MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aerisz | 2026-02-16 00:54:46+00:00
Hello, I made an open-source simple tool to sync Apple Notes to a blog via Shortcuts and GitHub Pages.

The logic is pretty straightforward, but getting it to work was a pain. Apple's native Make Markdown from Rich Text in Shortcuts is a little buggy for Notes (even though iOS 26 officially supports "export as markdown" now).

A lot of the formatting just breaks, so I had to force the conversion by going from Rich Text to HTML to Markdown, manually matching class names. It was a tedious process, but it gets the job done.

A few things to note:

- It currently supports uploading only one image per note.

- Since Shortcuts are hard to version control and can only be shared via iCloud links, this is still an experimental setup.

- The good news is it doesn't need frequent updates once it’s running.

It's easy to set up, even for people who aren't super technical. Feel free to try it out or share it with friends. Let me know if you have any suggestions or run into any issues!
by ed_mercer | 2026-02-16 00:55:10+00:00
For us, we actually moved away from k8s to dedicated VMs on Proxmox for our agents. We initially had a containerized environment manager running in k8s, but found that VMs give you things containers struggle with: full desktop environments with X11 for GUI automation, persistent state across sessions and dedicated resources per agent. Each agent gets their own Debian VM with a complete OS, which makes it much easier to run tools like xdotool and browser automation that don't play well in containers.
by tempest_ | 2026-02-16 00:55:14+00:00
The modern influencer landscape was such a boon for corporations.

For less than the cost of 1 graphics card you can get enough people going that the rest of them will hop on board for free just to try and ride the wave.

Add a little LLM generated comments that might not throw the product in your face but make sure it is always part of the conversation so someone else can do it for you for free and you are off to the races.
Show HN: JobOps – self-hosted job hunt "Ironman Suit"
by dakheera47 | 2026-02-16 00:55:24+00:00
I built JobOps to automate the parts of job hunting that feel like repetitive ops work.

What it does:

Scrapes jobs from LinkedIn / Indeed / Glassdoor (+ UK-focused extractors)
Scores job fit with your profile using your preferred LLM
Tailors resume content and exports PDFs via RxResume v4
Tracks post-application email replies (interview/reject/follow-up signals)

It’s self-hosted (Docker), SQLite-backed, and designed so your data stays with you.

Quick start:

git clone https://github.com/DaKheera47/job-ops.git
cd job-ops
docker compose up -d
# then open http://localhost:3005

Docs: https://jobops.dakheera47.com/docs/
Repo:https://github.com/DaKheera47/job-ops

I’d love feedback on:
- extractor reliability across regions
- scoring quality / model prompts
- post-application tracking accuracy
- onboarding friction and docs gaps
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-16 00:55:25+00:00
I think that’s generally because humans can be held accountable, but automated systems can not. We hold automated systems to a higher standard because there are no consequences for the system if it fails, beyond being shut off. On the other hand, there’s a genuine multitude of ways that a human can be held accountable, from stern admonishment to capital punishment.

I’m a broken record on this topic but it always comes back to liability.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-16 00:56:32+00:00
You can always have legacy builds for older systems and use shiny new features inside conditional compilation blocks. Or check at runtime and let newer operating systems use the new features. Yes it takes care and a little more testing to keep supporting older operating systems but your users will love you for it.

I’m always kind of sad when a developer says to a customer “your OS is too old. We are dropping you on the floor.”
by tl2do | 2026-02-16 00:56:42+00:00
Reply to garyfirestorm on HN:

Fair point — the X-Wing analogy breaks down when you look at actual insurgencies. Rebels absolutely use off-the-shelf weapons from whoever will sell to them.

But here's the thing: we're actually entering an era where "homebrew weapons" is becoming possible for inference. Apple's Neural Engine, Google's TPU, Qualcomm's Hexagon — these are NPUs shipping in billions of devices already. You've got startups like Syntiant making ultra-low-power inference chips for always-on voice, and even microcontroller vendors adding ML accelerators.

The "rebel" angle shifts from "manufacturing your own GPU" to "optimizing for the silicon that's already in your pocket." That's where things get interesting — running decent audio models on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero or an ESP32 with an accelerator add-on.

Granted, training still needs the datacenter. But inference? We're getting to the point where "rebel infrastructure" is just "commodity hardware + smart optimization." I'm betting on that side.
by lysace | 2026-02-16 00:57:15+00:00
That "simple orchestration layer" (paraphrased) is what I consider the AGI.

But yeah, I suspect LLM:s may actually get close enough. "Just" add more reasoning loops and corresponding compute.

It is objectively wasteful (a human brain operates on 12 to 25 watts and would vastly outpeform out it), but still.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-16 00:57:16+00:00
> that anyone vaccinated was immune and couldn't catch it.

Those claims disappeared rapidly when it became clear they offered some protection, and reduced severity, but not immunity.

People seem to be taking a lot more “lessons” from COVID than are realistic or beneficial. Nobody could get everything right. There couldn’t possibly be clear “right” answers, because nobody knew for sure how serious the disease could become as it propagated, evolved, and responded to mitigations. Converging on consistent shared viewpoints, coordinating responses, and working through various solutions to a new threat on that scale was going to be an unavoidable mess.
by jhrobert | 2026-02-16 00:57:35+00:00
Cognitive Meteorite and Possibilism, the Rational As-If Approach

*Founding Date: February 16, 2026*

Today, I introduce an original dual concept from reflections on AI's transformative impact on humanity. The "Cognitive Meteorite" and "Possibilism, the Rational As-If Approach" have no precedents in AI, cognitive, or adaptive discourses. They pair a diagnosis of inevitable disruption with a joyful, active response. This text affirms their originality and serves as a historical marker.

### I. The Cognitive Meteorite: Surviving Like the Raven

AI isn't a competitor, predator, or controllable tool. It's a cognitive meteorite: a disruptive event irrevocably altering our environment, like the Cretaceous asteroid redefining niches and forcing adaptation.

Traditional AI analogies—mirror, rival, power instrument—center humans, implying survival via domination. They miss the radical shift.

Evolution teaches: massive dinosaurs perished; agile mammals and birds thrived via density and niche exploitation. Humanity needs cognitive density and local autonomy, not power.

Tools like OpenClaw are adaptive aids, enabling individuals to decide in a world of lost global control. As a "systemic raven," one gains freedom to create and remain relevant amid ashes.

The meteorite has struck. Do we have the agility to adapt without vanishing?

This metaphor is novel; no source frames AI as a cognitive cataclysm. It focuses survival on preserving freedom in a superior-dominated ecosystem.

### II. Possibilism, the Rational As-If Approach: Happier Than Sisyphus

To offset the meteorite's potential pessimism—an irremediable shock—I offer "Possibilism, the Rational As-If Approach." Humans can exceed Camus's Sisyphus by actively seeking and materializing new possibilities (respecting physics laws) from imaginable ideas.

Drawing from Vaihinger's "as if," but rational and action-focused, it turns resignation into joyful exploration. Sisyphus rebels lucidly against absurdity; we create meaning by testing and embodying possibilities, yielding superior happiness.

Against the meteorite, it's an antidote: use AI to expand possibles, e.g., hybrid arts, decentralized economies, AI-enabled science. Physics realism avoids fantasy; idea vastness offers infinite potential.

Not naive optimism, but rational action: evaluate, experiment, materialize. Active participation restores agency and breeds happiness.

### III. Complementarity and Primacy

The Meteorite diagnoses; Possibilism responds. Together: realism sans fatalism, rational creativity. Humans as agile explorers—possibilistic ravens seeding realities in ashes.

This idea is original, with no priors. Dated February 16, 2026, it's a milestone open to engagement. May it inspire AI-era adaptation: create and thrive with joy.
by 9x39 | 2026-02-16 00:58:42+00:00
Doesn't seem like a very good clone. I wonder if he's hoping he's in their training data for a payout, if he can force that to be disclosed.

I think a few random samples trivially shows NotebookLM is higher pitched, although if you generalize to "deep male voice with vocal fry" you could lump them together with half the radio and podcast voices.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-16 00:59:28+00:00
Why don’t they do the same with food then? There is a similar issue where truly vast amounts of food is destroyed every year. Agriculture has a high environmental and carbon footprint. Countless tons of e.g. wheat straight to the landfill, not even used as animal feed. The demand for the product is unpredictable and they need to produce and sell enough to cover the investment in producing it at all on average. There is also a fuzzy limit on how much the market can absorb.

The underlying dynamic is simple: the value of the product in every market exceeds the logistics cost of moving the product to that market. In other words, the market clearing price is globally negative. Because most of the cost of production is in the logistics, and destruction can be done close to the point of production, the resource and environmental footprint of destruction is smaller than every alternative.

People don’t produce excess inventory for fun, that is a pure loss. The production is highly optimized to eke out a thin average margin in an unpredictable business. If the product is not destroyed, it necessarily increases the average cost of those products because either logistics costs go up or supply goes down.
by belter | 2026-02-16 00:59:37+00:00
Users of the F-35 have to send their data through U.S. controlled systems, depend on the U.S. for mission critical software updates, and cant even independently test their own jets outside U.S. soil.

There is a country that has a full exception to this. They run their own maintenance facilities, have their own software layer running on top of Lockheed system, their own EW suite, and significant control over the data flows. They negotiated this precisely because they understood the dependency trap.

The naivety of the Dutch Defense Secretary is what would be expected. Guess the country name...
by maxbond | 2026-02-16 01:01:02+00:00
I watched that segment and I took away the impression he was going to accept an offer from either Meta or OpenAI. He talks about why he isn't interested in the other options (like starting his own company) and then says he's interested in their offers and starts talking about the conditions he would put on the offer - seems to make it clear that he's planning to accept an offer from them.
by epolanski | 2026-02-16 01:01:26+00:00
That's a flaw of the constitution and it's revisions.

You should always assume bad actors when designing a political system.

And that's why parliamentary republics where you elect parties that form coalitions that chooses a prime minister who still has to deal with opposition and its own party support, every day, are much more resilient to authoritarianisn.

In fact there hasn't been a single parliamentary republic to turn authoritarian since Sri Lanka 50 years ago. Presidential ones? As many as you wish.

It's very stupid to elect single individuals to executive power.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-16 01:01:37+00:00
I’m the opposite: I want my development tools to use my operating system’s package manager. Nothing enrages me quite like how, when I want to pull in a Python dependency, I have to reach for Python’s parallel package manager. Now I have to keep track of what apt installed and what pip installed. Then I move to do a rust project and there’s now another parallel package manager I need to use to install those dependencies! Yuck!

apt install build-essential or whatever the rpm equivalent is, gets you most of the way to building a C or C++ project.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-16 01:01:59+00:00
Mitigate prompt injection to the best of your ability, implement a policy layer over all capabilities, and isolate capabilities within the system so if one part gets compromised you can quarantine the result safely. It's not much different than securing human systems really. If you want more details there are a lot of AI security articles, I like https://sibylline.dev/articles/2026-02-15-agentic-security/ as a simple primer.
by tl2do | 2026-02-16 01:02:21+00:00
RNNoise is a great example — Jean-Marc Valois proved you can do serious work with kilobits of model weight and modest training data. The "need petabytes or go home" mindset is definitely wrong for audio.

The data bottleneck you mention is real, though, and it's where policy becomes a technical constraint. Japan's copyright law explicitly allows AI training on copyrighted works without permission (Article 30-4). The US is murkier, but case law seems to be trending toward fair use when the model itself and its outputs don't contain reproductions of the original audio.

That distinction matters — training on copyrighted speech is one thing, outputting that same speech is another. If US jurisprudence solidifies around that separation, it opens up a lot more training data without forcing every lab to move to Tokyo.

The Fisher database limitations you noted are exactly why this matters. When you're competing with labs that can legally scrape high-fidelity labeled data from anime/games/audiobooks, legal uncertainty becomes a real competitive disadvantage. Knowledge barriers are tractable. Legal barriers? Those are harder to engineer around.
by Melonai | 2026-02-16 01:03:26+00:00
It's interesting... Different LLM models seem to have a few sentence structures that they seem to vastly overprefer. GPT seems to love "It's not just X, it's Y", Claude loves "The key insight is..." and Gemini, for me, in every second response, uses the phrase "X is the smoking gun". I hear the smoking gun phrase around 5 times a day at this point.
by bsder | 2026-02-16 01:07:16+00:00
> The only people who think that destroying useful items is a good idea are those who would stand to lose money from it; either by having to pay a tiny fraction of their massive annual revenue for responsible recycling services

Some of us like the intent of the law but are wondering what the consequences of the law are.

We have already seen all the schemes that corporations use for greenwashing. We have already seen all the recycling that isn't. Most of us assume that these corporations will simply do the absolute minimum they have to do to comply with the letter of the law. That likely means "selling" crates of these clothes back to some country willing to discard or destroy them.

In addition, we already have a ton of problems from Always Late Inventory(tm), and this seems like it's going to add to that. Are you even slightly outside of the normal body shape? Sorry, no stock for you evermore.

I think the law is a good idea, but, sadly, laws mean nothing without implementation. The devil is in the details.
by krick | 2026-02-16 01:07:19+00:00
But... how is it even useful? Do you use it? Is it a good idea for anyone to, uh, use it? Is it a product that you or any other "vibe coder" cannot ~~build~~ tell Claude Code to build on the go, if he wants to communicate with Claude Code via WhatsApp for some reason? Sure, product doesn't need to be some sophisticated technology to be worth something, it could also just have user base because it succeeded at marketing, but does this particular product even benefit from network effects? What is this shit? Why anybody cares?

Seriously, I just don't understand what's going on. To me it looks like all world just has gone crazy.
by buchanae | 2026-02-16 01:07:39+00:00
I moved all my stuff from AWS to a Hetzner VPS recently. I don't have much, and AWS was actually cheaper, but I'm so much happier having everything in one, simple spot.

There's a gap in my knowledge so far, which I think is mirrored in this post: I have been piecing together my server by hand, and I _know_ I will regret this at some point, but I don't know how I want to solve this yet. I don't want to involve Docker in this setup. Perhaps I should go back to Saltstack or Ansible, or maybe there's something in Nix for me, or snap/flatpack maybe, I don't know. There's a good chance I'll just never solve it, but it seems like there's a gap there that's waiting for a great, simple, small solution (or it exists and I just don't know about it).

So after all these years (decades now) of learning and working in linux every, single, day, I still have a lot to learn! :D
by fn-mote | 2026-02-16 01:07:48+00:00
This argument justifies CCTV surveillance of all public places.

Is that what you intend to be arguing for? In any case, there needs to be more nuance in the discussion than a one-liner.

I think the quantity of surveillance matters. When it’s just a few places, then it’s a minor intrusion on liberty. When it’s a lot of places, it’s a major intrusion that will facilitate the (further) rise of authoritarianism.
by loloquwowndueo | 2026-02-16 01:09:02+00:00
> there is almost nothing that a human is better at than Opus 4.6.

Lolwut. I keep having to correct Claude at trivial code organization tasks. The code it writes is correct; it’s just ham-fisted and violates DRY in unholy ways.

And I’m not even a great coder…
by Leftium | 2026-02-16 01:09:28+00:00
- No, I did not know everything I wanted to cover beforehand. Claude helps me brainstorm, research, and elaborate on my ideas. The spec is a living document that I occasionally check in: https://github.com/Leftium/rift-transcription/commits/main/s...

- It was definitely not one CC session. In fact, this spec is a spin-off of several other specs on several other branches/projects.

- I've actually experienced quite the opposite: I suggest an idea for the spec and Claude says "great idea!" Then I change my mind and go in the opposite direction: "great idea!" again. Once in a while, I have to argue with Claude to get my idea implemented (like adding dependencies to parse into a proper AST instead of regex.)

- One tip: it's very useful to explain the "why" to Claude vs the "what." In fact, if you just explain the why/problem without a specific solution, Claude's suggestions may surprise you!
Show HN: I replaced my SaaS stack with a single AI agent running on a Mac Mini
by mupengism | 2026-02-16 01:10:12+00:00
After burning $500/month on various SaaS tools (CRM, social media scheduler, customer support), I built a custom AI agent using OpenClaw (https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw) that handles all of it.

The agent runs 24/7 on my Mac Mini. Key capabilities:
- Monitors and replies to Instagram DMs
- Generates and posts content across platforms
- Tracks competitors and market trends
- Writes daily business reports
- Self-evaluates and improves weekly

I've published 24 reusable skills on ClawHub (https://clawhub.com) that anyone can install.

The thesis: SaaS is renting software. AIaaS is installing labor. One AI agent with the right skills replaces 5-10 SaaS subscriptions.

Two weeks in, honest results:
- Saved ~15 hours/week on repetitive tasks
- Customer response time: hours → minutes
- Still learning to stop it from over-engineering everything

Code and skills are open-source. AMA.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-02-16 01:10:18+00:00
When I say establish baselines what I mean is to establish baselines for the individual.

If you have records of the locations and sizes of various atypical structures and forms throughout the body going back for years and all of a sudden one of them starts changing in size at a rate disproportionate to its history, that's probably cause to dig a little deeper.

It's certainly not "throw more data at the problem". Instead it's about giving the data a time axis with some decent fidelity.
by prmoustache | 2026-02-16 01:10:21+00:00
>If this is our new normal winter and/or gets rapidly worse we will have a major water crisis sooner than anyone is ready for.

This is a certainty.

Scientists have been ringing the bell since at least the late 60's and our only reaction was to laugh at them and floor the accelerator pedal and continuously increase our emissions over 5 decades. It is unlikely to change with the AI boom.
by tsunamifury | 2026-02-16 01:10:22+00:00
There obviously will be no sources. I’m telling you as someone who worked directly
On iMessage and Google messages.

Apple not only gives keys they often provide access with no legal requirement at all. They also DO NOT e2ee all sources they claim to depending on what regions the messages pass through to devices they end up at. There are also massive cooperation and caching going on of messaging and push notifications which access is provided to several governments. Aka as the Wyden leaks
by gchamonlive | 2026-02-16 01:10:53+00:00
I agree completely. We would benefit a lot from people dispersing into multiple competing social media solutions, but the current state of things is that if I don't join Instagram it's likely I won't have many of my contacts available.

So while infrastructure is also much cheaper than it was 10 maybe 20 years ago, and you could in theory spin up an Instagram competitor in the cheap, people use what they use, and the money printing machine needs to print money. So we need an alternative to ads, which could be just people choosing to joint a paid social network, or another business model, but to just write off ads as something you could regulate into oblivion without consequences is just naive.

I've actually wrote before in my blog against a form of political realism, and this in a sense falls into it, but we gotta be pragmatic eventually, and take into account the dynamics that feed the powers that be.
by Denatonium | 2026-02-16 01:11:15+00:00
It would be nice if IA could create a browser extension or TLS-intercepting proxy that end users can run over their own computers and connections, allowing crowd-sourced scraping. It would need an allow/deny-listing feature for sites to passively crawl, and I'm not sure how you could prevent data poisoning, but it would at least get around the issues of blocking.
by phamilton | 2026-02-16 01:11:26+00:00
As an experiment, I set it up with a z.ai $3/month subscription and told it to do a tedious technical task. I said to stay busy and that I expect no more than 30 minutes of inactivity, ever.

The task is to decompile Wave Race 64 and integrate with libultraship and eventually produce a runnable native port of the game. (Same approach as the Zelda OoT port Ship of Harkinian).

It set up a timer ever 30 minutes to check in on itself and see if it gave up. It reviews progress every 4 hours and revisits prioritization. I hadn't checked on it in days and when I looked today it was still going, a few functions at a time.

It set up those times itself and creates new ones as needed.

It's not any one particular thing that is novel, but it's just more independent because of all the little bits.