MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-17 18:41:40+00:00
I don't think that would fly, since it would provide no benefit to the owner of the debt and would just be enormously punitive and feel pointlessly cruel.

It would be like if instead of a foreclosure they just took a bulldozer to the house, then salted the earth with asbestos and lead so nobody could ever build a house there again. What's the (acute) benefit in just destroying the value? Plus, it turns the four years into a complete waste of time, no matter how hard you worked to get the degree, just because you couldn't find employment after.

I know we're talking about tweaking incentives to make it not worth it to game the system, but this would also screw over people that found themselves in that position through no fault of their own, plus it would waste all the time and work of everyone that taught that person and contributed to their education (even though they got paid, people largely aren't in education for the cash).

I don't know, I think it would be too much of a bummer to work.
by n_e | 2026-02-17 18:41:48+00:00
Not sure if it would work for HN / how it could be adapted to HN, but something I noticed on opensource projects, is that once they hit a hurdle, submitters of low quality AI-written PRs don't try to solve it and go elsewhere.

For example, in one project, PRs have to be submitted to the "next" branch and not the default branch. This is written in the CONTRIBUTING.md file, which is linked in the PR template, with the mention that PRs that don't respect that will be close. Most if not all submitters of low-quality PRs don't do anything once their initial PR is closed.

Pretty bummed about that as I just submitted a show HN I'm pretty happy about (it solves an annoying problem I had for years, which I know many people have) and I was looking forward to talk about it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050872)
by bpt3 | 2026-02-17 18:41:56+00:00
Yes, I understand all of this. What I don't understand is why the Fed "putting their finger on the scale" (which I don't dispute they are doing, as it's part of their job) is a problem, and I still did not really pick up on Levine arguing for or against this, just saying (this is me paraphrasing, not intended to be a direct quote) "we could operate differently in theory due to all these alternative lenders that now exist in parallel with the traditional, regulated banking system, which would have some benefits and some drawbacks."

I can see some upsides (in addition to matching bank creditor and debtor duration expectations), like the implication that it would be easier in some sense to safely manage large amounts of cash because said cash is invested in T-bills instead of who knows what, but there are some obvious downsides as well concerning risk management. To quote Levine directly here, "How will the NDFIs find an extra $100 of loans to make? One obvious possibility is by making much worse loans. Another is by making fake loans."
by codingdave | 2026-02-17 18:42:07+00:00
What I see is new users who are trying to share something without having yet understood HN. I get the impression that they think of "Show HN" as no different than "Show and Tell", and that putting the label on their post is communicating the message of "Here is something I want people to see", instead of "Here is something you can try out".

So while I understand that new features on HN are few and far between, a quick validation of "Show HN" posts that says, "I see you are trying to post a Show HN..." with some concise explanation of the guidelines might help. I want to believe that most new users mean well, they just need better explanations.
by ecshafer | 2026-02-17 18:42:16+00:00
Wow Teamspeak is still around and looks like they are succeeding again. Teamspeak and Ventrilo used to be such a mainstay of the video game community. I was curious why so many younger people were getting Discords instead of starting up Vent or Teamspeak servers like we used to. It does look like Teamspeak has taken a note out of discord and slacks notebook and have gotten more advanced chat room options now.
by storystarling | 2026-02-17 18:42:17+00:00
Similar experience. I posted a Show HN two days ago for a children's book generator - type a story idea, get a fully illustrated printed book shipped to you. Offered a free printed book including shipping to the HN community via voucher code. Got 7 points, 2 comments, and zero voucher redemptions. Nobody even ordered the free book.

One of those comments was genuinely useful feedback from Argentina about localization. That alone made it worth posting. But the post was gone from page 1 in what felt like minutes.

What's interesting is this isn't a weekend vibe-coded project - it involves actual physical production, printing, and shipping. But from the outside it probably looks like "another AI wrapper," which I think is the core problem: the flood of low-effort AI projects has made people reflexively skeptical of anything that mentions generation, even when there's real infrastructure behind it.
by DonAj | 2026-02-17 18:42:24+00:00
I've spent years watching founders try to 'disrupt' food tech only to get buried by AllRecipes SEO. But looking at the data for a concept we just scored, the gap isn't in the recipes—it's in the decision fatigue. Most people have 400 chicken recipes at their fingertips but still can't decide what to eat at 6 PM.

We ran FlavorSwipe through our validation engine and it hit an 82/100, mostly because it kills the 'scroll of death' and builds a data moat around personal 'flavor DNA.' The most surprising find? Gen Z isn't looking for better food; they're looking for a UI that treats meal planning like a dopamine hit. We're seeing a path to $900k ARR just by fixing the discovery loop and integrating grocery APIs.

I broke down the full unit economics and the AI 'Empty Fridge' logic here: https://ideatolaunch.co/blog/launch-signal-feb-17-2026-flavo...

I built IdeaToLaunch to help founders stop guessing and start using hard validation scores. For those of you in consumer tech: at what point does a 'crowded' market become truly impenetrable, or are we just waiting for better UX to reset the board?
by Hasz | 2026-02-17 18:42:38+00:00
As they say, the rules are written in blood. I don't think we should be disqualifying projects because they are not Mponeng-scale or complexity.

I am not a civil engineer, but I did spend a bunch of time looking into building an underground range. Way more relaxed life safety reqs, smaller bore, etc. However, when you start reading, it is clear that much of the work is empirical, heavily localized and based on a great deal on the experience of the builder. I found very little in the way of solid theoretical modeling, but lots of measure, adjust, etc.

I think Grady does a reasonable job highlighting the dangers and risks.
by Azrael3000 | 2026-02-17 18:42:51+00:00
Maybe you should train an LLM to judge the content /s

More seriously though, I think some sort of curation is unavoidable with such topics. If you get inspired by stack overflow where you have some similar mechanics at work, then I'd say that is not too bad. But of course you risk some people being angry about why their amazing vibe coded app is not being shown. Although the more I think of it, this might be a good thing.

Edit: One more thought just came to my mind. A slight modification to the curation rule, you let everything through, just like now. However, the posts are reviewed and those with enough postive review votes get marked in some shape or form, which allows them to be filtered and/or promoted on the show page.
by LelouBil | 2026-02-17 18:42:54+00:00
I'm currently hesitating to use something like OpenClaw, however, because of prompt injections and stuff, I would only have it able to send messages to me directly, no web query, no email reply, etc...

Basically act as a kind of personal assistant, with a read only view of my emails, direct messages, and stuff like that, and the only communication channel would be towards me (enforced with things like API key permissions).

This should prevent any kind of leaks due to prompt injection, right ? Does anyone have an example of this kind of OpenClaw setup ?
by rectang | 2026-02-17 18:43:25+00:00
I agree that the singling out of the mother for condemnation in this comment section is conspicuous and dismaying — thank you for pointing it out. Nevertheless, I would offer the father the same grace that I think the mother deserves, and I think you will be sympathetic.

We know little of the mother's circumstances, and we know basically none of the father's. He may not even be alive. He could be an "absentee", or even an abuser himself — we have no information. But he might also be active in Lucy's life yet tragically unaware of his daughter's plight.
by devinprater | 2026-02-17 18:43:25+00:00
I'm glad I have chatGPT to turn that image with benchmarks into an accessible table lol. I like claude Code, but their accessibility in anything other than accidental CLI accessibility is frustrating. Try it. Load a screen reader like VoiceOver for Mac (cause I know most programmers use Macs) and go to claude.ai. In the "write your prompt to Claude" box, type something like "What will the weather be like tomorrow?" and press Enter/Return. Try closing your eyes for a good 30 seconds and within those 30 seconds, tell me how you'd know if a reply has been given by the model. Then try the same thing with ChatGPT. I would /love/ to be proven wrong.
by Aachen | 2026-02-17 18:43:29+00:00
Definitely one of the best features to have this in the native UI, though it's also possible in other ways

If anyone wants this without GrapheneOS: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.ukanth.ufirewall

If anyone wants this without GrapheneOS and without root: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdro...
by stevepike | 2026-02-17 18:43:51+00:00
I'm a bit surprised it gets this question wrong (ChatGPT gets it right, even on instant). All the pre-reasoning models failed this question, but it's seemed solved since o1, and Sonnet 4.5 got it right.

https://claude.ai/share/876e160a-7483-4788-8112-0bb4490192af

This was sonnet 4.6 with extended thinking.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-17 18:44:09+00:00
Well we tried the "burn it all down" approach with DOGE and the BBB and we got... -2 trillion in savings? Really? Wow, okay.

The truth is nobody wants to solve the deficit. It's a self eating beast at this point and simply cutting funding for a bunch of shit won't solve it. A lot of these things are fundamentally the federal governments concern, whether people admit it or not.
by paweladamczuk | 2026-02-17 18:44:31+00:00
I also vibe coded my own version of this. Funny to see how many people did that.

https://github.com/PawelAdamczuk/blah

Mine was only tested on an Arc GPU (the acceleration works nicely through Vulkan). It hooks into Win32 API and simulates key presses so it works in various non-obvious contexts.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-17 18:45:01+00:00
This is interesting I will be contributing to GitHub as this is a place where my knowledge and experience intersect and I enjoy doing open source work.

This is also something I think the MTG community needs in many ways. I have been a relatively happy XMage user, although it has a bit to go, and before that was using GCCG which was great too!

The MTG community overall can benefit a lot from the game having a more entertaining competitive landscape, which has grown stale in many ways and Wizards has done a poor job since the Hasbro acquisition of doing much else besides shitting out product after product too fast with poor balance.

I have to imagine that Wizards is already running simulations, but they obviously aren't working well or they are choosing to disregard them. Hopefully it they are just had at doing simulations something like this can make it easier for them, and if not it will make the response time from the community better.
by altruios | 2026-02-17 18:45:12+00:00
with openclaw... you CAN fire an LLM. just replace it with another model, or soul.md/idenity.md.

It is a security issue. One that may be fixed -- like all security issues -- with enough time/attention/thought&care. Metrics for performance against this issue is how we tell if we are going to correct direction or not.

There is no 'perfect lock', there are just reasonable locks when it comes to security.
by tgv | 2026-02-17 18:45:23+00:00
Idk. My applications are editor-like. So they fetch a bit of data, but rendering the edit options in HTML is much larger in size then the data, especially since there are multiple views on the same data. So that would put a larger burden on the server and make network transfer slower. Since generating the DOM in the browser is quite fast (there's no high client-side load; I don't know where you get that from), I've got good reason to suppose it beats SSR in my case.

Mind you, I've got one server with 4 CPUs and 8GB memory that can run 2 production and 10 test services (and the database for all), and the average load is .25 or so. That makes that it responds quickly to requests, which also has its advantage.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-02-17 18:45:25+00:00
> It is an example of the underlying supposition that the behaviour of men and women is identical.

No, it isn't. You've read something into it that wasn't there. You've also missed the point I made about speaking within the context of a patriarchy.

> This runs counter to the findings of psychology and sociology.

Let's both note that neither psychologists nor sociologists can work with non-socialised people who won't reflect back society's norms.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-17 18:45:28+00:00
I agree with the article, but I think it could go farther. Instead of having primitives for every 32/48/64/122 bit block, we need good format-preserving encryption. Then all of this advice boils down to "use as many bits as you need" and we can keep using the standard primitives with hardware support. If you need more security in the future, you only need to decrypt and reencrypt with the new size.
by evrenesat | 2026-02-17 18:45:30+00:00
Yes, any metric can be gamed. But I believe measuring the entropy of a repository, comparing state of the code-base over time can be done deterministically, which would make it harder to game it.

So either we are going to completely avoid automation and create a community council to decide what deserves to be shown to rest of the community or just let best AI models to decide if a project is worth show up on front page?

Or we can do all of the above :)
by MengerSponge | 2026-02-17 18:45:48+00:00
These founders are careless and weirdly cruel. It's wildly unethical, immoral, wrong to do this to children.

"My investigation into Alpha School also reveals that the massive amounts of data the company collects on students, including videos of them, is stored in a Google Drive folder that anyone with the link—even if they’ve left the company, or if it was sent to them—could access."

Prison. People need to go to prison for this.
by amarant | 2026-02-17 18:45:52+00:00
Not if he listens to the advise his senior engineers give him. Like I said, Claude really isn't very good at the fun parts, there are reasons for your boss to not automate that stuff. Plus it's very little gain. By automating the sanding which is 90%, you already have a 10x gain in productivity, with no loss in quality. Automate the fun parts too, your quality will go to shit, and you'll operate at 11x base speed, rather than 10x. The difference just isn't big enough.

And that 11x will turn to 0.5x once the code is fit for serving in an Italian restaurant. Which at 11x speed will be like the second week or something.

10x speed is sustainable. I think. If not, then 9x speed probably is. Or 8x. The trick is finding the highest sustainable speed multiplier, and it's not entirely obvious to be yet what it is, but it's in that ballpark somewhere, I'm pretty sure.

And if your boss does not listen to the advise of the senior engineers? That's a bad boss, We've had those since forever. The way to deal with those is typically to find a new one.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-17 18:45:57+00:00
> For example, in one project, PRs have to be submitted to the "next" branch and not the default branch. This is written in the CONTRIBUTING.md file, which is linked in the PR template, with the mention that PRs that don't respect that will be close. Most if not all submitters of low-quality PRs don't do anything once their initial PR is closed.

Few things in life are as reliable and trustworthy as the laziness of others.
by tasty_freeze | 2026-02-17 18:46:04+00:00
I thought it was more creative than sloppy. Don't forget that many ordinary phrases were once jarring mixed imagery. To "wear your heart on your sleeve" was coined by Shakespeare; we still use it because it "stuck" due to its unorthodox phrasing.

If you like your prose to be anodyne, then maybe you like what AI produces.
by gruez | 2026-02-17 18:46:12+00:00
Holy crap, quite bit of extrapolations in your comment.

>trained to be unable to function without a computer.

Where is this from? The article mentions a lot of issues with alpha school, but the implication that kids are glued to screens and are "unable to function without a computer" isn't one of them. There's the issue that finishing random ed-tech games don't prepare you for the real world, but I don't really see how that's different than the perennial complaint that the US education fails to prepare kids for the real world (eg. "school taught me that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell but not how to do my taxes")

>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.

See the review linked in my other comment. It might not be an unbiased account, but I'm reasonably confident that the average student there gets more exposure to "humanities or arts" and other extracurriculars, than the average public school student, who maybe gets a field trip to the science center once a year.
by xp84 | 2026-02-17 18:46:31+00:00
Payments? it's one single payment to one winner

Also, how is it more data than when you buy a coffee? Unless you're cash-only.

I know everyone has their own unique risk profile (e.g. the PIN to open the door to the hangar where Elon Musk keeps his private jet is worth a lot more 'in the wrong hands' than the PIN to my front door is), but I think for most people the value of a single unit of "their data" is near $0.00.
by SomaticPirate | 2026-02-17 18:46:39+00:00
Hilarious to see Cadence and Synopsys in this article. They are arguably the cause. The complete lack of open source tooling and their agressive tooling price is the exact reason this ecosystem continues to be an absolute dumpster fire.

I used Vivado (from Xilinx) a bit during my undergrad in computer engineering and was constantly surprised at how much of a complete disaster the tooling chain was. Crashes that would erase all your work. Strange errors.

I briefed worked at a few hardware companies and I was always taken aback by the poor state of the tooling which was highly correlated with the license terms dicated by EDA tools. Software dev seemed much more interesting and portable. Working in hardware meant you would almost always be searching between Intel, Arm, AMD and maybe Nvidia if you were a rockstar.

Software by comparison offered plentiful opportunities and a skill set that could be used at an insurance firm or any of the fortune 100s. I've always loved hardware but the opaque datasheets and IP rules kills my interest everytime.

Also, I would argue software devs make better hardware engineers. Look at Oxide computer. They have fixed bugs in AMD's hardware datasets because of their insane attention to detail. Software has eaten the world and EEs should not be writing the software that brings up UEFI. We would have much more powerful hardware systems if we were able to shine a light on the inner workings of most hardware.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-17 18:47:05+00:00
I think this response is more than a little unhelpful

I wanted

>> Theme support so apps can switch between light and dark themes at runtime.

You present

> IDE supports themes.

You don't see the difference?

I want to produce apps that decides, at runtime, which theme to use.

I also don't know if I'd consider it a Lazarus option if

a) It's a different language, not Delphi

and

b) It has no RAD tools.

After all, if I want niche languages with poor support for RAD, I'm spoilt for choice. What I want is for Lazarus to be updated with some modern features, not replace a well-known RAD tool with a niche, expensive, proprietary and little-known language.
Show HN: 7 months later – librari.io is live
by hmkoyan | 2026-02-17 18:47:25+00:00
Original HN post (beta): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608840

About 7 months ago, I shared the beta version of librari.io here on HN. The original problem was personal: I have 500+ books across multiple rooms and couldn’t find a tool that felt right for managing a personal library (most tools felt either too basic or too “institutional”).

Since that post, I’ve been iterating with beta users and just launched the full version with subscription plans and a bunch of features driven directly by user feedback.

What’s new since the beta:

- Multiple reading goals

- Import your library from CSV/XLSX

- Export your library data to XLSX and JSON

- Many bug fixes and small UX improvements requested by beta users

What surprised me during beta:

- Imports/exports mattered way more than I expected — several people said they wouldn’t try the app at all unless they could bring their existing data.

- People cared more about flexible and multiple reading goals than I initially thought.

- Small UX details (empty states, defaults, wording) generated more feedback than larger missing features.

What is planned next (early roadmap)?

- A better mobile experience (improved responsiveness).

- Allow users to choose which data to show in the books table (customisation/preferences for the columns).

- Add complex filtering functionality to the books table (filter by author, publication date, etc.).

- Multi-user/family accounts to share the same library

So, I’m still building and would love honest feedback:

- Are there features you’d expect from a personal library manager that still feel missing?

- Does the workflow match how you actually think about your books?

- Anything feel confusing or unnecessary?

Happy to answer questions and looking forward to any type of feedback.
by GregorStocks | 2026-02-17 18:47:42+00:00
I was really hoping I could build this on top of MTGO or Arena, just as a bot interacting with real Wizards APIs and paying the developers money. But they've got very strong "absolutely no bots" terms of service, and my understanding is that outside of the special case of MTGO trading bots they're strongly enforced with bans. I assume their reasoning is that people do not want to get matched against bot players in tournaments, which is totally fair. (Also I'm not sure MTGO's infrastructure could handle the load of bot users...)
by orsorna | 2026-02-17 18:47:59+00:00
I was thinking you could formally benchmark decks against each other enmasse. MTG is not my wheelhouse, but with YGO at least deck power is determined by frequency of use and placement at official tournaments. Imagine taking any permutation of cards, including undiscovered/untested ones, and simulating a vast amount of games in parallel.

Of course when you quantize deck quality to such a degree I'd argue it's not fun anymore. YGO is already not fun anymore because of this rampant quantization and it didn't even take LLMs to arrive here.