MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nemilia | 2026-02-26 19:35:25+00:00
I built a multi-agent AI orchestration workspace that ships as a single .html file — no backend, no install, no account.

How it works: you define specialist agents (researcher, analyst, writer, reviewer, synthesiser), wire them into a workflow, and a DIRECTOR orchestrator decomposes your prompt into per-agent sub-tasks, runs them in DAG-staged parallel, scores each output 1–10, and auto-retries anything below threshold. Human-in-the-loop checkpoints let you pause, edit inline, or redirect any agent before the pipeline continues.

Everything runs client-side:

Document RAG — 384-dim vector embeddings via Transformers.js + BM25 hybrid search, persisted in IndexedDB

Live web research — NEXUS agent hits Brave/Serper/Tavily and passes cited results downstream

Local LLM — connect Ollama, Jan, or LM Studio at your local endpoint; all inference stays on your hardware

WebGPU offline — load Llama 3.2, Phi 3.5, or Qwen 2.5 directly into your GPU, no API key at all

API keys — AES-256-GCM encrypted with PBKDF2 (200K iterations) before storage, never written as plaintext

The whole thing is ~4,500 lines of vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. No framework, no bundler, no build step. You can audit every line by opening the file in a text editor.

GitHub: https://github.com/luislopez1212/Nemilia
HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/Nemilia
Web: https://nemilia.com
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-26 19:35:54+00:00
My understanding is that WiFi mesh networks are a scam. If you really want good WiFi performance the steps are, in order:

(1) get every device that is on WiFi that you can possibly get off WiFi and on Ethernet

(2) if your cheap WiFi router isn't doing it for you then, get some UniFi hubs and wire them up on Ethernet

https://ui.com/us/en/wifi

The more hops you send data over wireless the more interference it makes, the more chances there are to lose data from packet loss. Look, I understand it, the wives' union has obliterated home theater and people just want to have it all like Apple where it "just works" and you never have to run any wires -- except note that Apple has gotten out of the WiFi business because that ideology just can't deliver WiFi that works and Apple knows it.
by gghootch | 2026-02-26 19:36:30+00:00
Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective! I’ll do some more digging into the Orbi systems.

In my experience buying a product that gets mostly positive reviews from professional reviewers gets you a far better product than one with mixed reviews. I’m surprised that’s not your experience and that you don’t much trust those scores. What else do you make your purchase decisions on then? Purely specs?
by dmz73 | 2026-02-26 19:36:44+00:00
I hate losing access to software just because it is "unmaintained".
If module is "endorsed" now, since it is included in current version, and there is no maintenance, so no changes made to it, why is it suddenly not good enough to "endorse" in the future?
No, security issues do not count as they don't magically appear, either they are in there now and debian is fine with distributing "insecure" code or they don't matter.
Debian is fine with shipping broken version of software for years as long as they consider it "stable" so why drop working "stable" software just because no one is making changes to it?
by squidsoup | 2026-02-26 19:36:45+00:00
> It's like you assigning to humans divine capabilities :) . Hyperbolizing a little, humans also only copy and mix - where do you think originality comes from? Granted, AI isn't at the level of humans yet, but they improve here.

Every human being is unique, both biologically and experientially. Until an AI can feel and have a lived experience, it can not create art.
by consp | 2026-02-26 19:37:35+00:00
If people don't have anything to hide ask them how their marriage is and when the last time was they met their mistress, since they drive by there way too often for not having one nearby that location. That line of questioning usually shuts people up, replace response with financials/location/calls/etc when needed. (I know it's a reductio ad absurdum)
by jcalvinowens | 2026-02-26 19:37:48+00:00
I admittedly don't have practical experience with RADIUS, but I read it as a more narrow attack:

> We verified that an attacker, having intercepted the first RADIUS packet sent from the enterprise AP, can brute-force the Message Authenticator and learn the AP passphrase.

I thought RADIUS fundamentally negotiates based on a PSK between the AP and the RADIUS box, which the attacker doesn't have? They're saying this gives you the ability to brute force that PSK, but if the PSK isn't weak (e.g. a dictionary word) that's hopeless.
by godelski | 2026-02-26 19:38:23+00:00
At both the universities I went to most classes were taught by the professors. I say most because when I was the TA for my advisor (during my PhD) I taught his class. That said, the students were happier when he didn't show up to class and it was only me.

It definitely depends on the size of the university and the size of classes. As I was graduating a few grad students started becoming the official instructor. These were only the lower level courses though (freshman and sophomore). My partner's department had grad students teaching some classes for longer and they had a similar pattern.

My undergrad was at a small university with essentially no grad students. As far as coursework, I'm confident I got a better education than my peers that went to top schools like Stanford and Berkeley (I did physics). But they got more internships, connection to labs, and connection to research projects. YMMV
by zdp7 | 2026-02-26 19:38:29+00:00
Not likely since the state of California provided a grant with the purpose of manufacturing battery cells in the state. Search for GFO-24-304. You are just kidding yourself if you think California is anti manufacturing. If you can show why this is untrue, show the info. Still had a link to the grant info. https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/gfo-24-304-california-batte...
by metalliqaz | 2026-02-26 19:38:36+00:00
Might be this:

> Y Combinator is starting a blacklist for venture capitalists accused of sexual harassment: "'We don’t call it a blacklist, but that is essentially what is happening,” Kat Manalac, a partner at the influential start-up incubator Y Combinator, said of the blast email.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenfeldman/2017/07/17/todays-...
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-26 19:39:18+00:00
> Then it was a lot of “self replicating printers” for quite a while, which never has been a real thing.

3D-printed 3D printers got quite far; the reason why this topic got out of perception by people who are not 3D printing nerds is rather that for mass production of 3D printers there exist much better processes.

What was realized was that up to a certain amount of parts, 3D printing these parts on a 3D printer works really well. You can find a lot of designs of such 3D printers on the internet.

Concerning the progress here, also observe that over the last years, home 3D printers got a lot better with respect to handling "engineering materials". These materials are very useful if you want to (partly) 3D-print a 3D printer, but this development is often not associated with "3D-printing 3D printers". :-)

Then you get to parts which can be printed on a 3D printer, but these parts will not be of the same quality as parts that can easily be bought, such as belts etc. The Mulbot is a design that takes this approach very far:

> https://github.com/3dprintingworld/Mulbot

> https://www.printables.com/model/5995-mulbot-the-mostly-prin...

And then you get to parts that are nearly impossible to print on a 3D printer ...

So, after there was a consensus where the boundaries lie how much a 3D printer can sensibly be 3D-printed, people started looking at other manufacturing techniques that exist for producing parts of 3D printers, and started considering

1. could and how far could a machine for this process be 3D-printed (or produced on a 3D-printed machine)?

2. could we bring such a machine to home manufacturing, too (so that people can easily build such a machine at home)?

Machines that were considered for this were, for example, CNC mill (3, 4 and 5 axis), CNC lathe, pick and place machines (for producing PCBs), ...

There do exist partial implementations of such machines, just to give some examples:

- lots of designs of CNC mills that use 3D-printed parts. I won't give a list here, but just want to mention that the "Voron Cascade" project wants to do for home 3 axis CNC milling what the Voron did for 3D printing. Rumors on the internet say that the Voron Cascade is well on the way, but had quite a lot of delays with respect to announced release dates.

- an attempt to build a pick and place machine: https://hackaday.io/project/169354-3d-printed-pick-and-place...

Thus: I hope I could give evidence that in the last years there still were a lot of developments towards the far goal of "self-replicating 3D printers", but these developments were rather silent, impressive developments instead of loud, obtrusive marketing stunts.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-26 19:39:47+00:00
Wealth concentrates because of shitty tax policy and lack of enforcement of existing, on the books regulation to enforce a competitive market.

Famous Trust Buster Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive republican who openly stated he had no desire to harm or kill industry in the USA but was instead working to ensure there continued to be competitive pressure to make that industry work better.

Employment has never effectively redistributed wealth. Possibly it improved things a little bit after the black plague reduced the labor pool by about 25%.

The only peaceful and low death form of fixing obscene wealth inequality has always been government, through taxes.
by seszett | 2026-02-26 19:40:14+00:00
A more accurate, 3D mapped street view could probably allow GPS-less geolocation and could also help autonomous vehicles as they would get more information than what they can immediately see.

I could see well-mapped street view with good services built around it, and maybe a way to pay for and schedule regular updates, being used for towns to monitor public space long term too.

I think many things could be built on a better street view, but I also don't want Google to get yet another de facto monopoly in a new domain.
by WA | 2026-02-26 19:40:16+00:00
Not sure what to make of this. React is missing entirely. Or is this report also assuming that React is the default for everything and not worth mentioning at all? Just like shadcn/ui's first mention of React is somewhere down the page or hidden in the docs?

Furthermore, what's the point of "no tools named"? Why would I restrict myself like that? If I put "use Nodejs, Hono, TypeScript and use Hono's html helper to generate HTML on the server like its 2010, write custom CSS, minimize client-side JS, no Tailwind" in CLAUDE.md, it happily follows this.
by positron26 | 2026-02-26 19:40:20+00:00
> most of the people that were the loudest won't say they were wrong

I was so expecting to find this wind-up aimed at those peddling the "AI is hype" laziness.

It's laziness because they have little CS fundamentals to base such claims on, and the deductions can be made, just not clearly to people who need to study a lot more.

It's like watching an invisible train (visible to those with strong CS) rolling down the tracks at a leisurely pace. Those sitting in their stalled car on the tracks are busy tweeting about "AI HPY PE TRAIN." Until it wrecks their car, the gimmick is free oxygen. It's a lot easier to write articles than it is to build GPUs and write programs.
by yieldcrv | 2026-02-26 19:40:33+00:00
right now I think there's just a backlog of things to build

from individual tinkerers and ideas guys cranking out all the projects they would have never subsidized, there's a lot of that

and with corporations I'm seeing there are lots of products that would have taken 8 quarters to do, all being compressed into one now. The flip side is that all 8 quarters wouldn't have been allowed to happen as priorities would have shifted before the product or feature roadmap was ever allowed to get that far, but instead now all of it is being built out and other iterations and directions are being done simultaenously

after all of this is shown not to be saving money, or creating much value because they're doing too much without market validation, then a more intelligent approach will occur and less vibe coding will occur
by WhatsTheBigIdea | 2026-02-26 19:41:07+00:00
The regulatory bureaucracy is a real hurdle. Even if you want to comply with the regulations, navigating the regulatory bureaucracy is a killer. Super slow, super expensive, quite opaque, somewhat arbitrary, and highly punitive.

Even if the bureaucracy didn't exist and everyone voluntarily followed the regulations, you could not run a globally cost competitive business without some sort of subsidy when competing with places where rampant pollution is allowed.

It's a real problem without an obvious long term solution that I am aware of.
by CWuestefeld | 2026-02-26 19:41:10+00:00
I agree with everything you said, except that #1 is clearly wrong. I can prove it with one word: autotune.

At least in popular, mainstream culture, the viewer is heavily invested in the identity of the artist. The quality of the "art" is secondary. That's how we get music engineered by committee. And it's how we get paparazzi, People Magazine, and so forth.

On the other hand, this isn't anything new at all. We've had this kind of thing for decades. Real art still manages to survive at the margins.
by toss1 | 2026-02-26 19:41:33+00:00
>>without things like tariffs

Right, and if the US congress[0] properly cared about the environment, the regulation would require both A) requirements to keep the manufacturing clean if done here, and B) tariffs for goods produced with polluting processes over there, scaled so the costs are somewhat higher if produced dirty.

They can produce cleanly here or there without extra tariffs and without losing market share because some other competitor externalizes the pollution costs.

[0] Tariffs are proper the domain of Congress, not any other branch. OFC, because of this, it isn't really an option for California, since states cannot levy tariffs externally or vs other states.
by verdverm | 2026-02-26 19:41:39+00:00
My dream is a more indie world, so I'm glad to see you building too.

But we don't all need to share our personal, custom agent setups like we are going to be the new sliced bread. I have my own, I think it's great and better than most out there, but I'm not going to Show HN it amidst the Claw HN submissions, if ever. I generally link to interesting pieces in comments when someone asks how I implement a particular feature.

My custom agent setup is a component in a larger developer "swiss army knife" I have been building for 8ish years. Same handle on github if your are curious, project is "hof" with a rename imminent.

The agent part is built on ADK, which I believe is relatively on par with opencode, which I also see is highly regarded. The multi-workspace feature is built on Dagger and the VS Code virtualized FS and SCM interfaces. I can browse or get a diff at any turn-to-turn span, make edits that go right back in.
Ask HN: How are UK sole traders preparing for quarterly tax reporting (MTD)?
by nikethputta | 2026-02-26 19:42:56+00:00
The UK is moving self-employed people from yearly tax reporting to quarterly updates under Making Tax Digital.

From April 2026, sole traders earning over £50k will need to:
- keep digital records
- submit updates every 3 months

From April 2027, the threshold drops to £30k.

I’ve been speaking to a few freelancers and tutors who didn’t even realise this change was coming. Many are still using spreadsheets or notes, and full accounting tools like Xero feel heavy if you only need quarterly tracking.

For those in the UK (or familiar with MTD):

- How are people actually preparing for this?
- Are existing tools sufficient?
- Is there a real gap here, or is this already solved?

For context, I’ve been experimenting with a simple focused approach here:
https://quarterly-web.vercel.app

Genuinely open to feedback and criticism.
by gibs-dev | 2026-02-26 19:43:04+00:00
The control mapping point is spot on. We took that approach. Structured JSON with article-level mappings so downstream systems can consume obligations programmatically.

The Merkle root anchoring pattern is interesting. Do you anchor per-session or batch? Curious how you handle the latency tradeoff for the 4-hour DORA window where every minute of audit lag matters.
by coryrc | 2026-02-26 19:43:07+00:00
But those are what we have and they have 3 axles, not 4.

We also have many concrete roads and closely-spaced axles, if they had them, would not help.

> Looking worse when you resurface on the same schedule isn’t an actual cost.

I addressed this: they have to dig much deeper and replace with much thicker road. Much more expensive. It's not "looking worse", it's actively dangerous to cyclists and other road users, so the surface must be replaced more often too.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-26 19:43:52+00:00
I saw that happen in a decent sized college town near where I live. They had a maker space spring up when 3D printing was the hottest thing. It didn't last very long though. I'm a bit surprised that 3D printer machines haven't become cheaper. Like solid machines sub-$100. 3D printer pens are the only thing that came close to doing that.
by watwut | 2026-02-26 19:44:36+00:00
Someone hacked his site or something, so I cant get back. But, I thought you mean situation in one of the first paragraphs where the team started take some issue seriously after actual problem.

And honestly, I have seen people disagree and fight literal standard changes like "lets have pipeline that runs tests before merge" or "database change must go through test environment before being sent over".

It is perfertly possible and normal for people to fight change and be wrong without there being grave smart missing reason. I have no problem to m trust the author that he was simply right in hindsight.

If you ever tried to improve processes or project with persistent issues, the problems author described are entirely believable. The author does not know what to do in that situation, but he described the usual dynamic pretty accurately.
by k_bx | 2026-02-26 19:44:52+00:00
What I would love to see is "tig" replacement that is:

- even faster, especially if you have couple thousand files and just want to press "u" for some time and see them very quickly all get staged

- has this split-view diff opened for a file

Otherwise tig is one of my favorite tools to quickly commit stuff without too many key presses but with review abilities, i have its "tig status" aliased to "t"
by faster | 2026-02-26 19:44:58+00:00
Growing up on the Atlantic coast of Florida, we kept a can or Renuzit solvent in the garage to wipe tar spots off our feet after coming home from the beach. I'm sure that stuff was toxic. The tar was everywhere for a few weeks, then gone for a while.

Hawaii has other problems. When I lived there, I went through a lot of Neosporin because every scrape you get from a reef pushes in bacteria that got into the ocean from the leaking sewer pipes.
by gghootch | 2026-02-26 19:45:39+00:00
The best ones write in depth reviews, describe their thinking process and fairly weigh pros / cons.

Ultimately it’s imo more about avoiding bad products than it is about noticing whether a product is great. Criticaster collects all professional reviews to get to an average critic score, which will more quickly and more accurately get you to a satisfactory product than any other approach.
by littlestymaar | 2026-02-26 19:45:59+00:00
I am well aware of them, and I'm well aware that they are very niche as I'm the only one of my surrounding to use one of those. And those very models are being developed by tech giants and VC backed companies, on which regulation have leverage.

The fact that a small black market exists doesn't mean regulating the mainstream market doesn't matters.

Also, most people like you fail to realizes that the EU only has mandate from the member states to regulate the economy. The EU has no business dealing with people using SDXL finetunes on RTX cards in their garage.
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-26 19:46:21+00:00
This is just the utility model. It's nothing particularly nefarious. Consider what your electric utility, your water utility, etc. do. If you use more, you pay more. If someone comes around and hooks up a garden hose to your outside faucet and steals your water, or plugs an extension cord into your outside outlet and steals your electricity, you still pay. Unless you can catch the thief and make him pay.
by woah | 2026-02-26 19:46:44+00:00
> You searched for people who do what you need to have done, found me, looked at what I've worked on and determined I'd be a good fit and you reached out? That's the number one way to get me to want to work for you.

No, their email templating tool finds an old throwaway repo you did 6 years ago, templates its name into a form email, and invites you to join a cattle call to be whiteboarded along with the rest of the shmucks
by kjs3 | 2026-02-26 19:46:47+00:00
That's kinda funny...we musta lived in parallel worlds.

The 3B20 might have been slow, but it had a solid I/O subsystem so you could load it up with users, and was generally reliable (it was originally built as a telco switch control processor looking for 5-nines uptime). But by the later 80s the industry had moved on, and we were in the process of migrating those CS classes from the 3B20 to either a Sequent Symmetry (follow-on to the Balance with something like 16x i386) or a Pyramid 90x, depending on the class. The Symmetry was...not reliable. The 90x was worse. The wails of a lab full of undergrads realizing the shared machine had just taken a dirt-nap and all their work with it was a far too common sound. Good times.

We also had a bunch of 3b2s, most with an AT&T 5620 'windowing terminal' attached, which is a really fascinating 'what might have been' if bitmapped workstations and X11 hadn't taken over that niche. I ended up with a Sun 3/160 for most of that time, and the rest is history.
Show HN: In Veritas – AI summarized congressional bills
by sartechb | 2026-02-26 19:47:31+00:00
In Veritas summarizes federal congressional bills (house and senate), gives the fiscal impact, voting history of congressional members, amendment history, and related bills. We’re pulling the data from the congress.gov API and using as neutral as language as possible to avoid bias.

We would love feedback on:

- Accuracy

- Site UI/UX

- Helpfulness
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-26 19:47:56+00:00
I get these types of emails daily -- never bothered to check whether they are YC or not as I don't read them; I can tell from the first sentence that it's not a company I know and am doing biz with and it goes directly into z-file. Most seem to have gotten my email address from LinkedIn, others from GH.

Side note but the trick I learned, at least with gMail is not to delete the email (which doesn't prevent you from getting new ones), or even reporting as spam (which may or may not work), but instead dragging it into the Promotions tab, into which all future emails from that email address will automatically go. Promotions tab then acts as your Trash.

The quickest way to get me to never do business with you is to send me spam.