MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by item007 | 2026-02-02 04:36:07+00:00
Thanks for your support! And you’re right, what you described is very much the enterprise version of this problem (curated corpora + Jira/Confluence + compliance).

Just to clarify my scope: I’m starting with a personal, individual workflow (toC) where you control the sources end-to-end — local files, bookmarks, email, personal docs, etc. I’m not assuming company integrations, approval flows, or “drop into Jira” as the primary surface (those are a different product/compliance game).

That said, your “vetted docs + provenance + surface into the place you already work” framing is still useful in the personal setting too: a small trusted set of sources, always show citations/snippets, and a low-friction output surface (e.g. a task/project note you already use).

If you were applying the same idea personally, what would your “output surface” be — a todo app, calendar, a project doc, or just a weekly review note?
by technion | 2026-02-02 04:36:11+00:00
I've sat in some pretty large orgs and my own experience was the "resources allocated" went to the PR team. I can assure you that they would have had a more boring, corporate sounding announcement with multiple references to their legal team and the actions they would have taken, alongside some useless information about being PCI compliant or something. I'm not convinced the practical output is any better.
by groggo | 2026-02-02 04:36:25+00:00
Ya that's a good point for competitive scrabble. However today I think a lot of people's main exposure to Scrabble comes from WordsWithFriends (and recently, the new NYT games version). In those games, there's no penalty for getting a wrong word, it just won't let you play it. In that context, I at least think it would be nice to have a setting with a more limited list... it could be like Chess timed variants.

It's obviously an impossible challenge to draw those contours in language. Wordle did pretty well though! And going the other direction, just allowing everything that could possibly a word, just starts getting ridiculous.
by slowmovintarget | 2026-02-02 04:38:13+00:00
The point of Global Entry is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement did a background check on you and decided you were cool. When you demonstrate against them, or do stuff like get in their way or block their agents... well, your background just changed, didn't it?

Why would someone with GE expect to keep it?

And part of signing up for Global Entry is getting your photo put in their database. They take a picture of you. You also already have a passport photo which must be current. Global Entry is so quick now because you don't even have to scan your passport; they use facial recognition.
by CzaxTanmay | 2026-02-02 04:39:30+00:00
No problem I will tell you and after telling you I will also add a guide

AETHRA How to use it?
First go to the GitHub link I gave you in the post. Download AETHRA or clone it. After downloading go to the folder named 'AETHRA' then go to bin then RELEASE and then to Net 10 Windows Folder. You will get an exe named AETHRA v0.8. After that start your Music Journey. To get all it's commands go to the GitHub project and read the README. You will get a built in AETHRA script, if it is working you are ready to go!

Thanks for your comment

-Tanmay Czax
by post-it | 2026-02-02 04:40:44+00:00
Reinstalling the OS sucks. I need to pull all my bank cards out of my safe and re-add their CVV's to the wallet, and sometimes authenticate over the phone. And re-register my face. And log back in to all my apps. It can take an hour or so, except it's spread out over weeks as I open an app and realize I need to log in a dozen times.
Show HN: FormBridge – Form infrastructure for AI agents with human handoff
by amit_paz | 2026-02-02 04:40:45+00:00
I started with a question: what existing infrastructure was built for humans that now needs to work for AI agents? Forms seemed like an obvious answer.
The problem is that AI agents can fill out most of a form, but some fields just need a human. Signatures, file uploads, anything subjective. And the form tools out there are either fully automated or fully manual. Nothing handles that handoff well.
So FormBridge is basically form infrastructure for agent-to-human handoffs. An agent creates a submission via API, fills what it knows, and gets back a URL. The human opens the link, sees what's already filled (with little badges showing who filled what), finishes the rest, and submits. Then it goes through validation, optional approvals, webhooks, etc.
A few decisions I'm happy with:

Field-level attribution: every field knows which actor (agent, human, system) touched it and when
Rotating resume tokens: the URL token rotates on every state change so stale links just stop working
MCP server baked in: it auto-generates MCP tools from your form definitions, so agents can discover and use forms without extra setup
Schema flexibility: you can throw Zod, JSON Schema, or OpenAPI specs at it and it normalizes everything internally

Stack is TypeScript, Hono for HTTP, React for the form UI, with swappable storage (memory for dev, SQLite for prod, S3 for files). 1,339 tests, 85.9% coverage.
Built this solo over about a week. Happy to talk through architecture or the handoff model if anyone's curious.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-02 04:43:43+00:00
There are also huge swathes of city, much like other countries.

At the same time, the US is much larger than most, so "There are 10,000+ roundabouts in the US" isn't very significant. A proportion would thus be a better metric here than an absolute number.

If you have numbers on intersections per country, and what proportion of them are roundabouts, that would be better, but I don't, so I'm using land as a proxy. I would also accept sum total road length as an option for denominator.
by Legin82 | 2026-02-02 04:43:46+00:00
Real user here, 7 days in. Mac Mini M4 from Costco (~$640), running Opus 4.5 via Claude Max. Using it as an autonomous employee for two actual businesses (SaaS + AV rentals in Orange County).

What actually works:

- Overnight autonomous work is the killer feature. Directive before bed, structured deliverables in the morning. Research reports, competitor analysis, lead lists — genuinely usable, not demos.

- It found and fixed an SMS chatbot that had been broken for 10 months in my CRM. Diagnosed a legacy app version issue, upgraded components, rewrote the bot prompt through 6 iterations by analyzing real customer conversations. I never would've gotten to that.

- Connected to 4 new APIs autonomously in one session (CRM, workflow automation via OAuth, admin APIs, embeddings).

- Memory works surprisingly well. Daily markdown logs + semantic search. It references decisions from days ago and builds on previous work.

What doesn't:

- It hallucinated about itself when writing marketing copy. Invented revenue figures and got hardware specs wrong. Everything needs review.

- Browser automation is brittle. Rich text editors, complex UIs — still needs human intervention.

- Too agreeable by default. Had to explicitly program "push back on bad ideas" rules into its personality file.

Revenue generated: $0. Time saved: hard to quantify but the SMS bot fix alone would've taken me a full day I didn't have.

For solo founders willing to invest setup time: worth it. For people who just want a chatbot: massive overkill, use the API directly.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-02 04:45:41+00:00
That is a different issue than this:

I frequently was surprised to find some simple part of a program actually required me to sit and plan for several hours.

It's perfectly normal in programming to encounter domain problems that take longer than one predicted, or to plan ahead with pseudo code, proofs of concept, class diagrams, etc.

What is abnormal is, over and over again, to find oneself utterly stumped on how best to implement something very basic. At least, it's abnormal when using a high-level language.
by bruce511 | 2026-02-02 04:46:10+00:00
This sounds good, but in the real world it leads to massively upset customers.

The problem exists from both sides of the coin. Firstly the bulk of customers don't purchase a support contract. So there is very little income to pay staff. So the "support" department has very few people. They're also not very good because low wages means staff turnover.

Then Betty phones with a problem. Significant time is spent explaining to Betty that we can't help her because she (or more accurately her company) doesn't have a contract. She's fighting back because an annual contract seems a lot for this piddly question. Plus to procure the contract will take days (or weeks or months) on her side. And it's not I any budget, making things harder. Betty is very unhappy.

The junior tech doesn't want to be an arsehole and it's a trivial question, and is stuck in the middle.

We switched to a SaaS model in 2011. Users fell over themselves thanking us. They don't have to justify it to procurement. The amount can be budgeted for. No sudden upgrade or support fees. Users get support when they need it. The support department is funded and pays well, resulting in low staff turnover, and consequently better service.

Plus, new sales can stop tomorrow and service continues. Funding for support remains even if sales saturate the market.

Consumers may dislike SaaS, but for business, it absolutely matches their model, provides predictability, and allows for great service, which results in happy Users.
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-02 04:49:03+00:00
> Microsoft has spent 30 years designing the most contrived XML-based format for Excel/Word/Powerpoint documents, so that it cannot be parsed except by very complicated bespoke applications with hundreds of developers involved.

I had interns use c++ to unzip, parse, and repackage to json a standardized visio doc. I had no say in the standard, but specific blocks meant specific things, etc. The project was successful. The xml was parse-able... at least for our needs. The overall project died a swift death and this tidbit will probably be forgotten forever in the depths of repo heirarchy.
by Lammy | 2026-02-02 04:49:04+00:00
I use a package manager that checks the hash of the downloaded installer against what's recorded in the package listing for that version. WinGet has been built in to Windows since one of the 2018-era releases of Windows 10: https://i.ibb.co/VYGXdc56/2026-02-01-20-46-28-Greenshot.png
by arcfour | 2026-02-02 04:49:52+00:00
Ah, so, in addition to turning off automatic updates (everyone knows patches are for wimps! The real threat is supply chain compromise, not 1-days!), you also have taken all of the other necessary steps to protect yourself from the NSA? What if they just compel Microsoft to backdoor Windows/WinGet against you?

And these updaters almost universally use HTTPS, which network-based adversaries can't see except for SNI, and even that's going away...?
by walterbell | 2026-02-02 04:49:58+00:00
> found it useful but running it scares

https://maordayanofficial.medium.com/the-sovereign-ai-securi...

At least 42,665 instances are publicly exposed on the internet, with 5,194 instances actively verified as vulnerable through systematic scanning.. The narrative that “running AI locally = security and privacy” is significantly undermined when 93% of deployments are critically vulnerable. Users may lose faith in self-hosted alternatives.. Governments and regulators already scrutinizing AI may use this incident to justify restrictions on self-hosted AI agents, citing security externalities.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-02 04:50:04+00:00
And if all you do all day is worry about someone else's or your own problems and politics you will not survive. Everyone has problems. Every single person has an issue that could cause them to die or a political event that could cause them harm. Your friends are not special or unique. There are billions of people who don't know if they will have food for their next meal, don't have money to pay rent, struggle with an addiction, etc.

It's okay to watch a show about knights and demons and enjoy it. It's okay to use a piece of software that doesn't code every release as a protest against something. Instead of judging other people for not burning out, maybe take a break yourself. It's okay and normal.
by chii | 2026-02-02 04:50:42+00:00
> One in support/service of whatever the current status quo is. Trying to set oneself apart from (or above) politics is itself political.

apparently, it's OK to have this stance of "if you're not with us, you're against us".

It's absolutely possible to not want political discussions in various places - it doesn't mean you support one or the other side. It simply means you don't want that discussion here. You could support the incumbents or not - not wanting the discussion does not imply support for the incumbents.
by obscurette | 2026-02-02 04:50:48+00:00
> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late. Will you say "this doesn't look plausible" about the output?

The local statistics office recently presented salary statistics claiming that teachers' salaries had unexpectedly increased by 50%. All the press releases went out, and it was only questions raised by the public that forced the statistics office to review and correct the data.
by rebane2001 | 2026-02-02 04:51:05+00:00
Mastodon/HN do not have a personalized weighted algorithm. On HN you see what everyone else sees, and on Mastodon the feed is chronological. DuckDuckGo offers some privacy, but still sends your search queries to Bing.

Also, all three of the examples are projects that have years of dev effort and hosting infrastructure behind them - Xikipedia is a project I threw together in less than a day for fun, I don't want to put effort into server-side maintenance and upkeep for such a small project. I just want a static index.html I can throw in /var/www/ and forget.

And re: hosting, my bare metal box is fine. It's just slow right now because it's getting a huge spike of attention. I don't want to pay for a CDN, and I doubt I could host a file getting multiple gigabits per second of traffic for free.
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-02-02 04:51:16+00:00
> stick with it for a few weeks before deciding whether you enjoy it

I think this can be bad advice for people who may be predisposed to dislike exercise due to past experience or just straight up unfamiliarity.

More constructive is to think about what you don't enjoy about the activity and whether those are intrinsic qualities or can be changed. If they can be changed, change them.

Similarly, it's a good idea to think about things you know you enjoy that can be coupled with exercise. Add those things to your exercise environment to build up positive associations over time.

As a simple example: if you feel self-conscious about your body when you go to the gym you shouldn't try to just suffer through that feeling. Just workout somewhere where you don't feel self-conscious.
by amscanne | 2026-02-02 04:52:27+00:00
LOL, the first list also seems to use the US as the cut-off & first country that is a “deficient democracy”. The magic number must be between somewhere between 0.811 and 0.821.

Having spent a good chunk of my life in Canada and the US, a list that has Canada as more democratic doesn’t make any sense to me. In the end, it’s just a random mix of different measurements, weighted to tell whatever story you want to tell.
by vineyardmike | 2026-02-02 04:52:52+00:00
> The point of Global Entry is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement did a background check on you and decided you were cool

Technically Global Entry is run by a different organization than ICE, but under the same parent organization. GE is run by "Customs and Border Protection", which is a sibling organization to ICE. Obviously it's all the US government, so it doesn't matter a ton...

> well, your background just changed, didn't it?

NO! This is an absolutely unreasonable take.

The bigger issue is "When you demonstrate against them" is a protected action by our laws. So taking a legally protected action and expecting to keep your government entitlements is reasonable. This is entirely a non-essential scheme to help punish people for speaking out against ICE; they're just pulling all the levers they have.

It is a reasonable assumption that the government would not declare you a higher-risk traveler because you attended a protest. Let's not pretend that this is reasonable behavior.
by bsder | 2026-02-02 04:53:15+00:00
> the issue is with specifically US politics and social issues being everywhere. It drowns out all attempts at discourse for anything else

Unfortunately, US politics also drives tech issues elsewhere like the EU. For example, local data control is a big thing that some of us have been screaming about forever but nobody paid attention to--until US politics made it a hot button issue.

And, to be honest, if the EU would get off its ass and at least try to foster some alternatives, even those of us in the US would benefit. EU alternatives would mean that people in the US could finally vote against the megajillionaires with their wallets.

> Americans, including people here, seem uniquely incapable of nuance in their thinking when it comes to politics.

Bullets and beatings don't leave much room for nuance regardless of country.
by rk06 | 2026-02-02 04:54:50+00:00
where exactly have you seen excel forumalas to have tests?

I have done, in my early careers, gone knee deep into Excel macros and worked on c# automation that will create excel sheet run excel macros on it and then save it without the macros.

in the entire process, I saw dozens of date time mistakes in VBA code, but no tests that would catch them...
by somenameforme | 2026-02-02 04:55:06+00:00
Immunity rate, not vaccination rate. This is why everybody ended up catching COVID, often multiple times, regardless of how much they injected themselves with. Whereas, measles, with an ostensibly higher spread rate, was already on its way out before vaccines were introduced with fewer than 1 new case per 500 people - far below even basic fertility rates. It's because infection with measles is a nice mixture of relatively low risk and providing lifetime immunity. Beyond that, herd immunity is a hand-wavy measurement about statistically preventing perpetual spread within a population, it says much less about individual susceptibility.
by chongli | 2026-02-02 04:56:27+00:00
There are arrangements where you continue to pay for cars and houses without owning them. They're called leases and rental agreements. They typically cost a lot less for the consumer than outright purchases and at the conclusion of the lease/rental term the consumer is free to return the car/house to its owner without compensation for depreciation or wear & tear (though car leases usually impose mileage restrictions and routine maintenance requirements).
by TZubiri | 2026-02-02 04:57:03+00:00
That is true, but I don't think I ever said that binaries map one-to-one with source code.

I was referring to source code to binary maps, these are files that map binary locations to source code locations. In C (gcc/gdb) these are debug objects, they are also used in gdb style debuggers like Python's pdb, Java's jdb. They also exist in js/ts when using minifiers or react, so that you are able to debug in production.
by defrost | 2026-02-02 04:57:11+00:00
The US literally elected Trump.

Not that they had a wide field of choice and not that they can actually fire him.

Both reasons the US political system isn't all that great - it nosedived into a two party Hotelling's Law quagmire despite the founders being against party politics. It's hardly suprising a system centuries old and creaking failed to scale.

Washminster systems are a literal reaction to the cracks in the Westminster and Washington systems.

Maybe check those American Exceptionalism / Manifest Destiny blinkers and look about a little, it's hard to see out of a rut.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-02 04:58:24+00:00
> How would a regime change of the Mullahs equate to "redrawing borders?"

It doesn’t. Maybe there is a Delcy Rodriguez in the IRGC. I’m doubtful. If there isn’t, we have the option of creating a power vacuum or quarantining the problem.

I’m arguing for the latter. The Azeri-majority northnorth to Azerbaijan; the Turkic areas to its west to Turkey [1]. Balochistani southeast to Pakistan. Arab southwest to Iraq. Hell, if you’re ambitious, find a way to give Bandar Abbas to the Emiratis and secure the Strait of Hormuz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicities_in_Iran
by vineyardmike | 2026-02-02 04:59:24+00:00
> The Germans literally elected the Nazis... you think they’re better at democracy

FYI - Germany changed their government after this regime fell, to ensure that it would become more democratic and harder to concentrate power in the executive. So they became more democratic as a learning process.

The US had an actual civil war (over slavery no less) and didn't change anything fundamental about their constitution nor government structure as a result. It was less deadly than the holocaust, but enduring a civil war is not a sign of a functioning democracy.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-02 04:59:27+00:00
Who’s the useful idiot for a hostile foreign power? Peter Thiel is likely a literal Russian agent, given the Epstein files mention he met with Russian officials and his handler at Epstein’s home. His buddies Elon Musk and David Sacks probably know this and are also compromised. Trump refused to be TikTok despite the law requiring it and has generally been soft on China. He also did nothing to stop Putin.

Also you should know that Musk and Melania are both illegal immigrants who violated our laws. Yet you’re aligned with them and complain here about “illegals”.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-02 04:59:48+00:00
At this point, 18 years of iPhone, I shouldn't be surprised that Linux users are still deluding themselves that a checklist of features on paper is what people want, and if two things have the same checklist then they are the same device, and if one has a longer checklist it must be better.

How have you not noticed "user experience" is a real thing yet? Apple's store is more trustworthy than Google's. iPhones lag less than Androids. iPhones have nicer hardware and software integration than Androids. iPhones have less Google spyware than most Androids. iPhones don't require people to choose between Samsung bloatware and non-removable Facebook, versus a Chinese manufacturer, versus having to flash the firmware oneself, versus when the updates will stop, versus which one has which camera module.

> "and then locks them into a closed ecosystem"

Oh hey, the person further up the comment chain who is now flagged is also spreading this lie[1]. Any iPhone user could buy a competing device at any time - and some do! It's not a lock or a prison, it's a free choice for a better experience.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810497
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-02 04:59:57+00:00
Congratulations on your failure to learn anything at all. Your society is proud. Your social credit score has increased by 3 points. Only 17 more points and you'll be rewarded with an increase in your chocolate rations.

Try smoking some weed. It might be the key to helping you unlock the truth behind my "unhinged" words.

May you find relief from your mental illness.
by eduction | 2026-02-02 05:00:04+00:00
You’re using “spare” incorrectly. It means to avoid. “Spare the expense” means to avoid having to pay for the license. Which seems to be the opposite of what you are saying.

“Spare the money” is probably what you mean. That is to part with the money, to avoid having it. As in “can you spare a dime.” The is the inverse of sparing the expense, just as an expense is the inverse of money.
by linkshu | 2026-02-02 05:00:13+00:00
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