MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arduanika | 2026-02-16 00:08:45+00:00
Okay. I've been harsh on Ars Technica in these comments, and I'm going to continue to hold an asterisk in my head whenever I see them cited as a source going forward. However, at least one thing in this apology does seem more reasonable than people have made it out to be: I think it's fine for reporters at an AI-skeptical outlet to play around with various AI tools in their work. Benj Edwards should have been way more cautious, but I think that people should be making periodic contact with the state of these tools (and their pitfalls!), especially if they're going to opine.[1]

We don't know yet how widespread these practices are at Ars Technica, or whether this is a one-off. But if it went down like he says it did here, then the coincidental nature of this mistake -- i.e., that it's an AI user error in reporting an AI novel behavior story at an AI-skeptical outlet -- merely makes it ironic, not more egregious than it already is.

[1] Edit: I read and agreed with ilamont's new comment elsewhere in this thread, right after posting this. It's a very reasonable caveat! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029193
by badlogic | 2026-02-16 00:09:56+00:00
peter's claw is a lot more than just a wrapper around my slop.

i too had plenty of offers, but so far chose not to follow through with any of them, as i like my life as is.

also, peter is a good friend and gives plenty of credit. in fact, less credit would be nice, so i don't have to endure more vibeslopped issues and PRs going forward :)
by f0e4c2f7 | 2026-02-16 00:11:25+00:00
Ha! This is great. I've been waiting for someone to make this.

Giving an LLM a computer makes it way more powerful, giving it a kubernetes cluster should extend that power much further and naturally fits well with the way LLMs work.

I think this abstraction can scale for a good long while. Past this what do you give the agent? Control of a whole Data Center I guess.

I'm not sure if it will replace openclaw all together since kubernetes is kind of niche and scary to a lot of people. But I bet for the most sophisticated builders this will become quite popular, and who knows maybe far beyond that cohort too.

Congrats on the launch!
by Rochus | 2026-02-16 00:11:28+00:00
Cool. There has also been some effort for coding agents generating hardware descriptions e.g. in Verilog (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/html/2408.08927v1). Wonder how good they are today. Also in hardware design we could now switch to intent- and constraint based specifications in semi-formal human specification language and let the LLM write the SystemVerilog with assertions and do the testing.
by Chris_Newton | 2026-02-16 00:12:10+00:00
In the original MVC architecture, the fundamental idea was that the model was responsible for storing the application state, a view was responsible for rendering output to the user, and a controller was responsible for responding to user interactions.

The model can be completely unaware of any specific views or controllers. It only needs to provide an interface allowing views to observe the current state and controllers to update that state.

In practice, views and controllers usually aren’t independent and instead come as a pair. This is because most modern UIs use some kind of event-driven architecture where user interactions are indicated by events from some component rendered by the view that the controller then handles.

My go-to example to understand why this architecture is helpful is a UI that features a table showing some names and a count for each, alongside a chart visualising that data graphically. Here you would have a model that stores the names and counts as pure data, and you would have two view+controller pairs, one managing the table and one the chart. Each view observes the model and renders an updated table or chart when the model state changes. Each controller responds to user interactions that perhaps edit a name or change its count — whether by typing a new value as text in an editable table cell or by dragging somewhere relevant in the chart — by telling the model to update its state to match (which in turn causes all views observing the model to refresh, without any further action from whichever controller happened to be handling that user interaction).

In practical terms for a React application, we might implement this with a simple object/Map somewhere that holds the names and values (our “model”) and two top-level React components that each get rendered once into some appropriate container within the page. Each component would have props to pass in (a) the current state and (b) any functions to be called when the user makes a change. Then you just write some simple glue logic in plain old JavaScript/TypeScript that handles keeping track of observers of the model, registering an observer for each top-level component that causes it rerender when the state changes, and providing a handler for each type of change the user is allowed to make that updates the state and then notifies the observers.

There are lots of variations on this theme, for example once you start needing more complicated business logic to interpret a user interaction and decide what state change is required or you need to synchronise your front-end model state with some remote service. However, you can scale a very long way with the basic principle that you hold your application state as pure data in a model that doesn’t know anything about any specific user interface or remote service and instead provides an interface for any other modules in the system to observe and/or update that state.
by 65 | 2026-02-16 00:14:11+00:00
The first example of not using absolute positioning isn't a good example because sometimes you do need to absolutely position things, like a modal.

Also you can just use display: flex with justify-content: center and align-items: center for non absolutely positioned elements.

Just because it uses CSS grid does not make it more "correct" than flexbox.

I also only see one usage of custom @property properties here, which has been one of the most useful things to happen to CSS in years. They have many different use cases, particularly for complex animations.
by gymbeaux | 2026-02-16 00:14:52+00:00
I’m seeing more and more (re)CAPTCHAs as time goes on. It’s a shame because programmatic access to web content is very nice to have. There must have been a point, many moons ago now, when the internet had as much freely accessible data as it’s probably ever going to have. Probably the day before Zillow blocked all web scraping and API access without forking up $$$. Reddit is a more recent example of how arbitrarily restricting data that was once freely available purely for $$$ has made the world and the internet worse.
by rcoder | 2026-02-16 00:14:52+00:00
"Justifying lower insurance rates" is just algorithmic bias described from the perspective of someone it doesn't (currently) harm. See also: credit scoring, insurance claim acceptance, job applications, etc., etc.

You only get offered a discount if most other customers are being compelled to pay full (or even increased) prices for the same offering. Otherwise revenue goes down and company leadership finds itself finding other ways to cut costs and increase profits.
Show HN: United Humanity: FOSS, federated tools to end poverty via capability
by Shaostoul | 2026-02-16 00:15:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the founder of United Humanity, a volunteer-driven, public domain (CC0) project aimed at aiding humanity's betterment by focusing on capability-building rather than traditional aid. We believe poverty often stems from lack of tools, knowledge, and connections, so we're building open-source solutions to remove those barriers.

Key components:

-Humanity Chat/Network: A federated, end-to-end encrypted platform using Ed25519 identities. Features include accountless access, voice/video calls, threaded replies, message search, streaming with PiP, friend codes, an asset library, and 11 hub tabs. It's PWA-installable as a desktop app, with no tracking.

-Project Universe: A free game teaching practical skills like homesteading, agriculture, building, health, and survival to empower self-sufficiency.

-The Humanity Accord: A revisable set of civilizational principles for cross-cultural cooperation.

Everything is released under CC0—no permissions needed, it's for everyone. Started after my 2017 near-death experience, which clarified the need for tools that foster self-help and community.

We're looking for contributors: writers, designers, developers, educators, translators. Join the chat to discuss or help out. Feedback welcome—how can we improve federation or the educational game?

Thanks!
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-16 00:15:06+00:00
> Regarding conservatives/MAGA, if you're saying the US hasn't changed dramatically since 2016 then I don't know what to say to you.

That is precisely why I didn't mention these.

> Regarding the latter, police used to widely behave like ICE; now it's anathema - at least in cities. None of them help ICE afaik.

They still kill people en masse [1], still overwhelmingly non-White people, and the number only increased over the years. It's good that police and National Guards (at least in Minneapolis) are on the side of the people, but as a system, police in the US is still loving to kill people.

And the GOP had DC tear apart the last visual reminder, the Black Lives Matter road mural [2] under extortionist threats.

> The wierd part is, their enemies have picked up that argument and make it themselves. They simply and bizarrely have disarmed themselves, but they had and have the power the entire time.

Similar to the Epstein Files, what should have happened in response to metoo and George Floyd/BLM was action that went beyond symbolism. Actual prosecution and judgement of people found to be in violation of the law and making sure that the conditions leading to these events will not repeat. But that was not done - movie sets got intimacy coordinators, Washington DC the BLM mural... while Weinstein got at least one conviction overturned on technicialities and Chauvin got moved to a low security prison [3].

Of course particularly the young generations are angry. Absolutely vile and horrible things can happen without any impactful action afterwards. And that's before we even go into the mess that is the Epstein Files, with Maxwell hoping for a pardon of all things after being moved to a minimum security facility already [4]. She does not deserve even one single day in freedom in her life again. Or before we touch the mess that is Jan 6th 2021, with Trump handing out pardons like others hand out candy [5]. Attempt a fucking putsch and get off scot free? WTF is this shit? In many other countries, putschists get hanged in the streets, as a warning sign to others.

To sum it up: there have been no meaningful results and changes from either of these events.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/03/08/nx-s1-5321872/dc-black-lives-...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2024/08/21/g-s1-18339/ex-officer-convict...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd049y2qymo

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_January_6_United_Sta...
by rkunnamp | 2026-02-16 00:15:32+00:00
I really hope Mario and Armin also gets poached

The real gem inside OpenClaw is pi, the agent, created by
Mario Zechner. Pi is by far the best agent framework in the world. Most extensible, with the best primitives. .

Armin Ronacher , creator of flask , can go deep and make something like openclaw enterprise ready.

The value of Peter is in connecting the dots, thinking from users perspective, and bringing business perspective

The trio are friends and have together vibecoded vibetunnel.

Sam Altman, if you are reading this , get Mario and Armin today.
Show HN: Pure Metrics – Privacy-first web analytics, <1KB script
by AdriByte-Studio | 2026-02-16 00:15:44+00:00
I built Pure Metrics because I kept hitting the same wall: analytics tools either collect way too much personal data (and require cookie banners) or feel too minimal to be actually useful.

Pure Metrics gives you real-time traffic, events, revenue tracking and performance metrics—without cookies or personal data collection. The tracking script is under 1 KB. It's a fully hosted SaaS with a PWA dashboard (installable, works offline, push alerts).

Started as a side project to solve my own frustration with the current analytics landscape. Happy to answer questions about the architecture, privacy approach or why I built it this way.

14-day free trial at https://pure-metrics.app/ – feedback very welcome.
by miloschwartz | 2026-02-16 00:16:22+00:00
Hiding an IP and security are not necessarily the main use cases.

The tunneled reverse proxy aspect comes in handy when trying to expose internal apps on a network behind a hard NAT where ports can't be opened and a public IP address isn't available (like CGNAT).

Pangolin is also a VPN like Tailscale/Twingate/etc, so you can access non http resources via a direct connection via WireGuard and NAT traversal.
by MD87 | 2026-02-16 00:16:54+00:00
First widely available one I saw was this: https://modern-css.com/staggered-animations-without-nth-chil...

That would actually fix some ugly CSS I have. The demo works. Neat.

Except... the demo doesn't use either the old syntax or the new syntax. The browser support is wrong (Firefox doesn't support it, the site says Firefox 16+; it says Chrome 43+ but in reality it's much newer: Chrome 148+). It says "Since 2018" but the spec was introduced in 2024.

So maybe an interesting overview of things that might be available or might not, but the filtering and data on the site doesn't seem to be useful.
by thepotatodude | 2026-02-16 00:18:20+00:00
As a current medical student, there's no way I'm living in a rural area for anything other than an insane paycheck. Even then, I'm out after a few years. Urbanization is the solution.

And physicians won't stand idly by as you replace their jobs. Enough pressure and the strikes begin. If that's what it will take for the value to be recognized, so be it. Big Tech isn't going to deliver us a healthcare utopia, but it will accelerate the enshittification of healthcare.
by mgraczyk | 2026-02-16 00:18:30+00:00
But in this case following security norms would be a mistake. The right thing to take away is that you shouldn't dogmatically follow norms. Sometimes it's better to just build things if there is very little risk

Nothing actually bad happened in this case and probably never will. Maybe some people have their crypto or identity stolen, but probably not a rate rate significantly higher than background (lots of people are using openclaw)
by yencabulator | 2026-02-16 00:18:39+00:00
The Ceph way of doing asynchronous replication would be to run separate clusters and ship incremental snapshots between them. I don't know if anyone's programmed the automation for that, but it's definitely doable. For S3 only, radosgw has it's own async replication thing.

https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2025/stretch-cluuuuuuuuusters-p...

Disclaimer: ex-Ceph-developer.
by thepotatodude | 2026-02-16 00:19:49+00:00
Touch the salary and doctors strike. People will die if need be. Target somebody else for your reductions, not the people who have slaved away for years to treat you. We will not allow AI to accelerate the enshittification of healthcare and further solidify a two-tiered healthcare system.

You are the tech people, use AI to give me more time with patients and less administrative burden. I'd be able to see more patients and actually have time to look them in the eye. Increased productivity per doctor will help.

As someone knees deep in the training pipeline, this is simply not worth doing for anything less than current pay. This is hard as fuck.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-16 00:20:40+00:00
> But the security risk wasnt taken by OpenClaw

This is the genius move at the core of the phenomenon.

While everyone else was busy trying to address safety problems, the OpenClaw project took the opposite approach: They advertised it as dangerous and said only experienced power users should use it. This warning seemingly only made it more enticing to a lot of users.

It’ve been fascinated by how well the project has just dodged and avoided any consequences for the problems it has introduced. When it was revealed that the #1 skill was malware masquerading as a Twitter integration I thought for sure there would be some reporting on the problems. The recent story about an OpenClaw bot publishing hit pieces seemed like another tipping point for journalists covering the story.

Though maybe this inflection point made it the most obvious time to jump off of the hype train and join one of the labs. It takes a while for journalists to sync up and decided to flip to negative coverage of a phenomenon after they cover the rise, but now it appears that the story has changed again before any narratives could build about the problems with OpenClaw.
by miloschwartz | 2026-02-16 00:20:50+00:00
Traditional reverse proxies require a public IP and open firewall ports. Pangolin uses a tunneled reverse proxy to expose resources behind restrictive firewalls without those requirements.

A single Pangolin server can tunnel to multiple remote networks, centralizing apps from different locations into one place. It also includes VPN clients and handles NAT traversal as an alternative to traditional VPNs for direct connections.
by filoleg | 2026-02-16 00:21:54+00:00
> Anthropic's community, I assume, is much bigger. How hard it is for them to offer something close enough for their users?

Not gonna lie, that’s exactly the potential scenario I am personally excited for. Not due to any particular love for Anthropic, but because I expect this type of a tight competition to be very good for trying a lot of fresh new things and the subsequent discovery process of new ideas and what works.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-16 00:22:02+00:00
There's plenty of middle ground between "just expose underlying FS as objects, can't support many S3 operations well" and "it's a single node not a distributed storage system".

For my personal use, asynchronous remote backup is plenty for durability, a Bee-Link ME Mini with 6x4TB NVMe is plenty of space for any bucket I care to have, and I'd love to have an S3 server that doesn't even attempt to be distributed.
by lateforwork | 2026-02-16 00:22:04+00:00
When React launched in 2013, its defining idea was strict one-way data flow: parents pass data down via props, and updates happen in a clear, explicit place. Children can't mutate parent state directly; they signal changes through callbacks. The result is predictable, traceable state changes.

This contrasted with MVVM frameworks like early AngularJS, Knockout, and WPF, which relied on two-way data binding. That automatic syncing felt convenient for small apps, but at scale it often led to hidden coupling and hard-to-trace update chains.

Over time, many developers came to view pervasive two-way binding as a design mistake in complex systems. React's unidirectional model gained traction because it favored clarity and control over "magic."
by eftalyurtseven | 2026-02-16 00:22:05+00:00
Thanks! The "Kubernetes is scary" point is fair, that's why the CLI is designed to feel intuitive even if you've never touched kubectl. There's also a controller agent that manages the whole cluster from plain English.

On "what comes after", I think it's agents managing other agents. An AI SRE that watches load and spins up new agents automatically. The cluster/namespace model was designed with that direction in mind.

And yeah, not trying to replace OpenClaw, different layer.

OpenClaw defines what an agent does, klaw manages where and how many run. Complementary.
by pushkar_aditya | 2026-02-16 00:22:12+00:00
Open Claw is meant to be self hosted because it stores tokens, API key, and any sensitive data in plain text.

but people are being so foolish that they are handing over their private credentials on a silver platter to some random stranger on the internet.

Yeah, I understand that for non technical people it is very hard to even run OpenClaw on their computer, let alone host it on their own server but this should not be the reason

So for non tech people, I created an open source platform called AgentDaddie. Using AgentDaddie, they can deploy OpenClaw on their own server in one click.

More Technical Brief

Login → Connect your DigitalOcean account → A little config → Lay back and enjoy auto deployment
by piskov | 2026-02-16 00:23:01+00:00
Just recently I stumbled on some god forsaken pc hooked up to a projector in some conference room.

It had Windows 7 with guess what browser built-in. It had Chrome also, thank god (that’s how I know it is no longer updated by Google under 7).

But that’s not the point. The thing is 2015’s state of affairs is good enough for dare I say most UI.

Yeah, grid is not there, but there are very specific UIs that need what flex cannot provide.

PostCSS takes care for most other legacy things
by ggm | 2026-02-16 00:24:20+00:00
BBC Micro, Acorn Atom, Commadore PET. all kinds of home computer. So prime retro material late 70s early 80s. There's a CP/M port. So you can use PIP which traces it's lineage back to the DEC Tops-10 operating system if not beforehand (its a peripheral IO command model, although I think CP/M PIP only shares name)

Add a DIN plug and record programs in Kansas City Standard on a cassette recorder. Could be a walkman. A floppy (full 8" type) was a luxury. Almost a megabyte! imagine what you can do.. when a program is the amount of text you can fit in the VBI of a ceefax/teletext broadcast, or is typed in by hand in hex. Kansas city standard is 300 bits/second and the tape plays in real-time so a standard C60 is like 160kb on both sides if you were lucky: it misread and miswrote a LOT.

I used to do tabular GOTO jump table text adventures, and use XOR screen line drawing to do moving moire pattern interference fringes. "mod scene" trippy graphics!

Thats a mandelbrot in ASCII, the best I've seen, on the web page. Super stuff.

People wrote tiny languages for the 6502. integer only but C like syntax, or Pascal or ALGOL. People did real science in BASIC, a one weekend course got you what you needed to do some maths for a Masters or PHD in some non CS field.

My friends did a lot more of this than me. Because I had access to a Dec-10 and a PDP-11 at work and later Vax/VMS and BSD UNIX systems, I didn't see the point of home machines. A wave I wish I'd ridden but not seeing the future emerge has been a constant failure of mine.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-16 00:24:59+00:00
Not being a dev writing code running in realtime nor an audio type with experience of things not running in realtime, what happens when GC kicks in? Does the entire audio stack go silent? Does it only effect the one filter so it sounds like a drop, or is it a pause so not it is no longer in sync? In theory, I get why it is bad, but I'm curious of what it sounds like when it does go bad.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-16 00:25:18+00:00
So my unsubstantiated conspiracy theory regarding Clawd/Molt/OpenClaw is that the hype was bought, probably by OpenAI. I find it too convenient that not long after the phrase “the AI bubble“ starts coming into common speech we see the emergence of a “viral” use case that all of the paid influencers on the Internet seem to converge on at the same time. At the end of the day piping AI output with tool access into a while loop is not revolutionary. The people who had been experimenting with these type of set ups back when LangChain was the hotness didn’t organically go viral because most people knew that giving a language model unrestricted access to your online presence or bank account is extremely reckless. The “I gave OpenClaw $100 and now I bought my second Lambo. Buy my ebook” stories don’t seem credible.

So don’t feel bad. Everything on the internet is fake.