MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ch4s3 | 2026-02-19 16:48:51+00:00
I went through school in the 90s and was 100% not taught any method involving phonics or sounding out words. None of the kids whose parents didn't read to them could read well by 3rd or 4th grade.

Moreover it is factual that universities instructing teachers were for decades only teaching the whole language approach. Implementation varied state to state, but you can literally look at curriculum material used in various states over time and see the shift.

The problem was in fact the reverse of what you're claiming, whole language was brought in by consultants selling a curriculum. This is also easily confirmed.

I also know some teachers, but that's just anecdote and fairly parochial.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-19 16:49:00+00:00
> If they want to run an MRT line under your house, and they need to tear your house down to get to it, they will force you to sell your house and your land to them.

Eminent domain exists in the U.S. and other developed countries too. The point of it is largely to prevent any single owner from "holding up" a non-trivial project like an MRT line.
by jdc0589 | 2026-02-19 16:49:08+00:00
I use it as my main platform right now both for work/swe stuff, and person stuff. It works pretty well, they have the full suite of tools I want from general LLM chat, to notebookLM, to antigravity.

My main use-cases outside of SWE generally involve the ability to compare detailed product specs and come up with answers/comparisons/etc... Gemini does really well for that, probably because of the deeper google search index integration.

Also I got a year of pro for free with my phone....so thats a big part.
by jug | 2026-02-19 16:49:13+00:00
I personally use it as my general purpose and coding model. It's good enough for my coding tasks most of the time, has very good and rapid web search grounding that makes the Google index almost feel like part of its training set, and Google has a family sharing plan with individual quotas for Google AI Pro at $20/month for 5 users which also includes 2 TB in the cloud. Family sharing is a unique feature for Gemini 3 Flash Thinking (300 prompts per day and user) & Pro (100 prompts per day and user).
Show HN: ClawShell, Process-Level Isolation for OpenClaw Credentials
by guanlan | 2026-02-19 16:49:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been using OpenClaw daily since it dropped in November. I love the agency it provides, but as I started giving it more production API keys and access to my local filesystem, I realized the threat model was essentially "hope-based."

We ran an experiment to see how resilient a standard OpenClaw setup was to prompt injection. Within 2 mins, we were able to exfiltrate active session tokens and API credentials through the chat interface.

The problem is fundamental: in most agent architectures, the LLM logic and the sensitive credentials live in the same process space. If the agent is tricked, the attacker has everything.

We built and open-sourced a project called ClawShell to move the security boundary from the "prompt" to the "system runtime."

How it works: ClawShell acts as a privileged protection layer. It isolates sensitive operations into a separate process enforced by the OS. The secrets never enter the agent’s memory or process space. When the agent needs to perform an action, it sends a request to the ClawShell wrapper, which validates the intent and executes the call using the protected keys.

If the agent is hijacked via prompt injection, the attacker gets a scoped identifier that contains zero credentials and no lateral access to the sensitive environment.

Key Technical Details:
* Structural Boundaries: We assume the LLM is untrusted. Isolation is handled at the OS level, not via "system prompts."
* Zero-Trust Tooling: The agent triggers the tool, but the tool execution is handled by a separate, restricted process.
* Compatibility: It’s designed to be a drop-in wrapper for existing OpenClaw instances.

We’re launching v0.1 today. I’m curious to hear how others are thinking about the "Lethal Trifecta" (Data + Action + Communication) in the agent space. Is anyone else looking at Sanboxing for this, or is OS-level isolation the right path?
by Zobat | 2026-02-19 16:49:27+00:00
I fully admit that I only skimmed the abstract, but was reminded of an article in Wired about Sergey Brin and his "search for a parkinsson cure".

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/ff-sergeys-search/

He went backwards and started with just collecting an absurd amount of data. Later while talking to a researcher he could confirm years of research with a "simple" search in his database.
by yndoendo | 2026-02-19 16:49:49+00:00
I was talking to an applications engineer one night at the bar in a restaurant. The company he works for makes equipment for mass producing the large armament shell cylinders. One of the clients that bought their equipment was a missile manufacturer. He went on site and found the machine had incorrect tolerance and was producing deformed products. They also lied about the thickness of the material they planed on using. Finally when the DOD general asked him point blank, "Will this help us produce X missiles a year?" he said no and why. Turns out the contractor directly lied about their capability and yet retained the contact because they are one of the few companies that produces missiles. He never got a call back from the company because they wanted him to lie to the general.

This is the actual waste that needs to be looked before the checks are even signed. No way in hell DOGE or anyone in the current administration will actually look at bad spending. Specially now this administration likes the name Department of War. These are the same companies that bribe ... I mean donate to politicians to retain this corrupt funding.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-19 16:49:50+00:00
It's an excellent demonstration of the main issue I have with the Gemini family of models, they always go "above and beyond" to do a lot of stuff, even if I explicitly prompt against it. In this case, most of the SVG ends up consisting not just of a bike and a pelican, but clouds, a sun, a hat on the pelican and so much more.

Exactly the same thing happens when you code, it's almost impossible to get Gemini to not do "helpful" drive-by-refactors, and it keeps adding code comments no matter what I say. Very frustrating experience overall.
by hunta2097 | 2026-02-19 16:49:56+00:00
I use the Gemini web interface just as I would ChatGPT. They also have coding environment analogues of Claude-Code in Anti-gravity and Gemini-CLI.

When you sign up for the pro tier you also get 2TB of storage, Gemini for workspace and Nest Camera history.

If you're in the Google sphere it offers good value for money.
by dinosor | 2026-02-19 16:49:58+00:00
I find gemini to be the best at travel planning and for story telling of geographical places. For a road trip, I tried all three mainstream providers and I liked Gemini (also personal preference because Gemini took a verbose approach instead of bullet points from others) for it's responses, ways it discovered stories about places I wanted to explore, places it suggested for me and things it gave me to consider those places in the route.
by imachine1980_ | 2026-02-19 16:50:08+00:00
if 100% of the money they spend is in inference priced by tokens (they don't say about subscriptions so i asume they lost money), yes they make money, but their expenses are way higher than inference alone.
so they can make the gpu cost if they sell tokens but in reality this isnt the case, becouse they have to constaly train new models, subscription marketing, R&D, And overhead.
antropic in general lost way less money than their competitors
i will take this number in particular the projected break even but googling say
Gross margin in this case is how much money they do whit the GPU
"
Gross Margins: Projected to swing from negative 94% last year to as much as 50% this year, and 77% by 2028.
Projected Break-even: The company expects to be cash flow positive by 2027 or 2028. "

i will not be as bullish to say they will no colapse (0 idear how much real debt and commitments they have, if after the bubble pop spending fall shraply, or a new deepseek moment) but this sound like good trajectory (all things considered) i heavily doubt the 380 billions in valuation

"this is how much is spendeed in developers
between $659 billion and $737 billion. The United States is the largest driver of this spending, accounting for more than half of the global total ($368.5 billion in 2024)"
so is like saying that a 2% of all salaries of developers in the world will be absorbed as profit whit the current 33.3 ratio, quite high giving the amount of risk of the company.
by gynvael | 2026-02-19 16:50:33+00:00
You're right.

In general when selecting articles we assume that the reader is an expert in some field(s), but not necessarily in the field covered by this article. As such, things which are simple for an expert in the specific domain, can still be surprisingly to learn for folks who aren't experts in that domain.

What I'm saying is, that we don't try to be a cutting edge scientific journal — rather than that, we publish even the smallest trick that we decide someone may not know about and find it fun/interesting to learn.

The consequence of that is that, yeah, some article have a bit clickbaity titles for some of the readers.

On the flip side, as we know from meme-t-shirts, there are only 2 things hard in computer science, and naming is first on the list ;)

P.S. Sounds like you should write some cool article btw :)
by anthonypasq | 2026-02-19 16:50:42+00:00
yeah, it seems to me like Gemini is a little behind on the current RL patterns and also they dont seem interested in really creating a dedicated coding model. I think they have so much product surface (search, AI mode, gmail, youtube, chrome etc), they are prioritizing making the model very general. but who knows im just talking out of my ass.
by InkCanon | 2026-02-19 16:50:53+00:00
I think they all output that bold lettering, point by point style output. I strongly suspect it's part of a synthetic data pipeline all these AI companies have, and it improves performance. Claude seems to be the least of them, but it will start writing code at the drop of a hat. What annoys me in Gemini is that it has a really strange tendency to come up with weird analogies, especially in Pro mode. You'll be asking it about something like red black trees and it'll say "Red Black Trees (The F1 of Tree Data Structures)".
by munk-a | 2026-02-19 16:51:11+00:00
It would be pleasant to know a bit more about the whole of what was reported. If this system reported 24 potential vulnerabilities of which thirteen were legitimate that's pretty excellent, if it only reported these twelve then that's astounding - but we don't know how many false reports were filtered through either by the OpenSSL team or by the folks running this agent and the primary issue.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-19 16:51:15+00:00
That is the slug that resolves for the thread URL, likely the article has been updated since capture. I will have another snapshot kicked off.

> Blue Owl Loan Sale Raises $1.4 Billion to Fund Investor Payouts (February 18, 2026 at 11:42 PM UTC)

> Blue Owl Halts Redemptions on Private Credit Retail Fund (February 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM CST
Updated on February 19, 2026 at 6:43 AM CST)
by SenHeng | 2026-02-19 16:51:30+00:00
I’ve been fantasising about getting certified as a CPA. People don’t believe me when I say this but my childhood (<14) dream was to be an accountant. I was poor and I enjoyed counting all the coins I saved up (that my dad would eventually borrow to pay the loan sharks) and also watched ducktales a lot.

Having run a business for almost a decade, I’ve accumulated a lot of accounting and tax knowledge that I think would be cool to properly certify. Also it would be to re-live a childhood dream.
by mothballed | 2026-02-19 16:51:37+00:00
CPF makes a moral justification by arguing it is a "savings and pension plan" under the auspices of a moral justification of helping citizens set aside their own money. The very first thing you are greeted with on their website is that it's savings and an overview represents it as "setting aside" your own funds.

The government makes a moral justification of a savings plan but then when we dig down to it it's all ether and really just a scheme for bond rate arbitrage for the government.

The point isn't that might makes right is false, it's that the moral justification is a facade.
by ge96 | 2026-02-19 16:51:53+00:00
> What benefit do police (as an institution) supply

This is one of those bad topics to talk about but to me it seems obvious. If there were no laws to prevent people from stealing, killing each other, you wouldn't have society. Yes you have bicycles/car stolen but I would think it would be a lot worse. I don't agree with that ACAB saying but I think people who haven't lived in a bad place say that. But I also am aware of racism/stereotyping it's funny you mention being white as yeah it's worse for not being white.
by Fricken | 2026-02-19 16:52:01+00:00
Almost a decade ago GM Cruise made a big deal of rolling out in NY and had a garage there for a while, but they never got permission to test/operate their vehicles autonomously and eventually left.

Dozens of cities would happily roll out the red carpet for a robotaxi service but, like Cruise, Waymo doesn't want dozens of other cities they want New York.
by some-guy | 2026-02-19 16:52:09+00:00
I generally agree with you. As a recent father with a toddler, and two parents with a full time job, I’ve found that the only way I can make time for those personal side projects is to use AI to do most of the bootstrapping, and then do the final tweaks on my own. Most of this is around home automation, managing my Linux ISO server, among other things. But it certainly would be more fun and rewarding if I did it all myself.
by hbn | 2026-02-19 16:52:11+00:00
My PC is unfortunately on Windows 11, but I recently purchased StartAllBack which lets you replace the start menu with a Windows 7-era sensible one, and you can even change the Start icon and various chrome in the OS (the task bar, file explorer, etc) to revert back to Windows 7 style. Maybe I'm just nostalgic but it's made Windows 11 so much better.
by waffletower | 2026-02-19 16:52:26+00:00
I have hated Microsoft for decades and am somewhat of an extremist when it comes to avoiding their products. That being said, this piracy shaming headline for a Microsoft research project example, not a product integration, is entirely misleading and hysterical. The lengths that stooges will go to protect copyright monopolies and eradicate fair use is also extreme and should be embarrassing.
by gruez | 2026-02-19 16:52:34+00:00
>The parent contributor has conveniently left out the fact that the 37% of CPF contributions is split 20-17 in terms of employee-employer contributions[1]

This point is a shell game, because the employer's share is still effectively being taken from the employee. It's equivalent of "tariffs are paid by foreigners!" that's trotted out for supporting tariffs.
by yoyohello13 | 2026-02-19 16:52:42+00:00
> Once the above is taken care of though, you can't take it with you (at least in most religions) so spend it. Save enough, but not too much.

I get it to a certain extent, don't live in poverty if you don't have too, but I am a major saver. I rarely buy new things if an old thing is working fine. If I die early at least my family will will be set.

Really the social safety nets in the US are basically non-existent so having a big savings buffer makes me feel a bit safer. Honestly dying early doesn't worry me too much, I'll be dead so doesn't bother me. What does worry me is the economy tanks and all my saving become worthless. Then I would have some regrets...
by alexellisuk | 2026-02-19 16:52:46+00:00
Hi, I'm the author of the article (OpenFaaS founder).

Slicer came about as an internal tool (2022) for rapid customer support where we needed real Linux or Kubernetes clusters, not in a few minutes, but as quickly as possible. It shares a lot of code with actuated (ephemeral, self-hosted CI runners).

It's grown and evolved and gained a Mac version which I mention in the post (with a video demo).

We're seeing fragmentation in the world of sandboxes - both in local or SaaS. We've seen that before with FaaS, and openfaas gave a consolidated UX.

We think slicervm can do the same today.

There are many SaaS and OSS tools in the VM and space. Slicer is a premium experience, that's fast and just works with opinionated defaults and a full Kernel, Ubuntu LTS and systemd.

Free trial available, or individual tier with commercial usage allowed.
by Papazsazsa | 2026-02-19 16:52:56+00:00
USAID is nowhere near the most effective nor the most important source of soft power for the U.S., just a highly visible one.

Besides security guarantees/defense aegis, the heaviest lifters in U.S. soft power projection are structural and cultural forces that operate largely independent of government:

- Dollar hegemony & financial infra

- Cultural exports

- Universities & research

- Private sector (including tech)
by mixel | 2026-02-19 16:53:09+00:00
Google seems to really pull ahead in this AI race. For me personally they offer the best deal and although the software is not quiet there compared to openai or anthropic (in regards to 1. web GUI, 2. agent-cli). I hope they can fix that in the future and I think once Gemini 4 or whatever launches we will see a huge leap again
by genewitch | 2026-02-19 16:53:13+00:00
this comment did it for me today on HN.

That commercial could have been any attractive woman without changing the tone or meaning. it just drives some people crazy that a subset of humans "controls" like half the land on earth but comprises only 7% of the population, therefore everything about or having to do with that subset or the individuals therein is automatically considered "bad."

There were commercials that had jingles "bust a nut, bust a nut, just open up a can and bust a nut. you can do it in the bathroom, you can do it in the kitchen, you can do it with your best friend [...]" nearly 30 years ago. Commercials are generally in poor taste, but some people read way too much into it.
by JanisErdmanis | 2026-02-19 16:53:20+00:00
> It took me days to get that build to work; doing this compilation once in CI so you don't have to do it on every machine is trickier than it sounds in Julia

You may be interested in looking into AppBundle. Apart from the full application packaging it also offers ability to make Julia image bundles. While offering sysimage compilation option it also enables to bundle an application via compiled pkgimages which requires less RAM and is much faster to compile.
Ask HN: Biggest f-ups by your Agent
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-19 16:53:22+00:00
A lot of us are working with or working on AI Agents so it is helpful to know more error scenarios that aren't the obvious -- rm -rf * or git reset.

What sort of irreversible changes/actions Agents have made which cost you a lot of time.

I'm looking for first party reports but you're also welcome to share stories you saw on another network.

Bonus: be productive, what guardrails could've/should've existed to protect you from the situation.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-19 16:53:33+00:00
It's the same principle why India1 doesn't target India2 or India3 - it negatively impacts brand positioning for marginal gain.

That's why you find different companies targeting different subsegments of a market globally.

Additionally, we do live in a globalized world, so a brand that is at the lower rung in one market may try to upscale their value by targeting the upper portion of another market. You see this with Walmart which targets America2 but uses a different strategy to target China1 (Sam's Club China) and India1 (Best Price, Flipkart).

Conversely, a China1 or India1 brand can also try and successfully build market share in America2 and America3 in a manner that an America1 brand wouldn't want to do due to brand prestige implications. This is why you see SHEIN and Temu's popularity amongst America2 and America3 or Wellspun becoming the primary supplier for textile goods for Walmart and TJX.
by starsh2001 | 2026-02-19 16:53:37+00:00
I've been using Claude Code daily, and my biggest frustration was babysitting it. You give it a task, wait for it to finish, then give it the next one. If it asks a permission question, you have to be at your keyboard to respond. You can't really walk away.

So I built qlaude. It's a CLI wrapper that adds two things to Claude Code:

1) A queue system — write prompts in a text file and qlaude feeds them to Claude one by one automatically.

2) Telegram integration — when Claude hits a selection prompt, qlaude sends it to your phone as inline buttons. Tap to respond, Claude continues.

A queue file looks like this:

@model sonnet
Set up Express + TypeScript project

@new
@model opus
Implement CRUD API. Ask me which DB to use.

@new
@model sonnet
Write integration tests

It works by spawning Claude Code in a PTY, maintaining a headless xterm screen buffer, and analyzing the rendered output to detect Claude's state. No API calls, no Claude Code modifications — just a wrapper around the terminal.

Free, open source, MIT licensed. Still in alpha. Would appreciate any feedback.
by btown | 2026-02-19 16:54:06+00:00
Do skills extracted from existing codebases cause better or worse code in that they bias the LLM towards existing bad practices? Or, can they assist in acknowledging these practices, and bias it towards actively ensuring they're fixed in new code? How dependent is this on the prompt used for the skill extraction? Are the skills an improvement over just asking to do this extraction at the start of the task?

Now this dynamic would be a good topic to research!
by usrnm | 2026-02-19 16:54:10+00:00
I guess, the idea is that you cannot target both America1 and America3 with the same product. Take into account that America3 doesn't have a lot of disposable income in the first place, and going after a similar target audience in another country becomes a much more sensible choice than trying to expand into a different audience in your own.

> What's a reason that wouldn't also apply to india2,3?

If I understand correctly, it would also apply to India2-3, that's why nobody's proposing that.
Show HN: Foolery – a web UI for orchestrating Claude Code agents on top of Beads
by therealcartine | 2026-02-19 16:54:28+00:00
I built Foolery because agentic coding was making me feel worse, not better. 12 tmux panes, 7 orphaned worktrees, Claude blowing context on micro-ideas I couldn't stop throwing at it.

Foolery is a local web UI that sits on top of Beads (issue tracker). It gives you:
- Dependency-aware wave planning (decompose work into parallelizable batches)
- Built-in terminal to monitor agent runs live without leaving the app
- Verification queue — every "done" beat flows here for you to approve or reject
- Keyboard-first, no TUI

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acartine/foolery/main/scri... | bash

I also wrote about why I built it: https://thecartine.substack.com/p/foolery-the-app
by shaboinkin | 2026-02-19 16:54:41+00:00
https://youtu.be/NFw7ZifqhTg?si=IujBLjIsaQysNHmp&t=267

4:27

“The time when we conveniently let the United States carry the burden for our security is over. The US is absolutely committed to NATO, but this commitment comes with a clear and long standing expectation, that Europe and Canada take more responsibly for their own security, and I believe that is only fair.”
-Mark Rutte
by sjducb | 2026-02-19 16:55:04+00:00
There used to be county lines drug dealing outside my house.

County lines drug dealing is where organised gangs in London send people out to deal drugs in small towns outside London. It’s obvious because of the race of the people involved.

2 years ago the police did a massive crackdown and the county lines drug dealers disappeared. County lines drug dealers haven’t come back and now there is no obvious public drug dealing in my neighbourhood.

The police do a difficult job and they are fantastic at it.

https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/over-1-800-arrested-wit...