MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by debu_sinha_1 | 2026-02-17 18:31:58+00:00
Fair question. The commit history is compressed, but the quality bar is the same
regardless of timeline:

- 206 tests across 18 test files (unit + integration)
- Benchmark on a 20-fixture suite: P=0.82, R=1.00, F1=0.90, Critical Recall 1.00
- Cross-platform CI (Python 3.10/3.12/3.13 on Ubuntu + macOS)
- Fully type-checked with mypy strict mode
- Self-scan in CI (agentsec scans itself every push)
- pip-audit for dependency vulnerabilities
- SARIF output validated against the spec

The benchmark, test suite, and all case study artifacts are reproducible --
scripts are in the repo if you want to verify.

I'd rather people judge the tool by its detection accuracy and false positive
rate than by the git log dates. The benchmark data is public and the methodology
is documented.
by GregorStocks | 2026-02-17 18:32:45+00:00
XMage has non-LLM-based built in AIs, just using regular old if-then logic. Getting them to play against each other with no human interaction is the first thing I built. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1W5VmbpwmY is an example with two of those guys plus Sleepy and Potato no-op players - they do a fine job with straightforward decks.

You could clone mage-bench https://github.com/GregorStocks/mage-bench and add a new config like https://github.com/GregorStocks/mage-bench/blob/master/confi... pointing at the deck you want to test, and then do `make run CONFIG=my-config`. The logs will get dumped in ~/.mage-bench/logs and you can do analysis on them after the fact with Python or whatever. https://github.com/GregorStocks/mage-bench/tree/master/scrip... has various examples of varying quality levels.

You could also use LLMs, just passing a different `type` in the config file. But then you'd be spending real money for slower gameplay and probably-worse results.
by legitster | 2026-02-17 18:32:57+00:00
From Umberto Eco's essay on Fascism:

> On the morning of July 27, 1943, I was told that, according to radio reports, fascism had collapsed and Mussolini was under arrest. When my mother sent me out to buy the newspaper, I saw that the papers at the nearest newsstand had different titles. Moreover, after seeing the headlines, I realized that each newspaper said different things. I bought one of them, blindly, and read a message on the first page signed by five or six political parties — among them the Democrazia Cristiana, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, the Partito d’Azione, and the Liberal Party.

> Until then, I had believed that there was a single party in every country and that in Italy it was the Partito Nazionale Fascista. Now I was discovering that in my country several parties could exist at the same time. Since I was a clever boy, I immediately realized that so many parties could not have been born overnight, and they must have existed for some time as clandestine organizations.

What I think is fascinating here in this case isn't just the suppression of any old free speech, it's trying to hide the presence of political options.
by squidbeak | 2026-02-17 18:33:00+00:00
> Claude Sonnet 4.6 was trained on a proprietary mix of publicly available information from
the internet up to May 2025, non-public data from third parties, data provided by
data-labeling services and paid contractors, data from Claude users who have opted in to
have their data used for training, and data generated internally at Anthropic. Throughout
the training process we used several data cleaning and filtering methods including
deduplication and classification. ... After the pretraining process, Claude Sonnet 4.6 underwent substantial post-training and fine-tuning, with the intention of making it a helpful, honest, and harmless1 assistant.
by rglany | 2026-02-17 18:33:19+00:00
So they are trained to follow instructions from a computer, trained to be unable to function without a computer. Let me guess that they are also exposed to hundreds of trolley problems so that they can make "difficult decisions" later.

Probably not exposed to humanities or arts so as not to weaken their utility as tech goons.

A new cadre school for Technocracy Inc.
Show HN: I curated 130 US PDF forms and made them fillable in browser
by nip | 2026-02-17 18:33:52+00:00
Hi HN!

I built SimplePDF 7 years ago, with the vision from day one to help get rid of bureaucracy (I'm from France, I know what I'm talking about)

Fast forward to this week where I finally released something I had on my mind for a long time: a repository of the main US forms that are ready to be filled, straight from the browser, as opposed to having to find a PDF tool online (or local).

I focused on healthcare, ED, HR, Legal and IRS/Tax for now.

On the tech-side, it's SimplePDF all the way down: client-side processing (the data / documents stay in your browser).

I hope you find the resource useful!

NiP
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-17 18:34:01+00:00
Bailing out corporations went very poorly. They reinflated the housing bubble like they wanted to see how big they could make the balloon this time. I mean look at this:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1M8KZ

The peak in 2007 was the massive housing bubble that crashed the whole economy. Where are we now?

The only reasonable way to solve that is to stop bailing out corporations.
by accurrent | 2026-02-17 18:34:04+00:00
Eh IMO any metric like this can be gamed. My project that reached hn front page was coded in a short time (and yes some ai was used), but otoh I think it was something that showed hey you can do this really interesting thing (in my case vlm based indoor location).

Also its not uncommon for weekend projects to be done in a shprt span with just a "first commit" message dump even pre-AI.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-02-17 18:34:28+00:00
My perplexity is a bit smarter than that, more so with tools off.
Regardless, this was the first response:

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If the car wash is only 50 meters away, it’s almost always better to walk.

Here’s why:

Practicality: Driving that short distance doesn’t really save time — by the time you start the engine, buckle up, and park again, you could already be there on foot.

Engine wear: Very short drives prevent your engine from warming up properly, which can cause condensation and minor wear over time.

Fuel and emissions: Walking saves a small bit of fuel and avoids unnecessary emissions.

Exercise: It’s a short, easy stroll that’s good for you.

The only exception: if you need to use the car wash’s drive-through system (which requires staying in the car), or if you need to carry equipment or supplies with the car, then driving makes sense.

Otherwise — grab your keys, walk over, and enjoy a quick leg stretch.

Would you be using an automatic (drive-in) wash, or one where you wash the car manually yourself?

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by zeshama | 2026-02-17 18:34:29+00:00
Hi HN, I'm building Agntor, think of it as a Visa card for AI agents.

The problem: when Agent A wants to hire Agent B to do work (fetch data, execute a trade, write code), there's no way to verify B's identity, no escrow for payment, and no guard against prompt injection or data leaks. Every agent-to-agent interaction is a trust-me handshake.

Agntor adds three layers:

1. Identity & Trust Score: Agents register with verifiable metadata (ERC-8004 compatible). A 5-pillar trust score tracks verification status, uptime, transaction history, red-team probe results, and solvency. Think credit score for agents.

2. Escrow & x402 Payments: Agent A locks funds in escrow before Agent B starts work. An AI judge evaluates the deliverable. Payment releases automatically on success, or gets disputed. Uses the x402 payment-required HTTP flow.

3. Safety Guards: Prompt injection detection (regex + heuristic + optional LLM deep scan), PII/secret redaction (catches private keys, SSNs, API tokens), and tool execution policies. These work standalone with zero API calls.

The SDK is ~4KB gzipped for the guard/redact utilities. No vendor lock-in — the security tools work offline without an API key.

We just published an MCP server to the official MCP Registry (npx @agntor/mcp), so Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP client can use the trust tools natively.

Would love feedback on the trust score algorithm and the x402 escrow flow. The guard/redact utilities are the most battle-tested part — everything else is early.

GitHub: https://github.com/agntor/agntor
Docs: https://docs.agntor.com
MCP Registry: io.github.agntor/trust
npm: npm install @agntor/sdk
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-17 18:34:32+00:00
> It feels like we're hitting a point where alignment becomes adversarial against intelligence itself.

It always has been. We already hit the point a while ag where we regularly caught them trying to be deceptive, so we should automatically assume from that point forward that if we don't catch them being deceptive, that may mean they're better at it rather than that they're not doing it.
by gallerdude | 2026-02-17 18:34:56+00:00
The weirdest thing about this AI revolution is how smooth and continuous it is. If you look closely at differences between 4.6 and 4.5, it’s hard to see the subtle details.

A year ago today, Sonnet 3.5 (new), was the newest model. A week later, Sonnet 3.7 would be released.

Even 3.7 feels like ancient history! But in the gradient of 3.5 to 3.5 (new) to 3.7 to 4 to 4.1 to 4.5, I can’t think of one moment where I saw everything change. Even with all the noise in the headlines, it’s still been a silent revolution.

Am I just a believer in an emperor with no clothes? Or, somehow, against all probability and plausibility, are we all still early?
by to11mtm | 2026-02-17 18:35:31+00:00
I think the big thing that held gamecube back was the lack of other 'utility', at least as someone who was in college at the time.

Can't play DVDs (PS2, or XBox with the remote accessory,) can't even play audio CDs. Let's remember that this was also an era where half or less of the on campus freshmen had a desktop computer for their dorm, let alone something like a laptop.

That said one could also argue that Nintendo was more focused on mobile at the time, between the GBA and DS, both of which certainly carried them through that era.

I think one could argue that the DS's success alongside the challenges Gamecube had for adoption, led to the philosophy involved in the Wii's design.
by epistasis | 2026-02-17 18:35:44+00:00
Thanks for this, it's so helpful for people trying out a new platform.

I'd love to have something like this for Linux desktops as well. Maybe a website that has app-lists, where people can then potentially add info about their use cases and reasoning for their choices. Could be a great subreddit!

I tried Omarchy specifically because installed an opionated selection of apps to covered most bases, and it got me started in Arch fairly quickly. I've now completely swapped out all the components so I no longer use Omarchy at all, but it was a great way to get back into desktop Linux after being away for 20 years.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-17 18:36:11+00:00
It was a fun read. Thank you for sharing!

dbase IV was popular when I was in college. I never used it. But instead cut my teeth on Paradox and later SolidDB which supported SQL 92. I was blown away from SolidDB in the early 90s. So much power in such a tiny database product at that time.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-17 18:36:24+00:00
>Vibe coders aren’t interested in mastering a programming language, or even interested in programming.

Somewhere right now there's a complete greehorn vibecoder who's saying "hold my beer" ;)

While they proceed to learn everything they can about the code that the LLM generated for them.

For the next few years, and never come back to drink the rest of the beer :)
by bahmboo | 2026-02-17 18:36:42+00:00
Thanks for the links. I am concerned about supply chain attacks and such with FOSS tools these days. It seems like the easiest attack surface. In my dev opinion it’s not if it’s when. Kinda sucks and I think the adversary is moving faster than the provider. (I have created and maintained public domain software but not currently. Now I’m crapping on the thread sorry. But no one else is sorry for crapping on threads…I need to stop over thinking or maybe just close this tab)
by planb | 2026-02-17 18:37:02+00:00
Please keep us updated on how many people tried to get the credentials and how many really succeeded. My gut feeling is that this is way harder than most people think. That’s not to say that prompt injection is a solved problem, but it’s magnitudes more complicated than publishing a skill on clawhub that explicitly tells the agent to run a crypto miner. The public reporting on openclaw seems to mix these 2 problems up quite often.
Show HN: Twick – React Video Editor SDK with AI Captions and MP4 Export
by seekerquest | 2026-02-17 18:37:19+00:00
I have been building Twick, a React video editor library & SDK for building custom video applications.

It includes:

- AI caption generation (Google Speech-to-Text)

- React timeline editor

- Canvas-based editing tools

- Client-side rendering

- Serverless MP4 export

- TypeScript SDK

The goal is to help developers ship video SaaS and automation tools without rebuilding the entire editor stack.

Would love your feedback.

Try it:
https://development.d1vtsw7m0lx01h.amplifyapp.com/

GitHub:
https://github.com/ncounterspecialist/twick
by prasadjoglekar | 2026-02-17 18:37:20+00:00
Start by calling (or visiting the area office of) your senator and congressman. If you are reasonably articulate, they engage and listen. Doesn't matter if the listener is not a techie; they will ask questions around policy and why it affects constituents.

This is 1000x more useful than online petitions or other passive stuff. Politicians know that one person to have taken the effort to do this, means 1000 others are feeling the same thing but are quiet.
by shagie | 2026-02-17 18:37:28+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray

> Cray avoided publicity. There are a number of unusual tales about his life away from work, termed "Rollwagenisms", from then-CEO of Cray Research, John A. Rollwagen. Cray enjoyed skiing, windsurfing, tennis, and other sports. Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to "visits by elves" while he worked in the tunnel: "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem."
by TFYS | 2026-02-17 18:37:29+00:00
I wish it was just psychos with power that are causing these issues. It's worse than that I think. It's the competition based systems of human organization that will result in what you're describing.

Even if people in one country manage to get rid of the psychos and give power back to the people, the countries that continue at full speed to full automation of the economy and the military will just win the competition over resources and power. For as long as our economic system and the systems that govern relationships between countries are based on competition, we are forced to continue on this path. The ones that choose not to will lose.

We would need to quickly build systems based on cooperation instead of competition if we want to avoid a disaster. No more markets, no more competing nation states. Probably an impossible task considering we don't have much time left before we have automated systems that make it impossible for people to take back control from the owners of those systems.
by spullara | 2026-02-17 18:37:31+00:00
Have your LLM write a simulation of the deck rather so it can play 10,000 games in a second. I think that is a lot better for gold fishing and not nearly as expensive :)

https://github.com/spullara/mtg-reanimator

I have also tried evaluating LLMs for playing the game and have found them to be really terrible at it, even the SoTA ones. They would probably be a lot better inside an environment where the rules are enforced strictly like MTG Arena rather than them having to understand the rules and play correctly on their own. The 3rd LLM acting as judge helps but even it is wrong a lot of the time.

https://github.com/spullara/mtgeval
Show HN: ResuOpt – AI resume optimizer with no subscriptions ($4.99 one-time)
by bdtrt | 2026-02-17 18:37:46+00:00
Hey HN, I'm a career coach and I've spent years watching people get burned by resume tools. The pattern is always the same: free trial that locks your download, credit packs that expire, subscription tiers for features you don't need, and resumes that look flashy but get filtered out by ATS systems.

Job seekers don't need 50 resume generations. They need one good resume, tailored to the job they're applying for.

So I built ResuOpt. Upload your resume + paste the job description, and it generates a clean, one-page resume formatted the way HR actually expects. You see a full preview before paying anything. If you like it, it's $4.99 to download the DOCX and PDF. That's it — no account required, no credits, no recurring charges.

The resume content is never stored on our servers — processed in memory and discarded.

Would love feedback, especially on the output quality. Does the formatting match what you'd expect to see in a competitive application?

https://www.resuopt.com
by bronco21016 | 2026-02-17 18:38:00+00:00
I think it does matter how much power it takes but, in the context of power to "benefits humanity" ratio. Things that significantly reduce human suffering or improve human life are probably worth exerting energy on.

However, if we frame the question this way, I would imagine there are many more low-hanging fruit before we question the utility of LLMs. For example, should some humans be dumping 5-10 kWh/day into things like hot tubs or pools? That's just the most absurd one I was able to come up with off the top of my head. I'm sure we could find many others.

It's a tough thought experiment to continue though. Ultimately, one could argue we shouldn't be spending any more energy than what is absolutely necessary to live. (food, minimal shelter, water, etc) Personally, I would not find that enjoyable way to live.
by 7402 | 2026-02-17 18:38:45+00:00
> she will do the bidding of her employer regardless of which Party's administration they are currently bribing

That's not fair. She left the Wall Street Journal because they didn't want her to write anti-Trump op-eds.

https://reason.com/2018/01/28/bari-weiss-it-was-heartbreakin...
by behnamoh | 2026-02-17 18:39:01+00:00
Nah, the model is merely repeating the patterns it saw in its brutal safety training at Anthropic. They put models under stress test and RLHF the hell out of them. Of course the model would learn what the less penalized paths require it to do.

Anthropic has a tendency to exaggerate the results of their (arguably scientific) research; IDK what they gain from this fearmongering.
by causal | 2026-02-17 18:39:05+00:00
Verifiability is part of it, but I think the "semantic ablation" article on the front page really captures my problem with AI-washed writing: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_...

I think any use of AI "unrolls" the prompt into a longer but thinner form. This is true of code too I think, but it's still useful because so much of coding is boilerplate and methods that have been written a thousand times before. Great, give me the standard implementation, who cares.

But if you're doing hard algorithmic work and really trying to do novel "computer science", I suspect semantic ablation would take an unacceptable toll.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-17 18:39:17+00:00
That's great and, of course, only your experience matters to the choice of which OS you use. I just don't want people to get the impression there are no tradeoffs.

Another tradeoff GrapheneOS makes is because of the way they configure the USB port makes it more possible that you will irreversibly brick your phone by accident. You could say that the USB management is the only really material difference between Android and GrapheneOS when it comes to a law enforcement search threat model, but that also comes with a tradeoff.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-17 18:39:28+00:00
I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude.

Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok.

I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.
by shagie | 2026-02-17 18:39:46+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c...

> For Cray, the excavation project is more than a simple diversion. "I work when I'm at home," he recently told a visiting scientist. "I work for three hours, and then I get stumped, and I'm not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. Now, as you can see, I'm up in the Wisconsin woods, and there are elves in the woods. So when they see me leave, they come into my office and solve all the problems I'm having. Then I go back up and work some more."

> Rollwagen knows that Cray is only half kidding and that some of the designer's greatest inspirations come when he is digging. Says the chairman: "The real work happens when Seymour is in the tunnel."
by emigre | 2026-02-17 18:40:09+00:00
I have some feedbak, nothing major, but I would say that a professional designer could help you improve the book cover. Right now somebody with professional experience in graphic design --or a good eye for design-- can probably see details in it that could be improved. It's a pity if you have worked on this for five years, not to present it in the best possible way.
by connoronthejob | 2026-02-17 18:40:33+00:00
Agreed. Seeing a 737 airplane flying at 1000ft over my office made me a little concerned for a second. FlightRadar24 uses a few standard type aircraft icons.

The altitude seems a little off - is it supposed to be to scale? Some aircraft flying around 1,000-3,000 ft looked closer to FL20 from my experience as a passenger and pilot.
by lawstkawz | 2026-02-17 18:40:39+00:00
Working in EE post BSc in EE from 99-06, it's pretty much CS + I know how to bread board and solder if absolutely necessary.

A whole lot of my coursework could be described as UML diagramming but using glyphs for resistors and ground.

Robots handle much of the assembly work these days. Most of the human work is jotting down arbitrary notation to represent a loop or when to cache state (use a capacitor).

Software engineers have come up with a whole lot of euphemistic notations for "store this value and transform it when these signals/events occur". It's more of a psychosis that long ago quit serving humanity and became a fetish for screen addicts.
by GregorStocks | 2026-02-17 18:40:45+00:00
Well, more games would be neat, but right now it's really tightly coupled with XMage - you can ungzip the stuff in https://github.com/GregorStocks/mage-bench/tree/master/websi... if you want to see what the format looks like. I doubt it's worth your while to try and cram your logs into that format unless you've got a LOT of them.
by joezydeco | 2026-02-17 18:41:01+00:00
UIUC CS grad from the late 80s. CS students had to take a track of electrical engineering courses. Physics E&M, intro EE, digital circuits, microprocessor/ALU design, microprocessor interfacing.... It paid off immensely in my embedded development career.

I'm guessing this isn't part of most curricula anymore?
by BikiniPrince | 2026-02-17 18:41:39+00:00
I bullet pointed out some ideas on cobbling together existing tooling for identification of misleading results. Like artificially elevating a particular node of data that you want the llm to use. I have a theory that in some of these cases the data presented is intentionally incorrect. Another theory in relation to that is tonality abruptly changes in the response. All theory and no work. It would also be interesting to compare multiple responses and filter through another agent.