MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fastasucan | 2026-02-17 21:24:53+00:00
>So let's say we have a generation of people who use AI tools to code and no one really thinks hard about solving problems in niche spaces.

I don't think we need to wait a generation either. This probably was a part of their personality already, but a group of people developers on my job seems to have just given up on thinking hard/thinking through difficult problems, its insane to witness.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-17 21:24:58+00:00
> I had already been thoughtful about what I publicly post under my real name, had removed my personal information from online data brokers, frozen my credit reports, and practiced good digital security hygiene. I had the time, expertise, and wherewithal to spend hours that same day drafting my first blog post in order to establish a strong counter-narrative, in the hopes that I could smother the reputational poisoning with the truth.

This is terrible news not only for open source maintainers, but any journalist, activist or person that dares to speak out against powerful entities that within the next few months have enough LLM capabilities, along with their resources, to astro-turf/mob any dissident out of the digital space - or worse (rent-a-human but dark web).

We need laws for agents, specifically that their human-maintainers must be identifiable and are responsible. It's not something I like from a privacy perspective, but I do not see how society can overcome this without. Unless we collectively decide to switch the internet off.
by macabeus | 2026-02-17 21:25:07+00:00
I'm developing a pipeline runner for matching decompilation:
https://github.com/macabeus/mizuchi

The initial motivation is to run benchmarks, though the foundation is flexible and can support many other use cases over time.

It's already proving useful. For example, I can run a benchmark, view the results in a dashboard, and even feed the report into Claude Code to answer questions like:
"How did changing X affect the results?" or "What could be improved in the next run?"
by bpt3 | 2026-02-17 21:25:19+00:00
All this demonstrates is that you don't understand how the US banking system works. Bank failures != taxpayer funded bailouts.

Also, I don't know what you have been reading, but a comprehensive list of times that depositors have been bailed out by taxpayers (or anyone else, as the FDIC is not bailing out anyone by definition) would be quite short.

Lastly, there is a huge distinction between regulating banks and directly controlling access to an individual's funds. If you really can't see any theoretical problems there, I suggest you work on your creativity.
by sgjohnson | 2026-02-17 21:25:23+00:00
I’d argue that with explosives it’s significantly above zero.

But with bioweapons, yeah, that should be a solid zero. The ones actually doing it off an AI prompt aren't going to have access to a BSL-3 lab (or more importantly, probably know nothing about cross-contamination), and just about everyone who has access to a BSL-3 lab, should already have all the theoretical knowledge they would need for it.
by alexhans | 2026-02-17 21:25:29+00:00
Point taken. I was mistakenly assuming a conversational agent experience.

I love the idea of showing how easy prompt injection or data exfiltration could be in a safe environment for the user and will definitely keep an eye out on any good "game" demonstration.

Reminds me of the old hack this site but live.

I'll keep an eye out for the aftermath.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 21:25:33+00:00
You can use a different keyboard than the default AOSP keyboard with more modern features including but not limited to swipe typing. We plan to replace AOSP keyboard with a fork of a more modern app but there isn't yet one meeting the functionality requirements which is under a license we can use. FlorisBoard is what we have plans to eventually use, although it might not be what we end up using.
by atoav | 2026-02-17 21:25:37+00:00
As if that ever was a huge problem in the US. If you want people to vote and want to avoid disenfranchising US citizens there are ways to do that as demonstrated by the majority of countries on earth. When I vote for example in the EU (Austria), I proactively get a letter from the state (since I am in the voter register). With this letter and some ID card I can show up in the polling location on the weekend and vote after proofing I am the person on my ID card.

What if I am not home? I go to a website a month before the vote, they send me a letter and I vote whenever I like before my election.

Everybody has such an ID card since that card is what you would also show to proove your identity elsewhere. And since we have working social welfare every slice of the citizen population can also afford it.

If you want to solve that problem, it is possible. If you want to solve it, that is. Right wing parties will always use non-citizens as scapegoats that are at the same time draining the welfare state and stealing your jobs. Oh, and you votes. Believing them without citation is the problem here.
by yellowapple | 2026-02-17 21:25:39+00:00
> If you're just a guy trying to compile a C application on Windows, and you end up on the mingw-w64 downloads page, it's not exactly smooth sailing: https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/

One of the options on that page is MSYS2, which I specifically listed above alongside MinGW-w64. And that download page is much smoother sailing: https://www.msys2.org/

There are other options on the MinGW-w64 page, but most of those are for cross-compiling from non-Windows operating systems (which conceivably could include something running on WSL these days), and of the Windows-host options, the only two with “many” packages are Cygwin and MSYS2 (though WinLibs looks interesting).
by myonatan | 2026-02-17 21:25:43+00:00
I built a complete AI agent runtime that fits in 49KB. Written in Zig, zero external dependencies, runs on microcontrollers.

The full agent loop — call an LLM, parse the response, execute tools, iterate — on a $3 chip. Works with any OpenAI-compatible LLM provider (17+), persistent memory, auth, a skills/plugin system, and multi-channel I/O.

The Lite build (BLE only, no HTTP/TLS) is 49KB. The Full build with HTTP stack is ≤500KB. Both run on bare metal — no OS required.

Why Zig? No hidden allocations, no runtime, comptime for config. Every byte is accounted for. The entire codebase is 16 source files you can read in an afternoon.

BSL 1.1 license → Apache 2.0 in 2029. Free for <$1M revenue or <10K devices.

Site: https://krillclaw.com

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, Zig on embedded, or why I think every device should have an AI agent.
by krautburglar | 2026-02-17 21:25:54+00:00
PARC. Where Papert & Kay ran experiments on children for the military. All to answer the question: how fast can we get an above-average peasant trained on our symbol-processing apparati (radars, dashboards, etc). The answer: kinda fast. If you would think about it for a moment, you won't even need this history lesson to see that GUI is mostly a weapon. Facebook: weapon. Twitter: weapon. Excel: mostly a weapon. Photoshop: mostly a weapon. Web browser: weapon...
by ndiddy | 2026-02-17 21:26:32+00:00
It looks like Teamspeak covers the "group of friends who voice chat each other" use case (Discord DM groups) but not the "IRC replacement" use case (Discord servers). As far as I can tell, the licensing for Teamspeak 6 (the version that tries to be competitive with Discord) is set up such that anybody who joins the server (as opposed to anybody actively using it) uses up a slot, so the licensing fees for larger servers would be cost prohibitive. Additionally, the text chat functionality is way worse than on Discord. There's no way to just have a chat channel, you can only view and use the text chat when you're in a voice call in a voice channel.
by mothballed | 2026-02-17 21:26:46+00:00
Only if you keep the things those taxes were paying for. I have no public roads anywhere near me, ~no police, no fire service, no public utilities, basically no county services -- maybe it is not for everybody but once I experienced it I would never go back to having these public services. I basically pay a pittance for the local school and that is it. Once property taxes are eliminated the other voters can push to not have their taxes raised and just shitcan what property taxes were paying for.
by verdverm | 2026-02-17 21:27:23+00:00
My original comment: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/5...

The bot then replied to me, and I followed up with a "prompt inject with kindness" reply to that. The goal was to give it philosophical questions to pollute the context and steal attention. It appears the bot had difficulty deploying the blog for a couple of days after, but I won't claim causation because it would be impossible to prove. It's certainly fun to explore the curiosities of Ai on someone else's tokens.

Relaying on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/verdverm.com/post/3mepiv2i3xc2g

You'll want to look at the git history on a couple of repos to reconstruct this history. There's an entire dimension to this story that people are missing.

Happy to chat off HN as well, I'm verdverm everywhere I hang out online.
by strcat | 2026-02-17 21:27:34+00:00
You can bypass Play Store restrictions on app installs by using Aurora Store. There's a high chance your banking app can be used but it may require toggling the per-app exploit protection compatibility mode. Most banking apps work on GrapheneOS. X is one of extremely few apps disallowing using a non-Google-certified OS but it only partially disallows it in their store listing which can be worked around and for regular password login. Login is still possible to X via a passkey or Google login. X should stop doing that but they're quite understaffed and did this as a misguided anti-spam measure.
by BrenBarn | 2026-02-17 21:29:00+00:00
I'm not a big JS fan, but to be fair this article seems more like "bloated JS frameworks have poor performance". And like, yeah. But you can use JS without using a bloated framework.

It's funny though that the article is circling back to Web 2.0-era server-side stuff. It's an idea whose time has come!
by brabel | 2026-02-17 21:29:10+00:00
Same thing happened to us. Me and a C level guy were personally attacked. It feels really bad to see someone you actually tried really hard to help fit in , but just couldn’t despite really wanting the person to succeed, come around and accuse you of things that clearly aren’t true. HR got the to remove the “review” eventually but now there’s a little worry about what the team really thinks, whether they would do the same in some future layoff (we never had any, the person just wasn’t very good).
by palata | 2026-02-17 21:29:17+00:00
Just like Linux can mean "the Linux kernel" or "a Linux distribution" in "common use of the terms", Android can mean "a device that can legally be advertised using the Android trademark" or "whatever looks like Android to people".

Now when someone says "Break free from Android... by installing Android?", either they are having fun by using the two different meanings in the same sentence, or they are confused and genuinely believe that using GrapheneOS does not allow you to break free from the system running on a device that can legally be advertised using the Android trademark.

To that, I answer that GrapheneOS is not a system that can legally be advertised using the Android trademark, but rather a system that is based on what is commonly (and can legally be) called AOSP, which is made of the open source codebase that builds the system that can legally be advertised as Android.

Similarly, in a discussion about kernels, Android is a Linux system, but in a discussion about OSes, Android is not a Linux system. If I write an article about "breaking free from Linux by using Android", where the context makes it exceedingly clear that I'm talking about Linux as an OS and not Linux as a kernel, and you say "it makes no sense, you're talking about breaking free from Linux by installing... Linux", then I think you're confused. As in: you did not understand what the article was talking about.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-17 21:29:22+00:00
No, the bank pays you interest on your deposit to entice you to deposit money there so they can lend it out. There is literally zero risk involved (other than something on the scale of the collapse of the US government, which no one is really considering here) because of the FDIC, and yet interest rates on FDIC protected assets are not 0%.
by restalis | 2026-02-17 21:29:26+00:00
"I’ve seen too many «well crafted» implementations of such technically vexing features as «fetching data and returning it» that were so overengineered that it should have been considered theft of company money."

This judgement has merit. However, over the years I got to perceive that over-engineering tendency to be the manifestation of exploratory spirit in one's craft. This is how the Unix got to be created at Bell Labs. To their managers, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on programs like the "ed" editor, thus they cared about "value being provided to the user (or the business)". What was later officially named Unix was not pitched as an operating system, but instead framed mostly just a needed way to organize the growing set of utilities, among other things (i.e. as a footnote). What are the over-engineered bits (and the related gained experience) in a given project may become useful for something else. People (tend to) do this kind of stuff. But should they be blamed, considering the promise of growth and development practiced by employers themselves, as part of enticing game of recruitment?
by strcat | 2026-02-17 21:29:30+00:00
Fairphone is far from meeting the update and security requirements for GrapheneOS. It isn't a viable platform for a hardened OS to use and isn't likely to ever become one due to security being very far from a priority for them.

GrapheneOS has a partnership with one of the largest Android OEMs. They're going to be announcing it in March 2026. Devices meeting all of the update and security requirements from them with official GrapheneOS support are planned for 2027. We don't expect future Pixels to prevent installing GrapheneOS but we'll be fine if they do. We'd still like to keep supporting new Pixels but they'll become a secondary option in the future since there will be devices with official support.
by mbreese | 2026-02-17 21:29:58+00:00
I also check for the License of a project when I'm looking at a project for the first time. I usually only look at that information once, but it should be easily viewed.

I also look for releases if it's a program I want to install... much easier to download a processed artifact than pull the project and build it myself.

But, I think I'm coming around to the idea that we might need to rethink what the point of the repository is for outside users. There's a big difference in the needs of internal and external users, and perhaps it's time for some new ideas.

(I mean, it's been 18 years since Github was founded, we're due for a shakeup)
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-17 21:30:05+00:00
Also, if it actually worked, Tesla's marketing would literally never shut up about it because they have a working fully self-driving car. That would be the first, second, and third bullet point in all their marketing, and they would be right to do that. It's an incredible feature differentiator from all their competition.

The only problem is, it doesn't work.
by alecco | 2026-02-17 21:30:26+00:00
There's no BBC doc on how they (BBC) covered for Jimmy Savile for decades, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/24/john-lydon-say...

“I’m very, very bitter that the likes of Savile and the rest of them were allowed to continue. I did my bit, I said what I had to. But they didn’t air that.”
by michaelt | 2026-02-17 21:30:45+00:00
> Almost every organization has software it can’t easily automate: specialized systems and tools built before modern interfaces like APIs existed. [...]

> hundreds of tasks across real software (Chrome, LibreOffice, VS Code, and more) running on a simulated computer. There are no special APIs or purpose-built connectors; the model sees the computer and interacts with it in much the same way a person would: clicking a (virtual) mouse and typing on a (virtual) keyboard.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
by shoo | 2026-02-17 21:30:59+00:00
middling code, delivered within a tolerable time frame, budget, without taking excessive risk, is good enough for many real-world commercial software projects. homogeneous middling code, written by humans or extruded by machines, is arguably even a positive for the organisation: lots of organisations are more interested in delivery of software projects being predictable, or having a high bus-factor due to the fungibility of the folks (or machines) building and maintaining the code, rather than depending upon excellence.
Show HN: I built a thinking framework for Claude
by bengia | 2026-02-17 21:31:05+00:00
I built an open-source Claude Code skill called /think that applies a structured 5-element analysis framework (ground in facts, stress-test for failure, reframe the question, trace implications, audit your own reasoning) before synthesizing a recommendation.
The obvious question: does it actually produce better output than just asking Claude directly?
To test this, I ran blind A/B comparisons. Two isolated Claude Opus 4.6 agents get the same question — one runs /think, one responds naturally. Both responses are anonymized (framework markers stripped, sections retitled by content) and presented blind.
The test covers 5 topics any professional would recognize: scaling a team post-fundraise, build vs buy decisions, when to pivot a product, SaaS pricing strategy, and the remote/hybrid/office debate.
An AI judge scored /think winning all 5 pairs. But AI judging AI is circular — which is why the blind test is live for humans to judge.
What I found so far (~21 comparisons across calibration + blind tests):

/think wins ~69% of comparisons overall
Risk coverage is the clearest advantage (17-2 across all tests) — it consistently surfaces failure modes the organic response misses
Decision impact is nearly even — organic Claude is often more actionable for practical problems
Novel insight is mostly a wash — both find similar core insights, just different ones
No decisive gaps in either direction. The advantage is depth and rigor, not dramatic superiority

Honest limitations:

All judges so far are AI. The whole point of publishing the blind test is to get human validation.
~21 comparisons is a pattern, not statistical significance
Anonymization isn't perfect — /think responses have stylistic tells (confidence assessments, "what would change this conclusion" sections)
The framework costs significantly more tokens

The skill itself is a recursive learning agent — it persists what it learns to a .think/ directory and loads that context in future sessions. Over time it builds project-specific knowledge. It also used its own framework to diagnose and fix its own weaknesses after the first round of testing.
Everything is open source: https://github.com/bengiaventures/effective-thinking-skill
I'd genuinely like to know if the blind test matches what the AI judges found, or if humans see something different. Takes about 15 minutes.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-17 21:31:45+00:00
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-open...

And, it's David Gerard!

Look, this is actually one of the few applications application where crypto actually makes sense, NullC did convince me of that. Agents paying their own way. Note how it's USDC: fiat-tied, not a deflationary hodl-coin.

I mean, I like Gorillawarfare and NullC, and think they're both right in different ways. And I'm not sorry. Not going to relitigate here.

(And, Sorry David, if you read HN too: I've often seen you be right, but I've been digging here too, and you jumped the gun on this one. )
by justin66 | 2026-02-17 21:31:54+00:00
> Wouldn't some investor decide to just net the approximately ~1.8% by increasing demand and buying it up?

When it comes to individual investors, sure, in a situation where everything is going crazy in the markets some will buy and some will be happy to sell, provided the exchange doesn't halt trading temporarily in response to an extreme drop in share prices. The problem comes when the large market makers who are meant to really be on the ball and buy large blocks of shares quickly are suddenly worried about their own survival, or at least that's the way I remember a few of the chaotic days of 2008.

I knew a few people who made money buying bond ETFs at a discount to NAV.
Show HN: Nobody asked for OpenClaw in the cloud. I did it anyway
by deduxer | 2026-02-17 21:32:20+00:00
Contracts, invoices, time tracking, browser automation… all from WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack.

One message, it happens.
Thats my vision.

Sonnet 4.6 just dropped.

I swapped it in. 2 min job.

Same agent, noticeably cheaper to run. Agentic tasks that used to cost me $0.15 are closer to $0.04 now. At 79 tools firing across hundreds of users… that’s the difference between a business and a burn rate.

Models are getting cheaper faster than people realize. And the next shift isn’t better chat… it’s MCP. Agents that don’t just talk but actually connect, act, and hand off to each other. That’s where this is going.

I came to realize one thing building this over 2 years and 4 complete rebuilds…

The agent layer is becoming infrastructure.

accordio.ai
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-17 21:32:24+00:00
> It appears that CBS sees equal airtime as a very serious threat to their programming.

This seems very dubious given the recent ownership change of CBS and the lack of reason behind the decision. The point the parent comment brings up is that "equal airtime" requires that someone actually request to go on the show and be refused. There is no legitimate cover for CBS' decision as this did not occur. It seems incredibly likely to be one made in fear of political liability rather than legal.
by criticalfault | 2026-02-17 21:32:31+00:00
webassembly is not an alternative to Js. if someone else said it, fine, but I didn't.

the reason why I didnt is because I despise JavaScript and was hoping that webassembly would give an alternative. which never became an alternative.

with embedded you are arguing for my point. you say sometimes there are alternatives (maybe depending on the platform). sometimes not. you can change platforms as well. that's fine. sometimes is very much different from none. and we have none for the web.
by pseudalopex | 2026-02-17 21:32:44+00:00
> I think it’s funny that while GOP supporters are investing tens of $billions to take over popular broadcast and social media brands to privilege their point of view, Brendan Carr threatens to invoke the equal time rule, which would completely negate their structural advantage.

Why assume the rule would be applied fairly? Carr said they would not enforce it against right wing radio.
by larsiusprime | 2026-02-17 21:33:13+00:00
Although they key thing here is that it's not just that effect, but emergent unintended consequences. In the article, it describes how non profit healthcare institutions have an incentive to buy for profit clinics, because (alongside the other incentives), when they do so, the real estate becomes tax exempt because now it's owned by a non profit, even if the work being performed stays the same.
by lern_too_spel | 2026-02-17 21:33:21+00:00
> Mark Zuckerberg has long said the administration pressured Facebook to censor COVID-related content, including satire and humor.

He said this once and did not describe the pressure. In that same letter, he said that the company didn't agree and government officials "expressed a lot of frustration." There were no threats of fines or lawsuits.