MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jdross | 2026-02-26 14:13:19+00:00
I’m married to a Brit and she is constantly in awe of how much better our healthcare is here in the US.
And she paid for private insurance there too.

Quality of facilities, low wait times, quality of staff interactions, organization, etc.

She even freaks out about how we have free parking at our doctors and hospitals here!

We’re on corporate insurance.
by itishappy | 2026-02-26 14:13:21+00:00
Love this take! Unison is exactly this, and it's awesome!

Here's a quote from one of the creators:

> But here's the super cool thing about our language! Since we don't store your code in a text/source code representation, and instead as a typechecked AST, we have the freedom to change the surface syntax of the language very easily, which is something we've done several times in the past. We have this unique possibility that other languages don't have, in that we could have more than one "surface syntax" for the language. We could have our current syntax, but also a javascript-like syntax, or a python-like syntax.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46053304
by XorNot | 2026-02-26 14:13:28+00:00
Fossil are not equally polluting. There's a difference between living next to a generator with exhaust at ground level, a properly designed smoke stack, and just being further away so the reactive emissions can dilute and degrade.

CO2 might be a long term problem, but it isn't the core health concern of living near combustion facilities - moving those away from residential areas isn't passing the buck, it's just good sense.
by itmitica | 2026-02-26 14:13:29+00:00
I like your content very much, let me point this out first.

I'm not sure all aspects are covered in the approach.

For instance, controlling the agents takes a big chunk of the interest. The agentic system architecture is also big in view.

But, the way I see, more important staff is: project structure, coding best practices, testing strategies. All still deterministic. All still very tough to get agentic to do it right.

I think agentic should just be means to an end: project quality and project ease of management. If not, it's just an indulgence that costs money.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-26 14:13:52+00:00
I’ve been rotating between a few distinct vibes lately:
Latent Space: Absolutely essential for keeping up with the breakneck speed of LLMs and the actual engineering behind them.
Hard Fork: Good for a high-level weekly pulse on tech policy and Silicon Valley shifts without being too dry.
The Changelog: Still the gold standard for open-source deep dives.
Also, if you’re into the 'local-first' movement we were discussing earlier, some of the older episodes of Software Engineering Daily regarding distributed systems are still incredibly relevant for today's edge-computing challenges.
by nz | 2026-02-26 14:14:15+00:00
It depends a lot on what counts as "observation" or "measurement". For example, nobody with a telescope (of any magnification and resolution) would postulate the existence of dark matter. But, one person (Zwicky, 1933), _did_ postulate the existence of dark matter, precisely because he combined the what he saw through the telescope (light), with his understanding of physics (gravity and mass), and was able to infer that there must be matter that _cannot_ be seen with a telescope.

It's always possible (is in fact likely), that we have many (metaphorical) people who peer through (metaphorical) telescopes, but lack a (metaphorical) theory of gravity, preventing them from even considering the existence of (metaphorical) dark matter.
by mothballed | 2026-02-26 14:14:54+00:00
I think it is. It keeps listeners engaged because what they love most is telling you that you might be wrong and looking ways for it. A listener should make up their own mind anyway and double check -- if what you say is 99% right better they take that away than be 100% right and not be heard at all. I also just respect people more that can be bold with their points rather than hiding behind some chicken shit nuance that always covers them if what they really meant to postulate was wrong.
by quotemstr | 2026-02-26 14:15:04+00:00
> I find OP's communication style abrasive and off-putting

Your comment is hilarious on a meta-level: it's an example of exactly the sort of socially-mediated gatekeeping the author of the article (machine or human, I don't care) criticizes. It is, in fact, essential to match authority and responsibility to achieve excellence in any endeavor, and it's a truth universally acknowledged that vague consensus requirements are tools socially adept cowards use to undermine excellence.

Competent dictatorship is effective. Look at how much progress Python made under GVR. People who rail against hierarchy and authority, even when deployed correctly, are exactly the sort of people who should be nowhere near anything that requires progress.

Imagine running a military campaign by seeking consensus among the soldiers.
by rcxdude | 2026-02-26 14:15:14+00:00
They are not fundamentally different. The underlying hypocracy of NIMBYism is wanting the positive outcomes from something (more housing, factories producing goods) with someone else having to suffer the downsides. How obnoxious it is depends on that upside/downside risk, but fundamentally if you want a thing to happen but you want it to happen near someone else, you are part of the NIMBY problem. (Note that wanting it to not happen at all, or wanting a version that is more expensive but nicer to be near, is not the same, so long as you're happy to bear the outcome of that thing being more expensive)
by kergonath | 2026-02-26 14:15:40+00:00
> Everyone is actually underestimating stickiness. The near billion users OpenAI has is actually a real moat and might translate into decent chunk of revenue.

I’ve got a small-ish sample of friends who are regular people and use various AI chatbots because mobile phone providers now commonly bundle an AI subscription with their services. People seem to switch between Perplexity, Claude, and ChatGPT without any trouble. It does not look sticky at all to me and the half-a-percent difference in benchmarks we love to obsess about does not translate at all in increased user satisfaction.
by simoncion | 2026-02-26 14:15:44+00:00
Learning that it was almost always faster to walk from 4th and King to my place in the TL in the three hour period around "rush hour", and often faster late at night -depending on how out of sync the bus and Caltrain arrival times were- was lifechanging in a couple of ways.

Because of Muni's inability to stick to schedule, [0] the Nextbus displays are absolutely essential for making the "Do I walk, or do I wait?" decision. I hate stops that don't have them.

It's a damn shame that the city didn't build many more subway lines during the boom times.

[0] Granted, it's not entirely their fault; they have to contend with SF traffic, too.
by arekon_55 | 2026-02-26 14:15:50+00:00
"Let me explain what this actually solves:
You merge a PR. CI passes. You deploy. Three days later someone asks 'was this build identical to what was tested?' You have no answer.
ISC Core gives you that answer. Every artifact gets a hash at the CI boundary. If anything drifts — canonicalization, policy, anything — promotion is blocked before it hits prod.
60 seconds to verify. Works offline. No vendor dependency.
What problem are you solving around build reproducibility right now?"
Show HN: Sonde – Open-source LLM analytics (track brand mentions across LLMs)
by marcopinato | 2026-02-26 14:15:54+00:00
Hi HN!

We built Sonde (https://github.com/compiuta-origin/sonde-analytics) after noticing - probably like everybody else - our website traffic was declining while prospects were telling us "I found you through ChatGPT".

We wanted to understand our visibility across LLM responses, as we did in the good old days of SEO and web analytics. Since existing tools were enterprise-tier expensive, we built Sonde as a simple internal project to:

- schedule prompts to run against multiple LLMs, with web search enabled
- track whether your brand is mentioned in responses, how it ranks vs. competitors and general sentiment
- monitor trends over time

Tech stack: Supabase, Next.js, OpenRouter as LLM wrapper.

Sonde is fully open-source and you can self-host it via Docker Compose. We're also offering a managed version for convenience, running with complete feature parity.

Sonde has fundamentally changed how we approach content strategy for our products: I'd love to get feedback on it, or hear how you're currently tracking LLM visibility!
by Anonyneko | 2026-02-26 14:16:08+00:00
>the number of employing businesses decreasing by 9,000 (0.7%), but the number of non-employing businesses rising by 201,000 (4.9%)

Isn't "non-employing business" an euphemism of sorts for "Uber driver"? No idea though if the UK is already forcing Uber to hire drivers and couriers as employees or not yet.
by HiTechK | 2026-02-26 14:16:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the maker of EZClaw.

I like OpenClaw since it launched. It’s one of the most powerful ways to run a private AI assistant, but I noticed a recurring problem: unless you’re comfortable with Docker, environment variables, and cloud providers, it’s hard to get it running and keep it stable.

I built EZClaw to bridge that gap. It’s a managed hosting platform that handles the entire deployment lifecycle. You just provide your preferred frontend channel (Telegram, Discord), and EZClaw spins up a dedicated instance for you on managed infrastructure.

Technical Details:

- Infrastructure: We use Fly.io for globally distributed deployments.

- Stack: Built with Next.js 16, Clerk for auth, and Neon for the database.

- Automation: We’ve built a custom orchestration layer that provisions Docker instances and configures OpenClaw's environment on the fly.

- Management: Users get a dashboard to monitor logs and instance status.

We’re charging $49/month, which covers the underlying hosting costs and monthly LLM token costs. Our goal is to make personal AI assistants accessible to everyone.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the managed hosting approach for open-source AI tools. Are there specific features or integrations you’d like to see next?
by nickdothutton | 2026-02-26 14:16:21+00:00
One of the most interesting government charts (to me at least) is the "Net fiscal balance by geographic region" one from the ONS[1] (Figure 8).
Spoiler: London and to a much lesser extent, the SE, are the only regions with positive net fiscal balance at all. A sorry state of affairs.

[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe... Figure 8.
by bhouston | 2026-02-26 14:16:30+00:00
This guy from Effective Altruism pivoted away from helping the poor to help try to control AI from being a terminator type entity and then pivoted to being, ah, its okay for it to be a terminator type entity.

> Holden Karnofsky, who co-founded the EA charity evaluator GiveWell, says that while he used to work on trying to help the poor, he switched to working on artificial intelligence because of the “stakes”:

> “The reason I currently spend so much time planning around speculative future technologies (instead of working on evidence-backed, cost-effective ways of helping low-income people today—which I did for much of my career, and still think is one of the best things to work on) is because I think the stakes are just that high.”

> Karnofsky says that artificial intelligence could produce a future “like in the Terminator movies” and that “AI could defeat all of humanity combined.” Thus stopping artificial intelligence from doing this is a very high priority indeed.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/09/defective-altrui...

He is just giving everyone permission to do bad things by saying a lot of words around it.
by watwut | 2026-02-26 14:16:37+00:00
> In the first example, for example, they suggested a new metric to track added warnings in the build, and then there was a disagreement in the team, and then as a footnote someone went and fixed the warnings anyway? That sounds like the author might be missing something from their story.

I do not find anything missing here. This is how things often plays out in reality. Both your retelling of it and what was actually written in the article.

Your retelling: Some people agree and some disagree with new metric. That is completely normal. Then someone who agree or want to achieve the peace or just temporary does not feel like doing "real jira" tasks fixes warnings. Team moves on.

Actual article: the warnings get solved when it becomes apparent one of them caused production issue. That is when "this new process step matters" side wins.
by ezst | 2026-02-26 14:16:39+00:00
I hate comments anthropomorphizing LLMs. You are just asking a token producing system to produce tokens in a way that optimises for plausibility. Whatever it writes has no relation to its inner workings or truths. It doesn't "believe". It has no "intent". It cannot "admit". Steering a LLM to say anything you want is the defining characteristic of an LLM. That's how we got them to mimic chatbots. It's not clear there is any way at all to make them "safe" (whatever that means).
by latexr | 2026-02-26 14:16:44+00:00
> Public benefit corporations in the AI space have become a farce at this point.

“At this point”? It was always the case, it’s just harder to hide it the more time passes. Anyone can claim any bullshit they want about themselves, it’s only after you’ve had a chance to seem them in the situations which test their words that you can confirm if they are what they said.
Show HN: Bored, so I graphed 2M Telegram users by their gifts
by dmpyatyi | 2026-02-26 14:17:19+00:00
Telegram added gifts last year. Almost every gifts is shown on profile.

Anyone can map a graph by follow gift sender to recipient to their gifts and so on.

I used telethon and psql for this.

Scraping speed per one account - 8k/hour
by nticompass | 2026-02-26 14:17:20+00:00
I installed Coreboot/Tianocore on my T430 and it was awesome! Mostly, it got rid of Lenovo's stupid WiFi whitelist.

A few years ago, I got an X270 since my T430 was feeling sluggish. I'd be curious to try this!

My X270 has a 7th-gen core i5, is that Kaby Lake? Does coreboot/libreboot on the X270 need SeaBIOS or will it work with Tianocore?
by IAmBroom | 2026-02-26 14:17:38+00:00
Jimmy wasn't as good as Miles at collaboration.

Miles always impressed me with his ability to pick the best to back him up, and /then/ let them take the front. Some tracks he barely plays on, waiting minutes for his entry.

Jimmy wanted the best to back him up. But I agree with you; I'm just pointing out why I think he didn't.
by aaddrick | 2026-02-26 14:17:40+00:00
Wrote this after seeing the news about the matplotlib debacle. Figured a decent solution to AI submitted PR's was to prompt inject them with your project's standards.

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AI-assisted PRs are landing in maintainers’ queues with the wrong CSS framework and no tests. Sometimes with no disclosure that AI generated the code at all. The contributor often isn’t cutting corners. Their AI tool just had no project context when it generated the code.

There are two files that fix this. CLAUDE.md is read automatically by Claude Code when a contributor opens the project. AGENTS.md is a vendor-neutral standard, already supported by over twenty tools, that does the same thing across all of them. Both work the same way: when a contributor clones your repo and opens it in their AI tool, these files are loaded into the tool’s context before a single line is generated.
by smalltorch | 2026-02-26 14:17:53+00:00
To expound on the other questions.

To receive a call, you either need to be online and actively listening for calls, or optionally, you can enable auto listening. When another user calls you it will automatically put you in the call. On end call you will be put back in listening mode. I'm not really sure a great way to get around this without overly complicating it.

I believe because of the small overhead that's added there is just no reason not to layer encryption. At the end of the day I just wanted to see the bits I'm sending over the wire with my own eyes for assurance it's protected regardless of the fact that tor is protecting the data.

The streaming would be a nice improvement for latency. I would have to look into how this would work for the optional audio processing. Having one set file for transport also simplifys the some of the flow with encryption like salting and optional hmac authentication as these are derived from the sum of the entire file, not a portion of it.
Show HN: Tiqd – a checklist library for life tasks
by rvalley | 2026-02-26 14:17:55+00:00
Last year I was traveling as a digital nomad with a dog and spent too much time checking the requirements for each country. Every search result was a blog post, a YouTube explainer, or an old Reddit. I just wanted a list I could check off.

I had the idea of building a checklist library many years ago, but found myself with the barrier of generating the content. Now that's a solved issue.

I built tiqd.app. It's a library of checklists for the stuff life throws at you, like visas, moving, travel, job interviews, home buying. Not a task manager, just find a checklist and check things off. Statically generated from Postgres at build time (Next.js 14 SSG), so every page is just HTML. No logins, no backend for user state.

The share feature encodes all checked IDs as lz-string in a ?p= URL param. Felt like a nicer UX than forcing a signup just to compare notes with someone.

I optimized the architecture and development for programmatic SEO. Vibed coded most of it with clear instructions focused on distribution. A few days old and already seeing referral traffic from ChatGPT, which I wasn't expecting.

I'm also using Claude Code for the distribution side - branding, content calendar, social copy. Treating the whole launch as a learning exercise in programmatic SEO and distribution.

The content scales programmatically but most distribution advice out there is manual. If anyone has cracked programmatic distribution for a content site, I'd genuinely like to know what worked.
by sgarland | 2026-02-26 14:18:16+00:00
There are dozens of us!

Re: AI, that's not to say I don't use it, I just view it as a sometimes useful tool that you have to watch very closely. I also often view their use as an X-Y problem.

Another recent example: during the same AI week, someone made an AI Skill (I'm not sure how that counts as software, but I digress) that connects to Buildkite to find failed builds, then matches the symptoms back to commit[s]. In their demo, they showed it successfully doing so for something that "took them hours to solve the day before." The issue was having deployed code before its sibling schema migration.

While I was initially baffled at how they missed the logs that very clearly said "<table_name> not found," after having Claude go do something similar for me later, I realized it's at least partially because our logs are just spamming bullshit constantly. 5000-10000 lines isn't uncommon. Maybe if you weren't mislabeling what are clearly DEBUG messages as INFO, and if you didn't have so many abstractions and libraries that the stack traces are hundreds of lines deep, you wouldn't need an LLM to find the needle in the haystack for you.
by kergonath | 2026-02-26 14:18:52+00:00
Google was clearly superior fo a long time. They got close to 90% before enshitification started in earnest. We are not at that stage yet with AI chatbots.

Also, Google benefited from being the default on mainstream OSes. When people have to download an application, getting one or the other does not take more effort. Yes, OpenAI being tightly integrated within Windows, Android, and iOS would be a moat. That’s not the case and it is unlikely to happen. Google will go with their own and Apple won’t put itself in a situation where they are reliant on a single company, they got burned enough times.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-26 14:18:54+00:00
I could just as easily say that your comment makes no sense.

Curb ramps are all over the place in the US too. I don't know why LA hasn't had them. And I don't know what on earth Germany has to do with anything.

But the point is, if you force them to be constructed, then you need to pay for them. Maybe it's a "kick in the balls" as you put it, but without funding what exactly do you expect the city to do here? It can't conjure extra money out of thin air.

Regardless of the past history, passing a law forcing the city to do something without giving it the necessary money to do so is not a strategy that works.
by lqet | 2026-02-26 14:19:01+00:00
You better also have a UK phone number ready!

We had a nice family vacation last year in the UK (beach town in Wales). One day, we wanted to make reservations in a restaurant just a few blocks away. This was only possible by calling them. They asked for my phone number, then replied: "Sorry, is this a UK number?" When I said no, we are tourists here, the reply was that they could not make reservations for us, sorry! Same experience with two other restaurants.

We ended up preparing some hamburgers from Aldi UK that evening.
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-26 14:20:05+00:00
How do you know anything five years down the road? You don't even know where you yourself will be.

When proven wrong, hackers always say "Well in 5 years time or in 10 years time, things might have changed, so I was right and you were wrong".

It limits your own reasoning capabilities, and your satisfaction of always being right yet again will start diminishing with time.
by ecshafer | 2026-02-26 14:20:17+00:00
Which political party is for a universal healthcare system? The largest political party with universal health care on their platform is the Green party.

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democr...

This is the current DNC platform. There are zero mentions of a universal / single payer / socialized healthcare system.

There are four mentions of "healthcare" it refers to maintaining the ACA (which is a bad law), making a more integrated health care system in the US territories (Guam, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, etc.), climate law which will improve health care nebulously, and a vague statement about the supreme court hurting healthcare decisions (which is just a statement about them supporting the murder of babies).
by XorNot | 2026-02-26 14:20:51+00:00
Why care about single use coffee cups? They begin their life as oil in the ground and end their life as plastic in the ground (in landfill).

I've grown rather weary of performative complaining about trash which has a waste lifecycle which ends at "stabilized landfill".

Because that's one of our best waste lifecycle processes: what's a disaster is greenhouse gas emissions, it waste which is reliably ending up in the oceans and doesn't biodegrade.
by tarasyarema | 2026-02-26 14:21:00+00:00
First of all, thanks!

And agree on the open questions. Our goal is to keep experimenting and actually figure out how we agentic coding falls short in different scenarios and how that could be solved.

For instance, on our own projects, in some cases it requires different approaches. E.g. in our core product we power-use stuff like pm2, AGENTS.md special instructions, testing strategies dogfooding our own qa-use and special claude code commands that we found work best. In other repos, we have slightly different approaches.

Still we are far from autopiloting a lot of the stuff we build. But at the same time we are getting to a point where changes are done much faster, and the agents have more of a complete toolset for their validation, which makes it easier to supervise too.