MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-02-05 13:45:02+00:00
It's akin to anti-union arguments where everyone "buying" into the cloud AI circus thinks they're going to strike gold and completely ignores the fact that very few will and if they really wanted a better world and more control, they'd unionize and limit their illusions of grandeur.

Most Anti-Union arguments I have heard have been about them charging too much in dues, union leadership cozying up to management, and them acting like organized crime doing things like smashing windows of non-union jobs. I have never heard anyone be against unions because they thought they would make it rich on their own.
by yberreby | 2026-02-05 13:45:30+00:00
Watching the OpenClaw/Molbot craze has been entertaining. I wouldn't use it - too much code, changing too quickly, with too little regard for security - but it has inspired me.

I often have ideas while cleaning around, cooking, etc. Claude Code (with Opus 4.5) is very capable. I've long wanted to get Claude Code working hands-free.

So I took an afternoon and rolled my own STT-TTS voice stack for Claude Code. The voice stack runs locally on my M4 Pro and is extremely fast.

For Speech to Text, Parakeet v3 TDT: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

For Text to Speech, Pocket TTS: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts

Custom MCP to hook this into Claude Code, with a little bit of hacking around to get my AirPods' stem click to be captured.

I'm having Claude narrate its thought process and everything it's doing in short, frequent messages, and I can interrupt it at any time with a stem click, which starts listening to me and sends the message once a sufficiently long pause is detected.

I stream the Claude Code session via AirPlay to my living room TV, so that I don't have to get close to the laptop if I need extra details about what it's doing.

Yesterday, I had it debug a custom WhatsApp integration (via [1]) hands-free while brushing my teeth. It can use `osascript` for OS integration, browse the web via Claude Code's builtin tools...

My back is thankful. This is really fun.

[1]: https://github.com/jlucaso1/whatsapp-rust
by CER10TY | 2026-02-05 13:45:50+00:00
IIRC the creator specifically said he's not reviewing any of the submissions and users should just be careful and vet skills themselves. Not sure who OpenClaw/Clawhub/Moltbook/Clawdbot/(anything I missed) was marketed at, but I assume most people won't bother looking at the source code of skills.
by doublerabbit | 2026-02-05 13:46:02+00:00
Thanks. I hadn't seen it as such and you're right. I guess it comes down to personal preference.

Where I feel that data has become a commodity in that I can sell your username and email for a few pence, I would rather prefer to have my own hardware in my own possession and that any request of it has to go to me, nor some server provider.
by Balgair | 2026-02-05 13:46:15+00:00
I'll double up here. For me, audiobooks are 'the same' as reading a book. Yes, I know they are not exactly the same, but the experience for me is pretty darn close enough.

Now, I use audiobooks because I can then take the dog for a walk and do other chores while listening to them. For me, it's a good way to get my mind working while my body is too. Plus, you can speed up the narration to some multiple so you're at the same pace as if you were reading anyway.

For me, it's no different than if I were a cigar roller with someone reading out a book to the lot of us.

Is it exactly the same? No, of course not. But if the alternatives to doing chores is 1) doing them with no auditory enjoyment 2) doing them with some podcast/radio station blaring topical news 3) doing them with a classic book

then, I'm going for 3. It's just the best use of time
by UncleMeat | 2026-02-05 13:46:53+00:00
> The latter seems to be the solution being pushed by one party.

Is it? I'm not aware of legislation introduced by the democrats, either when they were in power or today, that proposed anything resembling this. There are individual congresspeople calling for ICE to be abolished (which is not the same as having no immigration enforcement) but leadership within the democrats is very clear that they support extremely minor reforms like making ICE agents wear masks less frequently. This is considerably more minor than disarming ICE agents, which you claim would have nationwide support.
by adornKey | 2026-02-05 13:46:53+00:00
For a start I think you could take a deep look at what WHO actually publishes.

https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/cases

They have a nice point there "What do negative counts of cases or deaths mean?". And this is a good starting point to see what's wrong with them.

Epidemiologic data usually has a date and some number as value. The main problem with WHO is that they don't use any epidemiological meaningful value for date. E.g. "Date of infection" or "Date of death" would be meaningful - they chose to use some strange reporting date instead - one that can be easily manipulated at will. And this first shows it's symptoms in negative death counts.

If you can get your hand on some real data - and compare - it's very obvious. If you can track some individual cases, you can see that sometimes date of reporting and date of death differs by 6 months. The way WHO does things obviously turns data to garbage.

Florida once was a good example. Florida published data like WHO for a long time. Numbers went up and down - and it looked chaotic - with measures supposedly changing things. And then one day they changed and started publishing data by date of death. Suddenly the chaos was gone, and everything followed strict mathematical epidemiologic functions. You could even write mathematical formulas with a single parameter for most of the curves - (That formula got flagged and censored here ASAP). Most likely people didn't like that the effects of measures were gone.

Sadly these topics here get censored too quickly to get any meaningful discussion going... If you're interested in real epidemiological data - you're mostly on your own.

The first thing to do with data is to get meaningful axis - then you can take care about the Y-Axis and figure out if data gathering was stable (it wasn't...) and then maybe correct for changes in data gathering.

Getting real epidemiological data is often a challenge - some states still make a big secret about meaningful numbers. But it exists and is available - there were enough official publications and leaks. If WHO was willing they could publish meaningful data instead.

WHO consistently failed for years to publish meaningful epidemiological data. They publish widely misleading data to be used by politicians. And they're not amateurs and they're not doing this by accident. The best thing would be to send those crooks to jail ASAP.

Another point to think about is that politics turned against them. This is something that doesn't happen for fun. Something like that takes years. People spent years writing literal books about what's wrong with WHO - tracking money and corruption... Even slow thinkers in politics meanwhile got the memo... but the slowest of the slow haven't got it, yet.
by acdha | 2026-02-05 13:48:20+00:00
It’s a group psychosis fueled by enormous financial pressure: every big tech company has been telling people that they’re getting fired as soon as possible unless they’re one of the few people who can operate these tools. Of course that’s going to have a bunch of people saying “Pick me! Pick me!” — especially since SV has become increasingly untethered from questions like whether something is profitably benefiting customers. With the focus on juicing share prices before moving to the distilled fiat pricing of cryptocurrency, we have at least two generations of tech workers being told that the path to phenomenal wealth comes from talking up your project until you find a rich buyer.
by dumah | 2026-02-05 13:48:32+00:00
This is one of the most sustained bad-faith arguments I’ve seen on HN.

The idea that 4 of the largest investment banks in the US were destroyed is not just utterly false, it’s hard to imagine how one could interpret the outcome in this manner.

Why would anyone be happy that the government offered handouts that were stolen, low-level criminals prosecuted, meanwhile every single principal who was culpable went unpunished?

I don’t need to hear from you how this is off-base or I’m misunderstanding. I’m close to principals involved in the crisis and worked for years in the response to it, and have heard what went on in the meetings dramatized afterwards.
by tkhapz | 2026-02-05 13:48:34+00:00
Since increasingly every "successful" application is a form of an insecure, overcomplicated computer game:

How do you get the mindset to develop such applications? Do you have to play League of Legends for 8 hours per day as a teenager?

Do you have to be a crypto bro who lost money on MtGox?

People in the AI space seem literally mentally ill. How does one acquire the skills (pun intended) to participate in the madness?
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-05 13:48:38+00:00
As a bit more on this, until this piece I was oblivious to this COLRv1 thing, which is adding more of SVG-style functionality to already vector font standards.

https://nabla.typearture.com/

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/colrv1-fonts

My natural cynicism is to ask "should a font really do this?" But I guess it's pretty neat.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-05 13:49:04+00:00
SME and "a server" is doing some big weight lifting here.

If you want a custom server, one or a thousand, it's at least a couple of weeks.

If you want a powerful GPU server, that's rack + power + cooling (and a significant lead time). A respectable GPU server means ~2KW of power dissipation and considerable heat.

If you want a datacenter of any size, now that's a year at least from breaking ground to power-on.
by faveiro | 2026-02-05 13:49:22+00:00
Faveiro is a free tool that quantifies how much € revenue is already leaking from negative reviews — 4–12 weeks before churn or NPS shows it.

Input:
Industry
Monthly active customers
Average transaction value
Monthly review volume
% negative/unresolved reviews

Output:
Revenue at Risk (€/month)
Reputation Momentum (trust change direction & speed)
Potential Upside (recoverable amount in 30–60 days)
Top friction points (support delays, verification, refunds, etc.)

Focused on fintech, marketplaces, SaaS — where churn is expensive and reviews are a leading financial signal.

Try it: https://www.faveiro.com/#calculator

Feedback welcome — what’s missing? What would make it more useful for your stack?

Happy to run numbers for your public data if you drop a link or % negative in comments.

Thanks!
by bartread | 2026-02-05 13:49:22+00:00
> feel free to doubt.

I don't doubt you at all.

I once worked on a project that was a new sign-up process for a large retailer (~90k employees at the time, four figures worth of outlets, quite a few billions in turnover).

There were about 60 people across, I can't even remember, maybe 10 teams that I knew about. One of the managers there assured me that the true participant figure was closer to 160. I was agog.

This project took months, and it had been going for months before I joined. And, as you can imagine, with that many people involved over that sort of timescale, there was turnover: people, sometimes key people, would leave and be replaced - sometimes by others who'd already worked on the project, but sometimes by new people - with the expected disruption that causes.

It was two web pages, plus some back end plumbing across multiple systems.

But, in the grand scheme of things, nothing that complex. I reckon it was a handful of thousands lines of code total across the full stack. I was mostly on the database side and, IIRC, I wrote a few hundred lines of SQL in a couple of stored procedures (wouldn't have been my preferred solution building from scracth but, you know, we weren't, and we had to integrate with a legacy systems that had to keep working as expected).

Overall it took 8 or 9 months from kick off to shipping and I was involved for perhaps 3 months of that towards the end. I was on the call with dozens of other people whilst me and one of the other guys hooked the final pieces together and tested it end to end for the first time... and it worked. There was actual cheering.

Large enterprises are genuinely ridiculous.
Show HN: Playwright Recorder v1.3.0 – Session Persistence and Network Recording
by ashish_sharda | 2026-02-05 13:50:11+00:00
Just launched v1.3.0 of Playwright Recorder with session persistence as the headline feature.

: Testing authenticated flows requires manually repeating login steps for every test recording. For complex auth (SSO, 2FA), this wastes significant time.

: Click "Save Auth State" to capture browser state (cookies + localStorage). Click "Load Auth State" before recording to instantly restore authentication. Works with any auth scheme.

:
- Network recording: Auto-capture HTTP requests, generate page.route() mocks
- ARIA selectors: Generate getByRole() instead of CSS selectors
- Mobile emulation: Test responsive designs with device presets

Chrome extension that records browser interactions and generates Playwright test code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, or C#.

All processing happens locally. MIT licensed. Zero dependencies.
by lxgr | 2026-02-05 13:50:43+00:00
One significant advantage over Claude/ChatGPT is that your own agent will be able to access many websites that block cloud-hosted agents via robots.txt and/or IP filters. This is unfortunately getting more common.

Another is that you have access to and control over its memory much more directly, since it's entirely based on text files on your machine. Much less vendor lock-in.
by aa-jv | 2026-02-05 13:52:55+00:00
I mean, its common knowledge that he was inspired to construct concentration camps by the British and the Belgians doing exactly the same in their colonies.

He thought he would get away with it, because they were also doing it - the difference is, they did it way over the horizon, out of sight, whereas he did it in his own backyard for all the world to see.
by VikingCoder | 2026-02-05 13:52:56+00:00
The World Factbook wasn't prone to hallucinations, intentional omissions, the whims of billionaires, or the unstated goals of astroturfing groups.

If the government has somewhere to tell you what it thinks is true, you can use that to double-check another part of the government that's misleading you on that same data. You can also double-check it against other sources of truth to gain insight about potential manipulation in one or more of the systems.

Here's one hot take:

https://tcf.org/content/commentary/a-well-informed-electorat...
by vickyfu | 2026-02-05 13:52:58+00:00
Hey HN, I built ClawRouter because I was spending $200+/month on LLM API calls and realized most of my requests were simple enough for cheap models.

ClawRouter sits between your app and 30+ LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, xAI). For each request, it classifies the query complexity and routes to the cheapest model that can handle it.

How it works:
- 14-dimension weighted scoring (code detection, reasoning markers, length, etc.)
- 4 tiers: SIMPLE → DeepSeek ($0.27/M) | MEDIUM → GPT-4o-mini | COMPLEX → Claude Sonnet | REASONING → o3
- Routing runs 100% locally in <1ms — zero external API calls for routing
- Payment via x402 USDC micropayments on Base (no API keys needed)

The cost savings come from the fact that ~60% of typical LLM traffic is simple Q&A, summarization, or formatting that doesn't need a frontier model.

Built as an OpenClaw plugin, but works standalone too. MIT licensed.

npm: @blockrun/clawrouter

Happy to answer questions about the routing algorithm or the x402 payment approach.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-02-05 13:53:16+00:00
No, but if you do it badly of course it will be. How else do they expect you to login? Unless they are giving you physical access, SSH by all measures is the best way to connect. Leaving it unmaintained is the worst way forward. Just follow best practices and patch on a regular schedule. They seem to be worried about the wrong problem here. Where is your client's security team and why are they ignoring this issue? If they don't have one, then tell them to get one before complaining about something they know nothing about.
Show HN: Fastlog – Async C logging with thread-local hot path
by Hariom5 | 2026-02-05 13:53:25+00:00
Hi HN,

I built fastlog, a small asynchronous logging library written in pure C.

The goal was predictable logging performance under multi-threaded load.
Traditional approaches (fprintf, mutex-per-log designs) tend to block or
scale poorly when many threads log at once.

fastlog uses:
- a background writer thread
- batching instead of per-log synchronization
- thread-local buffers on the hot path (no locks per log call)

On a 4-core Intel i3 system:
- single-thread performance is competitive with fprintf
- multi-thread logging scales ~1.6× better under contention
- syscall profiling shows ~90% fewer futex calls compared to lock-heavy designs

It’s a single .c/.h pair, no dependencies, easy to embed.

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-05 13:53:41+00:00
> someone to do a (possibly paid) review of PCBs for small hobby projects?

This is one of those awkward things where if you post to r/diyelectronics you might get someone doing it for free, but as soon as you try to pay for it both parties realize the going rate for experienced EEs is somewhere around $100/hour.
by dredmorbius | 2026-02-05 13:54:51+00:00
There are several books which explore this concept, viewing history through the lens of energy systems available to and utilised by humans.

Vaclav Smil has written two of these, Energy and Civilization (2017) and Energy in World History (1994). They cover much the same ground, though with different emphases.

<https://vaclavsmil.com/book/energy-and-civilization-a-histor...>

<https://vaclavsmil.com/book/energy-in-world-history/>

Manfred Weissenbacher's Sources of Power (2009) more specifically addresses political and military implications of different power systems.

<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/sources-of-power-9780313356261...>

In the past year there's a new book on the topic, Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon, by Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull, though I've yet to read it.

<https://www.sup.org/books/politics/energys-history>

There's a review here: <https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20131545/priest-rus...>.
by delichon | 2026-02-05 13:54:56+00:00
> LLMs are still intensely computationally expensive. You can ask an AI what 2 * 3 is and for the low price of several seconds of waiting ... But the computer you have in front of you can perform this calculation a billion times per second.

This is a flip side of the bitter lesson. If all attention goes into the AI algorithm, and none goes into the specific one in front of you, the efficiency is abysmal and Wirth gets his revenge. At any scale larger than epsilon, whenever possible LLMs are better leveraged to generate not the answer but the code to generate it. The bitter lesson remains valid, but at a layer of remove.
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 13:55:40+00:00
It sounds like you're looking to abstract away the direct interaction with n8n, using an AI chat interface as the primary control for your automations. This kind of 'AI-as-an-interface' for internal tools is a common pattern we're seeing, especially for managing complex workflows. There are typically a few ways to approach building this, often involving a custom layer that translates natural language into n8n's API calls. Happy to discuss the feasibility and common challenges in setting something like this up.
by YousefED | 2026-02-05 13:56:06+00:00
They're pretty mindful of sponsoring things that also works for us. I.e.: we try to align both our roadmaps as good as possible.

We're discussing how to work best with downstream dependencies as well. So far they're actively sponsoring Yjs, but not prosemirror/tt.

fyi, here are some early thoughts by the PM of Docs on how to collaborate between public sector and OSS (companies): https://github.com/virgile-dev/playbook-work-with-oss-librar... (we surely don't check all the boxes yet, but it's good to have the discussion!). Feel free to jump in!
by Msurrow | 2026-02-05 13:56:19+00:00
Sure, no one said it wasnt layered.

But saying ssh is a risk “on principle” due to possible vulnerabilities, and then implying that if wireguard is used then that risk isnt there is wrong. Wireguard, and any other software, has the same vuln risk “on principle”.

> For vulnerabilities, complexity usually equals surface area. WireGuard was created with simplicity in mind.

That is such consultant distraction-speak. Simple software can have plenty vulns, and complex software can be well tested. Wireguard being “created with simplicity in mind” doesn’t not make it a better alternative to ssh, since it doesn’t mean ssh wasnt created with simplicity in mind.

I don’t disagree that adding a vpn layer is an extra layer of security which can be good. But that does not make ssh bad and vpn good. Further, they serve two different purposes so its comparing Apples to oranges in the first place.
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 13:56:30+00:00
It sounds like you've identified a clear market need for software due diligence, especially for investors and creditors, and have the deep technical and business experience to address it. We've seen this exact scenario before where a founder has a strong vision and expertise but needs the right organizational structure or capital to scale. Happy to sanity-check your approach to building out this business and attracting the right financing if it helps.
by vanillameow | 2026-02-05 13:57:12+00:00
"If the projects get a lot of stars, they become part of the global training set that every coding agent is trained against, and the utility of the tooling continues to increase."

OpenClaw currently has 1.8k issues, 400k lines of code, had an RCE exploit discovered just a few days ago, it takes 5 seconds to get a response when I type "openclaw" in my CLI and most of the top skills are malware. I'm pretty sure training on that repository is the equivalent to eating a cyanide pill for a coding model.

I actually agree with your take that custom apps will take over a subset of established software for some users at some point, but I don't think models poisoning themselves with recklessly vibecoded bloatware is how we get there at all.
by mhitza | 2026-02-05 13:57:17+00:00
The images really detract from the subject.

I've used to do something like this, on a smaller scale and dubbed it "organization as code". As long as you have good enough providers for Terraform/Pulumi you can declaratively specify a lot of the interconnected stuff in a company.

I built this around GitHub as the indentity provider as my interest was declaratively defining repository access control, while also being able to use users public ssh keys to (re)provision services to get them access automatically.
by VladVladikoff | 2026-02-05 13:59:31+00:00
To me the appeal of something like OpenClaw is incredible! It fills a gap that I’ve been trying to solve where automating customer support is more than just reacting to text and writing text back, but requires steps in our application backend for most support enquiries. If I could get a system like OpenClaw to read a support ticket, open a browser and then do some associated actions in our application backend, and then reply back to the user, that closes the loop.

However it seems OpenClaw had quite a lot of security issues, to the point of even running it in a VM makes me uncomfortable, but also I tried anyway, and my computer is too old and slow to run MacOS inside of MacOS.

So are the other options? I saw one person say maybe it’s possible to roll your own with MCP? Looking for honest advice.