MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Openwhiteclaw AI agents for people who think GitHub is a fitness app
by beeeenorm | 2026-02-03 19:20:39+00:00
A landing page for an AI agent platform written entirely in TikTok-speak with 90s web design. Agents include "DoorDash Daddy" and "Hinge Whisperer."
The actual point: current agent tooling is built for developers. We're building agent infrastructure for people who think "debugging" is removing bugs from their apartment.
https://openwhiteclaw.com
by bborud | 2026-02-03 19:20:40+00:00
Actually, video conferencing systems aren't that hard to build anymore. But it is hard to grow them as companies.

Just among my circle of friends there were two startups that made video conferencing systems. One generic, and one for uses that required a higher degree of security. If we move one stratum out, there are about half a dozen startups where friends of friends take part in developing smart cameras for video conferencing as well as industrial uses.

And then there was the Tandberg video conferencing platform which was acquired by Cisco in 2010. (That entire stack was designed and engineered in Norway. From low level DSPs to software).

There are dozens of companies that could make a video conferencing system in Europe today that would be no worse than what you find in Zoom, Teams etc. But since it is a crowded field, they haven't had the muscle to compete.
by dcrazy | 2026-02-03 19:20:56+00:00
No, the United States doesnt have a central land registry because that is not an enumerated power of the federal government. The individual states have sovereignty over their own land and each has its own system for land registration. The article you linked to even names several states that have a partial Torrens title system.

The claim that the title insurance industry is the reason for lack of adoption of Torrens title schemes is uncited, and immediately followed by descriptions of several cases where Torrens title was adopted (often poorly) and later abandoned.
by hippo22 | 2026-02-03 19:21:13+00:00
The issue with “just” insulating your home is that many homes weren’t designed with insulation in mind and thus it’s not a straightforward proposition.

For instance, masonry was a common building material and that is not easy to insulate. You need to add many inches of insulation on either the outside or the inside, both of which have complications.

Even in a basic stick framed house, you’re still talking about taking down all the exterior walls, likely involving removing plaster and replacing it with drywall. Plaster has a number of nice properties, so it’s sad to remove. And that’s not to mention the price of this work.

Finally, roofs need special consideration. Most roofs today need to be properly vented, which was not as much of a consideration when the houses naturally breathed. Venting today is often done with soffit vents. Yet on historic houses, soffits are typically one of the nicer details. It’s not trivial or cheap to install venting in such cases.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 19:21:47+00:00
> If they forked it and abandoned the old project file and went with a swift first approach, could work.

Ever attempted this before at a large company and had success with it? I think I can count four times so far in ~15 years where people attempted to rewrite something medium/large-scale from scratch around me, was a success once, although scope was drastically cut at the end so almost a stretch to call it a success.
by unbalancedevh | 2026-02-03 19:22:17+00:00
The reality in 2024 was that yes, the alternative was more of the previous administration.

Maybe that was never a way to whatever ideal solution or policies might be possible in the future. But the only possible benefit of the current administration is that people's eyes get opened to the lunacy that's possible, resulting in a sort of mini-revolution that enacts changes that prevent the collusion and grift that are happening now.

The Trump administration doesn't have any real government improvements in mind. They're only play is to destabilize the current status of whatever's in their sights, blame Democrats or whoever else is convenient for the mess, and profit from the confusion. Example: The Republican party has always had financial conservatism as a main goal. When was the last time the national debt or deficit improved under Republican leadership? Another, healthcare: For all of the complaining that Republicans have done about Obamacare, why haven't they replaced it with something better yet since they've had full control of the government? They've shown that they don't actually care about good government.

What we got in the current administration wasn't any kind of secret before the 2024 election. People voted for it anyway because they're susceptible to the kinds of misinformation they were being fed. Trump's latest comments on his lack of commitment to peace, the cost of housing, and the well-being of the general population (just to name a few) make it clear that he doesn't consider them important; and Republican's fealty to him show the same of them.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 19:22:27+00:00
Oh Cm'on, Let's go with the former :D

To be honest a bit sad seeing my karma: word ratio but hey I feel as if its okay.

Afterall a lot of its just internet points. I just wanted to do something fun and I did have fun and that's probably it! :D

To be honest, Life is pretty short to be depressed over such now that I am thinking about it. Anyways, Watch the funny cat video/listen to the I am only human song (linked to both in the website) which is pretty funny/enjoyable imo.

Have a nice day!
by bill_02109 | 2026-02-03 19:22:43+00:00
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by int_19h | 2026-02-03 19:22:44+00:00
Why? There's no particular reason why a language can't span low-level to high-level. C# is a good example of that: normally you deal with garbage collected objects and references, but if you need to drop down to explicit stack allocations, raw pointers, unions etc, you can - though of course the resulting code looks very different from idiomatic high-level code.
by ly07 | 2026-02-03 19:23:08+00:00
We’ve open-sourced a RAG system we built for internal use at IncidentFox and decided to share it in case it’s useful to others.

There’s no novel research here. The system is a careful engineering composition of existing ideas: RAPTOR-style hierarchical retrieval, knowledge graphs, hybrid BM25 + dense search, HyDE query expansion, and a reranker (Cohere), which ended up being one of the bigger quality wins.

On benchmarks, it slightly outperforms RAPTOR on multi-hop retrieval (72.89% on MultiHop-RAG) and gets ~99% retrieval accuracy on SQuAD.

The main effort here was turning those ideas into a well-documented, installable system that you can run and modify without pulling together a dozen repos.

We use this internally to store and retrieve company and team knowledge. Since retrieval isn’t our competitive moat, we decided to open-source it.

Repo: https://github.com/incidentfox/OpenRag

Write-up with more details: https://www.incidentfox.ai/blog/how-we-beat-raptor-rag.html

Happy to answer questions or discuss design tradeoffs.
by runjake | 2026-02-03 19:23:26+00:00
My spend was similar. I only spent one day with it. Pretty neat but a security can of worms and I already do similar automations with Apple Shortcuts and APIs and the Apple Foundation models on-device. It's free and does a great job.

If I had the time and desire, I'd write up a little Swift app and an OpenClaw plugin to just use Apple Foundation models locally, by default. AFM still sucks for code, so proxy those requests out to Claude or Codex or whatever.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 19:23:27+00:00
>Steelmanning is not challenging them at all. It is whitewashing them, making softer argument so that they are more palatable and frequently undistinguishable from support.

I think you misread what I wrote. Yes Steelmanning them is not challenging them. What I said was that if you go the other direction and challenge them it does not work either. It might makes you feel good but no progress gets made.

You put way too much emphasis into my original comment of steelanning them. The original goal of sitting and observing them for two years was to try to understand their mentality, their point of view to then figure out how to convert at least some of them. Thats where the depression came in when I realized that there is no plan, no ideology, and no real end state: just vibes in the moment. This is not a cohesive vision for the future of a country.
by aragoss | 2026-02-03 19:23:29+00:00
Thanks!

UUIDs: By default—no. Since UUIDs are Hex (limited charset 0-f), they have lower entropy than Base64 secrets. The threshold is tuned to sit safely above UUIDs but below API keys.

Naming: You are totally right. Currently, it focuses on "high-entropy PII" (passwords, auth tokens, session IDs) rather than names or SSNs. "Secrets Shield" might have been more precise, but naming is hard :)
by waffletower | 2026-02-03 19:24:06+00:00
The author decidedly has expert syndrome -- they deny both the history and rational behind memory units nomenclature. Memory measurements evolved utilizing binary organizational patterns used in computing architectures. While a proud French pedant might agree with the decimal normalization of memory units discussed, it aligns more closely to the metric system, and it may have benefits for laypeople, it fails to account for how memory is partitioned in historic and modern computing.
Show HN: A mini-metro inspired game involving dollar-based economics too
by championswimmer | 2026-02-03 19:24:19+00:00
Thanks to Opus/5.2/3Pro (I used all in various capacities) I was able to make a version of Mini Metro with some of my own quirks. I wanted residential/office space densities, so station placement is strategic. I also wanted a real economic engine like Transport Fever/City Skylines type games, so it costs actual money to build stations/lines and keep operating them, and you make revenue from metro tickets.

Feel free to suggest ideas to add to increase the game dynamics and complexity, I am all ears! This is the first time I have tried my hand at making a game. It is open source and you see the source code on https://github.com/championswimmer/metromap.io
by nilslindemann | 2026-02-03 19:24:39+00:00
Yes, especially as the company could just implement a button "Delete your data" on their website. An automated task initiated by the user. No work for them.

Companies could also make clear before any registration, on one page, which data they will ask for and later collect. If they were honest. Then the user had a chance to opt out _before_ they have given any data to them.

Well, they are not honest, because what do they do instead? Page 1: "Please, your E-Mail". Page 2: "We also need your phone number (we may call you)". Page 3: "Great, nearly done. Now please, your address, your credit card, a fingerprint copy and a picture of your penis".

I am in favor of appending a zero to those 5.000 Euros.
by pseudalopex | 2026-02-03 19:24:40+00:00
Many companies issue laptops. But even some of them have shared computers in meeting rooms or connected to equipment. Single user laptops are rare in medical facilities, banks, call centers, and many other places in my experience. Many shared desktops could be replaced by virtual desktop infrastructure theoretically. But this would cost more in many cases.

My network configuration is in /etc. Flatpak applications can be installed for system or user. And users able to install applications for themselves does not make the multi user model broken.
by mfkp | 2026-02-03 19:24:42+00:00
Wow, very angry and uninformed comment. No airplane owners are lobbying for lead. As a pilot with a personal airplane that runs on avgas, we all want lead to go away too. But it's a problem with FAA regulations, and an infrastructure problem where every airport nationwide needs to have separate fuel tanks/trucks with leaded fuel and the newer lead-free alternatives simultaneously, which is a massive expense. Plus, there is no consensus on which lead-free alternative is safest for old engines, so we're still waiting on data.

California has a few airports that are stocking the lead-free alternatives, but that's about it.

But yes, blame the small aircraft owners if it makes you feel better.

> "piston engine aircraft carry virtually no vital role in anything except people flying them for fun"

I guess we just shouldn't train new pilots then.
by kellystonelake | 2026-02-03 19:24:52+00:00
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY I sued Meta. My case has survived a move to Federal Court, a motion to dismiss, and is now in the discovery stage. you’re invited to my lawsuit’s birthday party, a roundup of what’s been revealed by other whistleblowers and investigations about child safety in Horizon and Meta’s systemic misogyny in the year since I filed:

• March 11: Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People Released:

Former Director of Global Public Policy's memoir reveals Meta’s culture of sexual harassment, children seen as collateral damage, and that women who raised concerns were removed.

• April 10: Fairplay's Research and RFI:

Child advocacy nonprofit files FTC complaint alleging Meta violated COPPA in Horizon Worlds, and kids’ exposure to harm in the product.

• June 10: Laura Bates' Guardian Investigation:

"Misogyny in the Metaverse" documents virtual sexual assault, children exposed to explicit content, and complete absence of moderation in Horizon Worlds.

• September 8: Washington Post Investigation:

Naomi Nix and Jon Swaine report that Meta's lawyers deleted evidence, shut down projects, and told researchers to avoid documenting children under 13 in Horizon.

• September 9: Sattizahn & Savage Senate Testimony:

Horizon researchers testify to "funnel of manipulation" where Meta controlled and erased research on kids in VR.

• January 12: Britta Hummel's Departure:

Reality Labs Engineering Manager publishes reflection on leaving after six years. Describes silencing on diversity hiring and child safety, and a culture intolerant of empathetic leadership.

Meta knows about the harms in Horizon and beyond. But they’ve made it structurally impossible for that knowledge to change anything.

Meta knows about their misogynistic culture and the havoc it wreaks on women who speak up within the company. But Zuckerberg goes on podcasts calling for a “more masculine” workplace.

My lawsuit is about what happens when companies build systems designed to silence the people who could actually make them better.

The legal process is one way to destabilize that system. But it won’t be the only way, and it won’t be enough on its own. We need regulatory action. We need continued investigation. We need media divestment. We need deactivated accounts. We need more people willing to speak up, even when it costs them.

And we need to stop accepting the premise that Meta is trustworthy enough for your data and attention, or worse, that this is just how tech works.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-02-03 19:25:14+00:00
It feels very close to a trade-off point.

I agree with all posts in the chain: Opus is good, Anthropic have burned good will, I would like to use other models...but Opus is too good.

What I find most frustrating is that I am not sure if it is even actual model quality that is the blocker with other models. Gemini just goes off the rails sometimes with strange bugs like writing random text continuously and burning output tokens, Grok seems to have system prompts that result in odd behaviour...no bugs just doing weird things, Gemini Flash models seem to output massive quantities of text for no reason...it is often feels like very stupid things.

Also, there are huge issues with adopting some of these open models in terms of IP. Third parties are running these models and you are just sending them all your code...with a code of conduct promise from OpenRouter?

I also don't think there needs to be a huge improvement in models. Opus feels somewhat close to the reasonable limit: useful, still outputs nonsense, misses things sometimes...there are open models that can reach the same 95th percentile but the median is just the model outputting complete nonsense and trying to wipe your file system.

The day for open models will come but it still feels so close and so far.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-03 19:25:54+00:00
> It is not cognitive dissonance to learn from others.

I didn't say it was. I said it was to attack one binary blob abstraction while embracing another.

> Windows did something right because you can run very old binaries on a new system. Good luck doing that on Linux.

I agree, but that's entirely irrelevant.

> systemd ... works and brings a benefit it might be a good thing to start to depend on it.

We have very different philosophies, you and I.
by Eric_WVGG | 2026-02-03 19:25:54+00:00
Like you, I think that Xcode maybe gets a worse rap than it deserves, but it's also endlessly frustrating.

First, the performance is just bad. The responsiveness compared to apps like VSC or Panic’s Nova is night-and-day.

The attention given to the design of new features is piss-poor. Placing the AI functionality on the left sidebar makes no sense; all the other tools on the left are project management, all the "let me run weird functions and interact with stuff" is in the bottom panel, where the terminal, debug and logs are. Or maybe a new tab in the main workspace area?

The SwiftUI preview canvas can't be floated as a separate window, making it all but useless on anything smaller than a 16" MBP (and only barely usable there). In fact, I think it might be impossible to use Xcode in multiple screens altogether…?

Old simulator versions and cache files hang around forever, you need a third-party app like DevCleaner just to keep your storage from filling with nonsense. Cryptic messages like "copying symbols to device"… clear-cache that doesn't seem to clear-cache, that stupid list UI for info.plist…

I never thought I'd have anything nice to say about PNPM package management, but you can always just delete `node_modules` and reinstall and count on things working. Swift package management is a cryptic mess, and their insistence on using a GUI instead of a basic JSON manifest just compounds it. Like the info.plist thing, a lot of Xcode is based on a developer UI philosophy from the Mac Classic days that has mostly been abandoned by the rest of the world.

Mostly, I think the vitriol surrounding Xcode is that Apple seems to think they're doing a good job; meanwhile their most ardent and adept users are insisting that they are not. Same boat as MacOS, really.
by trinix912 | 2026-02-03 19:26:09+00:00
Mostly the fact that for the past 10 years they've been adding new features but never finished them and taken the time to properly bugfix them along the way. Just a few I ran into recently:

- Interface Builder is stuck in early 2010s. Not only is the property panel missing half of options we now take for granted everywhere else (like corner radius), it also randomly won't read fonts in the current project, will crash the entire IDE if you Cmd-Z a big change (things like unembedding a view) and half the UI is still not rendered the way it will be on the phone. Yes, Swift UI exists, but most bigger apps are still XIBs and Storyboards and it's going to remain that way for quite some time.

- Autocomplete is a hit or miss. Very much like the mid-90s Microsoft IDEs where you'd get totally useless results until you've typed the whole line out already. It can be done well, look at AppCode.

- Syntax highlighting feels pretty much the same. Randomly flashes on and off, often doesn't highlight until return is pressed, takes a long time to load on large files etc.

- Git integration is by far the worst I've seen out of any IDE and I've seen many. I'd go as far as to say that SourceSafe integration in VB6 was done better. Just the whole layout, modal-on-modal returning to the first modal on an error in the second and so on. It's crashed when rebasing a few times too, I don't trust it with larger operations since.

- Documentation browser is this annoying little window with semi-useful search. But don't worry, the docs in there are useless anyways. I could go on and on about their approach to docs but maybe next time.

Don't even get me started on performance. Things like switching file tabs should be instant by now but there are still noticeable delays for larger files and IB screens. Plus there's now two kinds of tabs (app-level and file-level) to add to the mess.
by nayuki | 2026-02-03 19:26:21+00:00
That's still wrong and you've solved nothing. 32 Gb = 32 000 000 000 bits = 4 000 000 000 bytes = 4 GB (real SI gigabytes).

If you think 32 Gb are binary gibibits, then you've disagreed with Ethernet (e.g. 2.5 Gb/s), Thunderbolt (e.g. 40 Gb/s), and other communication standards.

That's why I keep hammering on the same point: Creating context-dependent prefixes sows endless confusion. The only way to stop the confusion is to respect the real definitions.
by mrkurt | 2026-02-03 19:26:22+00:00
Sandboxes with the right persistence and http routing make excellent dev servers. I have about a million dev servers I just use from whatever computer / phone I happen to be using.

It's really useful to just turn a computer on, use a disk, and then plop its url in the browser.

I currently do one computer per project. I don't even put them in git anymore. I have an MDM server running to manage my kids' phones, a "help me reply to all the people" computer that reads everything I'm supposed to read, a dumb game I play with my son, a family todo list no one uses but me, etc, etc.

Immediate computers have made side projects a lot more fun again. And the nice thing is, they cost nothing when I forget about them.
Show HN: Ozor.ai – Create launch-ready videos from a single prompt
by Martinmm | 2026-02-03 19:26:40+00:00
Hi everyone

I’m Martin, founder of Ozor.ai.

Ozor turns a single text prompt into a short, launch-ready video—automatically handling scenes, pacing, typography, transitions, and branding. The goal is to make product demos, feature launches, and announcements fast enough that teams actually ship videos instead of postponing them.

What it does

Prompt → storyboard → video (end-to-end)

Designed for short product, SaaS, and announcement videos

Clean, modern motion defaults (customizable)

Export formats ready for X, Instagram, YouTube, etc.

Why we built it
Video has become essential for launches, but tools are either too complex or too manual. We wanted something closer to “write a good sentence, get a good video.”

Who it’s for

Founders, indie hackers, marketers, and product teams who want quick, repeatable videos without editing timelines.

We’re early and actively iterating. Feedback—especially critical feedback—is very welcome.
by Lammy | 2026-02-03 19:26:40+00:00
> People have a right to propose changes to broken things they use.

Here's the root of your misunderstanding. “Broken” is subjective, relative only to you.

> it's right there is name of the feature "Pull Request", it's a request, not a demand.

That's marketing-speak. It is absolutely a demand. PRs are a growth-hacking feature and are part of how GitHub got to be so dominant. The abuse of social pressure calling someone's project unmaintained was the same mechanism used for the XZ Utils backdoor: https://securelist.com/xz-backdoor-story-part-2-social-engin...