MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by E-Reverance | 2026-02-24 19:32:47+00:00
Car wash is 100 m from my house, should I drive or walk there if I need my car washed and my car is at home?

Mercury 2
Today at 11:32 AM

Thought for 1 seconds
Driving the car is the practical choice. Since the car is at home and you need it washed, you’ll have to get the vehicle to the car wash anyway—walking 100 m won’t bring the car there. The extra fuel used for a 100 m drive is negligible, and the trip will take only a few seconds, whereas walking would add unnecessary effort and you’d still need to bring the car back later.

Do you have any time constraints, budget concerns, or other preferences that might affect your decision?
by pelzatessa | 2026-02-24 19:32:52+00:00
In no serious case have I ever considered connecting to my PC terminal using phone. Connecting from PC to phone makes sense, but when talking the opposite situation, phones simply are terrible at doing things from terminal. Keyboard takes roughly 40% of the screen, and displaying wide lines is awkward. Forget about TUI applications, Midnight Commander and such. Other than toying around and extreme emergencies, why?
Show HN: Prompt → Schema → CRUD API and Admin UI (New Codehooks Template)
by knutmartin | 2026-02-24 19:32:59+00:00
I’ve been building database-backed tools for ~20 years (previously co-founded restdb.io). One recurring pattern: teams repeatedly rebuild the same admin dashboards and CRUD APIs.

This is an open-source React admin template that runs on Codehooks and generates a full CRUD backend and UI from a schema instantly.

The flow is:

Prompt → Schema → API → Admin UI

You can generate a schema using the "Copy Prompt" button in the UI, or define collections manually in a visual editor. After deploy, you get a structured CRUD REST API and an admin interface.

It includes a CRUD REST API with OpenAPI/Swagger docs, JWT authentication with role-based access, list views and detail forms with relations, search and filtering, file/image uploads, and audit logging.

Frontend is built with React, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui. The backend runs on the Codehooks serverless runtime.

Setup is three commands (you need a codehooks account, but there's a free plan):

npm install -g codehooks
coho create myapp –template react-admin-dashboard
cd myapp && npm install && coho deploy

The goal isn’t to compete with tools like Supabase, Strapi, or Django admin. This is a more opinionated, schema-driven approach tightly integrated with the Codehooks CLI and runtime — especially useful when AI tools are generating schemas or backend logic and you need a structured backend and UI quickly.

It’s fully open source, but it runs on Codehooks.

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the schema-to-UI mapping, OpenAPI generation, auth/RBAC model, and overall architecture.

Repo:
https://github.com/RestDB/codehooks-io-templates/tree/main/r...

Template:
https://codehooks.io/react-admin-dashboard
by izacus | 2026-02-24 19:33:05+00:00
Can you prove in any way what you say actually materially changes the road safety, incurs any practical liability (proven in court, not conveniently theorycrafted by manufacturers lawyers) and isn't just a convenient excuse for more monopolization and money extraction from clients?

Because it's heck of a lot of convenience that this newfound safety issues result in destruction of market competiton of spare parts manufacturers and repair houses while ensuring practically unlimited margins and payments from the site of customers.
by siddhantdhaware | 2026-02-24 19:33:39+00:00
You’re completely right. Vendor lock-in and platforms shutting down are real risks. We also used Google IoT Core in our previous startup and would have been burned by its shutdown as well.

In fact, the idea for a unified IoT platform came from dealing with the complexity of setting up so many different Google Cloud services just to get data ingestion working.

I think a healthy balance between open source and commercial platforms is possible. We want to compete on reliability, UX, and features while building open device-side tooling and protocols that give users the ability to switch or self-host if they choose. We’re far from that today, but it’s the direction we want to pursue.

-- Sid, Fostrom Co-Founder
Show HN: Srclight – Deep code indexing MCP server (FTS5 and Tree-sitter)
by srclight | 2026-02-24 19:33:48+00:00
Hi HN, I built srclight because AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) waste 40-60% of their tokens just searching for code and understanding structure. grep and glob aren't enough when you need to know who calls a function, what changed recently, or find code by concept.

srclight indexes your codebase with tree-sitter and builds three FTS5 indexes (symbol names, source code via trigram, docstrings via Porter stemmer), a relationship graph (callers, callees, inheritance), and optional embedding vectors for semantic search. Everything lives in a single SQLite file per repo — no Docker, no Redis, no cloud APIs. Your code never leaves your machine.

Key features:
- 25 MCP tools covering symbol search, relationship graphs, git change intelligence (blame, hotspots, WIP), build system awareness (CMake, .csproj), and semantic search
- Hybrid search: RRF fusion of keyword + embedding results
- Multi-repo workspaces: SQLite ATTACH+UNION across repos
- GPU-accelerated vector cache (~3ms queries on 27K vectors via cupy)
- 10 languages: Python, C, C++, C#, JS/TS, Dart, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Go
- Incremental indexing with git hooks (post-commit, post-checkout)
- Works with any MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, VS Code)

I surveyed 50+ MCP code search servers across all the registries — most are grep wrappers or need cloud embedding APIs. srclight is the only one combining FTS5 + semantic search + git intelligence + multi-repo workspaces in a single pip install.

Install: pip install srclight
GitHub: https://github.com/srclight/srclight
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-24 19:33:53+00:00
No surprise there. There is so much competition these days and the market is exploding, especially on the lowest end - Dacia's Spring for example is 15.700 €, if you add Germany's subsidies of 6000 € you're at 9.700 € [1] for a brand new car, even if it isn't even made in Romania but in China instead (the fact that this is likely still making a profit despite shipping costs is insane). On the high end, BMW and Mercedes have finally caught up as well, and produce better cars for the same price point with a better support/maintenance infrastructure.

Meanwhile, what does Tesla have in production? Dated stuff on the mid to high price range, rumors are they will stop making some models entirely and a "Cybertruck" that not just looks so similar to a dumpster that raccoons confuse it with literal dumpsters [2] but is unable to ever be certified for European roads because its form is seen as a threat to road safety. So that alone has a serious impact on Tesla's sales.

Then come the never ending stories about supply chain issues especially for spare parts and the quality control issues - like, WTF, a Cybertruck is 60k? Why should people put up with delaminating glue (and why was glue used in the first place?) or rust issues [3]? So that's another dent in the sales, people don't buy lemons.

And finally, the antics of Elon himself and the company in general. The cars are nicknamed "swasticars" ever since Musk's infamous right arm salute, in the Nordic countries (that used to love Tesla) they are refusing to deal with unions for two years now [4], and here in Germany there is a big dispute related to the upcoming works council election (i.e. what y'all Americans would consider an union) [5].

There just aren't that many reasons left to buy a Tesla, and the reasons to buy an ICE vehicle are rapidly going away as well. I'd have zero issues buying a Dacia Spring or a Citroen, if only they'd add a trailer towing hitch that can be used for more than a bicycle rack.

[1] https://www.dacia.de/kampagnen/daciaelektrobonus.html

[2] https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/an...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/04/21/tesla-cybe...

[4] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-sweden-strikers-tax-issues-i...

[5] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tesla-charges-trade-union-memb...
by iamnothere | 2026-02-24 19:34:01+00:00
Just here to register my disapproval of this, and to remind everyone that you should support Linux phones if you’re against it. Or Graphene OS, at the very least, even though this still supports Google due to the requirement for a Pixel phone.

Also, I’m going to coin a new term for the recurring names that I see promoting this kind of thing here: “safety fascists.” Safety fascists won’t sleep until there is a camera watching every home, a government bug in every phone, a 24/7 minder for every citizen. For your safety, of course.

I think I may hate safety fascists more than I hate garden variety fascists. That’s an accomplishment!
by Ancalagon | 2026-02-24 19:34:08+00:00
What's crazy is I know engineers like this in real life - and they're good engineers! So I know they do exist, but their existence to serve their company or CEO no matter what is completely foreign to me. Like, you're smart enough to understand that large codebase and generally function as a member of society, but you've completely given up your higher level decision making for someone or something that would throw you away in an instant.
by ryandvm | 2026-02-24 19:34:14+00:00
I don't get it.

A trillion here, a trillion there and all the AI companies are also telling us they're planning on wiping out 2/3 of jobs in the next 10 years? Nothing about the economics of the AI boom makes any sense.

I'm not saying it's not possible, but if we wipe out 2/3 of jobs with AI, who is going to be buying *all the stuff*?

Unemployed people aren't much of a demographic, and you can't just say UBI because that doesn't make sense either. You think the billionaires are going to allow themselves to be taxed heavily enough to support UBI just so that there's a market for people to buy stuff from them? That's nonsense.

Not trying to creep anybody out, but I just don't see a stable outcome for a society that doesn't need 2/3 of the population.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-24 19:34:31+00:00
> Make H1B run for a fixed time period

They already are.

> not be tied to a specific job

I agree, and lobbied for that on the Hill years ago but this was during the DREAM act battle [0] so it got nowhere.

> you’ll simultaneously boost the supply of highly-skilled workers and ensure they get a fair market price

I agree.

[0] - https://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/nancy-pelosi-immigrat...
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-02-24 19:35:04+00:00
The military dependence on AI was a key point in Project 2027.

"The President is troubled. Like all politicians, he’s used to people sucking up to him only to betray him later. He’s worried now that the AIs could be doing something similar. Are we sure the AIs are entirely on our side? Is it completely safe to integrate them into military command-and-control networks?69 How does this “alignment” thing work, anyway? OpenBrain reassures the President that their systems have been extensively tested and are fully obedient. Even the awkward hallucinations and jailbreaks typical of earlier models have been hammered out."
Show HN: Agently an AI Work OS that turns docs, chats, and tasks into execution
by Bondig | 2026-02-24 19:35:54+00:00
Agently is an AI Work OS where documents, tasks, team chat, and integrations are fully interconnected, and AI employees operate inside that shared workspace.

Instead of prompting AI in isolation, agents can read project context, turn strategy docs into tasks, coordinate with teammates, run research/outreach/content workflows, update boards, and push results back into the system or external tools. The workspace acts as persistent memory, so work continues instead of resetting every prompt.

Happy to answer any questions
by nathan_compton | 2026-02-24 19:36:10+00:00
Throw a constitutional conventions so that the slave owners could get their votes in (not the slaves, of course, though the owners should get to vote FOR them).

I understand that the civil war was about a lot of things, but the precipitating issue was slavery. Slavers should be obliterated by war if they aren't willing to give up their slaves unconditionally.
by CodingJeebus | 2026-02-24 19:36:19+00:00
A good lawyer could argue that Tesla must be aware that exiting the auto market would immediately crash the value of all existing Teslas because it would essentially create a sunset date for those vehicles, given how much software they're running. Good luck to anyone trying to sell a used Tesla once that announcement is made, because who would buy a car that is going to be bricked at some point?
by Bondig | 2026-02-24 19:36:30+00:00
Some Background Info:

I have spent the last 6 years building startups and as tools, automation and eventually AI became the standard to maintaining and gaining competitive advantages, I kept running into the same problems.

Execution as a whole was fragmented with strategy living on some doc. Tasks where in whatever lousy project management tool we would use (Notion, ClickUp, Jira etc..). Conversations happened on several apps. Worse of all tools we used lived across various tabs with no memory between them.

Even with good tooling and might I say good siloed output, the overhead and continuous context switching killed momentum overall, to many gaps and no shared context, things would inevitably fall through the cracks.
I asked around my network and every single person was facing the exact same problem, especially those making revenue, as the issue was directly affecting MRR.

So, along with my cofounder, I built Agently, an AI Work OS designed around execution and memory instead of just origination. The idea is pretty simple, instead of adding more segregated tools or AI, have them operating directly in the workspace alongside humans. Therefore, documents become executable context, chats between team members connect directly to tasks and decisions, tasks that live on board are tied to strategy and best of all the AI Agents can read the workspace as a whole and perform their work, whether for research, outreach, content, marketing etc... We also gave them the ability to read and write within the workspace to collaborate as much like humans as possible and then gave them integrations to also fulfill work outside of the workspace. We are working towards making these AI Employees as autonomous as possible to be able to fulfill tasks as continuous collaborators not just within workflows.

The workspace becomes the shared context layer to establish context continuity and the AI Employees can then produce workflows on the fly to accomplish the tasks that correspond to their skills.

We recently added a notion integration after our Cohort 1 beta users told they wanted to migrate. We are still early, I am mainly posting here to get feedback from people who think they share the same problem.

Happy to answer any questions
by dogleash | 2026-02-24 19:36:33+00:00
> Just think about how easy it would be though

Endlessly painful. Right?

The defining characteristic is that everyone is using it, not that it's your personal ideal operating system. We have a few major players trying to create their version of the one single os. They're already nobodies ideal, and they have the luxury of telling people to go elsewhere if the system isn't right for them. Imagine how much worse it would be if they had to support everything.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2026-02-24 19:36:51+00:00
However, we are all going to be paying higher energy costs for these ridiculous infrastructure claims. Utilities typically price out energy three years in advance. If they were protecting for twice as many energy sinks, that represents an enormous amount of generation capacity which needs to be accounted for in projections.

I saw a report that previous capacity pricing was $28/MWh/day. Latest numbers have shot up to $300.
by 0xy | 2026-02-24 19:36:55+00:00
This is an extremely common misconception (or lie, depending on who's saying it). The IRS, even before the cuts, targets exclusively the middle class.

More agents = more middle class shake downs.

63% of the IRS' audits under the Biden admin targeted those earning sub-$200K.

People earning $25K a year are MORE likely to be audited than those earning $200K, too.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-02-24 19:37:02+00:00
> Which is fine

But it isn't fine. How long before that's no longer an option?

A few years ago it was "Apple won't let me side load apps, which is fine, I'll run android" now that's coming back and getting locked down even more.

How long before normal computers will all have signed bootloaders with only the OEM's OS of choice allowed to boot, 4 chains deep of verifying signatures on hardware security chips?
by shagie | 2026-02-24 19:37:15+00:00
While he's the most recent one, it's been a systemic problem that's largely been from congressional budget cuts.

2014 The War on the IRS https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/war-irs

2015 Poor IRS Service Reflects Congress’s Deep Funding Cuts https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/poor-irs-service-r...

2018 How the IRS Was Gutted https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted

2020 Congressional Budget Office Confirms That IRS Budget Cuts Lose Money and Benefit the Rich https://itep.org/congressional-budget-office-confirms-that-i...
by popalchemist | 2026-02-24 19:37:29+00:00
Enough said. Since the "death of God" (per Nietzsche - the collapse of the metaphysics underpinning our morals and therefore cultural norms and behaviors) the modus operandi has been the utilitarian "get what's yours."

Reprehensible.

Additionally, people are typically only "gifted" on one domain -- if one's gifted enough in the domain of intellect to become a SWE, they're typically lacking elsewhere, whether that be in moral scruples or the ability to discern social things such as when they're working for sociopaths.
by dang | 2026-02-24 19:37:50+00:00
If you post like this again we will ban you. There's no place for slurs on this site.

Yes, we apply that equally - I've banned the account that was slurring the opposite group elsewhere in this thread (btw, their comments won't appear to anyone who hasn't turned 'showdead' on in their account). In that case, I didn't post a reply because the account was new and already had a pattern of breaking the site guidelines. In your case, the account is well-established so we wouldn't just go ahead and ban it without replying or warning first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Edit: if https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136856 is correct and you did not intend that as a slur, it would be good to read some of these comments about intent vs. effects, and adjust how you post in the future:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by devmor | 2026-02-24 19:37:58+00:00
RTO is also a factor for some... when I was working full remote I had the time and energy to attend an HIIT class 4 days a week. I was in the best shape of my life.

Since starting a position that requires me in the office for 3 or more days a week, I no longer have the energy (or schedule) to attend since I spend ~120-160m in traffic. Between that and the lack of proximity to my own kitchen affecting my dietary choices, I've gained almost 40lbs in 2 years.

All of this is of course avoidable with self-discipline, but self-discipline wanes as you get more exhausted from your day.
by horeszko | 2026-02-24 19:38:32+00:00
Perhaps part of the problem is that an active shooter is easy to visualize and understand whereas unsecured credentials stored in cookies are an abstract and difficult to visualize problem for management.

Furthermore, turnstiles are easy to promote and take credit for. Secure web authentication would have to be explained to and understood by the boss's boss before credit for it could be claimed.

I suspect it's these aspects of organizational reality that results in security theater.
by mminer237 | 2026-02-24 19:38:46+00:00
It depends on how. The Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches, not any information itself. The police can always just have an officer tail you 24/7, and it's perfectly legal. Placing a GPS tracker on your car physically invades your property and therefore counts as a search though. Generally any public photography is not a search, so they're free to record and keep records however they legally can.

Though at some point, even SCOTUS just does whatever feels right, regardless of what the law says. In Carpenter, SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that your cellular company voluntarily handing over historical cell data also counts as a government search. An appellate court has held that if photography is extensive enough, it becomes a search. SCOTUS has held before that uncommon photographic equipment can constitute a search. That logic honestly doesn't really make sense, but it is what it is now. I wouldn't be surprised that the courts rule against it, but that's not what the law really says.
by 3p0ch95 | 2026-02-24 19:38:54+00:00
Show HN: Neighborly – Personal blogs with AI onboarding, organized by neighborhood

https://neighborly.blog

The internet used to feel like a neighborhood. You'd wander from blog to blog through blogrolls, find someone writing about their town or their weird hobby, and bookmark them. That web is mostly gone.

Neighborly is my attempt to bring some of that back. It's a blogging platform where:

- A short AI conversation sets up your blog in ~60 seconds (name, location, interests, vibe → full Hugo static site on a subdomain)
- You describe your visual style in plain English and the AI generates complete custom CSS
- Blogs are organized by geography and interest into "neighborhoods" you can browse on a map
- There's a combined feed and a random discovery button

Under the hood: Hugo generates static sites, served via Nginx with wildcard subdomains. SQLite for data. Locations are geocoded via Nominatim during onboarding and plotted on a Leaflet map. Style generation uses the Anthropic API to produce full CSS from a natural language prompt. The whole thing runs on one VPS.

$1/month via Stripe. No free tier – partly to keep it sustainable as a solo project, partly because even a small paywall filters for people who actually want to write.

It's very early. I'm the only user with a blog on it right now. But I think the concept is interesting enough to share – curious what HN thinks about the neighborhood metaphor for blog discovery.
by aleksiy123 | 2026-02-24 19:39:05+00:00
I've been having this thought about how generally people say that llms cannot create novel things.

Say writing an interesting or novel story.

And was thinking about if feeding in prompts of random words, along with prompts grounding from a simulation would sort of push the llm into interesting directions for implementing an on demand narrative story.

A sort of randomized walk with llm.

I remember watching Terry Davis with this random word generator in his terminal that he would interpret as the voice of God.

Here I guess the seed is the Voice of Dog.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-24 19:39:12+00:00
"what is Fivecast ONYX? an AI-powered surveillance platform purchased by ICE for $4.2 million and CBP for additional license costs. according to Fivecast’s own documentation and EFF’s reporting, they do automated collection of multimedia data from social media and dark web, build “digital footprints” from biographical data, tracks shifts in sentiment and emotion, assigns risk scores, searches across 300+ platforms and 28+ billion data points, identifies people with “violent tendencies”"

Glad to know that my tinfoil hat wasn't too tight when social media came to be and this obvious use was predicted. How quickly will not having social media accounts become a crime?