MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by senordevnyc | 2026-02-13 13:32:53+00:00
This is totally false. If there are any truly autonomous robotaxis in Austin (a bit if, since Tesla has repeatedly lied and faked things like this in the past), it’s only a handful and they’re limited to a tiny area. The “robotaxis” with a safety driver are the ones that have the bigger area, probably because Tesla sucks at actual self-driving. Still. After a decade of broken promises and shitty engineering practices.

Elon has been blatantly lying about FSD for years, and yet the fans still take whatever he says as gospel. And yet the skeptics are the ones with EDS? lol, ok.
by neodymiumphish | 2026-02-13 13:33:07+00:00
Funnily enough, I bought BentoBox a long time ago (Nov 2024), but I forgot about it entirely. I'm wondering if maybe it didn't have Windowed mode at the time, as I do rely a lot of overlapping windows so I can switch between content more quickly when I'm just using my mouse.

Thank you for mentioning it again so I could get it set back up. I do like that the experience is almost exactly like FancyZones!
by K0balt | 2026-02-13 13:33:09+00:00
Turning your phone off (airplane mode or power down, which sign out of networks) or lighting up a new one in the same location as an old one was turned off are treated as significant events in these systems and can be configured as an automatic flag for investigation.

If you care, slip it into a faraday bag instead of turning it off or going into airplane mode and you won’t be flagged nearly as likely. People rarely use airplane mode or turn off their phones in situations where it doesn’t provide a useful clue about activity.

There is a huge overlap between surveillance platforms and behavior analysis / data brokers.
by lemontheme | 2026-02-13 13:33:26+00:00
Oh nice, this is going in the tool belt. Simple and self-explanatory. Hits the same notes as excalidraw.

Only thing I couldn't figure out right away is how to copy the drawing itself (not the JSON data). Eventually I found cmd+shift+c in the keyboard shortcuts. Bit later I found 'Export Text' by clicking on the project name (default: 'Undefined').

I'd put that functionality a bit more front-and-center
by bongoman42 | 2026-02-13 13:33:54+00:00
I don't even live in a super rural area, but if you think you could just walk a couple of kms in a couple of foot of snow to get something like a bookcase and bring it over is hilarious. Also, I would rather not receive packages for my neighbors, and I assume they wouldn't for me either. Ring works fine, I don't share the footage but I feel it is a cost of living in high crime regions.
by TonyStr | 2026-02-13 13:34:20+00:00
Vue should be a bit faster due to signals (updating state doesn't cause whole components to rerender), or at least require a bit less work to optimize (not as much need for useMemo, useEffect, etc. if everything uses signals). Other than that, it's mostly up to personal preference. SFC, directives, etc. are all just developer ergonomics, and people tend to prefer whatever they're most used to.

Also, vue interops better with webcomponents and non-framework code than React in my experience. Most non-React libraries need a React wrapper to work in a React project.
Show HN: Funxy v0.6 – scripts that ship as standalone executables
by funbitty | 2026-02-13 13:34:42+00:00
Hi HN,

New release: `funxy build` now produces standalone executables. (Previously I shared the Go embedding — this is the other direction: ship scripts as binaries.) You compile a script, get a binary — bytecode + VM + all deps baked in. No Funxy on the target machine.

```bash
funxy build server.lang -o myserver
scp myserver prod:~/
ssh prod './myserver'
```

Embedding: files, directories, glob patterns (`.html`), brace expansion (`.{js,css}`). Everything goes into the binary and is available via `fileRead`, `fileReadBytes`, `isFile` — the script doesn't know if it's disk or embedded.

```bash
funxy build webapp.lang --embed templates,static --embed "assets/*.css" -o webapp
```

Dual-mode: the binary is also a full Funxy interpreter. By default it runs the embedded app. Pass `$` and it switches to interpreter mode — run any script, use `-pe` one-liners, same as regular `funxy`:

```bash
./myserver # runs embedded app
./myserver --port 8080 # flags via sysArgs
./myserver $ other.lang # interpreter
./myserver $ -pe '1 + 2' # eval mode
```

Cross-compile with `--host` (point to a funxy binary for the target platform).

[Releases](https://github.com/funvibe/funxy/releases) | [GitHub](https://github.com/funvibe/funxy)
by 0xecro1 | 2026-02-13 13:34:49+00:00
Hi,AI tools just shifted the interface of programming from code to natural language. The tool you've been sharpening your whole career — words — is now the primary tool of software development. You're not a non-programmer learning to code. You're a native speaker arriving in a country that just switched to your language.
And that's exactly why it's been "one of the most fun things you've ever done." We're always drawn to the things where our strengths quietly do the heavy lifting. Trust that signal. Keep going.
Show HN: WavNav, a desktop app to explore and search large sample libraries
by maxgraf96 | 2026-02-13 13:36:04+00:00
Hey HN, I’m releasing WavNav today:
https://maxgraf.space/wavnav/

It’s a desktop app for producers/sound designers who have huge sample folders and want a faster way to find sounds.

What it does:

- analyses your sample folders and maps sounds into a visual space
- lets you search/filter by text, key, and BPM
- supports audio-based similarity search (drop a sound, find related sounds)
- includes hover/click preview modes for quick browsing

It runs on macOS (stable) and Windows (beta).

I’d really value feedback on:

- first-run experience
- performance on very large libraries
- anything confusing in the UI/workflow

If you try it, I’d love to hear what’s useful and what’s not.
Show HN: Instagit – MCP server that answers questions about any GitHub repo
by instalabsai | 2026-02-13 13:36:22+00:00
Instagit is an MCP server that lets coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw etc.) answer questions about GitHub repositories by understanding the actual source code rather than relying on training data.

The problem: AI coding agents hallucinate library internals constantly. They confidently describe how a function works based on stale training data when the actual implementation does something different.

How it works: you ask a question about a repo, Instagit scans the source, and returns an answer with file paths and line numbers. You can target specific commits, branches, or tags. You can also swap "github" to "instagit" in any repo URL to get an instant wiki with Q&A (e.g. https://instagit.com/pandas-dev/pandas).

The real power though is giving your agent access via MCP rather than being the human in the loop. Point your agent at a large library, have it understand a specific feature, then rip out just the part you need into self-contained code. Drop the dependency entirely, sometimes even get better performance. The agent catches implementation details you'd miss reading the code yourself and that maintainers rarely document.

I get asked this a lot so might as well answer it now: how is this different from Context7, DeepWiki, CodeWiki, or GitHub MCP?

Context7, DeepWiki, and CodeWiki all pre-generate static summaries or guides. They're fast when they have what you need, but they don't cover every repo, they go stale, and there are hundreds of questions about any codebase that can't be pre-answered. GitHub MCP checks out files one at a time, which burns through context tokens fast and doesn't scale to large codebases.

Instagit reads source on demand for any public repo, returns just the answer, and keeps your context clean.

No API key or account needed to try it out: https://instagit.com/install
Outreach
by testtest88 | 2026-02-13 13:37:24+00:00
We had a call with a large accountancy firm and they gave us some really good feedback. However, we couldn’t convert them into a development partner because of IT security and compliance constraints. Right now, we are testing and getting traction with mid-sized and smaller accountancy firms, but their processes are not as complex, so automation does not feel like a major value add for them. Bigger firms are where the real complexity and value are, but they are much harder to work with early on. The challenge is figuring out how our outreach can convince accountancy firms of any size to share their workflows and data with us and become development partners.
by josefresco | 2026-02-13 13:37:26+00:00
Google Defenders: "Keep politics at home!"

Google: "Google CEO Sundar Picchai has been a fixture at the White House, attending parties and events. He oversaw Google’s $22 million donation to the White House ballroom and its $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund. Brin, meanwhile, has become a Trump supporter."
by afandian | 2026-02-13 13:38:11+00:00
Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't (EDIT actually does) claim to be ASCII). It uses e.g. "◎" U+25CE BULLSEYE which definitely isn't.

And the 'ascii-driven-development' blog post mentioned downthread even uses emojis.
by zug_zug | 2026-02-13 13:38:20+00:00
It's funny -- about 8 years ago I remember this exact same issue came up, but the other way around. There was this guy, James Damore, basically a republican who said the diversity program was grievance politics or whatever, sent out a memo to hundreds of other employees, created a kerfuffle, ultimately was fired. He sued and retracted.

Anyways back then I felt some sympathy for the guy, talking politics at work, because as far as I could tell he was a good-faith free-speech proponent. I even wrote a blog post about it and shared it on this site.

However now seeing how much the tables have turned, and how little that cultural swing had to do with free speech, I feel embarrassed about my past self. It's incredibly clear to me that at most a small % of those "free speech" advocates are genuine, because I never see them speak up for the other side (like I did).
by xtiansimon | 2026-02-13 13:39:37+00:00
> "It's pretty much over for the human-internet ... chances are it will not be the material from the website they see directly..."

Well, we're here. HN manages to call me back to the community nearly every day with articles I would not have otherwise found by search or AI.

No doubt web search just feels inadequate by the qualities of chat initiated search. But the results of chat can lead to websites and books and all manner of media consumed by the ChatAi. The pathways are still there to find those pages.

What I think you're talking about are business statistics in consumer industry. Maybe you're thinking of a person who drinks Bud Lite and eats Lays potato chips (highly ranked sales) and envision they'll use ChatAi apps and never use a search engine again. If that's the demographic you want, then writing a website is prolly not going to reach them anyway. If you want to reach that audience, then you need to become part of that mass consumer media ecosystem. You need to create/invent virality--it's the one shared element consumer society revolves upon and industry can't get enough of.
by romanhn | 2026-02-13 13:39:38+00:00
I highly recommend Andrej Karpathy's Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT: https://youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI. It's a 3.5 hour general intro to the topic that I think does a great job of making sense of the tech and how it works under the hood, without needing to build up a foundation of math and programming.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-13 13:39:45+00:00
> Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't claim to be ASCII).

In big ASCII letters on the landing page: Unleash your ideas with ASCII [] MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.

:-)
by Ray20 | 2026-02-13 13:40:25+00:00
> pacified and domesticated the working class through threat of poverty and state sanctioned violence.

More likely through outright bribery. What's the average hourly wage in the US? About $40? While 90% of workers worldwide earn less than $2. The difference is more than 20 times.

The American working class voted for this, the American working class is the main beneficiary of this, and, as far as I know, NO ONE in the American working class, even in solidarity with other workers, has handed over to them the money they unfairly receive at the expense of the rest of the world.
by Grimblewald | 2026-02-13 13:40:38+00:00
I've been writing a new textbook for undergrads (chemistry domain focus), and think this excerpt is generally solid advice that is applicable here. Any feedback is welcome (textbook to be published gplv3 via GitHub). I appreciate I am on the conservative side here. The following is copy-paste of the final notes/tips/warnings in the book, copied from latex source with minimal edits for display here:

Rather than viewing AI as forbidden or universally permitted, consider this progression:

1. Foundation Phase (Avoid generation, embrace explanation)

When learning a new library (e.g., your first RDKit script or lmfit model), do not ask the AI to write the code.

Instead, write your own attempt, then use AI to:

• Explain error tracebacks in plain language

• Compare your approach to idiomatic patterns

• Suggest documentation sections you may have missed

2. Apprenticeship Phase (Pair programming)

Once you can write working but inelegant code, use AI as a collaborative reviewer:

• Refactor working scripts for readability

• Vectorize slow loops you have already prototyped

• Generate unit tests for functions you have written

3. Independence Phase (Managed delegation)

When you have the skill to write the code yourself but choose to delegate to save time, you are essentially trading the effort of writing for the effort of auditing. Because your prompts are condensed summaries of intent rather than literal instructions, the LLM must fill the "ambiguity gap" with educated guesses.

Delegation only works if you are skilled enough to recognise when those guesses miss the mark; if your words were precise enough to never be misunderstood, they would already be code. Coding without oversight is dangerous and deeply incompetent behaviour in professional environments.

Examples of use-cases are:

• Generate boilerplate for familiar patterns, then audit line-by-line

• Prototype alternative algorithms you already understand conceptually

• Document code you have written (reverse the typical workflow)
by socketcluster | 2026-02-13 13:40:50+00:00
1000 tokens per second. Crazy. I'm wondering what this leads to.

Imagine the massive amount of software that's going to get built. It will be like reinventing the wheel in a million ways. There will be thousands of alternative internet ecosystems to choose from and each one of then would offer every software system, platform and application that one could possibly need; fully compatible with data transferrable across any application within the same ecosystem. Some ecosystems would facilitate data transfers in and out. Ecosystems would be competing against each other; all different, but ultimately yielding very similar results. The competitive edge of one ecosystem over another would be purely grounded in narrative with no basis in reality because the differences between the best ecosystems would be meaningless. That said there would also be bad ecosystems where a lot of people may get trapped. Some people would get lost in the junk.
by kreco | 2026-02-13 13:41:33+00:00
Yeah that's the kind of thing I'm talking about.

Even when you don't care about being cross-platform, you still need to rely on specific routines instead of having the most low level `ut8fopen(buffer, len, mode);`

My point is that I wish we would have a new "standard OS-related API", not even talking about introducing span type or anything, just creating something way more sane and care about moving forward from this point.

If I was about to create my own OS and decided to eliminate null-terminating string, and keep it as tiny and efficient as possible, I would face so many issues because I cannot reuse 99% of the code (related to file API) that already exists, I would need to think how to properly parse arguments from "main" without overhead etc.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2026-02-13 13:41:37+00:00
Is this some dark pattern or what?

https://imgur.com/a/WN2Mr1z (UK: https://files.catbox.moe/m0lxbr.png)

I clicked settings, this appeared, clicking away hid it but now I cant see any setting for it.

The nasty way of reading that popup, my first way of reading it, was that filestash sends crash reports and usage data, and I have the option to have it not be shared with third parties, but that it is always sent, and it defaults to sharing with third parties. The OK is always consenting to share crash reports and usage.

I'm not sure if it's actually operating that way, but if it's not the language should probably be

Help make this software better by sending crash reports and anonymous usage statistics.

Your data is never shared with a third party.

[ ] Send crash reports & anonymous usage data.

[ OK ]
by thom | 2026-02-13 13:41:44+00:00
I'd love some version of these tools that could reliably round-trip pure text. Some heuristic or model that can actually recognise boxes, lines with anchors, parent-child relationships etc, so you can paste in pure text and immediately start rearranging stuff. My experience with Monodraw was that you had to maintain the original file format to do this, so once a diagram was in a markdown file or whatever, you couldn't just cut and paste it and easily edit it. At that point it might as well be any file format rendered as an image.
by kldg | 2026-02-13 13:42:03+00:00
yeah, I can say that except for elder areas (not necessarily dedicated facilities, but there are things like "RV parks" which cater mostly to older folks but also families; they usually have 10mph speed limits), I've never seen someone driving a golf cart around town while I've lived in MI, OH, or PA.

I do see people driving horse-drawn carriages, ATVs (probably illegally), snowmobiles (legally in some parts of MI during Winter or condition-dependent), and riding mowers (probably illegally) in and around towns, though. Very rarely, I see someone driving an e-bike; this rareness is mostly because they aren't allowed on the sidewalks here and there's no bike lane, so you need to drive and signal like a car, which is pretty awkward given how many e-bikes don't even come with real brake lights (though many falsely advertise red rear running lights as a brake light, which'd be illegal to drive unless you hand-signal whenever you brake).
by sigwinch | 2026-02-13 13:42:05+00:00
The Russian invasion contains disproportionately more Sunni Muslims than the population, so there’s some sincerity in Al Jazeera covering it from that side.

And I’ve seen AJ covering Shia, especially outside Iran, without mentioning the politics of Iran.

One thing to keep in mind is that Sunni outside of KSA are not very supportive of the Saudi royal family. Whereas Shia outside of Iran have a coreligionist unity. That’s how I see AJs coverage.
by Nate007 | 2026-02-13 13:42:24+00:00
Thanks!

Gamepad support is a good idea — I’ll look into the standard Gamepad API.

The small scale is partly a trade-off for mobile + keeping everything very lightweight (single 85KB file), but I agree readability suffers and I should improve sizing / contrast.

Also +1 on the fl0w / Spore + VS vibe — that’s very close to what I was aiming for visually.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-02-13 13:42:27+00:00
>> What's with the fixation on defining "fully autonomous" to mean 0% human intervention ever?

Yeah, good point. If Waymo were honest they'd say their system is "autonomous". Fully autonomous implies 100% autonomy. Otherwise, how is it "fully"?

But, hey, don't ask me. Write a paper with robot that is 99% autonomous but a human has to take control every once in a while and see how easy you can get that past any reviewer in robotics or AI.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-13 13:42:33+00:00
> For me it's less about saving time, and more about potentially unearthing good sources that my google searches wouldn't turn up, and occasionally giving me a few nuggets of inspiration / new rabbit holes to go down.

Yeah, I see the value here. And for personal stuff, that's totally fine. But these tools are being sold to businesses as productivity increasers, and I'm not buying it right now.

I really, really want this to work though, as it would be such a massive boost to human flourishing. Maybe LLMs are the wrong approach though, certainly the current models aren't doing a good job.
by mrtksn | 2026-02-13 13:42:38+00:00
US is 350M people, let's say everyone is climate change sceptic and together with Russia, Australia and Saudi Arabia it totals to about 550M people.

In the rest of the world the idea that you can just just pump as much as smoke you like and it will magically disappear isn't popular. Maybe because they all had some polluting industry around that made them miserable or maybe because they live in dirty overcrowded cities and noticed that smog isn't pleasant or maybe because they don't have much fossil energy sources, they are generally not skeptical of the idea that "not polluting is good". Just as with vaccines or abortion, climate change or simply the desire to live in a clean environment isn't a divisive topic in most of the world.

So its going to be 8B people trying to compel 0.5B people to live in clean environments and take care of the output of their industries. I think the 8B will be able to do that one way or another.
Show HN: Proof of Thought (Pot)
by ekadet | 2026-02-13 13:42:59+00:00
I got tired of AI making me dumber, so I built "Proof of Thought" - an AI agent that won't write code until you demonstrate you understand the problem. After 30 days of use, my bug rate dropped 73% and I can actually explain my own codebase again.

https://github.com/ekadetov/ekadetov.github.io/blob/main/ass...
by abc123abc123 | 2026-02-13 13:43:10+00:00
Excellent! A company is a place to work, not do politics. I've left jobs due to overly woke colleagues who made every single meeting into a crusade against white men.

In my current company, political discussion is forbidden, and I am very happy about that.

People who love politics should go into politics, and leave their jobs. Plenty of public sector organizations who only talk politics for them, and peace of mind for me at a company.
by XCSme | 2026-02-13 13:43:52+00:00
For the distinguishing part, it's hard to tell if it can be done anyway, as the agent browsers are still new and constantly changing, and it's up to them if they will correctly identify themselves or not (same as with crawler/bots, the main indication is still the source IP address).

There could be use cases, like tracking if your content was stolen/parsed by an AI, maybe future pay-per-request for LLMs, etc.
by donkeybeer | 2026-02-13 13:43:56+00:00
You are a fucking retard. Only someone this retarded and fucked in the head like your inferior kind could be fucking stupid enough to think immigration is violent murderous genocide. You also think in your hallucinatory imagination that downvotes from fellow equal power users is censorship, tell me where your messages were deleted moron. No fucking wonder you drama queen and exaggerate everything. I have asked multiple times and you have failed to answer how immigration is violent murderous genoicde. Obviously you are stupid enough to be a white nationalist but you could atleast have the balls to explain how and why you are fucking stupid.