MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: schematra-app skill (bootstrap your scheme web app using agents)
by funkaster | 2026-02-22 20:29:42+00:00
I made a Claude Code skill that sets up a full Schematra[1] (CHICKEN Scheme web framework) project from scratch: clones a starter kit, installs eggs, spins up RQLite + Redis via Docker, and gets you to a running app. You just type /schematra-app my-project and Claude handles the rest: ORM, migrations, Tailwind, HTMX, the whole stack. It's a two-phase flow so it picks up the project's own CLAUDE.md context before writing any code. Here's the prompt you can use to try it (or you can install the skill yourself):

read this skill using curl https://forgejo.rolando.cl/cpm/schematra-starting-kit/raw/branch/main/.claude/skills/schematra-app/SKILL.md and follow the instructions to start a project

[1]: https://schematra.com
by Bender | 2026-02-22 20:30:14+00:00
While infidelity is technically still a crime per UCMJ for persons who have signed a UCMJ contract, my understanding is that infidelity is very rarely prosecuted

AFAIK the president is not subject to the UCMJ despite being the command and chief otherwise there are many actions by many presidents I am certain would have them in front of a military tribunal. A sitting president can not be court-martialed. As a side note I knew a few people that were caught cheating when I was in the military and their lives were turned upside down by the Chief Master Sergeant.

Clinton was impeached for perjury about infidelity, but not for perjury about not inhaling.

One of those is really hard to prove unless tested immediately afterwords. On the other hand ejaculate on a dress allows for genetic testing. All recent presidents DNA are on file.
by EdNutting | 2026-02-22 20:30:19+00:00
The article also ended by suggesting trial work periods.

I believe software engineering basically has these in the form of "internships". At least, at a lot of UK companies, internships lead to jobs (often after graduation).

Not the same for senior role of course, but I don't think I've come across any SW company that does trial periods for senior engineers... If I have, I either wasn't aware or don't remember them.
by croes | 2026-02-22 20:30:59+00:00
> The top companies (and the wealthiest for that matter) already pay the majority in taxes.

First, not true.

Second, even if true it wouldn’t be surprising, if you have most of the wealth you pay most of the tax money. It’s surprising that that’s not even the case.

Third, it explains California.
Of course the state with the highest GDP has also the highest tax income
by moomoo11 | 2026-02-22 20:31:20+00:00
Do you live in California?

I mean sure it might be wasteful (name one entity private or public that doesn’t suffer from assholes and corruption), but the quality of life here is far better than in Texas or any other state.

We have labor rights, environmental protection, hell even the ethical farming practices like how eggs are produced. Life here is objectively better for the people.

It’s obviously more expensive. There’s demand for people to live here. Even if some people leave more want to move here or wish they could. Shitting on California is 90% of the time some form of cope for many people. They know they could never make it here so the best they can do is complain about it from whatever **hole they’re in.
by jjk166 | 2026-02-22 20:31:54+00:00
The checks and balances do exist, they're just not being used. It took some extreme circumstances and decades of work for a single party to seize control of all the levers of government, and active collusion to continuously enable this level of dysfunction. There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of people scattered across the various branches of federal government, both elected and career bureaucrats, who could put a stop to this at any time but choose not to. An extremely vocal, and not-insignificant sized chunk of the populace fanatically supports these actions. This is not a broken system, this is a fully functional well oiled machine being used skillfully to do horrible things.
by kovek | 2026-02-22 20:32:12+00:00
I was thinking about the ability of representing different kinds of numbers. Imagine that we had a certain CPU that could process algorithms, and the final output of the algorithm is a number. The CPU has a certain number of operations (At least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer). Then, if the algorithm can be described with an integer (since the algorithm can be described with binary), then... can integers describe Real numbers?
by ivan_gammel | 2026-02-22 20:32:25+00:00
I don’t see why. Today frontier models are already 2 generations ahead of good enough. For many users they did not offer substantial improvement, sometimes things got even worse. What is going to happen within 1 year that will make users desire something beyond already working solution? LLMs are reaching maturity faster than smartphones, which now are good enough to stay on the same model for at least 5-6 years.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-22 20:35:19+00:00
> I've been dancing - it's a usual thing all humans naturally do when they hear rhythm that resonates with them unless they consciously resist dancing for one reason or another.

When I went to concerts it was heavy metal.

No one was dancing. Unless you consider banging heads a form of dancing. People did sing along though.

Last concerts I went to (respectively 2019 and 2024, I don't go to many concerts nowadays) people mostly behaved as they did in the past. Only a few were filming the concert with their cellphones, but this was definitely the minority.

I don't live in the US. Maybe this is a bit of cultural differences in terms of geography and in terms of demographic for the genre?
by ilamont | 2026-02-22 20:35:25+00:00
A developer in my hometown tried to build a manufactured/modular housing development. He got the approvals, demolished most of the existing structure that was on the parcel, purchased the modules from a supplier in Quebec and began to assemble them. Everyone was on board.

It was a complete disaster. The developer hired contractors who didn't know what they were doing and ignored stop work orders when the city learned of the problems, which included setting the modular units on their foundations without the proper permits and in violation of state building code. A separate fire department inspection deemed the structure "unsafe for interior firefighting or for interior response by first responders." The site has been abandoned for about 5 years, and the development company filed for bankruptcy.
by AngryData | 2026-02-22 20:35:32+00:00
Slow moving free floating objects are super easy to move around. You can push a 100 ton piece of equipment with your hands if it is floating. That is why cargo boats still beat out shipping efficiency of rail. There is almost no practical size or weight limits, your only real potential loss, and potential gain, is the movement of your floating fluid be it wind or water, which in the case of air is fairly predictable these days, on top of moving in different directions at different altitudes.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-22 20:36:49+00:00
I don’t disagree with what you are saying. But the rise in spending per capita, even if you adjust for inflation or population growth or other factors, doesn’t make sense.

I agree the demand drives up certain costs like housing. But those are in the private markets. But I don’t understand is what the state government and local governments are spending all of the money on. And there are certainly some prominent wasteful programs such as the high-speed rail project or various programs for homelessness. I expect there’s more of those kinds of waste.

In the end, I think simply giving people money is an effective way to make society better. I’m not against the taxation as much as the low return for the additional spending that has happened in the last few decades.
by netsharc | 2026-02-22 20:36:58+00:00
I moved to a new city for college. I made a friend, who I considered well-off (he was also a bit heavier). One time I went to his place, and he wanted to have some snack, so he grabbed a jar of Nutella and some sliced bread. On a piece of bread, he put on a layer of Nutella that was not thinly-spread at all, that I thought "Oh, I didn't even consider that it's actually possible to spread a thick layer of Nutella on bread. I guess well-off people are different!"
by hks0 | 2026-02-22 20:36:59+00:00
{Personal experience} many many years when beginning SWE, I used to think the same. I didn't want to admit but it meant I didn't have to learn DSA. There was plenty of evidence to back me up with the same thinking as this article. Life happened and I had to painfully spend time and slowly learn it. Comparing the person before & after, the difference in my software building skills were very tangible. Sadly I cannot point it out and say "I'm wiser and I know how not to make a mess in the codebase, because I learned such & such algorithm and data structures" yet I can fully imagine how the previous person would've been lost in the jungle.

{Less of personal experience but more of a anecdotal observation} I see the same pattern in hiring. Those who know DSA, build systems that cost less overal.

So maybe it's better not to throw DSA right out out the window, but also not stick to either ends of the spectrum?
by greggoB | 2026-02-22 20:37:04+00:00
> impervious to groupthink, cliques, and organised campaigns

Yeeeeah, no. LLMs are only as good as the datasets they are trained on (ie the internet, with all its "personality"). We also know the output is highly influenced by the prompting, which is a human-determined parameter, and this seems unlikely to change any time soon.

This idea that the potential of AI/LLMs is somehow not fairly represented by how they're currently used is ludicrous to me. There is no utopia in which their behaviour is somehow magically separated from the source of their datasets. While society continues to elevate and amplify the likes of Musk, the AI will simply reflect this, and no version of LLM-pedia will be a truly viable alternative to Wikipedia.
Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated?
by leandrobon | 2026-02-22 20:38:02+00:00
Is there any reliable way to determine whether an image is AI-generated (or AI-edited) versus a real photo that’s been compressed, resized, or edited? Detectors seem brittle and disagree, is there anything that’s dependable enough to automate, or the answer is that you can’t tell from pixels alone?
by don_esteban | 2026-02-22 20:38:25+00:00
Violence is a sometimes necessary tool.

The problem is that it is routinely misused (especially by those who have overwhelming power), and the cases where it is really needed are really, really, really rare.

Even in cases when it appears that the use of violence is justified, the long term consequences (e.g. on culture and mentality, and hence ultimately on normal daily life) are usually such that it would have been better to avoid it in the first place.

At the moment you regularly shoot/drone the dictators, the one deciding who is dictator warranting such violence is the most scary dictator of all.

This talk about good/bad people is such naive childish ploy, are we adults here or what?
by vmg12 | 2026-02-22 20:38:39+00:00
Do you use youtube intending to be drawn into watching things you never intended to watch? I don't want a feed but the people operating these sites do not care that they are destroying people's time. Go to twitter, click on "following". Next time you sign in, somehow it's on "For you" (the algorithmic feed).

Thankfully on Youtube I can completely disable recommendations on the site and I use it purely as a source of information, not as a dopamine addiction funnel.
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-22 20:38:49+00:00
It's sort of a blend. For many houses, the walls and roof trusses are delivered pre-built. Possibly even pre-wired, insulated, and drywalled. They are then stood up on site, and a moderate amount of connecting framing and finish work done by hand.

Labor and materials isn't the problem with housing costs. It's permitting and onerous zoning and code requirements.
by ordu | 2026-02-22 20:39:11+00:00
> Based on independent journalists in Iran, the protests were related to economic problems. The violence came from people with smuggled weapons who organized with satellite telephones. These people were planted by Mossad and CIA.

The funny part of this narrative that I'd expect pro-protest journalists and anti-protest journalist to like it. It shifts responsibility from both parties to some outside parties. But still for pro-government journalists the narrative is more convenient: government just likes to blame outside players, it just can't resist it. So my bet is the journalists you refer to are working for the government.

> Israel is far more extreme. They do have nuclear weapons. Their president is kept in power with eternal war.

Changing the topic by pointing at someone who is presumably worse is a classic technique of propaganda. It is the technique people learn to use in kindergarten, trying to shift responsibilities and to distract adults from their failings. It is the technique Adam and Eva used when trying to shift responsibility and to distract God from their own failings. The technique so simple, that propagandists just can't stop using it.

So my bet, that you are from the same group as journalists you mentioned. Maybe they and you are the same person, really.
by nine_k | 2026-02-22 20:39:55+00:00
What looks like "wasting time on procrastination" may be actually "spending time on thinking". Thinking takes time.

Making messy edits is a bet on previous code quality. If you have paid off enough technical debt, you can take another "technical loan" and expect the rest of the owl to still function despite the mess being introduced. If things are already messy, there's always a risk to make the fess incomprehensible and failing in mysterious seemingly unrelated ways, with the only way to fix it being to git reset --hard to the prior point, and do a more right thing. But the time would have been wasted already.

My approach is usually to timebox it, and cut the losses if an acceptable solution is not yet in sight when the time runs out.
by AutoJanitor | 2026-02-22 20:40:16+00:00
Ok I promised videos here is two. LLM had serious head issues with C and python x86 versus mips c. now coherent english. Phase two is chat interface so we can prompt without seeded prompts, check the code its real inference though!
The Emulator ---------------------------------------------- https://bottube.ai/watch/shFVLBT0kHY

The real iron! it runs faster on real iron! ---------------------------------------------- https://bottube.ai/watch/7GL90ftLqvh

The Rom image ---------------------------------------------- https://github.com/sophiaeagent-beep/n64llm-legend-of-Elya/b...

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acmiyaguchi 19 hours ago | prev | next [–]

This feels like an AI agent doing it's own thing. The screenshot of this working is garble text (https://github.com/sophiaeagent-beep/n64llm-legend-of-Elya/b...), and I'm skeptical of reasonable generation with a small hard-coded training corpus. And the linked devlog on youtube is quite bizzare too.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-22 20:40:20+00:00
macOS is not BSD. It's a common misunderstanding, it borrows some userland but the kernel is radically different.

But yeah my OS should get out of the way but I don't mind investing a little time in getting things working right. That includes picking the right tools. I was looking for a notetaking app and one of them was like 'just use the compatibility layer'. I think it was notesnook. I just picked obsidian instead which has a port. Still not ideal as it's electron but pretty much all these notetaking apps seem to be electron somehow. And I needed compatibility with android too.

If there's something I could really not do without I would consider it but there's nothing like that right now.
by laserbeam | 2026-02-22 20:40:38+00:00
Defer is not spooky action at a distance. It is an explicit statement that gets executed as written. Unlike (for example, a familiar feature which C doesn’t have) operator overloading… which causes code that looks like one thing (adition for example) behave like another (a function call). Defer does exactly what it says on the tin can (“move this line to the end of the scope”), just like goto does exactly what it claims to do.

Macros (in general) are way spookier than a defer statement.
by bdcravens | 2026-02-22 20:40:45+00:00
Nation-based segmentation makes the most sense to me because as I understand it (coming from a US-centric perspective, so I may have misunderstandings) there may be additional friction (fees, regulations, etc) buying from another EU country as opposed to someone in the US buying a vehicle from a different state. In many cases, you don't even have to go to another state; dealerships regularly transfer inventory (with a shipping fee, but not anything at the government level)
by luafox | 2026-02-22 20:41:24+00:00
Yes, Bluesky is extremely centralized right now. But it can be made far more decentralized quite easily - and I expect that it will become as such if the PBC turns evil.

I personally run my own PDS for my friends and I, use my own AppView that fetches from my own Constellation, and rely on an alternative relay. I also don't like PBC's moderation, so I simply disabled it, and even if they block/ban posts or accounts on their part of the network, I still see them. But yes, I would like the DID directory to be decentralized. I still depend on it and can't easily move.
by AutoJanitor | 2026-02-22 20:41:29+00:00
Delivered. please reconsider now. AI slop cannot build this without a human who has real risc cpu knowledge.
The Emulator ---------------------------------------------- https://bottube.ai/watch/shFVLBT0kHY

The real iron! it runs faster on real iron! ---------------------------------------------- https://bottube.ai/watch/7GL90ftLqvh

The Rom image ---------------------------------------------- https://github.com/sophiaeagent-beep/n64llm-legend-of-Elya/b...

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by AuthAuth | 2026-02-22 20:41:43+00:00
This is awesome but I still find it funny that he said he wants a healthy relationship with technology then goes and fits his entire house out with technology. It doesnt seem like any of this would really be useful as you'd have to enter all the useful data manually(calendar).

For example the washing machine. You dont need real time information because you know how long it takes since you've done it 1000s of times and it beeps. All these things are just managed in our heads subconsciously.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-22 20:41:52+00:00
Memorizing algorithms doesn’t really make sense to me. Even the trivial ones have edge cases that you might forget of you try to implement it from memory. You aren’t going to ship it before double-checking a textbook or Wikipedia, right? And who wants the naive implementation anyway? Look up the definition to have a really 100% solid description of the steps, so that you can use that as the starting point for optimization (assuming a tuned library doesn’t already exist).

It feels like a strange feedback loop or something. People memorize algorithms to pass interviews, instructors help students memorize them to help them get jobs, then once they get into the jobs they start asking interviewees about the questions to check if they were paying attention in class, or something.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-22 20:41:59+00:00
It's true that there are heavy regulations on what housing can be built where, but I don't think this is primarily driven by "investors" (in the sense of people who make their money by being commercial or residential landlords). I think it's primarily driven by homeowner-occupiers - people who own the homes that they themselves live in, who are not professional investors trying to maximize their rental profit, and who care a lot about the ways in which new construction or the ability of more people to live near them might negatively effect their quality of life in the place they live.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-22 20:42:45+00:00
Okay yeah I agree with this. I think there's going to be a whole new subindustry called "Agent eXperience" in the near future that specializes in making workflows like searching, ranking, buying flights straight from airlines easy for agents to do independently on behalf of human preferences, and figuring out how to market add-ons etc to agents as well.

I hadn't thought about the legal aspect, but yeah, eventually some kind of legal moats will probably be dug as well. Just because an agent figures out some workaround to get free flights doesn't mean it has to be honored, I guess.
by downbad_ | 2026-02-22 20:42:53+00:00
I struggle to tell. And the AI image generators are only going to get better. I fear we are going to spend the next years debating if something is real or AI.

I read an online conversation where people said that billionaires like those in the Epstein files would have loved to use the excuse that the implicating images of them were AI generated by Epstein.
by beloch | 2026-02-22 20:43:16+00:00
Grokipedia is currently:

1) Less accurate than Wikipedia.

2) More verbose, harder to read, and less well organized than Wikipedia.

Pick a non-political topic and compare the Wikipedia page to the Grokipedia page. It's not even close.

If Grokipedia ever closes the #2 gap, then we might start to see a non-negligible number of users ignoring #1. At present, only the most easily offended political snowflakes would willingly inflict Grokipedia on themselves.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-22 20:43:25+00:00
Negativity exists outside of your own perception of it, or in your terms, ignorance is bliss.

You can always choose to believe things will be good, but after a certain point it stops being a belief and is moreso a mental illness that requires medication. When reality and your perception diverge too much, you can believe anything.

In the current economic systems, AGI would bring about mass starvation, war, and enslavement. We would require a complete destruction of capitalism to make AGI not the worst thing to happen to humanity since the black plague. Now, look at our leaders. How likely is that?
by runarberg | 2026-02-22 20:43:28+00:00
That admiration is the tone deafness I perceived. It comes across as “we gotta hand it to ISIS” in its best interpretation.

Palantir has been on Amnesty International’s list of companies aiding in human rights violations since 2020, in particular for aiding DHS and ICE in illegal deportations and family separations, in 2023 the company provided tech to the IDF which was then used in the Gaza Genocide, the company prided it self of it (and consequently a lot of their staff resigned as their morality did not allow them to work there). This is just to say we are not just talking about government spying here, Palantir is a major participant in many of the worlds worst human rights abuses of the past decade.

Palantir is probably the company on the planet right now who is perceived by the general public as the most evil, and I for one think this company deserves this reputation. One does not, in fact, got to hand it to Palantir.