MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by avoutic | 2026-02-08 10:33:38+00:00
Author of Wardgate here:

Definitely something that can be looked into.

Wardgate is (deliberately) not part of the agent. This means separation, which is good and bad. In this case it would perhaps be hard to track, in a secure way, agent sessions. You would need to trust the agent to not cache sessions for cross use. Far sought right now, but agents get quiet creative already to solve their problem within the capabilities of their sandbox. ("I cannot delete this file, but I can use patch to make it empty", "I cannot send it via WhatsApp, so I've started a webserver on your server, which failed, do then I uploaded it to a public file upload site")
by ranguna | 2026-02-08 10:33:39+00:00
500,000,000*80=40,000,000,000
40,000,000,000/650,000,000,000=0.06

If I understood you correctly and my math is correct, your suggestions only cover 6% of 650 billion, the news is suggesting AI companies need more than 10x more. So either it's 5 billion people paying 60-80, or 500 million people paying 600-800/month, or something in between + a little extra.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-08 10:34:29+00:00
I'm not "the US government" or "the Americans". There's no monolithic hivemind to yell at or at fault to say "I told you so". There were zillions of warning signs and alarm bells that went off the the US mainstream media failed to educate the populace about. And not enough of the people voter or applied critical thinking skills. Lots of blame to go around.

In the long view, there was/is a concerted effort by chaos agents in favor of radical upheaval/destruction/division who share (temporary?) interests, belonging to one or more of the following rough groupings:

- Putin, Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Ellison, Trump, and a litany of other billionaire oligarchs whom have each their individual interests for changing, breaking, or tweaking political and mass media institutions, processes, and leadership to capture more money for them.

- Crazy people who aren't educated or aware enough to understand what's going on and go along with what other fringe people said because they like hurting people who aren't them.

- Crazy people who know what's happening but profit directly from chaos despite the risks.. from bloggers to political consultants to merch sellers.

- Crazy people who know what's happening but have some irrational, ideological guide-star like the second coming of Jesus, "government overthrow", "creative destruction"/accelerationism, civil war, race war/separatism, and/or world war.

And then there's:

- Unknowable ~5-70% (varying by forum and piece of content) of engagement generated by bots and sockpuppet human-based boiler room phony engagement to shift sentiment and manufacture consent towards one or more of the above. In some videos on YT, there's like 80% meme coin spam. And there's a lot of repetitive comments by spammers calling for violence that seem like bots.

- Unknowable % emergent issue advocacy groups covertly or overly formed in service of any of the above.

- People who exhibit cognitive dissonance to reality of the risks and changes but benefit directly or indirectly from the chaos. This is endorsement of the outcome while internally disagreeing with the means, but not enough to take a principled stand.

My bottom line: Defend democracy and don't carry water for the Kremlin by in-fighting amongst the 99.9%. Most of the 0.1% through under-restrained greed are the perpetual enemy of organized civilization, and so the Marcus Licinius Crassuses and separation of power must be vigilantly maintained through countervailing factions, structures, policies, and countermeasures in relative balance in passionate contention short of harmony. Bribery, emoluments, chaos, stupidity, and tranquilizing reform delay has got to go.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-02-08 10:34:33+00:00
Most apps that are in need of notification control either:

a) bundle everything in one category, from critical notifications without which the app can't fulfill its purpose to "HEY YOU HAVEN'T USED ME IN A DAY, USE ME NOW" spam

b) create a new category for spam every time they feel enough users have turned off the previous one, which is often
by stareatgoats | 2026-02-08 10:36:32+00:00
Sorry didn't get as far as checking out your product (which seems interesting).

You use a cookie CMP (Consent Management Platform - Google's?) that asks for permission for 122 vendors to harvest my personal information. There is no 'Reject all' button, and one has to tediously scroll through a potentially long list of pre-checked so-called 'legitimate' interests in order to reject all, a 'dark pattern' cookie harvesting, which goes against your 'privacy first' expressed goal.

If you just want the feedback from this community I suggest you remove any analytics from the site, there are likely many here that simply turn back when presented with this CMP.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-02-08 10:37:38+00:00
>As a research topic, modern AI is a miracle, and I absolutely love learning about it. As an economic endeavor, it just feels insane. How many hospitals, roads, houses, machine shops, biomanufacturing facilities, parks, forests, laboratories, etc. could we build with the money we’re spending on pretraining models that we throw away next quarter?

This is a wrong way to look at it. The right way is to consider that AI investments generate (taxable) economic activity that your government can use to build "hospitals, roads, houses, machine shops, biomanufacturing facilities, parks, forests, laboratories".
by StevenNunez | 2026-02-08 10:39:19+00:00
I've been been using OpenClaw for a bit now and the thing I'm missing is observability. What's this thing thinking/doing right now? Where's my audit log? Every rewrite I see fails to address this.

I feel Elixir and the BEAM would be a perfect language to write this in. Gateways hanging, context window failures exhaustion can be elegantly modeled and remedied with supervision trees. For tracking thoughts, I can dump a process' mailbox and see what it's working on.
by peekrtrue | 2026-02-08 10:39:59+00:00
Hi HN,

OP here. I've been learning the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) and wanted to build something more interactive than the usual "To-Do List" tutorial.

Peekr is an anonymous social experiment/game inspired by "Truth or Dare".

The core mechanics:

Anonymity: No sign-up required (using local storage/tokens).

Social Betting: Users can post a "Truth" and others bet virtual karma on whether it's real or fake.

Tech: It's a SPA hosted on Vercel with a Node/Mongo backend.

Why I'm posting:
I'm looking for feedback on the UX flow and potential security pitfalls with this kind of anonymous architecture. It's still in beta, so be gentle with the bugs!

Thanks for checking it out!
by avoutic | 2026-02-08 10:41:47+00:00
I think a lot of people, me included, fear OpenClaw especially because it's an amalgamation of all features, 2.3k pull requests, obviously a lot of LLM checked or developed code.

It tries to do everything, but has no real security architecture.

Exec approvals are a farce.

OC can modify it's own permissions and config, and if you limit that you cannot really use it for is strengths.

What is needed is a well thought out security architecture, which allows easy approvals, but doesn't allow OC to do that itself, with credential and API access control (such as by using Wardgate [1], my solution for now), and separation of capabilities into multiple nodes/agents with good boundaries.

Currently OC needs effective root access, can change its own permissions and it's kinda all or nothing.

[1] https://github.com/wardgate/wardgate
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-08 10:42:28+00:00
> physics says they can't exist in the way they are described

If we assume advanced genetic as well as bio engineering that admits the possibility of self reproducing cybernetic organisms that closely match many or all of the key characteristics. I'm not sure it's actually a cyborg if the lineage is fully independent without involving any technology external to the species but I use the term there because that's the easiest way to communicate the idea.
Show HN: CodeMic
by seansh | 2026-02-08 10:42:29+00:00
With CodeMic you can record and share coding sessions directly inside your editor.

Think Asciinema, but for full coding sessions with audio, video, and images.

While replaying a session, you can pause at any point, explore the code in your own editor, modify it, and even run it. This makes following tutorials and understanding real codebases much more practical than watching a video.

Local first, and open source.

p.s. I’ve been working on this for a little over two years and would love to hear your thoughts.
by tuhgdetzhh | 2026-02-08 10:43:36+00:00
Yes, and that constraint shows up surprisingly early.

Even if you eliminate model latency and keep yourself fully in sync via a tight human-in-the-loop workflow, the shared mental model of the team still advances at human speed. Code review, design discussion, and trust-building are all bandwidth-limited in ways that do not benefit much from faster generation.

There is also an asymmetry: local flow can be optimized aggressively, but collaboration introduces checkpoints. Reviewers need time to reconstruct intent, not just verify correctness. If the rate of change exceeds the team’s ability to form that understanding, friction increases: longer reviews, more rework, or a tendency to rubber-stamp changes.

This suggests a practical ceiling where individual "power coding" outpaces team coherence. Past that point, gains need to come from improving shared artifacts rather than raw output: clearer commit structure, smaller diffs, stronger invariants, better automated tests, and more explicit design notes. In other words, the limiting factor shifts from generation speed to synchronization quality across humans.
by parable | 2026-02-08 10:44:10+00:00
This is actually a great analogy for why companies should take small data leaks seriously. A leak is a leak.

Also, to clarify, I don't mean to appear as though I'm discrediting this leak or downplaying its severity. I only mentioned that it was a partial leak to offer an explanation as to why some users received emails and others didn't, as witnessme's comment seemed confused about this.
by bborud | 2026-02-08 10:44:16+00:00
It worked well for Amazon because they kept it within a tight operating envelope. They used it to persist bytes on disk in multiple, smaller BDBs per node. This kept it out of trouble. They also sidestepped the concurrency and locking problems by taking care of that in the layers above. It was used more like SSTables in BigTable.

They phased out BDB before DynamoDB was launched. Some time between 2007 and 2010. By the time DynamoDB launched as a product in 2012(?), BDB was gone.
by vdm | 2026-02-08 10:46:04+00:00
this. which(1) and whereis(1) are not bash, only an approximation or coincidence at best:

$ type -a which
which is /usr/bin/which

As a bash built-in, only the type command invokes the installed bash's code path to resolve command words:

$ type -a type
type is a shell builtin
type is /usr/bin/type

$ help type
type: type [-afptP] name [name ...]
Display information about command type.

For each NAME, indicate how it would be interpreted if used as a
command name.

Options:
-a display all locations containing an executable named NAME;
includes aliases, builtins, and functions, if and only if
the `-p' option is not also used
-f suppress shell function lookup
-P force a PATH search for each NAME, even if it is an alias,
builtin, or function, and returns the name of the disk file
that would be executed
-p returns either the name of the disk file that would be executed,
or nothing if `type -t NAME' would not return `file'
-t output a single word which is one of `alias', `keyword',
`function', `builtin', `file' or `', if NAME is an alias,
shell reserved word, shell function, shell builtin, disk file,
or not found, respectively

Arguments:
NAME Command name to be interpreted.

Exit Status:
Returns success if all of the NAMEs are found; fails if any are not found.

$ $SHELL --version
GNU bash, version 5.3.9(1)-release
Show HN: Language learning through AI example sentences (onigiri.kr)
by jaehakl | 2026-02-08 10:46:24+00:00
I made a vocab learning app focused on context instead of flashcards. Upload text or browse AI-generated example sentences with images/audio. Click words for definitions, rate your knowledge, get personalized recommendations via spaced repetition.
Built it to understand Japanese songs. Now I can follow news broadcasts. Supports Japanese, English for Korean, Japanese and English learners.
by dijit | 2026-02-08 10:48:09+00:00
Either I misunderstood or HN is much stupider than I thought.

My definition of PKI is the one we’re using for TLS, some random array of “trusted” third parties can issue keys that are then validated against.

If you’re not in that list then signing can be valuable for other reasons, but PKI is not among them any longer as theres no distinction between self-signed and a semi-trusted entity: things will break.

If you expect your website to work with keys issued from your internal company CA; you would be surprised to find that random browsers distributed on the internet wouldn't trust it.

Wow, shocker.
by bartread | 2026-02-08 10:48:32+00:00
I’m not an Android user, but props to you for taking the feedback onboard and doing this, Anuj. Lot of respect for you. In an era of eroded privacy, intrusive notifications, and enshittification you’ve done a genuinely positive and helpful thing to allow ordinary users to fight back.

And, yes, some people will criticise code quality but (a) if those people aren’t actively contributing to the product then you should ignore them, and (b) I suspect the complainers will largely be drowned out by the many who will support your decision.

You certainly aren’t the only highly experienced engineer vibe-coding their way through a problem - I’m leaning very heavily on Claude, and somewhat on ChatGPT, at the startup I’m working on at the moment.

Thank you, Anuj!
by tkel | 2026-02-08 10:48:43+00:00
The hundreds of billions of dollars in investment probably have something to do with it. Many wealthy/powerful people are playing for hegemonic control of a decent chunk of the US economy. The entire GDP increase for the US last year was due to AI and by extension data centers. So not only the AI execs, but every single capitalist in the US whose wealth depends on line going every up year. Which is, like, all of them. In the wealthiest country on the planet.

So many wealthy players invested the outcome, and the technology for astroturfing (LLMs) can ironically be used to boost itself and further its own development
by Gibbon1 | 2026-02-08 10:48:52+00:00
Solar farms produce 50 times more energy per acre than corn grown for ethanol.

A rabbit hole I started working down was how much ammonia would cost is the hydrogen was from electrolysis power by solar. It's sort of competitive.

Whack bit. 2200 calories a day is 2.5kwh. That's what a 400W solar panel puts out.

Which made me wonder about just synthesizing amino acids directly. Why make ammonia and spray it in crops that use sunlight (2% efficient) to turn it into protein.

You start digging an there are two dozen companies working the bioreactor angle. Hydrogen + N2 to feed nitrogen fixing bacteria.

I find this way more interesting than using AI to replace MBA's and code monkeys.
by dataviz1000 | 2026-02-08 10:49:12+00:00
> If what you say is true, why ever would the US want to defend them?

Ho Chi Minh went to the Americans and asked for help because the French were raping the Vietnamese and other things. The Americans refused to help them. So the Vietnamese asked the Communists for help. It is strongly believed that the American-Vietnamese war would have been adverted and Vietnam would have had a similar economic trajectory as Japan and South Korea after WWII if the Americans had helped.

Bill Clinton who learned from history did the opposite as Harry Truman and put two aircraft carrier strike groups between the island and the mainland during Taiwan's democratic election defending both democracy and Taiwan self determination.

There were a few American presidents who promoted and defended democracy. Unfortunately the whiny snowflake administration in power now isn't one of them.
by a_n | 2026-02-08 10:50:12+00:00
sure, the algo basically is i calculate a bunch of objective details about your face (like angle for canthal tilt, distance ratios for mouth etc) , you can see these measurements in the overlaid images you get when you rate yourself. then according to the research online, i try to give a single score according to these measurements, for example, a positive canthal tilt is conventionally looked as more attractive. similarly less error in rule of fifths is seen as better or a specific face ratio as 0.42 is looked as the best, so i assign your mesasruemtns a specific single score according to this research. and then i combine these using some weights to get a final rating.
yeah feels like the facemash moment for my uni lmao
by cess11 | 2026-02-08 10:50:23+00:00
"I allow interview candidates to use agentic coding tools and candidates who do so consistently performed worse"

I have a similar impression. It seems to me that people get something that kind of works and then their interest runs out and they're left with a shallow understanding of the result and how it might be achieved. This seems detrimental to learning, which tends to happen when one is struggling.

"I strongly believe that chat is the least interesting interface to LLMs"

This is also something I agree with. When I work with databases, the best part is not sitting with an immediate client writing raw queries by hand.
by imtringued | 2026-02-08 10:51:34+00:00
That would only rule out stories based on interstellar travel, which is a tiny subset of what you can do in space. After all, you'll just end up inside another solar system that won't be much different from ours. The planets will be in different orbits but there will most likely be an asteroid belt and the effects of temperature will remain the same even if the planets are in different temperature ranges from our planets.

If earth is big enough for fantasy, then the solar system is plenty big enough for science fiction.

If you wanted to watch hard science fiction I would recommend watching anthrofuturism on YouTube who focuses exclusively on the moon.
by jesperordrup | 2026-02-08 10:51:34+00:00
So putting this on hackernews resulted in visitor numbers through the roof. From zero to 7000 unique visitors over 24 hours. I have no expectations that that will continue.

Honestly my thought was to make a good ressource and leave it at that.

But now I'm thinking how could I improve the guide.

I'm not gonna polute the current version with ads nor will I add a paywall around the guide.

I might add a sponsor links but nothing that will get in the way. I'll keep the cost low instead.

But maybe if I do it right I would like to add new features that could cost a buck.

If there is anything I should / could add that you think would make sense then please send me feedback using the feedback feature or here.

Thx
by ranguna | 2026-02-08 10:51:55+00:00
If this will pop sooner or later, where should I put my money on?

All IT companies will go red

The US economy will go red because IT companies will go red

Banks will follow because their investments depended on the IT market

Gold pumped but is falling now (maybe a good time to buy?)

Crypto is crypto so no one knows (although we are close to the pump season where everything 10x in value, but it's still a bet)

Europe is detaching itself from the US, so maybe there's something there?

Maybe we can just buy non perishable essencial products now, because everything is going to blow up in prices?
Still if I buy a 2£ can of beans, later sell it at 10£ because its market value increased to 15, I'm still losing. Not losing as much, but still losing, not to mention I need to find a buyer.

I could buy a house and sell it, but the housing market is a micro bubble where I live that it might pop as well by the time I sell.

So where do I put my money now, knowing that everything's going to blow up?
by plaguuuuuu | 2026-02-08 10:52:04+00:00
At work we use Clean Architecture which is incredibly hard to browse, even though I've been there for 6+ months now and know where everything is, I have to use so much working memory to gather together the files for a feature slice (endpoint, command, command handler, etc).

I've thought for a while of building this exact thing as a vscode extension because of how utterly shit it is :D

I really want the source code!
by josephg | 2026-02-08 10:52:58+00:00
It was nothing special. I can't seem to pull up the initial prompt, but it was something like this:

> Build a thorough test suite for JMAP in this directory. The test suite will be run against multiple JMAP servers, to ensure each server implements the JMAP spec consistently and correctly. In this directory are two files - rfc8620.txt and rfc8621.txt. These files containing the JMAP core and JMAP email specs. Read these files. Then make a list of all aspects of the specifications. For each, create a set of tests which thoroughly tests all aspects of a JMAP server's behaviour specified by the RFCs, including error behaviour. The test suite should be configurable to point at a jmap server & email account. The account will contain an empty mailbox (error if its not empty). The test suite starts by adding a known set of test emails to the account, then run your tests and clear the inbox again. Write the test suite in typescript. The test runner should output the report into a JSON file. Start with a project plan.

If you haven't tried claude code or openai's codex, just dive in there and give it a go. Writing a prompt isn't rocket science. Just succinctly say the same things you'd say to a very competent junior engineer when you want to brief them on some work.
by metalman | 2026-02-08 10:53:27+00:00
Yes!, I totaly agree.
The total surface area of the world gets exposed to the sun and that fuels everything!, well except for the leftovers of other suns that exploded and produced the heavy elements, ok, all the elements, mrrrr, most of the elements, but the ones that weuse for nukes.
There is nothing but solar energy/fuel availible.The universe is an energy gradient, get you some!
by jkrejcha | 2026-02-08 10:55:07+00:00
I'm not surprised; you need a lot more servers and even so, there are a lot of places where something low ping times is difficult. While there is a lot of room for latency to go down, 1 lightmillisecond is ~300 km (~186 mi). This means that if a computer is 150 km away, 1 ms is the minimum ping allowed by physics, if I am talking directly to it.

By that yardstick, we've actually done very well in a lot of cases. :)
by abcd_f | 2026-02-08 10:55:30+00:00
I read through the RFC and I think it's fair it was rejected, because this was ultimately a half-measure, with severe usability restrictions.

Fat pointers are clearly a way to deal with arrays (and also get "slices" and non-zero terminated strings for free!), but it's just not possible to retrofit them into the language without breaking existing code.