understand why everyone gets to point fingers at Americans. I'm positive many countries are protectionist like this. Maybe it's a good thing maybe it's a bad thing. I honestly cannot tell.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-21 17:08:12+00:00
You're saying that the Android security model shouldn't be illegal. I agree.

I'm saying that despite all they get right, the Android and Apple security models, when foisted on the mass market, are socially and ethically flawed. I'm saying that the end user has a fundamental right to tamper with the software on his own system. Those designing an OS that intentionally thwarts the user's will are in the wrong.

Just because something is legal that doesn't mean doing it is a good thing.
by kushagra525 | 2026-02-21 17:08:45+00:00
After playing around all day over the past few days, I've come to the conclusion that the system prompt goes a huge way! We've incorporated music theory and many other instructions in the system prompt for it to be able to come up with something like this.

With that, definitely looking forward to models producing good music the analytical way and not pattern finding as we see in specialized audio/music-gen models.
by ctde | 2026-02-21 17:09:29+00:00
Society depends on variance of thought and action to be able to course-correct. genAI is destroying that variance by design.

LLMs have difficulties in representing out of distribution viewpoints, lines of thinking and conlusions. Original thought is out-of-distribution by definition.

I wrote up why i think this matters more than most people realize as I believe the boring, routine, daily application of generative AI will be enough to detoriate society as a whole - self goverment on autopilot basically with strong attractors to default outcomes.
by phtrivier | 2026-02-21 17:09:32+00:00
Is anthropic using ads ? Is mistral using ads ? Is déepseek using ads ?

Google, meta, and amazon, sure, of course.

It's interesting that the "every company" part is only open ai... They're now part of the "bad guys spying on you to display ads." At least it's a viable business model, maybe they can recoup capex and yearly losses in a couple decades instead of a couple centuries.
by ttul | 2026-02-21 17:10:05+00:00
The NextPlatform article hints at their approach:

“We have got this scheme for the mask ROM recall fabric – the hard-wired part – where we can store four bits away and do the multiply related to it – everything – with a SINGLE TRANSISTOR. So the density is basically insane. And this is not nuclear physics – it is fully digital. It is just a clever trick that we don’t want to broadcast. But once you hardwire everything, you get this opportunity to stuff very differently than if you have to deal with changing things. The important thing is that we can put a weight and do the multiply associated with it all in one transistor. And you know the multipliers are kind of the big boy piece of the computer.“

One transistor doing 4-bit multiplication? A plausible way to get “4-bit weight plus multiply in one transistor” in a 6 nm FinFET mask-ROM fabric is to make the ROM cell a single device whose drive strength is the stored value. At tapeout you pick one of about 16 discrete strengths (for example by choosing fin count and possibly Vt), so that transistor itself encodes a 4-bit weight. Then you do the multiply in the charge/time domain by encoding the input activation as a discrete pulse width or pulse count and letting the cell source or sink a weight-proportional current onto a precharged bitline for that duration. The resulting bitline voltage change (or time-to-threshold) is proportional to current times time, so it behaves like weight times input and can be accumulated along a column before a simple comparator or time-to-digital readout. It’s “digital” in the sense that both weight and input are quantized, but it relies on device physics; the hard parts are keeping 16 levels separable across PVT, mismatch, and aging, plus managing bitline noise and coupling and ensuring the device stays in a predictable operating region.

VLSI design produces digital outputs, but in the quantum silicon domain, it’s all about the analog…
by theandrewbailey | 2026-02-21 17:10:08+00:00
> And safer, as Mr. Van Tassel, the AAA instructor, said. He cited a 2020 study from the journal Transportation Research that found, among other things, that the pull-in, back-out maneuver had a higher crash risk. Since pedestrians are most likely to be found walking in the major lanes, not in a parking space, it’s safer to back into the area with fewer people.

This. For me, backing in is not about convenience or personal safety, but vehicular safety. Even with backup cameras, you're more aware of things in front of the car than behind it.
by sd9 | 2026-02-21 17:10:30+00:00
Maybe the paper is bad, but the critic needs to find a better way to present critisism.

Use paragraphs.

Don't lead with "The paper is awful and makes no sense whatsoever." At that point you have already lost the goodwill and attention of the author.

It reminds me of a time early in my career where I was tasked with analysing a financial model that a 3rd party company had created. At some point in the meeting, I said 'look, it's just terrible'. Crickets. I learned a valuable lesson about how not to talk other peoples' work - work that they have spent countless hours on and are probably proud of - even if it's not very good. The way I spoke about their model was not conducive to helping create a better model, it was just an excuse for me to fling shit.