MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pdyc | 2026-02-16 05:08:11+00:00
I think peter was mostly using calude and to a lesser extent codex and claude was getting a free marketing. If he can just improve codex to work better with openclaw it will be a big win for openai. If he can make openai agent at par with openclaw with added safety/security it would be a big win too. Its a smart move by openai and i totally get it.
by EagnaIonat | 2026-02-16 05:08:44+00:00
I've found Claude works so much better if you build a CLAUDE.md and tell it that you want it to be an interactive design process.

It helps formalise your plan, then creates some code, you review, talk about what you believe to be wrong or asking it why it took that approach, or even telling it to take the approach that you want.

The end result a world of difference, and I feel I have a better grasp of what is going on in the whole application.
by mindslight | 2026-02-16 05:09:58+00:00
But why not both? I'm coming from a USian perspective here where I don't see much possibility of actual widespread bans of these types of products, rather just a retrenching to what can be supported by regulatory capture.

Also, we're getting the locked down computing devices anyway - mobile phones as they are right now are a sufficient root of trust for parental purposes. So it seems pointless to avoid using that capability (which corpos are happy to continue embracing regardless) but instead put an additional system of control front and center.
by ratrace | 2026-02-16 05:11:24+00:00
No, it's nothing. You should tell me what you think you see here. Epstein, a person in control of tons of money, invested money into one of Thiel's companies? And that somehow means he raped kids? Have you considered the possibility that maybe he was rich and fulfilled his ego by knowing other rich powerful people? This isn't my random opinion by the way, this is from the FBI psych profile on Epstein and his suicide. They concluded that his self-worth came from knowing and connecting with powerful and influential people and feeling important. It would be nice if people could put 2-and-2 together here and drop the schizo-paranoid delusional conspiratorial thinking that everyone he ever emailed must have been biting the heads off of babies. It's actually insane watching the rapid breakdown of people's connection with reality over this.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-16 05:11:52+00:00
The Turing test isn't as bad as people make it out to be. The naive version, where people just try to vibe out whether something is a human or not, is obviously wrong. On the other hand, if you set a good scientist loose on the Turing test, give them as many interactions as they want to come to a conclusion, and you let them build tools to assist in the analysis, it suddenly becomes quite interesting again.

For example, looking at the statistical distribution of the chat over long time horizons, and looking at input/output correlations in a similar manner would out even the best current models in a "Pro Turing Test." Ironically, the biggest tell in such a scenario would be excess capabilities AI displays that a human would not be able to match.
by jwilliams | 2026-02-16 05:11:55+00:00
> Here's a thought. Lets all arbitrarily agree AGI is here.

A slightly different angle on this - perhaps AGI doesn't matter (or perhaps not in the ways that we think).

LLMs have changed a lot in software in the last 1-2 years (indeed, the last 1-2 months); I don't think it's a wild extrapolation to see that'll come to many domains very soon.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-16 05:12:13+00:00
> OpenClaw’s promise and power was that it could tread places SECURITY-WISE that no other established enterprise company could

[Emphasis mine.]

That's a superpower right up to the moment everyone realizes that handing out nukes isn't "promise and power".

Unless by promise and power we are talking about chaos and crime.

The project is incredible. We are seeing something important: how versatile these models are given freedom to act and communicate with each other.

At the same time, it is clearly going to put the internet at risk. Bad actors are going to use OpenClaw and its "security-wise" freedoms, in nefarious ways. Curious people are going to push AI's with funds onto prepaid servers, then let them sink or swim with regard to agentic acquisition of survival resources.

It is all kinds of crazy from here.
by helterskelter | 2026-02-16 05:12:27+00:00
I don't know about AGI but I got bored and ran my plans for a new garage by Opus 4.6 and it was giving me some really surprising responses that have changed my plans a little. At the same time, it was also making some nonsense suggestions that no person would realistically make. When I prompted it for something in another chat which required genuine creativity, it fell flat on its face.

I dunno, mixed bag. Value is positive if you can sort the wheat from the chaff for the use cases I've ran by it. I expect the main place it'll shine for the near and medium term is going over huge data sets or big projects and flagging things for review by humans.
by kilpikaarna | 2026-02-16 05:12:32+00:00
Well, as someone who still regularly plays arcade games I first played decades ago, but gets bored with most modern home games halfway through the tutorial, I'm sad that the incentive and design skill to create those 15 minute intense gameplay experiences has largely been lost.

(Not claiming it would make business sense to try to cater to weirdos like me, or denying that it made sense for Sega to get out of the hardware game or whatever. But probably 95% of their output post-Dreamcast I find completely uninteresting. :)
Too Much Hype?
by exordex | 2026-02-16 05:13:19+00:00
Anyone feel bummed that the big takeaways from AI lately have been software is dead, etc? I wake up often with overwhelming gratitude that so many important problems get to be solved and the process / barrier to entry for solving those problems has lowered so much.

There is so much interesting work to be done, but people seem fixated on the negatives.
by filterfish | 2026-02-16 05:13:24+00:00
My ex-partner has tinnitus and saw a psychologist who specialised in tinnitus. The psychologist suggested she buy a machine that generates a sound slightly quieter than her tinnitus which retrains the brain not to hear the tinnitus. So she bought a machine that generated about 15 different sounds and settled on a pink-ish sound and played while she slept. It took a couple of years but it effectively "cured" her tinnitus. It drove me mad for a while but after a while I didn't notice it.

The machine had different sounds because the sound of tinnitus is different for different people: hers sounded like cicadas, a sound I quite like but she hates!

I have misophonia and used to live in a house where a coffee van would start a generator at 0530 so I used a fan to help drown out the sound. I could still hear the generator but I could sleep through. It fundamentally changed the quality of my life.
by makingstuffs | 2026-02-16 05:13:41+00:00
> No big brand would ever sell their originals that didn’t sell cheap

This is just inherently incorrect. In Europe we have a load of outlet villages which is where big brands do exactly that. It’s where I do most of my shopping. Last year I bought two pairs of Nike Dunks for £25 a pop. I bought Salomon hiking shoes for £60 instead of £140. A pair of Levis 501s for £20. Just an example or my most recent purchases.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-16 05:14:23+00:00
> So instead, people are rage-returning Ring cameras and posting their receipts and exchanging them for...Chinese cameras. Which do the same thing, except this time the servers are overseas and completely uncontrolled.

No, the right thing to do is to buy an IP camera (most of which are made in China), firewall it, and send the footage to a local NVR. At no point should the camera speak to the open Internet.

It's the same principle with any Internet-of-Shit device -- it's not allowed to communicate over the Internet, period. At that point, any built-in backdoor or anti-feature becomes irrelevant.
by JSR_FDED | 2026-02-16 05:15:36+00:00
Admin & Office : 18 days

Software Dev : 22 days

Retail & Hospitality: 33 days

Would love to understand why.

- few jobs, much supply = can afford to be picky to get the best

- not much difference between applicants = hire first that meets requirements

- switching costs are high = be picky

- high impact on team/culture = be picky

None of these explain the data.
by BloondAndDoom | 2026-02-16 05:16:32+00:00
Do you think this applies to only cheap software?

I assume expensive SaaS is generally very complicated nothing you can vibecode in a weekend, but I assume if someone is selling $50 SaaS, someone else will vibe code it and sell for $20

Or someone will sell calendly kind of app $10 for a year.

Or maybe everyone will rely on popular brands and this won’t make any meaningful difference in the market other than few categories.
by sham1 | 2026-02-16 05:17:13+00:00
> [...] but I can't get anything for my bank,

You most likely can.[0] Of course, banks don't tend to advertise these kinds of authentication devices, probably because people tend to find apps easier, but you absolutely should be able to get one from your bank. It's very much not a Danske Bank specific technology, and it's explicitly there to allow for accessibility for those people without "suitable" phones, e.g. old people.

It's certainly not as convenient to use the online bank with a fob like this vis-à-vis a banking app, and we should absolutely push for banks to not be reliant on Google and Apple for their apps, but it is possible to use the services without being reliant on Google or Apple.

> my healthcare (which is a public service in Denmark) or any of our national digital post services. You can apply to get exempt from the digital post services, and they do have a website solution, but still.

Now admittedly I don't know how this stuff is over there in Denmark, but here in Finland we have access to the digital healthcare services via a website, both for the national patient database and the healthcare region access. Again, not as convenient as the respective apps -- although the app for the national patient database, OmaKanta, is very much in beta stages still, and it's way more convenient to use the website even on the phone -- but it's possible. I would be very surprised if that wasn't also possible over in Denmark.

And authentication can happen via couple means that aren't reliant on the smartphone duopoly, with authentication doable with online banking -- which as established, doesn't even need a phone -- and via a "phone authentication" which IIRC only needs support insofar as it's supported by the SIM card, and then of course authentication can be done with the national ID card and a smartcard reader.

And again, the point isn't that this kind of de-Googling or de-Appleing isn't difficult or inconvenient, or that we shouldn't improve the situation, but that it's absolutely possible to get away without using these vendors. And that we should make sure that these kinds of alternatives remain possible to use.

> Don't get me wrong. I appreachiate all the work being done to get Europe out of the claws of US tech companies, but I think having an official EU app store alternative would be a good start.

Absolutely.

[0]: <https://danskebank.dk/erhverv/find-hjaelp/netbank-erhverv-bu...>
by BobbyTables2 | 2026-02-16 05:17:31+00:00
I feel this.

When I was young, I had excellent eyesight and crappy CRTs. Might even have been 20/15. Could even read the microprint added to currency.

Now we have amazing displays but not as striking now even if the glasses correct minor astigmatism well.

Doesn’t seem like an enormous difference between modern TVs and LED backlit panels almost 20 years ago. (Yes, newer displays are a bit brighter, but nothing like the CRT to LCD transition then)
by josephg | 2026-02-16 05:17:40+00:00
Yes. I hear this claim from above: "Some humans can beat stockfish."

Evidence given: "There exist some small number of games on lichess.org played against stockfish where the user won."

My counter argument is that games on lichess against stockfish don't imply a human beat stockfish. It could just be that stockfish (or other bots) can sometimes beat stockfish. And some humans surely use bots to play on their behalf in order to cheat in online games.

I don't know if any humans can beat stockfish. But I don't consider that to be strong evidence.
by melezhik | 2026-02-16 05:17:59+00:00
Hi! Dsci tool author here. Thanks for attention .

1. The post is written by me, not generated by AI

2. It’s better to browse documentation from http://deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io/doc/README that way all links should work , sorry for confusion

3. Adding GH action integration should be easy , added this to my todo list

4. Yes on the top pipeline structure there is a bit of yaml - it’s only required to reference linear list of jobs - jobs themselves are written in general programming languages . Probably in the simplest form I can even drop this first level yaml … will see , but imho I bit of yaml to structure out the list of join is ok, it’s not ok to embed into it action code , shell scripts , etc - to have nightmare of code to maintain and extend … the very idea that dsci is about

5. For people curious to play with there is forgejo public instance already set with dsci - http://deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io/doc/demo
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-16 05:18:50+00:00
Only tangentially related.

I occasionally fall asleep to either a movie / TV episode on repeat in a media player on the PC in my bedroom, or a YouTube short which repeats.

The audio almost always gets integrated in to my dreams, and almost always in a highly entertaining and humours way.

Anyways, I feel I sleep better when there is background sound, even if it’s other people (quietly) partying in the house.
by almostdigital | 2026-02-16 05:19:49+00:00
https://elevenlabs.io/sound-effects

With the prompt "WWII Plane Japan Kawasaki Ki-61 flying by, propeller airplane" and setting looping on and 30 sec duration manually instead of auto (the duration predictor fails pretty bad at this prompt, you need to be logged in to set duration manually) it works pretty well. No idea if it's close to that specific airplane though it sounds like a ww2 plane to me though.
Show HN: Mindweave – AI-powered personal knowledge hub with semantic search
by adas10 | 2026-02-16 05:20:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Mindweave to solve a problem I kept running into — I'd save bookmarks, notes, and links across different apps, then never find them again when I actually needed them.

Mindweave lets you capture notes, links, and files in one place. The interesting part is what happens after:

- Semantic search — find content by meaning, not just keywords. "That article about improving deep work" finds it even if those words don't appear in the content. Powered by pgvector cosine similarity on Gemini embeddings.
- AI auto-tagging — Gemini generates tags on save, so you don't have to organize anything manually.
- Knowledge Q&A — ask questions about your saved content using RAG. Retrieves relevant pieces, feeds them as context to Gemini, returns a grounded answer.

Stack: Next.js 15 (App Router, Server Actions), PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector, Google Gemini (text-embedding-004, 768d), Drizzle ORM, Auth.js v5, Tailwind/shadcn. Deployed on Cloud Run.

A few things I found interesting while building this:

- pgvector inside Postgres is surprisingly capable for this scale. No need for a separate vector DB.
- The biggest UX challenge was handling edge cases in similarity scores — zero-magnitude embeddings produce NaN from cosine distance, and PostgreSQL treats float8 NaN as greater than all numbers, so they pass through WHERE
filters silently.

- AI tagging removes more friction than I expected. The difference between "I'll tag this later" and "it's already tagged" is the difference between a system you use and one you abandon.

Live at www.mindweave.space. Source at https://github.com/abhid1234/MindWeave

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7428965058388590592-...

Would love feedback, especially on the semantic search UX and the RAG implementation.
by promptbuildercc | 2026-02-16 05:20:54+00:00
I kept wasting 15+ minutes rewriting the same prompt for different AI models. Claude needs structured XML, GPT prefers system instructions, Gemini has its own quirks. So I built Prompt Builder.

You type an idea, pick a target model, and it generates a model-optimized prompt in seconds. Then you can test it against multiple AI models without leaving the tool, refine it with an optimizer, and save your best prompts to a library for reuse.

Key features:
Prompt Generator - idea to model-specific prompt in one step
Prompt Assistant — test prompts across models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, etc.) without switching tabs
Prompt Optimizer — structured improvements to any existing prompt
Prompt Library — save, organize, and reuse your best prompts

Free tier available. Would love feedback from the HN community. what would make this more useful for your workflow?
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-16 05:21:07+00:00
Luigi Mangione really put a scare in the billionaires for a moment at least.

This occurred sometime after his actions(CEO giving a talk and was interrupted by a protester): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SK-5AALSBFA

There were rumors that the reason Elon was bringing his child around every single moment he was in public was because of speculation that the child could assist in being cover for him(again thats speculation though people did get a laugh out of it). It started around the Luigi murder.
by baumy | 2026-02-16 05:22:40+00:00
Would you be willing to bet money that you can beat a properly setup stockfish, no piece odds and even time controls? I'll give you literally any odds you name and let you try an unlimited number of times until you give up. 100% serious.

P.S: You should not take this bet. You will lose. You are mistaken if you think you beat stockfish.
by ratrace | 2026-02-16 05:23:55+00:00
I love when leftists are so willing to have such a weak grasp on reality that they're able to convince themselves that the sitting president of the united states ate babies just because they don't like him and think he's fascist or something.

Actually, I don't, it's extremely concerning and is definitely one (of many) reasons to re-evaluate this whole democracy thing. Something about how the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
by r-johnv | 2026-02-16 05:24:11+00:00
'Terraforming Mars' is a game that I've come back to more times than I can count.

The beauty is that it visually looks really complex and advanced, but the gameplay isn't really that much complex more than wingspan.

Over the years I bought the 'prelude' expansion which speeds up the beginning. (Highly recommend)

And then once you've played it more than 10-15 times, the Hellas& Elysium adds more maps for variety.
by O1111OOO | 2026-02-16 05:24:14+00:00
> Have you https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/single-file/

Yes I have. I tried maff, mht, SingleFile and some others over the years. MAFF was actually my goto for many years because it was just a zip container. It felt future-proof for a long time until it wasn't (I needed to manually extract contents to view once the supporting extension was gone).

I seem to recall that MHT caused me a little more of a conversion problem.

It was my concern for future-proofing that eventually led me back to "Save As..".

My first choice is "Save as..." these days because I just want easy long-term access to the content. The content is always the key and picking and choosing which asset to get rid of is fairly easy with this. Sometimes it's just all the JS/trackers/ads, etc..

If "Save as..." fails, I'll try 'Reader Mode' and attempt "Save as.." again (this works pretty well on many sites). As a last resort I'll use SingleFile (which I like too - I tested it on even DOS browsers from the previous century and it passed my testing).

A locally saved SingleFile can be loaded into FF and I can always perform a "Save As..." on it if I wanted to for some reason (eg; smaller file, js-trackers, cleaner HTML, etc).
by stodor89 | 2026-02-16 05:24:17+00:00
> This sort of anti-overproduction law means that the next time there's an unexpected need -- for example an unusually cold winter -- there will be a shortage because there won't be any warehouses full of "just in case" inventory.

Clothes are something extremely overabundant in the EU. And even if they weren't, the unexpected overdemand will result in just using your old coat another year or buying one you like less. Workers are being unnecessarily exploited and resources are being unnecessarily wasted... so I think nudging companies in the right direction is way overdue. Will it work the way EU thinks? Probably not. Just like GDPR was well-intended, but the result is higher entry barrier to new companies and a bunch of annoying popups. But I'd argue that's a result of "not enough" regulation rather than "too much". Companies caught abusing our data should have been outright banned IMHO.
by shoo | 2026-02-16 05:24:36+00:00
+1 to pavel_lishin's Splendor suggestion. There's also Splendour: Duel [1] which is a more complex version of the game designed for 2 players.

Another quick, low-complexity game that is easy to teach & pretty good fun is Century: Spice Road [2]

Chinatown [3] (re-themed as Waterfall Park [3b] ) is a simple highly interactive game that is basically 100% negotiations between players who are trying to make real estate deals with each other. Can be played in 90 minutes, including rules explanation, plays up to 5. For a more complex asymmetric game that's more focused on engine building, with a healthy dose of negotiation, check out Sidereal Confluence [4].

For more complex games that take a bit longer to play to teach and play, that are largely focused on players doing their own thing ("multiplayer solitaire"), building their engines without much negative player interaction, check out Ark Nova [5] or Terraforming Mars [6]. These might take 3-4 hours or so to finish, provided there's an experienced player to teach everyone the rules.

For another moderately complex strategy game with a little more player interaction, check out Brass: Birmingham [7]. Takes around 4.5 hours to finish a 4 player game, including the rules explanation. If you have a group that enjoys complex strategy games and wants something with spikier negative player interactions, where one player's actions can completely wreck another player's plans, check out Barrage [8].

This probably doesn't help "without spending much money"! One trick is to find or create a regular board gaming group where everyone brings along different games. That way if, everyone buys a new game or two every year there's a lot of variety without everyone needing to buy heaps of games.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/364073/splendor-duel

[2] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/209685/century-spice-roa...

[3] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/47/chinatown

[3b] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/396618/waterfall-park

[4] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/202426/sidereal-confluen...

[5] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/342942/ark-nova

[6] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/167791/terraforming-mars

[7] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224517/brass-birmingham

[8] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/251247/barrage