MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2026-02-16 03:40:28+00:00
To say there are still problems doesn't mean there isn't significant progress. Otherwise, there is no significant progress anywhere in anything.

> what should have happened in response to metoo and George Floyd/BLM was action that went beyond symbolism.

There was and is:

Laws have been passed in many places protecting rights. Oppressive systems like bail have been reformed in many places. Progressive prosecutors were elected around the country - some still are in office. Even the other prosecutors have (often) stopped backing law enforcement corruption. In some places, police have been prosecuted and jailed for the first time.

I think people overlook it for a common reason: Many things that were disruptive change then became the norm, so people don't notice them. As they say about innovation: First they laugh at you (ridicule your idea), then they say it's not in the Bible (violates the established orthodoxy), then they say they knew it all along. :)

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

Maybe the last reminder in DC, which I doubt. I see plenty of BLM signs (and LGTBQ+ pride flags) in cities.
I got tired of babysitting Claude,so I built AI agent that run on my laptop 24/7
by bagula_ai | 2026-02-16 03:40:37+00:00
I was spending more time orchestrating Claude Code and Cursor than actually coding. Run command → wait → check output → repeat.
So I built v16: persistent AI agents that work autonomously on my laptop.

- Each agent: ~40MB Go process
- Chat via Telegram (@devops, @research, @monitor)
- Run cron jobs autonomously (git checks, research, monitoring)
- Multi-LLM support (Claude, GPT-4, Groq)

My MacBook runs 4 agents 24/7 at ~160MB RAM. They handle git commits, compile research, and alert on system issues.
Written in Go. Persistent memory via JSON. Battery-aware.
Open source: https://github.com/anup-singhai/v16
Blog: https://v16.ai/blog/army-of-ai-agents
by hluska | 2026-02-16 03:41:25+00:00
When I was university, I got heavy into spoken word poetry and making hip hop. Personal Journals by Sage Francis had become a huge part of my life and rather than focus on school like a mature person I thought I’d make my own album. It turns out I have a profound lack of talent, but I got a lot of experience with a microphone.

To me that ‘s’ sound reminds me of the sibilance a Shure SM58 picks up without a pop filter. I hear a different side of the same idea on ‘p’ and ‘b’ as well.

I had a speech impediment as a youngster and the sound got in my head. Now I hear it on podcasts.
by mingus88 | 2026-02-16 03:42:20+00:00
> I enjoy solo board gaming—largely because I haven’t fully converted my family yet—but nothing compares to a game night.

I’m just going to get this off my chest here because I think a lot of “board game people” might not really understand why their enthusiasm doesn’t catch on with a lot of people

I know a decent number of board game “enthusiasts” that will pull out a fancy new game to show off, and spend a couple of hours setting it up and explaining the rules to everyone…

And then the next game night its the same thing. Check out this great new game! Let’s set it up and let’s all learn a new set of cards and board.

This happens so often to me. These people never want to actually _play_ a game, or at least they can’t get over their obsession to buy new games that I rarely end up playing a game that I just learned the rules to. Next night it’s a new game!

It’s exhausting and honestly I tend to avoid board game nights now. And I like games!

I had so much fun playing dominoes or simple card games with my friends before board gaming got huge. Because the point was not the actual game, but the time spent with my friends.
by csense | 2026-02-16 03:42:41+00:00
Anonymous or pseudonymous publishing is an essential element of Constitutionally protected freedom of speech [1]. If the government knows who's posting what, it's a lot easier for them to harass, intimidate, punish, or otherwise suppress people who post uncomfortable or politically inconvenient things.

Recent New York Times headline: "Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts". I'm sure the administration would be very happy if there was a database of government issued photo ID's for every account on Facebook. And if the government gets the ID's of those accounts, I'm quite sure nothing good will come of it for either the individuals involved, or the ability of the people to understand whether the government department in question is going about its duties in a way that respects the law and the Constitution.

[1] My username refers to an anonymously published pamphlet that played a key role in US history.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-16 03:43:44+00:00
If the police actually did their job, took property crimes seriously and would bother with the suspicious guy high on fent looking into kids bedroom reports seriously, then we really wouldn't have to be setting up our own surveillance to make up for lacking local government services. But here we are, I'm not sure why libertarians think we don't have a right to defend ourselves (using new tech to make up for a lack of policing) when the city won't?

I frankly see it as a liberty to be able to use this tech, and it would be tyranny to prevent us from using it.
by ggm | 2026-02-16 03:43:48+00:00
Although much of this resonates, the factoid here is that taylorism is a thing, and since before Marx economists have debated the extent to which piecework over time-rate alters the equation for paying for the labour inputs in capital.

Being required to be present, and being required to be productive are two different dimensions of control over being in work, and paid for work outputs.

WFH shifted the balance. Intrusive monitoring of the soft-desk is just another instance of a guy in a white coat with a clock standing behind you on the production line.

Neither time-and-motion nor extended overtime nor night shift move the dial positively on work outputs except in the case of people being performance managed out. If you are productive, doing LESS is usually more productive per unit time on work, than trying to do more, trying to work longer, or trying to work out of phase with your bodyclock. When ww2 required extreme measures, this was plotted out fully both sides of the atlantic and death in the workplace aside (it happened) the overall productivity and quality dropped.

You cannot get blood from a stone.

AI replacement was of course massively mythologised to justify short term salary savings and boards achieved KPI and shareholders rejoiced. IBM amongst others has quietly gone back into the market to pick up the junior staff everyone said they wouldn't want to have, because of course you want cheaper young productive minds, and the real victims of AI hype will be the old, mature, productive labour units who resist new ways of thinking.
by abalone | 2026-02-16 03:43:52+00:00
I think this comment misses that OpenAI hired the guy, not the project.

"This guy was able to vibe code a major thing" is exactly the reason they hired him. Like it or not, so-called vibe coding is the new norm for productive software development and probably what got their attention is that this guy is more or less in the top tier of vibe coders. And laser focused on helpful agents.

The open source project, which will supposedly remain open source and able to be "easily done" by anyone else in any case, isn't the play here. The whole premise of the comment about "squashing" open source is misplaced and logically inconsistent. Per its own logic, anyone can pick up this project and continue to vibe out on it. If it falls into obscurity it's precisely because the guy doing the vibe coding was doing something personally unique.
by traes | 2026-02-16 03:44:54+00:00
Obviously a board game will be easier for a child to compete at than a physical sport. Tons of Rubik's cube world records are held by 9 year olds. I don't see why any of this is relevant in answering the question "is it impressive to be winning at 35 in chess?"

Is your point that young kids have an advantage in chess, making it harder to keep up as an adult? They clearly don't. No 12 year old has ever been able to seriously compete with top players, at best they can hold a few draws or win a blitz game here and there. As far as I'm aware Judit Polgar was the only 12 year old to even break into the top 100, and she's an outlier among outliers. Right now the top 3 players in the world are all in their 30s, and there's only one player in the top 50 who's younger than 18.
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-16 03:45:37+00:00
The chat is full of modern “art talk,” which is a highly specific way that modern (post 2000ish) artists blather on about their ideas and process. It started earlier but in 1980 there was more hippie talk and po-mo deconstruction lingo.

Point being, to someone outside the art world this might sound like how an artist thinks. But to me ear this a bot imitating modern trendy speech from that world.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-16 03:45:46+00:00
whoops i made the incorrect assumption that AZ was mrna. clearly it has scrambled my brain. either way my point stands that further testing would have saved young lives, which as you have noted was the tradeoff for getting the world economy back on track fast. net result seems similar to extended negotiations saving lives in war, so i still think that conscription and a mandate to take untested medicine are highly comparable.

i dont feel like arguing the lockdown point will lead us anywhere, anyway thanks for the laugh from your concluding statement
by YaraDori | 2026-02-16 03:46:30+00:00
Hi HN! Creator here.

The problem: AI agents are powerful but teaching them new workflows is painful. You either write detailed step-by-step instructions (which takes hours per task) or rely on generic prompts that miss edge cases.

SkillForge takes a different approach — you just record your screen doing the task once. The AI watches every click, keystroke, and decision point, then generates a structured skill file with:

- Step-by-step instructions
- Decision logic (what to do when things go wrong)
- Error handling
- Context about why each step matters

The output works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, and other agent frameworks.

We're in early access. Would love feedback from the HN community on the approach.

Try it free: https://skillforge.expert
by wackget | 2026-02-16 03:46:56+00:00
I am so grateful to the author for writing this article. For years I've been fighting a series of small battles with my peers who seem hell-bent on "upgrading" our e-commerce websites by rewriting them in React or another modern framework.

I've held the line, firm in my belief that there is truly no compelling reason for a shopping website to be turned into an SPA.

It's been difficult at times. The hype of new and shiny tools is real. Like the article mentions, a lot of devs don't even know that there is another way to build things for the web. They don't understand that it's not normal to push megabytes of JavaScript to users' browsers, or that displaying some text on a page doesn't have to start with `<React><App/></React>`.

That's terrifying to me.

Articles like this give me hope that no, I'm not losing my mind. Once the current framework fads eventually die out - as they always do - the core web technologies will remain.
by Rapzid | 2026-02-16 03:47:11+00:00
Fabricated quotes has been a huge problem outside the new AI issues for years(decades?). The vast majority of print "news" people consume is cynically designed "outrage porn" targeted towards different segment's political proclivities; aka "opinion" and "analysis" pieces. Both sides for maximum clicks!

They put quote-looking not-quotes in the headlines and articles routinely that essentially amount to "putting words in someone's mouth". A very large portion of the population seems to take this at face value as direct quotes, or accurate paraphrasing, when they absolutely are not.
by jakogut | 2026-02-16 03:48:13+00:00
For anyone who doesn't know yet, there are a wide variety of ONVIF supporting cameras that you can setup with a local NVR running Frigate. You can block internet access to the cameras, so they can't create outbound connections, and only inbound connections to the video streams are allowed.

Tailscale has a free tier that's a good option to remotely access your network and cameras.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-16 03:48:18+00:00
The best young player today, by a wide margin, is Erdogmus. [1] He's not only the youngest grandmaster in the world, but showing an arguably unprecedented level of talent. He's 14 and his rating is 2669. Magnus is 2840. Chess ratings are difficult to explain, even to chess players - who might not appreciate how much harder improvement becomes at higher levels.

Suffice to say that 50 points is considered a major edge, and it increases exponentially so 100 points is much more of an edge than 2x a 50 point edge. Here [2] is a rating expectation calculator. If Erdogmus and Carlsen played a best of 10 match, Carlsen would be expected to win 97% of the time, draw 2% of the time, and lose less than 1% of the time.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C4%9F%C4%B1z_Kaan_Erdo%C4%9...

[2] - https://wismuth.com/elo/calculator.html#rating1=2669&rating2...
by wewewedxfgdf | 2026-02-16 03:48:33+00:00
Elastic (Elasticsearch) – ~6.5 B USD

MongoDB – ~30 B USD

Docker – Private (~2+ B USD last valuation)

Redis Ltd. – Private (~2 B USD last valuation)

Grafana Labs – Private (~6 B USD last valuation)

Confluent (Apache Kafka) – ~11 B USD

Cloudera (Apache Hadoop) – 5.3 B USD (acquired)

SUSE Linux – ~2.5 B USD

Red Hat – 34 B USD (acquired)

HashiCorp – 6.4 B USD (acquired)
by verdverm | 2026-02-16 03:49:40+00:00
you used the word "identical" to describe it, not me

words matter

which is why I still think this is a terrible idea, I don't think it holds up in the general case and would, as a peer reviewer, be inclined to believe there is benchmark filtering that makes for good results.

You should use the same benchmarks everyone else is when you write your paper
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-16 03:50:09+00:00
> These people never want to actually _play_ a game, or at least they can’t get over their obsession to buy new games

I get what you're saying, but I'm a wanna-be board game person. I do want to try those games! To me, it's like going to a different restaurant every time you go out.

Sure, the point is the time spent, but it doesn't mean that we should go to McDonald's every time.

(I say I'm a wanna-be, because I don't have enough of a combination of friends and time to do this, and crucially, those friends also have to be willing to sit down and probably play one round of a new game after spending just as much time learning the rules. But board game nights with new games do happen - we just all know to pick games that at least one person already knows the rules to, or whose rules are short enough to pick up quickly, or whose gameplay goes quickly enough to get multiple rounds in after learning the rules.)
by Jeremy1026 | 2026-02-16 03:50:17+00:00
Not even close. A friend and I are working on an iOS game (a tower defense style game). We are writing 0 code ourselves. We both have a history of iOS development, he is still actively involved and I've move away from it in recent years.

In about 2 weeks we have a functional game, 60 levels, 28 different types of enemies, a procedurally generated daily challenge mode, an infinity mode. Tower crafting and upgrades, an economy system in the game for pay for the upgrades.

This likely would have taken us months to get to the point that we are at, it was playable on Day 2.
by 8note | 2026-02-16 03:51:20+00:00
you own a business that owns the inventory, rather than owning the inventory yourself, no?

if you want to be doing all the things you could do otherwise, you should have full liability for it.

if youve got a boatload of suspenders, you should give them away, pay people to take them, or invent a new use for them. you could turn them into belts or waistbands or something.

even without the major market, there's still going to be niche market for suspenders
by conartist6 | 2026-02-16 03:51:37+00:00
The pseudo-XML is a language I made called CSTML: https://docs.bablr.org/guides/cstml. I looked back and I don't see any unclosed tags, nor anything that would be an unclosed tag in XML either.

I'm sure you could abuse a git `tree` to squish in the extra data, but my point was just that you'd have to because a directory doesn't have a name that's separate from the name its parent uses to point to it. An AST node has both a name that its parent uses to point to it and an named identity e.g.:

```
<BinaryExpression>
left: <Number '2' />
op: <'+'> right:
<Number '2' />
</>
```

So my point is that to fit this into git you'd have to do something funky like make a folder called `left_Number`, and my question about this is the same question as I have in the first place about creating a folder on disk named `Number` whose contents are only the digit `2`. Since every existing tool will present the information as overwhelming amounts of nonsense compared to what users are used to seeing, has any compatibility at all been created? What was the point?

I also see the need to check out files as being an aspect of Git that relates purely to its integration with editors through flat text files. But if git was a more of a database than a filesystem then it's fair to assume that you'd prefer to integrate database access directly into the IDE.
by jakespencer | 2026-02-16 03:52:00+00:00
As a 20 year “board game person “ I understand what you’re talking about. Many people like playing games, but most “board game people” like learning games. I love playing games and have many games I have played dozens of times (or hundreds if you count digital plays), but an equally enjoyable part of the hobby for me is learning new games. Learning a new game and trying to hold the interlocking systems of rules in my head while trying to deduce optimal strategy is a very enjoyable experience for me. It took me a while (years) to realize how unlike most people I was in this respect. Many people were excited when we first played Settlers of Catan and then Ticket to Ride, so I thought they had the same feelings about learning new games that I did. But ultimately I think they were happy with one or two games and then found the thought of learning new games unpleasant. Whereas I have never grown tired of learning new games.
Show HN: I gave my AI agent $50 and let it trade on Kalshi
by JackDavis720 | 2026-02-16 03:52:03+00:00
I saw the craze online about all the polymarket and Kalshi trading going on using Clawedbot... so I built an AI with some guardrails to trade.

I built an Agent called predictor agent which used an ARS (Adaptive Risk Stabilizer) I built to find the best investments. Basically it is an aggregator that took the top performing bettors and looked if several were going to bet on a trade to see if there was any "alpha."

The key is to not get in too late on traded or you won't make money. The bot went for multi parlays only betting .04 cent for $1 outcomes.

At one point our Agent was up $50.32 on an account I only put $50 in.

But now the bot is down bad and were at $44.56 cents.

I think bro has a gambling addiction.

I kinda lost faith in him ngl but I can't cut bro off I still gonna let him cook

Let me know what you guys think! I am building this as a fun showcase of Agent wallet which is basically governance and guardrails for agents handling money.
by mmooss | 2026-02-16 03:52:13+00:00
> strictly controlled environment where the output can be carefully vetted

I don't know journalism from the inside, though of course it's one of those professions that everyone things they understand and has an opinion about. Realistically, is it especially careful vetting to verify the quotes and check the factual statements? The quotes seem like especially obvious risks - no matter how sick, who would let an LLM write anything without verifying quotes?

That seems like not verifying currency figures in an estimate or quote, and especially in one written by an LLM - I just can't imagine it. I'd be better off estimating the figures myself or removing them.

Possibly the author doesn't understand LLMs well.
Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
by rtrgrd | 2026-02-16 03:52:28+00:00
Querying

https://www.google.com/search?q=polymarket

in Australia leads straight to a crypto scam. The scam website (polymarkets.*) seems to be 'organically' on the top. Perhaps this is because polymarket is banned in Aus?
by dangus | 2026-02-16 03:52:50+00:00
The tone of this blog post reads as incredibly snobby, self-congratulatory, main character syndrome.

Please dispense with the “change the world” bullshit.

I understand that it’s healthy to celebrate your personal victories but in this context with this bro going to OpenAI to make 7 figures, maaaan I don’t think this guy needs our clicks.

On top of that there’s a better than 50% chance OpenAI suffocates the open source project and the alternative will be a paid privacy nightmare.
by simbleau | 2026-02-16 03:53:42+00:00
I think they want the man and ideas behind the most useful AI tool thus far. Surprisingly, and OpenAI may see this - it is a developer tool.

OpenAI needs a popular consumer tool. Until my elderly mother is asking me how to install an AI assistant like OpenClaw, the same way she was asking me how to invest in the "new blockchains" a few years ago, we have not come close to market saturation.

OpenAI knows the market exists, but they need to educate the market. What they need is to turn OpenClaw into a project that my mother can use easily.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-16 03:54:01+00:00
Congrats on releasing. This is what I consider love of the game.

I sent the link to my buddy who owns a shop that specializes in analog synths. Our shared love of drum machines and electronic music production was how we became friends. Dunno if he's nerdy to the point that he'll install it, but I'm certain he'll also love that it exists.
by eqvinox | 2026-02-16 03:54:27+00:00
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32653

dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared library requires it

I'm not counting intentional breakage to improve system security. I'm not even sure I'd call it an ABI breakage; by a wide definition I guess it is a "change in glibc that makes things not work anymore". You also can't execute a.out binaries anymore, eh. And I don't think I would call something that affects primarily closed source binaries (and mono on i386) a "huge" issue either.

The fix is trivial ("execstack -s <binary>") and doesn't involve any change to installed versions of anything.

> __asm__ (".symver memcpy, memcpy@GLIBC_2.2.5");

A 12 year old forward compatibility issue that is fixed by upgrading glibc, okay. (Note this is the same timeframe as the s390 thing I linked.) I guess people shipping binaries need to be aware of it if they want to support glibc pre-2.2.14. That said, the general rule of shipping binaries is that you need to assume whatever you build against becomes the minimum required version, anything else is a gift.

I think my point about never pinning glibc stands, and how many other things do you know where you need to go back 12 years to find an ABI break?
by fn-mote | 2026-02-16 03:55:07+00:00
A lot of comments here dismiss the study for having a small N.

Exploratory research uses small N at the start. This kind of research can have value even if it is not conclusive.

Imagine the expense (and dominance of Big Research) if every study needed 100,000 participants to run.

If you don’t want to read exploratory studies, ignore them when they hit the headline news.

Other criticisms of this study (e.g., participants didn’t previously sleep with noise) seem more on the mark. I’m not an uncritical fan.