MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jfengel | 2026-02-20 21:20:38+00:00
With Congress completely stuck, the executive branch takes over a lot of functions that probably belong to the legislature. I say "probably" because the Constitution isn't really explicit about it, but it's what most people would infer.

The executive branch is less accountable than the legislative one. You elect only the top office, and only once every four years. With so much bundled into a single vote, it's nearly impossible to hold any specific action to account.

It doesn't work out great for the judicial branch, either. They often rule that a decision is based on the law as written, and it's up to the legislature to fix that -- while knowing full well that the legislature can't and won't. And they're not consistent about that; they'll also interpret a law to favor their ideology, and again Congress is in no position to clarify the intended interpretation.

Congress was deliberately set up to favor inaction, and not without reason. But that has reached the point where it practically doesn't even exist as a body, and its ability to serve as a check on the other branches has vanished, leading to even more abuses.
by skydhash | 2026-02-20 21:20:39+00:00
Also studies. In art, especially painting and music, you do a lot of studies of masters’ works, to discern how they’ve decided to make their intention manifests.

Same can happen with code. People may talk about readability, maintainability,… And it can be hard to improve in those aspects. So you read a lot of code that is lauded as good, figure how people goes from ideas to a written version of it, contrast it to your approach, a d reflect upon that.
by ianbutler | 2026-02-20 21:20:42+00:00
My standards aren't expressed in the post at all is what I try to keep getting across. I'm describing an objective fact of social dynamics.

"Things that don't consider their audience get ignored or are perceived poorly."

The only thing I stated was a simple thing which is almost immovable fact at this point, that someone posting should be considering that.

My opinions are actually a lot stronger than anything I've written here and if it was about them the post would have been radically different.
by nyeah | 2026-02-20 21:21:28+00:00
I think there must be a misunderstanding. I'm not asking a kind of broad speculative question like "hypothetically, what could a hardcore monarchist say to critique our constitutional system?"

I was asking for a real-world example of delegation of power from the executive branch to another branch. In the real history of the USA. Agreed, though: I can't think of one either.
by keyringlight | 2026-02-20 21:21:35+00:00
The challenge I've found when looking for instructions for flashing one of my old phones is the assumption of knowledge some rom builders have, or perhaps an assumption about their audience. This seems like it has the potential to bit someone in the ass because if they're relying on other sources like the lineageOS wiki or forum posts elsewhere for example there's no guarantee it'll stay available, complete, or relevant to their variant over time. It's an added burden for what is a gracious volunteer role, but it's a handicap if they want more people using the fruits of their labor.
by shablulman | 2026-02-20 21:22:41+00:00
I really appreciate how this tackles the "key repetition" overhead in standard JSON without forcing a jump all the way to a binary format like Protobuf or MessagePack. It feels like a pragmatic sweet spot for high-volume data—especially in mobile or IoT contexts—where you want to optimize for bandwidth but still need the payload to be easily parsable and somewhat human-readable. It’s a clever way to bridge the gap between developer ergonomics and transfer efficiency.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-20 21:22:58+00:00
This reminds me of the vacuum substory in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, except vacuums replaced by AI.

Basically: nobody wants AI, but soon everyone needs AI to sort through all the garbage being generated by AI. Eventually you spend more time managing your AI that you have no time for anything else, your town has built extra power generators just to support all the AI, and your stuff is more disorganized before AI was ever invented.
by observationist | 2026-02-20 21:23:17+00:00
Even if you have linux, there are still third parties that have control over your hardware. Even if you're using graphenos, you can't block the sim or the cellular radio stack, and likely other modules on the SoC, from at-will access to every sensor on the device. You can at least protect your files, unless there's a mitm or other vector that graphenos can't cope with. And at worst, they can simply clone all your encrypted bits and wait on Moore's law or sufficient cubits to go back and crack the copy, on the off chance there's anything they want with your data in the first place.
by dust42 | 2026-02-20 21:23:27+00:00
From the article:

"Ljubisa Bajic desiged video encoders for Teralogic and Oak Technology before moving over to AMD and rising through the engineering ranks to be the architect and senior manager of the company’s hybrid CPU-GPU chip designs for PCs and servers. Bajic did a one-year stint at Nvidia as s senior architect, bounced back to AMD as a director of integrated circuit design for two years, and then started Tenstorrent."

His wife (COO) worked at Altera, ATI, AMD and Testorrent.

"Drago Ignjatovic, who was a senior design engineer working on AMD APUs and GPUs and took over for Ljubisa Bajic as director of ASIC design when the latter left to start Tenstorrent. Nine months later, Ignjatovic joined Tenstorrent as its vice president of hardware engineering, and he started Taalas with the Bajices as the startup’s chief technology officer."

Not a youngster gang...
by dekhn | 2026-02-20 21:23:41+00:00
This is the undergraduate curriculum. I've talked with folks who went through various programs (biology, chemistry, math, and physics) and I think they are demanding courses, and the question sets and tests were extremely hard. The students are also quite competitive with each other.

But I've also learned that many well-known advanced CS programs are taking significant shortcuts with their CS education.

I honestly can't imagine compressing an undergraduate curriculum (even with electives omitted) into a shorter time without significant compromises to the learning process.
by JimsonYang | 2026-02-20 21:24:06+00:00
Counter point:As a renter, I get faster replies from AI and I don't really mind it, I get the business rational and most of my questions are basic anyways: "what's the pet policy, am I responsible for water and electricity, what's the cost of parking and how many are available".

While the article hints at AI guided tours, I highly doubt that would happen purely to liability or squatting concerns.

Overall the article feels more like a rage piece for anti-ai sentiment rather than a fair constructive criticisms of the prevailing use of AI in the real estate industry
by Ylpertnodi | 2026-02-20 21:24:19+00:00
Trump is bad.
As an individual:
I'm as-far-as-possible boycotting a lot of US goods (including not using amazon) - even down to the NOT coca-cola cola i now drink.
I'll not be visiting the US ever again (regardless of dems or repubs in charge).
I'm not alone, either.

So yes, i would say he's bad, and terrible for your country, both short, long, and very long term. Let alone the paedo stuff, the grifting, obama on the brain, tarrifs, ice...the economic jeopardy he's playing with the US is astounding to watch.

However, i am interested, as i am sure others are - in what way could he be considered 'good'?
by gen220 | 2026-02-20 21:24:22+00:00
This is genuinely an incredible proof-of-concept; the business implications of this demo to the AI labs and all the companies that derive a ton of profit from inference is difficult to understate, really.

I think this is how I'm going to get my dream of Opus 3.7 running locally, quickly and cheaply on my mid-tier MacBook in 2030. Amazing. Anthropic et al will be able to make marginal revenue from licensing the weights of their frontier-minus-minus models to these folks.
by mathgladiator | 2026-02-20 21:24:38+00:00
So, I'm going the direction of Web Components because Claude can pump them out fast. They are easy to test and well isolated, and claude can compose them very well which further helps to keep context well focused within a hierarchy.

A year ago, I would have groaned hard about Web Components as they require yet another investment to integrate and deal without. Now, just vibe them in after extensive validation.
by janalsncm | 2026-02-20 21:24:53+00:00
Three thoughts from someone with no expertise.

1) If you make legal disclosure too hard, the only way you will find out is via criminals.

2) If other industries worked like this, you could sue an architect who discovered a flaw in a skyscraper. The difference is that knowledge of a bad foundation doesn’t inherently make a building more likely to collapse, while knowledge of a cyber vulnerability is an inherent risk.

3) Random audits by passers-by is way too haphazard. If a website can require my real PII, I should be able to require that PII is secure. I’m not sure what the full list of industries would be, but insurance companies should be categorically required to have an cyber audit, and laws those same laws should protect white hats from lawyers and allow class actions from all users. That would change the incentives so that the most basic vulnerabilities are gone, and software engineers become more economical than lawyers.
by catskull | 2026-02-20 21:25:27+00:00
I've written quite a few web components that were more or less standalone. I've looked at lit quite a bit but never fully understood the "why". Could someone share their own personal experience with why they needed lit? What does it offer that can't be done with standard spec web components?

For me, a big draw of web components is that there's no `npm install` needed. I prefer to ship my components as plain JS files that can either be hot linked from a CDN or downloaded and served locally. Call me paranoid but I just don't fully trust node modules to be clean of bloat and spyware and I just don't want to have to regularly deal with updating them. I'd prefer to download a web component's static JS file a single time, read through it, and forget it. Maybe down the line I might revisit the source for the component as part of standard maintenance.

For example, I made a simple like button component[1]. Later, my friend made a cool component for showing a burst of emoji confetti[2]. I decided to optionally pull it in if an attribute was set on the like component. I downloaded his source and hosted from my own domain. However, there was actually a bug in his code that caused the confetti to "rain" if you spammed the like button a few times quickly. He fixed that, but I actually kind of liked it so I just didn't update the source for the confetti component.

[1]: https://catskull.net/likes
[2]: https://github.com/samwarnick/confetti-drop
by breve | 2026-02-20 21:25:32+00:00
You haven't established that it has saved any lives beyond vague, hand waving anecdotes.

What is autodrive? Are you talking about basic autopilot, enhanced autopilot, or full self-driving? They are separate modes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot#Driving_featur...

Which revision of the hardware and software is the "good one"? Remember that Tesla claimed in 2016 that all Teslas in production "have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver". But that was, of course, a lie:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240730071548/https://tesla.com...

https://electrek.co/2025/10/22/tesla-changes-all-cars-have-s...

What Tesla used to claim was "full autonomy" is now called "Full Self-Driving (supervised)", whatever that's supposed to mean. How many times has "Full Self-Driving (supervised)" gone dangerously wrong but was stopped? How many times was supervision not enough:

https://electrek.co/2025/05/23/tesla-full-self-driving-veers...

Show me some concrete numbers to back your claims. If you can't do that then I think you've fallen victim to Tesla's dishonest marketing.
by jltsiren | 2026-02-20 21:25:36+00:00
This is not a technical question.

The immediate pro-market position is that if third-party clients are allowed / possible, Anthropic should be allowed to favor its own clients with lower prices.

But the position can go further if the service in question can be considered infrastructure. For example, a company that owns a mobile network may be required to let virtual operators use their infrastructure for a reasonable price. And a company owning a power grid may be required to become a neutral infrastructure provider that is not allowed to generate/sell power.
Show HN: Delegate – AI eng manager running team of agents for async multitasking
by nikhilgarg28 | 2026-02-20 21:25:40+00:00
I built Delegate because I was tired of babysitting AI coding agents. Cursor is fast but you're in the chair.

I wanted to hand off five tasks and come back to PRs with agents already having peer reviewed each other's code.

Delegate is a browser-based tool where you talk to an AI manager. It breaks down your request into tasks, assigns AI agents, manages git (worktrees, branches, merges), and notifies you when code is ready for final approval. Post-approval, code is merged in local git repo's main.

It's open source (MIT), runs locally, uses Claude under the hood (BYOK).

Demo video: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5d2f5a8f-8bae-45b...

What works: parallel tasks, planning conversations,
code review before merge, git isolation.

What's rough: setup on non-trivial repos, agent quality varies, no integrations yet.

I'm using it to build Delegate itself. Looking for
developers willing to try it on real projects and tell me what breaks.

Here is a longer post if you want to go a bit deeper. https://nikhilgarg.net/delegate/
by onlinemm245 | 2026-02-20 21:25:52+00:00
A few weeks ago, I needed a simple browser timer for deep work (I use the 52/17 method). I Googled "online timer" and was immediately hit by cookie consent banners, auto-playing video ads, and timers that literally lag because the main thread is choked by tracking scripts.
It drove me crazy that a tool designed for focus was actively distracting me.
So I built XClock. It’s a completely free stopwatch, countdown timer, and alarm clock.
My goals were simple:
Zero bloat: No invasive trackers, no ads, no unnecessary dependencies.
Local execution: All the logic runs locally in your browser. There is no server-side lag.
Dark-mode native: Because staring at a white screen at 2 AM is painful.
Actually precise: I wanted a stopwatch that doesn't stutter when you switch tabs.
I also added a few short guides on the site about the time management methods I built this for (like Parkinson's Law and the 52/17 rule).
I'm currently looking into the best ways to handle Chrome/Safari's aggressive background tab throttling to ensure the timer alarm never delays when minimized.
I’d love any feedback on the UI, performance, or how it handles on older mobile devices.
by kuboble | 2026-02-20 21:26:02+00:00
I mean there are two different things. One is whether there are actual productivity boosts right now. And the second is the excitement about the technology.

I am definitely more productive. A lot of this productivity is wasted on stuff I probably shouldn't be writing anyways. But since using coding agent, I'm both more productive at my day job and I'm building so many small hobby projects that I would have never found time for otherwise.

But the main topic of discussion in this thread is the excitement about technology. And I have a bit mixed feelings, because on one hand side I feel like a turkey being excited for the Thanksgiving. On the other hand, I think the programming future is bright. there will be so much more software build and for a lot of that you will still need programmers.

My excitement comes from the fact that I can do so much more things that I wouldn't even think about being able to do a few months ago.

Just as an example, in last month I have used the agents to add features to the applications I'm using daily. Text editor, podcast application, Android keyboard. The agents were capable to fork, build, and implement a feature I asked for in a project where I have no idea about the technology. Iif I were hired to do those features, I would be happy if I implemented them after two weeks on the job. With an agent, I get tailor made features in half of a morning. Spending less than ten minutes prompting.

I am building educational games for my kids.
They learn a new topic at school? Let me quickly vibe the game to make learning it fun. A project that wouldn't be worth my weekend, but is worth 15 minutes. https://kuboble.com/math/games/snake/index.html?mode=multipl...

So I'm excited because I think coding agents will be for coding what pencil and paper were for writing.
by scaredreally | 2026-02-20 21:26:08+00:00
My main use case for FB is a group related to reviewing restaurants in the area. I have no FB friends/connections. I use messenger for my one friend who insists on using it. It is mostly slop (and strangely I get posts from that same relationship account), I scroll for about 5 minutes at a time before I realize it is not worth looking at. And truthfully, that is what I want from social media: a few minutes worth of distraction followed by the feeling that I had just wasted my time and then on to something more meaningful.
by lumirth | 2026-02-20 21:26:08+00:00
While I think there are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with this particular shift, I find myself struggling to care about it in particular. I get the impression that things will just be… different now. When finding an app for your phone, you might have to skip a few obviously vibe-coded ones to find what you actually want. But that’s not much different from before, when you’d have to filter through ads and apps that haven’t been updated in 6 years.

Are the people that make these apps tasteless? Or soulless? Or do they just have no respect for the craft? Probably. That’s not much different than how things were before. I’ve had tasteless coworkers who only programmed for a paycheck. The were perfectly pleasant people to work with, and I don’t judge them in the slightest. Besides, how do you distinguish an excited novice who genuinely wants to get into programming versus someone trying to extract value versus someone using AI to finally bring a hobby project to life? The same way you did before.

Point being, I doubt HN will suddenly stop being discerning or start celebrating low-effort garbage any more than they did before LLMs. The tasteful remain tasteful. The tasteless remain tasteless. And as such, I find myself more interested in directing my AI-related concern elsewhere.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-20 21:26:23+00:00
Those are a lot of words to say you guessed. And the banning comment is nice I guess but pretty meaningless. Does moderation really always report back to you when you make such an accusation ? Who's to even say all the banned accounts were LLMs ? You know what would happened if i got banned because someone accused me of being a LLM ? Nothing. I'd take it as a sign to do other things.

Let's say you are the LLM detecting genius you paint yourself to be. Well guess what? You're human and you're going to make mistakes, if you haven't made a bunch of them already. So if you have nothing better to add to a post than to guess this, you probably shouldn't say anything at all. Like you said, it's not even against the rules.
by cortesoft | 2026-02-20 21:26:27+00:00
Well, they would likely have to lower their profit margin because the demand is reduced by the higher prices. Fewer purchasers will want to/be able to buy the item at the higher price. The supply and demand curve will find a new equilibrium, but it isn’t like the sellers are going to sell the exact same quantity of items with the price exactly increased by the tariff amount.
by 9dev | 2026-02-20 21:26:57+00:00
That is not an unfair advantage, but protecting their domestic industries for reasons unrelated to the quality of the tech, for example to keep people in active employment, prevent bankruptcies, allow an industry to get up to speed, or a lot of other reasons entirely unrelated to the USA. All of these are valid; any country gets to decide who they want to allow on their markets, and to what conditions.

That is not what Trump has been doing, though. Using tariffs as retaliatory measures? As a threat because he didn’t get to "own" Greenland?

Let’s stop comparing sane political strategies to the actions of a narcissistic madman.
Show HN: Vipune – Simple Memory for Agents
by jannniii | 2026-02-20 21:27:32+00:00
vipune is a local CLI memory store for AI agents. You tell your LLM agents to run vipune add "..." and vipune search "..." — it stores embeddings locally in SQLite and retrieves by semantic meaning, reranking and recency baked in, not keyword matching.

The problem it solves: agents needing historical knowledge of your project or other tasks that other agents are working on. Or just getting context transferred from session to session in clean and semantically searchable way. Most solutions require an API, a cloud service, or a running server. vipune is a single binary, no daemon, no keys, works offline.

I had a predecessor to vipune in my personal agentic flow for a long time, but it got bloated and decided on a rewrite and thought to share, maybe someone else will find it useful also.

And yes, this is written 99% by LLM agents, 100% monitored by yours truly.

It also does conflict detection — if you try to add something semantically similar to an existing memory, it flags it instead of silently duplicating.

Built in Rust, Apache-2.0. Binaries for macOS ARM64 and Linux. Early release — would love feedback on the use cases people try it for.
by kmfrk | 2026-02-20 21:28:06+00:00
Also came across this today about how Meta is allotting 5% of ad spend on AI testing for Gen AI. Which leads to unintentional Gen AI promotions across Instagram and Facebook - mind you for companies who paid for the promotion.

https://bsky.app/profile/bexsaltsman.bsky.social/post/3me4yb...
by 0x00cl | 2026-02-20 21:28:15+00:00
Well, Google has marketed Android as an open source operating system (AOSP) and openness about the system [1] and encouraged manufacturers and developers to build on it based on the premise of openness and of course being "free". People advocated for Android because it was open source compared to other alternatives. But with this change they are simply ending that openness. People that have developed F-Droid and other alternative stores have contributed to the platform value (such as not being able to de-google their phone), the same goes for many other developers who have spent countless of hours developing for Android.

To say they don't owe you nothing seems like a betrayal on the promise that Android was an open platform (and open source).

> You are free to not use their products or start a company to compete

That's not an option as you are making it out to be. For a user switching means buying a new phone, repurchasing apps (if you bought) and maybe apps won't be even available to the new system, for developers that means all their knowledge about the system gone. Building a mobile operating system requires millions if not billions of dollars, years of work and convincing developers and businesses (hardware makers) to use your operating system. The barrier to enter is so high that telling people to just compete with Google is not a realistic solution.

[1] https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-gl...