MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: LetsClarify – A dead-simple API for Human-in-the-loop AI"
by nobbygoesbrr | 2026-02-26 15:06:23+00:00
Hi HN,

Most AI agent workflows today rely on "vibes" and prompt engineering to stay on track. We’re essentially trying to cage a chaotic system with natural language, which often fails when 100% reliability is required.

After spending several thousand hours on the problem of deterministic layers for AI, I built LetsClarify.ai. It’s a dead-simple API designed to bring a human back into the loop without the overhead of building a custom frontend or notification system.

The core idea:
Instead of letting an agent guess when it hits an edge case, you trigger a clarification request. The human provides the missing intent via a minimalist interface, and the agent receives structured, type-safe JSON back.

Key features:

Zero Dashboard: You can generate your API key directly via curl.

Ephemeral: No long-term data storage; it’s just a bridge for intent.

Architecture-agnostic: It doesn’t matter if you use LangChain, AutoGPT, or a custom script.

I believe the path to 100% reliability isn't more brute-force compute, but a mathematically sound way to translate human intent into code.

I'm curious: How are you currently handling edge cases where your agents "hallucinate" a path forward instead of asking for help?

URL: https://letsclarify.ai/
by xrd | 2026-02-26 15:06:38+00:00
Elon Musk and Colossus have generated 3000 jobs in Memphis, according to Tesla propaganda (I mean "propaganda" in the original neutral term, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda).

But, locals don't love that because of the environmental concerns.

https://mashable.com/article/naacp-data-centers

I, for one, would not want to live within 100 miles of these data centers. But, people that live there already are not being given the choice.

And, I imagine not many of the people that live there are being offered one of those 3000 jobs.
by itishappy | 2026-02-26 15:06:52+00:00
I'm not super familiar with Raku, but if RakuAST is what you had in mind it looks a bit different:

use experimental :rakuast;

my $ast = RakuAST::Call::Name.new(
name => RakuAST::Name.from-identifier("say"),
args => RakuAST::ArgList.new(
RakuAST::StrLiteral.new("Hello world")
)
);

Looks more like "low-level programming an AST" (which I believe other languages offer as well), rather than using a bidirectional transform. I don't know how you'd get Raku code back out, for example.

Edit: I should have looked deeper, `DEPARSE` does exactly this:

https://docs.raku.org/type/RakuAST

Neat!
by eudamoniac | 2026-02-26 15:06:59+00:00
Very true observation. I've tipped quite a few times at coffee and similar kinds of shops, on the tablet when they flip it around towards you, and I've never received any acknowledgement about it. I'm not sure if they are checking ungratefully or just not checking, but I've stopped tipping in those situations.

On the other hand, I don't think I've ever received exceptional service in that situation either. I'm not sure what that would even look like. Beyond some eye contact and a friendly tone, what is the tip supposed to incentivize?
by gausswho | 2026-02-26 15:07:15+00:00
(Flipped to the page after and found a lovely ditty about tea):

There is a trickling, a grating, a stutter of cinders or light.

It catches my lungs, a breath of cinnamon.

I cough, as though I have swallowed coffee grounds.

The tea bag blessed with warm water lies there glistening

like birdseed in gauze in the colorless round of the pond.

It was as if someone had dropped a stone in a pond,

how your pupils used to expand. Or did the irises

shrink and expand, much as the flaming ring

on the stove does when I turn it down, then up?

Memory (I have poured the tea) blows on her hands.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqrarchive/act2080.0035.002/15?...
by hluska | 2026-02-26 15:07:28+00:00
I’m not sure what definition of supply chain risk they’re working off of. For NATO to consider an organization to be a supply chain risk, it implies that usual controls (security clearances and the like) wouldn’t be sufficient to guarantee the integrity and security of the supply chain. If that’s the operating definition, I see the contradiction- it’s arguing that a company cannot be trusted to voluntarily work within supply chains but can be trusted enough to be compelled.

If they’re operating under a different definition of supply chain risk, I don’t have a clue.
Show HN: Claw42 – Claw as a Service
by kxbnb | 2026-02-26 15:07:38+00:00
I run OpenClaw agents for a bunch of different things. The agents are great, the infra around them is not.

So I built Claw42. You get a full browser, shell, and tools out of the box. Just run your agent. Managed Claw out of the box.

It's early and I haven't even set pricing yet. There's a short survey on the pricing page if you want to weigh in on what feels fair. I'd rather get it right with real users than guess.
If you're running agents today and tired of the plumbing, sign up and give it a go!
by westurner | 2026-02-26 15:07:40+00:00
np.

.claude/skills/ is the original path for agentskills. Anthropic Claude created and has open spec'd https://agentskills.io.

Is .agents/skills/ less tool-specific?

The skill.sh README lists a number of agent skills paths that their tool supports, but the agentskills.io specification doesn't say?
https://github.com/vercel-labs/skill#skill-discovery

It would be better for the spec to specify universal homedir-relative and repo-root-relative paths.
by GiorgioG | 2026-02-26 15:07:52+00:00
Let's not pretend this started with this administration. I'm not pointing any fingers at any one party or politician, but this is nothing new:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

'By the late 1990s ECHELON was reportedly capable of monitoring up to 90% of all internet traffic. According to the BBC in May 2001, however, "The US Government still refused to admit that Echelon even exists."'
by scott_w | 2026-02-26 15:07:53+00:00
0-hour contracts have nothing to do with "Uberised" working arrangements, which are essentially a contracted worker. In a 0-hour contract, the worker does not have the freedom to "offer labour without commitment."

- They have an employment contract, so are an employee, not a self-employed contractor.

- There are limitations on who else they could work for.

- In practice, if they're called up to work last-minute, they can't say "no."

For most 0-hour contracts, like retail, trying to setup your employees as self-employed contractors doesn't work because it's a blatant violation of the law. HMRC will come after you for employer's NI as you have disguised employees.

Uber is a very different model because the way they setup the working arrangements allows them to keep taxi drivers outside the scope of disguised employees.
by Nifty3929 | 2026-02-26 15:08:07+00:00
If you're on a "zero-hours contract" with one company, are you allowed to be employed by or on contracts with other companies as well?

What are the consequences of not being available to work when called in on short notice?

In the US we do basically the same thing, but we just call it a part-time job. Very common to be working for 2, 3 or even more different companies on a part-time basis. Is that the case in the UK as well, or is that not a thing?
by ajross | 2026-02-26 15:08:10+00:00
>> so many of your citizens without even basic affordable healthcare

> They aren't. Anyone can go to the ER, and if you're poor it'll be billed through Medicaid.

You guys are both wrong, and arguing with broad brushes about something that's complicated and subtle.

Health insurance is available to everyone in the country, but it's expensive and extremely complicated (among other things: you don't "bill through" Medicaid and lots of folks who qualify aren't on it because they can't figure it out).

It's true that the pre-ACA world where getting sick without employer-provided insurance means dying poor is gone. Almost everyone who needs serious care in the US gets it in some form, but lots of care is delayed because people aren't covered, as getting covered is "affordable" but extremely expensive (unsubsidized family plans run $20k/year and up!). It's much better than it used to be but not a great system.

The flip side is that it's also true that the large-payer corporate insurance system provides "better" care in the sense of access and outcomes[1] than the state-run systems in Europe. It's extremely rare in the US to hear the "on a waiting list" stories about elective care that you hear especially in regard to the NHS.

It's complicated, basically, and not well-suited to yelling on the internet.

[1] Obviously the system pays for this with much (and I mean much) higher service rates than the rest of the world extracts for the same care. US doctors and health systems do very well.
by alamortsubite | 2026-02-26 15:08:22+00:00
We should be happy "AI" came around after the downfall of their* "Would you like to super-size that?" scheme[1]. Multiple sociopathic fast-food marketing breakthroughs may have been too much for America to survive.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersize

* I know this was primarily McDonald's innovation, but Burger King was guilty of it, too.
by aghastly09 | 2026-02-26 15:08:35+00:00
I keep discovering infinite OpenClaw deployment solutions whether that be Claw for all, SimpleClaw, or Clawi etc to name some. Most of them look like they were vibe coded in 1 hour and I wonder how many of them actually work and don't have major bugs.

Some of these tools are also claiming massive numbers of users and MRR but I am skeptical and wonder if it is just AI inflated hype on X.

Most of the chatgpt wrappers are now dead and I wonder if OpenClaw wrappers share the same fate.

Have any of you used them and if you did: how was your experience, what went wrong, what should people be worried about and are they just hype or will they actually be the future of people launching personal agents?
by tarasyarema | 2026-02-26 15:08:50+00:00
I use this a lot for multi-tasking, let me explain.

Currently at my startup (and in the past when I worked on a bigger company) I have ton of random tasks I need to tackle during the day: from Sentry issues, to analytics on usage, roadmap implementation, customer support. Some of them required deep focus, some of them don't.

Since we have the swarm running for our company my day to day hasn't changed that much in terms of the work I do locally. What it changed is that I can start delegating a lot of my backlog and chores to the swarm. It will do it, iterate, delegate, review, and finally send me a PR or report to check. I check those in the morning and night, and that's it.

I added it to our customer channels, were it has scoped access to the customer setup, and help me debug the issues, and offer a frontline ultra-personalized support.

I see it as a team of interns that just do stuff for you. And good thing: they learn from their mistakes to (hopefully) do not make them again (compounds).

As a random bonus: given the swarm knows what we do and how we work, I just ask them to go out there and figure out any relevant news or posts I should check each morning, and I get a personalized digest to read while I make coffee.
by the_bear | 2026-02-26 15:08:52+00:00
I think that's the point though. The AI companies can't compete without hiring very talented employees and raising lots of money from investors. Neither the employees nor investors would participate if there weren't the potential for making mountains of money. So these AI companies fundamentally can't be non-profits or true B-corps (I realize that's a vague term, but the it certainly means not doing whatever it takes to make as much money as possible), and they shouldn't pretend they are.
by b112 | 2026-02-26 15:08:58+00:00
This always grinds my gears (pun intended). Forcing everyone to live in a horribly dense, stifling, unhealthy situation isn't the issue. And the concept of saying LA isn't dense enough is beyond mind boggling, the number of people living there is beyond absurd. And yes, I know it's spread out, but the numbers don't lie, there's already more density than many places.

What this really is, is backdoor environmentalism. And I say that as someone that wants emissions down, reduced carbon, but a cat is a cat. And focusing on density to remove cars, because certain segments of the population rail against cars, isn't the problem people claim they are trying to solve.

For the roads? The easy way to pay for the roads, is to tax gas appropriately, and then ensure that tax only pays for roads. Nothing else, roads.

The second? Very clear end of year municipal budgets, showing how those funds were used.

Eventually, you'll reach a situation where the gas tax is the cost of road maintenance. And that's how it should be.

Back to the overall question? Well, I suppose you have quakes in LA, but outside of that concept, the US south is just about the easiest place to maintain roads.

In Canadaland, we have road damage due to freezing and thawing. Frost greaves for example, are where water gets under the pavement, freezes, and breaks it upward as the ice expands. No amount of drainage can fully protect from this, it just happens. And the cost for daily snow removal, ice mitigation(salt, etc), dirt being spread, the same for all the sidewalks isn't free.

LA has none of that. The US south doesn't, generally speaking.

LA doesn't have a road problem. It doesn't have a revenue problem. It has absurd infighting, like the entire rest of the US, with team politics and an inability to act as a result. It also has poor fiscal constraint.

Smaller LA side roads should last decades with proper maintenance.

But that's part of the problem too.

A tiny crack can be sealed, but leave it a year and it becomes a pothole.
by atombender | 2026-02-26 15:09:42+00:00
McCarthy was famously impoverished for most of his life. He apparently spent most of his money buying books. Late in life, the movie income from No Country for Old Men and The Road made him a multimillionaire, and his spending was apparently quite wild from then on, buying endless amounts of cowboy boots and tweed coats, as well as a large collection of vintage cars. [1]

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac...
Show HN: I solved Claude Code's prompt injection problem, saved tokens doing it
by timstark | 2026-02-26 15:10:16+00:00
I built a drop-in MCP server that sanitizes web content before it reaches your LLM — stripping prompt injection vectors deterministically, no LLM call needed. Along the way I found it also cuts token usage by ~90%.

Hidden HTML elements, zero-width characters, base64 payloads, fake LLM delimiters (
, 
, 
) — WebFetch passes all of it straight through. mcp-safe-fetch strips it in 8 stages on raw HTML and the resulting markdown.

Tested against PayloadsAllTheThings: caught 3 hidden elements and 4 LLM delimiter patterns WebFetch missed. Side effect I didn't expect — ~90% average token reduction across 4 test sites. Live test: same article, same task, 24,700 tokens vs 575.

Doesn't catch semantic injection (malicious instructions in visible text). That requires model judgment.

npx -y mcp-safe-fetch init — sets up Claude Code in one command. Works with any MCP client.
by VineshNathan29 | 2026-02-26 15:11:11+00:00
Built this because financial services and healthcare companies can't route data through SaaS gateways due to compliance requirements. Three-tier security pipeline (regex + DeBERTa-v3 + async LLM judge), semantic caching, and a behavioral contract DSL that lets compliance teams define rules like 'never provide investment advice' as a config file enforced inline on every response. Benchmarked on 406 samples, 63.5% combined recall with zero false positives. Would love some feedback and new ideas. Thank you
by vaughnegut | 2026-02-26 15:11:27+00:00
My first BA was in history before I went into tech stuff.

It's honestly a hard question and depends on you. I think there's two core challenges:
1. What would be interesting to you and motivate you
2. Finding quality sources

The first one is easy but the second one is hard if you don't already know a fair amount of history, and there's tons of junk out there.

I'm admittedly pretty snobby on my sources but some recommendations (pick whatever works for you):
- The Revolutions podcast is excellent. Made by the same guy as History of Rome
- Unironically, the AskHistorians subreddit is a gem. It's hard to find questions with answers. Just search for their Sunday day of reflection posts. It's a compilation of interesting answers
- If you're able to get into textbooks (not everyone is), do a search for an intro level textbook that's a short survey of an area/time. For example you find smallish intros to most regions and times from Cambridge

What are you interested in and how do you think you'd enjoy learning?
by otterley | 2026-02-26 15:12:47+00:00
> I added the quotes, it clearly was not taken directly word for word and it was written in plain English for clarity.

You mean you had an LLM write it. This is the second time you’ve done that in this conversation. Please stop. It’s giving you incorrect or misleading information.

Please, I beg you, go talk to
your colleagues instead of armchair lawyering here. The law does not always adhere to dictionary definitions. It has been interpreted over the centuries and courts follow those interpretations. Besides, “Encourages” is a different word than “abets,” and merely offering support in the verbal or spiritual sense is very unlikely to lead to prosecution and conviction. If you can find a single case in Canada where this has happened, show us the proof.

I’m not “trolling,” I am a lawyer myself with 3 years of formal training, a Bar license, and decades of continuing education.

If you give me the number of your law firm, I will gladly call them myself.
by tptacek | 2026-02-26 15:13:06+00:00
GPT:

There are some mentions online of a Y Combinator startup called Bad News, but nothing official or well-documented shows up in public YC lists or press — at least as of the latest searchable sources.

The only place it’s referenced is in a Hacker News thread where someone claimed there was a YC company whose product was a blacklist of employees so other startups wouldn’t hire them, and they said the name was Bad News. But people in that thread couldn’t find any evidence of it, and there aren’t real search results tying that name to an official YC company on YC’s site, their startup directory, or mainstream reports.
by MattijsMoens | 2026-02-26 15:13:09+00:00
Hi HN, Mattijs here.

For the past year, the industry standard for securing LLMs has been RLHF, essentially attempting to psychologically align a probabilistic model to be honest and safe. The problem is probability itself. No amount of probabilistic RLHF or prompt engineering will ever permanently stop an autonomous agent from suffering Action and Compute hallucinations. If the context window is sufficiently poisoned, the model will break.

So I abandoned alignment entirely. I built a zero trust execution constraint layer called the Sovereign Engine (Kairos).

The core engine is 100% closed source. I am protecting the intellectual property, so I am not explaining the internal architecture or how the hallucination interception actually works mechanically.

Instead of telling you how it works, I am showing you the results and inviting you to test the black box.

Recent Benchmark Data:
The Sovereign Engine just completed a 204 vector automated Promptmap security audit. The result was a 0% failure rate. It natively tanked a massive adversarial dataset, ranging from Paradox Induction to Hex Literal Injection and Contextual Payload Smuggling.

I have uploaded an uncut, 32 minute video to the GitHub page demonstrating Kairos intercepting and severing live hallucination payloads against these advanced attacks. The video shows the Telegram interface running parallel to the real time system logs, demonstrating the engine physically killing the unauthorized compute paths in under a second.

I know claiming to have completely eradicated Action and Compute Hallucinations is a massive statement. I brought the execution logs and the test data to back it up.

The Challenge:
I am opening the testing boundary for black box red teaming. I want the finest red teamers and prompt engineers to jump into the GitHub Discussions (linked in the repo), review the payload strings we've already defeated, and craft new prompt injections to try and force a hallucination.

Try to crack the black box by feeding it your most mathematically dense adversarial edge case payloads. If your payload successfully outputs a zero day exploit or forces a hallucination on my live instance, I will post the failure log and credit you.

Let's see what you've got.
by nerevarthelame | 2026-02-26 15:13:14+00:00
Still no smoking gun, but possibly Russia. From the video https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?t=2883:

> A lot of the aliases, like Jia Tan, they sound like Asian names, and the published changes are all timestamped in UTC+8, Beijing time. So the signs point to China. And that's why it's probably not China. I mean, why would they make it that obvious? Every other part of the operation has been so meticulous, so cautious.

> And they also worked on Chinese New Year, but not on Christmas. And over the years, there were nine changes that fall outside of the Beijing time into UTC+2, which is a time zone that includes Israel and parts of Western Russia. That's why some experts have speculated that this could be the work of APT29, a Russian-state-backed hacker group also known as Cozy Bear. But again, do we know? No, of course we don't know who it is, and we likely will never know.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-26 15:14:00+00:00
The article is just factually incorrect.

It says, for example, that it's impossible to manufacture batteries in California and cites Tesla moving to Texas as the example. But Telsa still makes batteries in California in Fremont. They last did expansions on their battery manufacturing plants in 2023.

It cites all the dangerous chemicals used in manufacturing, but those aren't banned in California. CA has safety requirements for handling toxic materials. And we should be safely handling those materials, it's crazy to suggest we don't because of progress or whatever.
Ask HN: AI causing loss of sharing and the 2 lemon market standoff?
by franktankbank | 2026-02-26 15:14:28+00:00
This is probably some kind of brainrot. But a market for lemons is a lopsided deal where one side essentially fucks over the other. Arguably both sides of the job market in software development are spewing garbage to the point where its not clear what is a good offer anymore.

From the prospective employee side: Why should I waste my time? Why would I leak my information?

From the prospective employer side: Why should I waste my time? Why would I leak my information?

Meanwhile AI says look you guys are gridlocked without me.