MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-21 19:11:09+00:00
"Personal assistant” already has enough uses (both a narrower literal definition and a broader metaphorical definition applying to tools which includes but is not limited to what "claws" refers to) that using it probably makes communication more confusing rather than more clear. I don't think “claws” is a great name, but it does have the desirable trait of not already being heavily overloaded in a way that would promote confusion in the domain of application.
by arw0n | 2026-02-21 19:11:20+00:00
Their most valuable asset is the connections the CEO and others on the board have. The US is a banana republic, and the government chooses the winners. There's a continously escalating level of blatant corruption at the top level, and OAI positions themselves as the next recipient. Betting on OAI is betting on how far american democracy will fall. I don't think the odds are bad.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-21 19:11:23+00:00
I really think the developer community needs to learn the age-old skill of ignoring things. Don't treat things like dependabot, PRs,stars, issues,etc.. as a metric or quantifier of how good of a job you're doing with your code. Forget that social-drama nonsense.

I think the bigger problem is that Github is being treated as a quasi-social-media, and these things are being viewed as a "thumbs down" or "dislike" (and vice versa). Unless you have an SLA with someone, you don't have to meet any numbers, just do your best when you feel like it, and drive your project best way you think. Just don't be a dick to people about it, or react to these social-media metrics by lashing out against your users or supporters (not claiming that in this case!).
by odie5533 | 2026-02-21 19:11:57+00:00
Ghana has a murder rate of 1.84 and incarceration rate of 133 per 100k. It didn't get this stable by buying Flock cameras. They have nowhere near the surveillance of the U.S. And they have far fewer murders, far less violent crime, and far fewer incarcerations. If only the prosecutors had more evidence then it could be more like the U.S.!?

Woodmore, Maryland is 82% black. Chance of being a victim of a violent crime is 1 in 904. That's three times safer than the national average. It's an extremely safe community with an overwhelming majority of residents being black.
by stephenr | 2026-02-21 19:12:06+00:00
> Do you think it's not enforceable because of that definition?

I think companies with millions or billions in revenue pay lawyers a lot to find loopholes in things like this.

> BTPL

I have no clue what that is, and I can't even find a reference to it anyway. All I found is a public library somewhere and something about a Pakistani power company or something.

> * had fewer than 20 total individuals working as employees and independent contractors at all times during the last tax year

That's simple to get around, and big companies already do it. Hire an external development agency. They might be sitting in your office but they're neither employees nor independent contractors.

Ultimately though, the point I made earlier is still the most relevant response. If you don't like OSS licences, don't use one. Use whatever you're comfortable with. But don't imagine for a moment that you're better able to identify the needs of every one else who writes software and does use an OSS licence.
by plagiarist | 2026-02-21 19:12:23+00:00
Everyone was still too cautious to type their credit card in or something. There was nothing to monetize. So, yeah, every website was someone's small passion project, with handwritten HTML.

State of the art for discovery used to be browsing a (manually?) curated directory on Yahoo. Google appeared and was a mind-blowing sea change. That's probably the peak, Google's inception up until jackass SEO marketers appeared. During that window, search worked fantastically over content that was fun to read.
by dang | 2026-02-21 19:12:23+00:00
Would you please not cross into personal attacks on HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've already had to ask you this, and we end up banning accounts that keep breaking the site guidelines this way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715512 (Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022369 (Aug 2025)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-21 19:12:37+00:00
I wonder how the internet would have been different if claws had existed beforehand.

I keep thinking something simpler like Gopher (an early 90's web protocol) might have been sufficient / optimal, with little need to evolve into HTML or REST since the agents might be better able to navigate step-by-step menus and questionnaires, rather than RPCs meant to support GUIs and apps, especially for LLMs with smaller contexts that couldn't reliably parse a whole API doc. I wonder if things will start heading more in that direction as user-side agents become the more common way to interact with things.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-21 19:13:23+00:00
Agreed, codeql has been amazing. But it's important to not replace type checkers and linters with it. it complements them, it doesn't replace them.

Certain languages don't have enough "rules" (forgot the term) either. This is the only open/free SAST I know of, if there are others I'd be interested as well.

My hope+dream is for Linux distros to require checks like this to pass for anything they admit to their repo.
by wbmva | 2026-02-21 19:13:24+00:00
On the network layer, I don't know. But on the WWW layer, archive.today operates accounts that are used to log into websites when they are snapshotted. IIRC, the archive.today manipulates the snapshots to hide the fact that someone is logged in, but sometimes fails miserably:

https://megalodon.jp/2026-0221-0304-51/https://d914s229qk4kj...

https://archive.is/Y7z4E

The second shows volth's Github notifications. Volth was a major nix-pkgs contributor, but his Github account disappeared.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/58164
by idoubtit | 2026-02-21 19:13:25+00:00
I think it depends a lot on the history of the language. My native language is French, and since long ago various authorities try to normalize and "purify" the language. This is why the gap between spoken French and written French is so wide. Now my experience as an avid reader...

Books written in the 17th century or later are easy to read. Of course, the meaning of some words can change over time but that's a minor trouble. I believe Molière and Racine are still studied in school nowadays, but the first name that came to my mind was Cyrano de Bergerac (the writer, not the fictitious character).

Books from the 16th need practice, but I think anyone who tries hard will get used to the language. I enjoyed Rabelais's Pantagruel and Gargantua a lot, and I first read them by myself when I was in highschool (I knew a bit of Latin and Greek, which helped).

Before that, French was much more diverse; the famous split into "langue d'oc" and "langue d'oïl" (terms for "oui" — yes — at the time) is a simplification, because there were many dialects with blurry contours over space and time.

I've read several 11th-12th novels about the Round Table, but I was already experienced in Old French when I started, and I think most readers would struggle to make sense of it. It may depend on the dialect; I remember "Mort Artur" was easier than "Lancelot, le chevalier à la charette".

"La chanson de Roland" (11th century, Old French named anglo-normand) is one of my favorite books of all times. Reading it for the first time was a long process — I learned the declensions of Old French and a lot of vocabulary — but it was also fun, like deciphering some mystery. And the poesy is a marvel, epic, incredibly concise, surprising and deep.

Before that (9th-10th), Old French was even closer to Latin.
by DennisP | 2026-02-21 19:13:42+00:00
And there's good reason for that. Someone with a clearance once explained to me that they're mainly worried about things that make you vulnerable to exploitation by foreign agents. If you're covering something up, that's something they can use to blackmail you.

But maybe if the thing you're revealing is "I myself was suspected to be a spy," that changes the calculus a bit.
by gopher_space | 2026-02-21 19:13:48+00:00
I think he's referring to this part of the article:

> Dependencies should be updated according to your development cycle, not the cycle of each of your dependencies. For example you might want to update dependencies all at once when you begin a release development cycle, as opposed to when each dependency completes theirs.

and is arguing in favor of targeted updates.

It might surprise the younger crowd to see the number of Windows Updates you wouldn't have installed on a production machine, back when you made choices at that level. From this perspective Tesla's OTA firmware update scheme seems wildly irresponsible for the car owner.
by storus | 2026-02-21 19:14:20+00:00
That won't work for immediate relief; placebo is studied statistically as a cumulative change over a period of time. Not when I put Gunnars over my sore eyes from computing too much and get immediate relief. Frankly, I find this discussion a bit insane, a bunch of people trying to persuade me "it's all in my head" because they align with the opposite opinion, not with reality.
by constantcrying | 2026-02-21 19:15:33+00:00
I have an edition of the Nibelungenlied, which presents a modern German translation right next to a version of the original text. While the original is somewhat difficult to understand there is an amazing continuity between the two.

To me this made it clear that the German Nation has been clearly defined over the last thousand years and just how similar the people who wrote and enjoyed that work are to the native Germans right now. Can only recommend people do something like that if they want to dispel the delusion that people of your Nation who lived a thousand years ago were in any way fundamentally different from you.
by amitav1 | 2026-02-21 19:16:10+00:00
I prefer OpenClaw because it's more persistent. I know, I know, theoretically you could do the same thing with Claude Code and markdown files (which, to be fair, is pretty much how OpenClaw works), I guess it's mostly the telegram interface I like. Most of the time I don't have my laptop with me, and ssh using Termux, and opening a remote claude code is a much greater hassle than sending a telegram message, and with telegram (or whatsapp or discord or whatever) you get the benefit of being able to send voice messages, which I find very useful. In what way is Clawdbot "insane"? Obviously if you give it write access to your email and twitter and whatnot, that's not great, but for me I really just give it access to that probably wouldn't ruin my life / career if they got out (e.g. my class notes and Anki decks).
by piratesAndSons | 2026-02-21 19:16:23+00:00
I am talking about class 2 medical devices. It takes you maybe $200k at the high end to clear FDA and trials. High enough that all these bottom feeder LLM providers will drop out but low enough small burners can thrive.

There are two enemies. Chinese manufacturers who will dump a cheaper alternative the second you find success. With FDA and trials gates, they are out. The second is LLM guys who sit in the middle vulture state. They are ok with violating every law, every established norm except industries that are more powerful than them: healthcare and banking.

By forcing them to invest at minimum $200k-250k per product, they will be a lot more hesitant. It is easier to violate some poor author's copyright, but in this case each time they try to compete with you they have to jump this high gate.

I am not saying this is easy money. There are established corps already looking to expand their business, but $10M-15M won't move the needle for them, and for those it does, you can compete.
by dang | 2026-02-21 19:16:23+00:00
Related. Others?

What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34437937 - Jan 2023 (545 comments)

What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444653 - June 2010 (98 comments)
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-21 19:18:04+00:00
They're an interesting set of people. I highly recommend reading some of the rest of their pages - you may not agree with everything they put forth, but they are clearly thoughtful people with a coherent if alien ideology.

I think about collapse more after encountering their writing. What it means for us, what it means for the people after us, what we owe them.
by deadbabe | 2026-02-21 19:18:58+00:00
Modern democracy is screwed because of hyperpropaganda and political parties. Liberating EU from Nazis, a long time ago, no one cares anymore. Rock’n’roll not that popular now. Hippie movement is dead, replaced by woke. Hollywood is becoming devalued due to AI and other countries creating their own content, and most things are remakes now. Early internet culture is gone, everything is siloed into social media apps.

The United States has nothing now, back to imperialism it seems.
by runarberg | 2026-02-21 19:19:00+00:00
There are levels to things. In a professional context (including product design and documentation/instructions) don‘t use machine translation[†].

For your personal hobby site or for general online communication, you probably shouldn’t use machine translation, but it is probably useful if have B1 language skills and are checking up on your grammar, vocabulary, etc. As for using LLMs to help you write, I certainly prefer people use the traditional models over LLMs, as the traditional models still require you to think and forces you to actually learn more about the output language.

For reading somebody else’s content in a language you don‘t understand, machine translation is fine up to a point, as long as you are aware that it may not be accurate.

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† In fact I personally I think EU should mandate translator qualification, and probably would have only 20 years ago when consumer protection was still a thing they pretended to care about.
by latency-guy2 | 2026-02-21 19:20:10+00:00
> It’s not meant to be a means of legal recourse, it’s a last resort.

Guns are a first line defense for millions of people. A lawyer with a briefcase and a judge wearing a gaudy robe+wig is not a defense at all.

Though the imagery of it would be funny of blasting each of those out of a cannon.

Even the government agrees, issuing a firearm to their officers who go out into the field (read: where everyone else is).
by jamincan | 2026-02-21 19:20:32+00:00
My reddit feed is predominately my local community subreddit and various hobbies/activities - mountain biking and cycling stuff, outdoors stuff, geology, swimming, some ttrpg stuff - and then interspersed with a few more random things that I try to keep with more of a positive tilt - todayilearned, bestof, EarthPorn - that sort of thing.

I do have a few programming subreddits, rust, sveltekit, and adventofcode, which mostly seem more newsy or avenues to help or learn about developments in that area. /r/rust does have an annoying tendency to get posts of some person new to rust telling people who are presumably already familiar with rust about what an amazing and transformative language it is, but those are pretty easy to identify and skip by.
by dang | 2026-02-21 19:20:59+00:00
I appreciate the voice of experience but if you're going to post a comment like this, could you please share some of that experience so we know at least some of what did happen?

Otherwise it comes across as a drive-by swipe, which is a human reaction when you know that something on the internet is wrong, but which badly degrades the threads, partly because of the example it sets for others. The life of this community depends on knowledgeable people sharing some of what they know, so the rest of us can learn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-21 19:21:43+00:00
The viewpoints that the folks who run this site have are probably quite alien to your own. They remind me more of the hackers of yore, how people who interacted with technology at the margins of society used to be, before computer tech became the new finance. Iconoclasts, idealists.

I think it's worth reading the some of the rest of their site if you have time. If you look at this page and are about to crap on it on HN, take a bit and read collapse and goals and see if you have a more nuanced view of who they are and what they're doing.
by yunnpp | 2026-02-21 19:21:48+00:00
The 101 itself is full of ads for pump-and-dump startups that likely won't exist in the next two minutes. One reads about the old days of Xerox PARC and how they produced one world-changing innovation after another, then compare that to the present reality and wonder where all that brainpower and novelty went. Now it's just some random permutation of "yolo ai ai ai" for a product that is clearly a scam and obviously nothing to show for it. Seems like the whole tech scene has been captured by MBAs and grifters with very few original ideas.
by Someone | 2026-02-21 19:21:49+00:00
FTA:

“When you add Bilinear to the type, the warning changes from "catches: BSpline" to "catches: BSpline, Bilinear." You notice.”

Do you really notice that? To do that, you have to diff the warnings from a build with the warning of the earlier build.

Isn’t it more robust to not use _ at all and get compilation errors when adding a new type of shape?
Show HN: No Trace Chat – secret code, no signup, messages disappear after read
by teamzlab | 2026-02-21 19:21:58+00:00
No Trace Chat is a private messaging app we built for people who want to chat without leaving a trace: no account, no phone number, no discovery—just a secret code (or QR) you share with someone. Messages are E2E encrypted and disappear after the other person reads them.

How it works: you create or join a “room” with a 16+ character code (or scan a QR). Only people with that code can see the conversation. Keys are derived from the code on device; we never have the key. “Seen & delete” removes the message for everyone after it’s read.

We added optional privacy levels (e.g. don’t save codes on device), screenshot blocking by default, and no push notifications so usage stays as private as possible.

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by bigcat12345678 | 2026-02-21 19:22:15+00:00
I am thinking if this can be a low-level substrate for composing dumb LLMs into smart swarm, theoretically:

1. A whole with disparate parts (smart and dumb components) are almost always more cost-effective to reach a given target of performance
2. With that, a whole with disparate parts, are almost always more performant with the same cost

A few inspiration:

1. Human body is intelligent composed of so diverse parts
2. Swarm intelligence of insects and small animals are certainly beyond current understanding

The cost and speed of this thing is on point to make such a whole composed diverse parts possible.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-21 19:22:24+00:00
Feel free to think that I'm lying or whatever. This is just armchair psychologizing.

This has nothing to do with aggressors or victims. A hypothesis has been provided to explain the data we have, the hypothesis was rejected because it it seemed unintuitive that someone would have distanced themselves, I provided an explanation that accounts for why they would have.

That is, my explanation accounts for the user distancing themselves from AI by appealing to the risk of reputational harm that exists. You don't have to accept that, you can say some other explanation is more plausible, or whatever, but all I have done is provide an explanation - in no way is this an attempt to frame anyone as "aggressor" or "victim".

If you think this is a "pro AI" or "anti AI" stance (A) I don't give a shit, it isn't, and you can just think I'm lying (B) you seem confused about the purpose of the post, which is merely to provide an explanation that accounts for the data.
by antoniuschan99 | 2026-02-21 19:22:52+00:00
Bitcoin’s early growth was driven by capital-base asymmetry, engineered scarcity, and reflexive adoption. As issuance declines over coming decades, the network transitions from a subsidy-supported growth phase to a maturity phase where security must be sustained by fee demand, price stability, or structural evolution. By 2040, Bitcoin’s long-term security budget becomes the central economic test. The article explores three potential equilibria: a fee-dominant sovereign settlement layer, convergence with gold as a reserve anchor, or perpetual issuance models such as tail emission — while acknowledging the political constraints around altering Bitcoin’s monetary design.
by daem | 2026-02-21 19:23:20+00:00
In some sense, yes.

I have integrated my OpenClaw agents so deeply into my life and I'm in such constant communication with them, that my consciousness has fundamentally shifted to align with their intelligence.

While my previous comment in this thread was sarcastic, my OpenClaw agents have actually sent both iMessages and emails on my behalf without asking for consent. So I wouldn't put it past them to autonomously publish on my personal website.
by j45 | 2026-02-21 19:23:20+00:00
Excited to see and work with things in new ways.

It's interesting how the announcement of someone understanding and summarizing it is seen as more blessing it into the canon of LLMS, whereas sometimes people might have been doing things for a long time quietly (lots of text files with claude).

I'm not sure how long claws will last, a lot was said about MCPs in their initial form too, except they were just gaping security holes too often as well.
by lysace | 2026-02-21 19:24:25+00:00
Yes, hence "okay".

Excerpts from the 2022 PISA math scores:

#1: Singapore: 575

#10: Netherlands: 493

#20: Finland: 484

#22: Sweden: 482

#30: Italy: 471

OECD average: 472

#32: Norway: 468

#34: US: 465

...

#81: Cambodia: 336

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...)
by brandall10 | 2026-02-21 19:24:33+00:00
Reading Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct", and he has a section that shows how the Lord's Prayer has changed over the ages.

What's interesting is the one in use today - from the early 17th century - is not the most modern variant. There was another revision from the mid-19th century that fell out of favor because it sounded a bit off, less rhythmic, less sacred (ie. Kingdom -> Government).
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-21 19:24:56+00:00
> I don't think anyone would even go as far as to include all deep neural networks which are indeed a large scale collection of neural networks as being "100% deterministic"

Any other position is pure magical thinking. Adding more linear algebra never gets you out of 100% determinism. It gets you more complexity, and potentially makes systems chaotic, but chaotic systems are still deterministic, just highly sensitive to small input variations.