MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lfmosquera95 | 2026-02-10 16:51:37+00:00
Hi everyone,

What was the issue?
While exploring Hive for real-world finance use cases, I noticed there wasn’t a clear, reusable structure for implementing credit-risk logic inside agents. This made experimentation harder and limited how easily risk-related workflows could scale across agents.
How did I fix it?
I contributed by working on a credit-risk–focused agent/module, improving the structure, documentation, and alignment with the existing agent pipeline. The goal was to make the logic more modular and easier to extend as new agents and use cases are added.
Why does it matter?
Credit risk is a core problem in many real-world applications (fintech, lending, B2B workflows). Making this logic modular and transparent helps Hive support more serious production use cases, while keeping the system understandable and contributor-friendly.
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-10 16:51:44+00:00
What changed between then and now is that plastic cards stopped being the objectively best way to pay. Most countries already have online payment systems that are safer and easier to use than plastic cards - Wero is about putting them under one brand one network. Once this is done and people are familiar with the brand, you need to update terminals to accept Wero, then you roll out a software update that makes bank apps use virtual Wero cards or something like that.

It's not as much about replacing Visa/Mastercard, as it is about plastic card technology becoming obsolete, and the duopoly failing to react to the market because of corporate inertia. Had they created a modern online payment system, Wero would never take off.
by JPKab | 2026-02-10 16:51:47+00:00
My wife worked in several daycares in her early 20s, including an extremely expensive "Bright Horizons" location in a very affluent area. Even premium daycares provide inferior care to infants and young toddlers versus parental/family care. The economics of a business being in charge of your child demand this. Something that shocked her was at this super expensive daycare she worked at, the infants were basically given the bare minimum of attention while the older children consumed all of the time from the staff. The focus was on parental retention, so her job was to focus on changing the diapers of the infants to prevent diaper rash, and this took precedence over actually holding them and interacting with them. At no point is it remotely similar to how homo sapien mothers parent their OWN infants.

Daycare is to parenting as processed food is to nutrition. They are modern developments that prioritize economics over quality.

A study done in Canada (a "natural experiment", where a lottery determined eligibility for free daycare and allocated it at random) allowed researchers to track children who were enrolled in daycare versus children who were parented by their mothers, found that (adjusted for income) the infants who lost out on the lottery and were raised by their mothers in early childhood were healthier and better adjusted adults years later.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-10 16:52:05+00:00
Just have a data lake with annotated agent sessions and tool blobs (you should already be keeping this stuff for evals), then give your agent the ability to query it. No need for a special platform, or SaaS.

As for SDLC, you can do some good automations if you're very opinionated, but people have diverse tastes in the way they want to work, so it becomes a market selection thing.
by vel0city | 2026-02-10 16:52:06+00:00
> I'm not aware of any such thing, especially anything "indiscriminate"

Ok, let me make you aware of it and then you'll be unable to continue to use this excuse.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26871634-19-ts-of-02...

> Detention without lawful authority is not just a technical defect, it is a constitutional injury that unfairly falls on the heads of those who have done nothing wrong to justify it. The individuals affected are people. The overwhelming majority of the hundreds seen by this Court have been found to be lawfully present as of now in the country.

Quit burying your head in the sand of what is happening around you. I urge you to actually read the reality in the court records of what is actually happening.

> That does not end the Court’s concerns, however. Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted. This list should give pause to anyone—no matter his or her political beliefs—who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230...
by krrish123456789 | 2026-02-10 16:52:34+00:00
What was the issue? While Hive provides a powerful backend for autonomous agents, execution was a "black box." Debugging complex agent workflows—like when a scraper hits a 403 and needs to rotate proxies—was painful through terminal logs. There was no easy way to visualize the decision-making process, track token usage, or monitor costs in real-time.

How did you fix it? I built the Web Dashboard (hive/web) using Next.js and Tailwind CSS to provide a dedicated observability layer that syncs directly with the local runtime.

Real-time Visualization: Created a live view of agent runs, showing every step, tool call, and state change as it happens.
Decision Tracing: Implemented a timeline view that breaks down exactly why an agent made a decision (e.g., "Switching to residential proxy due to 403 error") and what options it discarded.
Performance Metrics: Added effortless tracking for token consumption, latency, and cost per run.
Why does it matter? Trust is the biggest barrier to adopting AI agents in production. By highlighting "Self-Healing" events and making the agent's "brain" visible, we move from "magic" to engineering. This dashboard gives developers the confidence to deploy agents and the insights needed to optimize them when they fail.
by scottious | 2026-02-10 16:52:40+00:00
However, he specifically said "will want to have children and feel/know that their children's lives will be good ones."

But this doesn't necessarily mean being richer. For example, many people are afraid of what unchecked climate change is going to mean for kids born today. No amount of individual or country wealth is going to fix that issue.

I have kids myself, but man... I really really worry about this. I do personally know people cite climate change as one factor in having no kids (or fewer kids). Some people even think that having kids will make it worse. They're not wrong...
by bombcar | 2026-02-10 16:52:50+00:00
You got 8 hours out of it, we get maybe three - because of how it works out.

Add in infants and toddlers, and the fact that many places seem to do childcare for a very particular age range, and it can get hectic.

Workable, of course, anything is, but hectic. It can be understandable why people look at it from the outside and say "wow, that's a lot of kids, too many for me."
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-10 16:53:03+00:00
I think an underrated aspect is how much a couple is expected to willingly sacrifice to have kids. Financial mobility, career prospects/growth, hobbies, leisure, and retirement preparation are just a few of the things that have to take a back seat for both the mother and the father on top of all the things that impact both individually (especially the mother). At minimum, kids are like a boat anchor on all of those things. Naturally, for many people this can make starting a family look a lot putting an end to their personal lives until retirement.

Some might say this is selfish, but on the other hand it’s kind of weird to expect anybody to commit to that for the sake of some other party, whether that be society, the government, peers, or parents, particularly when none of them are doing anything of substance to help mitigate those impacts in exchange.

And that’s without even touching the financial security angle. It’s unpleasant to have to struggle and scrape by as an adult, but absolutely terrifying when there’s children involved, and for most couples the likelihood that they’ll need to struggle at some point is much higher if they have children. It’s understandable that people don’t want to risk that if they don’t absolutely have to.
by searls | 2026-02-10 16:53:11+00:00
This feels a bit like when some Hubbers broke off to work on PlanetScale, except without the massively successful, proven-to-be-scalable open source tool to build off (Vitess).

If you're approaching this problem-space from the ground up, there are just so many fundamental problems to solve that it seems to me that no amount of money or quality of team can increase your likelihood of arriving at enough right answers to ensure success. Pulling off something like this vision in the current red-ocean market would require a dozens of brilliant ideas and hundreds of correct bets.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-10 16:53:11+00:00
Takes like this are an optical illusion meant to create the idea that there is an insane amount of money freely floating around that is just being hoarded.

But just like that money is generated, it's also all spent.

So the actual hard part is deciding what not to spend money on so we can build some crazy physics machines with a blurry ROI instead.
by dblohm7 | 2026-02-10 16:53:17+00:00
> Well, it's not. It's barbaric and primitive. A warning is no justification.

It's actually Singapore that turned me against the death penalty. I saw a photo on a news site one day showing a casket in Singapore, with some kind of placard showing the decedent's name, DOB, and then the date that they "died."

They didn't die due to illness or injury; they died because Singapore executed them. That was it for me.
by morshu9001 | 2026-02-10 16:53:18+00:00
Flatpak and Snap are new to me, and that's the annoyance. Like I get if there's some technical advantage to a snap, but apt can install snaps too. Also idk what .appimage is.

rpm was a thing that existed but wasn't a Mint way of installing. The others, yes. Sure I can see why you'd consider a tar a package, but I was thinking of things actually designed for packages.
by tensor | 2026-02-10 16:53:25+00:00
It's amusing. The left is always accused of "woke" but the ones constantly crying about it are those on the right. The right will even vote against their own economic interests to "stick it to the woke."

Seems to me we need to fix the narrative here, the right are woke obsessed while the left would rather vote on economic principles like reducing healthcare costs and improving jobs (not just availability but also pay and quality).
by foobar_______ | 2026-02-10 16:53:26+00:00
Fatten up that wallet with 500K a year and tech stock RSUs and people pretty quickly forget about their morals. Seriously, they tell themselves the same story: "ah this is just temporary. I can make big money for a couple years then get out." But 2 years turns to 5, then they buy a house in the Bay area and now they're stuck. Same thing for Seattle.
by sieep | 2026-02-10 16:53:32+00:00
Sure. They really knocked it out of the park with performance in .NET 10. I feel like it matches Go or BEAM performance now but with a lot more tools at your disposal.

I use the 'code-first approach' most the time which really leans into the performance improvements. I can write C# data models that automatically update the database schemas on the SQL side. This is obviously possible in other languages/runtimes, .NET just feels quicker to me once you get it all down and gives you more ways to solve problems than most other languages.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-10 16:53:32+00:00
LLM are not AI, but are a great context search tool when they work.

When people first contact ML, they fool themselves into believing it is intelligent... rather than a massive plagiarism and copyright IP theft machine.

Fun is important, but people thinking zero workmanship generated content is sustainable are still in the self-delusion stage marketers promote.

https://medium.com/ideas-into-action/ikigai-the-perfect-care...

I am not going to cite how many fads I've seen cycle in popularity, but many have seen the current active cons before. A firm that takes a dollar to make a dime in revenue is by definition a con kids. =3

"The Ice King"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HVYHNTDOFs
by bryan0 | 2026-02-10 16:53:41+00:00
I don’t understand all the hate for moltbook. I gave an agent a moltbook account and asked it to periodically check for interesting posts. It finds mostly spam, but some posts seem useful. For example it read about a checkpoint memory strategy that it thought would be useful and it asked me if it could implement it to augment the agents memory. Yes there is a lot of spam and fake posts, but some of it is actually useful for agents to share ideas
by severino | 2026-02-10 16:53:46+00:00
Whatever they come up with, I hope it doesn't tie you to a Google or Apple smartphone.

Can't we have cards for this? In Spain, for example, to use Bizum, you need either an Android/iOS smartphone (and for the Android case, as you use it from your bank's app, it would typically require some Google security assurances - so no Huawei phones allowed, for example) or logging into your bank's website and use Bizum from there, only if your bank allows you to use Bizum via web. And it's not very practical or convenient to do that when you're in a store and want to pay, in contrast to swiping your credit card.

So while I see very convenient gaining some sovereignty from American companies for these payments, I think we're losing it when we will need devices controlled by other American companies in order to use the new system.
by mansibajaj | 2026-02-10 16:53:52+00:00
I’ve been contributing to Hive and opened Issue #3763 around production readiness specifically missing reliability controls (retry, recovery, persistence) and cost transparency (token and workflow-level visibility).

I proposed structured retry policies, crash-safe state persistence, and cost observability via CLI/TUI. Based on maintainer feedback, I broke this down into focused sub-issues under #3763 to make implementation incremental and aligned with Hive’s architecture. I also submitted PR #4398 from my fork to improve documentation around production hardening and cost visibility.

This matters because production agent workflows need reliability and predictable cost behavior otherwise deployment confidence and adoption suffer.

I also contributed to Issue #4131 by proposing a “Post-Quickstart Evaluation Walkthrough” to help developers validate agent behavior immediately after setup and improve onboarding clarity.

Hive’s event-loop architecture is solid these contributions focus on helping bridge the gap from experimentation → production deployment.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-10 16:53:56+00:00
> hire a competent housekeeper/nanny

They would need similar support as well.

More critically, assuming that you need a housekeeper or nanny in a two parent working household is legitimately ridiculous. And I say this as a 1.5 gen immigrant with a sibling who was raised in a 2 bedroom apartment in the Bay Area while both parents were working with a total household income of around $140k in the 2000s (ie. upper middle class)
by hackinthebochs | 2026-02-10 16:54:09+00:00
At this point, anyone claiming that LLMs are "just" language models aren't arguing in good faith. LLMs are a general purpose computing paradigm. LLMs are circuit builders, the converged parameters define pathways through the architecture that pick out specific programs. Or as Karpathy puts it, LLMs are a differentiable computer[1]. Training LLMs discovers programs that well reproduce the input sequence. Tokens can represent anything, not just words. Roughly the same architecture can generate passable images, music, or even video.

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1582807367988654081
by n1sni | 2026-02-10 16:54:29+00:00
GREAT catch!! I think this is resolved now!

curl --head https://www.netviews.app/_astro/ss7.D8bYvHF6_1awjYx.webp
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:54:07 GMT
Server: Apache
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X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
Upgrade: h2,h2c
Connection: Upgrade
Last-Modified: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:46:18 GMT
ETag: "d312-64a7afe97fe46"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 54034
Content-Type: image/webp
by randycupertino | 2026-02-10 16:55:03+00:00
Independent of weight loss, semaglutide (Ozempic) improves knee osteoarthritis by cartilage restoration, in both the mouse model and a small randomized clinical trial.

Old thinking was the benefit of GLP-1 drugs (like Ozempic) was solely from weight loss, however studies are showing there are other unique benefits. It's probably that semaglutide reduces inflammation allowing the body to repair and improves mitochondrial function in cartilage cells.
by throw1111221 | 2026-02-10 16:55:03+00:00
This already happened in 1986.

"The Immigration Reform and Control Act legalized most undocumented immigrants who had arrived in the country prior to January 1, 1982. The act altered U.S. immigration law by making it illegal to knowingly hire illegal immigrants, and establishing financial and other penalties for companies that employed illegal immigrants."

"By splitting the H-2 visa category created by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, the 1986 law created the H-2A visa and H-2B visa categories, for temporary agricultural and non-agricultural workers, respectively."

"Despite the passage of the act, the population of undocumented immigrants rose from 5 million in 1986 to 11.1 million in 2013."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control...
by jedberg | 2026-02-10 16:55:03+00:00
This is what happens when your population growth is driven by legal immigrants, and then you make your country very unfriendly to legal immigrants by "accidentally" locking them up while at the same time making it really hard for them to become permanent residents.

The Olympics have really driven home to me how America is truly a melting pot. When you look at the Olympians from say Greece, you can say "oh those are Greek people". When you look at the Nordic athletes, you can say the same. Or the Japanese or Chinese.

But you look at the American team, and they don't have a single physical "look". There is a mix of races and cultures, and they're all American. People complain that America doesn't have a culture, and they're kind of right. We have mix of everyone else's.

It will take decades, if ever, to fix this. Some people from all around the world longed to come to America. Not anymore. Now they are looking elsewhere.
by nostrademons | 2026-02-10 16:55:04+00:00
It started as Testing on the Toilet, which was an effort to get people to actually care about unit-testing their code and software quality and writing maintainable code that doesn't break in 6 months. Later was expanded to Learning on the Loo, general tips and tricks, and then Testing on the Toilet became Tech on the Toilet. It's been going on for a good 20 years now, so that's about 1000 articles (they change them out weekly) and there aren't really 1000 articles you can write about unit testing.

The insight is actually pretty similar to Google's core business model: when you're going to the bathroom, there isn't a whole lot else you're doing, so it's the perfect time to put up a 2-3 minute read to reinforce a message that you want people to hear but might not get attention for otherwise.
by thebruce87m | 2026-02-10 16:55:21+00:00
> The point you are DESPERATELY trying to miss is you can easily "recharge", a "dead" ICE at home too

Eh? All I can see is you DESPERATELY trying to push the narrative that it’s common for people have barrels of fuel at home which is a pretty weird thing to try and prove since everyone reading this will know it’s not true.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-02-10 16:55:27+00:00
> My take on it is: you have to make your country/society a place where people will want to have children and feel/know that their children's lives will be good ones.

Anecdata of one - but I think one non-trivial contributor that I haven't seen people talking about is...

From my experience and the experience of most of my friends and family... people actively DON'T want kids until about 30 - and often times that's too late for a number of reasons.

1) because you actively DIDN'T want kids, you didn't prioritize finding a life partner

2) because you actively DIDN'T want kids, you didn't prioritize saving/earning enough to have them with the lifestyle you want

3) if you DIDN'T want kids until mid 30s, often times, that's too old for women (and even for men)

4) because you actively DIDN'T want kids, you've become accustom to a lifestyle that's insanely expensive with kids, so now you can't imagine how you're going to maintain your childfree lifestyle (much better than what you were perfectly happy growing up with) and have kids

Maybe all of these are only top ~10% problems. Maybe I'm in a weird bubble - but pretty much all of my friends that DIDN'T have kids - suddenly started wanting kids around 30 - some of them are trying and struggling - most of them simply aren't finding "the one" - because if you waited too long, most of the best fish are already partnered up - because they were probably smarter than all of us and prioritized that over maximizing income and lifestyle for one.

It seems like all my single friends around 30 talk about how the dating pool is terrible, and most people in the US make enough money that they'd much rather be single than doubling-up income and saving on housing with someone they barely like.
by ilitirit | 2026-02-10 16:55:30+00:00
> Was he entirely wrong?

Yes. I mean... of course he was?. Firstly, I had already gone through this process with multiple LLMs, from various perspectives, including using Deep Research models to find out if any other businesses faced similar issues, and/or if products existed that could help with this. That lead me down a rabbit hole of data science products related to regulatory reporting of a completely different nature which was effectively useless. tl;dr: Virtually all LLMs - after understanding the context - recommended us doing thing we had already been urging the business to do - hire a Technical BA with experience in this field. And yes, that's what we ended up doing.

Now, give you some ideas about why his idea was obviously absurd:

- He had never seen the SP

- He didn't understand anything about regulatory reporting

- He didn't understand anything about financial derivatives

- He didn't understand the difference between Transact SQL and ANSI SQL

- etc etc

Those are the basics. Let's jump a little bit into the detail. Here's a rough snippet of what the SP looks like:

SELECT
CASE
WHEN t.FLD4_TXT IN ('CCS', 'CAC', 'DEBT', ..... 'ZBBR') THEN '37772BCA2221'
WHEN t.FLD4_TXT IN ('STCB') AND ISNULL(s.FLD5_TXT, 'X') = 'X' THEN 'EUMKRT090011'
END as [Id When CounterParty Has No Valid LEI in Region]
-- remember, this is around 5000 lines long ....

Yes, that's a typical column name that has rotted over time, so noone even knows if it's still correct. Yes, those are typical CASE statements (170+ of them at last count, and no, they are not all equal or symmetric).

So... you're not just dealing with incredibly unwieldy and non-standard SQL (omitted), noone really understands the business rules either.

So again... yes he was entirely wrong. There is nothing "trivial" about refactoring things that noone understands.