MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
TypoSnap – Highlight text, hit Ctrl+Shift+F, typos gone (Windows)
by MarkBekooy | 2026-02-04 21:23:31+00:00
I've always hated grammar and spelling mistakes in my writing. The mistakes themselves frustrate me. But what frustrated me almost equally was how tedious every existing solution felt. They all demanded context switching: copy your text, open a separate app, paste it in, wait, copy the result back. For a quick Slack message, that's like booking a flight to visit your neighbor.

So I built TypoSnap. It sits in your system tray and does one thing well. Highlight text in any application, press Ctrl+Shift+F, and it corrects grammar and spelling in place. There's also Ctrl+Shift+G for spelling-only corrections. No browser extension, no web app, no copy-pasting. The whole interaction takes about three seconds.

It's AI-powered, which means it occasionally gets creative in ways you didn't ask for. Always review the output. But for everyday emails, commit messages at 2 AM and Slack replies typed while half-listening to a meeting, it's been a genuine quality-of-life improvement.

This is my first product as a solo developer. Currently Windows only, with Mac and Linux on the roadmap if there's interest. Would love feedback from HN.

https://www.typosnap.com/
by swiftcoder | 2026-02-04 21:23:57+00:00
Until Claude Code comes with indemnity insurance for HIPAA / GDPR / etc… B2B SaaS is here to stay. You want me to convince my auditor that the vibe-coded in house software handles PII correctly?

Making the audit someone else’s problem is 90% of the ‘buy’ value in ‘build vs buy’
by rmason | 2026-02-04 21:24:05+00:00
Heard a radio interview last evening with the author of this site. He has a new book coming out that broke news about Truman and the bomb. Truman didn't know anything about the nuclear bomb until FDR died and he received a briefing. The military wanted to make Kyoto the first target. But an aide who had visited Kyoto as a young man fought the decision and escalated it up to Truman.

Leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities after Hiroshima warning another city would be destroyed. Sadly the leaflets that dropped on Nagasaki were sent 24 hours after the bombing. The military wanted to keep using nukes after Japan surrendered. Truman was so shocked about the women and children that had already died that he forbade it.

I grew up in Detroit and remember the nuclear drills in elementary school where we'd run to the basement and wait for the all clear. They had military style rations and jugs of water. They warned us not to touch the pipes which were wrapped in asbestos. This was in the late fifties and early sixties. So why was the World Trade Center built using asbestos a dozen years later?
by stetrain | 2026-02-04 21:24:10+00:00
> A dangerous disease appeared to afflict the young, which some diagnosed as reading addiction and others as reading rage, reading fever, reading mania or reading lust. Throughout Europe reports circulated about the outbreak of what was described as an epidemic of reading. The behaviours associated with this supposedly insidious contagion were sensation-seeking and morally dissolute and promiscuous behaviour. Even acts of self-destruction were associated with this new craze for the reading of novels.

> What some described as a craze was actually a rise in the 18th century of an ideal: the ‘love of reading’. The emergence of this new phenomenon was largely due to the growing popularity of a new literary genre: the novel. The emergence of commercial publishing in the 18th century and the growth of an ever-widening constituency of readers was not welcomed by everyone. Many cultural commentators were apprehensive about the impact of this new medium on individual behaviour and on society’s moral order.

https://archive.ph/ihoyg
by Applejinx | 2026-02-04 21:24:28+00:00
That is a REALLY wild take considering what the NYT functionally is.

It's also exactly the sort of take you'd see propagated by what the NYT functionally is, so I guess have fun with that? For me, seeing wild talk like that only underscores my complete, utter, earned distrust of the thing. All righty then, the New York Times is the only information, full stop. How nice for it.
by petethered | 2026-02-04 21:24:30+00:00
This wasn't nearly as bad as what's going on with Microsoft and Windows.

In retrospect, Coke made mistakes, but at the time their logic was kinda sound. Market was changing, people were changing, product tested really well, etc.

And they owned up to the mistake and reverted in under 90 days. Honestly, they probably came out stronger and re-affirmed the attachment that people have with the brand.

In addition, they haven't made that mistake again and have been much smarter protecting their core while chasing trends. Free-style is a brilliant bit of tech, marketing, and logistics combined.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-04 21:24:35+00:00
AI isn't killing SaaS exactly, but instead of selling UIs, SaaS companies are going to have to focus on infrastructure and data. You have to host stuff somewhere, so there's an inescapable cost and transaction that has to take place. If businesses can pay one bill for infra + data management and get nice apps and stuff on top of that (without being locked in), that makes more sense than trying to roll stuff together even if you have a platform team.
by hrn_frs | 2026-02-04 21:24:40+00:00
Hi tim.

From talking to the hiring bot (cool tool!), It seems there's a list of countries that Posthog can't hire from for different reasons. If it's ok with you, I'd like to know if this list is up to date.

And for me specifically, I live in Argentina and some weeks ago I sent an application but I think that the resume might have been a bit hard to follow (I now updated it). Is it OK to re-send the application or are decisions for the same role final?

Thank you. Have a great day.
by XorNot | 2026-02-04 21:24:45+00:00
Okay but also we all still live in democracies, and people are fairly obviously getting what they vote for a lot of the time.

Extrrnalising that to "the government" is to pretend you had no say, or to collectively try and pretend everyone else is with you & which they observably are not.

Edit: and before anyone responds with to me with a quip about money and corporations - money in politics buys advertising and campaigning. It doesn't buy votes directly, and when it does that's corruption and what's done about that is still largely on you the voter to set your priorities at the ballot box.
by 4corners4sides | 2026-02-04 21:24:49+00:00
This is one of those “don’t be evil” like articles that companies remove when the going gets tough but I guess we should be thankful that things are looking rosy enough for Anthropic at the moment that they would release a blog like this.

The point about filtering signal vs. noise in search engines can’t really be stated enough. At this point using a search engine and the conventional internet in general is an exercise in frustration. It’s simply a user hostile place – infinite cookie banners for sites that shouldn’t collect data at all, auto play advertisements, engagement farming, sites generated by AI to shill and produce a word count. You could argue that AI exacerbates this situation but you also have to agree that it is much more pleasant to ask perplexity, ChatGPT or Claude a question than to put yourself through the torture of conventional search. Introducing ads into this would completely deprive the user of a way of navigating the web in a way that actually respects their dignity.

I also agree in the sense that the current crop of AIs do feel like a space to think as opposed to a place where I am being manipulated, controlled or treated like some sheep in flock to be sheared for cash.
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-04 21:24:54+00:00
I disagree completely. There are a lot of tweaks which need to be made to the various mechanisms of American government, but ultimately there's no system you can design which can fix the problem of "approximately half the country is in a personality cult to one guy who demands absolute power, and his supporters in government refuse to enforce the law against him". Or at least no system which is remotely recognizable as democratic. How could that possibly work?

It's user error, and trying to fix it without changing the minds and wants of those users just makes them angrier that "the Elites are undermining the will of the People" or whatever.
by cyanydeez | 2026-02-04 21:24:59+00:00
I think control should be top of the list here. You're talking about building work flows, products and long term practices around something that's inherently non-deterministic.

And the probability that any given model you use today is the same as what you use tomorrow is doubly doubtful:

1. The model itself will change as they try to improve the cost-per-test improves. This will necessarily make your expectations non-deterministic.

2. The "harness" around that model will change as business-cost is tightened and the amount of context around the model is changed to improve the business case which generates the most money.

Then there's the "cataclysmic" lockout cost where you accidently use the wrong tool that gets you locked out of the entire ecosystem and you are black listed, like a gambler in vegas who figures out how to count cards and it works until the house's accountant identifies you as a non-negligible customer cost.

It's akin to anti-union arguments where everyone "buying" into the cloud AI circus thinks they're going to strike gold and completely ignores the fact that very few will and if they really wanted a better world and more control, they'd unionize and limit their illusions of grandeur. It should be an easy argument to make, but we're seeing about 1/3 of the population are extremely susceptible to greed based illusions.,
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-02-04 21:26:12+00:00
I guess I'm ignorant but why do we continue overspending worldwide?

Like do these groups all have heavy metrics about how budget is growing so we actually know anything is in balance here?

I guess I've never seen proper studies around:

"We project tax revenue will grow X amount with this level of confidence therefore we know we can consistently be within Y range of debt growth forever safely"

Or are we all just hoping we all die before someone has to comes in and cuts services spending in half?
by osigurdson | 2026-02-04 21:26:16+00:00
I had a look at SpaceX career page. There are 128 software related roles available. Perhaps half of those could be filled by big tech type companies, the others are more specialized (like antenna software engineer). I don't think that 64 open positions would move the needle really. And, if it were that easy to get around the security clearance by having another company, he could have created a new / separate company years ago.

Wouldn't a simpler explanation be that SpaceX is making a lot of money while xAI is losing a lot. If funds have to flow through Elon personally it is likely complicated and costly. Also, if the "space data center" idea is actually workable (I have no idea if it is) then it does make some logical sense as well. Of course, Twitter just seems like kind of a write off to me at this point.
by mbesto | 2026-02-04 21:26:57+00:00
1. This isn't rooted in data but anecdotes "One Series E CEO told me that they’re re-evaluating the quarterly renewal of their engineering productivity software because they along with an engineer reimplemented something using Github and Notion APIs. They were paying $30,000 to a popular tool3 and they were not going to renew anymore."

2. These anecdotes are about tech startups spend, not your <insert average manufacturing business>. Nor or they grounded in data that says "we interviewed 150 SMB companies and 40% of them have cancelled their SaaS subscriptions and replaced it with vibe coded tools"

3. "Analysts are writing notes titled “No Reasons to Own” software stocks." - there is just one analyst saying this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-reasons-own-software-stock...

4. Most of these SaaS tech stocks have been trading at all time highs...this smells of "explain something very complex with a simple anecdote"

EDIT: Oh lol, the author has a vibe coding SaaS offering...there ya go.
by danaris | 2026-02-04 21:26:59+00:00
And if the price that those people can afford is $0, because ClaudeGPTPilot MegaAGI took all their jobs? What then?

There is a price below which no farmer is going to sell, regardless of whether they have another buyer.

What you're saying effectively amounts to "come on, there's no way they'd actually let people starve in the streets! That's something that could never happen these days."

Think about whether there might be other things that "could never happen these days" that are happening right now, in various places in America.
by toasterlovin | 2026-02-04 21:27:12+00:00
> Heart disease later in life caused by genetic predisposition to high cholesterol isn't something people generally select for or against in a partner, but its effects happen later in life well after people have children so it passes on.

That depends. It can still affect genetic fitness if it affects an individual's ability to confer benefits on their descendants. Of note: most of the most wealthy and influential people in our society are beyond their reproductive years (not technically true for men, but mostly true in practice).
by 737min | 2026-02-04 21:27:24+00:00
“According to the indictment, the above named individuals allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to recruit United States citizens, preferably members of the armed forces, to enter into sham marriages to Chinese nationals for the purpose of evading immigration laws and illicitly obtaining lawful permanent resident status for the Chinese nationals. The sham marriages took place around the country, including in Jacksonville, as well as in New York, Connecticut, and Nevada. ”
by coldpie | 2026-02-04 21:27:25+00:00
Good questions! A United States where all of our public policy is not controlled by a couple dozen billionaires who are trying to increase their personal high score is so different it's hard to know how things would shake out. As an example, perhaps in this alternate world, enough of Facebook would be owned by non-billionaires that they could direct the company to change how it presents news and sells ads such that it would make an ad-based business model viable. Who knows! What we do know is the current system did lead to newspaper collapse. We know the current system does not work. Let's try something else.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-04 21:27:45+00:00
> They've already hit the wealth cap, they can't make their high score any higher. The incentive to steal from their workers is gone.

The implication here is that their compensation would then be completely disconnected from their performance. Then their incentive is to go all-in on nepotism or get into the favors business etc. Making "wealth" about soft power is not going to make things better.

> Better than what we have now, hopefully.

We already have some companies controlled by founders and others controlled by Wall St. The latter have a strong tendency to be worse.

> I'm open to suggestions if you have a better idea for how to reign in these people!

Again, the problem is the size of the company. The size of the individual's bank account is the consequence rather than the cause. What percentage of people with >$100B got the bulk of it by being an early shareholder of something which is now a megacorp? It's pretty much all of them, right?

Set up a regulatory environment where companies don't get that big. Get rid of DMCA 1201 and anything else that can be used to thwart adversarial interoperability. Make blocking interoperability an explicit antitrust violation and let individuals sue over it instead of requiring it to be done by a bought-off government prosecutor.

Lower friction to new competitors. We need a digital payments system that doesn't doesn't require the customer to give the merchant a secret number that could be used to make charges at other merchants, without needing a middle man, because it's propping up the middle men and makes it so people are less willing to patronize smaller/newer companies. The risk of making a $5 purchase from a new website you've never heard of should be $5, not having your credit card stolen, without exposing the new company to being suddenly vaporized by Paypal for no apparent reason.

There are also a lot of indirect reasons, like the artificial scarcity of mixed-use zoning and housing in general. There are way too many areas where it's illegal to start a business out of your home, but that's the only economically viable way for many of them to get started, so instead people get corporate jobs and we get larger corporations.

In general you have to look past the stated reasons for things and ask, what is this policy actually doing? Incumbents love to hide competition-destroying rules behind consumer protection or safety rationalizations because a marginal or purely hypothetical safety improvement generally isn't worth wiping out 80% of smaller competitors, especially when better safety improvements are possible without doing that, but it makes it onto the books if the incumbents pretend the reason is actually safety even though the thing is structured to raise fixed costs and wipe out smaller companies.
by nahuel0x | 2026-02-04 21:27:52+00:00
Technocracy had both socialist proponents like Charles Steinmetz and also anti-communists racists/fascists like Joshua Haldeman (Elon Musk grandfather). In some ways technocracy is the acknowledging of the necessity of economy planning to transcend capitalism but without taking into account class struggle. That way, it can be seen like a good-willed engineer dream that doesn't wants to face social reality or thinks socialist like planning can be implemented just by convincing capitalists it's advantages for the entire society (somewhat like the old utopian socialism / fabianism)... or, it can be used as an ideological cover-up to sell the dream of a brighter future but without questioning the billonarie class, the concentration of capital or the property of the means of production, while avoiding taking explicit positions in every class struggle instance.

I think this new version is the latter case, a bad rehearsal used as a veil of the ascent of fascism in the States.
by gradus_ad | 2026-02-04 21:28:09+00:00
One problem with centrally produced and distributed software is that a small subset of users demanding certain features results in feature bloat for everyone. Costs for all features are shared by all users.

Probably one way SaaS companies will adapt is to break up their offerings into more modular low cost components. While many customers will end up paying less, the addressable market will probably increase because of the new low cost options.
by AngryData | 2026-02-04 21:28:40+00:00
This is amazing, those things are an absolutely nasty parasite from out of a sci-fi horror movie. If you drink contaminated water with them it releases its larva into your body which burrow out of your digestive systems into your body consuming your nutrients for a year or more as it grows, then migrates towards your legs and creates debilitatingly painful blisters trying to force its way out over the course of weeks, and when you submerge the wound in water to relieve the burning pain it releases its larva into the water to infect others. Also don't try to pull it out even when its halfway out of your body or it will snap and die and give you a super nasty infection as it decays inside of you.
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by propellerhat | 2026-02-04 21:29:09+00:00
This is legislation. Legislation that grants the government veto-power over what you can create. The entire issue here is law. The fact that you "...didn't mention the law..." in your first comment is stunning.

From the text of the proposed legislation, this blocking technology needs to fail closed. This means that you need a form of permission to start a manufacturing process. It compels each entity involved in the supply chain to add this government kill-switch from slicing software, firmware developers, 3D printer manufactures, etc.

The entire premiss for this? To stop individuals from manufacturing firearms and firearm components WHICH IS A LAWFUL ACTIVITY! Unbelievable that anyone would defend such government overreach.

Your motivations are transparent. You are using regurgitated anti-gun arguments. Arguments that have been thoroughly dismantled by SCOTUS. Many before you have used this logical fallacy that advancements in technology give the government a pass to interfere with individuals and their rights. Even very progressive judges have conceded that the first amendment is certainly not limited to quill and ink, but applies to the Internet. Additionally, the advent of strong cryptography does not give the government a reason to strip people of their 4th and 5th amendment protections.
by lkey | 2026-02-04 21:29:18+00:00
> [nobody left] with more credibility than me

Source: trust me bro

Justine, do you think that readers here don't have eyes? The page linked is a call to financial action that, if the advice is followed, will result in yet another unsophisticated ETF pump and dump at best and a call to financial suicide at worst.

You are personally underwriting propaganda for something you are very likely invested in, targeting the most credulous. For it to appear on a site called 'Occupy Wall Street' is deliciously ironic.

Here's my disclosure: I am completely divested for both the US and Japanese market, except for transient USD cash holdings. I don't have a horse in this race. Will you follow suit?

I know very little of what happened in NYC years ago, but I would tell anyone reading the site now that it is run by actively malevolent speculators.

I do, however, know a few of your associates. Stop hanging out with grungy, unwashed sex pests, they aren't as smart as they pretend to be, and you should know that by now. It's unbecoming and frankly sad. You have the means to start life anew elsewhere, and you should take that opportunity now.
by MrDresden | 2026-02-04 21:29:38+00:00
My experience is that SMBs are generally not run by people who feel confident doing any kind of self managed IT.

No amount of LLM usage is going to change them into full stack vibe coders who moonlight as sysadmins. I just don't see it happening.

Not until, that is, a new generation, that has grown accustomed to the tech, takes over.

Until then the current SMBs will for the most part fulfill their IT needs from SaaS businesses (of which I think there will be more due to LLMs lowering the barrier for those of us who feel confident in our coding and sysadmin skills already).
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-04 21:29:47+00:00
It could also be simple. This looks like a bunch of very high profile people in a fast changing environment, just doing their best not to become targets, and helping consolidate power is a side effect.

The time will come when it’s rational for powerful people to make a stand - but that time has not yet arrived. According to the pattern, society has to go through a dark time first. Probably so there’s something to contrast against.

The most tragic thing is how many museums we already have - all over the world! - that tell this story.