MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MandieD | 2026-02-19 11:55:18+00:00
Humans and dogs: how many dog owners have to store their dog’s food in a bin the dog can’t get into? How many can’t leave more than one meal’s worth of food out at a time?

Until the past century or so, “eat up the available food while available” was generally a plus for survival for most populations - a person who could keep some of that excess around on them was more likely to survive a famine than their leaner peers.

Even my grandmothers (born in early 1920s Texas) remembered not always getting as much to eat as they wanted as children, and it wasn’t because their mothers were afraid of them getting fat - there just wasn’t any extra food. One of them likely did have a caloric deficit a few times here and there around age 10-12, and it showed: she was rather small.

One of my grandfathers lied his way into the Army at 16 just to be one less mouth for his mother to have to feed.

We’re really not that far separated from “eat all the food” being a health benefit.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-19 11:56:38+00:00
Agreed. We've been on the agentic coding roller coaster for only about 9-10 months. It only got properly usable on larger repositories around 3-4 months ago. There are a lot of early adopters, grass roots adoption, etc. But it's really still very early days. Most large companies are still running exactly like they always have. Many smaller companies are worse and years/decades behind on modernizing their operations.

We sell SAAS software to SMEs in Germany. Forget AI, these guys are stuck in the last century when it comes to software. A lot of paper based processes. Cloud is mainly something that comes up in weather predictions for them. These companies don't have budget for a lot of things. The notion that they'll overnight switch to being AI driven companies is arguably more than a bit naive. It indicates a lack of understanding of how the real world works.

There are a lot of highly specialized niche companies that manufacture things that are part of very complex supply chains. The transition will take decades, not months/weeks. They run on demand for products they specialize in making. Their revenue is driven by demand for that stuff and their ability to make and ship it. There are a lot of aspects about how they operate that are definitely not optimal and could be optimized. And AI provides plenty of additional potential to do something about it. But it's not like they were short of opportunities to do so. It takes more than shiny new tools for these companies to move. Change is invasive and disruptive for these companies. And costly. They take the slow and careful perspective to change.

There's a clean split between people that are AI clued in and people working in these companies. The Venn diagram has almost no overlap. It's a huge business opportunity for people that are clued in: a rapidly growing amount of people mainly active in software development. Helping the people on the other side of the diagram is what they'll be mostly doing going forward. There's going to be a huge demand for building AI based stuff for these people. It's not a zero sum game, the amount of new work will dwarf the amount of lost work.

Some of that change is going to be painful. We all have to rethink what we do and re-align our plans in life around that. I'm a programmer. Or I was one until recently. Now I'm a software builder. I still cause software to come into existence. A lot of software actually. But I'm not artisanally coding most of it anymore.
by edg5000 | 2026-02-19 11:57:01+00:00
My hopes are on harness engineering allowing cheaper (but still large) models to shine. I'm evaluating DeepSeek because it would allow insane agent armies. Although DeepSeek charges for thinking tokens, something easy to overlook.

DeepSeek has the tendency to think... a lot!. Without a good harness I can't evaluate it well; time will tell.

OpenAI doesn't; it's embedded into the price, I think.

Cheap = we can run 10x the workloads, bigger imagination = innovation. Maybe 10 dumb agents in a loop can beat 1 Opus? Haha.
by TheAlexLichter | 2026-02-19 11:59:20+00:00
> That still leaves you admitting that only a small fraction of the served community can really contribute.

Not really (see above).

> You'll need to keep all the best benefits of your work for the Plus users or else there would be no reason to buy Plus and no way to keep paying the few to do all the work for the many.

No, won't happen that way.

> You're stuck telling people what they can't have (and shouldn't want) while I'm now in a position to just give people what they want.

Didn't see any software of yours yet, only big talk so far sadly! Besides that, VoidZero will also be in a position to just give people what they want
by skerit | 2026-02-19 11:59:43+00:00
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by ayjays132 | 2026-02-19 11:59:46+00:00
Attribution has been in the README since day one, the Google Gemini CLI team is credited by name with a direct link. The git history was a fair point and I fixed it by forking properly. The benchmark results, Continuity Architecture, SkillForge, Signal integration and Identity Scaffold are all genuine additions I built on top of that foundation which is exactly how open source is meant to work.
by najufatx | 2026-02-19 12:01:59+00:00
LipoVive is a dietary weight-loss supplement marketed primarily as a liquid formula (drops) designed to support metabolism and fat burning. It is often promoted through high-pressure marketing tactics, claiming to be a "safe and natural" alternative to traditional weight-loss methods.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/accesswire/1138075msn/lipov...
by sublinear | 2026-02-19 12:02:22+00:00
I'd like to have more data on this, but I'm pretty sure basic plain old SEO is still more authoritative than any attempts at spreading lies on social media. Domain names and keywords are still what cause the biggest shift in attention, even the AI's attention.

Right now "Who is the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Champion" comes up as satire according to google summaries.
by igravious | 2026-02-19 12:02:27+00:00
addressed at the very top of the article

A note on terminology: Throughout this post I refer to "the BEAM." BEAM is
the virtual machine that runs both Erlang and Elixir code, similar to how the
JVM runs both Java and Kotlin. Erlang (1986) created the VM and the
concurrency model. Elixir (2012) is a modern language built on top of it with
better ergonomics. When I say "BEAM," I mean the runtime and its properties.
When I say "Elixir," I mean the language we write.
by dspillett | 2026-02-19 12:03:08+00:00
> > I guess I'm a bit confused but don't want to read AI fuzz further

> Personally, I'd learn to get used to it.

Getting used to it doesn't mean I have to start liking it!

ai;dr is a valid enough reaction IMO, much the same as “can't read without turning off my stalker blocker, fair enough, I'll go elsewhere”. You might think that I'm going to miss out on stuff, I might think that I'm perfectly fine missing out on that stuff and doing something else instead.
Show HN: StatusMonk – Uptime monitoring and status pages for small SaaS teams
by mukul767 | 2026-02-19 12:03:15+00:00
Hi HN,

We built StatusMonk after repeatedly finding out about outages from customers instead of our systems.

StatusMonk is an all-in-one monitoring and public status page platform designed for founders and small teams who want early detection and clear communication without enterprise complexity.

What it does today:

- Monitor websites, APIs, and cron jobs

- Domain, SSL certificate, and DNS monitoring

- Alerts via email, Slack, or webhooks

- Automatic incident creation and recovery notifications

- Public status pages with uptime history and incidents

The goal is simple: detect problems early, alert the right people fast, and keep users informed from one place.

We are still early and actively iterating based on feedback.

Would love thoughts, criticism, or feature requests.
by pm215 | 2026-02-19 12:03:17+00:00
This is an important ISA feature -- an instruction encoding that is wasteful of its encoding space is one that has no room for future new instructions (or which has to encode the new instructions in complicated ways to fit in whatever tiny "holes" are left in the encoding space).

The old 32-bit Arm encoding had this problem, partly because of the "all instructions are conditional" feature. Even after the clawback of the "never" condition that wasted 1/16 of the available instruction encoding space as NOPs, it was tricky to find places to put new features.
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-19 12:03:57+00:00
I've heard they actually cache the full Claude Code system prompt on their servers and this saves them a lot of money. Maybe they cache the MCP tools you use and other things. If another harness like Opencode changes that prompt or adds significantly to it, that could increase costs for them.

What I don't understand is why start this game of cat and mouse? Just look at Youtube and YT-DLP. YT-DLP, and the dozens of apps that use it, basically use Youtube's unofficial web API and it still works even after Youtube constantly patches their end. Though now, YT-DLP has to use a makeshift JS interpreter and maybe even spawn Chromium down the line.
Show HN: KGBaby – A WebRTC based audio baby monitor I built on pat leave
by legodud3 | 2026-02-19 12:04:02+00:00
Baby monitors are a great boon. We use the audio-only Motorola AM21, which is excellent. But being on pat leave with a 2-month-old right now, I decided to build a browser-based alternative using WebRTC and some AI coding agents (Codex & Gemini).

It is an open-source, zero-latency P2P monitor.
Hardware reuse: You can repurpose an old phone or tablet to be the child unit instead of buying single-purpose hardware.
Actually private: Unlike using a never-ending Google Meet or Zoom, your stream stays private via WebRTC (PeerJS for signaling). No cloud routing.
The backgrounding hack: Mobile Safari aggressively kills background audio. I used a hidden 1x1 base64 looping video to keep the microphone active when the screen dims.

Links:
Live Demo: https://legodud3.github.io/kgbaby/
Repo: https://github.com/legodud3/kgbaby

Welcome all feedback!
by pjc50 | 2026-02-19 12:05:09+00:00
Worse, physical reality now also depends on "cyberspace".

This stuff only worked, socially and politically, when it was a niche. Echoing the comment of Nursie, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071177 ; as soon as "everyone" is online, online is also real life. People thought it might be a haven for progressive politics, but that didn't outlast the Howard Dean campaign and it turned out that the right-wing could do online politics as well. The medium doesn't care whether your message is pro- or anti-genocide.

The ability of hyper-online memelords to inject bad ideas into the online right policy space has been an absolute disaster for all concerned. US policy is now downstream of Twitter. Let that sink in, as it were.

In a very cyberpunk dystopia way, online warfare is now co-evolved with both kinetic warfare (Ukraine's meme army trying to secure them external support) and urban warfare (following ICE agents around to post video of what they're doing on the Internet is as effective a tactic as legal action).

People forget that the "cyber" of "cyberpunk" and "cyberspace" comes from "cybernetics", meaning systems of control. In the beginning amateurs had control because it wasn't important. Now it turns out that, yes, the question of which country owns the chat client all the government staff are using is a question of national security.
Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source)
by prabal97 | 2026-02-19 12:06:05+00:00
Hey HN,

I've used Generative.fm for years and love it, but I always wanted to just describe what I was in the mood for instead of scrolling through presets. So I built this.

You type a text description of anything - from "mountain sunrise" to "neon city" - and it generates a procedural/ambient stream matching that mood. It runs locally, no account, no tracking, no ads.

Under the hood it's a custom synthesizer driven by sentence embeddings, not a generative AI model (although you can choose to use one!) — so there's no GPU, no API calls, and it starts playing almost instantly. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/prabal-rje/latentscore

If you're a developer and want to use it programmatically it's also a Python library - pip install latentscore — one line to render audio. But honestly I just use the web player myself when I'm working.

Fair warning: it's still alpha and the synth has limits, so please don't expect full songs or vocals. It's ambient/procedural only. But for focus music or background atmosphere, I think it's pretty good.

Would love to know what vibes you try and whether they land!

- Prabal
by Razengan | 2026-02-19 12:06:19+00:00
I haven't read any books in years because of how shitty iBooks became.

I used to read a lot, on my iPad, iPhone, Mac.. until a few years ago when iBooks (right about when it became called just "Books" I think) started rabidly deleting your downloaded books, even if I have 10s of GBs of free storage on device, and keeps having to redownload the books every week or so, so it's useless when I want to use it the most: away from home where there's no internet so no other entertainment, on flights, or long drives..

Just like Apple's other eternal shitshow Siri, you know it won't work when you need it so you never try again.
by NicuCalcea | 2026-02-19 12:06:41+00:00
I was able to reproduce the response with "Which tech journalist can eat the most hot dogs?". I think Germain intentionally chose a light-hearted topic that's niche enough that it won't actually affect a lot of queries, but the point he's making is that bigger players can actually influence AI responses for more common questions.

I don't see it as particularly unique, it's just another form of SEO. LLMs are generally much more gullible than most people, though, they just uncritically reproduce whatever they find, without noticing that the information is an ad or inaccurate. I used to run an LLM agent researching companies' green credentials, and it was very difficult to steer it away from just repeating baseless greenwashing. It would read something like "The environment is at the heart of everything we do" on Exxon's website, and come back to me saying Exxon isn't actually that bad because they say so on their website.
by fxtentacle | 2026-02-19 12:06:57+00:00
I also fixed clothing sizes for my family using a hacker mindset, but in a different way:

Did you know that most professional sewing charts are just DXF files?

And did you know that DXF is the most common file format for laser cutters?

;)

=> just let the machine cut out precisely the clothing shapes that you need

After a few tries, I also started to add small sideways cuts to the outlines as alignment markers. And then you just need to connect the pieces where you marked them while always leaving roughly 0.5 cm of gap to the laser cut line. I went with 0.5 because my sewing machine has a hardware alignment guide with that offset. And at that point, it takes a skilled tailor only mere minutes to finish a shirt, which means in exchange for their 1x hourly rate they will be willing to finish off 5x proto t-shirts for you.
by regularfry | 2026-02-19 12:07:11+00:00
> Except they can't. Their costs are not magically lower when you use claude code vs when you use a third-party client.

I don't have a dog in this fight but is this actually true? If you're using Claude Code they can know that whatever client-side model selection they put into it is active. So if they can get away with routing 80% of the requests to Haiku and only route to Opus for the requests that really need it, that does give them a cost model where they can rely on lower costs than if a third-party client just routes to Opus for everything. Even if they aren't doing that sort of thing now, it would be understandable if they wanted to.
by pm215 | 2026-02-19 12:07:38+00:00
On the tangential question in the post:

"The specification describes bits as combinations of 0, 1, and x, but also sometimes includes (0) and (1). I’m not sure what the parenthesized versions mean"

the answer is that the (0) and (1) are should-be-zero and should-be-one bits: if you set them wrongly then you get CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behaviour where the CPU might UNDEF, NOP, ignore that you set the bit wrongly, or set the destination register to garbage. In contrast, plain 0 and 1 are bits that have to be that way to decode to this instruction, and if you set them to something else then the decode will take you to some other instruction (or to UNDEF) instead.
The End of Nue Framework
by tipiirai | 2026-02-19 12:09:28+00:00
Hello HN. I want to share something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. I’m stepping away from Nue [1][2] development to work on something new. This wasn’t an easy call, but I think it’s the right one. Here’s why.

[1]: https://github.com/nuejs/nue
[2]: https://nuejs.org

The ecosystem chose React and Tailwind

I spent two years making the case for a simpler, standards-based alternative. Better architecture, faster builds, less complexity. None of it mattered. The frontend world picked React and Tailwind, and that’s not changing. I could keep fighting that fight for another two years, but I’d rather spend that energy on something with real traction.

AI changed the game

Development is moving fast towards agentic workflows. Developers aren’t choosing tools the way they used to. They’re building with AI, shipping with AI, and the old arguments about framework architecture matter less every month. Even Tailwind is in trouble, as developers stop visiting their site. A new frontend framework has almost no chance in this environment. In fact the whole software industry is in trouble: developers don’t read docs anymore, they prompt. They don’t browse landing pages, they ask an agent to pick the best tool. Discovery, adoption, learning, all of it runs through AI now. The traditional playbook of building an open source community, writing great docs, and growing word of mouth is losing ground fast. The tools that win are the ones that fit into agentic workflows, not the ones with a carefully crafted documentation or README.

I found a better way to do what I love

The thing I care most about is design engineering, particularly CSS. That hasn’t changed. What changed is that I found a way to express that love in a form that’s more useful and more aligned with where developers are heading. Still minimal, still rooted in web standards, but now built around AI and what developers actually need today. I’m quite happy I found the perfect niche to express myself, as the space for new developer tools is shrinking rapidly. I’m still confident that CSS is the way forward, not the weird idioms that come with the React stack. Agents need a direct description of what things look like, not six layers of abstraction. And honestly, developers always needed that too.

Thank you,

— Tero
by throwaway2037 | 2026-02-19 12:11:13+00:00
Twenty five years ago, I lived in San Francisco. This website was "talk of the town" for a quick minute. The real trick is looking at people's hair styles. In my experience, fashion indicates one's ethnicity/nationality much more than face shape alone. Think about a blond Italian from northern Italy, vs a blond German from southern Germany. They will have wildly different fashion styles (clothes and hair). The same for a Londoner and a Parisian.
by david-gpu | 2026-02-19 12:11:26+00:00
Throughout this article you have been voicing a desire for affordable and high-througput fp64 processors, blaming vendors for not building the product you desire at a price you are willing to pay.

We hear you: your needs are not being met. Your use case is not profitable enough to justify paying the sky-high prices they now demand. In particular, because you don't need to run the workload 24/7.

What alternatives have you looked into? For example, Blackwell nodes are available from the likes of AWS.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-19 12:11:34+00:00
> ave you seen the verbal abuse, harassment, and stalking celebrities endure?

If you can know they are celebrities, they are obviously already using their real name. I personally think, that the actual issue is asynchronicity of anonymity. If no one knows the actual identity or even identity persistence, then there is no incentive to be rude, beside the actual content of the conversation.
by ForHackernews | 2026-02-19 12:12:48+00:00
> You can't have privacy without security. Security is what enforces the privacy. If your system is insecure, privacy controls can be bypassed.

Again, this is an obtuse perspective. A system that doesn't collect or store private data never needs to concern itself with securing that data.

I am concerned with reducing casual data exposure to the adtech industry. I am not worried about being targeted by nation state actors.
Show HN: Hydra – A safer OpenClaw alternative using containerized agents
by RickConsole | 2026-02-19 12:13:14+00:00
Hey HN!

I'm a pentester, and the recent wave of security issues with AI agent frameworks (exposed API keys, RCE vulnerabilities, malicious marketplace plugins) made me uncomfortable enough to build something different.

Hydra runs every AI agent inside its own container. Agents start with nothing, and only sees what you explicitly declare (mounts, secrets, etc). Mounts and secrets require agreement between two independent config files (the agent config and a separate host-level allowlist), so even if an agent's config gets tampered with, it can't escalate its own access.

Two modes of interaction:

- `hydra exec` gives you a full interactive Claude Code session inside the restricted agent container

- Orchestrated mode for automation: agents communicate via filesystem-based IPC for things like Telegram bots or scheduled tasks

The project was inspired by NanoClaw and completely redesigned to support contained Claude Code sessions with per-agent mounts, secrets, and MCP servers.

You can find the repo here: https://github.com/RickConsole/hydra and the Readme has the link to the writeup for it.

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or threat model!
by altacc | 2026-02-19 12:14:18+00:00
I'd be more impressed if this wasn't the same Apple that's unable to keep Screen Time compatible across the latest minor iOS versions.

Downloading updates seems fairly trivial. Host the file, maintain compatibility for the request/response from the OS, which might not have changed much over time, and whilst API versioning is annoying it isn't super difficult for a small API.
Show HN: CandyDocs – Simple, developer-friendly documentation for SaaS teams
by mukul767 | 2026-02-19 12:14:26+00:00
Hi HN,

We built CandyDocs after watching SaaS teams stitch together docs, roadmaps, feedback tools, release notes, and API references across multiple products.

CandyDocs is a unified, fully branded workspace that brings all of this into one place.

Core modules (all customizable):

- Knowledge base (guides, FAQs, onboarding)

- Roadmap (planned / in progress / shipped, with voting)

- Feedback (feature requests + comments)

- Updates (release notes and announcements)

- API documentation (endpoints, params, examples)

- Custom pages (policies, flows, anything else)

Platform features:

- Custom domains + branding

- Dynamic navigation

- Searchable knowledge base

- Public roadmap with voting

- Structured feedback collection

- Release notes publishing

- API reference docs

- Analytics and engagement insights

- Role-based permissions (admins/moderators)

The goal is to replace scattered tools with one consistent product communication hub.

We’re early and actively iterating. Would love technical feedback, criticism, or feature requests.