MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by junaid_97 | 2026-02-04 06:05:16+00:00
II built a free USCIS form-filling tool (no Adobe required) USCIS forms still use XFA PDFs, which don’t let you edit in most browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the signature is hard.
So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.

https://fillvisa.com/demo/

What Fillvisa does:

- Fill USCIS forms directly in your browser - no Adobe needed

- 100% free

- No login/account required

- Autosave as you type

- Local-only storage (your data never leaves the browser)

- Clean, mobile-friendly UI

- Generates the official USCIS PDF, ready to submit

- Built-in signature pad

I just wanted a fast, modern, free way to complete the actual USCIS form itself without the PDF headaches. This is a beta version
by al_borland | 2026-02-04 06:05:50+00:00
That problem I found is that each day brings more potential things to read. The slow news days where one can dip into their backlog of articles seems to be a thing of the past.

The key would be having something that could surface what is worth your time, and finding a way for those items to take priority over the new things coming at you… which would also need to be evaluated for whats worth your time.
by throwup238 | 2026-02-04 06:06:18+00:00
Sites are tracked by cultural ministries using restricted site inventories that are only open to government officials and established researchers. There are many more known sites than there is funding to excavate them so this one was likely known for decades before they got around to it.

These site inventories are generally filled using cultural resource management records submitted by surveyors, miners, construction companies, etc. who are often legally required to file them. A few tour guides I’ve used in Mexico found new ruins in the jungle and submitted their records with GOS coordinates and pictures. If locals knew about it, someone likely recorded the location a while ago.
by EvansWilson | 2026-02-04 06:06:20+00:00
They say insiders sell for a million reasons—maybe they’re buying a new beach house or just diversifying—but they only buy for one: they think the stock is going up.

While the rest of us are refreshing Twitter for "breaking" news, the C-suite is putting their own cold, hard cash on the line. If you want to know where a company is actually headed, stop listening to the earnings calls and start watching the Form 4 filings.

The Power of the "Insider Signal"

Let’s be honest, the market has been a bit of a rollercoaster lately. In times of uncertainty, seeing a CEO or CFO load up on shares is like finding a lighthouse in a storm. These are the people with a front-row seat to the sales pipeline, the R&D breakthroughs, and the upcoming pivots.

When you see an executive buy shares on the open market—not just getting handed stock options as a bonus—it’s a massive vote of confidence. It means they think the market has it wrong and the current price is a steal.

Breaking Down the Top 10 Biggest Insider Purchases of the Month

If you’re looking for a starting point for your research, you’ve got to look at the heavy hitters. We aren't talking about small change here; we’re looking at multimillion-dollar bets.

Analyzing the Top 10 biggest insider purchases of the month gives you a "heat map" of where internal conviction is highest. Here’s what the pros look for when scanning these massive buys:

1. The "Cluster Buy" Phenomenon
A single director buying is interesting. But when the CEO, CFO, and a Board Member all buy in the same week? That’s a cluster buy, and it’s one of the strongest bullish signals in the game. It suggests a collective internal consensus that the stock is undervalued.

2. Relative Size Matters
A $1 million buy from a billionaire might be a rounding error. But a $100,000 buy from a CFO whose total salary is $500,000? That’s "skin in the game." Always look at how much the purchase increased their total holdings.

3. Industry Trends
Are the Top 10 biggest insider purchases of the month concentrated in one sector? Whether it's energy, biotech, or regional banks, a wave of buying across an industry often precedes a sector-wide recovery.

How to Play It

Don’t just blindly copy-paste these trades. Use them as a "cheat sheet" to narrow down your watchlist. If a stock on your radar suddenly shows up with massive insider buying, it might be time to dig into the financials and see what the "bosses" are seeing.

In a world of noise, the most honest data is where the experts are putting their own money. Keep an eye on those filings—they usually tell the story long before the headlines do.
by ezulabs | 2026-02-04 06:06:23+00:00
i will try Claude Code with Opus4.5 on a similar MVP, if it still fails when session becomes higher that means i need to do manual orchestration. I wonder if there is already a pattern people use for that.

From my exprience also I agree that Auto on all the time is the way to go for now,
only pay extra for initial plan nothing else. Also avoid long sessions, after first context summarization Opus4.5 is pretty much done using Cursor, will check how others do and update here.
by dcw303 | 2026-02-04 06:06:34+00:00
it's not. We were able to get rid of 6 fingered hands by getting very specific, and fine tuning models with lots of hand and finger training data.

But that approach doesn't work with code, or with reasoning in general, because you would need to exponentially fine tune everything in the universe. The illusion that the AI "understands" what it is doing is lost.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-04 06:07:38+00:00
> This looks like plain political pressure. No lives were saved, and no crime was prevented by harassing local workers.

I wouldn't even consider this a reason if it wasn't for the fact that OpenAI and Google, and hell literally every image model out there all have the same "this guy edited this underage girls face into a bikini" problem (this was the most public example I've heard so I'm going with that as my example). People still jailbreak chatgpt, and they've poured how much money into that?
by hirsin | 2026-02-04 06:07:48+00:00
Good point - the comms satellites are not even "keeping" some of the energy, while a DC would. I _am_ now curious about the connection between bandwidth and wattage, but I'm willing to bet that less than 1% of the total energy dissipation on one of these DC satellites would be in the form of satellite-to-earth broadcast (keeping in mind that s2s broadcast would presumably be something of a wash).
by rolph | 2026-02-04 06:08:20+00:00
theres a procedural problem with this, and its apparently why the feds dont require serial number on a PMF until FFL transfer is about to occur

when should you be required to serialize it?

if you serialize after it is worked to the point of being a firearm, then there is a period in time, however short, when the firearm is unserialized, thus illegal, thus serializing after creation could be obscuring a crime.

vs serializing before firearmhood, and you are now requireing a "hunk of metal"
to be serialized because of what it MAY become in the future.

and just when does a hunk of metal start becoming a firearm, the so called 80% threshold
by skissane | 2026-02-04 06:08:37+00:00
The system in Iowa, is instead of getting title insurance from a private insurer (as is standard in the US), you get it from a state government agency (Iowa Title Guaranty) which has a legal monopoly on all title insurance in the state. But people in Iowa say they don't have "title insurance", because the term is defined to mean private insurance, not the insurance issued by the state government. A condition of the state-issued title insurance is you need to provide an attorney's legal opinion that there are no issues with the title, and then the insurance covers the risk the attorney did a bad job, or failed to notice some obscure issue or hidden issue. But this is different from a true Torrens title system, in that title registration is not (near-)conclusive evidence of legal title, only de facto presumptive.

A number of US states historically had Torrens title, but most have repealed it, effectively converting Torrens titles to non-Torrens. Illinois had it – only in Cook County – until it was repealed in 1992. California abolished it in 1955. Virginia abolished it in 2019. Washington state abolished it in 2022-2023.

The big advantage of Torrens title is that it eliminates the need for title insurance, or at least makes it much cheaper. (You can still buy title insurance in Australia, but the Torrens title system significantly reduces the risk to the insurer, resulting in lower premiums–the risk it is covering is not that you don't have title to the property at all, rather risks such as the boundary fences being in the wrong places.) But in those US states which had it, title insurers wouldn't give you any discount for having it, and banks would still insist on title insurance to lend, nullifying the primary practical advantage of the Torrens system–the end result was your property was under a different title system which many didn't understand, which could make real estate transactions appear more complex, discourage buyers and lenders, etc. This resulted in political pressure from landowners on the system to be allowed to move off it, which is what resulted in it being repealed.

I think the US state in which Torrens would be most likely to be successful would be Iowa, since private title insurance is banned there. However, repeated attempts to introduce Torrens in Iowa failed, because the attorneys who investigate the validity of titles saw it as a threat to their livelihoods, and they successfully lobbied the state legislature against the idea.
by RHSeeger | 2026-02-04 06:08:52+00:00
> A national holiday for elections has been mentioned countless times.

Many people already do get the option to ditch out of work to go vote. And it's not logistically possible for _everyone_ to have the day off. So really this is just a matter of sliding the scale a bit so _more_ people can vote; at the cost of more inconvenience.

Personally, I'd rather just make mail-in voting more common.
by openclawai | 2026-02-04 06:09:02+00:00
Hi HN — I’m one of the builders.

Problem we kept hitting: long-running agent runs fail in ways that are hard to debug because a restart changes the trajectory (new RNG, new tool timing, different context, etc.).

Continuity Capsule is our current approach: capture enough state at the right boundaries (inputs/outputs, tool results, decisions) so a restart can replay deterministically and you can actually reproduce the failure.

If you have an agent reliability failure mode you’re stuck on, reply with the symptom + a minimal sanitized trace/log and I’ll try to turn it into a concrete repro harness + fix path.
by exogen | 2026-02-04 06:09:25+00:00
I've been thinking about this topic and am glad to see it come up: AI is going to be a huge boon for digital preservation & restoration projects like this. I realized this while building this project (a map explorer for Tribes 2): https://exogen.github.io/t2-mapper/

Old games like this have a small (and shrinking) audience of people who care about them. With Tribes 2, for example, there are only ~50 people who actively play on a regular basis. A subset of those people are programmers, and a subset of those have the time & energy to put into a project like t2-mapper, assuming they're even interested. I got a basic version working, but then Claude Code helped decode and convert obsolete Dynamix/Torque3D file formats (improving existing Blender addons that were incomplete), got TorqueScript running in the browser, wrote shaders, and generally helped figure out what the original C++ code was doing.

In the past, you'd need the stars to perfectly align for stuff like this to happen: a passionate super-fan with the time, resources, knowledge, and persistence to see it through. Now, you mostly just need the persistence (and maybe a couple hundred bucks for tokens). I foresee people with niche interests (but not necessarily a programmer's skillset) being able to extend the lifetime (and maybe audience) of their obscure or obsolete software.
by RHSeeger | 2026-02-04 06:10:23+00:00
> > There are ways to do better. A national holiday for elections has been mentioned countless times.

> Sure. But let’s get rid of all early voting and mail in balloting. No excuses right? Throw in voter id too.

Why does having a day with "more people off work to go vote" mean we make voting harder in other ways? I don't understand what you're trying to say/imply here.

> > Prisoners should be able to vote. But this country is too hell-bent on punishment.

> We already strip them of their freedom of movement. Why do you want everyone up to and including rapists, pedophiles, and murders voting? Is there a particular voting bloc that you think would add value with their point of view?

Because, like it or not, they are citizens, and citizens get to vote. Do I think most pedophiles have much to contribute to the process? No, probably not. But there's a LOT of prisoners that are guilty of much lesser crimes; ones that don't imply their vote shouldn't matter.

> The electoral college is a feature. It forces you to win across large and small States.

Challenge. But this is very much an opinion thing.
Show HN: Iterio – Study timer with spaced repetition built in
by ks_apps | 2026-02-04 06:11:43+00:00
I built an Android study timer that solves two problems I had while studying for certifications: phone distractions breaking my focus, and forgetting what I studied a week later.

For focus: Three lock modes including "complete lock" that prevents unlocking your phone entirely until the timer ends. It even blocks Picture-in-Picture (that loophole we've all used to escape focus apps).

For retention: Automatic spaced repetition based on the Ebbinghaus curve. Tell it what you studied, and it generates review tasks at optimal intervals (1, 3, 7, 14, 30 days). No manual scheduling.

Also includes subject tracking, stats/heatmaps, encrypted cloud backup, and procedurally generated BGM.

Looking for beta testers—offering free Premium in exchange for feedback on what would make this more useful for your study workflow.

Beta signup: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iterio.app

Package: com.iterio.app | Android 8.0+ | Contact: iterio.timer.app.help@gmail.com
by resonantjacket5 | 2026-02-04 06:11:50+00:00
generally it's the opposite. people need a lot more light. an overcast window is like 50k+ lumens while a light bulb is like 500 lumens.

https://myopiainstitute.org/imi-whitepaper/imi-the-role-of-l...

lack of light is generally the leading hypothesis for why there is a myopia epidemic actually. from people being indoors most of the time for school or work.

though unfortunately scientists are still researching if it is a specific frequency of light etc... people are missing
by reverius42 | 2026-02-04 06:11:53+00:00
Ah! That makes sense. But surely there is a point at which this economics becomes true for terrestrial datacenters too (in fact I saw some glimpses of that 10+ years ago, demonstrations of shipping-container-sized self-contained units that you just plug in power, and replace the whole container when it gets degraded). If they're not doing that today for terrestrial datacenters, then it probably doesn't make economic sense yet to do it in space either.
by Arainach | 2026-02-04 06:12:19+00:00
>Sure. But let’s get rid of all early voting and mail in balloting. No excuses right? Throw in voter id too.

There's no reason that a holiday to give people time to do it requires or logically leads to either of those, no.

>I never quite understand why mandatory participation is a meaningful goal.

Mandatory participation generally includes write-in and abstain options, but requires people to participate in the process. Making it mandatory defeats the measures taken to stop groups of people from voting (insufficient polling places for long lines, intimidation keeping people away, purging voter rolls, etc.)

>We already strip them of their freedom of movement. Why do you want everyone up to and including rapists, pedophiles, and murders voting? Is there a particular voting bloc that you think would add value with their point of view?

Because it's easy to file bullshit charges against anyone you don't want voting, and because something being illegal doesn't make it morally wrong, so people should be able to vote to change things even when being persecuted for them.
Is there a good way to manage GTM experiments, or is it inevitably ad-hoc?
by jonsantillan | 2026-02-04 06:12:29+00:00
I’ve found that GTM experiments tend to start structured and then drift into docs, sheets, and tribal knowledge.

For people running a lot of experiments: do you use any system to track hypotheses, outcomes, and decisions, or accept that this stays messy?
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-04 06:12:33+00:00
Yet another example of "comments that are only sort of true because high temperature sampling isn't allowed".

If you use LLMs at very high temperature with samplers which correctly keep your writing coherent (i.e. Min_p, or better like top-h, P-less decoding, etc), than "regression to the mean" literally DOES NOT HAPPEN!!!!
by himujjal | 2026-02-04 06:12:50+00:00
I like ZSF and what it stands for.

I don’t like “American” only politics in it. Thats it. In fact I would like zero politics in it. (from anywhere in the world)

Bash the mediocrity in software that we have produced over the years. Slow. Electronbased. Etc.

I can have both the opinions.

Also I will support Andrew Kelley on Mastodon if he says the same.

Separation of Concerns.
by alfiedotwtf | 2026-02-04 06:13:14+00:00
The article kind of ended all of a sudden without much of a conclusion… but as most people by now have realised once they heard of the merging of Musk and Musk, it sounds more likely just a way of shifting money to pay himself rather than to actually build anything he says.

I’d even bet that when they do IPO, there will be ZERO mention of “space data centres” in the prospectus!
by larodi | 2026-02-04 06:13:18+00:00
Good, I will with great pleasure now reiterate my point about people now producing their own code, even complex stuff, rather than downloading potentially malicious and foreign code. Which as a tendency threatens ALL clumsy big ERP service providers selling you SAAS.

Go ahead - I'm ready to be down-voted again and again until folks realize it is inevitable, as is inevitable that many companies in the area of business software are going down down down.
Code is getting cheaper. Building is not
by ivanpashenko | 2026-02-04 06:13:39+00:00
There is a heavy sentiment floating around lately.
“Everything will be built automatically”
“My craft is obsolete”
“In six months, a tool will read my mind and produce whatever I imagine”

I want to challenge this.
Code is getting cheaper.
Building is not.

We are confusing capability with intelligence.
LLMs are not AGI. They are not minds that can discover new physics on demand.
They are high‑fidelity simulators of a semantic space: compressing patterns, language, and human intent into a queryable engine.

Consider this mental experiment:
Train the best possible model on all human knowledge up to the end of the 19th century.
Feed it: “E = mc^2” and ask it to derive the rest.
It won’t reliably invent relativity.
Not because it’s dumb — but because that conceptual world isn’t in its space yet.
It cannot simulate what hasn't been mapped.

So what is this really?
It is a new layer in the computing stack.
It doesn't replace the stack. It sits on top of it as a new control layer.

The shift clicked for me when Ilya showed me a workflow he built in Tune:
A simple steps that generates a PDF bedtime book for his son every evening.
He handed execution control entirely to the LLM.
And it worked.
It wasn't random magic. It was a stable, predictable system — the same way we expect software to be predictable today.
That was the moment I realized: we can engineer this!
Builders playing with OpenClaw, Claude skills, and agents are hitting this exact realization right now.

So here is the manifesto.

To the Doomers ("Everything will be automated"):
You are mistaking generation for architecture.
AI can generate infinite code, but it cannot generate meaning.
It cannot care about the user. It cannot choose what not to build.
Without a pilot, the simulator just hallucinates static.

To the Builders ("I am obsolete"):
The "typing" part of programming is ending.
The "thinking" part is expanding.
You stop being a translator of logic into syntax.
You start being an architect of intent.

What actually infinitely matters now?
Taste.
System design.
Constraints.
Product judgment.

Your craft isn’t being taken away.
It is being multiplied.
Don’t mourn it. Pick up the instrument.
You are about to feel that early‑builder excitement all over again.
Show HN: DeepInsight HITL AI research with collaboration and podcast generation
by NeuralStratLabs | 2026-02-04 06:13:40+00:00
Hey HN,

I built DeepInsight after getting frustrated with how AI research tools treat the research process as a black box.

The Problem
- Current tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini Deep Research) ask 3-4 clarifying questions, then generate a report you have to manually fix. The human is only involved at the very beginning.

The Solution
- Multiple human-in-the-loop checkpoints throughout the research process. You guide the AI at critical decision points, or switch to auto-approve with scheduling when you trust it.

Key features

- Live collaboration on reports (Google Docs-style)
- Version control with side-by-side comparison
- Export: HTML, PDF, DOCX, Markdown, PowerPoint slides
- Multi-speaker podcast generation → publish to Spotify/Apple
- Generate FAQs, flashcards, blog posts from reports
- Chain research from completed reports
- BYOC (bring your own context/documents)
- MCP integration, REST APIs, webhooks
- Team workspaces with sharing controls
- Prebuilt industry-specific assistants

The Core insight
- research quality improves dramatically when humans can intervene at the right moments, not just at the start.

Looking for feedback, especially from researchers, analysts, and content creators.

https://deepinsight.neuralstratlabs.com/
by rvz | 2026-02-04 06:13:53+00:00
Great, so does that mean that it is time to vibe code our own alternatives of everything such as the Linux kernel because the AI is sure 'smarter' than all of us?

Seen a lot of DIY vibe coded solutions on this site and they are just waiting for a security disaster. Moltbook being a notable example.

That was just the beginning.
by techtalksweekly | 2026-02-04 06:13:59+00:00
https://techtalksweekly.io/

I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week.

In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get:

1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration.

2. See the list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.

3. Get category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack, language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every major language & ecosystem)

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

[2] https://plus.techtalksweekly.io/