MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-19 13:58:46+00:00
I am transparent about my motives.

I am indeed somewhat conservative. Not deeply so. I occasionally vote for against the grain, and several times Libertarian.

My stance is this: impartial sources like the ACLU have treated Trump and Obama in similar ways. ( They have been deeply critical of both for their immigration stance. ) It seems logical to me. Both presidents used the same organizations, led by the same people, using largely similar tactics, to do the same thing.

Yet people today are protesting, resisting, agitated, when there seemed to be little of that behavior when Obama was doing largely the same thing. ( Refer to the ACLU articles. ). They condemn Trump, but still cheer Obama.

Do you behave that way? If someone, explain why.
Show HN: LLM-use – cost-effective LLM orchestrator for agents
by justvugg | 2026-02-19 13:59:01+00:00
Hi HN,
Built llm-use: a lightweight Python toolkit for efficient agent workflows with multiple LLMs.
Core pattern: strong model (Claude/GPT-4o/big local) for planning + synthesis; cheap/local workers for parallel subtasks (research, scrape, summarize, extract…).
Features:
• Mix Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, llama.cpp
• Smart router: cheap/local first, escalate only if needed (learned + heuristic)
• Parallel workers (–max-workers)
• Real scraping + cache (BS4 or Playwright)
• Offline-first (full Ollama support)
• Cost tracking ($ for cloud, 0 local)
• TUI chat + MCP server mode
• Local session logs
Quick example (hybrid):

python3 cli.py exec \
--orchestrator anthropic:claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 \
--worker ollama:llama3.1:8b \
--enable-scrape \
--task "Summarize 6 recent sources on post-quantum crypto"

Or routed version:

python3 cli.py exec \
--router ollama:llama3.1:8b \
--orchestrator openai:o1 \
--worker gpt-4o-mini \
--task "Explain recent macOS security updates"

MIT licensed, minimal deps, embeddable.
Repo: https://github.com/llm-use/llm-use
Feedback welcome on:
• Routing heuristics you’d find useful
• Pain points with agent costs / local vs cloud
• Missing integrations?
Thanks!
by noobermin | 2026-02-19 13:59:39+00:00
I had to google a bit, but this Guardian article[1] goes into a lot more detail than the Register piece here. I was of the opinion that this sounds too onerous and ill-defined when I first read the Register piece especially with censorship on the rise in Europe recently, but the Guardian piece made me side more with this particular policy. It doesn't sound as broad as the Register piece puts it, it sounds like it's specifically for revenge porn and generating deep fake porn non-consensually, not any "intimate image" which I agree is far too broad. Albeit, of all governments, I'd suspect especially the current UK government is to be amongst the most likely to say expand these powers to speech they don't like or general pornography one day, etc, it doesn't sound like this specific policy is broad yet according to the Guardian article. The Register piece is using "intimate image" as a euphemism I think whereas the intent of the policy is a bit more defined and specific.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/18/tech-firms-m...
by markpolymorph | 2026-02-19 13:59:43+00:00
Hey HN, built this because I wanted an AI assistant that actually does things instead of describing what it would do.

Under the hood it's OpenClaw (open-source agent framework) with a real Chromium browser, Brave Search API, and Resend for email. The AI orchestrates these in a loop to complete multi-step tasks.

Every user gets an isolated session. Built-in rate limiting, RLS on all DB tables, tools locked down so users can't access the server filesystem.

It's uncensored — presents all sides of topics without refusing or hedging. I think that's a meaningful differentiator vs ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini which all have heavy content filtering.

Rough spots: complex multi-step tasks need occasional retries, heavy JS sites can trip up the browser. Still early.

Free to try, no setup: cerebro.vip

Happy to answer technical questions about the architecture.
by wodoshio | 2026-02-19 13:59:51+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! Just googled paper towns a bit, and after escaping from the John Green related results I found more info about the cartographers story, awesome idea. Pretty crazy that the core idea is pretty much the same, hide fictional changes in plain sight that look natural and thus hard to detect.

About the videos, the goal is definitely to support it at some point. At the moment we are more focused on the feedback from the public and general market fit research.
by clarionbell | 2026-02-19 14:00:19+00:00
France was not a major imperial power at the time. It was much smaller than today, lacking Savoy and much of Burgundy for start, with Normandy and many other areas only nominally part of it and technically under control of English king (who was just a duke in France, but that changed only a very little on the battlefield).

Crusades in middle east started as an attempt of Eastern Roman empire (although they just called it Roman empire / Basileia Romaion) to recover from recent advances of Muslim invaders in Anatolia (modern Turkey). But turned into an overwhelmingly religious effort in the west. The first crusade especially was largely ill organized and chaotic affair. Where on one end of the spectrum you had nobles arriving with somewhat well equipped forces and idea of what to do, and on the other you had pilgrims, with whatever they just picked up in their hands and not answering commands of anyone, but their priest.

The economic side of things came into play after the process started and gradually became dominant. But it didn't start like it.

Finally. Interest of France in Mongols can be easily explained precisely by the influence crusades had on French and other Christian elites in Europe. The initial victory of 1st Crusade was followed by a series of setbacks. Muslims gradually begun to push crusaders out, the fact that crusaders started to fight amongst themselves helped a lot.

And then mongols arrived, almost from nowhere, crushed one of most powerful Muslim states at the time, and didn't stop there. It did seem like an immense opportunity, and in a way it was. If French, or someone else in Christendom, could convince khans that some form of cooperation is possible, or even better, if Mongols converted to Christianity, there would be a decent chance to not only save Jerusalem, but to move on to Egypt (still majority Christian).
by Manuel_D | 2026-02-19 14:00:25+00:00
What qualifies as an "intimate image"? A photo of someone in a swimsuit at the beach?

Is imaginary content covered by this law? If yes, what if someone adds a birthmark that someone doesn't have in real life is that sufficient differentiation to no longer count as an intimate image of a real person? What if they change the subject's eye color, too?
by pidgeon_lover | 2026-02-19 14:00:34+00:00
I had to reinstall MacOS Lion manually recently, as Macs do not have a BIOS and require a MacOS environment to begin installing Windows. I was installing Windows on legacy Macs, because it gives me 30+ years of software and performs well, unlike MacOS (5 years software if lucky, unusably slow performance on older hardware). I intentionally did it all the hard way offline from a Windows host, so that I could replicate it without depending on someone else's flakey servers (which incidentally refused to serve me OS installer images)

I detest crummy Unix-style online stub installers and package managers, because the original downloads are always down when you need them, and it's much harder than it should be to force offline replicable reinstallation.
by rglullis | 2026-02-19 14:00:43+00:00
> That does not make it illegal.

"Both parties are okay with the terms" is far from being sufficient to make something "legal".

Tie-in sales between software and services is not different from price dumping. If any of the Big Tech corporations were from any country that is not the US, the FTC would be doing anything in their power to stop them.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-19 14:00:47+00:00
> I believe it's because the governments (which are far more powerful than any "corporation", because they have the de facto monopoly of violence: Microsoft can sue you, but the government can just jail you) can then pressure said companies if there's something that is not liked, with all consequences that come from there.

But the idea that giving your ID changes anything is a fiction. This platform already requires your phone numbers or an email. They have your location. They already know who you are and can already be pressured by the government for all that. They don't even need to be pressured actually. They willfully share a ton of information as has been shown time and time again.

> There's no need to bring conspiracy theories in, FTR. The power of the government must be always limited and bound by strong chains, and this goes in the opposite direction.

I don't think a theorical, overblown and mostly fictitious increase in risks trumps the very real need to limit the armful impact of these actors. It makes for ok-ish lobbying but that's pretty much it.
by kcplate | 2026-02-19 14:01:08+00:00
I tend to view these reports through 2 user lenses. User 1 - the user who generally uses signed, safe software, using the device for non-engineering productivity, content consumption, and creative uses.

Then there is the user 2s. Thats the user with the unsigned software. That download and compiles the random “Show HN” without deep examination. That is experimenting at the lower levels, and might have written some home brewed scripts and apps running on their device.

Generally the user 1s aren’t complaining about updates unless there is an controversial UI or UX change. These are the more reliable reference group for the overall success or failure of an OS update.

User 2s contain all the edge cases configurations that the OS publisher can never fully test for, and generally just aren't reliable evaluators of OS updates.
by cuu508 | 2026-02-19 14:01:09+00:00
> And yes, the connection string is used to create a restricted 'read-only' user for the backup process.

OK, in that case, I think marketing it as "Zero-knowledge" and "end-to-end encryption" is misleading. Oops Backup sees the data, and the client has to trust Oops Backup to handle the data with care.

An example of actual end-to-end encryption would be a cron job doing "pg_dump ... | gpg --encrypt ... | s3cmd put ..." (with some more arguments of course). The database backup is compressed and encrypted on the database host itself, and sent directly to S3.
by swaits | 2026-02-19 14:01:13+00:00
Their solution is that you must read at a 3rd grade level in order to get promoted to 4th grade. It brought them from basically the worst State to the 30th percentile in reading for 4th graders.

So, common sense?

It noteworthy that they’re still basically the worst in 8th grade reading and math.

I don’t think Alabama is a model for anything related to public education.
by dandellion | 2026-02-19 14:02:14+00:00
I might grab something like sweatpants from kids section, but for normal clothes I generally prefer a bit more quality. I work remotely so a good pair of pants can last me more than half a decade, so I don't mind buying quality and having it fitted. But yeah, I feel as a short guy there's actually more than plenty of options for us, I never felt that clothes were an issue. Well, there was a shop once that put the smallest sizes on the highest shelf, I don't know if they thought it was funny, but I didn't go back.
by jecel | 2026-02-19 14:04:41+00:00
Note that RISC5 [1], a project created as a target for Wirth's Oberon compilers, is a different project from RISC-V [2], a project created at Berkeley which became what is currently the most popular open source ISA.

[1] https://riskfive.com/RISC5_overview.htm

[2] https://riscv.org/

It is funny that RISC-V International moved to Switzerland in 2020 so now both projects can be found in the same place.
Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
by jensmtg | 2026-02-19 14:04:44+00:00
I have found a workflow that makes Claude a fantastic companion for most of the work involved in fullstack web development. The exception I find to be the most significant limitatipn to productive potential however, is interface development and UX. Curious to hear if anyone has relevant experience, or found any good approaches to this?
by michaelt | 2026-02-19 14:04:48+00:00
To be more precise: I think they have a fixed repertoire of moves that they can blend together and slightly tweak on the fly, but only within certain limits.

This would also be normal for human performers - touring ballet companies travel with their own flooring the dancers are used to pirouetting on.

At the 40 second mark every robot does a backflip then when landing hops their supporting leg while pointing the toe of their working leg. Which works fine and looks great! But they arrive in that pose with a certain amount of momentum and needing a certain amount of grip on the floor.

So this is a rehearsed, tested performance - not proof we’ll have firefighter robots doing parkour through burning buildings any time soon!
by jameskilton | 2026-02-19 14:05:27+00:00
Probably the most egregious violation of the Chesterton's Fence principle[1] we'll ever see. Not only has USAID's destruction permanently destroyed US reputation in many place and will be responsible for the deaths of millions, including children, but many US farmers were USAID farmers. 100% of their crop and all of their income was tied to USAID.

Of course, most if not all of these farmers voted for Trump so it's hard to have much sympathy for them given the damage that vote is actually causing.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-19 14:05:37+00:00
The cost difference is pretty staggering for the same usage. Being on the sub hacks your reward system to push you to be productive, legitimately hitting limits feels like a win, and you start looking for ways to max your utilization %. A lot of people get quite obsessive about it. The sub is 100% the innovation that makes Claude Code "work."
by tahigichigi | 2026-02-19 14:05:56+00:00
OP here. You're absolutely right!

Most people drop a one line prompt like "write amazing article on climate change. make no mistakes" and wonder why it's unreadable.

Just like writing manually, it's an iterative approach and you're not gonna get it right the first, second or third time. But over time you'll get how the model thinks.

The irony is that people talk about being lazy for using LLMs but they're too lazy to even write a detailed prompt.
by eshaham78 | 2026-02-19 14:05:59+00:00
The competition angle is interesting - we're already seeing models like Step-3.5-Flash advertise compatibility with Claude Code's harness as a feature. If Anthropic's restrictions push developers toward more open alternatives, they might inadvertently accelerate competitor adoption. The real question is whether the subscription model economics can sustain the development costs long-term while competitors offer more flexible terms.
Show HN: Credential Shield Protocol – Server-blind breach checking for passwords
by csp_dev | 2026-02-19 14:06:05+00:00
We're building an open protocol that lets organizations continuously audit credentials against breach databases WITHOUT exposing passwords, full hashes, or query results to any server.

The core approach:
1. Hash locally with Argon2
2. Send only first 4 chars of SHA-512 (32-bit prefix) to server
3. Server returns all prefix matches
4. Client verifies locally → server never learns outcome

Current state: Protocol spec + threat model + PowerShell client library. We're pre-funding and actively seeking feedback before building the reference implementation.

Try it: https://iamaxolotl-04.github.io/csp-2026/
Spec: https://github.com/IAmAxolotl-04/csp-2026

We'd love feedback on:
- Where does this break in real deployments?
- What operational constraints are we missing?
- Would you use this in your environment?

Happy to answer questions in the comments.
by NietzscheanNull | 2026-02-19 14:06:05+00:00
> still basically the worst in 8th grade reading and math.

Doesn't that stand to reason? The changes described in this article have been in place for less than six years, so the earliest grade cohorts haven't yet made it to 8th grade!

In my opinion, it's very encouraging to see Alabama making the strides they've made so far.
by kovacivan | 2026-02-19 14:06:15+00:00
Fair point, and you're technically correct.

"End-to-End" usually implies the encryption happens on the client's infrastructure before it ever touches ours. Since Oops Backup handles the "dump" process via a connection string, we do technically see the data in transit before it is encrypted and moved to storage.

And I should have been more precise. The "Zero-Knowledge" refers to the at-rest storage. Once the backup is encrypted on our end, we don't hold the keys to decrypt it in the storage bucket.

Your pg_dump | gpg | s3 example is exactly what someone should do if they want true E2EE. Oops Backup exists for the indie dev or hobbyist who doesn't want to manage their own backup scripts, GPG keys, and cron jobs, and is willing to trust a managed service with the in-flight transition in exchange for a 2-minute setup.

I'll update the landing page copy to ensure we aren't misrepresenting the architecture. I appreciate the call-out—it’s an important distinction.
by wyldfire | 2026-02-19 14:06:39+00:00
You need to annotate your program with indications of what variable tracks the size of the allocation. So, sure, but first work on the packages in the distro.

Note that corresponding checks for C++ library containers can be enabled without modifying the source. Google measured some very small overhead (< 0.5% IIRC) so they turned it on in production. But I'd expect an OS distro to be mostly C.

[1] https://libcxx.llvm.org/Hardening.html
Show HN: SpeechDock – Transcribe any audio on your Mac, not just your microphone
by yohasebe | 2026-02-19 14:06:42+00:00
I built a menu bar app for macOS that does STT and TTS. There are many such apps, but what frustrated me was that most only transcribe microphone input.

SpeechDock can capture and transcribe system-wide audio or audio from a specific app — video calls, online lectures, podcasts, anything your Mac can play. It also does the reverse: select any text on screen (or capture it via OCR) and have it read aloud.

Key points:

- Works out of the box with macOS native STT/TTS — no API keys needed
- Optionally connect OpenAI, Gemini, ElevenLabs, or Grok for higher accuracy
- Real-time subtitle overlay with translation (80+ languages)
- Global hotkeys — use from anywhere without switching apps
- AppleScript support for automation
- Open source (Apache 2.0)

Requires macOS 14+. Built with Swift/SwiftUI.

GitHub: https://github.com/yohasebe/speechdock
Docs: https://yohasebe.github.io/speechdock/
by adrian_b | 2026-02-19 14:06:49+00:00
The sum of the conserved quantities, e.g. chromatic charge, electric charge and spin, is null for the set of 8 particles formed by the 3 u quarks, the 3 d quarks and the electron and the neutrino, i.e. for the components of a proton plus a neutron plus an electron plus a neutrino.

This is the only case of a null sum for these quantities, where no antiparticles are involved. The sum is also null for 2 particles, where one is the antiparticle of the other, allowing their generation or annihilation, and it is also null for the 4 particles that take part in any weak interaction, like the decay of a neutron into a proton, which involves a u quark, a d antiquark, an electron and an antineutrino, and this is what allows the transmutations between elementary particles that cannot happen just through generation and annihilation of particle-antiparticle pairs.

Thus generation and annihilation of groups of such 8 particles are not forbidden by the known laws. The Big Bang model is based on equal quantities of these 8 particles at the beginning, which is consistent with their simultaneous generation at the origin.

On the other hand, the annihilation of such a group of 8 particles, which would lead to the disappearance of some matter, appears as an extraordinarily improbable event.

For annihilation, all 8 particles would have to come simultaneously at a distance from each other much smaller than the diameter of an atomic nucleus, inside which quarks move at very high speeds, not much less than the speed of light, so they are never close to each other.

The probability of a proton colliding simultaneously with a neutron, with an electron and with a neutrino, while at the same time the 6 quarks composing the nucleons would also be gathering at the same internal spot seems so low that such an event is extremely unlikely to ever have happened in the entire Universe, since its beginning.
by andai | 2026-02-19 14:07:00+00:00
This is interesting, TFA lists Opus at 59. Which is the same as Claude Code with opus on the page you linked here. But it has Droid agent with Opus scoring 69. Which means the CC harness harness loses Opus 10 points on this benchmark.

I'm reminded of https://swe-rebench.com/ where Opus actually does better without CC. (Roughly same score but half the cost!)
by delecti | 2026-02-19 14:07:45+00:00
Regarding your second edit, there was 100 years of automobile development (or more, depending on how far back you consider things to be in the lineage of a car, vs the predecessors of them) before the first car had a steering wheel. It's just ahistorical to say we quickly outgrew the tiller. We're less than 100 years from the first emergence of digital computers and screens, let alone putting those two together and needing an interface on them.

I think your broader point is accurate, but computers aren't old enough yet to really compare the evolution of their interfaces to other technologies.
by rrr_oh_man | 2026-02-19 14:07:48+00:00
Can I do a brutally honest, very unfavourable read?

- Rampant substance abuse (weed and beer on the day before (!) investor meeting)

- Lazy (can't make his own breakfast), justified with high salary (?!)

- Said salary is €19/hr ("CTO") [edit: maybe closer to 22€/hr]

- Proud to sell "half-assed" product

- Database migrations on a Friday before vacation

- Impromptu coke parties with randos on same Friday

- Ruins his own date because he needs to clean up his colleague's mess — on same Friday

- Doesn't see that as catastrophic incompetence, but cosplays as a "vodka-powered hacker" to "impress" girl (who just wanted to get laid)

- Fumble a multi-million dollar acquisition because they fail to check nutrition requirements of VIP guest (of course not because the product or their whole presentation is messy)

- Fails to get rich, fails to get laid, surrounded by mess, yet thinks life is "nearly perfect"

Delusional, dude. Would drive me nuts. I hope this is a creative writing exercise or you're still in your 20s.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZTaXjt2Ggk&t=4m25s
by thunderseethe | 2026-02-19 14:08:02+00:00
It is a double edged sword of the single page layout that you really have to make one point briefly and get out of there. I had to pare down many details to fit the layout.

If you want to learn more about query based compilers as a concept, I highly recommend ollef's aritcle: https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.htm...

If you want to learn how to implement a query based compiler, I have a tutorial on that here: https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/lsp-base/ (which I also highly recommend but that might be more obvious since I wrote it)
by koliber | 2026-02-19 14:08:26+00:00
This happens with human-generated executive summaries. They can omit seemingly-innocuous things, focus on certain areas, and frame numbers in ways that color the summary. It's always important to know who wrote the summary if you want to know how much heed to pay it.

This is called bias, and every human has their own. Sometimes, the executive assistant wields a lot more power in an organization that it looks at first glance.

What the author seems to be saying is that the system prompt can be used to instill bias in LLMs.