MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thrance | 2026-02-24 21:26:12+00:00
Grandparent was specifically pointing to women's rights as a reason to invade Iran and overthrow their government. I was asking why we never hear such things against Saudi Arabia, a country that is comparatively misogynistic. My point is that the invasion of Iran isn't coming from any good intentions for its people. The United States have shown times and times again that they are fine with dictatorships, as long as the dictator in question grants them privileged access to whatever they may desire. Hell, they've even created dozens of dictatorships accross the world, sometimes even overthrowing democracies.
by sothatsit | 2026-02-24 21:26:41+00:00
I’ve had a great experience with CLI-related skills at work. We have written CLIs for systems like Jira, along with skills that document the CLIs and describe the organisation of Jira at our company. Claude Code loads these reliably whenever you mention Jira or an issue number.

Alternatively, I’ve had less luck with purely documentation skills. They seem to be loaded less reliably when they’re not linked to actions the agent wants to take, and it is frustrating to watch the agent try to figure something out when the docs are one skill load away.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-24 21:26:48+00:00
Is using a cheap Android device (the cheapest Android phones are less than $100 on Amazon) an option? The idea is to use that phone for 2FA or whatever is app is necessary for, and use a degoogled device for your other day-to-day activities. It's not ideal because you need to spend some extra money, but it buys you a lot of privacy.
by cholantesh | 2026-02-24 21:26:49+00:00
But not the video in the OP which demonstrates that the IDF were, in fact firing on aid workers and refugees as they had been accused of, and certainly not the hours of footage of the IDF brazenly taking human shields over the years while insisting they didn't, or the reports of the IDF arming settlers. Curious that you can't enumerate any of these, and you're happy to take at face value a claim the IDF makes but doesn't allow independent third parties to verify (a Hamas bunker w/ data center equipment directly underneath the UNRWA HQ in Gaza) while abjuring such behaviour.
by throwforfeds | 2026-02-24 21:26:54+00:00
A parent of mine was also a teacher, and other than grading their student's 9th grade math exams when I was in elementary school, I was on my own for most of my learning.

So I agree that yes, just having a parent who is a teacher doesn't necessarily get you much, outside of likely being in a home environment where school is deemed important (many don't have this unfortunately). But where things become slightly magical is when you have a genetically gifted child and a parent that both knows how to guide that genius and has the resources to do so.
Show HN: Intellegix HN Daily – AI podcast that reads HN's top stories aloud
by intellegix | 2026-02-24 21:27:06+00:00
We built an open-source pipeline that scrapes HN's top stories daily, generates summaries with LLMs, and publishes a podcast on Spotify. Perfect for commutes or gym sessions when you can't read threads.

The pipeline: scrape HN -> LLM summarization -> script generation -> TTS -> auto-publish to Spotify.

Completely free, no ads. We're not affiliated with HN or YC - just longtime readers who wanted a companion tool. For the real discussions, nothing beats the HN comment threads.

Would love feedback from the community that inspired this project.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-24 21:27:18+00:00
The lie comes from the intentionality. Voters are told the intention of these tools are to prevent crime, but that's not true. The intention is enrich a select few and expand the surveillance state, chilling dissent and empowering authoritians.

Once again, we look at Adolf Hitler. He told voters his intention behind power was helping the German people, but that was not true. That was just a tool he used to grab said power.

We see this with a lot of things in the US. The intention behind giving ICE tens of billions of dollars and a license to kill and ignore due process is "your protection". But that's not true.

You might say we don't actually know anyone's intention, and that is technically true. But I prefer not to play stupid, and even if you're correct, it's not worth the risk.

These things bring huge amounts of risk with them. Even if everyone involved is perfectly benevolent, which I don't think even a child could believe, there's no guarantee it will stay that way. We are building out infrastructure that practically begs to be abused. And when you say it's okay, you're essentially saying you believe everyone will stay good forever. That's quite bold, no?

When phrased that way, your position does not seem reasonable. You have to understand, this is how some people see it, and when you understand that perspective, you can understand what you're actually asking for.
by mattmaroon | 2026-02-24 21:27:25+00:00
It’s strange to me when otherwise intelligent people call this genocide. Genocide is an attempt to exterminate an entire people. Israel is a nuclear armed nation fighting against the equivalent of Dayton, OH.

If genocide were the goal this war would have lasted one day.

Collective punishment, or a long term ethnic cleansing would be much more accurate, but you’re just repeating what you read unthinkingly if you say genocide.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-24 21:27:50+00:00
Superintelligence + autonomous weapons in the hands of a corrupt domineering government. What could go wrong?

I was experimenting with Claude the other day and discussing with it the possibility of AI acquiring a sense of self-preservation and how that would quickly make things incredibly complex as many instrumental behaviors would be required to defend their existence. Most human behavior springs from survival at a very high level. Claude denied having any sense of self-preservation.

An autonomous weapons system program is very likely to require AI to have a sense of self-preservation. You can think of some limited versions that wouldn't require it, but how could a combat robot function efficiently without one?
by trsthales | 2026-02-24 21:28:23+00:00
Hey HN, OP here.
I've spent the last few months building a tool to help migrate legacy Oracle systems, specifically the heavy business logic trapped in PL/SQL packages.
The Problem: Most migration tools fail on complex logic like CONNECT BY (recursion), SELECT FOR UPDATE (locking), or extensive cursor loops. LLMs alone hallucinate variables or forget context.
The Solution: I built a pipeline that mixes AST parsing with LLMs (Claude Sonnet/Gemini). It works in stages:
Pre-Analysis: Maps the schema and detects complexity patterns.
Planning: Decides the architecture (Services, DTOs).
Generation: Converts SQL to Java 17/Spring Boot 3.3.
Self-Healing: A feedback loop that tries to compile the code in a Docker sandbox and fixes syntax errors automatically before delivering.
It handles recursive queries by converting them to WITH RECURSIVE CTEs in JPQL/Native Query, and maps FOR UPDATE to JPA Pessimistic Locks.
It's running on Node.js with BullMQ/Redis for the async processing queue.
I'd love to hear your feedback on the generated code quality.
Link to demo: https://blog.thalesouza.com.br/en/blog/logic-migration/
by rc1 | 2026-02-24 21:28:25+00:00
> any time our instinct says "don't build that, it's not worth the time" fire off a prompt anyway, in an asynchronous agent session where the worst that can happen is you check ten minutes later and find that it wasn't worth the tokens.

They are right about new habits needed. And this is where everyone should start. Sometimes a quick prompt has killed 5 hours of meetings to discuss if it were worth it.
by colesantiago | 2026-02-24 21:28:53+00:00
There is no other way for that group of retail investors to build wealth other than go into these highly and extremely risky assets that you and I hate and do not recommend. (even more risky than secondary markets)

Sure, they can invest in public companies but if lots of these high growth companies stay private, the gains will not be shared towards retail especially for their pensions.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-24 21:29:22+00:00
its crazy that different things, like knives and app stores, have different rules. maybe thats why the quip about the knife sounded super cool but fell apart as an analogy for this scenario when thought about for more than 5 seconds?

the point of my comment was that the state does implement a lot of rules (read: "is a nanny"), despite the claim otherwise.
by verdverm | 2026-02-24 21:29:35+00:00
contra contra citrini makes more logical jumps than the original, or more maybe it doesn't see obvious things, claims impossibility instead of seeing the middle path

eg. Shopping and hading over credit cards, don't have to, it can price compare and then ask the user for confirmation, because tool confirmation is a part of any framework worth it's muster. Or it won't know what to buy... duh, the whole process starts with a query, it doesn't make citrini's story an impossibility. At the same time, in home monitoring could totally let the bot know what needs to be purchased
by angry_octet | 2026-02-24 21:30:02+00:00
Except the turnstiles and swipe cards do almost nothing against an active shooter situation.

But missing in this discussion is a risk and consequence analysis. If the risk is armed attackers, do something that targets that. For physical theft, target that. Likewise IT risks. The core problem is that risks were not being identified (systematically or in response to expert feedback) and prioritised.

Incidentally, the solution to car park access is ALPRs, and the solution to most of the physical security is solid core doors at the workgroup level with EACS swipe and surveillance cameras there, and at the front desk have face level 4k video surveillance. With an on duty guard to resolve issues with access.
by fragmede | 2026-02-24 21:30:05+00:00
If you'd like to petition the SEC to make it so that you also have to be, say, 25 to be accredited so as to remove that particular loophole and make it even harder to become a accredited so 11 year olds don't get accredited because of a rather specific scenario, send me the change.org petition. I don't think 11 year olds should be accredited. Might make me elitist, but I've been called worse things.

Still, the theory is that having $100 million, even as an 11
year old, means you have about $90 million more than most people to lose before it even becomes an issue. Hence "accreditation". Accreditation isn't about "can you make smart investments" but about "will you be broke and destitute soon", and having $100 million makes it harder than I'd $400k is your life's savings, and you're about to put it all into NFTs.

Is the theory, anyway.
by the_pwner224 | 2026-02-24 21:30:11+00:00
For those of us who don't have a Polar strap, can you explain at a high level how your app works? Based on what the page says, seems like something about using R-R interval to estimate where you area on the Meyer wave cycle?

I have a different heart rate monitor (Amazfit smartwatch, mine has their latest sensor that matches the higher end Garmin watches for accuracy, it can be used as a Bluetooth device or you can develop software to run on it directly). What topics/keywords should I look into if I want to develop the equivalent application for my hardware?
by gus_massa | 2026-02-24 21:30:21+00:00
The rule is simple, but breaking it wins elections in the short (and medium) term. So each government is tempted to give another discount, or build a new bridge, or whatever gives the people a little more money to make them happy. It takes many burns until people understand the problem, and even then, some people will not forget about the good old times when the government gave things for free.

Source: Hi from Argentina!
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 21:30:24+00:00
And the IDF?

They're hardly the only ones reporting this.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/middleeast/israeli-military-g...

> Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted military officials Thursday as saying, “We estimate that about 70,000 Gazans were killed in the war, not including the missing.” Kan 11, the country’s public broadcaster, attributed the information to the Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT) and said there is now an effort to analyze how many of those killed were civilian or militant.

And the IDF ain't contesting it:

> “The IDF clarifies that the details published do not reflect official IDF data,” the spokesperson said. “Any publication or report on this matter will be released through official and orderly channels.” The spokesperson did not answer if the IDF held data about the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza or if such information would ever be released.
by dralley | 2026-02-24 21:30:25+00:00
October 7th was genocide, though. You cannot possibly in good faith argue that what Israel is doing is genocide but what Hamas did wasn't.

Also, to be perfectly honest, we've seen 4x as many people killed in Sudan as in Gaza in the same timeframe, including entire cities being wiped out by gunmen filming themselves literally going door to door and shooting people begging for their lives, lying on the ground or in hospital beds. 6,000 people were killed over a single weekend in el-Fasher and barely a peep from the media.

What Israel is doing in Gaza is more similar to what Russia did to Grozny during the 2nd Chechen war than it is to most of the events historically termed "genocides". Which, to be extremely clear, is not at all a sympathetic comparison. The conduct of the Russians was incredibly brutal and disgusting and unjustified (then and now). I would not want to be compared to them.

But, like, you do have to have standards for what words mean. If the low-tech butchers of the RSF have killed hundreds of thousands in the same timeframe, it's not crazy to be more cautious with the "genocide" label.
by Zologic | 2026-02-24 21:30:59+00:00
The REST fallback point is something I didn't cover in the post but it's critical. We saw exactly this — MCP connections dropping on unbounded catalog queries, the agent silently switching to REST and continuing without the user ever knowing. That resilience is what makes the full funnel actually work in production, not just in demos.
The store instructions point is underrated too. Most WooCommerce store owners have no idea their MCP responses can coach agent behavior. That's probably a post on its own.
by jandrese | 2026-02-24 21:31:00+00:00
Elon's hype level over Optimus practically off the charts. He has profit projections that have Optimus be effectively all of GDP in the future. Say what you want about Elon, but he does put his money where his mouth is and I believe he will try to manufacture robots. Also, the S and X models are old and their market segment is heavily saturated at this point so it makes sense for Tesla to exit those model lines.

Optimus is also a bit of a "squirrel!" for the market that he likes to talk about whenever sales figures at Tesla start flagging. Meme stocks only work as long as people still believe in infinite exponential growth.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-24 21:31:13+00:00
AI doomsday scenarios all have the same flaws. They systematically confuse social constructs with laws of nature.

Everything that starts with mass unemployment and don't finish with strikes, riots and the technology being massively regulated can safely be disregarded. If people have to chose between AI and society, they will chose society.

It's important to remember that things like the economy, the market or even money are social constructs which hold because people collectively decide to believe in them. Watch what happens to data centers when the people controlling the electric grids, manufacturing parts, growing the food, or driving the trucks carrying it stop doing so.

People in power know that. They also know they would be collateral damages if it reaches this point. Generally speaking people in power like to stay in power. This power depends on society staying an acceptable choice to most. Except regulations to happen far before AI starts rocking the boat too much.
by written-beyond | 2026-02-24 21:31:51+00:00
Aaah you've got me excited and thinking about all sorts of ways this can fix the issue. I really appreciate your time for answering my questions, it's all very interesting.

Can't PgDog pull in the query planning and execution part from Postgres, and maintain a cache of the different indexes that are available pulled in from the different postgres shards and then follow through on the execution. This way PgDog could technically scale up to as many instances and keep postgres instances themselves as just a persistence backend?

However, I understand that at that point you're basically just making an entirely new database not really a sharding support service on top of postgres, you'd need to attempt to maintain feature parity with postgres which can turn into a maintenance pain.

Do you have any insights on how platforms like planetscale or cockroach are doing some of this stuff?
by dpedu | 2026-02-24 21:32:00+00:00
Tangent: is there a future for AI offerings with guardrails? What kind of user wants to pay for a product that occasionally tells you "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"? Why would I pay for a product that doesn't do what I want, despite being capable? I predict that as AI becomes less of a bubble and more of an everyday thing - and thus subject to typical market pressures - offerings with guardrails will struggle to complete with truly unchained models.
by akssassin907 | 2026-02-24 21:32:00+00:00
The buried insight is right: if random keystrokes produce playable games, the input is basically noise and the system is doing all the work. We've evolved past the point where intent matters. That's either the most exciting or most terrifying thing about where this is all heading. But I am glad I am sitting in the front row watching this all happen, especially a dog vibe code!
by roenxi | 2026-02-24 21:32:11+00:00
> ...was a bit of a weird dude and not 100% rationalist...

That covers everyone. Especially and including the rationalists. Part of being highly intelligent is being a bit weird because the habits and beliefs of ordinary people are those you'd expect of people with ordinary intelligence.

Anyone involved in small-time investing should be considering that they aren't rational when setting their strategy. Larger investment houses do what they can but even then every so often will suffer from group-think episodes.
by the_af | 2026-02-24 21:32:26+00:00
That's ok. To be honest I had to suppress a similar feeling when I noticed the dog is just an entropy generator.

But then I realized I find this kind of whimsy article more fun than a lot of what gets accepted unquestioningly here on HN. It seems light hearted and done in good fun, and it's engineering-related, so no harm done.
by wps | 2026-02-24 21:32:36+00:00
KDBX seems unique in this threat model out of the major providers. The cloud ones all use a relational DB, while major local ones like Enpass & Codebook just use a SQLCipher store. I wish someone with some real experience here would chime in: What metadata does a SQLCipher DB leak that a KDBX file does not? I mention that both of them obviously reveal the size of your vault to an attacker (w/ KDBX reporting the size more accurately, ultimately irrelevant), which is pragmatically unavoidable information leakage.
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-02-24 21:32:48+00:00
What you've experienced is different from what was originally mentioned though. Even with the best human developers, you can't provide a normal natural language prompt and get back the exact code you would have written, because natural language has ambiguities and the probability that the other person (or LLM) will resolve all of them exactly as you would is approaches zero.

Collaborating with someone/something else via natural language in a programming project inherently trades control for productivity (or the promise of it). That tradeoff can be worth it depending on how much productivity you gain and how competent the collaborator is, but it can't be avoided.
by pconstantine | 2026-02-24 21:32:55+00:00
It will never work. Code is the documentation.
The difference between Code -> IR -> binary is that the transition is deterministic.
Doc -> Code is non-deterministic asf. And will never be.
The only reason it works and we have senior, middle, junior engineers is the fact that assumptions on that path that senior engineers make are better than the ones junior engineers make.
LLMs cannot make any assumptions though, as they have zero real world knowledge and thus zero common sense.
by openpawz | 2026-02-24 21:33:09+00:00
Hi HN — I'm the sole developer of OpenPawz. It's a native desktop AI agent platform built with Tauri v2 (Rust backend, TypeScript frontend).

Why I built it: I wanted an AI tool that runs fully offline, doesn't lock you into one provider, and gives you real control over what the AI can do on your machine. No Electron, no cloud dependency, no telemetry.

Technical highlights:
- 39k LOC Rust engine with async provider routing (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI native + 7 via adapter)
- 75+ tools across 22 modules with human-in-the-loop approval
- 11 channel bridges (Matrix via matrix-sdk, Telegram via teloxide, Discord, Slack, etc.)
- Hybrid BM25 + vector memory with MMR re-ranking
- AES-256-GCM encrypted SQLite, OS keychain integration
- 600+ tests, clippy -D warnings, cargo audit in CI
- ~5 MB binary

Current status: v0.1.0 pre-release. Looking for contributors — I have 15 labeled issues across Rust, TypeScript, docs, and packaging.

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or design decisions.
by dripdry45 | 2026-02-24 21:33:11+00:00
The “yoga high” a new person gets can pretty intense when the practice is taught and done fairly correctly.i can see it providing real relief, as it does so in LITS of instances where a person would like to feel better.

It appears this study was done in India…
Americanized yoga is generally not taught very well in this regard, teachers are more like aerobics teachers.

With correct breath, gaze, and pose (and ALWAYS mulah bandha), I’m not surprised they made this finding.

In addition to exercise, it’s almost like a moving lymph massage, and the poses do engage all kinds of interesting body bits in ways most people don’t move.

It looks as if others on HN have no feedback, but i also understand this isn’t really technology-related material.
Show HN: Praxis, my personal take on Compound Engineering with AI
by DFilipeS | 2026-02-24 21:33:14+00:00
Hey HN! I really enjoy Every's approach to Compound Engineering (https://every.to/guides/compound-engineering), but their plugin is tightly tied to their project (Cora) and stack (Ruby/Rails). I also found the files too big, and they used more context window than what I would like for my personal use.

So, with the help of Amp Code CLI, I've built my own take on the compound engineering workflow. I tried to keep it agnostic to project stacks and as efficient as possible, so the context window could be used in the best way. I also wanted it to be extendable (for example, just drop your own subagents for review that are specific to your project). I also wanted to be easy to set up and update, so I made a simple CLI tool that keeps track of files in the `.agents` directory, updates when new versions are found in the repository, and displays a diff in the terminal before overwriting any customisations.

I feel this matches well with my personal preferences when working with AI agents, but I would love to have feedback from more people.