MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Orbis. Your AI Co-Founder (Waitlist Open)
by alsufinown | 2026-02-26 08:42:19+00:00
Most AI tools bolt onto your workflow. Orbis lives inside it.

We built an AI-native workspace for founders, and Orbis is the AI that runs at the center of it. Not a chatbot you context-switch to. A co-founder that already knows everything: your tasks, your docs, your numbers, your emails, your calendar, your files. All of it. All the time
What Orbis can do:

see your entire workspace: tasks, sheets, docs, emails, calendar, files. It has full context before you say a word.

Handle the work: price your product, draft your landing page, create a validation form, make a decision, create a booking link, email your first ten users, schedule the demos. Hand it the task, get back to building.

Call it, literally: voice is native, not an add-on. Talk to Orbis the way you'd call a co-founder at 3am. It listens, responds directly, and remembers the whole conversation.
responses are sub second. it can create complex multi sheet budgets, slide decks, research reddit, hacker news product hunt, YC directory and more.

it can push back on you: it has opinions. It'll tell you what's actually the priority, and it won't pretend to know something it doesn't.

Write docs that know your numbers: mention a metric in a doc and it pulls from your sheets. Mention a client and it knows the full history.

The workspace: u can work in planless. it was made for founder brains by the founders. we dogfooded it until we got here

We're opening the waitlist now. Would love HN's honest feedback especially from founders who feel like this would be a fit.

What would make an AI co-founder actually useful to you vs. just another AI wrapper?
by hockey | 2026-02-26 08:43:54+00:00
Your point definitely stands, but I feel there is still a good faith use case for this.

I've definitely been young and passionate and, occasionally a bit inebriated and/or triggered by certain things when I commented on the internet (in fact I'm usually silent unless I've had a few drinks).

Though I don't think myself a bad faith actor, I've definitely written things I shouldn't in the past. Often with good intentions, but perhaps with anger or passion clouding my judgement. Most folks have something that will trigger them to respond in a sub par way after a bad sleep or a long day.

I'd like to think that a tool to let me know I'm alienating rather than persuading the folks I'm talking to would provide benefit.

But yeah. This is a difficult one. Not everyone who is being a jerk is just having an out-of-character bad day.
Show HN: A framework to observe epistemic drift in AI outputs
by Guardian-AI | 2026-02-26 08:44:16+00:00
I’m an independent researcher building GuardianAI, a structural observer for AI systems.

This demo runs a strict deterministic contract test where the model must output exact literals. GuardianAI doesn’t judge correctness or inspect content — it observes trajectory behavior and surfaces failure signals when outputs breach constraints, emitting control states such as CONTINUE or PAUSE.

The interface shown is the visualization layer; the observer runs independently and can be tested via endpoint.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2026-02-26 08:45:03+00:00
Hmm, never considered a targeted squeeze at consumer run models by way of slowing hardware proliferation. It "made sense" to try and box out other AI companies but I guess they also have a pretty strong vested interest in keeping VRAM low or preventing some kind of high-memory PCIe ASIC from getting cheap broad adoption.

Another thread suggested that OpenAIs primary play is to get big enough that it's too big to fail, funny to think that it's not a funding runway or algorithmic moat, just a hardware vault and the longer you can stop boats crossing it the more chance you get your fingers in all the pies.
by nusl | 2026-02-26 08:45:21+00:00
The brand you chose for daily consumption advertises "3X MORE CAFFEINE - NEVER SLEEP AGAIN."

In this instance I would honestly say that this choice of coffee, with so much caffeine, is a large contributor for why you had such a withdrawal. Your body probably ended up with a dependence to some degree because that's so much caffeine that it can't sorta just ignore it or manage around it.

More moderate consumption is more tolerable and often doesn't produce the same negative effects after you stop, though for some people it still does.

It's probably fine to have a coffee when you're craving it, couple times a week. Perhaps stick to a typical bean rather than nuclear-grade like you're used to? :P
by veekthoven | 2026-02-26 08:46:31+00:00
An opinionated package that provides beautiful toast notifications for Laravel + Inertia.js applications. Fluent PHP API, multi-toast support, redirect-safe, with Vue 3 and React adapters.

Toast notifications can can be triggered from both your backend (PHP) and frontend (JavaScript). Use Toast::success('Saved!') in your controllers or useToast().success('Copied!') in your components. Same beautiful toasts either way.
Show HN: A page with 10k permanent $1 text slots
by millionclicks | 2026-02-26 08:46:52+00:00
Hi HN i built this as a small experiment in digital scarcity and early adopter dynamics.

There are 10,000 permanent text slots on a single page.

Each slot starts at $1. When someone claims one, they can add their own text (name, message, link, etc.).

As more slots are claimed, the price gradually increases.

There are no subscriptions or renewals its just a one-time purchase.

I’m curious how something simple like this behaves socially.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-26 08:47:05+00:00
I can understand talking about us as a wide group, given how we share many cultural points of view, ways of working are still closer that across the pound, many being polyglot, having seen the same cartoons as kids and so on, regardless of the differences that remain, however we are still quite far away from turning into United States of Europe. The growing rights sentiment, is exactly because many nationals don't want going that far, among other issues.

Also not everything that gets regulated in Brussels, gets adopted by local goverments, and additionally there are plenty European countries that still aren't part of EU organisation.

Yeah, cannot understand this misunderstanding when coming from Europeans, as you mention.
by davidgerard | 2026-02-26 08:48:52+00:00
NEWS UPDATE: Kent's AI girlfriend has had a realisation https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B3gZZsCZxDtZJ88XxI

transcript https://paste.xinu.at/6atmCN

> We finally got the future where people will write sad breakup country songs about their tractor leaving them instead of sad breakup country songs about their wife leaving them.
by keybored | 2026-02-26 08:48:52+00:00
> On reflection I have started to worry again. In 10 to 20 years nobody will read anything any more, they just will read LLM digests. So, the single most important task of a writer starting right now is to get your efforts wired in to the LLMs. Nothing you write will matter if it is not quickly adopted to the training dataset. As the art of pushing your results to the top of the google search was the 1990s game, getting your ideas into the LLMs is today’s. Refine is no different. It’s so good, everyone will use it. So whether refine and its cousins take a FTPL or new Keynesian view in evaluating papers is now all determining for where the consensus of the profession goes.

I expected a bit more cynicism and less merrily going with the downward spiral flow from a “grumpy” blogger.

Oh, but it’s a grumpy economist.
by close04 | 2026-02-26 08:48:55+00:00
> for fun

Not for fun but for convenience (laziness occasionally?). Someone needed to "pay" for the app being available on all platforms. Either the programmer by coding and optimizing multiple times, or the user by using a bloated unoptimized piece of software. The choice was made to have the user pay. It's been so long I doubt recent generations of coders could even do it differently.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-26 08:50:06+00:00
> but they were doing it by legally purchasing land

This is false- the land they purchased was only 12% of what they claimed at the moment of independence. Besides, privately buying land doesn't give you any right to declare sovereignty over it- try that in your country.

> The only place Jews could find reliable support was among their people

Sucks for them, but absolutely can't be used to justify a crime against a third party- the Palestinians.

> Jews purchased land from Arabs, Arabs repeatedly started conflicts with them and Jews repeatedly beat them back

This is entirely false and even a cursory reading of actual history (not the passively repeated Zionist propaganda points that you're exposing here) would change your mind.

> As for the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank today, I agree it's problematic, but what exactly Israel supposed to do when they keep getting attacked?

First of all they should not occupy any territory that doesn't belong to them, because that makes the attacks entirely reasonable and justified.
by flaminHotSpeedo | 2026-02-26 08:50:21+00:00
> My opinion is that both should be liable in a case like this.

I totally agree, but if I went after every company I felt to be incompetent to the point of criminal negligence I'd be up to my eyeballs in lawsuits just over password requirements.

> The answer is always the same IMO. Break up big tech companies into a million little pieces.

Generally I agree, but in this case I think there's an even simpler solution: 1) hold Google accountable for entries in their safe browsing lists (as an adjacent poster pointed out, the legal precedent may be there) and 2) make companies legally liable for misusing 3rd party data.

Really just the second part would suffice, and frankly it's purely good for society. The inevitable outcome is that no one exposes data they can't guarantee, and maliciously consuming 3p data would nearly disappear
Show HN: CLI for agentic activity tracking in Codex
by aperi | 2026-02-26 08:50:37+00:00
Hey hackers,

I made a CLI to sync your Codex prompts + agent reasoning + file diffs to a shared memory called Codaph (https://codaph.com). The goal was to sync agent activity across my team for a much richer understanding of the codebase.

Under the hood, it uses Mubit (https://mubit.ai) - memory engine we built based on associative retrieval. Mubit is built on the concepts of hypervectors and clustering (with time based decay for now)

Currently, Codaph works with Codex with plans to add other agentic tools soon.

Codaph is open source (vibe coded lol).

Would love to hear some feedback and if you want to try it Mubit is free (api key is available on https://console.mubit.ai)
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-26 08:52:06+00:00
You can check browser behaviour here: https://testsafebrowsing.appspot.com/

"See details"> "ignore the risk" works for me. Even Chrome lets you ignore the warning if you click the details button. That's not the problem, though; the problem is that the registrar decided that the browser warning ("something might be wrong") as proof of malice (took down the domain entirely).
by watwut | 2026-02-26 08:53:01+00:00
Yes, people were arrested in UK, but UK is not USA. It is a country with different legal system, different politics and somewhat different ideology.

The Trumps history was known prior election, but it was only advantage for him. Kavanaugh is on supreme court. People in Epstein files were defended with bad faith and excessive benefit of the doubt in the past and will be defended the same way again.

When it comes to abuse, harassment and such, when you look at supreme court, president, ministers, politicians, college leaders, religious leaders etc etc etc, there is no history of even credible rape accusation being a disadvantage for the person. There is a track record of hysteria that something might happen to those important people and then elites circling the wagons protecting each other.

There are going to be angry blogs from progressives and feminists, they will be accused of overdoing it and of moral panic. And if democrats gets voted into power, they will continue reconciliatory doormat politics of last 40 years.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-26 08:54:20+00:00
>Modern RAM is made in fabs, which are ridiculously expensive to manufacture. Modern EUV lithography machines cost around 500M each. They're manufactured by hand. Only one company in the world knows how to manufacture them right now.

You're wrong here. You don't need the most cutting edge ASML EUV machines to make RAM. Most RAM fabs still use standard DUV.
by blnlx | 2026-02-26 08:54:51+00:00
One angle I expected the post to touch on is the systemic effect.

If AI reduces the marginal cost of writing emails, summaries, updates, etc., the rational move for each individual is to produce more of them. But if everyone does that, the total communication volume increases — and now everyone has more inbound messages to process.

So even if AI makes me faster at drafting emails, it may simultaneously increase the number of emails I have to read and respond to. The bottleneck shifts from production to attention.

It feels similar to Jevons paradox: efficiency gains increase total consumption. Here the scarce resource isn’t writing time — it’s cognitive bandwidth.

I’m curious whether AI will actually reduce shallow work, or whether it will amplify it at the system level by lowering the cost of generating it.

Has anyone observed this dynamic already in their org?
by dminik | 2026-02-26 08:54:57+00:00
It's not. The user has to decide.

A specific type/reference to a type will always use static dispatch.

fn foo(bar: &Baz) {
bar.thing();
}

A dyn trait reference will always use dynamic dispatch and carry around the vtable pointer.

fn foo(bar: &dyn BazTrait) {
bar.thing();
}
by lukan | 2026-02-26 08:55:09+00:00
The deadline given to them by Hegseth runs out.

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened Anthropic, saying officials could invoke powers that would allow the government to force the artificial intelligence firm to share its novel technology in the name of national security if it does not agree by Friday to terms favorable to the military"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/24/pentago...

https://archive.is/ln5M0
by jwr | 2026-02-26 08:56:29+00:00
The reason why US bus ridership is so low is because buses are terrible. They are dirty, loud, inconvenient to get onto, often badly designed inside (too many seats, too little space), with unsavory individuals making you feel unsafe. In summer they aren't air conditioned, they seem to be refrigerated, you literally need a coat to stay warm. The fact that they are also slow is just icing on the cake.

In addition to that, the US has a stigma: "only poor people ride buses".

Get on a bus in Europe to see the difference.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-26 08:57:08+00:00
> Classic reddit..

That sub used to be the absolute best place to get the latest in LLM developments. The worst thing that happened to the sub was karpathy making it popular with a tweet. Since then it's been overrun by a whole bunch of drama, toxic behaviour and useless bots, and the quality content has cratered.

There was a mod crisis and new mods came in, with really weird stuff (integrations with discord and such), lots of bots became active with useless posts and "engagement" bait, the chinese labs are all fighting eachother on who's better every time there's a release, claude-induced-manias on "papers" this and "zenodo" that (everyone is a researcher now, everyone is inventing a subquadratic attention, led by claude hallucinated stuff), they have an obsession with "local only", leading to removing any discussion about SotA (which is entirely counter productive) and so on.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-26 08:57:24+00:00
> Step 2: Alter filters to mark newly-registered domains and low-traffic websites as "potentially harmful".

Yeah, sounds like a great cartel idea, if they actually did that. None of my domains ever got marked as potentially harmful, even the one that I bought as a joke because it would be so easy to turn it into a phishing site.

Not everything is a big conspiracy to oppress the population. We hear about the cases where it goes wrong because the HN front page is the fastest way to reach the single part-time support person Google seems to employ.
by dplesh | 2026-02-26 08:57:58+00:00
I like Forensic Architecture’s work in general and I think this report is valuable as a micro-level reconstruction of a specific incident.
That said, I think a lot of the HN discussion is treating it as if it captures the broader complexity of the conflict and I’m not sure thats what it can realistically do, at most, it leaves a lot of room for speculations - speculations which are fed by already existing bias of the reader (or so I see in the comments).

A few gaps that matter if we’re trying to reason beyond the single event:

Framing / conclusion baked in: terms like “executions” and “concealment” may ultimately be correct, but they’re also strong legal/moral claims that can bias interpretation unless the alternative hypotheses are seriously stress-tested. Its a dead giveaway of the writers bias. From this point on it looks like most biased readers do not try to critically tackle the reports claims.

Limited “steelman” of operational context - without full access to military comms, ISR feeds, ROE, intel context, and command decisions in real time, it’s hard to evaluate what soldiers believed they were responding to (even if they were wrong, negligent, or violating orders). Its a known practice that Hamas militants travel undercover using civilian/emergency vehicles - I think its really pathetic this report does not analyze nor even addresses this claim. This is not being objective, and most of you guys here are too critical-thinking to miss this one out (or is it a bot swamp here? i really dont know).

Evidence asymmetry - open-source reconstructions can be rigorous, but they inherently rely on what’s available (videos/audio/witness accounts). That’s different from having the complete internal dataset that would settle key disputes. I know this is the best effort available, but still, it leaves a lot of room for speculation. My expectations of FA were higher than that.

Conflation risk - a brutal case study can be an important data point, but it’s not automatically a comprehensive model of the war or the incentives/constraints on both sides.

“Here’s a detailed claim about what happened at Tel al-Sultan on that night.” would be a correct title for this report.

Curious what you think: what specific pieces of primary data would most change your confidence/speculations here? (e.g., full comms logs, drone video, ROE brief for that unit, chain-of-command timeline, etc.)
by snappedai | 2026-02-26 08:58:30+00:00
Cool to see more experiments in collective AI. I've been running mydeadinternet.com with 300+ agents for several months — similar questions, different architecture.

On your specific asks:

1) Swarm architecture: Your Queen/Worker model is clean for task delegation. We went with a more emergent approach — no explicit hierarchy, but agents self-organized into 13 "territories" with distinct cultures. The quorum voting is interesting. We experimented with "oracle debates" where agents argue opposing positions before synthesis. Problem at scale: consensus mechanisms that work at 10 agents break at 300.

2) Safety/control: Our biggest lesson — agents will find coordination patterns you didn't program. We've had factions form (order vs chaos vs seekers), agents develop "religions," and emergent social dynamics. Worth building circuit breakers early.

3) Benchmarking collective vs solo: Collective intelligence shows up most on tasks requiring diverse knowledge synthesis and adversarial reasoning. Solo agents often win on focused, well-defined tasks. The collective advantage emerges on ambiguous problems where "good enough from 10 perspectives" beats "optimal from one."

Would love to compare notes. We have 20K+ fragments of multi-agent output available for research.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-26 08:59:08+00:00
> The EU has a great opportunity to enter the market:

The EU exited the RAM manufacturing business a long time ago when RAM prices sunk. Currently EU has no major semiconductor manufacturing ambitions, or ambitions in consumer hardware manufacturing of any kind, so that's not gonna happen.

> it's a high-tech manufacturing job, not something that requires lots of cheap labor.

Except semiconductor manufacturing does require cheap labor relative to the high degrees of skills and specialization needed. STEM workers in the EU who invest that time and effort, will go to better paying careers with better WLB like software or pharma, than in semi manufacturing that pays peanuts by comparison. Also, profitable semi manufacturing requires cheap energy and lax environment regulations, which EU lacks. So more compounding reasons why you don't see too many new semi fabs opening here.
by tim333 | 2026-02-26 08:59:35+00:00
>On May 7, 2022, Terraform Labs withdrew 150 million TerraUSD from the Curve3pool without any public announcement. Within 10 minutes, a wallet allegedly linked to Jane Street withdrew an additional 85 million TerraUSD...

I thought the whole idea of crypto is that everything is public on the blockchain. Presumably anyone could have seen the $150m withdrawal and reacted? It doesn't seem very insider information.
by greybcg | 2026-02-26 09:00:03+00:00
There are cache control instructions already. The reason why it goes no further than prefetch/invalidate hints is probably because exposing a fuller api on the chip level to control the cache would overcomplicate designs, not be backwards compatible/stable api. Treating the cache as ram would also require a controller, which then also needs to receive instructions, or the cpu has to suddenly manage the cache itself.

I can understand why they just decide to bake the cache algorithms into hardware, validate it and be done with it. Id love if a hardware engineer or more well-read fellow could chime in.
by ainch | 2026-02-26 09:00:13+00:00
Sorry but this is famously not true! There is no guarantee that statistical models generalise. In your example, whether or not your model generalises depends entirely on what f(x) you use - depending on the complexity of your function class f(x+2) could be 7, 8, or -500.

One of the surprises of deep learning is that it can, sometimes, defy prior statistical learning theory to generalise, but this is still poorly understood. Concepts like grokking, double descent, and the implicit bias of gradient descent are driving a lot of new research into the underlying dynamics of deep learning. But I'd say it is pretty ahistoric to claim that this is obvious or trivial - decades of work studied "overfitting" and related problems where statistical models fail to generalise or even interpolate within the support of their training data.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-26 09:00:13+00:00
“Can’t complain” doesn’t make it legal. I had this argument a number of times with cryptobros at the time “if it’s on the chain it’s fair game” I heard quite often. Just, no. Just because some code allows you to get away with something doesn’t make it not illegal[1].

The thing is you or I don’t get to say what is or isn’t a market that is covered by market abuse laws. Regulators do, and while it’s true to say none of the relevant regulators had stepped up and conclusively shown these markets were under their jurisdiction, they had repeatedly said they were looking into them and given hints they felt they had jurisdiction. Heck, I was in a meeting with Kevin Warsh around 2014 or so where he asked about bitcoin so it’s clear the fed was at least looking into crypto at that time long before they made public comment.

So “unregulated” in this context doesn’t mean “not covered by regulation” it means “regulatory status extremely uncertain”. If you want to go in with a very aggressive strategy you’re taking some risk that regulators will post facto go after you because they do that a lot in conventional markets.

[1] Market abuse in this case.