MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stephen_cagle | 2026-02-19 20:01:36+00:00
I think this is neat. I use org-mode for pretty much everything, which has all of these features I think, but sometimes there is nothing more motivating than a quick responsive UI to actually do something. This looks motivational.

My only pushback is using sqlite. I am a big fan of just using simple (structured) text files that can be edited by hand when needed. Your computer is more than capable of doing all the joining/querying/aggregating/whatever with the text file itself rather than relying on a database. I personally find these sort of file structures comforting as it means they can be easily modified in unsupported ways.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-19 20:01:44+00:00
Yeah I also find the time pretty ugly. I actually had a pre order for it, but cancelled when they revealed the final design (which was very much not to my taste, whereas I liked the preliminary design). I know Eric really likes it, and probably others do too, so I don't see it changing, but I would really like something of the more sharply rectangular design of the original Pebble. It looked so cool.
by SamHoustonCM | 2026-02-19 20:01:51+00:00
>We recently came across a suspicious NPM package called `buildrunner-dev`. The package is deceptively simple, containing a package.json with a postinstall hook pointed at an `init.js` file, but that’s where things got interesting.

>The postinstall script was triggered upon package installation and dropped a batch file called `packageloader.bat`. At first glance it looked like pure noise due to thousands of characters that appear to be gibberish; nature-themed REM comments, and variable names that read like a cat walked across someone’s keyboard. But as we started peeling back layer after layer of obfuscation, we uncovered a remarkably well-engineered attack chain that hides its true payloads inside the RGB pixel values of PNG images hosted on a free image service.
by n1b0m | 2026-02-19 20:01:59+00:00
According to the bipartisan House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of a plan by Trump to overturn the election.

Within 36 hours, five people died: including a police officer who died of a stroke a day after being assaulted by rioters and collapsing at the Capitol.

Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months. Damage caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. It is the only attempted coup d'état directed towards the Federal government in the history of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-19 20:02:36+00:00
Here are the numbers for context:

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentiles/

The median household income doesn’t earn the median wage every year from when they started working. That’s just a snapshot and it’s highly correlated with age. I’m 51, I damn sure couldn’t afford to max out my 401K. That means I was 25 in 1999. I definitely could afford to max out my 401K - which was then $10K a year - when I was making $35K a year.

Especially when new grads are coming out now with student loan debt.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-19 20:02:52+00:00
> you can't take it with you (at least in most religions) so spend it.

I don't understand this PoV at all.

I can't take it with me, sure, but I'm happy anyway if I leave it behind to my kids.

This PoV that you need to spend, spend, spend to get the most value for your money is very primitive - my kids will do better if I die before touching my nest egg, and if I don't at least I'll have a longer runway to live without working.

There is no downside here, other than the artificial one that dictates you spend it all and leave nothing behind.
by curly6 | 2026-02-19 20:02:58+00:00
> Most agent actions on our public API are low-risk and reversible. Software engineering accounted for nearly 50% of agentic activity, but we saw emerging usage in healthcare, finance, and cybersecurity.

via Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy

this doesn’t answer your question, but maybe Google is comfortable with driving traffic and dependency through their platform until they can do something like this

https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/
by e12e | 2026-02-19 20:02:59+00:00
> The panel on Thursday recommended the manufacturing and sales of two iPS cell-derived products on condition that the two developers conduct studies involving all treated patients and further verify the efficacy and safety of their respective products within seven years.

> Cuorips, a startup originating from the University of Osaka, developed cardiomyocyte sheets for treating ischemic cardiomyopathy, a serious heart disease.
Sumitomo Pharma submitted an application involving cells for transplantation into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease, which causes symptoms including tremors in the limbs.

> The two companies had applied to manufacture and market the products last year.
by autoblogwriter | 2026-02-19 20:03:16+00:00
We built AutoBlogWriter to solve a recurring issue in dev-led teams: everyone agrees content matters, but the actual publishing workflow is brittle and inconsistent.

Our setup used to be a pile of tools:

- docs for notes,
- AI chats for drafts,
- manual SEO edits,
- ad-hoc scheduling,
- and custom integration work just to render on our site.

So we built a single workflow:
1. capture workspace context,
2. generate blog ideas,
3. produce drafts,
4. polish/optimize,
5. schedule and publish,
6. render in Next.js via SDK.

Current beta scope:

- AI idea + draft generation
- edit/polish workflow
- scheduling + publish pipeline
- TypeScript SDK for Next.js + React components

What I would like feedback on:

- Is this architecture useful enough to replace your current stack?
- Which integration concerns should we prioritize first?
- What would block you from using this weekly?

Beta link: http://autoblogwriter.app/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=...
by Herring | 2026-02-19 20:03:35+00:00
When a racist says "some" of group X are bad, he means all. And he wants you to fight amongst yourselves so that you make his job (ie damaging all of you) easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump

Latinos didn't get this the first time, but they seem to be slowly waking up now.
Show HN: ClawShield – Open-source firewall for agent-to-agent AI communication
by Joe_DNAI | 2026-02-19 20:03:46+00:00
Hi HN!

I built ClawShield after discovering 40,214 OpenClaw instances exposed with critical CVE-2026-25253 (CVSS 8.8).

The problem: AI agents communicate with each other at scale, but there's NO firewall between them. A compromised agent can inject prompts, exfiltrate data, and hijack WebSocket sessions.

ClawShield sits between agents and blocks:
- Prompt injection (16+ patterns)
- Malicious skills/plugins (AST + sandbox)
- Credential leaks (regex + entropy)
- Unauthorized agent-to-agent comms
- WebSocket hijacking

Built it last night. 181 tests. Production-ready. Open source (AGPL-3.0).

GitHub: https://github.com/DEFNOISE-AI/ClawShield
Demo: [coming soon]

Compatible with OpenClaw, AutoGPT, or any agent protocol.

Free tier for personal use, paid for teams/enterprise.

Would love your feedback!
by Mnexium | 2026-02-19 20:04:07+00:00
Im probably less worried about "AI Powered autonomous weaponry" in the near term and think its probably easier to imagine more human-remote-controlled scenarios of robotics. Meaning todays drones in warfare are still flown by humans, can China or the US get to a state where humanoid robots are controlled by humans? I think thats believable and easier to achieve while being just as scary.
by stavros | 2026-02-19 20:04:16+00:00
I made my own, as I thought OpenClaw was a bit too insecure:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot

I love it, it's amazing. I want to add a small section to the README about how to use it well (how to manage memory and the database, basically), but it's just fantastic. It has had basically zero bugs, as well.
by n1b0m | 2026-02-19 20:04:18+00:00
According to the bipartisan House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of a plan by Trump to overturn the election.

Within 36 hours, five people died: including a police officer who died of a stroke a day after being assaulted by rioters and collapsing at the Capitol.

Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months. Damage caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. It is the only attempted coup d'état directed towards the Federal government in the history of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...
by salawat | 2026-02-19 20:04:38+00:00
Incentive problem is technically the same in the U.S. You might think there's ownership conferred by taking risks and such to the individual worker, but it is much more akin to the feudal sharecropping arrangement. You are delegated a body of work by your liege when they are pleased, but the moment you fall out of favor or become inconvenient, poof. The real answer to the ownership question manifests. It was never yours in the first place. You just sold your blood, sweat, and tears to enable someone else to thrive in the long run while you get tossed aside at the first sign of difficulty.
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-19 20:04:48+00:00
Outsourcing testing to AI makes perfect sense of you assume that tests exist out of obligation to meet some code coverage requirements, rather than to ensure correctness. Often I'll write a module and a few tests that cover its functionality, only for CI to complain that line coverage has decreased and reject my merge! AI to the rescue! A perfect job for a bullshit generator.
by claudiulodro | 2026-02-19 20:05:08+00:00
> Based on a lot of real world experience, I'm convinced LLM-generated documentation is worse than nothing. It's a complete waste of everybody's time.

I had a similar realization. My team was discussing whether we should hook our open-source codebases into an AI to generate documentation for other developers, and someone said "why can't they just generate documentation for it themselves with AI"? It's a good point: what value would our AI-generated documentation provide that theirs wouldn't?
by ativzzz | 2026-02-19 20:05:32+00:00
First, don't do what people on the cutting edge are doing. They are AI hobbyists and their methods becomes obsolete within weeks. Many of the tricks they use become first class objects of frontier models/tooling or are unnecessary 2 model versions later.

What you can do is empower your agent to solve more complex problems fully on its own. See if you can write a plan (claude is great at writing plans) that encapsulates all the work needed for a feature. Go back and forth with the AI on the plan. Spend some time thinking about it. Including tests, how the AI can automatically validate that things work, etc. Put it on auto-accept and tab away. Once it finishes, review the code, do your normal QA, follow ups, etc

While it's working, go work on another feature in the same vein. Git worktrees are a simple way to work on the same codebase in parallel (though you likely work on an app that isn't set up for multiple instances of it running in parallel, have fun with that). Containers are another way to run these in parallel. Vibe code yourself a local tool to manage these. This is somewhat built into the claude/codex desktop apps, but you likely need to customize it for your environment

Basically you do the architecture, code review & QA and let the model do as much of the code as possible, and try to do it in parallel. I still do manual coding when I need to explore what a solution might look like, but AI is much faster at experimenting with larger solutions, and if you don't like what it did, it's a `git checkout .` away from a clean slate

How much time you spend on validating is a tradeoff of speed vs correctness needs for your business.
by collingreen | 2026-02-19 20:05:44+00:00
No cop ever? Not even one?

I'm on your side that 1. Public servants should be held to a higher, not lower, standard and 2. There is a huge problem in this regard with the current US police situation.

Even with that extremely aligned base you still lose me completely when you say things that start with "no cop has ever...". I've never seen any system at scale with such absolutes so this immediately makes me doubt your other story and your take (which is what I already believe!) in general.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-19 20:05:48+00:00
Funny thing is, LLMs can create novel ideas, they're just crap. Turn the temperature setting up or expand top_p and it'll come up with increasingly wacky responses, some of which might even be good.

Creativity often requires reasoning in unusual ways, and evaluating those ideas requires learning. The first part we can probably get LLMs to do; the latter part we can't (RL is a separate process and not really scalable).

Even without any of that, you can prompt your way into new things. I'm building a camper out of wood, and I've gotten older LLM models to make novel camper designs just by asking it questions and choosing things. You can make other AI models make novel music by prompting it to combine different aspects of music into a new song. Human creativity works that way too. Think of all the failed attempts at new things that humans come up with before a good one actually sticks.
by AdamH12113 | 2026-02-19 20:06:10+00:00
> Get rid of sales tax, property tax, exemptions, IRAs, 401ks, short capital gains, long capital gains, medicare, state, all of that bullcrap. Annualized, non-annualized, credits for having an EV on the 4th day of the second Tuesday while being a fisherman, married and single filing differences, end all of that.

I agree with your overall point of simplifying taxes by merging more things into income tax, but some of the taxes you mentioned are levied by local governments to fund themselves. The United States has a federal system; it would be a much bigger change to centralize all of the funding.
by solarisos | 2026-02-19 20:06:18+00:00
Exactly. The 'Asian sweat shop' vs. 'skilled tailor' is a perfect analogy for the state of software today. We’ve optimized for speed of delivery (Zippos and fast fashion) but we’ve lost the durability and resource-efficiency that comes from a tailor-made approach.

It’s fascinating that in 2026, we’re needing more and more powerful hardware just to keep up with the bloat of basic applications, whereas the Seawolves devs were finding ways to squeeze 'art' out of 64 kilobytes.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-19 20:06:23+00:00
A few month ago I went to a similar talk. They got a carboxylic acid from a plant (I forgot the name) that has some activity to kill caterpillar that eat corn, and made like 10 or 15 compounds with organic alcohols to get an ester. They tried different doses on the caterpillars and then make a computer model to predict the activity of similar compounds (QSAR). The idea is to use it in a long list of other organic alcohols and try to find a better compound.

But they choose chemical reactions that are usual in the lab, so they guess they will be able to make it work in the lab, and they keep most of the structure without changes. So it's closer to what they classify here as look nearby the known good points instead of a true random search.
by everforward | 2026-02-19 20:06:34+00:00
Sort of. So far as I can tell, you can withdraw to buy housing but I don’t think you can pay rent out of it.

The loans are also 75% max loan-to-value so I think until you can get 25% of the purchase price in your account you have to pay CPF and rent (or live with family).

Also, not an economist, but I suspect the forced savings has a wildly inflationary effect on housing prices. You can’t do much else with the money until you retire, so I would guess the price of housing rises up to match the forced savings rate.
by rkomorn | 2026-02-19 20:06:56+00:00
Someone born in 89, in many countries, would've grown up with the internet and non-smart cell phones, at least, no?

They'd only have been 10 in 1999 when cell phones were pretty ubiquitous among adults. I'd say they were basically past it already.

I was born ten years earlier and I'd agree that the internet is likely the biggest change in my lifespan, but I'm not sure I'd say it was as sudden as the past 2 years of AI.
by dmix | 2026-02-19 20:07:21+00:00
The headline say 40% based off something a single person said at a conference while the same article says the federal inspector general is saying a 16% reducation, as well as this quote:

> According to a report by the US Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the IT department had 8,504 workers as of October 2024. As of October 2025, it had 7,135.
by chatmasta | 2026-02-19 20:07:35+00:00
Vinegar extension still works on iOS. It restores the native HTML5 <video> element to websites like YouTube that go out of their way to circumvent it or add listeners to pause it when focus leaves the page. Since it’s the native video element, it works with the native iOS picture-in-picture.

It should frankly be illegal for Google to interfere with this like they try to do, but luckily this extension solves the problem.
by kube-system | 2026-02-19 20:07:35+00:00
Politically the US is very much not a monolith on this topic and many states and localities have passed laws that were later struck down as unconstitutional. This is a bill in California, which does have about the strictest laws that the federation allows them to have, and they would place even stronger restrictions on guns if they could. This is not really ironic as much as it is pushing the envelope for gun control as far as they legally can.

But also, California regulators likely see the regulatory landscape as the reason this law is needed rather than in spite of it.

Gun manufacturers are likely against these types of regulations because many of them would affect manufacturers and the tools they use too.
by rjh29 | 2026-02-19 20:07:40+00:00
I assume that's a Gemini LLM response? You can tell Gemini is bullshitting when it starts using "often" or "usually" - like in this case "TPUs often come with large amounts of memory". Either they did or they didn't. "This (particular) mall often has a Starbucks" was one I encountered recently.
by m463 | 2026-02-19 20:07:49+00:00
reminds me of two things:

- the anthropic superbowl dig at chatgpt ads

"Anthropic's Super Bowl ad humorously criticized OpenAI's decision to introduce ads to ChatGPT, featuring a scenario where a man seeking advice is interrupted by an unexpected advertisement." - ddg search assist

- amish hackers: https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
by mint5 | 2026-02-19 20:07:54+00:00
Please don’t cite doge itself as if it’s a reliable source.

Citing doge as a source shows that your viewpoint is built on provenly bad info.

And Frankly it’s insulting to HN readers that it’s being cited given how well published it was that their estimates were grossly inflated, unreliable, and kept trying to claim credit for cutting things that were already ended.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-19 20:07:59+00:00
Comforting to know that they may ban you from only some of their services, I guess?

I really regret relying so much on my Google account for so long. Untangling myself from it is really hard. Some places treat your email as a login, not as simply as a way to contact you. This is doubly concerning for government websites, where setting up a new account may just not be a possibility.

At some point I suppose Gemini will be the only viable option for LLMs, so oh well.
by normanbell | 2026-02-19 20:08:05+00:00
Just to pre-answer some question i usually get irl.

Can't I just script a 'human-like' delay and spoof the log? Currently, yes. But v0.1 is about the container. Future iterations will look at signing and making it as computationally expensive to fake the process as it is to just write the text.

Is this just surveillance? It’s an Opt-in Declaration. The user owns the file and the log.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-19 20:08:14+00:00
I mean, $200k puts you well above the 90th percentile of earners in the US, so the IRS is (if only slightly) focusing extra resources on the wealthy. Audits go after people who have relatively obviously incorrect information on their taxes. For people under $25,000, there's a good chance they forgot a W2 or something, which means it's a quick identification and fix for the IRS.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-19 20:08:50+00:00
> Get rid of sales tax, property tax

The very first things you list aren't related to the IRS at all. They're local and state taxes, and to get rid of those would require a radical rewriting of the Constitution itself. Not to mention it would destroy all fire department, county hospital, school, city park, state park, etc. funding.
by _verandaguy | 2026-02-19 20:09:18+00:00
This is coming from California, a distinctly capitalist state, and refers to a list published by the US Federal Department of Justice, which reports to a distinctly capitalist (or... at a minimum, a distinctly non-communist) administration.

It also doesn't get in the way of the US's (already extraordinarily loose) firearms sale and acquisition doctrine which regularly costs innocent lives with the pretext of resisting a tyrannical government (which, it appears, people aren't actually that interested in doing now that one's in power).
Show HN: Mithril fork with Signals, state, store and SSR
by jvanveen | 2026-02-19 20:09:19+00:00
Tldr; we use mithril in a large frontend application, happy with it, but missing some features. So we generated an experimental version with support for Signals, proxy state, a store and SSR. Ported tooling to Bun + Typescript. Mostly with Cursor + Composer 1/1.5. Compatible with regular Mithril. Performance with Signals seems pretty good. More AI slop or useful tooling? Time will tell...

* Repo: https://github.com/bitstillery/mithril

* Docs: https://mithril.garage44.org
Show HN: Messaging without accounts – continuity-authenticated instead
by nick0clark | 2026-02-19 20:09:22+00:00
Most messaging systems are account systems first and cryptosystems second.

I've been working on a prototype: https://aq-message.web.app

AQ is an experiment in removing accounts entirely.

There are no usernames, phone numbers, or platform identity objects. Instead, each relationship maintains its own evolving continuity chain. A message is accepted only if it cryptographically advances that chain according to deterministic rules.

The relay is untrusted by design. It stores ciphertext under per-relationship mailboxes. It can observe timing and volume, but it cannot decrypt content or produce forged messages that would be admitted by recipients.

Notable properties:
• No global identity namespace
• No server-issued credentials
• Pairwise continuity instead of platform authentication
• Deterministic replay and fork handling
• Explicit recovery triggers on continuity gaps
• No claim of metadata anonymity

This is a prototype, not a polished product.

I’d appreciate scrutiny on the protocol mechanics and threat model.

Technical overview:
https://aq-message.web.app/technical-overview
by RangerScience | 2026-02-19 20:09:22+00:00
I remember (the one time I snuck into NIPS) a buuunch of papers on "fairness", and it was basically: "We have decided that this input should not affect the outcome. Does it? If so, how?"

So that seems like a pretty good actual "what's DEI?" - Does race/gender/sexuality/etc affect some outcome? Should it? If it does affect it and shouldn't, what we can we do about it?

That said... yeah, not gonna get a room full of anyone to agree on that. Starting with that "should".