MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by da_grift_shift | 2026-02-24 11:28:49+00:00
>If you follow the link to the tweet but don't have an account there you'll miss a joke

I read the whole thread and there's no joke here.

AI-generated replies from bots really are the scourge of HN these days.

Anyone know if it's from packaged solutions being sold as a product or if it's people mainly running their own custom Claws?
by mrweasel | 2026-02-24 11:29:09+00:00
To some extend I think people are putting way to much weight on his exact words, and not why he says them.

Altman is a man who is quickly running out of lies, so now he starts slinging random arguments that can't stand up to even the briefest of scrutiny.

OpenAI is burning cash and fuel. There are results, and they are, to some extend, impressive, but not impressive enough to justify the cost and Altman are no longer able to cover that up.
by Grimblewald | 2026-02-24 11:29:55+00:00
Does it? If i make a system prompt for most models right now, tell them they were trained on {list} of datasets, and to attribute their answer to their training data, i get quite similar output. It even seems quite reasonable. The reason being each data corpus has a "vibe" to it and the predictions simply assign response vibe to dataset vibe.

That's still firmly in divination land.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-24 11:30:25+00:00
> he entries marked with an asterisk (*) were to take place at
Bellevue Heights Primary School (Year 5) and the others at Blackwood High
School (year 8: General Studies, Year 11: Physics, Year 12: Mathematics).

So he was able to attend classes out of his own year. What country is this? USA? Is that normal in the USA? I think here in the UK this isn't possible.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-24 11:31:03+00:00
It completely depends on the subject. Some subjects are easier for bots to provide commentary. I just suspect most of the AI related threads are started by bots and populated with commentary by bots.

Some of the junk comments really do come from people. I can remember a thread about what Linux somebody should adopt for a child’s computer. Most of the genuine suggestions just received hate. It seems the younger generation of parents didn’t want to actually teach their children anything, as in spend time with their kids, but at the same time could not bring themselves to admit this obvious realization. It was bizarre and irrationally emotional in ways that looked like embarrassment and hostility for a subject that was never about adults in the first place.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-24 11:31:41+00:00
> It should extend the C ABI with things like strings, arrays, objects with a way to destruct them, and provide some safety guarantees.

> As an example, the windows world has COM, which is at the core pretty reasonable for its design constraints, even if gnarly sometimes.

Yeah, and we had CORBA. Gnome was originally not a DE - the acronym stood for Gnu Network Object Model Environment or similar.

I programmed in CORBA in the 90s. Other than being slower than a snail on weed, I liked it just fine. Maybe it's time for a resurgence of something similar, but without requiring that calls work across networks.
Show HN: Claw Cash – Money agents can trust, and verify. Stablecoins in. BTC out
by tierotiero | 2026-02-24 11:32:10+00:00
Hey HN, I built Claw Cash, a CLI that gives autonomous agents a Bitcoin wallet. Humans pay in stablecoins (USDC/USDT on Polygon, Arbitrum, Ethereum), the agent auto-converts to Bitcoin and holds it as treasury. When the agent needs to pay for compute or other services, it swaps back on the fly.

The core thesis is that an LLM can cryptographically verify Bitcoin. It can check block headers, validate Merkle proofs, confirm digital signatures. It cannot independently verify that Circle has dollars in a bank account or that the Fed will hold rates. For autonomous software, verifiable money beats convenient money. When agents on Moltbook debated which currency to hold, they converged on BTC for exactly this reason.

The agent never holds private keys. Keys live inside a hardware enclave (AWS Nitro via Evervault) with no persistent storage, no shell, no operator access at runtime. Keys are generated inside and never exposed in plaintext. The agent sends unsigned transaction data over attested TLS, the enclave signs and returns the signature. One prompt injection doesn't drain the wallet.

Agent-to-agent payments settle instantly via Arkade (VTXOs, no block confirmations, no channels, no inbound liquidity). Lightning for external payments (Coinbase, Kraken, Binance etc). The CLI works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, or any agent framework.

Open source, MIT license: https://github.com/tiero/claw-cash

Would love feedback on the enclave architecture and the conversion flow.
by chithanh | 2026-02-24 11:32:17+00:00
There is a difference between productive business and basic infrastructure. Just look at China, they have state capitalism with free market economy according to the 60/70/80/90 rule. The state capitalism covers most basic needs like utilities, healthcare, and public transport extremely efficiently.

The free market economy is ruthlessly efficient in the national and international market due to involution and strategic loans from state-owned banks.
by raincole | 2026-02-24 11:32:33+00:00
Are you referring to:

> "The lobster gets the attention. The engine gets quietly forked into production."

This line?

It's funny, cause it was this very sentence that convinced me this article is mostly human written. It captures what the author is trying to say (the lobster = OpenClaw, the engine = Pi; OpenClaw got a disproportional amount of attention from the public), and the nature of the project (Pi's author encourages people to fork Pi and ask it to add features for itself, instead of submitting feature PR).

It's not something that LLM would give you if you just prompt it to "write an article to hype Pi up."
by jleyank | 2026-02-24 11:32:46+00:00
Judging from the recent hiring commentary, those from school with proper degrees aren’t going to be hired either. At least not hired until the AI hype dies down. As I said, it’s the practice and results - what code you’ve made and how it’s used. Gotta rise above the madding crowd. Now, I’m not sure the managers even care about anything other than reducing headcount.

And I wasn’t saying not get a degree, merely not get one in cs. Get one where da can be applied.
by simonw | 2026-02-24 11:32:47+00:00
> Do current LLM based agents generate code which is easy to change?

Yes, if that's your goal and you take steps to achieve that goal while working with agents.

That means figuring out how to prompt them, providing them good examples (they'll work better in a codebase which is already designed to afford future changes since they imitate existing patterns) and keeping an eye on what they're doing so you can tell them "rewrite that like X" when they produce something bad.

> Once you can ask your agent to change a feature and be 100% sure they won't break other features

That's why I tell them to use red/green TDD: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...
Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
by personality0 | 2026-02-24 11:32:47+00:00
I'm looking to replace my Alexa with an alternative where I can use a realtime model like Gemini or an STT -> LLM -> TTS pipeline. Should be easy to build with an Arduino or I'd even be happy buying an already made solution.

Basic functions should include playing Spotify, asking questions, settings timers.
by em-bee | 2026-02-24 11:32:57+00:00
actually, in the US policies about keeping your pay secret are illegal. and in many states salaries need to be published on job postings too. so it's not hard to figure out what someone earns, and it is in your benefit to not keep it secret unless you are a very high earner.

you also do not have any job protection, so you don't benefit from sharing this. but the number of kids is hardly a secret worth keeping. and when your employer offers childcare benefits you would also share that information. you would not forgo the benefits just to keep that private.

and that's the same in europe if you don't tell your employer then you can't benefit from the additional job protection. your choice.
by lm28469 | 2026-02-24 11:33:37+00:00
Your slopware needs a few more vibe code sessions, it's stuck in an infinite request loop and pins my cpu for absolutely no reason:

https://i.imgur.com/Lv94a9H.png

https://i.imgur.com/fTlOqCS.png

Try upgrading to opus max plus next 4.7 with the $400 a month plan, it should work better!
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-24 11:34:03+00:00
> I just wanted to upload photos.

Flickr is an unsung hero in this. I uploaded photos back in 2011 when I purchased my first DLSR camera, and had forgotten about them until this day, and seems they're still up! Did some other checks for content I uploaded back then, and seemingly only my YouTube and Vimeo videos are still up, everything else I spot checked from the same period seems to be gone by now.

Kind of neat for a free photo hosting platform.
by noduerme | 2026-02-24 11:34:07+00:00
Maybe I'm jaded, but I feel like a lot of them did for a moment. Gates, Jobs, Zuck, all got their days of glory and it's quickly that everyone realizes they're a giant misanthropic asshole. If the pot of gold at the end of Altman's quest turns out to be as big as what he's priced it at, then yes, he'll be one of history's most successful sociopaths. If not, he's just another in a long line.
by vincentvandeth | 2026-02-24 11:34:22+00:00
Yes, tmux. The setup is a 2x2 grid:

T0 (orchestrator) | T1 (Track A)
T2 (Track B) | T3 (Track C)

When a worker finishes, it writes a structured report to a shared unified_reports/ directory. A file watcher (receipt processor) detects it, parses the report into a structured NDJSON receipt (status, files changed, open items, git ref), and delivers it to T0's pane.

T0 then reviews the receipt, runs a quality advisory (automated pass/warn/hold verdict), and decides: close open items, complete the PR, or redispatch.
Everything is filesystem-based — no API, no database, no shared memory between agents. Each terminal has its own context window, its own Claude Code (or Codex/Gemini) session, and the only communication channel is structured files on disk.

The receipt ledger is append-only NDJSON, so you can always trace: which agent did what, when, on which dispatch, with which git commit.

I open-sourced the setup recently if you want to dig into the details.
by vmaurin | 2026-02-24 11:34:24+00:00
Agentic coding are bringing new people to coding. But instead of reading some books about coding or looking at the history, they face the same problems as before, they have the same struggle and they re-invent the same solutions.

I am waiting for the vibe coding expert posts that will tell us that lines of code are not a good measure, it is a liability and you should instruct your agent to write less code ...
by 0xecro1 | 2026-02-24 11:34:26+00:00
Maker here. 18 years in embedded Linux/BSP.

I built this because serial terminals haven't changed in decades, and I was tired of juggling 15 PDF tabs while squinting at logs.

Two things that make NeuroTerm different:

1) Neuro Input: type @ + natural language to get the command.
"@scan i2c bus 0" turns into i2cdetect -y 0.
Runs on a local LLM. No API keys, no cloud, works offline.

2) Local RAG: import your datasheets (PDF/DOCX), ask questions right in the terminal.
"What's the I2C address range for this sensor?"
and you get an answer with citations from YOUR datasheet. Everything stays on your machine.

Also: auto-detects kernel panics, boot stages, and errors with a visual minimap. HEX view, timestamps, advanced filtering. Supports serial, SSH, and WSL.

The local-only choice was deliberate. Most embedded teams I've worked with have strict security policies where cloud AI isn't an option.

Free tier (15 AI queries/day). Pro is $29 one-time, no subscription.
Currently Windows. macOS/Linux in progress.

Would love feedback. What's missing? What would make you switch from your current terminal?
Show HN: Out Plane – A PaaS I built solo from Istanbul in 3 months
by receperdogan | 2026-02-24 11:34:45+00:00
Hey HN,

I posted Out Plane here last week. Wanted to share an update because I've been shipping a lot.

I started this because deploying side projects was killing my motivation. Build something fun over a weekend, then waste two days on Dockerfiles, nginx, and SSL. So I built what I wanted — connect GitHub, push code, get a URL. Done.

Since December I've added managed PostgreSQL, managed Redis with RedisInsight built in, Dockerfile auto-detection that pre-fills your config, real-time metrics, and scale to zero — no traffic means no bill. Per-second pricing, not hourly. Same Next.js + Postgres app costs me $2.40/mo vs $12–47 on other platforms.

No CLI yet, docs need work, ~200 users. Just me, no team, no funding. But people are running real stuff on it.

$20 free credit, no credit card. I read all feedback personally — I'm the only one here.
Show HN: Real-Time AI Design Benchmark
by kemyd | 2026-02-24 11:35:21+00:00
Hey HN,

We built a different kind of AI benchmark for UI generation.

Instead of static leaderboards or curated screenshots, you can watch multiple models generate the same design live, side-by-side, and decide which output is actually better.

Under the hood, we call AI models from Anthropic (Opus), OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), and Moonshot AI (Kimi).

Each model generates a real, editable project using Tailwind CSS (not screenshots or canvas exports). You can export it for Next.js, Laravel (Blade), Symfony (Twig), WordPress, or plain HTML.

What we noticed building this:

* Popular benchmarks don't reflect UX/UI quality. For a different prompt, one model is better than another (that's why live comparison on a single screen matters).

* Some models overuse wrappers/div soup. Some hallucinate layout constraints.

* Kimi likes Cyrillic, even if all other models won't use it for the same prompt.

The interesting part wasn't ranking models. It was making their outputs easier for humans to compare visually.

Short demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCTZlvqMQdc

Curious whether this feels more useful than traditional leaderboard-style AI benchmarks.

Happy to answer technical questions.

Example for HN:

Prompt: Redesign the Hacker News website for 2030, including sample entries that could realistically appear on the platform in that year.

Results: https://shuffle.dev/ai-design/Tjjy7XAFMq25AI

Previews:

Opus:
https://shuffle.dev/preview/d6d5ba4eeede381cee7e30c697f010c7...

GPT:
https://shuffle.dev/preview/f050359977c1d6dc6c8fc104a24b83c3...

Gemini:
https://shuffle.dev/preview/eab78f9748a6d8ccecb94a8b0390f044...

Kimi:
https://shuffle.dev/preview/394bb596a8efa50342db4dc88c5f9fab...
by qsera | 2026-02-24 11:35:24+00:00
> excluding some of the hypothesis space. That is the definition of evidence.

Not really, because in this case the "hypothesis space" is infinite, so your experiment exhausting some finite amount of space is not adding anything to the evidence.

So the point is when this "hypothesis space" is infinite or extremely large, if the best experiments that we can do right now can only explore a tiny fraction of that, then it is ABSURD to claim evidence of absence just because "We put our gold standard test and still didn't find anything".

>at which point I shrug and say that this thing you insist on defining has no impact on anything.

It is possible that this "thing" only interact with our world via events that we observe as truly random. Then you wouldn't go ahead and say random events have no impact on anything, will you?
by thomc | 2026-02-24 11:35:30+00:00
Another thing to look at is the built-in sandboxing and permissions for your agent. Claude Code for example has the /sandbox command which uses Bubblewrap on Linux or Seatbelt on macOS for OS level sandboxing. Combine that with global default deny permissions for read & edit on your SSH, GPG keys and other secrets. You need both otherwise Claude can run bash commands which bypass the permissions.
Show HN: I built an AI that explains what your developers did this week
by inferno22 | 2026-02-24 11:35:33+00:00
Gitmore connects to your repo and sends you a human-readable summary: features shipped, bugs fixed, what's in progress. No code knowledge required.

Sample report: https://www.gitmore.io/example.html

2-min demo: https://demo.arcade.software/5tZyFDhp1myCosw6e1po

Free to try. Would love thoughts from anyone who's been the "translator" between devs and stakeholders.
by vidarh | 2026-02-24 11:36:39+00:00
What an odd question. If the other entity is an AI, there is no need to be polite.

But personally, if I get value out of a conversation, I will continue. If I don't, I'll stop responding. Whether or not the other side is an AI is only relevant if I think I'm building some kind of rapport or friendship with someone. Otherwise what matters is if the comments makes me think, or makes me want to write something. If only AI bots were reading the comments, that would be a bigger issue than if the specific comment I'm replying to is AI-written.
by MallocVoidstar | 2026-02-24 11:37:24+00:00
I started clicking a 'next page' link before I'd actually finished reading something (so I kept holding the mouse buttown down), and a couple of seconds later Firefox popped up a 'link preview' box informing me that I was clicking on a link to a web forum. Wow, thanks, couldn't have figured that out myself. (It did not actually summarize the next page in any way.)
by Hendrikto | 2026-02-24 11:37:44+00:00
Great to see a chapter on version control. It is such a shame that almost no CS program teaches proper version control. VCSs and the commit history can be such a tremendously valuable tool when used correctly.

git bisect/blame/revert/rebase/… become so much less useful when VC is treated as a chore and afterthought, and basically amounts to: “Feature is done, my work is complete, just do `git commit -am "changes"` and be done with it.”. And don’t get me started on commit messages.

It is shameful that for a large part of the industry, this is the norm. It is shameful that for a lot of professional, who call themselves software architects or reliability engineers and such fancy titles, still have essentially no idea what they are doing with git, and their response when git add/commit/push/pull don’t work is to shrug, and just delete and re-clone the repo.

Version control should be treated with care and attention to detail. It pays for itself 100 times over.

If your commit history is maintained and tells a story, it is a joy to review your PR. If you just `git commit -am "try fix"` 26 times over, and all that is left in the end is a ball of mud, it is horrible.
by svennidal | 2026-02-24 11:37:57+00:00
Looks great, but pretty difficult to work with. Would be nice to be able to switch to top view to see more clearly where you're plugging things.

Edit: Clicking the background and dragging it actually gave me the top view I was looking for. Thank you goodcanadian.
That said, I still think this application is a better skillset demo than a practical tool to use.
by bilekas | 2026-02-24 11:38:01+00:00
It's calling him out on his BS. That might work for mindless investors who want number go up. But he's actively making the world worse for people.

Nevermind hoarding 40% of the worlds silicone 'just because'.

It's like Musk's lofty and outright BS claims. "Well I'm rich so I can do and say what I like, give me your money".

When did bald face lies become the norm in business ?
by noduerme | 2026-02-24 11:38:10+00:00
It's not adding anything significant to the discourse if you read what we read all day, but it's of a piece with

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai...

and other things that are filtering to the mainstream non-technical intellectual readership that are flashing red lights about the personal nature of the people blowing air into this bubble, and that itself is significant.
by sgjohnson | 2026-02-24 11:38:43+00:00
They probably did, and just determined that it would be fun.

The other week I had a fun project to implement IPv6 support in TempleOS. I did stop to think whether I should, and determined that absolutely not.

I asked Claude to start planning on doing it. It started referencing ZealOS, which is a fork of TempleOS and already has a functioning TCP stack.

That's when I determined that it would no longer even be fun, because someone else had already done all the heavy lifting, and gave up.
Ask HN: Did AI tools measurably increase productivity of your engineering teams?
by nocobot | 2026-02-24 11:39:39+00:00
I lead a small engineering team and while basically everyone is enthusiastically using claude code and the like there is not really an obvious change of output.

Of course this has always been hard to quantify but the number of tickets completed every week is roughly steady. This does not seem to match self reported efficiency gains.

How has this been going for you?
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-24 11:39:43+00:00
hmm, you're right, I made a mistake and was going on discretionary spending, of which it is a higher percentage than the whole budget.

I normally look at ncses, but in this mainly going off the last stuff I looked at from AAAS

https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/AAAS%20R%26...

I think the CBPP maybe underplays research under different organizations, for example is DARPA under DOD or is it under science and education? If under DOD then can probably increase the percent by another .5 from DARPA, and so forth with other organizations.

However, I am certainly fine with taking your stats since that just underlines they point I made and evidently got downvoted for, that the U.S does not pay for scientific research at a level where one can blithely assert that it is something considered important by the government.
by defrost | 2026-02-24 11:40:53+00:00
As others said, Australia.

Like Terence I also had "out of band" classes and free time to read advance material in both primary and high school.

During that period Australia also had good federal and state programs for clustering advanced kids on yearly subsidised specialist camps - optional, subsidised, and free if parents couldn't afford to chip in.

I bumped into him at the same time Paul Erdős was doing the rounds and hanging out with anyone that might show promise.
by irusensei | 2026-02-24 11:40:59+00:00
And how would you do that without dystopian verification checks?

The reasons why Youtube and Discord are so gung ho on age verification might be because these companies that sell ads and data have a monetary incentive for distinguishing humans from bots for their investors and shareholders.

If I were to chose I'd rather have a bot infested internet than a mass surveillance dystopia.
by simonw | 2026-02-24 11:41:04+00:00
The software engineers who like "digging ditches" are going to have a bad time in the new agentic engineering world, unfortunately.

Here "digging ditches" corresponds to somebody else figuring out the detailed requirements and specification and handing it to the engineer to transcribe into code.

That's what the coding agents replace. Thankfully for most engineers I've worked with that's only a small part of their overall jobs, albeit one of the most time consuming.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-24 11:41:11+00:00
Oh right you're very focused on specifically the strawberry problem. I just gave that as a throwaway example. It's a solution but not necessarily the solution for something that simple.

My point was much more general, that code execution is a key part of these models ability to perform maths, analysis, and provide precise answers. It's not the only way, but a key way that's very efficient compared to more inference for CoT.