MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bee_rider | 2026-02-25 19:27:20+00:00
It was more of a rhetorical question.

Anyway, that payment system looks sort of interesting. It seems to have buy-in from some of the payment vendors, so it might become a real thing.

But, you can give a claw agent your credit card number and have it go through the typical human-facing shop fronts, impersonating you the whole time and never actually identifying itself as a model. If you’ve given it the accounts and passwords that let it do that, it should be possible to use the LLM to perform the transaction and buy something. It can just click all the buttons and input the numbers that humans do. What is the vendor going to do, disable the human-facing shopfront?
by toast0 | 2026-02-25 19:27:22+00:00
> * More juries, and maybe something jury like for civil suits.

Juries are available for civil suits, but most parties prefer not to have them because jury results have high variability. I'm following a case, currently pending appeal, where the jury found against the defendants for breach of contract, but awarded $0 in damages, so there's no actual relief regarding the breach.
by fuatkeles | 2026-02-25 19:27:46+00:00
I built this because AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) don't understand existing UI projects. They generate components with wrong styling, miss existing reusable components, and break naming conventions.

UIQuarter runs 20 static analyzers on your codebase using AST parsing (ts-morph). What it detects:

Every component with props, hooks, and file location

Full dependency graph (render edges, context providers, hook dependencies)

Styling patterns — your actual Tailwind tokens, CSS Module mappings, design system specifics

Naming conventions, directory structure, export patterns

UX patterns — error/loading/empty states, accessibility attributes

Architecture issues — hub components, orphans, circular deps, deep chains

Then generates context files for 7 AI tools (CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, .windsurfrules, .clinerules, copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, CONVENTIONS.md).

Benchmark on a React + Tailwind project (11 files, 71K chars): 17,800 context tokens → 325. 12 tool calls → 1 file read. The AI uses your actual design tokens instead of generic styling, reuses existing components instead of creating duplicates.

Supports React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Solid, Lit, Qwik + backend patterns. Also has a query engine, drift detection, CI integration, MCP server.

npm install -g uiquarter
by epistasis | 2026-02-25 19:27:50+00:00
I've seen this a bit in resumes before LLMs. It seems much more likely to be an indicator of current "best practices" somewhere than LLMs. The number of significant digits on 55.3% is a bit concerning though, and having 14 percentages is also a bit weird, especially going back 10 years. I think you're probably the best guide here, and hopefully a phone screen or similar would smoke out the reality!
by csours | 2026-02-25 19:27:53+00:00
this pairs nicely with the finding of the supreme court:

Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
by altairprime | 2026-02-25 19:27:55+00:00
IANYL, though! Offering legal advice with the disclaimer “I am not a lawyer” could be prosecuted as practicing law if a reasonably party could still infer a potential lawyer-client relationship from your message and/or intent. Instead, “I am not your lawyer” explicitly denies the lawyer-client relationship, which closes the door on both being accused of practicing law illegally and on being found as party to a lawyer-client relationship whether or not you have the appropriate certifications.
by miki123211 | 2026-02-25 19:27:59+00:00
Trams have the same problem trains have. If something happens on a tram line (and these are a lot more integrated with roads than train lines, so things do happen), a big segment of the network comes to a standstill. They're not like buses or cars that can drive around a major accident in an emergency, even if that meanns they'll skip a stop or two.
Show HN: Framework for building multi-agent equity research agents
by schnetzlerjoe | 2026-02-25 19:28:12+00:00
I built Hermes, an open-source Python framework for multi-agent financial research.

Most AI “equity research” demos stop at generating text. In practice, real workflows require pulling structured XBRL financials from SEC filings, extracting labeled sections like MD&A and Risk Factors, merging macro and market data, building actual Excel models with formulas, and generating investment memos in Word or PDF.

Hermes is designed to handle that full pipeline end to end.

It includes 35 financial data tools covering SEC EDGAR (via edgartools), FRED, Yahoo Finance market data, and RSS-based financial news. It also provides composable specialist agents for filings, macro data, market data, modeling, report generation, and multi-agent orchestration. On the output side, it can generate Excel workbooks using openpyxl, create Word documents, export PDFs, and index filings with ChromaDB for semantic search. It includes async rate limiting, file-based caching (filings cached permanently, quotes never cached), and streaming progress events.

Hermes is MIT licensed and designed to be extended. You can register custom tools and agents and plug in your own data sources or models.

I’d love feedback from both AI engineers and finance professionals, especially around validation, reliability, and real-world research workflows.

Repo: https://github.com/schnetzlerjoe/hermes
by estebank | 2026-02-25 19:28:13+00:00
> enforcing boarding and paying in front and leaving via the back door, so the leavers don't delay the boarders.

In my experience, being able to pay at any of the doors increases throughput because people are not bunched up in a single door, neither to get on or off, Parallelizing (and load balancing!) the movement of people. Not having to tap to pay (either because it is free, because monthly passes don't require it or because you can pre-pay at a machine or online) would have some additional time gains at rush hour on popular lines.
by JohnFen | 2026-02-25 19:28:28+00:00
> Just make your own damn notepad if it bothers you lol.

If you use many different machines throughout your workday, this means you have to carry a copy of your bespoke solution with you on a memory stick or something, and hope that the machine you want to use it on allows the use of memory sticks or unapproved software.

It's far better to use an application that you can count on already existing on the machines.
by keeda | 2026-02-25 19:28:37+00:00
In my experience, it's the old time-invested vs time-saved trade off. If you're not looking at these reams of output often enough, the incentive to figure out all the flags and configs for verbosity to write these script is lower: https://xkcd.com/1205/

And because these issues are often sporadic, doing all this would be an unwanted sidequest, so humans grit their teeth and wade through the garbage manually each time.

With LLMs, the cost is effectively 0 compared to a human, so it doesn't matter. Have them write the script. In fact, because it benefits the LLM by reducing context pollution, which increases their accuracy, such measures should be actively identified and put in place.
by tjhorner | 2026-02-25 19:28:46+00:00
The post raises several points that I wholeheartedly agree with, but the framing is poor and honestly kind of elitist (or just short-sighted). Maybe to the point that I think much of it might just be bait, lol. For example:

> Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers.

What? Computers were everywhere in all kinds of domains by 2006, but you can bet that your average accountant of the time would most likely not be able to SSH into a server (nor should they need to...) I guess it really depends on what the author qualifies as a "serious engagement with computers."
by kyboren | 2026-02-25 19:28:55+00:00
ICC claims[0] that since:

- The Palestinian Authority claims to represent 'Palestine'
- UNGA Resolution 67/19 "Reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-
determination and to independence in their State of Palestine on the Palestinian
territory occupied since 1967"
- They consider Gaza "Palestinian territory occupied since 1967" (despite the fact
that Gaza has certainly not been occupied by Israel for decades and a completely
separate entity from the PA exercises sovereignty there)

Therefore 'Palestine' is a State Party properly represented by the PA and covered by its accession to the Rome Statute, and thus the ICC totally have jurisdiction over Gaza and non-party state Israel's actions there.

Beyond the absurd sophistry and incoherent reasoning, Israel is--once again--not a signatory to the ICC. Asserting jurisdiction over a sovereign entity without their consent is a violation of state immunity[1], a legal concept predating the ICC by over 600 years.

I'd say that qualifies as an overstep.

[0]: https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/itemsDocuments/p...
[1]: https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law:epil/97801992316...
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-25 19:29:03+00:00
Slavery was just barely economic in the South, which had a backward, agrarian economy. It stayed around long after it had been abandoned elsewhere (including in the broadly comparable British colonies in the Caribbean) because it went hand-in-hand with a cultural belief in the inherent social supremacy of the White planter class. (To be sure, the existence of slavery was the very real foundation of a remarkable extractive economy, where back-breaking slave labor ultimately translated into real wealth for a tiny minority of White social elites. But it's a mistake to conflate this with actual efficiency!) The economy of the modern "Sun Belt" started to grow explosively in the 1980s, roughly half a generation after the demise of the "Jim Crow" system which was formerly sustained by the southern Democrats' enduring supremacist culture. The economic story demonstrates the cultural aberration.
by crawshaw | 2026-02-25 19:29:45+00:00
I do think sandboxes as a concept are oversold for agents. Yes we need VMs, a lot more VMs than ever before for all the new software. But the fundamental challenge of writing interesting software with agents is we have to grant them access to sensitive data and APIs. This lets them do damage. This is not something with a simple solution that can be written in code.

That said, we (exe.dev) have a couple more things planned on the VM side that we think agents need that no cloud provider is currently providing. Just don't call it a sandbox.
by dalemhurley | 2026-02-25 19:29:59+00:00
Several factors:
1. Em dashes are common use in the Queens English

2. People with dyslexia and dysgraphia can more easily interact online

3. People who speak a primary language other than English can more easily interact online

The last 2 options mean people who previously would have been more reluctant to participate now have less of a barrier.

So while there may be AI generated content, we should just assume it is all negative.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-25 19:29:59+00:00
Are we losing old websites like that?

I actually was unaware that this warranted a website. When I was young, I had one origami book. I completed it to about 40%; wasn't too bad but was far away from being really good. Origami is quite an art. These days I tend to watch youtube videos more than look at oldschool books but I loved that old handbook. Never folded a unicorn though.
by AlienRobot | 2026-02-25 19:30:13+00:00
WP essentially lets plugins do anything they want. The plugins are just scripts that register callbacks to events. WP calls events on BASICALLY EVERY FUNCTION. This is without exaggeration. I don't remember the exact names right now, but if you have a function like wp_get_title that gets the title of a post, there will be a "get_title" event that can modify which title is returned. So for every function first the data is computed using the default WP way, then plugins are allowed to discard all that work and replace it without something else entirely. There are events for deciding the canonical URL, for deciding the description of a post, for deciding whether RSS links will be displayed or not (the callback just returns true or false), etc.

In other words, every property can be modified through global event callbacks. Some events are called very early in the whole pipeline that let plugins just render whatever they want (e.g. render custom XML sitemaps).
by SNP4 | 2026-02-25 19:30:46+00:00
The "Baseload Arms Race" has officially arrived.
As of February 25, 2026, the global metal markets have fractured. We have moved past the broad rally of 2025 into a period of strategic bottlenecks and policy-driven scarcity. The driver is a collision between "Economic Statecraft" and the unyielding energy hunger of the AI revolution. With Big Tech giants now signing direct offtake deals with miners to secure 24/7 carbon-free power, the minerals beneath Canadian and Australian soil have been elevated to the primary currencies of global power.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-25 19:30:51+00:00
> It really is unfortunate that such a fun piece of punctuation has been effectively gutted. This isn't even really limited to just the em-dash, but I don't know if there's another example of a corporation (or set of them) having such a massive impact on grammar and writing as OpenAI and their ilk have.

Well, to be fair Gen-z slangs also have a massive impact. My generation sometimes point blank said to me that they didn't have the attention span to read my sentence :/

Definitely picked up a few slangs along the way now. I had to somehow toggle a switch between how I write on HN/how I write with my friends the first few times and I write pretty informally in HN, but its that you got to be saying lowk bussin rizz 67 to make sense.

My friends who use insta literally had Abbreivations which were of 9 letter words in my own language that the insta community of my nation's gen-z sort of made.

Although I would agree that we haven't seen a whole unicode being thrown this way in ALL generations (I feel like universally everyone treats em-dashes as something written by AI or definitely get an AI alert)

But I think that 67 is something that atp maybe even most adults might have gotten exposed to which has probably changed the meaning of number.
by throw0101a | 2026-02-25 19:31:15+00:00
> A single bus carries on average 20 times the people cars occupying the same space would (as you rarely get more than 1 person per car in peak hours).

Some animated GIFs illustrating how much space automobiles take up compared to alternatives:

* https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/9ft67...

* https://torontolife.com/city/transit-versus-cars-gif/
by habinero | 2026-02-25 19:31:19+00:00
Honestly? Anything that requires a lot of manual dexterity because that takes a long time to master, like a trade or art.

People love to lionize it, but honestly I can teach the basics of coding to anyone in a weekend. I love teaching people to code. It can be frustrating to learn but it's just not that difficult. I've mostly written Python and Ruby and Node for my career. They're not super hardcore languages lol.

What is hard is learning the engineering side. I don't get paid for the code I write, I get paid because I get handed a business wishlist and it's my job to figure out how to make that business reality and execute it, from start to finish.

I tell my boss what I'm going to be working on, not the other way around, and that's true pretty early in your career. At my current level of seniority, I can personally cost the company millions of dollars. That's not even a flex, most software engineers can do that. Learning to make good decisions like that takes a long time and a lot of experience, and that's just not something you can hand off.
by lejalv | 2026-02-25 19:31:27+00:00
It's easy to miss the video on the front page, which I find provides a great visual summary of features and will make you understand why other commenters are praising how efficient (and pleasurable, I might add!) TeXmacs is: https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/videos.en.html.

You can find some example documents here https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/example-documents.html.

Other posts on the TeXmacs notes site discuss programmability with Scheme, typesetting math (https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/texmacs-math-typesettin..., shows how good the HTML export is), and more.

The best in-depth reference, even counting the astoundingly complete bundled manual, remains The Jolly Writer. It is a beautifully typeset book, available at https://www.scypress.com/book_download.html.

EDIT: missing link, typo
by standardly | 2026-02-25 19:31:27+00:00
Maybe I overestimated how much was used here. I guess I'm so burned out by seeing it everywhere else, it's becoming hard to tell what's what.

I understand AI is trained on human output but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to distinguish between the two. I've seen blogs where this particular syntax "That's not x - it's actually y" is repeated 10+ times. That's not normal human writing. Admit I picked a bad example here, just read 5 AI articles in a row before this one.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-02-25 19:32:16+00:00
Well governments need to wake up and realize that if they aren't the US and even if they are the US, open source provides most of the basic building blocks of what you're going to build independent non-corporate controlled and non-external-state controlled software

So fund it!

Governments burn billions of dollars on defense which really is just an economic waste outside of the deterrent effect it does from getting invaded.

Investing in open source to enable you to be software independent and protected, not only is it providing some measure of electronic and economic defense, it improves software for you and your allies.

You get return on your investment.
by rnxrx | 2026-02-25 19:32:33+00:00
I'm also increasingly aware that my own writing style and punctuation seem to line up with what might be associated with an AI, but some of the tells (em-dashes, spaces after periods, etc) seem like artifacts of when in history we learned to write.

I wonder how much crossover there would be between a trained text analysis model looking for Gen-X authors and another looking for LLM's.
by 46493168 | 2026-02-25 19:32:42+00:00
Under the most common frameworks for assessing claims about "indigenous status" or "land entitlement", length of continuous inhabitation and external support for migration are big factors. Considering Sitting Bull's lineage likely migrated unsupported from other regimes and his lineage inhabited North America for much longer, it's unlikely Taylor Swift would be considered "just as native." Whether descendants of Sitting Bull are specifically entitled to land is a matter of ongoing legal and cultural dispute.
by mikenew | 2026-02-25 19:32:48+00:00
This feels like an existential threat to HN, and to the general concept of anonymous online discourse. Trust in the platform is foundational, and without it the whole thing falls down.

Requiring proof of identity is the only solution I can think of, despite how unappealing it is. And even then, you'll still have people handing their account over to an LLM.

I really struggle to imagine a way around it. It could be that the future is just smaller, closed groups of people you know or know indirectly.
by cedws | 2026-02-25 19:32:59+00:00
I really hope so. I moved to Codex, only to get my account flagged and my requests downgraded to 5.2 because of some "safety" thing. Now OpenAI demands I hand my ID over to Persona, the incredibly dodgy US surveillance company Discord just parted ways with, to get back what I paid for.

This timeline sucks, I don't want to live in a future where Anthropic and OpenAI are the arbiters of what we can and cannot do.
by DontBreakAlex | 2026-02-25 19:33:06+00:00
YES! I moved to SF from Paris (where I spent my whole life before that) a year ago. I exclusively use lime instead of public transit because of how slow it is! Going from Folsom&8th to Mason&Girard takes 50 minutes! And you spend most of the time stopped! With a lime I can usually get there in 20 to 25 minutes. I would use my own bike that I use to commute to work if you could lock a bike without getting it stolen almost immediately.
by xiphias2 | 2026-02-25 19:33:07+00:00
,,Needless to say, I support Anthropic here. I’m a sensible moderate on the killbot issue (we’ll probably get them eventually, and I doubt they’ll make things much worse compared to AI “only” having unfettered access to every Internet-enabled computer in the world). But AI-enabled mass surveillance of US citizens seems like the sort of thing we should at least have a chance to think over, rather than demanding it from the get-go.''

Why would killbots be sensible moderate with the number of hallucinations LLMs have right now?

They just need to have one rm -rf bug somewhere to so something disasterous, and at least Antrhopic's CEO understands the limitations of the software.
by kube-system | 2026-02-25 19:33:20+00:00
IME what it means is that they have a bunch of processes built that specifically depend on it. It doesn't make it impossible to switch but depending on the scope could be financially or practically prohibitive to migrate. Maybe someone has 10 years of custom excel macros put together that are run every quarter, that would need to be migrated. To migrate you might not have the internal capacity and might need to hire external help to do it.
by dzonga | 2026-02-25 19:33:33+00:00
The trump administration by refusing to admit the superior metrics of solar, they're just burying their heads in sand.

As admitting that solar is now a superior and cost effective means of energy means admitting that the US is no longer top dog.

As empires are built on mastering a source of energy.

the Portuguese | Dutch - mastered wind to power their ships.

the British mastered coal to power Industrial Revolution.

America mastered oil

now the Chinese have Solar.

even in places like Africa etc -- places were the grid was never available for $2k -- you can power your whole house with solar and lithium batteries. Panels are getting cheaper, same as batteries. Once the tipping point is reached for electric vehicles both personal and commercial - transition to fully electric mobility happens
Show HN: Offline batch icon pack generator (Windows desktop)
by BassThermal | 2026-02-25 19:33:38+00:00
I built a Windows desktop tool called Icon Pack Builder.

It generates complete multi-platform icon packs from one or multiple source images. Windows .ico files, Android density folders, Apple and macOS sizes, web favicons.

The idea was simple. When you ship across platforms, packaging icons gets repetitive fast. Resize, export, rename, rebuild folder structure, repeat. I wanted something deterministic that just does it cleanly every time, especially if you’re processing multiple assets.

It runs fully offline. No uploads. No subscriptions.

I wrote a short breakdown here:
https://dev.to/bassthermal/building-a-deterministic-batch-ic...

Microsoft Store page:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mxvt3dfq295

Curious what other devs think.
Is this actually useful?
What would make it better?