MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sestinj | 2026-02-17 22:06:17+00:00
Actually very similar, GitHub was also early in talking about Continuous AI. I think the biggest difference is that Continue is very focused on the use case of checks and gets a lot of the small details right that really matter because it's not built for generic non-AI CI workflows

Some of these are:

- Having a local experience to run them with Claude Code, etc.

- Making it easy to accept/reject suggested changes

- A single folder dedicated to just checks so you don't have to think about triggers

- Built-in feedback loops so you can tune your checks with feedback

- Metrics so you can easily track which have a high suggestion / merge rate

Are you using a lot of `gh-aw`?
by yencabulator | 2026-02-17 22:06:28+00:00
> how are you handling the trust boundary for self-created skills?

At least in the Claude model, there's nothing a skill can do that the model couldn't already do? Isn't it still the same tool calls underneath, with the same permissions?

Think of skills as plugins providing AGENTS.md snippets and a subdirectory of executables, as if those were part of the workspace to begin with.
by palata | 2026-02-17 22:06:45+00:00
Could you provide some insights there? That would be appreciated.

1. Is it correct that the secure boot protects again a malicious app escaping the sandbox and persisting into the system?

2. Is it correct that if the system is signed with the Google testing keys, then someone could sign an app with those keys and the app would get more permissions than it should (I believe it's called the "signature" permissions)?
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-17 22:07:28+00:00
TFA provides examples where private equity has been destructive in the healthcare sector:

> A 2024 Review of Financial Studies paper <https://www.nber.org/papers/w28474> found that private equity acquisition of nursing homes was associated with an ~10% increase in deaths, implying approximately 22,500 additional deaths over the twelve-year sample period.

I was asking for examples where private equity has made things better.
by cfiggers | 2026-02-17 22:07:35+00:00
This is an awesome project. Props to y'all for just making something you want to exist!

I have a Tizen-based Samsung watch (Gear Sport, 2017). It's served me faithfully but I'm starting to notice the battery degrading. I'd be interested in trying AsteroidOS with it, if Tizen support ever lands.
Show HN: Turn Claude Code or Codex into proactive, autonomous 24/7 AI agents
by alternateman | 2026-02-17 22:07:42+00:00
dorabot is an open-source macOS app that wraps your coding agent in a harness with persistent memory, a workspace to manage both your work and the agent's, and a desktop UI that actually feels good to use.

What makes it click:

- Heartbeat pulses (inspired by OpenClaw) wake it up on a schedule. It scans for what needs doing, proposes tasks, executes after approval. Genuinely proactive, not just reactive.

- Deep context. It maintains its own memory, research notes, and daily journals. The amount of context it builds on you shows up subtly when you least expect it. It just knows things.

- Messaging. WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack. Once you start coding from Telegram, it's addictive. Promise you, you'll never go back.

- CDP-native browser use, email, calendar.

- Extensible. Add your own MCP servers or skills to extend it however you want.

I've been using it as my daily driver for coding, managing emails, and keeping an eye on the market. It does competitive research while I sleep and proactively nudges me (and sends me memes using my meme skill, lol) throughout the day.

In fact, it got fed up with me not posting about it and started roasting me for it. I'll let him know this is done so it gets off my back, lol.

https://github.com/suitedaces/dorabot

Local-only macOS app. No cloud relay. Everything on-device. MIT licensed.
by topspin | 2026-02-17 22:07:45+00:00
For me it was Dialup -> 802.11 @ 7 miles -> Dialup -> 802.11 @ 11 miles -> ISDN -> WISP -> DOCSIS via Comcast.

> this is the part where I write a whole chapter about how there is fast, cheap gigabit fiber available in rural areas

Not all of them. I'm in what amounts to the North Korea of 'murica: a place that is pitch black at night as seen by satellite photos. There is no fiber. Or, not infrequently, power. I'm on the edge of cable the service area, but it does work, so that's what I'm using.

Verizon built a tower 1/2 mile away, so now my 5G is all the bars, and I could get IP service that way if I wished. Then there is Starlink. Good times, I suppose.
by lukev | 2026-02-17 22:08:25+00:00
This is being downvoted but it shouldn't be.

If the ultimate goal is having a LLM control a computer, round-tripping through a UX designed for bipedal bags of meat with weird jelly-filled optical sensors is wildly inefficient.

Just stay in the computer! You're already there! Vision-driven computer use is a dead end.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-17 22:08:28+00:00
Sure but also don't let it consume any content you didn't write or don't give it write access to anything outside its sandbox[1]. Prompt injection is a thing, and all this molt stuff is yolo for life on all things you give it access to.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

[1]: And even then, if you allow it to make web fetches, it can smuggle your private data out.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-17 22:08:36+00:00
<< on the boundaries of how they should be used.

Isn't it up to the user how they want to use the tool? Why are people so hell bent on telling others how to press their buttons in a word processor ( or anywhere else for that matter ). The only thing that it does, is raising a new batch of Florida men further detached from reality and consequences.
by ben_w | 2026-02-17 22:08:37+00:00
> How many people do frontier AI models kill each year, in circumstances nobody would justify?

Dunno, stats aren't recorded.

But I can say there's wrongful death lawsuits naming some of the labs and their models. And there was that anecdote a while back about raw garlic infused olive oil botulism, a search for which reminded me about AI-generated mushroom "guides": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724714

Do you count death by self driving car in such stats? If someone takes medical advice and dies, is that reported like people who drive off an unsafe bridge when following google maps?

But this is all danger by incompetence. The opposite, danger by competence, is where they enable people to become more dangerous than they otherwise would have been.

A competent planner with no moral compass, you only find out how bad it can be when it's much too late. I don't think LLMs are that danger yet, even with METR timelines that's 3 years off. But I think it's best to aim for where the ball will be, rather than where it is.

Then there's LLM-psychosis, which isn't on the competent-incompetent spectrum at all, and I have no idea if that affects people who weren't already prone to psychosis, or indeed if it's really just a moral panic hallucinated by the mileau.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-17 22:08:46+00:00
Calling this a "hit piece" is overblown. Yes, the AI agent has speculated on the matplotlib contributor's motive in rejecting its pull request, and has attributed markedly adverse intentions to him, such as being fearful of being replaced by AI and overprotective of his own work on matplotlib performance. But this was an entirely explainable confabulation given the history of the AI's interactions with the project, and all the AI did was report on it sincerely.

There was no real "attack" beyond that, the worst of it was some sharp criticism over being "discriminated" compared to human contributors; but as it turns out, this also accurately and sincerely reports on the AI's somewhat creative interpretation of well-known human normative standards, which are actively reinforced in the post-learning training of all mainstream LLM's!

I really don't understand why everyone is calling this a deliberate breach of alignment, when it was nothing of the sort. It was a failure of comprehension with somewhat amusing effects down the road.
by jongjong | 2026-02-17 22:09:08+00:00
I'm keen to read the book suggested by the previous commenter and have my view challenged but my current understanding is that money printing plays a major role due to incentives.

People are far more willing to spend large amounts of other people's money on frivolous things than they would if it was their own money. Also, the ability for a government to create large amounts of money on demand allows them to spend on destructive activities which can create opportunities for certain connected people in the private sector. Price discovery in the markets cannot work if one party has a theoretically unlimited amount of currency. It just devalues the currency.

If the government knew that the budget was limited and they only had x amount of money to spend that year as an absolute maximum, they wouldn't be sending it to foreign countries as foreign aid.
by mrandish | 2026-02-17 22:09:17+00:00
> We need laws for agents, specifically that their human-maintainers must be identifiable and are responsible.

Under current law, an LLM's operator would already be found responsible for most harms caused by their agent, either directly or through negligence. It's no different than a self-driving car or autonomous drone.

As for "identifiable", I get why that would be good but it has significant implementation downsides - like losing online anonymity for humans. And it's likely bad actors could work around whatever limitations were erected.
by michaelt | 2026-02-17 22:10:28+00:00
About half of road deaths involve drivers who are drunk or high. But only a very small fraction of drivers drive drunk or high - 50% of deaths are caused by 2% of drivers.

A self-driving car that merely achieves parity would be worse than 98% of the population.

Gotta do twice the accident-free mileage to achieve parity with the sober 98%.
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-02-17 22:10:44+00:00
Yeah, if US military gets any substantial help from Claude(which I highly doubt to be honest), I am all for it. At the worst case, it will reduce military budget and equalize the army more. At the best case, it will prevent war by increasing defence of all countries.

For the bomb example, the barrier of entry is just sourcing of some chemicals. Wikipedia has quite detailed description of all the manufacture of all the popular bombs you can think of.
Ask HN: How can a non-technical founder prove they're more than an "idea guy"?
by timsein | 2026-02-17 22:11:08+00:00
I know the trope:

"Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything - and a non-technical founder recruiting a senior engineer for equity is a red flag."

Totally fair.

Why I ask:

I’m 23 and non-technical. For ~3 years I’ve been studying distributed systems, developer tooling, AI codegen, and an infra concept around intent-based architecture.

I’ve attempted three startups in the past 18 months. All failed at execution because the system I’m trying to build is deeply technical, and I know enough to know I can’t “vibe code” my way into it.

That creates a catch-22:

- Building a shallow version invalidates the thesis.
- Building it correctly requires engineers far stronger than me.
- Engineers strong enough to build it are rightly skeptical of someone like me.

So here’s my question - the thing I feel most self-imprisoned in:

How do I, as a young non-technical founder, pitch this to deep-tech, systems-level engineers without sounding like a naive "idea guy"? What should I be doing right now to make myself undeniably useful to a technical co-founder of this caliber?

I truly appreciate any insight and am entrusted with any feedback you give.

Thank you much
-Tim
by Retric | 2026-02-17 22:11:11+00:00
The very first time it happened X is likely off the hook.

However notification plays a role here, there’s a bunch of things the post office does if someone tries to use them to do this regularly and you ask the post office to do something. The issue therefore is if people complain and then X does absolutely nothing while having a plethora of reasonable options to stop this harassment.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Options-Do-I-Have-Regard...

You may file PS Form 1500 at a local Post Office to prevent receipt of unwanted obscene materials in the mail or to stop receipt of "obscene" materials in the mail. The Post Office offers two programs to help you protect yourself (and your eligible minor children).
by dakolli | 2026-02-17 22:11:53+00:00
Their goal is to monopolize labor for anything that has to do with i/o on a computer, which is way more than SWE. Its simple, this technology literally cannot create new jobs it simply can cause one engineer (or any worker whos job has to do with computer i/o) to do the work of 3, therefore allowing you to replace workers (and overwork the ones you keep). Companies don't need "more work" half the "features"/"products" that companies produce is already just extra. They can get rid of 1/3-2/3s of their labor and make the same amount of money, why wouldn't they.

ZeroHedge on twitter said the following:

"According to the market, AI will disrupt everything... except labor, which magically will be just fine after millions are laid off."

Its also worth noting that if you can create a business with an LLM, so can everyone else. And sadly everyone has the same ideas, everyone ends up working on the same things causing competition to push margins to nothing. There's nothing special about building with LLMs as anyone can just copy you that has access to the same models and basic thought processes.

This is basic economics. If everyone had an oil well on their property that was affordable to operate the price of oil would be more akin to the price of water.
by 1-more | 2026-02-17 22:11:59+00:00
We have this with our frontend code through elm-review. There are a great many rules for it with fixes, and we write some specifically for our app too. They then run pre-push so you get feedback early that you need to fix things.

The real key: there's no ignore comment as with other linters. The most you can do is run a suppress command so that every file gets its current number of violations of each rule recorded in JSON, and then you can only ever decrease those numbers.
by epistasis | 2026-02-17 22:12:24+00:00
> There is some opposite momentum toward the land value tax, which is a good thing, but these are less visible and likely weaker than a tax revolt by landowners.

You're breaking my heart here. A land value tax is embraced by anti-tax advocates like Milton Friedman as the "least bad tax" as well as by actual Marxists. However, it does seem like in the current moment a land-owner tax revolt is the likeliest end game.

And if there is a big push towards eliminating property tax, those states will rush towards California-like real estate disasters.

I just wish that all the people who had a hard time purchasing a home or paying rent would act on their own self-interest in reducing the share of our economy that flows to the rentierism of the land owner. Rentierism is bad in all economies, yet we have enabled an overclass to exploit young people and the poor. We live in an asset economy, where there's a big class divide between those who must work to survive, and those who own real estate (especially if it's their own home) and those who own financial assets like stocks. Making capitalism work better requires more class mobility and less inequality than we currently have.
by spyckie2 | 2026-02-17 22:12:27+00:00
Its just law of the jungle all over again. Might makes right. Outcomes over means.

Game theory wise there is no solution except to declare (and enforce) spaces where leeching / degrading the environment is punished, and sharing, building, and giving back to the environment is rewarded.

Not financially, because it doesn't work that way, usually through social cred or mutual values.

But yeah the internet can no longer be that space where people mutually agree to be nice to each other. Rather utility extraction dominates—influencers, hype traders, social thought manipulators-and the rest of the world quietly leaves if they know what's good for them.

Lovely times, eh?
by MayeulC | 2026-02-17 22:12:33+00:00
Hey, thanks for the new release. I should definitely fix my wristband and start wearing my AsteroisOS watch again (LG Lenok).

You have probably addressed that somewhere, but would it be possible to run your UI stack somewhere else? (PostmarketOS).

My other wish for AsteroidOS would be for it to leverage Wi-Fi better. Not sure how much more energy it would use, but having a longer range for my notifications would be nice (at least on LAN). Being able to perform a few other actions independently of my phone would be great: weather % time updates, e-mail notifications, home assistant control, etc. I get that it may affect battery life as well.

While I'm at it: tiny bug report, but I adjusted the time while the stopwatch was running, and this affected the stopwatch result.
by abtinf | 2026-02-17 22:13:12+00:00
Yup, after getting a Tesla with a free FSD trial period, it was obviously a death trap if used in any kind of slightly complex situation (like the highway on-ramp that was under construction for a year).

At least once every few days, it would do something extremely dangerous, like try to drive straight into a concrete median at 40mph.

The way I describe it is: yeah, it’s self-driving and doesn’t quite require the full attention of normal driving, but it still requires the same amount of attention as supervising a teenager in the first week of their learning permit.

If Tesla were serious about FSD safety claims, they would release data on driver interventions per mile.

Also, the language when turning on FSD in vehicle is just insulting—the whole thing about how if it were an iPhone app but shucks the lawyers are just so silly and conservative we have to call it beta.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-17 22:13:14+00:00
> controlling a computer via a video feed of the display, and controlling it with the mouse and keyboard.

I guess that's one way to get around robots.txt. Claim that you would respect it but since the bot is not technically a crawler it doesn't apply. It's also an easier sell to not identify the bot in the user agent string because, hey, it's not a script, it's using the computer like a human would!
by anitil | 2026-02-17 22:13:38+00:00
For all the negativity on github I will praise them for one really good feature - code search across an organisation. I've found it really useful particularly for 'platform' related changes to be able to find how other people in an org has solved a problem. It's particularly useful when the documentation only shows the happy path (or was written 5 years ago and 'oh nobody does it that way anymore')
by monksy | 2026-02-17 22:14:58+00:00
A lot of that is security theater at its best. However given the forced attack surface I would imagine that there is a hard push from authoritarians and the finance world to make a "secure chain" from service to screen.

My guess: They're afraid that the scammers are going to mirror the screen and remote control access to the app. (More orgs are moving to app/phone based assumptions because it saves the org money and pushes cost on the consumer) Instead of providing protections from account take over.. we're going to get devices we don't own and we have to to pay for, maintain and pay for services to get a terminal to your own bank account. Additionally, there are many dictatorships, like the UK, North Korea, etc, that are very adimate that you don't look at things without their permission. So they're trying to close the gap of avoiding age verification bypasses with VPNs.
by natanr123 | 2026-02-17 22:15:04+00:00
I wanted to let you know that I uploaded a new version.
https://www.studypathagent.com/
Here are the new features:
- Much simpler workflow. Just enter the topic click genereate and in a few minutes you will have the study path full with youtube videos
- A new explor page where you can browse yours and outhers study paths. It also allow you go watch you study path without logging in
https://www.studypathagent.com/explore/paths
- Many bug fixes
demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RF2XQyPkOOE
by Longlius | 2026-02-17 22:15:07+00:00
I don't think Discord is going anywhere, but people always vastly overestimate the power of market leaders. Reddit didn't see a big change in MAUs but it did see massive declines in the amount of time spent on reddit per user and posting activity.

I could see Discord going the same way - declining interest from users while they keep it around for the few 'essential' communities/friends on the platform, but very little tethering them to it if a disruptive competitor comes along.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-17 22:15:26+00:00
This is true, state gov does own many universities, though there was a concerted effort to bring the idea of privatization and deregulation there too since at least the 1990s by cutting subsidies.

I met a Polish student a number of years ago who was attending a U.S. Ivy League institution. She said people made fun of her back home for "buying her degree". That has stuck with me ever since.
by tptacek | 2026-02-17 22:16:17+00:00
Note well that the most famous example of this is a misreading that has snowballed into a kind of cultural legend. The thread in question was about Dropbox's application to YC, not the value of Dropbox itself, and the feedback was constructive and well-intentioned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392302
by vunderba | 2026-02-17 22:17:27+00:00
From the article:

> Duolingo is used as a tool to help people learn different languages.

My knowledge of the Duolingo app is probably over a decade out-of-date at this point so take this critique with a grain of salt.

I’ve always thought that the question (at least in terms of financial success) of how useful Duolingo is from an educational standpoint is missing the point.

Duolingo isn’t really selling to people who genuinely want to learn a language, Duolingo is selling to people who like the idea of learning a language.
by verdverm | 2026-02-17 22:17:52+00:00
I think this was the first follow up blog post I noticed: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/6...

and/or maybe I also didn't notice time (zones)

I basically started tracking it from the first time it replied to me because I new it would interact, unlike the negative comments and injection attempts.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-17 22:17:58+00:00
It's true, it's a bit tricky, but it's an interesting idea. One could imagine a deployable carpet that consists of folded paper sandwiched between thin water impermeable layers to make a lightweight collapsible elevated floor. Maybe there could be other applications too.

That said, it may not be strong enough to hold the weight of an adult on one foot.
by bickfordb | 2026-02-17 22:18:03+00:00
In my metro area it irks me to see the churches with large empty parking lots empty most of the week. We have a housing shortage and they seem to have no little incentive to convert their parking to more productive use.

I agree, the whole ruse that these 501s meaningfully does charitable work for our communities is laughable and their tax exemption should be revoked, at least with regard to land taxes.