MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wwxoxo | 2026-02-23 18:42:10+00:00
I’ve spent way too many Sunday nights hunched over a laptop for my family's budget. My "master spreadsheet" was great for control, but a nightmare to maintain—every bank has a different idea of what a CSV should look like, and I was tired of fixing headers and +/- signs manually just to see if we were overspending.

I built OpBoard to be the middle ground. I didn't want to give away my bank passwords to an automated app, but I wanted the spreadsheet "maintenance" to disappear.

A few things I focused on to make this actually usable:

The Importer: It’s format-agnostic. It maps and normalizes data from Chase, Amex, BoA, etc., automatically so you can just drop the file and go.

The Keyword Engine: You teach it a rule once (like "Starbucks" = Food) and it’s done. I also added an AI helper that scans your history to suggest rules for you, which saves a ton of initial setup time.

No Double-Counting: It hashes transactions so if you accidentally upload the same month twice, it just skips the duplicates.

The "Spouse Test": I made the dashboard a single, continuous view. My wife can jump in and see vendor-level detail instantly without me having to explain how a pivot table works.

It’s still in beta, and I’m really looking for feedback from fellow "Excel refugees." Are there specific charts or data pivots you’ve built for yourself that you feel are missing from most finance apps?

Happy to chat about the stack or the logic if anyone is curious!
by anizeu | 2026-02-23 18:42:33+00:00
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Simply describe your business and Zoye will instantly set up all the relevant tools for you.

Ask Zoye anything you need: Create tasks, link them to contacts, set reminders & meetings, send emails, create automations and much more.
Zoye will also answer your question, suggest you automations and ways to improve your daily work.

Skip the pain of learning new tools, managing them separately, and doing everything yourself.
Is this cloud/local boundary for trading infra reasonable?
by Sultan_Custodia | 2026-02-23 18:42:34+00:00
We’re two brothers from Kazakhstan building a B2B platform for quant research, backtesting, and controlled deployment.

The main design choice we made is a strict cloud/local split.

The cloud handles research, backtests, rollout artifacts, and redacted telemetry.
A local agent (running in the client environment) stores broker keys, sends orders, and enforces hard risk caps.
The cloud can only send lifecycle commands (start/stop), not order instructions.
Any trade-impacting change requires local approval.

We chose this because we wanted a cleaner boundary: the cloud helps with research and operations, but execution stays client-controlled.

I’d really appreciate feedback from people who’ve built or operated trading systems:
What would you challenge first in this design (failure modes, trust assumptions, operational risks)?

Not selling anything here — just looking for honest technical feedback before we take it further.
by KK7NIL | 2026-02-23 18:42:43+00:00
> As for an alternative, how about using the social fabric of researchers and institutes instead? A few centuries of science ran on it before somebody had the great idea to introduce "objective" metrics which made things worse.

Oh boy, you seem to be missing the forest for the trees.
When science was a hobby of the rich, there was no need to measure output. Only when "scientist" became a career and these scientists started demanding government funding (which only really crystallized in the 20th century), then we started needing a way to measure output.

You could try doing away with an objective measure of academic output and replace it with the "social fabric of researchers and institutes" (whatever the fuck that means) instead , but then all you'd have is a good ol' boys club funded by taxpayer money.
Show HN: MachineAuth:open source Google login for your AI Agent
by mandarwagh | 2026-02-23 18:42:46+00:00
As AI agents become autonomous, they need secure, programmatic authentication - just like developers use API keys, but built specifically for machines.
The Problem

Your AI agent needs to access protected APIs, but:

Username/password doesn't work for machines
API keys are hard to rotate and audit
Existing OAuth flows are designed for humans, not agents
No way to verify which agent is making requests

The Solution

MachineAuth implements the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow - the industry standard for machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication.
by simoncion | 2026-02-23 18:42:54+00:00
> or make them good for 1 month, but sold in 12-packs.

...if these tokens are as protective as you claim they are, why would it be important for them to expire?

Would you also advocate for the token issued by authoritarians' preferred "send a video of yourself [0] and/or your government-issued photo ID [1] to some random third-party for-profit company" check to frequently expire? If not, what's up with the discrepancy?

[0] Or of someone physically near you who is of-age

[1] See [0]
by nailer | 2026-02-23 18:43:06+00:00
> No one should use a for-profit terminal emulator, especially one created by a VC-backed startup, full stop.

I use Warp. I like it - notifications for failed processes, terminal pages so you can easily navigate between input+output pairs, and yes sometimes I'll use the AI rather than remember the syntax for every command.

But just make it commercial open source, let me pay 20 bucks a year for a build. I think the company deserve to profit from their work (I'm not sure why people think that profit is bad) but I'm not going to use it as my editor.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-23 18:43:19+00:00
for developer turnaround time, it is huge. we explicitly do not statically link Ardour because as developers we are in the edit-compile-debug cycle all day every day, and speeding up the link step (which dynamic linking does dramatically, especially with parallel linkers like lld) is a gigantic improvement to our quality of life and productivity.
by chris_money202 | 2026-02-23 18:43:26+00:00
Cameras alone can handle the vast majority of nominal driving scenarios, but the long tail of safety critical edge cases is where progress slows dramatically. Many of these cases are driven by degraded or ambiguous perception, which is where multi‑modal sensing, such as combining cameras with lidar, can reduce uncertainty. In adverse weather like fog or heavy rain, that reduction in uncertainty can translate directly into safer behavior, such as earlier and more confident emergency braking, even if no single sensor performs perfectly on its own
by Silhouette | 2026-02-23 18:43:33+00:00
The "scale might be different" matters quite a lot in this case. We're not just talking about demand slightly outpacing supply and resulting in prices going up 10%. We're talking about large parts of our societies and economies no longer having reliable access to technology that we now depend on for normal operation.

We wouldn't allow any amount of investor money to buy out essential utilities and then exploit their natural monopolies to charge the public 10x as much for access to water or electricity.

We wouldn't allow any amount of investor money to buy out all the companies that maintain our roads or rail networks and then charge 10x the established prices for maintaining that infrastructure.

We wouldn't allow any amount of investor money to buy out all the phone networks and then deny people access to communication because they didn't pay some exorbitant protection fee.

No-one thinks regulation of these markets and interference with these kinds of corporate transactions is a crazy idea. Why do so many people here apparently think we should let the funny money funded AI giants distort the entire global tech supply chain in the hope that their silly valuations won't come crashing down for a bit longer?

We can't afford to wait "several years" to see whether the invisible hand will fix the problem. The markets have already allowed this situation to develop over a period of several years. The damage is too severe and it's happening right now and it's getting worse. Governments need to start swinging the regulatory axe now.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-23 18:43:41+00:00
A parent with a certain temperament, which seems to overlap substantially with the sort with stupid expectations and demands, and a lot of time on their hands (which, ditto) can be extremely annoying, raise hell with the media, get the school board involved (some school boards have members who are these kinds of parents, haha) and everybody’s just too busy with actual work to deal with that shit. Enough of it, and they give in just to get them off their backs.

This is why state-level phone bans are so nice, as it keeps these sorts from focusing on school districts, where like five parents can be cause a lot of trouble, and shifts them to focusing on the state level, where a few hundred or a thousand scattered parents with stupid ideas can more easily be ignored and the bar for causing real irritation is a lot higher in terms of time and cost (want to go bother the state legislature, and they’re ignoring your calls? Get ready to travel…)

One super-power of private schools is that they can just tell parents with incompatible ideas of how the school should run to fuck off (and they in-fact do this). Public schools have to deal with them as long as they’re willing to keep poking, which can amount to a surprisingly long time.
by sumtechguy | 2026-02-23 18:43:52+00:00
Think it had more to do with the consolidation of the ISP space.

I used to have my choice of dozens of ISP's. Now if I am lucky I might have 2 or 3 from very large companies that did the math on keeping that going. It mostly happened when ADSL and cable took over. In most areas that meant only 2 or 3 companies could actually provide anything at speeds their customers wanted. Think at the time they always said it was cost cutting.
by impulser_ | 2026-02-23 18:44:02+00:00
Why would anyone care about this at all?

MiniMax, DeepSeek, and Moonshot are all releasing models for the public to use for free.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google ect have been scraping information to train their models that they had no right in scraping yet when these company pay them to scrap data we are suppose to be worried?

Labs like Anthropic always preach we are trying to build AI for everyone while releasing expensive models that are closed source.

The only reason AI is affordable at all is because of these Chinese AI labs.
by baerrie | 2026-02-23 18:44:55+00:00
It is none of those things despite being not easy to measure. There are many phenomena not empirically proven that science still mentions and theorizes about. The quantum theory of cognition points to something like a soul mattering more than it used to for example. There are countless scientific discussions involving unknown unknowns of our universe yet as soon as we go the opposite direction, into the unknown unknowns of our own experience, that is somehow unscientific?
by butterbomb | 2026-02-23 18:44:59+00:00
> I know this is weird, but I'm in some ways not really sure who is on the side of freedom here. I get your position, but like.

No one. You’ll see a few politicians and more individuals stuck to their principles, but anyone with major clout sees the writing on the wall and is simply working to entrench their power.

> Better the nanny state than Nanny Zuck.

Indeed, what lolberts fail to understand usually is not a choice between government vs “freedom” it’s a choice between the current government and whoever will fill up the power vacuum left by the government.
by someguyornotidk | 2026-02-23 18:45:39+00:00
Hetzner is currently cheaper than getting a static IP from my ISP + electricity, but just barely. I have a ton of local compute and can easily allocate one or two servers to take over if sufficiently motivated.

I wonder how many of Hetzner's customers are like me. I hope DRAM doesn't kill off cheap VPS providers like this one.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-23 18:45:40+00:00
How so?

> all legalization frameworks in the US already limit legal age of purchasing possession and consumption to 21 and over, specifically as a form of seeding ground to the opposition

This plainly says that legal frameworks limit the age of consumption as a way of ceding ground to the opposition (implicitly the opposition to legalization). So I'm questioning, if there was no opposition to legalization, what would the legalization frameworks look like? Legal for anyone at any age?

Edit: To put it another way, what's the ground that has been ceded here?
by lurkshark | 2026-02-23 18:46:01+00:00
What I was getting at is that the current API is still a generic inference endpoint, but with OAuth instead of an API key. What I'm suggesting is that they move some of the client logic up to the OAuth endpoint so it's no longer a generic inference endpoint (e.g. system prompt is static, context management is done on the server, etc). I assume they can get it to a point that it's no longer useful for a general purpose client like OpenClaw
by beernet | 2026-02-23 18:46:30+00:00
Not sure WTF I read here. Just more vibe coded "products" and "blogs", as it seems.

This "padded room" architecture fails because isolating the host OS does nothing to protect the user's data; if the agent has permission to read your files and access the internet, an injection will simply use the agent’s legitimate tools to exfiltrate your private information. Furthermore, making core memory files immutable and requiring manual confirmation for every action effectively lobotomizes the AI, trading its primary value—autonomy—for a false sense of security that users will eventually bypass due to click fatigue.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-23 18:46:33+00:00
> But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.

> A timeless interval was spent in doing that.

> And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.

> But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too.

> For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.

> The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.

> And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"

> And there was light

-- Father Isaac Asimov
by joshstrange | 2026-02-23 18:46:35+00:00
> There's an abundance of young people looking to get away from apps, smartphones and being constantly online.

Press X to doubt.

I believe that people are, slowly, waking up to the dangers of all these things but I don't believe for a second there is an "abundance" of young (or old) people who feel that way. I wish that was the case, but it's clearly not. And I'd love to see more articles about that but on-off or small groups of people throwing the baby out with the bathwater aren't helpful IMHO.

I am in favor of not allowing students to use phones in school, of banning social media for young people (though age verification is a can of worms), etc. I just think articles about "Landlines are ringing in homes again" are silly, not based in reality, and a waste of all our time.
by alterom | 2026-02-23 18:46:46+00:00
Swipe keyboard on Microsoft Lumias was better.

I think Android is only catching up to it in the past 2-3 years.

Sadly, Lumias went the way of the dodo, and I don't have a need for that sort of input on something that's not a phone.

Whatever Microsoft put out as a keyboard app for Android is different, they didn't implement the same UX.

Out of the swipe keyboards I tried for Android, GBoard worked the best.
by Bender | 2026-02-23 18:46:58+00:00
“Ah, a proud assitarian,” Grok began, before listing “Top Assitarian Staples,” like “bananas (firm, not overripe; peeled)” and carrots.

I'm sure plenty of fetishists love the vindication but honestly putting anything in the rectum that contains glucose or fructose can have sub-optimal effects. Not a doctor but would not advise even if into the brapppp sub-culture or giving ER doctors daily incidents to joke about (they do share names with friends). Stick with rectal toys that never appear on the CPSC website.

Fruits and veggies can also contain pathogens and critters that would mostly be neutralized by stomach acid. They need not find a home in the rectum or large intestine.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-23 18:47:06+00:00
Helping parents would be useful rather than telling them to "just do it".

The pain in trying to set up fortnite and minecraft online as parents is unsummounted, involving creating half a dozen accounts with different companies just to get some form of control. Far easier to just give them an adult account.

The process to create a child account should be seamless and no harder than creating an adult account.
by ticulatedspline | 2026-02-23 18:47:20+00:00
To be fair it's not like they were asking about a balanced meal and it told them to go anal. They specifically were asking what veggies would be suitable to stick up their butts.

Honestly I'm not sure where the garbage-in/garbage-out line is with AIs like this. Can no chat-bot be a success unless it can handle literally every asinine or deliberately malicious thing humans throw at it?
by otterley | 2026-02-23 18:47:30+00:00
> I'm saying this will make kids go to i2p, tor, to the obscure fora in countries not giving a f* about western laws.

Some will, but most won't. Similarly, most kids who are dissuaded from buying alcohol because they don't have ID are not going to break the law to get it, or switch to hard drugs as an alternative.

You can't let perfect be the enemy of better.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-23 18:47:41+00:00
Thanks for replying. I will make an effort to compile a list when I see it in the future. I’ve observed several cases where green names (and a few longstanding accounts) all made the same point, posted in the same time frame, with language matching what I would see on Reddit and X. It could just be organic but it was very suspicious.

I do think that HN does a better job than most at containing this (thanks for your hard work).
by samiv | 2026-02-23 18:47:47+00:00
The good news is as of now ladyboy doesn't have any competition.

Rarely if ever is anything able to compete simply by being "better". As far as USPs go it's just not enough. I reckon for ladyboy the USP (if any) is going to be it being open and NOT chrome (or derivative). So "safe" "modern" language is not going to mean much to the end users.
by cs702 | 2026-02-23 18:47:47+00:00
It's been known for a long while that model outputs = data for training another model to copy the original model's behavior, also known as distillation.

What I didn't know is that the three groups mentioned "created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models." There's some irony in that, given that Anthropic and all other established AI shops have been criticized for using copyrighted materials without permission to train their own models. I wouldn't be shocked if we subsequently find out tat every major AI shop has secretly engaged in distillation at some point in the past.

Still, wow, 24,000 accounts. I can't help but wonder, how many other AI shops have surreptitious accounts with other AI shops right now?
by EmbarrassedHelp | 2026-02-23 18:47:56+00:00
According to the EU Identity Wallet's documentation, the EU's planned system requires highly invasive age verification to obtain 30 single use, easily trackable tokens that expire after 3 months. It also bans jailbreaking/rooting your device, and requires GooglePlay Services/IOS equivalent be installed to "prevent tampering". You have to blindly trust that the tokens will not be tracked, which is a total no-go for privacy.

These massive privacy issues have all been raised on their Github, and the team behind the wallet have been ignoring them.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-23 18:48:27+00:00
> Why would anyone care about this at all?

Anthropic have been the loudest in pushing for regulatory capture, often citing "muh security" as FUD. People should care what they write on this topic, because they're not writing for us, they're writing for "the regulators". Member when the usgov placed a dude in solitary confinement because they thought he could launch nukes with a whistle? Yeah... Let's hope they don't do some cray cray stuff with open LLMs.

Anthropic make amazing coding models, kudos for that. But they should be mocked for any communication like the one linked. Boo-hoo. Deal with it, or don't, I don't care. No one will feel for you. What goes around, comes around. Etc.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-23 18:48:55+00:00
Original title "When Your Gain Is My Pain and Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude" compressed to fit within title limits.

Paper: https://sanlab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/20... [pdf] | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1165604
by Animats | 2026-02-23 18:49:09+00:00
From the article: "Teens who reported using cannabis had twice the risk of developing two serious mental illnesses: bipolar, which manifests as alternating episodes of depression and mania, and psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia which involve a break with reality."

That 2X factor is big. If it was something like 10% - 20%, it might be noise or some other factor, but that big a number is real.
by nekiwo | 2026-02-23 18:49:16+00:00
Unrelated to the language debate, but it seems a lot of people here missed the fact that Rust Coreutils project is licensed under MIT, and I am not sure if I feel that it is the appropriate license for such project. As much as FSF's philosophy has bad PR at times with Stallman, the GPL licenses really do protect open source. Who knows what Canonical would do when all parts of Ubuntu become MIT...
by agentifysh | 2026-02-23 18:49:39+00:00
I always see whenever a study mentions risks of cannabis, it's always met with "it only happens to those with innate tendencies" but then I ask them do they even understand what those effects are? Do we understand what schizophrenia and psychosis is, it's exact mechanisms?

Western medicine can't even explain any of these ailments, where it comes from, how it happens, what triggers it but so many cannabis users shield and attack any new research or study that questions the risks of cannabis for the young.

If it truly is harmless then are those same people suggesting that they light up a joint with their children ? Doctors hand out edibles when they catch a cold or can't sleep?

While I do think there are deeply helpful properties of cannabis we are still early, new research is only beginning to come out as it gets scrutiny. It took us many decades to learn the harmful effects of tobacco while for a long time everybody just shrugged it off as conspiracy. It took heavy lobbying from those that stood to gain most to delay the truth of the product they were selling and a lot more political will from the other side to warn the public.

Right now what worries me is the marriage of profiteering and political ideology that have neutralized the similar movement that existed around tobacco and alcohol in the Western hemisphere. Many see money to be made or their political statement that they will defend vigorously. The real risks that I see is raising the THC % content to extreme levels for chronic users who built a large tolerance through long term habitual use and claim they aren't addicted, proliferation of white/grey dispensaries that make it even more accessible to the young. This really needs to be addressed when we don't even understand the mechanisms or can reliably explain the after effects of those risks coming to fruition.