MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xbaicai | 2026-02-11 00:55:19+00:00
Been testing out these models for the past week and honestly pretty impressed with the speed-to-quality ratio. The image generation is solid, though I did notice some inconsistencies with complex prompts.
For anyone looking for more resources on generative AI workflows, I found this site helpful: https://seedance2.so - has some decent tutorials and community discussions.
Overall, the API integration was smoother than expected. Documentation could use more examples for edge cases, but the core functionality delivers. Worth checking out if you're building something that needs fast inference times.
by willmarquis | 2026-02-11 00:56:27+00:00
The thread is missing the forest for the trees. The interesting bet here isn't git checkpoints—it's that someone is finally building the observability layer for agent-generated code.

Most agent frameworks (LangChain, Swarm, etc.) obsessed over orchestration. But the actual pain point isn't "how do I chain prompts"—it's "what did the agent do, why, and how do I audit/reproduce it?"

The markdown-files-in-git crowd is right that simple approaches work. But they work at small scale. Once you have multiple agents across multiple sessions generating code in production, you hit the same observability problems every other distributed system hits: tracing, attribution, debugging failures across runs.

The $60M question is whether that problem is big enough to justify a platform vs. teams bolting on their own logging. I'm skeptical—but the underlying insight (agent observability > agent orchestration) seems directionally correct.
by Bender | 2026-02-11 00:58:02+00:00
Not the person you were replying to but I do not have that level of confidence in governing agencies. Money corrupts. There are still a myriad of dangerous substances in use today that are known to be harmful.

As a side note if I consume more than 15G of erythritol I will start to see rainbows. I learned that by mistake of consuming a coconut drink that had 15G which seems like a lot to me. I reproduced it multiple times to confirm. I am not alone, found others that experience the same things.
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-11 00:58:10+00:00
As others have said, it's not so much that tinkering opportunities don't exist. It's more there's a slump in the market of doing relatively easy jobs for money. You can hack on esp32 all day, but there aren't many ways to make money doing so. Making software for the iPhone was (and is still, at this point) a pretty good gig.

I figure auto mechanics contended with this 25 years ago. Now it's hard to find someone to replace your water pump, if your vehicle even has one. Like auto mechanics, though, these machines still exist and there's still a big market for those skills. It might just require more legwork to find that work.
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-11 00:58:49+00:00
Also, there is nothing centre-right about Susan Ley.

She is the leftest left leaning leader of the Liberal party I’ve ever had the misfortune of having to live through.

She was absolutely on board with this recent Hitlerian “anti-hate” legislation that was rammed through with no public consultation.

Okay, that’s a bit uncharitable. We had 48 hours.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-11 00:59:07+00:00
it isn't just about money, it is about production. Even if the money is evenly spread, if there isn't enough production (because not enough people providing goods and services) you'll just have inflation. But ya, if all the money is concentrated and billionaires are indulging in most of the production while the elderly starve, most of us are still screwed.
Show HN: ScanDo – A zero-UI camera that predicts your next action locally
by kyoagun | 2026-02-11 00:59:25+00:00
Why does every camera tool try to sell me something? I wanted a "remote control for the physical world."

ScanDo is a minimalist Android/iOS utility that bypasses the "search result" stage entirely. Using local LLMs, it parses the camera feed and presents exactly one action button at the bottom.

QR code for Wi-Fi? Connects you.

Paper invoice? Deep-links to your banking app.

Handwritten date? Creates a calendar invite.

The goal is to minimize time-to-action. I'm curious if the HN community thinks "Ambient Intelligence" tools like this will eventually replace the standard utility app model.
by avianlyric | 2026-02-11 01:00:08+00:00
Mastercard and Visa also use immediate settlement models and basically always have done. The settlement buffer between end parties is created entirely by entities that are all basically banks.

There’s nothing special about Mastercard and Visa rails that prevents you recreating all the functionality that the broader ecosystem provides, without Visa and Mastercard. Hell all of that functionality could be provided by exactly the same companies and banks that provide it for Visa and Mastercard networks.
by handoflixue | 2026-02-11 01:01:27+00:00
> For example, you can reliably train an LLM to produce accurate output of assembly code that can fit into a context window. However, lets say you give it a Terabyte of assembly code - it won't be able to produce correct output as it will run out of context.

Fascinating reasoning. Should we conclude that humans are also incapable of intelligence? I don't know any human who can fit a terabyte of assembly into their context window.
by nunez | 2026-02-11 01:01:34+00:00
Six months ago, we _literally did not have Claude Code_. We had MCP, A2A and IDE integrations, but we didn't have an app where you could say "build me an ios app that does $thing" and have it build the damn thing start to finish.

Three months ago, we didn't have Opus 4.5, which almost everyone is saying is leaps and bounds better than previous models. MCP and A2A are mostly antiquated. We also didn't have Claude Desktop, which is trying to automate work in general.

Three _weeks_ ago, we didn't have Clawdbot/Openclaw, which people are using to try and automate as much of their lives as possible...and succeeding.

Things are changing outrageously fast in this space.
by LatencyKills | 2026-02-11 01:02:47+00:00
I'm a year old than you. Recently, my father-in-law (an engineer in the '50s) was telling me about the transition from analog to digital electronics and how it changed his entire world.

I feel very fortunate that I was able to start out writing machine code and can now watch a machine write code on its own. I'm not even remotely claiming SOTA models can do what we do, but they are closer than ever before.

It's time to accept that the world has changed again.
by warmreed | 2026-02-11 01:03:08+00:00
Interesting to see AI agents being productized for developers. I wonder how this compares to more personal AI applications though. I have been experimenting with a Telegram bot called @adola2048_bot that takes a different approach - instead of task automation, it tries to be a genuine conversational companion that remembers context across sessions. The agent space feels like it is splitting into two camps: productivity tools vs relationship/companion AIs. Both seem to have real demand but they require fundamentally different architectures.
by warmreed | 2026-02-11 01:03:45+00:00
The knowledge graph approach is cool for work contexts. For personal/social contexts I have found that a simpler memory model works surprisingly well. I built a Telegram companion bot (@adola2048_bot) that stores conversational memories as plain text summaries and retrieves them via semantic search. No graph structure, just flat memories with timestamps. It loses some relational info but the retrieval quality is good enough for natural conversation, and it is way simpler to maintain. Curious whether you considered simpler alternatives before going full graph?
by gruez | 2026-02-11 01:04:00+00:00
>Not the person you were replying to but I do not have that level of confidence in governing agencies. Money corrupts. There are still a myriad of dangerous substances in use today that are known to be harmful.

That's why I also said "at least making announcements that it's harmful". What substances do you think are actually harmful, but professional associations have refused to denounce it as such? Moreover if the claim is that it's "medical consensus" that it's harmful, how can layperson verify this, instead of relying on some guy confidently proclaiming as such on a HN comment?
by protocolture | 2026-02-11 01:04:28+00:00
>And at the same time, its arguably the least toxic of all social networks.

Its "non toxic" insofar as people refuse to risk discussing controversial non employment related topics.

Its super toxic insofar as "10 ways to herd your HR cattle to the productivity slaughterhouse" is just an average, uncontroversial self promo article.
by warmreed | 2026-02-11 01:04:31+00:00
The identity question is fascinating and I think it matters more than people realize. When you build an AI that is supposed to have ongoing relationships with users, the "what is it" question becomes practical, not just philosophical. I have been working on a Telegram companion bot (@adola2048_bot) and the hardest design decisions are all about identity and consistency - should it have a stable personality? Should it remember how it felt about something? Users notice immediately when the AI contradicts its own past statements. The technical challenge of maintaining coherent identity across sessions is harder than most people think.
by fitzgera1d | 2026-02-11 01:04:43+00:00
There’s an MCP Apps version of this that is interesting: https://creature.run

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but isn’t generating UI just-in-time kind of risky because AI can get it wrong? Whereas you can generate/build an MCP App once that is deterministic, always returns a working result, and just as AI native.
by warmreed | 2026-02-11 01:04:46+00:00
Neat idea. The "personalized assistant" space is growing fast. I took a different angle with @adola2048_bot on Telegram - instead of code generation it focuses on being a conversational companion with persistent memory. The key insight for me was that personalization is less about tool use and more about remembering what the user cares about and adapting tone over time. How do you handle long-term context? Do you store user preferences somewhere or is it all prompt-based?
by handoflixue | 2026-02-11 01:05:41+00:00
The problem is, there's two groups:

One says "well, it was built as a bunch of pieces, so it can only do the thing the pieces can do", which is reasonably dismissed by noting that basically the only people predicting current LLM capabilities are the ones who are remarkably worried about a singularity occurring.

The other says "we can evaluate capabilities and notice that LLMs keep gaining new features at an exponential, now bordering into hyperbolic rate", like the OP link. And those people are also fairly worried about the singularity occurring.

So mainly you get people using "here's how LLMs actually work" to argue against the Singularity if-and-only-if they are also the ones arguing that LLMs can't do the things that they can provably do, today, or are otherwise making arguments that also declare humans aren't capable of intelligence / reasoning / etc..
by mgraczyk | 2026-02-11 01:06:17+00:00
This entire chain of reasoning takes for granted that there won't be a singularity

If you're talking about "reforming society", you are really not getting it. There won't be society, there won't be earth, there won't be anything like what you understand today. If you believe that a singularity will happen, the only rational things to do are to stop it or make sure it somehow does not cause human extinction. "Reforming society" is not meaningful
by gcanyon | 2026-02-11 01:06:26+00:00
This has been going on in technology for decades.

1. New productivity enhancer comes out.
2. Everyone thinks, "This is it! Work will get shorter|easier as a result of this!"
3. Instead the work gets faster|more|higher quality and the (time) volume stays roughly the same.

This applies across (almost?) everything: club newsletters that used to take half a day to write out by hand later took half a day to type and lay out with some clip art. It still takes a year or more to make a movie, but now we get Avatar instead of Ice Pirates -- look it up! :-)

When work reduction does happen, it generally happens at a person-quantum level: people hang on to their role until it goes away entirely, and they (hopefully) find something else to do. Rarely is it the case that someone legitimately reduces to part time incrementally as productivity increases.

AI is similar: no doubt jobs will go away as a result, but much less often will AI result in jobs that are easy/part time. For anyone still in the "work" game, even with AI there's still 5x8 hours of work to do.
by skydhash | 2026-02-11 01:07:13+00:00
I don’t know about the anecdote really. But Unix ABI is only stable for the userspace. Anything kernel side is not. So that means recompilation when things changes. So most drivers are in source code form in the kernel, or at least provide shims to firmware. AMD and Intel drivers are part of the kernel, nvidia’s are not. So every updates, you’re praying the the stars align and your card can be used and does not crash the system.
by antonvs | 2026-02-11 01:07:59+00:00
> I know we instinctively want to frame this as a privacy problem

It absolutely is a privacy problem. If that information was in your house, the 4th amendment would apply and they'd have to show up with a real judicial warrant, so you'd know what was happening.

Even if that's the "system working as intended" (intended by who exactly? I'm sure Peter Thiel loves it), anyone who cares at all about their own privacy should be using providers outside of US jurisdiction, because the US government does not, in practice, protect its citizens against unreasonable search and seizure as described in the Constitution.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-11 01:08:23+00:00
Breaching the daemon only allows for the attacker to get access to the login. User accounts should still be secured requiring authentication.

>If this was so easy to deal with, someone would have done it.

Sadly this is not the case. There is a lot of inertia towards solutions like ssh or sudo. It may be easy to delete them, but actually getting such a changed accepted is no trivial task.
by Bender | 2026-02-11 01:08:28+00:00
There are entire communities dedicated to finding harmful substances outside of the "medical consensus". HN writes them off as quacks and I see those people on HN as trusting dogmatic scientism which to me is true quackery and why I avoid going into the weeds on such topics. If there are clues that something is bad I just get the f&$k away from it until a few hundreds years of testing have concluded which I see as common sense. It is also too difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff on HN as there are too many contrarians and people with financial conflicts of interest.
by tzs | 2026-02-11 01:09:50+00:00
There's still something about CarPlay that does that kind of thing but not tied to a specific song. I'll be in my car listening to the car's radio, with my phone on its mount but inactive and all is well. The phone connected wirelessly to CarPlay when I started the car, but I'm not using any CarPlay features on this trip.

Then I need to activate the phone (say I'm pulling into the McDonalds parking lot and need to look at the McD app to get my drive thru pickup code for my order), so I tap it and swipe up...and the car switches to playing in whatever app I last used in CarPlay such as Podcasts or Spotify.

If I hit the media button to bring up the car's media selection screen and switch it back to radio that plays for a few seconds and then it switches back to CarPlay.

If on the phone I go to the now playing thingy in control center and hit the gizmo for selecting where to play I can explicitly switch it from CarPlay to iPhone Speaker and then it stops messing with the radio.

Some Googling and some asking LLMs turned up that a lot of people have problems with CarPlay overriding the car's entertainment system and apparently nobody has a fully satisfactory way to deal with it. Some people have addressed it by using Shortcuts automation to pause playback whenever the phone wakes up. They still get interrupted, but at least it doesn't keep interrupting.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 01:10:45+00:00
Yes, perhaps we should define “MUD” and your incomplete experience of “most”.

As a MUD enthusiast for 37 years, I learned to program in C and Unix through TinyMUD, MUCK, and MUSH derived servers. From the beginning, none of these codebases implemted Telnet. There was nothing but a raw transparent TCP connection. In fact, I facilitated the introduction of a grand innovation: the "port concentrator" system which multiplexed TCP connections. Unix processes had a hard rlimit of 64 file descriptors, which crimped our style as an emerging MMORPG. The multiplexer increased this to 4096, for the biggest games of the era.

You mention MUSHclient, and I do not know about later revisions of the TinyMUSH server, but I can assure you that every MUSH I found from Larry Foard on, was not implementing Telnet. (I was privileged to help Larry "test" new features as I red-teamed his server with bizarre edge cases!)

Likewise, after I handed off TinyMUCK 2.3 to the furries, it was not doing the Telnet protocol. When we backported stuff to MUCK 1.x, it was not doing Telnet. I wrote a bonkers Perl program to read MUCK databases and sort of implement the game. No Telnet there. I've got to wonder whether the Ubermud or MOO guys had folded it in; they were close collaborators with us, back in the day.

Now as for the Diku, LP, and other “combat” type games, I’ve no idea. Perhaps they did. We never cared. I was aware that some of them had a pesky “prompt” that violated the line-mode assumptions of conventional clients and needed workarounds.

telnet(1), the program, was historically the only program that implemented the protocol. If you use Tinyfugue or Tinywar or tinymud.el, they are not, and no, I am not confused, because I was giving an example of why the Telnet-implementation, the program, the client, was so inadequate for playing on MUD servers.

It wouldn’t have been difficult to retrofit the Telnet RFC 854 into any MUD server, but none of us wizards had any use for it, seeing that our clients were mature and capable of much more processing without it.

If modern MUD servers have mostly implemented Telnet, then that is cool, but what surprises me is that it is mandatory, and your clients don’t seem to interoperate without it? That is a strange reversal!
by rc5150 | 2026-02-11 01:11:22+00:00
"But don't expect standing ovation is my very subtle point."

that's the exact reasoning why parents who complain about how hard it is to be a parent get no sympathy from you. You blew a load in somebody (or had a load blown into you) and another human popped out. That's a choice you made for yourself, nobody forced you to, and there is a big giant swath of people out there who couldn't care less.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-11 01:12:47+00:00
It probably is legal at the moment, but the rules may be changed to make it illegal. But also Uber and Lyft were super illegal when they were invested in. To some extent, YCombinator partners are on the record[0] supporting the idea of their startups doing illegal things.

Generally they'll frame this as challenging outdated regulations, but they acknowledge that the founders whose strategies they fully support sometimes come into office hours and discuss how they're worried that the strategy puts them at risk of going to jail.

There are different kinds of illegal, and Hims/Hers may end up getting blocked from their current business model, or they may end up entrenching new ways for consumers to get affordable care. The jury is very much still out.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm-ZIiwiN1o&t=8m46s
by nickjj | 2026-02-11 01:12:59+00:00
> but the issue I usually run into with Arch is that unless you watch patch notes like a hawk,

The good news is you can run `yay -Pwwq` to get the latest Arch news headlines straight in your terminal.

I've wrapped that with running `pacman -Syu` into a little helper script so that I always get to see the news before I run an update.

This is built into my dotfiles by default at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles.
by antonvs | 2026-02-11 01:13:28+00:00
> It is unfortunate to see the Washington Post decline in reliability like this.

In case you haven't been paying attention, Bezos has been all the way up Trump's ass for years now, and this is not in any way a coincidence.

A few highlights:

* The Post's refusal to endorse a presidential candidate in 2024

* The Melania documentary/bribe

* The recent decimation of the Post's staff
by tamimio | 2026-02-11 01:14:06+00:00
The issue isn't WireGuard, WireGuard is secure, and the services listed above are built on top of it, although they make things easier with centralized management. The issue is in the DDNS, there are many issues with it in terms of security (1), along with PF, you can look them up online, but the short answer goes back to the fact that you are exposing an internal service to the public internet, all it takes is some crawler/mass scanner/etc to find your running service and poke it. So, for example, if your home server is running CCTV or network storage service, accessed through DDNS, and the attacker found an exploit in that service, all your data is now under their mercy. The best risk management strategy is always avoidance, not mitigation, so if you can avoid any risk by never exposing it online and only access it through internal VPN, and maybe plus a reverse proxy, then you are set.

(1) https://nextgeneration.digital/blog-dynamic-dns-security-con...
by mert_gerdan | 2026-02-11 01:14:12+00:00
Appreciate the feedback truly. It's an interesting concept to explore, deferring human "expertise" to technology has been happening throughout the years (most definitely accelerated in recent times), for which we have found ways to adapt / abstract over the work being deferred, but the growing pains are probably the most acute when such deferment happens rapidly, as in the case of AI.

Don't want this to turn into a Matt Damon in Elysium type of situation for sure with that scene with the parole officer hahah (which would stem from a poor integration of such subjective signals into existing workflows, more so than the availability of those signals)

For emotional intelligence, I personally see this as a prerequisite for any voice / language model that's interacting with humans, just like how an autonomous car has to be able to identify a pothole, so does a voice / video agent navigating a pothole in a conversation.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-11 01:14:33+00:00
500 at hetzner, they don't go up to that price, and even with their prices raised during the RAM shortage, for 500, you can still have 5 servers each with 4TB NVMe and 128GB RAM, and a Ryzen 9 7950X3D (16 cores).

Seems like their setup price has gone up from 1 month to 2.5 months. Ouch. That'll be to cover the RAM price.