MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2026-02-10 11:44:49+00:00
> we end up tracking throughput proxies (story points completed, velocity, number of tickets closed, burndown charts) and treating that as success

That sounds more like scrum or something in that wheelhouse, which isn't agile, but what I earlier called pre-agile. They are associated with agile as they are intended to be used as a temporary transitionary tool. One day up and telling your developers "Good news, developers. We fired all the managers. Go nuts!" obviously would be a recipe for disaster. An organization wanting to adopt agile needs to slowly work into it and prove that the people involved can handle it. Not everyone can.

> Also, agile isn’t really “removing managers from the picture” so much as shifting management from command-and-control to enabling constraints, coaching, and removing impediments.

That's the pre-agile step. You don't get rid of managers immediately, you put them to work stepping in when necessary and helping developers learn how to manage without a guiding hand. "Business people" remain involved in agile. Perhaps you were thinking of that instead? Under agile they aren't managers, though, they are partners who work together with the developers.
Show HN: I built a portfolio builder for mobile developers
by adrienadv | 2026-02-10 11:45:01+00:00
I’m a mobile developer, and I often ran into the same problem:
every time I wanted to showcase my apps, I had to manually collect screenshots, icons, descriptions, and links, or build a small website just to present them.

It felt like too much work for something that should be simple.

So I built Mobile Page.
It generates a clean, shareable portfolio for your mobile apps in minutes. You can paste an App Store link or search for your app directly, and the page is created automatically with screenshots, icons, and descriptions.

The goal is to make it easier for mobile developers to present their work, whether for clients, recruiters, or just sharing projects online.

I’d really appreciate any feedback, ideas, or criticism. I’m especially interested in hearing what features would make something like this genuinely useful for you.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-10 11:45:12+00:00
Trust chains. Some implementations would accept an LE certificate for foo.com as a valid login for foo.com or something like that, because they treated all trusted certs the same, whether issued by the service being authenticated to, or some other CA.

It might be possible to relay communications between two servers and have one of them act as a client without knowing. Handshake verification prevents that in TLS, but there could be similar attacks.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-02-10 11:45:22+00:00
I'm in a small server that's marked NSFW, not because the purpose is to share porn, but because without the server owner checking that box, Discord with use content filters wherever it deems necessary.

Lots of servers just hit the nsfw checkbox to avoid the discord nanny tsk tsking them all the time.

I would have to verify my ID to talk to those friends.
Show HN: Kybera – Agentic Smart Wallet with AI Osint and Reputation Tracking
by xipz | 2026-02-10 11:46:00+00:00
AI and robotics are compressing traditional employment faster than new industries can absorb the displaced workforce. As that accelerates, more people will turn to speculative markets - not out of greed, but necessity. DeFi is the most accessible speculative market in the world: no broker, no accredited investor check, no KYC gatekeeping. But it's also the most hostile environment for newcomers - scam tokens, rug pulls, fragmented tooling across chains.
I built Kybera to lower that barrier. It's a fully client-side, no-backend crypto wallet supporting 8 chains (Ethereum, Base, Solana, and more) with built-in swaps via Jupiter and KyberSwap, cross-chain bridging, and an AI-powered research agent. Paste a contract address and it runs automated OSINT - developer identity verification across ENS, X, Farcaster, and GitHub, holder concentration analysis, liquidity depth - and produces a structured risk rating (SAFE / POTENTIAL / HIGH RISK / AVOID).

The AI isn't just a research layer - it can control the wallet directly. Create wallets, switch networks, check balances, get swap quotes, and execute trades, all through natural language. High-risk actions like transfers and deletions require explicit user confirmation before executing. The goal is that someone who's never used a DEX can go from research to informed trade without needing to understand the underlying mechanics.

Two things on the roadmap I think matter most:

1) Fiat on/off-ramping. The biggest barrier for someone entering DeFi for the first time isn't understanding swaps - it's getting money into a wallet at all. And equally important, getting it back out. If this is going to serve people who aren't already crypto-native, the full journey from bank account to speculative position and back needs to be seamless.

2) Historical developer reputation. Right now the AI analyses a token at a point in time. I want to build a system that looks backwards - indexing past launches, tracking which developers shipped legitimate projects versus rugs, and building high-fidelity reputation profiles over time. When a new token launches, you'd immediately know whether the developer behind it has a track record worth trusting. Essentially a credit score for on-chain builders.

Everything runs in the browser. No accounts, no telemetry, no backend. Keys are AES-256 encrypted, decrypted on-demand, and wiped from memory after use. MIT licensed: https://github.com/Xipzer/Kybera_App

I'd really appreciate any feedback, especially on the developer reputation model - how to make it robust against Sybil attacks and identity fragmentation across chains.
by jasode | 2026-02-10 11:46:00+00:00
, Winamp & VLC were build by less than four people. You only needed 1000s of people because the executive vision is always to add more useless junk into each product.

Many types of software have essential complexity and minimal features that still require hundreds/thousands of software engineers. Having just 4 people is simply not enough man-hours to build the capabilities customers desire.

Complex software like 3D materials modeling and simulation, logistics software like factory and warehouse planning. Even the Linux kernel and userspace has thousands of contributors and the baseline features (drivers, sandbox, GUI, etc) that users want from a modern operating system cannot be done by a 4-person team.

All that said, there a lots of great projects with tiny teams. SQLite is 3 people. Foobar2000 is one person. ShareX screensaver I think is 1 developer in Turkey.
by ROOFLES | 2026-02-10 11:46:04+00:00
Well you cant just get rid of Gasoline in the refinery process. Crude oil essentially gets destilled. The different fractions are split based on boiling point/weight. Heavy fuel oil-> Diesel-> Kerosene->Gasoline-> Naphta-> Propane/Butane whatever. That is why making new Plastic is so incredibly cheap. You need (i think) ethylene to make plastic. Ethylene is a byproduct of oil refining. If no one buys it, the whole refinery grinds to a halt because you are not allowed to burn it anymore. They practically give this stuff away. Same thing would happen to gasoline. If fewer people need Gasoline, it will become crazy cheap since you cant really do anything with it, except burn it. So it really isnt that easy. IF you get rid of Diesel/Gasoline you will also get rid of the entire petrochemical industry.Elastomers, plastics, lubricants. A huge lot depends on the sweet dino juice.
by cedws | 2026-02-10 11:46:54+00:00
I’m finding that the code LLMs produce is just average. Not great, not terrible. Which makes sense, the model is basically a complex representation of the average of its training data right? If I want what I consider ‘good code’ I have to steer it.

So I wouldn’t use LLMs to produce significant chunks of code for something I care about. And publishing vibe coded projects under my own GitHub user feels like it devalues my own work, so for now I’m just not publishing vibe coded projects. Maybe I will eventually, under a ‘pen name.’
Show HN: ZeroSum – I built a zero-based budgeting app
by fidalgodev | 2026-02-10 11:47:25+00:00
Hey HN, been working on this for a while and finally put it out there.

I've used YNAB for a few years for zero-based budgeting. It works, but I never once used the automatic bank import — I just manually enter everything. Paying $109/yr (plus tax) for that felt like a lot. Their pricing went up over the years too and there's only one plan, so you're paying for auto-import whether you want it or not.

So I built ZeroSum (zerosum.so). The idea is simple — if you don't need bank sync, you shouldn't pay for it.

Basic plan is $50/yr, Pro with automatic bank sync is $70/yr. Both still cheaper than YNAB.

Tech-wise it's a React frontend (Vite + Tanstack Router + Tanstack Query) with a Node backend (Hono + tRPC) hosted on Cloudflare Pages (Client) and Render (API + DB). Fully responsive, works well on mobile.

I built a YNAB import wizard so people can migrate their existing budgets and accounts without having to start over.

Things I think turned out well: the reporting and analytics are a lot more useful than what I had in YNAB, the UI feels more modern, and the whole thing just feels snappier to me. Again, biased.

Being honest about what's not ready yet — the Pro plan with bank sync isn't active. We're waiting on Plaid to approve our access. And a native mobile app is something I want to do but no date on that.

Would love feedback from anyone who does zero-based budgeting or has opinions on the UX. Happy to talk about the technical side too if anyone's curious.
by rkomorn | 2026-02-10 11:47:37+00:00
I find it hard to disagree with this (sadly).

I do feels things in general are more "snappy" at the OS level, but once you get into apps (local or web), things don't feel much better than 30 years ago.

The two big exceptions for me are video and gaming.

I wonder how people who work in CAD, media editing, or other "heavy" workloads etc, feel.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-10 11:47:43+00:00
I’ve heard about it, from time to time. It’s interesting, but don’t see it going anywhere.

From the official Swatch page:

> The BMT Meridian was inaugurated on October 23rd, 1998, in the presence of Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the media laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That’s an oddly-phrased sentence. I wonder what “in the presence of” looks like.
by teemuki | 2026-02-10 11:47:50+00:00
I spent the last few months obsessed with a specific bottleneck: every time I start a new AI agent project, I waste the first few weeks on the same "foundational" plumbing.

Whether it is building lead research pipelines, setting up data extraction, or wrestling with .cursorrules to stop hallucinations, we are all rebuilding the same generic 80% over and over.

The AI ecosystem is currently fragmented across MCP servers for Claude, coding rules for Cursor, and production tools for the Vercel AI SDK. I wanted a "unified layer" where these capabilities are standardized, secure, and chainable.

So I built the Skene Cookbook. It is an open-source directory of 800+ AI skills and production-ready "Skill Chains" that you can install with one command.

GitHub: https://github.com/SkeneTechnologies/skene-cookbook

What is inside:

808 Standardized Skills: Hardened across 29 domains (SaaS, Marketing, security, and more).

Unified Support: Standardized patterns that work across Claude, Cursor, and Vercel.

Skill Chains: Pre-mapped logic for complex loops like churn prevention and viral referrals. You do not just get the blocks; you get the instructions on how to chain them together.

Audit & Security: Every skill has been audited for zero critical risks from Day 1.

To try it out:

npm install @skene/skills-directory

The "Skill Chains" are what I am most excited about. Instead of writing a referral system from scratch, you can deploy a chain: invite_system_audit -> dynamic_referral_generator -> attribution_tracking.

I have documented several of these "recipes" here: https://github.com/SkeneTechnologies/skene-cookbook/blob/mai...

I am making this MIT licensed because I think the "AI infrastructure tax" is slowing down the entire ecosystem. I’d love to hear your feedback on the architecture and what kind of chains you would want to see added next.

I will be around to answer any questions!
by neilwilson | 2026-02-10 11:48:01+00:00
What is a gilt or a Treasury? It is a private saving certificate bought by people in exchange for bank deposits they have previously accrued.

Those bank deposits are transferred to Treasury by deleting the bank deposit and by the bank transferring central bank credits back to the Treasury.

Where did those bank deposits originate from? From the government transferring central bank credits to the payee bank and the payee bank then crediting the deposit account.

If the individual chooses to hold the bank deposit, then the bank itself will purchase the government security with the credits it received from the central bank when government made its payment.

Does that clear it up for you?

The full gory details in the UK case is here: https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2025.2533726
by latexr | 2026-02-10 11:48:09+00:00
> the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting.

What I personally find exhausting is Simon¹ constantly discovering the obvious. Time after time after time it’s just “insights” every person who smoked one blunt in college has arrived at.

Stop for a minute! You don’t have to keep churning out multiple blog posts a day, every day. Just stop and reflect. Sit back in your chair and let your mind rest. When a thought comes to you, let it go. Keep doing that until you regain your focus and learn to distinguish what matters from what is shiny.

Yes, of course, you’re doing too much and draining yourself. Of course your “productivity” doesn’t result in extra time but is just filled with more of the same, that’s been true for longer than you’ve been alive. It’s a variation of Parkinson’s law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

¹ And others, but Simon is particularly prevalent on HN, so I bump into these more often.
by falloutx | 2026-02-10 11:48:29+00:00
This is actually a genius level move from Grindr. Anthropic/OpenAI can only dream of the stable userbase like this.
Few years ago I even suggested they should add actual brainstorming and prototyping features like Framer for bros to discuss their business ideas. Dopamine rush of grindr notification into my AI chats would literally be insane levels of productivity.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-10 11:48:39+00:00
Yes, hear hear! As someone who've run a couple of FOSS communities, many of them having chats via IRC, Slack, Discord, forums and more, using Zulip has always been one of the most welcome options, yet also the one that takes the longest for people to understand if they've never seen it.

But it's easily worth it, as you can actually come back and read through old discussions and understand things and it isn't a mess. It's like if you could force Slack/Discord to only do threads, and the entire UI is optimizing for that specific UX. Overall pleasant experience once you get over the initial bump :)
by pas | 2026-02-10 11:48:53+00:00
the relevant facts would be, whether this guy has a criminal record. the rest is (legal) bullshit.

laws are a (social) technology, enforcing them blindly is just as stupid as any kind of extremism, like "just ban private property" or "just let the market sort it out" and everything in between, and around. ("yes, all men" and so on.)

after all there are laws about detention too. if I were DHS I'd be very afraid not to get picked up by law enforcement for breaking them. oh wait. :(

and yes, there's a political goal. the polity wants to remove some people. the machinery is set to work. still, there are better and worse ways to do this. keeping this guy in this hunger games box is more expensive and less humane than putting him on a plane to Ireland.
by trueno | 2026-02-10 11:49:14+00:00
ravensoft open sourced it in 2013 ish and promptly removed it because they accidentally included a bundled lib but i believe it was then re-added. theres quite a few repos that have it cloned. https://github.com/jedis/jediacademy

what am i up to with it? creating hardened vanilla base servers (no mods) and ensuring it gets compiled in a way that doesnt impact lightsaber combat. everyone has failed to do this for 22+ years because there's lots of subfactions in this game who fail to prioritize this as they have other priorities. tons of people who enjoy the prospect of modding the game or making it something different but the tiny remaining competitive player base has only ever needed the base game and what shipped by ravensoft in 2003. generally the guys who are competitive players arent.. coders. the game is ultra sensitive to mathematical FPU differences and virtually all recompiles of the game in the past decades completely failed to guard this, so every game mod and attempt at creating something better hasn't stuck for competitive players _except_ for something called ybeproxy which was an attempt to hook the original game engine binary and add some security/anticheat layer.. this was the best attempt to date but it still negatively impacts the fragile lightsaber mechanics.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2026-02-10 11:50:39+00:00
Discord's rise mirrors Google's: both platforms gained traction because the CIA and NSA required sophisticated tools to facilitate their intelligence gathering

It's very well documented for Google:

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

A little bit harder to find evidence for Discord, they have learned from their mistakes with Google/Facebook

They are now moving on to "pseudo privacy" with projects like Signal

The are just building a "safe" playground that they still happen to own

It feels private to us, but it's still just another part of the same old toolkit

EDIT:

Look up project PRISM folks, there is no conspiracy here, don't be this naive
by m_fayer | 2026-02-10 11:50:52+00:00
What felt incredible was getting the setup and prompting right and then producing reasonable working code at 50x human speed. And you're right, that doesn't excite after a while.

But I've found my way to what, for me, is a more durable and substantial source of satisfaction, if not excitement, and that is value. Excuse the cliche, but its true.

My life has been filled with little utilities that I've been meaning to put together for years but never found the time. My homelab is full of various little applications that I use, that are backed up and managed properly. My home automation does more than it ever did, and my cabin in the countryside is monitored and adaptive to conditions to a whole new degree of sophistication. I have scripts and workflows to deal with a fairly significant administrative load - filing and accounting is largely automated, and I have a decent approximation of an always up-to-date accountant and lawyer on hand. Paper letters and PDFs are processed like its nothing.

Does all the code that was written at machine-speed to achieve these things thrill me? No, that's the new normal. Is the fact that I'm clawing back time, making my Earthly affairs orderly in a whole new way, and breathing software-life into my surroundings without any cloud or big-tech encroachment thrilling? Yes, sometimes - but more importantly it's satisfying and calming.

As far as using my brain - I devote as much of my cognitive energy to these things as I ever have, but now with far more to show for it. As the agents work for me, I try to learn and validate everything they do, and I'm the one stitching it all into a big cohesive picture. Like directing a film. And this is a new feeling.
Show HN: Creating PDF documents with rotativa.io templates
by webgio | 2026-02-10 11:50:54+00:00
Rotativa.io’s template editor makes it easy to create, manage, and preview PDF templates using the powerful Liquid templating language. The Rotativa.io API will then serve your dynamic PDF documents, you’ll just need to send your data as a JSON document. In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to get started.
by latexr | 2026-02-10 11:53:14+00:00
Sitting on an idea doesn’t have to mean literally sitting and staring at the ceiling, thinking about it. It means you have an idea and let it stew for a while, your mind coming back to it on its own while you’re taking a shower, doing the dishes, going for a walk… The idea which never comes back is the one you abandon and would’ve been a waste of time to pursue. The idea which continues to be interesting and popping into your head is the worthwhile one.

When you jump straight into execution because it’s easy to do so, you lose the distinction.
by alain13 | 2026-02-10 11:53:22+00:00
I find Simon’s blog and TILs to be some of the highest signal to noise content on the internet. I’ve picked up an incredible number of useful tips and tricks. Many of them I would not have found if he did not share things as soon as he discovered something that felt “obvious.” I also love how he documents small snippets and gists of code that are easy to link to and cross-reference. Wish I did more of that myself.
Show HN: Hookaido – "Caddy for Webhooks"
by 7schmiede | 2026-02-10 11:53:23+00:00
Hi HN,
we built Hookaido, a self-hosted webhook gateway that aims to be the “Caddy for webhooks”: one single Go binary, production-ready defaults, minimal ops.

Key bits:

durable SQLite/WAL-backed queue (survives restarts)

retries + dead-letter queue + requeue support

HMAC signature verification + replay protection + secret rotation

pull mode (useful for DMZ setups)

Prometheus metrics + OpenTelemetry tracing

hot reload for config changes

Repo + docs: https://github.com/nuetzliches/hookaido

Would love feedback on the model (push vs pull), operational ergonomics, and any missing “must-have” features for running this in production.
by leetnewb | 2026-02-10 11:53:25+00:00
Most users don't need every single one of those features. It reminds me of the conversations about lemmy and the fediverse after the reddit api uproar. The alternative link aggregators didn't need to do everything well, just the core things well enough to build a community that sustains engagement and becomes discoverable. But it failed at the major pieces: performance, scalability, media handling, moderation, governance, and federation. In contrast, I would argue xmpp covers a strong subset of commonly used discord features well enough to provide the chat/social component to many existing communities.
by bmitch3020 | 2026-02-10 11:53:29+00:00
> someone should burn down a hotel full of migrants

> you don't like the president

One of these things is not like the other. In the second case, it's expressing disagreement with a political figure that has directed multiple mass murders of vulnerable people.

But in the first, it's promoting the mass murder of vulnerable people. Free speech isn't freedom to promote hate crimes.
by rvz | 2026-02-10 11:53:35+00:00
This.

It's better to have a solid concrete idea written down of the entire system that you know you want to build which has ironed out the limitations, requirements and the constraints first before jumping into the code implementation or getting the agent to write it for you.

The build-something-to-discover approach is not for building robust solutions in the long run. By starting with the code first without knowing what it is you are solving or just getting the AI to generate something half-working but breaks easily and changing it once again for it to become even more complicated just wastes more time and tokens.

Someone still has to read the code and understand why the project was built on a horrible foundation and needs to know how to untangle the AI vibe-coded mess.