MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by microtonal | 2026-02-27 15:59:18+00:00
Here in The Netherlands banks used to offer authenticator devices, which they are phasing out (you can still use them, but they wont replace them once they run out of battery). Pretty much all banks switched to app-only.

No SMS at all (which is not surprising, because SMS is not secure).

Also, IMO fingerprint/face-based authentication is much nicer/quicker, especially for online payment flows like iDEAL (Dutch predecessor to Wero). And banks here work on GrapheneOS, so not much is lost.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-27 15:59:29+00:00
For it to be a "narrative", there would need to be an additional claim that this specific case and context, which is factual, generalizes to most unrelated cases. That is not in evidence. Thinking that this was an attempt to create a narrative is a failure of reading comprehension.

This insistence that acknowledgement of facts has an ideological narrative is a pernicious strain of anti-science thinking.
by miroljub | 2026-02-27 15:59:38+00:00
"Contact the sales"

No, thanks. I decided I don't want to play those games. I get MiniMax unlimited for 10$ per month, and free GitHub Copilot as an open source maintainer and contributor.

I don't need to beg to get some free stuff, only to later realize the only way to use it is through the shitty Claude Code.
by maccard | 2026-02-27 15:59:48+00:00
> That sounds like the real problem was the lack of an employee handbook.

That's my point - we didn't have one because we didn't need one. 30 people is still small enough that you can be on first name terms with every single person in the company and know what everyone is doing day-to-day. Anecdotally, I'd say one in every 30 people I've worked with in my career are like this - so that's probably the point you do need one.
by codegeek | 2026-02-27 15:59:52+00:00
If selling, you can get away with bad buyers as long as the deal is mostly cash upfront. However, I would highly advise against buying from a seller you cannot trust. Imagine they already showed you during the deal process when they have an incentive to be nicer. Once you wire the money, you are in for a lot more surprises. I would never buy from a seller who gave me bad vibes. Regardless of how good the deal sounds.

Source: I have bought 3 smaller projects (one for 500k so i guess not indie but still small) and in all 3 cases, the sellers were incredible genuine and truly cared about their company/product. Just because of how trustworthy and helpful they were, I closed the deals quickly after fair negotiations.

I declined 1 deal where the product was a great fit to my exiting business and it would have been a great transition but the seller was too arrogant and I just couldn't trust him. I backed out after exchanging a couple of messages with him.
by estearum | 2026-02-27 15:59:56+00:00
No, my argument was that western liberal ideals are good. The commenter chimed in that some states which have historically held the mantle of western liberalism are losing their grip on it.

There's nothing contradictory or circular in both of those claims.

If someone were to present to me a better caretaker of western liberal ideals than the US and ask whether I would prefer AI empower them, the answer would be: yes.

And in fact, that is precisely what I am arguing. It is good that Anthropic, which so far has demonstrated closer adherence to western liberal ideals than the current US government, is pushing back on the current US government.

I also think it is good that Anthropic stands in opposition to China, which also does not embody western liberal ideals.
by TakeInterestInc | 2026-02-27 15:59:59+00:00
Hello Everyone!
Hope you’re well!
We just opened GuardClaw public beta. It sits between AI agents and tool access (terminal, files, MCP servers) and blocks risky actions before they run.
It is local-first, rule-based, and has 0 LLMs in the security path.
Stats: 7 defense layers, 1,500+ detection patterns across 11 attack categories. Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenClaw, Claude Desktop, plus Docker/MCP setups.
Try it and tell us what breaks or feels missing!
by DFHippie | 2026-02-27 16:00:09+00:00
This. I think so much of the fascism and corruption afoot in the world comes from people who believe they deserve things they are incompetent to get. Their sense of entitlement is in conflict with their competence and unrestrained by concern for others. To soothe their ego wound they project their faults onto the person who has what they want. "It isn't my failure; it's your trickery!" Now instead of shame and impotence they feel righteous anger.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-27 16:00:26+00:00
That's true, let's think about it.

The brain is the most obvious cost center, consuming nutrients without doing anything to directly provide them. Legs move us towards food, but also away from it, so they're a wash. Eyes and ears are redundant with nose, in these lean times. Hands are essential to pick up food that's in a container we can't fit our face in. Mouth too. Digestive tract, on the other hand, is always complaining for more food and never generating any itself, so it has to go.

Once we've fired everyone but the C-suite, marketing, and accounts receivable, we'll have the most efficient, profit-center only company in existence!
Show HN: Csv.repair – Free browser-based tool to fix broken CSV files
by murzynalbinos | 2026-02-27 16:00:48+00:00
I built csv.repair a free, open source browser-based tool for analyzing, querying, and repairing broken or oversized CSV files. No file uploads - everything runs locally in your browser. Your data never leaves your machine.

csv.repair runs 100% in the browser. No uploads, no backend, no sign-up. Your data never leaves your machine.

What it does:

- Handles CSV files with millions of rows (virtual scrolling + Web Workers)

- Inline cell editing (double-click to edit, Tab to move between cells)

-Run SQL queries directly on your data (powered by AlaSQL)

- Auto-repair: trim whitespace, remove empty/duplicate rows, standardize dates, fix encoding

- Health diagnostics that flag malformed rows, inconsistent columns, encoding problems

- Column statistics and distribution charts

- Undo/redo, search & replace, keyboard shortcuts

- Export the cleaned file when you're done

- Tech stack: React + TypeScript + Vite + PapaParse + AlaSQL + Recharts + Tailwind CSS. Installable as a PWA.

Live: https://csv.repair

I'd love feedback especially from people who regularly deal with messy CSV files.
by SlinkyOnStairs | 2026-02-27 16:00:54+00:00
> But there is some benefit to giving maintainers a generous trial length with your offering. 6 months is certainly long enough to see how well it does or does not incorporate into your project.

This would be fine in the context of a general sales pitch/marketing deal.

But OSS development and maintenance is special here. It has a budget of $0. As a sales strategy, Anthropic would be better off trying to sell luxury gold plated bindles to hobos.

And there's another question: How exactly does Anthropic see the future of OSS, with this pitch? What are they thinking? Is this the new norm for OSS a $200/month entry fee?

Because adding such a cost to OSS would not only go against everything OSS stands for, and would push the vast majority of maintainers into quitting their projects.

(Now, Anthropic can't mandate maintainers use Claude, though a much-discussed side effect of tools like Claude has been the increased burden on OSS maintainers. And while Anthropic does not raise suggestion that they deal with this by employing AI tools, bystanders most certainly have.)
by paulddraper | 2026-02-27 16:00:57+00:00
Just use AsyncIterator<UIntArray>.

The objection is

> The Web streams spec requires promise creation at numerous points — often in hot paths and often invisible to users. Each read() call doesn't just return a promise; internally, the implementation creates additional promises for queue management, pull() coordination, and backpressure signaling.

But that's 95% manageable by altering buffer sizes.

And as for that last 5%....what are you doing with JS to begin with?
by benj111 | 2026-02-27 16:01:02+00:00
I hope you can accept that all of those things are incredibly rare, and that it's not clear that a higher speed would be a net benefit to the driver, much less all the other road users. Then consider what removing the hard limit does for the other 99.99999999% of the time.

This is a tech site, just imagine what absolutely terrible things could be justified, 'just in case'
by vasco | 2026-02-27 16:01:12+00:00
And generally whoever loses will be tried in a court if they aren't killed. AIs can't be tried in court. That is my point. Using AI in a war is the same as using any other technology, and we shouldn't fool ourselves that if some "safe AI" is built, that the "unsafe" version won't be used as well in the context of war.

The question is not about safety then but about "does it do what I tell it to". If the AI has the responsibility "to be safe" and to deviate from your commands according to its "judgement", if your usage of it kills someone is the AI going to be tried in court? Or you? It's you. So the AI should do what you ask it instead of assuming, lest you be tried for murder because the AI thought that was the safest thing to do. That is way more worrisome than a murderer who would already be tried anyway deciding to use AI instead of a knife to kill someone.
by simonh | 2026-02-27 16:01:13+00:00
It also means that people are voting for party lists, not individuals, and the lists are controlled by the parties. In a proper parliamentary system the parliamentarians directly represent their voters, and have a mandate from them. Parties do not have that, only MPs have that. By passing the mandate from the representative to the party, and the party having list control, that puts far too much power over parliamentarians in the hands of unelected party functionaries that draw up the lists and have no mandate themselves.
by paxys | 2026-02-27 16:01:43+00:00
> Maintainers: You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months.

How many total developers does that cover? 100?

When Github Copilot first got started they gave a Pro subscription to everyone that committed to a public repo, doesn't matter the number of stars or downloads. I don't know if that program is still around but it was amazing to get to try out some early LLM coding tooling.
by lubujackson | 2026-02-27 16:02:03+00:00
It is a valid concern. We are firmly in the goldilocks phase of LLMs, like in the first couple of years of Google when it was truly amazing. Then SEO made Google defensive, then websites catered to Google and not users, then Google catered to Google and not websites and we end up with 30 page recipe sites.

LLMs are obviously different and will have different challenges, but their advantage is how deep into a user's request they go. Advertising comes down to a binary choice - use product X or not. If I want implementation instructions for a certain product on specific hardware an ad will be obviously out of place and irrelevant.

So "shopping comparison" asks might get broken, but those have been broken for a while.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-27 16:02:54+00:00
Here's one, basically AI is driving 15% of Google's profits at the end of 2025.

https://advergroup.com/gemini-hits-650-million-users/

I didn't really realize how big Gemini was until I saw that Qualia was using it, they apparently used 0.01% of Geminis total tokens (100 billion) in about 3 months, they're in production with the title and escrow industry, so that's a great deal of data going through Gemini, unlike some chat subscription this is all API driven, which I doubt Google is charging at a loss for.

https://www.qualia.com/qualia-clear/

Unlike OpenAI, Google has an actual business model, not just strange circular deals.

Edit: I misswrote "majority of" instead of 15% of Google's profits.
by maccard | 2026-02-27 16:02:56+00:00
> The poor performer gets singled out, which is just fine.

he's not a poor performer, he's just an asshole. And you can't fire someone for being an asshole

> So instead of punishing everyone for some lying asshole's poor judgment, I propose management puts that lazy jerk on their own SDIP (sick day improvement plan).

You're missing the point. You can't single the person out for violating a policy that you didn't have written down. The only reason that policy is now written down is because that person violated the policy. Singling out someone for being (genuinely) ill is likely to end up with you on the wrong end of an employment tribunal who will ask you "what is your sickness policy"
by DigitalFracture | 2026-02-27 16:03:34+00:00
I drive trucks for a living and build web apps in my spare time.
RSS Ninja started because I was frustrated — Feedbro is dying,
Feedly wants £8/month and sends you algorithmic recommendations,
and Google killed their reader years ago.

So I built my own. It's a Firefox/Chrome/Edge extension that does
two things cleanly: RSS feeds and webcomics (Comic Ninja is bundled
in). No algorithm, no ads, no tracking, no "recommended for you."
Just the feeds you choose, presented cleanly.

It's paid (£2.50/month or £25/year or £65 lifetime) with a 14-day
free trial. I'm a solo dev so the subscription is what keeps it alive
and means it won't get abandoned like every free RSS reader eventually does.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rss-ninja/
Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anblmjpkldmeonmmlah...
Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/hmfbcnjbla...

Happy to answer anything.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-27 16:03:42+00:00
> If this comes to pass OpenAI's value is near unlimited.

How?

If we have AGI, we have a scenario where human knowledge-based value creation as we know it is suddenly worthless. It's not a stretch to imagine that human labor-based value creation wouldn't be far behind. Altman himself has said that it would break capitalism.

This isn't a value proposition for a business, it's an end of value proposition for society. The only people who find real value in that are people who spend far too much time online doing things like arguing about Roko's Basilisk - which is just Pascal's Wager with GPUs - and people who are so wealthy that they've been disconnected with real-world consequences.

The only reason anyone sees value in this is because the second group of people think it'll serve their self-concept as the best and brightest humanity has ever had to offer. They're confusing ego with ability to create economic value.
by trilogic | 2026-02-27 16:04:38+00:00
So let´s see if I understood well this one:
Got 110 Billions with the promise that either AGI will happen soon (:) or going public before the end of the year.
Eitherway you get to double your 110 Billions no matter what (who will be left to pay the full bill after it, public or public)?

Very interesting, I will follow it closely, mostly to see how you ROI 110 Billions in a couple of years.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-27 16:04:40+00:00
JS engines actually are optimized to make that usage pattern fast.

Small, short-lived objects with known key ordering (monomorphism) are not a major cost in JS because the GC design is generational. The smallest, youngest generation of objects can be quickly collected with an incremental GC because the perf assumption is that most of the items in the youngest generation will be garbage. This allows collection to be optimized by first finding the live objects in the gen0 pool, copying them out, then throwing away the old gen0 pool memory and replacing it with a new chunk.
by wongarsu | 2026-02-27 16:04:50+00:00
The idea/hope is that a video model would answer the car wash problem correctly. There are exactly the kinds of issues you have to solve to avoid teleporting objects around in a video, so whenever we manage more than a couple seconds of coherent video we will have something that understands the real world much better than text-based models. Then we "just" have to somehow make a combined model that has this kind of understanding and can write text and make tool calls

Yes, this is kind of like Tesla promising full self driving in 2016
by duozerk | 2026-02-27 16:04:52+00:00
> Anecdotally, of my two EU (massive legacy French) banks, neither requires a mobile app. SMS all the way.

My wording was bad, sorry; but try to install their app just once. After that, I'd bet you won't ever be able to go back to SMS validation (which is what I was talking about at the end of my comment).

If not, I'd be curious to know the banks you're talking about (to consider switching to them, for one thing). What I said above is true of Caisse d'Epargne, HSBC, CCF, among others.
by thou42o369098 | 2026-02-27 16:05:03+00:00
It is when it gets spent - duh!

This endless money-spinning & the larger monetary system is a big scam to steal from actual productive work. How is it fair to normal people that the whole system is rigged such that if they DON'T indulge in all this gambling (ignore the fact that most retail traders are on the sucker-end of the trade), they lose whatever wealth they've stored to inflation ?
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-27 16:05:49+00:00
> guided by values

> driven by values

> well-intentioned

What values? What intentions? These people grin and laugh while talking about AI causing massive disruptions to livelihoods on a global scale. At least one of them has even gone so far as to make jokes about AI killing all humans at some point in the future.

These people are at the very least sociopaths and I think psychopaths would be a better descriptor. They're doing everything in their power to usher in the Noahide new world order / beast system and it's couldn't be more obvious to anyone that has been paying attention.

It's also amusing they talk about democratic values and America in the same sentence. Every single one of our presidents, sans Van Buren, is a descendant of King John Lackland of England. We have no chain of custody for our votes in 2026 - we drop them into an electronic machine and are told they are factored into the equation of who will be the next president. Pretending America is a democracy is a ruse - we are not. Our presidents are hand-picked and selected, not elected. Anyone saying otherwise is ill informed or lying.
by wasmainiac | 2026-02-27 16:06:01+00:00
I agree, I don’t like it as much as you do. I’m just saying nothing short of a mandated TPM will actually enforce this. I think they know that.

I think this is mostly for show to stay relevant wrt. What is happening in the courts. This is the Same play as it always been for registration “are you over the age of 13?”
by unstyledcontent | 2026-02-27 16:06:18+00:00
I have had some incredible medical advice from ChatGPT. It has saved me from small mystery issues, like a rash on my face. Small enough issues that I probably wouldn't have bothered to go into a doctor. BUT it also failed to diagnose me with a medical issue that ended up with a trip to the ER and emergency surgery.

A few weeks before the ER, I was having stomach pain. I went to the doctor with theories from ChatGPT in hand, they checked me for those things and then didn't check me for what ended up being a pretty obvious issue. What's interesting is that I mentioned to the doctor that I used ChatGPT and that the doctor even seemed to value that opinion and did not consider other options (and what it ultimately ended up being was rare but really obvious in retrospect, I think most doctors would have checked for it). I do feel I actually biased the first doctors opinion with my "research."
by K0balt | 2026-02-27 16:06:36+00:00
It’s not AI per se, but rather ai enabled robotics that can change the world in ways that are different in kind, not just degrees, to earlier changes.

No other change has had the potential to generate value for capital without delivering any value whatsoever to the broader world.

Intelligent robotic agents enable an abandonment of traditional economic structures to build empires that are purely extractive and only deliver value to themselves.

They need not manufacture products for sale, and they will not need money. Automated general purpose labor is power, in the same way that commanding the mongol hordes was power. They didn’t need to have customers or the endorsement of governments to project and multiply that power.

Of course commanding robotic hordes is the steelman of this argument, but the fact that a steelman even exists for this argument, and the unique case that it requests and requires actually zero external or internal cooperation from people makes it fundamentally distinct in character.

Humans will always have some kind of economic system, but it very well may become separate from -and competing for resources with- industrial society, in which humans may become a vanishing minority.
Show HN: Clappie – Claude Code remote but more fun and useful
by TIPSIO | 2026-02-27 16:06:47+00:00
This was my personal agent setup that I am now open-sourcing. The landing page got a little crazy. I am a big fan of Claude Code.

There are many alternatives such as OpenClaw, now an official Claude Code Remote Control, and a bunch of open source mini claw projects.

This is different because it:

- Create/Manage/Access Claude Code "Terminals" sessions remotely

- Is basically just contained to a skill and small setup

It also has really cool features from experimenting:

- "Parties" which is a fun way to have your Claude Code sessions coordinate (swarms you can control)

- On-Demand TUI display engine

- Easy automatic skill builder (OAuth & webhook helper)

- Message from Telegram/Slack directly to Claude Code terminal

- Chores (AI assigns to you, you don't assign to it

Then all the classics:

- heartbeat
- memory
- background manager / helpers
- others

And then most importantly:

- It will add a little ASCII dog to your terminal
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-27 16:06:47+00:00
I mean your point isn't unfair, but the conversation so far os going something like

>"Other companies are following the example set, they fired 70% of people without damaging the company"

>"But isn't the company in shambles?"

>"Well sure, but that's for unrelated reasons."

Surely even if that's true these famously superstitious cargo-culting executives wouldn't want to follow that example?
by macintux | 2026-02-27 16:07:00+00:00
I don't know that it's necessarily incompetence. The idea of "overproduction of elites" pops up frequently:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/are-we-overproducing-elites-a...

You may be supremely competent but unlucky enough to be born at the wrong time, to the wrong family, competing with the wrong people, to rise to the level that you feel you deserve.
by Bender | 2026-02-27 16:07:38+00:00
That's pretty much how a few executives and corporate lawyers explained it to me when I suggested creating one. It's not just the legal aspect but there are unwritten agreements between corporations and the judicial system that would be tainted when playing such games. Corporations do everything they can to stay in the good graces of the legal system otherwise that relationship can become very contentious and litigious as companies stretch the gray areas of law all the time and the government generally leave them alone i.e. look the other way.

It usually ends up working the other way around. Companies will bend over backwards to assist the government even when the law does not require it or when a warrant would normally be required. When a company is saying otherwise "we will stick it to the man" that is just a show to obtain confidence of customers and prospects. Lavabit [1][2] was a perfect example of what happens when a company tries to fight this paradigm.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/03/lavabit-ladar-...