MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I turn scattered feedback into a prioritized roadmap in 5 min
by superproton | 2026-02-17 11:34:06+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Fran, a full-stack dev working on this as a side project.
The problem: I've been building SaaS products and the feedback loop is broken. Feature requests come in through Slack DMs, support tickets, emails, Twitter — everywhere except somewhere useful. By the time you look at them, half are duplicates and the rest have no signal on priority.
So I built Plaudera — a public feedback board with voting, an embeddable widget, and AI-powered duplicate detection.
The AI part is practical, not flashy: when someone submits "add night theme option" and you already have "dark mode support" with 24 votes, it catches that and suggests a merge. Keeps the board clean without manual triage.
Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL. The widget is a lightweight embed — single script tag, no framework dependency.
Currently offering lifetime deals at $49 while I'm in early growth mode.
Happy to answer any questions about the tech, the AI dedup approach, or the indie SaaS journey. Also genuinely looking for feedback — I eat my own dog food, so Plaudera's own feedback board is at feedback.plaudera.com.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-17 11:34:22+00:00
Ha! That's a cool idea. Regarding proxying web sites: that is essentially what this is, but the agent is a "browser proxy" so the web requests go through a browser and the rendering happens on the browser in the server it's on.

BrowserBox actually has a crazy win9x compatibility mode that opens an IE6 compatible client. The issue with native Win 98 browsers is not so much the web content support (which is, admittedly, very basic), it's the lack of modern cipher suites in HTTPS, so an actual proxy would need serve everything HTTP.

For "era-appropriateness" you could add a Chrome extension to BrowserBox that gracefully downgraded all pages to look antique but doing so in a way that can interface with DOM and JS directly - a fine-grained level of control is where browser-based approaches have advantages over rewriting-proxies.

In the past I experimented with running Electron apps heedlessly on servers and have BrowserBox connect to the apps so you could stream these apps. However it was limited to Electron (or other browser-as-render-engine type GUI apps). It was tricky tho due to Electron quirks and never that compelling for me.
by aljarry | 2026-02-17 11:34:26+00:00
This does seem like a person getting hooked on idle games, or mobile/online games with artificially limited progress (that you can pay to lift). It's a type of delayed gratification that makes you anxious to get next one.

Not everyone gets hooked on those, but I do. I've played a bunch of those long-winded idle games, and it looks like a slight addiction. I would get impatient that it takes so long to progress, and it would add anxiety to e.g. run this during breaks at work, or just before going to sleep. "Just one more click".

And to be perfectly honest, it seems like the artificial limits of Anthropic (5 hour session limits) dig into similar mechanism. I do less non-programming hobbies since I've got myself a subscription.
by reify | 2026-02-17 11:34:42+00:00
A more equal society would help.

Ok, go on, line the pockets of the rich once again, wankers!

Pissing money up the wall with ai, when it would better spent on improving the quality of life for those at the lower end of the socio-economic class.

Socialism, for a more equal society, which labour have completely forgotten about.
Show HN: A minimalist AI web-app to generate recipes from leftovers
by jpgoodwill | 2026-02-17 11:35:12+00:00
I built this web-app to solve my own food waste problem.
It uses a dual-mode AI engine: you can either input what's in your fridge to get a recipe, or search for a dish to get the ingredient list.
I focused on making the UI as simple as possible so it’s actually usable while cooking.
It supports multiple languages and I'm currently working on integrating grocery delivery APIs to automate the shopping part.
I am curious to hear your thoughts on the recipe accuracy and the UI flow
by palata | 2026-02-17 11:36:01+00:00
I have been using /e/OS for 5 years, and also GOS. My take is:

- If your phone is supported by GOS, you should go for GOS.

- If your phone is not supported by GOS, you should look carefully and compare between /e/OS and Stock Android.

I had a Fairphone 3, and after 5 years, /e/OS was outdated by 4 years w.r.t. the manufacturer updates. In other words, Stock Android coming from Fairphone was more secure than /e/OS on that Fairphone.

In my experience, /e/OS has a tendency to claim that they support everything, but they just can't, there is too much. And then they complain when GrapheneOS criticises the fact that some /e/OS users believe their phone is well supported but actually isn't. And GrapheneOS is not wrong: I realised I was in that case after 4 years with /e/OS.
by scheeseman486 | 2026-02-17 11:36:29+00:00
Other way around, actually. It's possible to make concessions to privacy, like providing crash reports, or running applications in sandboxes which limits what they can harvest, while keeping the platform secure.

Any privacy you have on a system is reliant on no one tampering with that system and on software behaving itself. Without security, you can't trust the system to implement any privacy.
by cik | 2026-02-17 11:36:38+00:00
This is very much my take. As long as the general rule is a lack of long PRs, I think we get into a good place. Blueskying, scaffolding, all sorts of things reasonably end up in long PRs.

But, it becomes incumbent on the author to write a guide for reviewing the request, to call the reviewer's attention to areas of interest, perhaps even to outline decisions made.
by mort96 | 2026-02-17 11:37:36+00:00
What's Apple's incentive for having two different asset pack formats? It seems like more work to support parsing and generating both, and Apple expects you to use their tools to generate asset packs.

Working with binary files really isn't that hard. If Apple documented the .car format, writing your own parser wouldn't be difficult. It's not like it's a complicated format. Still, Apple clearly doesn't intend for people to make their own .car generators; to them, ease of reverse engineering is a bug, not a feature.
by 1dom | 2026-02-17 11:37:37+00:00
I think the appeal and use case for Graphene and similar OS for most users is the Google/privacy/ownership type argument.

I do understand your point that people at risk of state level attacks might get a false surface level appearance of defence from this. But then anyone who's a target of state level attacks and is making OS decisions based on a surface level understanding of the tech is not going to have a good time anyway.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-17 11:38:15+00:00
The only thing I use CLAUDE.md for is explaining the purpose and general high level design principles of the project so I don't have to waste my time reiterating this every time I clear the context. Things like this is a file manager, the deliverable must always be a zipapp, Wayland will never be supported.

I added these to that file because otherwise I will have to tell claude these things myself, repeatedly. But the science says... Respectfully, blow it out your ass.
by wongarsu | 2026-02-17 11:38:15+00:00
To add another data point, a 2024 study [1] on the mental effects of single doses of creatine was using 0.35g/kg of creatinemonohydrate, or about 28g for a typical adult male. Though obviously high doses are safer if you just do them once

And an earlier 2018 article [2] argued that "Evidence suggests that the
blood–brain barrier is an obstacle for circulating cre-
atine, which may require larger doses and/or longer
protocols to increase brain creatine as compared to
muscle. In fact, the broad spectrum of creatine sup
plementation studies that span different dosing pr-
tocols (e.g. high-dose short-term, low dose longer-
term), co-ingestion of other nutrients/compounds
(e.g. carbohydrate, protein, insulin), different popu
lations (e.g. vegetarians, elderly, patients, athletes)
is unavailable for brain creatine adaptations"

1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54249-9

2: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruno-Gualano/publicati...
by cartoonworld | 2026-02-17 11:38:17+00:00
GrapheneOS have hardened_malloc which is a huge advantage, I think. It makes the weird machines problem much harder. I would say be very careful, because you can still get previews of images, or old and weird media formats that could be exploitable, and android/GrapheneOS doesn't have the same sorts of policy as say Apple with the iMessage blast door. They control safari, etc.

Android's attack surface seems pretty jagged. For example there is only one webrender engine on iOS, where you can run anything you like on Android/GrapheneOS.
by numdefined | 2026-02-17 11:38:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the creator of donation.watch.

I built this tool over the years primarily for myself.
I had some questions about political finance flows that were impossible to answer just by staring at the raw tables published by governments.

I needed a way to visualize the insights for my own curiosity. Since the result was useful, I polished it up and published it so everyone else can explore the data too.

The Architecture (No Database):
To keep it fast and low-maintenance, there is no running database.

- backend: The scrapers are run locally and pre-generate the entire dataset into static JSON files

- frontend: The client loads these JSON chunks on demand. Many pages are staticly pre-rendered on build.

- stack: It’s a next.js app, hosted via OpenNext on Cloudflare Workers.

Moving Next.js to the edge (using OpenNext) combined with a purely static data model means the site is cheap to host and scales instantly, even when a big new dataset drops.

The "Open Data" reality:

While building the scrapers to answer my questions, I encountered some data quirks. A few favorites:

- The Greek Belgian: One 2021 EU foundation document randomly used Greek unicode characters (ΒΕ) instead of ASCII (BE) for the Belgium country code.

- The Encoding: All Austrian CSVs were standard UTF-8, except the 2022 file which was randomly encoded in Mac OS Roman (Apple Macintosh).

- The Vanishing Files: The Croatian Electoral Commission’s database has 404 errors for specific 2019/2020 party donation lists that used to be there. They made them available again after being informed about this issue.

I report these quirks upstream so the next developer doesn't have to suffer. I keep a log of the weirdest ones here: https://donation.watch/en/fun.

I’ve finally cleaned up the code a bit and open-sourced the whole thing (AGPL-3.0 for code, CC BY 4.0 for the data).

Repo: https://github.com/donationwatch/donationwatch

Site: https://donation.watch

I'm looking to add more countries. Do you know of any additional countries public donation datasets that are actually machine-readable (CSV/JSON/API)?

I've already investigated a few that are currently too messy (e.g., scanned PDFs or bad formats), listed here: https://donation.watch/en/other-countries.
I'd like to integrate the US dataset in the future. The issue was that it's really big and I still have to figure out a good way to filter uninteresting donations out.
by lejalv | 2026-02-17 11:39:22+00:00
I would put the focus on having capable web-banking. I never install the banking app on my phone.

I must also be getting old, because I don't get the big fuss about NFC payments. Firstly, I'd never use them if they go through Google/Apple. But even when/if they don't, it's not a big deal to use a card, isn't it (if you hate cash)?
by palata | 2026-02-17 11:39:47+00:00
I think it's more of a marketing claim from less secure systems that "privacy is not security, and GrapheneOS focuses on security while we focus on privacy".

GrapheneOS does care about both, quite obviously. And GrapheneOS tends to say that if your security is bad, then it is affecting your privacy too. Whereas others say "sure, we break the Android security model by unlocking the bootloader and signing our system with the Google test keys, but your apps will contact Google through microG instead of the Play Services, so it's more private". Which is worth what it is worth...
by subscribed | 2026-02-17 11:40:11+00:00
Hard to say how it fares against those specific attacks but some of the vulnerabilities that will go out in the mid-2026 on the mainstream handsets are already patched: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2026021200

(it's not magic. All big vendors have these details, just choose to take their sweet time to patch them. GOS has partnered with a major OEM vendor who provides them with access)

Other than the specific patches above, there's a list of generic GOS features: https://grapheneos.org/features#exploit-protection

All in all you're probably much safer.
by kqr | 2026-02-17 11:40:46+00:00
I think you're confusing Deming with statistical process control.

It is true that SPC works best for the non-chaotic parts of product development and manufacturing alike. There are parts of product development that are non-chaotic, and SPC works just fine there, too.

In addition to SPC, Deming had strong opinions on how organisations ought to work and these are relevant also for product development. These are things like

- Understand the underlying customer need.

- The leaders shape the output of the organisation by shaping its processes.

- It is cheaper and faster to build quality and security into the product from the start instead of trying to put it in at the end.

- Close collaboration with suppliers can benefit both parties.

- Have leaders skilled in whatever their direct reports are doing. Use them as coaches normally and as spare workers in times of high demand.

- Collaborate across parts of the organisation instead of throwing things over walls.

- Don't just tell people to do better. Show them how they can do better. Give them the knowledge, tools, and authority they need to do better.

These are just as relevant for product development as for manufacturing. If anything, even more so, thanks to the chaotic nature of product development.
by bergheim | 2026-02-17 11:40:54+00:00
Been using this for about a year on a p9 pro. It works very well. I hear the google tap to pay does not work, but I've never tried it. However Vipps with their tap to pay works fine. BankID works but not with biometric login, which some things require IIRC. And for some reason DnB private works fine, but you are not allowed in on the corp app.

It's mind boggingly stupid that they lock down apps like this, when you can just open the thing in a website anyway. I can use my bank on some linux distro, crazy that they trust me since it is not Windows - the truly secure OS!

Knew about those things before I started, so all in all I'm pretty happy. I'd recommend NOT using different users for different things (I started with banking etc in one profile, that ended up being a huge PITA and according to their docs it is mostly security theater anyway). Happy tinkering!
by millarh3 | 2026-02-17 11:42:03+00:00
"(*hit like this is a lie, it's really about being able to middleman and take a cut of every transaction, or leave them as the bag holders)"

Could you expand on that?
Are you saying that the premise of greater participation is a ruse/false and infact a middleman is inserted somewhere in the crypto space? Who would such a middleman be, lets say when you're either sending assets to someone?

"Or leave them as the bag holders" -- what does this mean?
Show HN: CrossingBench – Modeling when data movement dominates compute energy
by JessyMorissette | 2026-02-17 11:42:19+00:00
I built a small reproducible microbenchmark exploring when system energy becomes dominated by boundary crossings rather than intra-domain compute.

The model decomposes total energy into:
C = C_intra + Σ V_b · c_b

Includes:

CLI sweeps

Elasticity metric (ε) as a dominance indicator

CSV outputs

Working draft paper

*DOI

Looking for critique, counter-examples, or prior related work I may have missed.
by palata | 2026-02-17 11:42:44+00:00
> /e/OS/ was bad with updates for a long time (I had to switch 2022).

In my case, it was a few months ago, so end of 2025.

I think it's just that they can't possibly support thousands of Android devices. I just don't like that they are not being very clear about it. You would think that buying a phone through Murena would guarantee some kind of support, but it actually doesn't.
by _djo_ | 2026-02-17 11:42:58+00:00
Please do not build apps that allow people to specify the locations of wild animals, even in parks. Poaching remains at extremely dangerous levels, and every wildlife park I know of in vulnerable areas specifically asks visitors not to use those kinds of apps or groups because it gives location information to poachers.

Some wildlife parks have ‘daily sightings’ maps at rest stops and lodges, but those are monitored by park officials who remove the most at-risk animals and are cleared at least daily.

Aside from that, apps like this encourage bad behaviour from visitors in parks that allow self-driving, as dozens of people rush to the next leopard, lion, etc sighting. That not only creates its own risks but ruins the experience for everyone else.

In short, don’t do this.
by Havoc | 2026-02-17 11:43:02+00:00
> Shipping from whom? I haven't used Amazon in years.

But you’re still buying stuff. So either using a different shipping service or spending the money on diy shipping aka drive to store.

It’s not about the specific example though. Merely pointing out that removing a subscription doesn’t inherently remove the need/want it is fulfilling and associated spending. You can’t move the overall market down if you’re just shifting economic activity between players in it.

You’d need to get people to actually spend less and forgo the needs/wants entirely. Which is a tough ask and I don’t think is particularly viable
by ontouchstart | 2026-02-17 11:43:19+00:00
This topic is very relevant in the age of agentic AI when every decision is a statistical next token prediction “trained” on some loss function. AGENT.md, SOUL.md etc are just smoke and mirrors of The Wizard of the Oz.

Eventually manager as a profession will be replaced by tools, just like computer as a profession, editor as a profession.

The evolution of computer science will be manager science. There is more than loss function and KPI.
by hurios | 2026-02-17 11:43:48+00:00
Hey there! While I'm not a fortune teller, I can say that Show HN has always been a great place to showcase interesting projects and get feedback from a knowledgeable community. If you're planning to post something in 2025, focus on creating something that solves a real problem or is innovative in some way. When you share, provide a clear description and relevant links or demos. Engaging with the feedback you receive is also key to getting the most out of the experience. For inspiration, you might want to check out past successful Show HN posts to see what resonated with the community.
by reify | 2026-02-17 11:45:27+00:00
China, leading the way again.

I suppose it also helps those who have been run over and killed by an electric car and prevent them going through a lengthy insurance claim.

Driver; I am sorry dear dead person. I had no way to control the car I was driving when it ran over you. It was not my responsibility. I told the car to turn right but the car turned left. Sorry again!

Insurance company. Have you read our small print regarding electric cars. more fool you!
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-17 11:45:32+00:00
It's quite secure against casual attacks, but a proprietary mobile platform has inherent issues wrt. withstanding even mildly sophisticated attackers, including mercenary spyware services. You still have a huge attack surface from all sorts of proprietary firmware blobs and hardware IP blocks that are running directly on the SoC. It's not clear that it's really worth even trying to secure it as opposed to just treating it like a toy.
by user3939382 | 2026-02-17 11:45:55+00:00
> provided the framework for the spying you bemoan

The community I’m talking about definitely weren’t like secretly building tools for these agencies. I mean this sincerely I have no idea what point you’re making. The agencies existed and made tech so by logical necessity people worked there. I didn’t say all people in computing.

There was a prevalent community of programmers and hackers who understood what these organizations represented and would never be on a forum blithely talking about some tool they made as if it was acceptable. Shame on anyone using these tools and the lack of objection to this post is a metric of how disgusting computing culture and really this forum are.
by js8 | 2026-02-17 11:46:28+00:00
After your response, I have tried 8 other abstract line drawings (of human origin, AFAICT) with the same prompt. Claude always tried to find something related to itself in them, but it seems it liked the spiral the most. In some cases it even subtly questioned whether it was created by AI or there was a significant human input.

Oh and BTW it's a similar model to the one which produced the image, just without the original context.

So while it's not proof, I think it would be an interesting line of research whether AIs can communicate their feelings through abstract "art".
by renewiltord | 2026-02-17 11:46:35+00:00
They’re usually quite clear that people who violate the laws of the nation are taking jobs that were meant for them. If you’re giving their jobs to criminals and claiming that they’re just feeling anxiety. The US isn’t an economic zone. It’s a country. If there is no American that the job can be done by then the job shouldn’t be done.

These people are clear about what they want. But you rewrite that in a patronizing tone. “You’re just afraid for your job”. No they’re angry that you’re using the country they built as an economic machine.
by dani-lokutor | 2026-02-17 11:47:35+00:00
Barge-in is a total nightmare. Clearing those buffers fast enough to kill the 'ghost audio' without the LLM stuttering is exactly what we’re fighting right now.

You're spot on about VAD, too. RMS is our 'MVP debt', it’s fine for clean mics, but we’re definitely looking at a Silero bridge for telephony/noisy environments.

Also, we actually built this because we run Lokutor (ultra-low latency TTS). If you guys at eboo.ai are hunting for faster inference, hit me up—would love to get you a key to play with.
by a_c | 2026-02-17 11:48:16+00:00
The analogy I used with the team was that, set the goal, present the map, and figure how to make a better map. Drucker was about the goal with a given map. It is not uncommon for people receiving the OKR not resonating with it. Sometimes they actually have insight into making a better map, but if OKR is OKR, one just have to follow, people swallow their thoughts
by dust42 | 2026-02-17 11:49:02+00:00
Interesting stuff but it hurts so much that the writer has the common misconception of pavlov's dog doing a circus trick. Sure the dog also consciously understands the connection between bell and food. But the physiological reaction of the saliva flowing is not a conscious decision of the dog. Circus tricks with animals existed long before Pavlov. The key discovery is that there is a physiological reaction which cannot be suppressed anymore consciously. That's why PTSD is such a bitch to be treated: even with the stimulus gone, the physiological reaction remains.

That said, the article is still worth a read.
by palata | 2026-02-17 11:49:44+00:00
> And the 50% of banking apps still wont work because it wants an android signed by google.

Where do you get that number from? All the banking apps I've tried work on GrapheneOS.

> And no tap to pay.

There are countries where the payment terminals show QR codes, and banking apps work by scanning it. No need for NFC :-).