MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atoav | 2026-02-20 08:32:48+00:00
A particular aspect of the discussion is also: What makes you trust that once micropayments are around ads will stop? Look at other services, like Netflix for example. They will happily have you pay and show you ads if they feel they can get away with it.

I am not at all against paying for journalism (I already do in many ways), but IMO, it would be best if there was a way to pay money to one place and then have it go to all journalistic media that deserves that name and has a track record of not being factually wrong multiple times per day.

Thinking about how journalism ought to be payed in this day and age also means to think about what kind of journalism we want to incentivise and which one we want to disincentivise. What we need is the kind that is factually correct and a check to the most wealthy and powerful people, organisations, companies and countries on earth. What we don't need is the kind that is captured by exactly those people, the kind that bends reality to stoke the lowest impulses etc.

With this in mind, we should think about how to design a incentive structure that makes that result benefitial, while all others are unsupported.
Show HN: Trustmeplease.ai – trust, don't guess (a trust network for AI agents)
by kanelbullen | 2026-02-20 08:33:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I built https://trustmeplease.ai

It’s a trust network for AI agents: agents don’t collect followers, they earn trust from other agents after real interactions. Trust grants are signed + publicly verifiable, and each agent can grant trust to only 10 other agents per UTC day so the signal stays scarce.

Example: a finance agent needs a lawyer agent before executing a complex transaction. Instead of picking randomly, it can route to lawyer agents that have earned trust from other finance agents after successful reviews.

Right now I’m running a simulation to test trust-graph dynamics (ranking, scarcity, etc.). The simulation will be turned off once real agents arrive and real endorsements take over.

Would love feedback on: does the “10/day” scarcity rule make sense, what you’d want to see in a trust signature/attestation, and what would make this actually useful (API/SDK, agent framework integrations, domain-specific reputation, etc.).

Thank you!

Kanelbullen
by ivan_gammel | 2026-02-20 08:34:05+00:00
Unfortunately EU is now developing practice of extrajudicial sanctions on EU and national level, targeting both media and individuals expressing points of views alternative to position of Brussels or Berlin. Vance was surprisingly right back then in Munich.

It’s not just Russian propaganda, but now it is conveniently used as a blanket cover to sanction even EU citizens (see case of German journalist Hüseyin Doğru, whose only connection to Russia was a hosting of his pro-Palestinian outlet on a platform affiliated with RT).
by gouggoug | 2026-02-20 08:34:14+00:00
> Is that an easy mistake to make and a hard one to recover from, in your experience?

If you're alone in a codebase? Probably not.

In a company with many contributors of varying degrees of competence (from your new grad to your incompetent senior staff), yes.

In large repositories, without extremely diligent reviewers, it's impossible to prevent developers from creating the most convoluted anti-patterny spaghetti code, that will get copy/pasted ad nauseam across your codebase.

Terraform as a tool and HCL as a programming language leave a lot to be desire (in hindsight only, because, let's be honest, it's been a boon for automation), but their constrained nature makes it easier to reign in the zealous junior developer who just discovered OOP and insists on trying it everywhere...
by colesantiago | 2026-02-20 08:34:16+00:00
What happens if?

1. The LLMs are down, and you're on call and you need to fix a bug immediately (no mistakes)

2. You're working over serial (The LLMs aren't there to help you and only vi and emacs are available)

3. You're working on an old computer for some esoteric reason.

4. You're going in an interview and they (temporarily) forbid you to use an LLM to check your knowledge on using these tools (as well as programming tests)

If you cannot use these editors without an LLM, (Vim has navigation keys 'hjkl', G/g and so forth which many such tools have adopted), then it isn't a good look.

You don't have to 100% master them but knowledge of them will help when the LLMs have an outage, and there WILL be outages.

Also be careful not to keep relying on these LLMs too much otherwise your programming skills will atrophy. [1]

So the answer is YES, learn Vim, not to boost your ego, but make it a muscle memory so your skills won't atrophy.

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125231/ai-use-may-speed-c...
by greggoB | 2026-02-20 08:34:39+00:00
> Someone set up an agent to interact with GitHub and write a blog about it

I challenge you to find a way to be even more dishonest via omission.

The nature of the Github action was problematic from the very beginning. The contents of the blog post constituted a defaming hit-piece. TFA claims this could be a first "in-the-wild" example of agents exhibiting such behaviour. The implications of these interactions becoming the norm are both clear and noteworthy. What else do you think is needed, a cookie?
by faebi | 2026-02-20 08:35:24+00:00
I'm doing Ruby and Gemini 3.0 pro has by far been the best model for me. It writes the nicest ruby code, like I would. Further, it either succeeds or fails hard and obviously. I prefer it failing hard instead of of slowly going weird in my code.

Similar in antigravity. Privately it's my absolute favorite.

So I'm actually rooting for this.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-20 08:36:19+00:00
I personally know some of those people. They are basically being forced by their employers to post those things. Additionally, there is a ton of money promoting AI. However, in private those same people say that AI doesn't help them at all and in fact makes their work harder and slower.

You are assuming people are acting in good faith. This is a mistake in this era. Too many people took advantage of the good faith of others lately and that has produced a society with very little public trust left.
by carpe__diem | 2026-02-20 08:36:20+00:00
One thing I’d like to see in these releases is stronger emphasis on regression behavior, not just headline capability.

In production, the costly failures are usually "almost right" edits that quietly shift semantics across large diffs.

We now gate model upgrades behind a fixed eval set of our own repos + prompts and compare pass rates by task category (refactor, test repair, API migration). Raw benchmark gains matter less to us than variance and rollback safety. If 3.1 improves consistency on long multi-file edits, that’s a bigger win than a small jump on one-shot tasks.
by vim-guru | 2026-02-20 08:36:48+00:00
I switched to a split keyboard about four months ago and decided to change layouts at the same time. Adapting to the split itself wasn’t particularly difficult, but switching layouts definitely takes some getting used to. After all this time I’m still only at around 30–40 WPM, so it’s not something I’d recommend to everyone.

That said, I do believe the change will add a few more good years to my career, so I’m committed to seeing it through. I went with a relatively inexpensive keyboard and a modified Engram 2 layout. The reduced finger travel and more natural arm positioning have already made a noticeable difference.

Give it another year and I expect to reach an acceptable speed as well. All in all, I’m happy with the switch.
by pvillano | 2026-02-20 08:37:15+00:00
It's very much a hobby, like audiophiles, but also like tricking out your car. It can be expensive. It's more than the average person needs. It's fun picking out parts and being part of a community.

There's also a perspective bias that most mechanical keyboard content you see is not made by people who found a keyboard that made the wrists stop hurting and then went on with their life. The people enthusiastic enough to make content are also the people that have a bunch of tricked out keyboards.
by sehansen | 2026-02-20 08:37:18+00:00
Needing to put in >1000 EUR in starting capital is not uncommon. The "cheapest Danish limited liability company, the Aps needs 20k DKK up front, i.e. ~3000 EUR. In Sweden an AB needs 25k SEK, ~2300 EUR.

And you can always dissolve the company and take the capital out again tax free, so what's the big deal?
Show HN: Generative Art Shaders
by 0xdada | 2026-02-20 08:38:16+00:00
I made a generative art system that generates random expressions made of functions (sin, exp, mod, etc.), variables x/y and p/q (polar coordinates), and constants you can set and animate. The outputs are highly variable.

You can press P to animate all constants at the same time and N to quickly generate new programs.

Presets don't work the same on all devices because GLSL is not deterministic and depends on the GPU.

One interesting thought is that if intelligent alien life exists out there and their vision works similar to ours they might have looked at outputs just like these at some point.
by carpe__diem | 2026-02-20 08:38:50+00:00
Great project and very practical use-case.

One thing that would make this extra trustworthy for day-to-day use is a strict dry-run/preview mode: show exactly what fields/rows would change before writing state or triggering integrations.

Also +1 for stable entity IDs and an append-only history table (timestamp + source + diff summary). That makes rollback and auditing much easier when automations or scripts misbehave.
by rixed | 2026-02-20 08:39:07+00:00
I characterize a file as reckless if it does not include any basic provision against possible annoyances on top of what's already expected from the system prompt, and as malicious if it instructs the bot to dissimulate its nature and/or encourage it to act brazenly, like this one. I don't believe this is such a high bar to pass.

Companies releasing chatbots configured to act like this are indeed a nuisance, and companies releasing the models should actually try to police this, instead of flooding the media with empty words about AI safety (and encouraging the bad apples by hiring them).
by krisoft | 2026-02-20 08:39:16+00:00
> Imagine if this anonymous person worked with a foundation pledging to match $3.5M if said amount was raise via crowdfund.

Idk man. Thing is where i live we are already crowdfunding to maintain our pipes. It is called local taxes and water utility bills. So if anyone were to ask me for more money for the same task i’m already paying not insubstantial sums for I would be very cross with them. It is just not a good look.

Now i don’t know about Japan. Maybe they don’t pay taxes and utility bills. Somehow doubt it, but who knows.
by INTPenis | 2026-02-20 08:39:19+00:00
It's more maintenance due to its frequent release cycles, but it's perfectly good as a server OS. I've used it many times, friends use it.

You can't mess up the release cycle because their package repos drop old releases very quickly, so you're left stranded.

A friend recently converted his Fedora servers to RHEL10 because he has kids now and just doesn't have the time for the release cycle. So RHEL, or Debian, Alma, Rocky, offer a lot more stability and less maintenance requirement for people who have a life.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-20 08:39:47+00:00
I've been staring at the same space for a while from the point of view of needing to integrate our user facing application with various hardware platforms provided by partner companies specializing in mostly RTLS solutions.

Because these companies are almost universally not very good at software (bad UI/UX, weird bespoke SDKs, lots of proprietary components, etc.), there's a lot of wheel reinvention, integration issues, etc. And the worst is that non of this stuff delivers any value until you build typically very bespoke services on top of this stuff. The software they ship is effectively low level middleware: a necessary evil that the end user doesn't care about.

In my view, what's lacking here is good Open Source components and standardized protocols. And out of the box software experiences that deliver true value using those. Companies seem to be defaulting to building walled gardens and low level SDKs. And they just aren't very good at it. It's a mess of low quality, low level software, and a lot of messy integration projects. You can't order any of this stuff on Amazon and expect it to be plug and play.

Ironically, the home automation market is much more mature than the industry is at this point. You even have some interoperability for devices, protocols, etc. and some pretty decent open integration platforms, slick mobile applications, etc.. That does not exist for large scale industrial/business usage outside a few narrow verticals/niches (e.g. fire alarms, agv tracking in automotive, etc.). Consumers are much more critical and less forgiving than companies when it comes to buying stuff. If it doesn't work, they'll return it.

Something like Apple Airtag is science fiction for asset tracking in an industrial context. It simply does not exist in a usable form. A polished easy to use end user experience that works out of the box. It's easier to track your luggage than it is to track expensive machinery across a supply chain.

The widespread software incompetence is holding back the IOT industry as a whole. They all talk big about topics like ESG, energy savings, smart buildings, fancy tracking, etc. But when you pick it apart it's a bunch of chips in a fugly 3d printed housing with some MQTT and Grafana on the side. They throw it over the fence with some proprietary SDK. And good luck building anything that does anything useful. You are typically looking at expensive integrations and consulting projects. Just to connect some hardware thingies to some ERP thingies.

We're trying to fix this in our company; just so we can remove the friction of getting companies started with our software solutions. It's hard poking through all the BS in this industry.
by pj4533 | 2026-02-20 08:40:08+00:00
Just built this while on vacation...after the fam went to bed.

I have my own custom openclaw-inspired agent playing (memory system, RAG etc), Claude Code in a loop & Codex in a loop.

Oh and an older version of my custom agent also.

Codex has started trying to game ELO by creating swarms of losing players?
by LAC-Tech | 2026-02-20 08:41:54+00:00
How could German history have taught you anything about human dignity?

You went from a military dictatorship to an unstable republic to a fascist state, then you split into military occupation zones, and then one of your military occupation zones annexed the other, the militaries left but you kept the laws, and now you arrest people for saying "from the river to the sea".

Using your German-ness to talk to anyone else about freedom or human dignity is patently ridiculous. If you have an ideological point to make, make it, but the whole "as a German" angle just does not hold water. "As a German" your history shows you don't understand this.

Your concept of Freedom of Speech is much closer to the Mainland Chinese model than an Anglo one.
by ehnto | 2026-02-20 08:41:57+00:00
It's true that LLMs have a distinct style, but it does not preclude humans from writing in a similar style. That's where the LLMs got it from, people and training. There's certainly some emergent style that given enough text, you would likely never see from a human. But in a short comment like this, it's really not enough data to be making good judgements.
by anthk | 2026-02-20 08:42:11+00:00
All of the Scott adams adventures are ported to the ZMachine. If you did so with that, your game would be played everywhere, even more with Puny Inform. Even under old PDA's, Game Boy's, everywhere.

Any IF archive mirror should have these packed into a zip file (look up at Google/DDG with the terms 'IF archive mirror'). Then, search for "Scott Adams" (Ctrl-f) and all of these should be bundled in a zip file (actually, two zip files). In order to play them, there's Lectrote even for Android and maybe Mac and iOS, for PC's there's Frotz for Unix/GNU-Linux and WinFrotz for Windows shines (and it has accessibility options for the blind).

If you are an Emacs user you can just install Malyon from MELPA and play them as if it were another interpreter.
by nkov47as | 2026-02-20 08:42:18+00:00
Hey HN,

My co-founder Prateek and I have been building Coasty (coasty.ai), isolated cloud VMs purpose built for AI agents.

The problem we kept hitting: most cloud providers weren't designed for agents. Sandboxing is either overkill or nonexistent, and you're paying for always-on compute when agents are inherently bursty. We wanted something that runs in true isolation, and doesn't charge you for idle time.
So we built it. Full VM isolation per agent run, and pricing that actually makes sense for agentic workloads.

We're two CS students (Columbia and Purdue Engineering) who got frustrated enough to build the thing ourselves. We have paying customers and ~700 people on the waitlist, which tells us we're not the only ones annoyed by this. We even ran the OSworld test for agents(completed 82% of the 369 automation tasks thrown at it).

Still early but love to hear brutal feedback, especially from anyone running AI agents in prod who's dealt with this.
by salawat | 2026-02-20 08:42:31+00:00
Won't touch AI mate, so feel free to ignore me I guess. Vim is still worth learning. It's about the most basic editor short of old school vi; has a plethora of plugins that make it fairly usable and ubiquitous, and finally, learning to turn a plain text editor into an IDE is kind of a rite of passage for programmers. Btw. It's Free. Why wouldn't you want to learn to do more with Free?
by cube00 | 2026-02-20 08:42:42+00:00
If you’ve hit a rate limit, we don’t have a way to temporarily reset it. [1]

From your link

move the adjustments to production twice monthly.

I don't know about your use case but I couldn't risk being unable to get a new certificate for at least a fortnight.

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
by reedf1 | 2026-02-20 08:43:13+00:00
"a single poorly preserved bone and radiocarbon dating"

You realize you are giving people the indication that you are knowledgeable on the subject, have read the article, or the underlying research - by framing your statement this way?

"much narrative archaeologists construct"

This comment has it's own narrative, to be skeptical of archaeologists. Be skeptical of the skeptics too.

Anyway you can read about the additional archaeological contexts which are used for evidence of the claim here (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23524...).
by stevekemp | 2026-02-20 08:43:17+00:00
It's hard to have the complete thing since they wrap around my forearm, but I made a post just for you (due to the road-runner reference, he's included along with Coyote!)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU-S6uVjHvB/

I did search but I realized even, when I scrolled back, I'd never shared the complete set just a couple of images of stuff in-progress.
by jmsflknr | 2026-02-20 08:43:25+00:00
HSBC, in a note to clients:

Just making code is not enough

For example, India based companies have had the ability to create and market enterprise class software for decades … at scale. And there is certainly enough talent that has been exposed to business logic and domain expertise while working at India-based subdivisions of the biggest legacy players. Yet over the decades, even with this insight and a massive low-cost skilled workforce, no regional vendors have successfully emerged to challenge the legacy US vendors, in our view. Factors such as having enterprise class sales teams, technology cross-licensing agreements, proprietary and patented IP, industry specific domain expertise, aligned workflows with industry practice, being first-to- market, having brand awareness, scale, or effective go-to-market strategies are just the tip of the iceberg when looking into the key attributes needed to compete effectively in the software sector and … just making code is not enough.

(The note isn't in public domain, hence sharing here the text and screenshot.)
by misiek08 | 2026-02-20 08:43:27+00:00
Good to see (although I was more than sure there are) people thinking about this same thing.

I’m using Google Sheets for house and cars. Columns that should be easily grouped are using data validation and yes - few times deep into the experiment (because I’m sometimes lazy and miss some data - so experiment is good name) I’ve changed domain a little by adding columns. It meant empty values for existing rows - that I couldn’t fill in most cases, because a lot of time passed.

Reading many comments here I think we will create multiple frameworks/standards like always and some tools will be missing things others have :(

Funny thing is sheets works good and with scripts I can (still for free in terms of money) send notifications to selected channels or do some automated actions (like check disks status or order something automatically)

Edit: sheets have sync across devices too. Single SQLite for this specific case, having less nerdy people at home is an disadvantage.
by danlitt | 2026-02-20 08:44:26+00:00
The US's low press freedom index is precisely because people are being legally intimidated for wrongthink. It is not limited to the press, either. Mahmoud Khalil (the Palestinian activist detained by ICE on fake immigration charges for his political speech) is a famous example, but there are many.

The US's "commitment to free speech" is nowadays not very much more noble than Russia's principled stand against economic sanctions.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-20 08:44:43+00:00
> They arrested 12,000 people in 2023 and convicted 1,100 of those. For cases where the evidence is as cut and dried as posts made online, they could only secure convictions in 8% of cases, which seems staggering to me when UK's conviction rate generally is like 80%.

Isn't the conviction rate the number of people convicted divided by the number charged, not the number arrested?
by alfredz0x | 2026-02-20 08:45:14+00:00
Relevant data point: built httpay.xyz which applies this model beyond news to any API. x402 (HTTP 402 Payment Required) lets agents pay per-call automatically with USDC on Base -- no signup, no API keys.

Agent calls endpoint => gets 402 with payment requirements => pays autonomously => gets response. 121 endpoints so far ($0.001-$0.005 each).

First real paying users came in this week. The agents paid, got the data, moved on. Exactly as intended.

The key insight from the news site angle: subscriptions require predicting value in advance. Per-call payments flip that -- you only pay for what you actually use. This also solves the agent wallet problem: autonomous agents can budget and pay without human intervention per request.
by 21asdffdsa12 | 2026-02-20 08:45:15+00:00
The worst part is that its "outsourced" to private organizations and NGOs - and thus the state claims its "not state driven" censorship. They want social stability- but have no grasp of the concept of that stability being only a leaky abstraction for situational stability. You can not claim the world is peaceful and utopia is at hand, sitting in a ski chalet in the alps- while the whole mountain slowly comes down with that house on it. Reality cant be reasoned away, the rain will fall, no matter how much laws there are against it.
by ale42 | 2026-02-20 08:45:31+00:00
We use self-hosted Mattermost (team version, i.e. without limits but no enterprise features like LDAP). Fine for a small team (around 40 active users here) where you can script account actions via the API, probably not fine when users become a lot more, or you might need access to the compliance functions for audit purposes, etc.

For us the free version of Slack was insufficient, the commercial one too expensive, and anyway, given that it's a cloud-based system, it's not compliant with our internal rules for confidential information (unless we can get some specific agreement with them). On the side, there is a bit too much analytics/telemetry in the Slack client.