MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OJFord | 2026-02-25 08:31:48+00:00
This makes me wonder if dogs understand (or can be trained) the concept of building. Say you did something physical - 3D scanner and 3D printer connected to automatically attempt to replicate an object placed in the scanner area (and maybe then on button press). Could a dog understand it, and intentionally try to replicate its favourite toy, or a bone, etc.?
by frigosk | 2026-02-25 08:31:51+00:00
The core issue here is vendor lock-in through API access control, which is a deliberate business strategy. Anthropic's walled garden for its chat interface versus its enterprise API creates a significant friction point for developers who want to build tools, not just use a chat client. This forces the kind of proxy workarounds you describe, which are inherently fragile and violate ToS, making any serious project built on them a liability.

For solo founders, this underscores the critical need to architect for provider redundancy from day one. Relying on a single LLM provider's API—whether for cost, features, or access—introduces a single point of failure that is both technical and business-related. The moment you need scale, different pricing, or a specific model feature, you're at the mercy of that company's product roadmap and policy changes.

We built https://simplio.dev precisely to abstract this problem, providing a single endpoint that lets you route between OpenAI, Claude, and others without rewriting your application code, which mitigates the risk of any one provider changing their access rules.
by MaxGfeller | 2026-02-25 08:32:18+00:00
Fair question! ADK is a great framework for building agentic systems. OpenHarness is meant to be a set of higher-level primitives that can be used to quickly run more general and capable agents, and can easily work with existing AGENTS.md or agent skills standards. Basically, if you automated a task with Claude Code, and now you want to be able to *easily* run it programmatically. Or if you want to integrate an OpenCode-like agent into your application. OpenHarness is obviously new, but it also doesn't reinvent the wheel - it's built on top of Vercel's AI SDK!
by atoav | 2026-02-25 08:32:29+00:00
I program for 20 years. More than half of my life. Some people forget how they felt as beginners, I did not. Which I know, since I teach programming as well.

As a beginner syntax is the hard thing, remembering how to write a thing. As a beginner you don't even think about structure, how to write maintainable or testable code — you're just happy it eventually works for you. Depending on the beginners character they might fall into the trap of thinking more complicated code using more advanced language features is a sign of a genius programmer.

When you're getting better you realize that writing the code is indeed the easy part and that you should avoid writing code that is too clever unless it is well localized and neatly tucked away. Writing clever code is something that does not impress you at all — quite the opposite as it is usually just unnecessary bragging. The hard part after all isn't writing clever code, it is finding good abstractions, staying consistent, writing maintainable and testable code without being too smart. It is understanding and then solving the real world problem in an elegant way. It isn't writing what the customer think they want, it is writing whst they truly need.

That does not mean actually writing the code isn't specialized work that requires skill. But it just isn't the hardest part of the job. Just like knowing how to use the tools isn't the hardest part for a car mechanic. Making sure that the car drives reliably, you chose the right parts, you did it fast and efficiently is.
by xyzzy123 | 2026-02-25 08:32:41+00:00
I love to single thread but nobody else seems to. A typical situation would be making a sandwich for one kid while two others are trying to talk to me at the same time, each rising in volume to cut through the noise of the other. Partner explains in roundabout way that something is needed tomorrow. I wonder what to do with that information and wish it had been communicated in fewer words while making the sandwich. Then the phone rings.

A lot of the time work has this character also.
by MemTensor | 2026-02-25 08:32:53+00:00
KEY FEATURES:
Personal & memory-driven — recalls past interactions from MemOS Cloud and adapts to your workflow.
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Plug-and-play — install, enable, restart, and your agent is ready. No complex setup.

Turn OpenClaw into a context-aware assistant, not just a reactive bot
by a-french-anon | 2026-02-25 08:33:46+00:00
Grossly asymmetric warfare promotes and "kinda" justifies guerilla tactics from one side. Necessity knows no law and all that.

Of course, that does mean the bigger side has to get dirty too, sometimes. Just not to the extent that Israel is, who clearly just want to cleanse the land in order to own it. I mean, this is Boer war territory, not (e.g.) Algerian war where torture was used but civilians were mostly left intact.
by fschepp | 2026-02-25 08:33:56+00:00
Hi HN,

I built bsky-comments to embed Bluesky threads without injecting heavy iframes or tracking scripts.
It's a < 3kb gzipped, zero-dependency native Web Component.

It uses a Light DOM for customizability via CSS or tailwind and you can just paste the post URL: <bsky-comments post="https://bsky.app/..."></bsky-comments>.

Additionally it is fully framework Agnostic.

There is a quick demo video in the GitHub repos readme.md . I'd love any feedback!
by deafpolygon | 2026-02-25 08:35:13+00:00
then you tell the kid to hold on, i’m making a sandwich give me a minute and teach them to wait a minute, tell your partner to sit together for breakfast or lunch to go over complicated thing, and don’t answer the phone, let the machine get it if you’re doing something. if it’s important right here, right now, then they can call back or you can call back after you’re done doing the thing.

modern society teaches us to be available to everything all at the same time, when we really need to learn how to slow down and refocus our thoughts on one thing at a time.
by brandonpollack2 | 2026-02-25 08:36:11+00:00
Recently clockwork labs put out this great marketing video launching spacetimedb 2.0. It was seriously impressive so I took a closer look at their bench and results.

TLDR It felt a little dishonest due to using different clients, protocols, concurrency, etc in the benchmarks but I'd love for someone to come explain how foolish and wrong I am.
by mschild | 2026-02-25 08:37:52+00:00
This is purely speculation on my end but paypal has too much friction from a consumer standpoint for me.

I pay mostly with credit card (debit really but entering the number etc). When paying with PayPal, I need to click through several screens to even be able to enter my details. They almost always show a login screen, then I have to find the small text at the bottom that says I dont want one. Then by default they want my SEPA details, which Im not going to give them, before allowing me to select Credit Card. Even then I still have to double check that the "Create PayPal Account" checkbox is unchecked before paying.

Stripe immediately shows you a form and doesn't ask any questions.
by rswail | 2026-02-25 08:38:08+00:00
There was an APAC trade treaty called the TPP that Rodham-Clinton/Obama pulled out of which would have done exactly that. They were forced to withdraw because of pressure from unions, ie labor not capital.

Now it's the CPTPP and doesn't include the US.

Canada is looking to the Pacific and EU for trade now (and China as well), so is Mexico.

It's likely that the EU/UK trade bloc will connect with the CPTPP via both the UK and Canada, which connects them to the APAC/ASEAN nations.

Everyone is aware of the power of the Chinese economy and the idea of the CPTPP is precisely to build up a trade economy that can compete and co-operate with China on an equal basis.

In the meantime, China is using its Belt & Road Initiative as a sort of "Marshall Plan" to extend its influence by building infrastructure like ports and rail.

These trade initiatives are at least focused on increasing trade, as opposed to the US "trade policy" which is to use tariffs as a crude form of protectionism and extortion to "bring manufacturing back".
by seletskiy | 2026-02-25 08:38:34+00:00
Now that my storehouse
has burned down, nothing
conceals the moon.

This piece instantly reminded me of Ashes and Snow movie, where one of the poems has very similar opening (followed, in my opinion, by even more beautiful piece):

Ever since my house burnt down,
I see the moon more clearly

I wonder whether or not this is just a coincidence.
Ask HN: Why would anyone still use Poetry now that uv exists?
by s-xyz | 2026-02-25 08:38:39+00:00
I have been migrating some Python projects from Poetry to uv and the difference in speed is just crazy. I have seen as well several posts in which they do a side by side comparison confirming this.

Not only locally, but as well the deployment of my projects to Cloud Run.

So I am wondering, am I missing something here? Why are people still choosing Poetry for new projects?

Related posts I found:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg9-C61MnwA&t=913

- https://www.reddit.com/r/pythontips/comments/1iez9sg/uv_over_poetry/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856606

- https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2024/python-poetry-vs-uv/

- https://devcenter.upsun.com/posts/why-python-developers-should-switch-to-uv/
by Jamesbeam | 2026-02-25 08:39:21+00:00
I think it’s called AI psychosis if you start attributing feelings and emotions to a bunch of ones and zeros.

Historically, new technologies have regularly been integrated into delusional systems, beginning in 1919 with Tausk's apparatus for influencing people via radio, television, satellite surveillance, and implanted chips.

https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/4464934

What is new in the context of AI is the high degree of interaction and the supposedly intelligent or even conscious appearance of the counterpart. Fuchs points out that this is a complex illusion. In the sense of a transfer phenomenon, users attribute human-like characteristics to AI, even going so far as to call it “digital animism.”

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09848-0

Similarly, computer linguist Emily M. Bender describes how, in relation to AI, we have learned to build machines that can generate text without thinking. But we have not learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them.

But I think he is not necessarily delusional. He is probably doing that on purpose to manipulate the emotions of the reader for profit.

It’s an extremely manipulative piece signalling a few hidden key messages that will make people think about buying crypto and feeding into the get-rich-quick complex that scammers use ever since people gave away their homeland for shiny glass marbles.

Also, I don’t know about you, but as soon as any AI story is connected to any form of crypto trading, I consider it automatically a scam. Especially if it has a fabulous story and AI-generated pretty pictures, but no substantial data to show that can be analysed scientifically.

This reminds me a lot of the playbook those crypto bros did for NFTs.

The message here is: look, you too can use this new and exciting technology and get rich quickly. My bot lost 450,000 potatodollars but made all the potatodollars back by the next day. Also, it’s super fun, and you can make money while watching your bot get a consciousness (it doesn’t).

In a few days, it will probably be: you too can learn what I do. Just visit my coaching session, for only 2,999 USD (no potatodollars accepted) introductionary price.

Also, this individual has very low ethics standards. He watched how his program made another human sit on a park bench for potato dollars while it was raining and being cold. Good job, AI Mengele.

Experimenting on your fellow humans to your own amusement is not okay. He could have stopped this as soon as the bot started forcing poor people to show self-damaging behaviour for a monetary incentive, but he didn’t. Tells me everything about this person I need to know and not to trust a single word he is writing.
by jbotz | 2026-02-25 08:39:42+00:00
Now if you have multiple teams each doing this and then have all those agents talk to each other and then report back to your team, you get "AI Hyperchat"[0], which may actually be a really good idea that has the potential to seriously improve intra-organizational communications (disruptively so). See also [1] for a VentureBeat article about the idea.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11105240

[1] https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/ai-agents-turned-super...
by chiengineer | 2026-02-25 08:39:54+00:00
QOCC is a vendor-agnostic, reproducible, trace-first layer that instruments quantum program workflows end-to-end and supports contract-defined correctness + cost optimization via closed-loop compilation/search.

showing off my contribution to quantum after prompting for 5 whole minutes coming up with this idea

- Why? -

- I have always wanted to contribute to quantum for absolutely no good reason at all only because its been the #1 hardest problem to solve for humans that I can think of and read and watched countless hours of material on quantum growing up and I don't even know calculus yet

- this is kind of a 50/50 stress test, testing new models + new ideas + new implementations to come up with entirely new things that aren't even thought of yet

- Anybody know anyone working in quantum that can review my work please?
by intended | 2026-02-25 08:39:59+00:00
Hoo boy, laying out facts in the current Indian environment is a degree of boldness thats somewhat rare.

From what I can tell after the summit, the major focus of the GoI is to attract investment. Things that do not matter to that narrative will need additional effort to become a line item for the bureaucracy.

There are a few media folk who cover tech and will likely discuss this, but even they are being frozen out of major policy discussions.

I am pretty sure that people from those orgs read HN. I wonder they would say about whats going on behind the scenes.
by Parae | 2026-02-25 08:40:42+00:00
Forced displacement due to the mass destruction of all facilities in an area consists exactly in ethnic cleansing.
Ethnic cleansing means : systemic removal of a group or person by another group of person in an area. And it's exactly what's happening.
It makes no sense to say it's neither a genocide nor ethnic cleansing if the population grows. Same as saying there were no genocide or ethnic cleansing in Rwanda or Bosnia since the population has grown.
by rswail | 2026-02-25 08:41:31+00:00
China did in the 1990s exactly what the US did in the 1890s, steal IP to build up its own industries. The US did it to the UK and Europe back then, China has done it against the US/EU over the last 3 decades.

It's at the point now where it is self-sustaining, which is why you see China starting to enforce IP Rights, precisely because it is now generating its own IP that it wants to protect.

Any economist would say that if China did just "copy" US technology to make itself more productive, that's good economic practice, from China's perspective.

Moats only worked for a while to protect European castles, they don't exist now.
by kakacik | 2026-02-25 08:41:33+00:00
Why should they play by some foreign made up book just because it would suit the oppressor who massively overpowers you in every aspect? Come on, lets get real, if you defend your homeland from invader any tactic is good tactic. Thats not some higher moral ground just basic logic.

Geneva convention is just a piece of paper, sometimes adhered to by some parties, and thats about it. And thats something coming from a person living and working in Geneva lol. russians keep breaking those rules every day for years on ukraine and not much is happening, is it.
by gnull | 2026-02-25 08:42:08+00:00
I don't like using "western-oriented" as synonym for free/democratic/good, but otherwise I agree it's gotten worse. Your use of the word "backsliding", I think, was appropriate.

Are we talking about EU spokesperson calling Georgian elections illegitimate? If so, I believe your quotes show that there's no basis for that claim. The OSCE specifically says that, despite a bunch of concerns, Georgia's legal framework is "adequate". To me, that reads as "it passes the bar".
by lpcvoid | 2026-02-25 08:42:44+00:00
It's the best laptop I have ever used. I have it since it newly came out in 2023 and it never let me down, is quick (I have the 7840u), quiet (passive in power-saver platform profile, unless pushed, but even then it's manageable), can do USB4 so I can use it with a EGPU, which works fantastically. Sleep (S0) works as expected with updated EC FW under Debian stable.

It's incredibly portable, when you take it out of the box you wonder if it's not too small (it's not, it's a perfect size :)).

Battery endurance is good, at least for me. You won't make 10h flights while compiling Chromium though. Get the LCD instead of the OLED if you can, the OLED looks good but uses way more battery I hear.

If you can find it in the max config (64GB, 7840u, 2TB) it's going to make you happy for a long, long time I think.

I don't know what I will use after it dies. There's nothing comparable in portability, power and build quality (which is really, really amazing).

I agree with you: this thing, a few mm thicker and heavier due to beefier heatsink, with a Ryzen 395+ and 128GB would be so incredible. I'd dump so much money into that...
by nearbuy | 2026-02-25 08:43:38+00:00
> "The emergency lights and markings of the victims’ vehicles would have been clearly visible to the soldiers at the time of the attacks." -> speculative. The soldiers argued they were wearing night vision equipment and did not see either the markings or the emergency lights. This is at least plausible (as someone who has used thermal night vision equipment).

Is it plausible?

There were four ambulances and a fire truck with flashing lights on the roofs and the report says the soldiers had a clear view from the elevated sandbank. Night vision would obscure the markings, but lights still show in both thermal and image-intensified NVG. Even if they weren't sure they were ambulances, they should still be wondering about the emergency lights. And if they weren't sure, did no soldier look even briefly without night vision? This occurred during twilight, about half an hour before sunrise.

If they could see so little that they couldn't recognize 4 ambulances and a fire truck with emergency lights, and the aid workers never fired shot, why did they open fire?

It doesn't explain well why they initially said the vehicles were acting suspiciously by driving with their lights off and only changed their story after video emerged. And it doesn't explain why they shot at the "clearly marked UN vehicle" when it arrived well after sunrise.
by totetsu | 2026-02-25 08:43:43+00:00
I was surprised to see this "impose ideology" line show up in the Heritage Foundation's project 2025 discourse, citing the example of generative AI making images of black of female Vikings. An obvious dog whistle to white purity. The argument seeming to be that early attempts at guard rails to prevent model bias of generating mostly white men when prompted for images of things like managers etc, were imposing woke ideology, but removing these guardrails all together, and letting models act in alignment with existing social representation biases, there is apparently no ideology being imposed at all. Because their way is just the normal way, and everything else is ideology.
I remember first seeing this Viking thing show up in the Discord channel discussing the Dalle Beta, then the nest time it was in a white-house statement.
by Tade0 | 2026-02-25 08:43:53+00:00
> Maybe the reason is not that EU magically turns everything it touches into gold (while Russian orcs turn it to crap, obviously), but that EU is carefully choosing who joins and doesn't let the bad prospects in?

The EU gives certain conditions and it's up to the elites in a given country to meet them, as that necessarily means reining in corruption - to an extent. Fortunately for me, the ones in my mine decided that this is the best course of action and we all benefited.

Also when you look at the examples of Greece or Orban's Hungary, occasionally a member will go off the rails. But again, it's the elites that let this happen.

Meanwhile corruption is an inherent feature of the Russian system, which is why doing business with them is broadly speaking a bad idea. Also it's a rather small economy producing largely low value products despite vast natural resources - there's no benefit in associating with them in this day and age. The cheap gas is not worth it.
by luoxiaojian | 2026-02-25 08:44:22+00:00
Author here. Thanks for putting Zvec through its paces and sharing such detailed results—really appreciate the hands-on testing!

Just a bit of context on the storage behavior: Zvec currently uses memory-mapped files (mmap) by default, so once the relevant data is warmed up in the page cache, performance should be nearly identical regardless of whether the underlying storage is local disk or object storage—it's essentially in-memory at that point. The 100ms latency you observed with blobfuse2 likely reflects cold reads (data not yet cached), which can be slower than local disk in practice. Our published benchmarks are all conducted with sufficient RAM and full warmup, so the storage layer's latency isn't a factor in those numbers.
by lukan | 2026-02-25 08:44:34+00:00
How about this quote instead?

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened Anthropic, saying officials could invoke powers that would allow the government to force the artificial intelligence firm to share its novel technology in the name of national security if it does not agree by Friday to terms favorable to the military"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/24/pentago...
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-25 08:44:39+00:00
I get your point, but just out of curiosity, what is 'reasonably productive' in that case? E.g. compared to speed/efficiency/ease of coding/developing/researching on PC, would you say you're 20% of that on your phone? I reckon for me the number is like <10%. Just typing code on a phone is a chore. Having browsers open on another screen, splitting terminals, ssh tunnels and so many other things make any form of using mobile phones for what I use my pc for is a literal mental pain and thus I don't do it. I'd be better off doing additional 5 minutes on my PC instead of doing 50 minutes on my phone (and I have a foldable one lol).

I know everyone is different thus my curiosity about other peoples experience!
by politelemon | 2026-02-25 08:45:11+00:00
In a way its popularity has done a lot of harm for the progress of the web. The way they dragged their heels on web components was akin to Apple's suppression of PWAs. And its ubiquity in web development means developers are bloating what should be tiny websites with miniscule functionality instead of only for it when it's actually needed. Our other analogy here is the kubernetes fallacy, most teams genuinely don't need it but will go through pains to put it in place and take on exorbitant overheads for no good reason. I don't necessarily completely agree with the premise stated in the article that portrays it as a success story.
by coldtea | 2026-02-25 08:45:58+00:00
>I can't find the source but I thought I read somewhere that the major manufacturing cities in China are all geographically laid out like giant assembly lines

There was a great article from like 20 years ago - it quoted Jobs too on that. I remember Forbes or something like that, maybe this "“How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work” — The New York Times (Jan 21, 2012)" (cant open it now)