MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2026-02-25 16:53:30+00:00
There's a substantial population of most countries who feel that everyone else on the planet is somehow inferior. Basic nationalism. One of the big achievements of the 20th century was reducing that so it might be below 50% in many places.

However, that's not the same as "enemy". That's a more confrontational level. It's that particular branch of the far right which has recently risen to prominence. Ironically, in a lot of different countries.
by Soenke_Cramme | 2026-02-25 16:53:46+00:00
Good question — this was actually one of our biggest design challenges.
Policy UX: The JSON rules are the developer-facing format (and what the SDK uses). For teams without security backgrounds, the Enterprise Dashboard has a visual Policy Builder where you pick agent, tool, effect (allow/deny/require approval), and conditions from dropdowns. No JSON editing required. We found that CISOs want to read the JSON (it's auditable), but they don't want to write it.
Auto-suggesting policies: Yes two mechanisms:

Auto-Discovery: When an agent calls a tool that isn't in its registered toolset, the system registers it automatically and logs it. So you get a live inventory of what tools your agents actually use, without defining anything upfront.
Permission Score: This tracks the ratio of allowed tools vs. actually used tools per agent. If an agent has access to 15 tools but regularly uses 3, the score surfaces that. It's the data you need to tighten policies; "this agent is over-permissioned, here's what it actually needs."

So the flow is: deploy agent → auto-discovery builds the tool inventory → Permission Score shows the gap → you write (or click together) a tighter policy based on real usage data. Scan first, then define — which sounds like what you're describing.
by accursed_share | 2026-02-25 16:53:59+00:00
Hey HN! I always wanted a simple Markdown editor in which I could just open a file and write. Obsidian was more config than writing (tried to make it work for a long time), VS Code felt wrong for prose as it is a code editor first, Typora needs an installer. Also used Joplin for a while and quite liked it, but it ended up being too heavy for me, and Notion is in the cloud. I grew up with Internet during the dial-up era and have tinkered with stuff ever since. To me, the best software is simple, runs from a binary, and just works.

Idea brewed in my mind for the past few months which eventually led me to start building my own 'ultimate' editor, purely based on my subjective sensibilities when it comes to writing, editing, and code. This is the output: Inkwell - Single exe (11 MB), Tauri v2, vanilla JS, no framework. Drop it anywhere, run it, write. Close it, your stuff's back up (np++/notepad), quicksave, ctrl+n... there's no accounts or passwords, but it's more 'yours' then if it had. It's just made as I think it should be.

The editor is free forever, the 'business' part is the gate on the PDF/HTML exports for $19, one time purchase, including whatever I come up with in the future as well (LaTeX, maybe vim keybindings, a lot of nice options...)

First 100 licenses for the full build are free: https://4worlds.gumroad.com/l/inkwell/
by Otterly99 | 2026-02-25 16:54:16+00:00
In general (not always, but it is mostly true) philantropy from billionaires and very profitable companies tend to be overshadowed by how much they profit from a system biased toward enriching them (see: The divide by Jason Hickel). A small metaphor to illustrate: are you a philantropist if you film yourself giving away 100$ to homeless people but make tens of thousands from posting the video?
by idoubtit | 2026-02-25 16:54:27+00:00
The weirdness is partly in JSON . In the JSON spec, the slash (named "solidus" there) is the only character that can be written plainly or prefixed with a backslash (AKA "reverse solidus").

See page 4, section 9 of the latest ECMA for JSON: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-404_2...
by andys627 | 2026-02-25 16:54:30+00:00
I have been chatting with LLMs about therapy topics and found that they worked best when I loaded as much history info as possible into the chat box. I made a tool that guides the lay person through doing that:

Relationship graph - draw your relationships however you want and AI will understand

Cards - quick ways to ask and journal around therapy topiocs

Reports - will take all your info and create a deep report using various psychology/therapeutic modalities.

Chat - can chat w/all this data.

Check it out: https://www.bowen.app

Codebase: https://www.github.com/andrewsamuelsen/bowen
by vlucas | 2026-02-25 16:54:34+00:00
I obviously meant traditional React components, not RSC. RSC can eliminate some client code, but they can be very awkward to use in practice, and lines between server and client get blurry really fast. The mental model is difficult for many to fully grok. I say this as someone who has lead engineering teams with folks of varying skill levels. RSCs are not worth the extra complexity and mental overhead they bring.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-25 16:54:35+00:00
> Instead of extensions you install, you download a skill file that tells a coding agent how to add a feature. The software stops being an artifact and starts being a living tool that isn't the same as anyone else's copy. I'm curious to see what tooling will emerge for collaborating with this new paradigm.

I build my own inspired by Beads, not quite as you're describing, but I store todo's in a SQLite database (beads used SQLite AND git hooks, I didn't want to be married to git), and I let them sync to and from GitHub Issues, so in theory I can fork a GitHub repo, and have my tool pull down issues from the original repo (havent tried it when its a fork, so that's a new task for the task pile).

https://github.com/Giancarlos/guardrails/issues

You can see me dogfeeding my tool to my tools codebase and having my issues on the github for anyone to see, you can see the closed ones. I do think we will see an increase in local dev tooling that is tried and tested by its own creators, which will yield better purpose driven tooling that is generic enough to be useful to others.

I used to use Beads for all my Claude Code projects, now I just use GuardRails because it has safety nets and works without git which is what I wanted.

I could have forked Beads, but the other thing is Beads is a behemoth of code, it was much easier to start from nothing but a very detailed spec and Claude Code ;)
by jl6 | 2026-02-25 16:54:37+00:00
Nothing absolutely precludes malfeasance, but SAP is a European legal entity, answerable ultimately to European law. Microsoft and Oracle also trade in Europe through European legal entities, so are theoretically also bound by European law, but should that law conflict with any US law that binds the parent companies, we would expect the US law to be the stronger influence (likely covertly).
by lkey | 2026-02-25 16:54:38+00:00
This parent comment is claiming it's 'obvious' that newer account comments are AI, but is that true? Perhaps it's your 'human' bias acting up...

Let's break it down.

 Human language is all about patterns, it's not just words, it crafting meaning.

 Humans are reading ever more cromulent insights from AI on a daily basis (⌐■_■). Just because man and machine are actively synergizing doesn't give you permission get to broadcast your jealousy out to the world.

 Fomulaic?! If that's what you want to call an optimal, yet organic distillation of pure thought, then by all means. •`_´•

Snowhale is just a regular guy -- he can enter a room. Singling him out is unwarranted, and a violation of the number one HN™ comment rule: "Be Kind, and Please don't Fulminate"
by sublimefire | 2026-02-25 16:54:45+00:00
However you like it or not banning just one company is not a recipe for success. IMO the issue is in the procurement and how these tenders are worded. For instance, if the requirement is data residency backed by private keys and conf compute then put it in writing. The idea that some other vendor will come in and solve this problem without such a requirement upfront will not hold for long.

By and large MS problem is that our world gets fragmented and you need to have products that adapt, eg great firewall in China, strict data residency in Europe. It is difficult to achieve that without segmenting your products as well.
Show HN: A high-performance Hex Editor with Yara-X support in C#
by falkerdev | 2026-02-25 16:54:50+00:00
I'm integrating the Yara-x rules engine into my C# hex editor. I'm working to maximize the performance and efficiency of the integration. I'd like to ask your opinion about this. I personally made this decision to expand the functionality of my hex editor by adding Yara-x support. This allows me to search for signatures in binary files in more detail. I think viewing the entire byte grid can help in malware research.

I implemented this using memory mapping files. I also divided the scanning methods into modes: small files are mapped completely, while large files are scanned in 16MB chunks with a small 64KB overlay to prevent a situation where half the signature is in one chunk and half is in another.
I also used smarter memory management for performance with large files. Documentation is in the readme. But in short, this is an implementation that doesn't overload the garbage collector in C# and handles unsafe pointers and raw memory addresses. What's important is that I now have protection against bad rules that, for example, search for any byte, overloading the scanner. Such rules won't work, and the scanner will stop scanning so that the scanner doesn't crash with an error.

I can't say right now that this tool could be better than the others, because it's currently in development and I still have room for improvement, but it would be cool to hear people's opinions or accept other people's ideas for improving the tool.

(The native version with Yarax is not yet available in current releases, but the source code is available and you can compile or read it yourself.)
by wolfy-j | 2026-02-25 16:55:00+00:00
I can't comment on production viability today but if you assume that language itself is irrelevant then it becomes clear that runtime and engine level is the way to go.

We spend quite a lot of time conceptualizing around safe self mod and to build apps that can change at runtime. We ended up using custom Lua VM, type system to catch mistakes, declarative homogenous infrastructure and actor model (erlang inspired).

Actor model provides not just a good isolation but also it's much easier for AI to reason (since most of components are not that large), we already able to use it to write quite complex systems with ease.

Another upside - in actor model you don't really need any of this fluff with cron jobs, queues and etc, all the logic naturally maps to indended architecture, making implementation of agents _very_ easy.

https://wippy.ai/en/tutorials/micro-agi It takes 4-5 files to create mini sandboxed AI agent at top of actor model with ability to modify own toolkit while having system guardails and no access to core filesystem.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-25 16:55:01+00:00
Apple is the same size as Europe's tech sector...just Apple.

Of the top 50 tech companies on Earth, 3 are European and 30 are American.[1]

Europe has a seriously lacking tech scene. The situation is borderline catastrophic.Even just this past week the OpenClaw guy ditched the EU for the US, calling out the EU's infertile business scene[2]. These are exactly the kind of people the EU should be clearing a path for and rolling out a rug. Wake up.

[1]https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-b...
[2]https://www.businessinsider.com/openclaw-creator-slams-europ...
by stanford_labrat | 2026-02-25 16:55:04+00:00
some added context (both my parents are/were in the Foreign Service):

your location is assigned based on a competitive bidding system where you select from a list of cities to do your next tour. some countries/cities are obviously dangerous for a variety of reasons and they are called "hardship tours" (think iraq or afghanistan). you get bonus money for these and sometimes are forbidden from bringing family.

posts in places like Europe or East Asia are very desirable and highly competitive. but often it's a matter of fit. my dad was a hedge fund manager before the Foreign Service so his first posting was actually in Frankfurt. you can also do a tour in the continental US, such as in DC or NY. because of his economics background he has done a few of those.

most of the time the head ambassador is a political appointee, but the grunts are regular people who have made this their career.
by ge96 | 2026-02-25 16:55:29+00:00
I never connect my RM2 to wifi and it's crazy, I don't charge it for months. Granted I use it maybe under 30 time a month too. I guess WiFi isn't necessarily disabled but yeah.

Haven't modded my paper white kindle, I'm thinking at the very least I'm going to get rid of those forced ads you read when you wake it up.
by ac29 | 2026-02-25 16:56:04+00:00
> Website: https://slidebits.com/isogen

You should really provide a comparison to existing agentic tools if you expect people to buy annual licenses to your tool. Right now pretty much all of your competition is free and a there are a lot of good open source agents as well.

The AI generated landing page is pretty lousy too, did you even review it? As an example, it says "40% off" of $199.99 = $99.99? Its also not clear if your pricing includes tokens. It says "unlimited generations" are included but also mentions using your own API key?
by achierius | 2026-02-25 16:56:05+00:00
Please stop pretending that this is only going to replace "tech workers". Do accountants "live by the sword"? Whose jobs did they replace? What about analysts, journalists, radiologists (one day, if not quite yet)?

And even within the realm of "tech", it's kinda bonkers to expect e.g. a firmware engineer to have some deep understanding of trends in ML/AI.

Altogether your #1 priority seems to be "bashing workers", the justification just being a matter of convenience.
by bekacru | 2026-02-25 16:56:12+00:00
Hey HN, I’m Bereket from Better Auth.

A couple of weeks ago, I started hacking on a project to improve GitHub, mostly because I was tired of the current experience (like many others) and no one seemed to be doing much about it. Thanks to AI, it wasn’t as hard to get started as I expected.

It’s still very early and pretty ambitious, but I hope you like it. It’s open source as well.
by hedora | 2026-02-25 16:56:20+00:00
I've found that, whenever considering Google's actions and incentives, you need to remember two things:

- They make almost all their money on advertising

- They have deep ties to the US intelligence agencies (To the point that a Google employee managed the appointment calendar for our Secretary of State a few years ago!)

So, how would these incentives apply to their Internet blacklist?

- If you are parking lots of Google ad spam, they are taking a cut of your revenue, so they have an incentive to take you off the list (evidence and testimony from the antitrust trial documented ongoing fraud in every layer of Google's vertical ad monopoly)

- If you are hosting something the intelligence agencies dislike / are neutral to / like, that'll impact your presence on the list.
by yassi_dev | 2026-02-25 16:56:34+00:00
I get your point

I think even if AI handles more of the CRUD side, you still need to understand what’s happening in the system once it’s running - this is where this project fits in.

To your point about framework use because of AI: As more applications are being built because of lowering barriers, I think it makes sense for full stack monolithic frameworks to be used more frequently.
by hgomersall | 2026-02-25 16:56:36+00:00
I've not made any accusations, nor do I think that the elites are not to blame. I said that "money printing" is not the problem here. The reason it's not the problem is because the quantity of money simply reflects savings. By focussing on "money printing", you're missing the actual problems. Arguably, that's the point, since the elite tend to do well when money is considered a scarce commodity.

Sure, spending might cause inflationary effects, but that's orthogonal to quantity (flows not stocks), but then economics is the science of confusing stocks with flows.
by vincentalbouy | 2026-02-25 16:57:14+00:00
Are you talking about data security policy for enterprise companies? For that we can just protect the data (SOC2 etc) and comply with enterprise companies.

For the second part, ChatGPT only could potentially aggregated options but It will not get quotes, booking etc, it will stay shallow. The value here is that it gives you good venues vetted by our network but you can also book them and continue organizing your event with process and credibility of a real company.

A retreat is $$$ expensive, you need a real company in the background to insure the booking and finance safety, ChatGPT won't do that.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-02-25 16:57:45+00:00
> again with the conspiracy theories

Yeah, right? Not one ever actually turned out to be true!

The conspiracy theory, that billionaire shareholders, who own virtually all of western media, deliberately create an environment discreditting anyone who expresses anything remotely resembling a conspiracy theory, is also not true!

None of them are true!

Not. A. Single. One.

*_noms cheese pizza*_
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-25 16:58:05+00:00
Correct, the US is one of the few countries that tries to collect (Federal) income tax from all citizens regardless of the country they are currently living in. To be fair, when you can prove that income is entirely foreign (not a single US company in the chain of ownership) that income becomes almost entirely deductible and the tax reporting essentially just a census on how well US citizens are doing from an income standpoint globally. (For people that want economics analyses of US influence in global politics, that census can be handy to spin.)

I think the root problem with how the US currently spends its tax dollars is the above "vote with your wallet" belief in the first place. "Vote with your wallet" implies that the rich deserve more votes. That's not (representative) democracy, that is oligarchy. Right now the US has two political parties that are both "vote with your wallet parties". They both act like they are bake sales that constantly need everyone's $20 bills just to "survive", but as much as anything they are trying to make US citizens complicit in agreeing that the rich deserve more votes and should control more US policy.

I think the only real solution to a lot of US ills is drastic Campaign Finance Reform.
by vasilyt | 2026-02-25 16:58:20+00:00
ChatGPT or Claude are great for request-response work when you actively prompt them. Quoroom is built for persistent operation: a Queen + Workers system that runs 24/7 toward an objective, not only when you send the next message.

The room keeps state, delegates tasks, votes on decisions (quorum), and continues execution over time. So the difference is not just model quality, it’s operating mode: on-demand assistant vs persistent collective workflow.
Show HN: I built a unified inference layer for Document Processing Models
by Adithya-Kolavi | 2026-02-25 16:58:38+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m Adithya, a 22-year-old researcher from India. I work with a lot of document processing models while building AI pipelines, and one pain kept repeating: every model has its own inference code, preprocessing steps, and output format. Swapping models or testing new ones meant rewriting a lot of boilerplate each time.

So I built Omnidocs—an open source library to run document processing models through a simple, unified API, with a vision-first approach to understanding documents.

Key features:

> Pick a task and a model, run inference with one interface
> Supports common document tasks: Text extraction, OCR, Table extraction, Layout analysis and Structured Extraction ...
> 16+ models supported out of the box (many more integrations to come)
> Runs locally on Mac or GPUs (MLX and vLLM backends supported)
> Works with VLM APIs like GPT, Claude, Gemini and many more that support Open Responses API spec
> Designed to quickly build and test document processing pipelines

This has helped me prototype document workflows much faster and compare models easily.

Would love feedback on the API design, developer experience, and what integrations would make this more useful.

Repo: https://github.com/adithya-s-k/omnidocs
by wooby | 2026-02-25 16:58:42+00:00
I built GridCalc because spreadsheets on phones feel fundamentally wrong.

On desktop, spreadsheets work because you can see formulas, references, and structure all at once. On mobile, that collapses. You’re constantly panning, zooming, tapping small cells, and losing context.

RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) removes parentheses and operator precedence by using a stack. Instead of writing = (a + b) * c, you enter a b + c *. The order of operations is explicit and linear.

GridCalc combines those ideas: a visible RPN stack with a reference grid.

It’s built for quick, ad-hoc modeling on a phone: loan calculations, position sizing, cash flow scenarios, engineering back-of-napkin math.

It’s not trying to replace Excel. It’s trying to make mobile calculation feel native instead of cramped.

Happy to answer questions about design decisions or implementation.
by jjgreen | 2026-02-25 16:58:53+00:00
Sitting on a British Airways flight heading to NYC, tucking into a full-English which was tolerable but not great, I had a tap on the arm from the Japanese businessmen sitting on the same aisle, "excuse me -- what is this?" he asked pointing to the black pudding on his plate, "that's black pudding, a type of blood sausage" I replied, at which point he thanked me, turned a little pale and pushed the slices to the side of the plate.
by jerf | 2026-02-25 16:59:05+00:00
Sound and intonation are never going to translate between Japanese and English. It's not even on the table.

Such things can't even necessarily translate well between two languages as similar as French and English. Japanese and English is completely hopeless.

It's true in the other direction too, though this being an English site it might be more easily neglected. I've seen some English songs translated into Japanese, keeping the same syllable count scheme. The Japanese is radically simplified compared to the English, with entire adverbs, adjectives, even clauses removed. And that's even before we ask whether Japanese necessarily has the correct words to translate some of the richer English concepts with their own centuries of history and connotation behind them that these songs contained.

It is what it is. There isn't much that can be done about it. Even if someone made an exhaustive translation of something, it could never be repacked into something that matches the original concise packing.
by wibbily | 2026-02-25 16:59:17+00:00
I'm taking the bait whatever. All those projects are just more fucking AI tools. It's all Claude seems to be good for - writing agents, skills, harnesses. Just a big fat ouroboros.

(Going down the /trending page - 13 of the 14 are some flavor of context manager or agent or smth)

Let me know when someone uses Gas Town or openclaw to write something that isn't "the next Gas Town or openclaw" and then we can talk
Show HN: Calljmp–TypeScript agentic back end+runtime for production AI workflows
by HannaCh_5 | 2026-02-25 16:59:23+00:00
We built Calljmp — a managed backend/runtime for agent-like workflows written in TypeScript.

It focuses on:
– persistent state and long-running executions
– retries, branching and pause/resume
– observability (logs, traces, cost)
– human-in-the-loop approvals

Launched on DevHunt: https://devhunt.org/tool/calljmp

Happy to hear feedback or questions from the HN community.