MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: An English teaching game playable in browser (concept)
by LandenLove | 2026-02-19 05:19:40+00:00
This is my concept for a game that teaches English to (Japanese) children. It is made with Godot and is deployable to WASM.

Why WASM? My students all have IPads. I don't think they are able to download Apps without consent from IT.
by kzahel | 2026-02-19 05:20:31+00:00
It doesn't even touch auth right?

"""
Usage policy

Acceptable use
Claude Code usage is subject to the Anthropic Usage Policy. Advertised usage limits for Pro and Max plans assume ordinary, individual usage of Claude Code and the Agent SDK
"""

That tool clearly falls under ordinary individual use of Claude code. https://yepanywhere.com/ is another such tool. Perfectly ordinary individual usage.

https://yepanywhere.com/sdk-auth-clarification.html

The TOS are confusing because just below that section it talks about authentication/credential use. If an app starts reading api keys / credentials, that starts falling into territory where they want a hard line no.
by chii | 2026-02-19 05:20:31+00:00
> I think it’s going to be interesting to see what happens when an entire generation of software developers who’ve only ever known “just ask the LLM to do it” are unleashed on the world.

we only have to look today at how different software quality is compared to the "old days" - when compilers were not as good, and people wrote in assembly by hand.

Old software were fast and optimized. Hand written assembly used minimal resources. Today, people write bloated electron webapps packaged into a bundle.

And yet, look who is surviving in the competitive land of software darwinian natural selection?
by lyu07282 | 2026-02-19 05:21:01+00:00
OpenAI is using Persona for 'age' verification, as are countless other companies. Legislation is under way in all western countries to make this mandatory for every website.

Persona mirrors the data of all verification requests to the US government, that government system had their source code leaked. The horrific details of that are kind of presented badly here, I hope some journalists pick this up and make it more digestible but I doubt it, they just black hole it as they did on HN.

The mention of onyx is probably the most concerning, this comment here is probably indexed in there too, my threat score just went up. So just go along citizen nothing to see here.
by tripletao | 2026-02-19 05:21:22+00:00
Are they claiming that ChaCha20 deviates measurably from equally distributed in k dimensions in tests, or just that it hasn't been proven to be equally distributed? I can't find any reference for the former, and I'd find that surprising. The latter is not surprising or meaningful, since the same structure that makes cryptanalysis difficult also makes that hard to prove or disprove.

For emphasis, an empirically measurable deviation from k-equidistribution would be a cryptographic weakness (since it means that knowing some members of the k-tuple helps you guess the others). So that would be a strong claim requiring specific support.
by worthless-trash | 2026-02-19 05:21:23+00:00
> Not only that they go out of their way to obstruct running software.

Apple delivered EFI 32 bit(ppc, 32) firmware updates to their 64 bit mac pro range, make booting/installing alternative operating systems much more difficult only shortly after the new intel range came out.

I had a few of these running Linux at the time and made the mistake of booting one into OSX to see if an update would fix an networking corner case, not an easy roll back.

You may wish to prefix your statement with "apple software".
by hugmynutus | 2026-02-19 05:21:35+00:00
> Commodity hardware and software will continue to drop in price.

The software is free (citation: Cuda, nvcc, llvm, olama/llama cpp, linux, etc)

The hardware is *not* getting cheaper (unless we're talking a 5+ year time) as most manufacturers are signaling the current shortages will continue ~24 months.
by Gigachad | 2026-02-19 05:21:52+00:00
At any rate, they offer the option to be billed exactly on your usage via the API. But if you tell the average person the service costs $x/million tokens they will have no idea how much that actually costs, they won't know what a token is or how much their employees are likely to use. While $30/user/month is something they can easily budget for and get approved.
by rjh29 | 2026-02-19 05:23:02+00:00
> "just a few dollars per million tokens"

Google AI Pro is like $15/month for practically unlimited Pro requests, each of which take million tokens of context (and then also perform thinking, free Google search for grounding, inline image generation if needed). This includes Gemini CLI, Gemini Code Assist (VS Code), the main chatbot, and a bunch of other vibe-coding projects which have their own rate limits or no rate limits at all.

It's crazy to think this is sustainable. It'll be like Xbox Game Pass - start at £5/month to hook people in and before you know it it's £20/month and has nowhere near as many games.
by edg5000 | 2026-02-19 05:23:30+00:00
> eat the losses

Look at your token usage of the last 30 days in one of the JSON files generated by Claude Code. Compare that against API costs for Opus. Tell me if they are eating losses or not. I'm not making a point, actually do it and let me know. I was at 1 million. I'm paying 90 EUR/m. That means I'm subsidizing them (paying 3-4 times what it would cost with the API)! And I feel like I'm a pretty heavy user. Although people running it in a loop or using Gas Town will be using much more.
by leosanchez | 2026-02-19 05:24:14+00:00
> India will go into deep pits ( Paathaalam ) as long as this regime continues.

You can keep dreaming. I actually lived under the previous administration where there were power cuts every day for about 6-9 hours in summer.

Better keep your delusional politics to reddit.

Just to rub it in. Compared to the regime before 2014 where Prime Minister used to report to a foreign lady. I am pretty happy with the where the country is going.
Show HN: Learn about and play with HDR gain maps on the web
by thebigsasha | 2026-02-19 05:24:33+00:00
I made this little web app for learning about HDR gain maps & doing creative things with them. Try it on your own images, or mine. Also includes a nifty "auto HDR" feature for any SDR images you put in.

One thing I enjoy doing is making a gain map from high frequencies (fine details) of an image to give it a little HDR sparkle.
by Rayosay | 2026-02-19 05:24:35+00:00
Spice86 has a pretty good built-in debugger. I found it much easier to work with than DosBox's debugger. Spice86's DOS emulation isn't as good as DosBox's yet, but it's getting better all the time. https://github.com/OpenRakis/Spice86

I second LowLevelMahn's recommendation for IDA 5 Free. It's a good disassembler for DOS applications and helps me navigate what I'm looking at in the Spice86 debugger. It also runs very well in Wine.
by KingMob | 2026-02-19 05:26:30+00:00
Presumably because their flat rate pricing is based off their ability to manage token use via their first-party tools.

A third-party tool may be less efficient in saving costs (I have heard many of them don't hit Anthropic LLMs' caches as well).

Would you be willing to pay more for your plan, to subsidize the use of third-party tools by others?

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Note, afaik, Anthropic hasn't come out and said this is the reason, but it fits.

Or, it could also just be that the LLM companies view their agent tools as the real moat, since the models themselves aren't.
by literallywho | 2026-02-19 05:26:30+00:00
There are so many of them, aren't there? There's Roam Research (might be the OG one), Logseq (FOSS Obsidian basically), Notion, Emacs' Org-Roam, Anytype, etc. Neovim has like 5 extensions implementing the same idea (such as Neorg), Bram's Vim probably has its own plugins in Vim9script.
by 747fulloftapes | 2026-02-19 05:26:36+00:00
> > It's not just MacBooks, nearly all laptops have SSD and RAM soldered

> That's simply a lie. No other laptop have soldered SSD. An increasing number do have soldered RAM.

That's simply a lie. Pretty much all laptops using eMMC or eUFS for storage are soldered directly to the mainboard. These are often budget devices and many are things like x86-based tablets or chromebooks but there are models that are very much laptops. I do concede I am unaware of any non-apple laptops with directly soldered NVMe storage, but your claim that no other laptop have soldered SSD is patently false.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-19 05:27:49+00:00
our viewpoints make a good discussion but our communication protocols arent properly matching up. i was trying to make the point that you just did - being fried in the head would increase the likelihood of silly decisions in all types of humans. one such example of a silly decision was collectively deleting rules designed to keep psychopaths in check, at the behest of psychopaths. thanks for chatting man, all the best
by hrishi | 2026-02-19 05:28:23+00:00
Hi HN! Hrishi from Southbridge here.

Long story short: we needed something to actually do brownfield agentic engineering with: something that made it easier to reason about what an agent will see in context at any point in time, remove and flush context often, clear handoffs, better primitives.

Something we noticed is that LLMs have started co-evolving with their harnesses - anthropic gets more training data from you using claude code, claude code gets new features from claude first, etc etc - so we decided to change the base primitive from the llm call to the agent loop. almost any harness - codex, opencode, etc - is supported, you just need to generate a shim using one of the hanks like we do.

So we ended up building a runtime that executes sequenced AI programs - blocks of prompts and code that get loaded into context, run, monitored and then torn down.

We’ve been using it for a while, open-sourcing it in case its useful. Maybe it’s our visibility set but there’s not much out there focused on reliable executions and doing less so you can think more.

It’s single agent threaded (no parallel agent things), designed for headless (we’re a data company), no MCP or skills things - our general policy has been ‘build what you NEED’ and we just haven’t EVER needed those things.

Have fun!

Read more about the idea behind it here: https://southbridge.ai/hankweave
by rconti | 2026-02-19 05:28:37+00:00
I started as a desktop Linux user in 1994 and I can guarantee you it would have been more work for me to install Kubuntu for the first time :)

Regardless, this one is going on eBay, so it's probably best for it to be running the latest Apple OS. Whether the $60-or-whatever I get for it is worth the hassle is another story.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-19 05:29:35+00:00
I recommend kimi. It's possible for people to haggle with it to get cheap for the first month and as such try out your project and best part of the matter is that kimi intentionally supports api usage in any of their subscribed plan and they also recently changed their billing to be more token usage based like others instead of their previous tool calling limits

It's seriously one of the best models. very comparable to sonnet/opus although kimi isn't the best in coding. I think its a really great solid model overall and might just be worth it in your use case?

Is the use case extremely coding intensive related (where even some minor improvement can matter for 10-100x cost) or just in general. Because if not, then I can recommend Kimi.
by rz2k | 2026-02-19 05:29:37+00:00
command+shift+g

Then

s<tab>/l<tab>/cores<tab>/a<tab>

Simple!

However, while Spotlight works well when you know what you are looking for, it can still be useful to navigate the filesystem, and it's too bad that Apple hides tools in relatively obscure locations rather than somewhere like /Applications/Utilities.
by nivcmo | 2026-02-19 05:30:05+00:00
The productivity gains from AI are real but unevenly distributed. In my experience, the biggest wins come from automating the "small" stuff — email triage, scheduling, reminders, follow-ups — not from replacing entire job functions.

I built an AI secretary for myself that handles these admin tasks, and it saves me ~12 hours/week. The interesting pattern: knowledge workers who delegate well to AI see outsized gains, while those who treat it as a fancy search engine get marginal improvements.

The EU study's 4% average makes sense when you factor in adoption friction, training gaps, and companies bolting AI onto broken workflows. The real productivity leap happens when you redesign processes around AI capabilities, not just layer them on top.
by oger | 2026-02-19 05:30:43+00:00
So here goes my OpenClaw integration with Anthropic via OAuth…
While I see their business risk I also see the onboarding path for new paying customers. I just upgraded to Max and would even consider the API if cost were controllable. I hope that Anthropic finds a smart way to communicate with customers in a constructive way and offers advice for the not so skilled OpenClaw homelabbers instead of terminating their accounts…
Is anybody here from Anthropic that could pick up that message before a PR nightmare happens?
by rramadass | 2026-02-19 05:32:12+00:00
As a Software Engineer, i had long thought about learning (and possibly moving into) Hardware Chip Design and/or its ancillary support domains i.e. what you have listed.

I understand that learning FPGA programming (Verilog/VHDL/etc.) is a first-step in that journey. Would you agree? Have you looked at books like FPGAs for Software Programmers? - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-26408-0

For each of the domains you have listed, would you mind sharing books/tools/sites etc.?

For example, While researching the above long ago, i had come across the following;

C++ Modelling of SoC Systems Part 1: Processor Elements - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/c-modelling-soc-systems-part-...

C++ Modelling of SoC Systems Part 2 : Infrastructure - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/c-modelling-soc-systems-part-...

gem5 Simulator - https://www.gem5.org/

Verilator Simulator - https://www.veripool.org/verilator/

Maybe you can provide a step-by-step roadmap on how a software guy (C/C++, systems programming) can move on to hardware chip design?
by nivcmo | 2026-02-19 05:32:30+00:00
Interesting approach to interactive learning. The form-based interaction is a nice middle ground between passive reading and open-ended chat.

One observation: the real challenge with "doom learning" products is retention. People install Duolingo with good intentions, then drop off. Consider adding:
- Spaced repetition (show me this again tomorrow, then in 3 days)
- Micro-commitments (5-minute sessions, not 30)
- Contextual relevance (I just learned 'find' — now quiz me next time I'm actually in a terminal)

The quiz format works well for syntax/commands. For conceptual topics, maybe switch to "explain like I'm 5" mode with the LLM.

Good luck!
by addaon | 2026-02-19 05:32:39+00:00
C's a great language in 1985, and a great starting point. But development of UI software is one of those areas where object oriented software really shines. What if we could get all the advantages of C as a procedural language, but graft on top an extremely lightweight object system with a spec of < 20 pages to take advantage of these new 1980s-era developments in software engineering, while keeping 100% of the maturity and performance of the C ecosystem? We could call it Objective-C.
by kqr | 2026-02-19 05:33:01+00:00
The observation that it is impossible to ennumerate 300 bits of assignments with a 256-bit random generator is a very clever observation. Just like almost all assignments are balanced (300 vs. 295 bits), I wonder if there's a similar equipartition property argument that 256 bits will generate the vast majority of the outcomes, but my Shannon-fu is too weak to tell.

Maybe that's the problem? With 256 bits we will only get the "typical" assignments and not the edge cases which are the ones that are important for randomisation tests?
by refactor_master | 2026-02-19 05:33:15+00:00
Yes, even ferries in Scandinavia can be roads when it makes for a better map… Or not ferries in the Mediterranean when it doesn’t.

Honestly I think this part

> The resulting images bring insights into the ways in which road infrastructure reflect regional, political and geographical situations.

should just be taken as pseudo-profound art fluff. Are you telling me all Greek commercial transport goes straight through non-Schengen instead of just ferrying across?
by KingMob | 2026-02-19 05:33:21+00:00
> They are not losing money on subscription plans. Inference is very cheap - just a few dollars per million tokens. What they’re trying to do is bundle R&D costs with inference so they can fund the training of the next generation of models.

You've described every R&D company ever.

"Synthesizing drugs is cheap - just a few dollars per million pills. They're trying to bundle pharmaceutical research costs... etc."

There's plenty of legit criticisms of this business model and Anthropic, but pointing out that R&D companies sink money into research and then charge more than the marginal cost for the final product, isn't one of them.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-19 05:33:30+00:00
How is that so? The App Store has allowed you to download the last compatible version since iOS 6?

But I hate when people malos this comparison to a laptop, in the first 20 years of the personal computer you weren’t using 10 year old computers because the pace of change was so fast.

Your iPad Air has 2GB of RAM and has an A9 processor that is 7x slower in single core performance than the latest iPad Air. The latest iPad Airs come with 8GB of RAM.

My iPad Air from 2020 barely runs iOS 26 with 3GB RAM.

For comparison, I had a Dell Laptop in 2008 that had 8GB RAM and was my Plex server until 2018. Even today in 2026 low end laptops come with 8GB of RAM.
by nivcmo | 2026-02-19 05:33:39+00:00
Peer Relays is a clever solution to the "both sides behind NAT" problem without the complexity of running your own DERP servers. The auto-selection logic (finding the best relay path) is where the magic happens.

For teams who self-host, this reduces infrastructure overhead significantly. Previously you either accepted the latency hit of public DERPs or ran private ones (more ops work). Peer Relays sit in a nice middle ground — better latency without the operational burden.

Would be interesting to see metrics on how often peer relays get selected vs direct connections vs traditional DERPs in real-world usage.
by dakolli | 2026-02-19 05:35:35+00:00
And at that point, you might as well use OpenRouter's PKCE and give users the option to use other models..

These kinds of business decisions show how these $200.00 subscriptions for their slot/infinite jest machines basically light that $200.00 on fire, and in general how unsustainable these business models are.

Can't wait for it all to fail, they'll eventually try to get as many people to pay per token as possible, while somehow getting people to use their verbose antigentic tools that are able to inflate revenue through inefficient context/ouput shenanigans.
by anon-3988 | 2026-02-19 05:38:42+00:00
> The "process", in many cases, is not necessarily preferable to the novel. Because an important part of the creative process is real-world experiences (as described above), and the real world is often unpleasant, hard, and complex, I'd often prefer a novel over the source material. Reading Animal Farm is much less unpleasant than being caught in the Spanish Civil War, for example.

I think you misunderstood what I meant by "prompts and process that lead to that novel". I am talking about the process that the "author" used to generate that novel output. I am more interested in the technique that they use, and the moment that technique is known. Then, I can produce billions of War And Peace.

I suppose the argument is that, the moment there's an LLM that can produce a unique and interesting novels, what stops it from generating another billion similarly interesting novels?
by noosphr | 2026-02-19 05:39:14+00:00
If you buy a pirated book on Amazon you get to keep the book and the pirate printer is the one persecuted.

Same thing applies here.

Up to 80% off all works that are in copyright terms are accidentally in the public domain. A well known example is Night of the Living Dead. It is not your job to check that the copiright on a work you use is the correct one.
by nn3 | 2026-02-19 05:39:26+00:00
What's also annoying is that sizes of the same clothes change.
I have a pair of jeans that I ordered on Amazon in 2020. It happens to fit me great. So recently I decided to order two more of the same. I got exactly the same model with the same size on Amazon, just with different colors. But neither fit very well, they were far wider. The first one had such a horrible fit that I immediately sent it back. The other I can wear, but it's quite different from the other perfectly fitting one. Why are they doing that? It's insane.
by hedora | 2026-02-19 05:39:55+00:00
I've settled on XFCE. It just works. You have to turn too many knobs to make it work on weird DPI / screen sizes, but other than that, it's fine.

Recently, I fired up Win 3.11 in 1600x1200@256 mode to run SimAnt, and was pretty shocked at how much better it felt than most modern operating systems.

I kind of feel like the start menu + task bar were a mistake now.

It is nice having the bluetooth + network icon somewhere accessible, but maybe <ctrl>-space should just pop up a thing that lets you type program names + also temporarily hide all windows over 10% of the screen or something? That'd solve the problem of trying to find program manager to run a second program. Also, the windows in windows approach of program manager wasn't great. Still, it's better than most things out there these days. The icons are so... clean.
by qingcharles | 2026-02-19 05:41:26+00:00
Right, the key point being it is almost impossible to reuse iPhone or iPad hardware once the updates stop coming, even though the hardware is absolutely amazing. A 2017 iPad Air is still awesome hardware if you could jam an optimized version of Android/Linux onto it.

If you don't need it to be an Air, I bought an 8th gen iPad on eBay last year for about $80 and it will let you install iOS 26, although with the 32GB model you can't fit many apps on it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-19 05:41:35+00:00
see my comment here but I think instead of worrying about the decompile minified JS code etc., you can just essentially use claude code in the background and still do it even using opencode/its SDK thus giving sort of API access over CC subscription https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069299#47070204

I am not sure how they can detect this. I can be wrong, I usually am but I think its still possible to use CC etc. even after this change if you really wanted to

But at this point, to me the question of GP that is that is it even worth it is definitely what I am thinking?

I think not. There are better options out there, they mentioned mistral and codex and I think kimi also supports maybe GLM/z.ai as well
by r-johnv | 2026-02-19 05:42:58+00:00
> The data on AI's differential impact is now overwhelming. Faros AI's Productivity Paradox Report (10,000+ developers, 1,255 teams) found that high-AI-adoption teams completed 21% more tasks and merged 98% more pull requests — but PR review time increased 91%, creating a critical bottleneck at human approval. At the organizational level, any correlation between AI adoption and performance metrics evaporated. This is Amdahl's Law applied to software: a system moves only as fast as its slowest link.

We've definitely faced the review bottleneck on the open-source project that I maintain. ( github.com/robotmcp/ros-mcp-server )
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-19 05:43:37+00:00
> Then just run Claude Code in a PTY and proxy requests in and out?

Exactly something I said too. There are projects which can do this and hook natively to opencode and even its sdk/api.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069299#47070204 (I list a project which does this)

I really don't know how anthropic can somehow detect something like this.