MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-23 00:03:51+00:00
>Any company that doesn’t have an enterprise contract with Anthropic and uses Claude Code is an idiot.

I understand that working for Amazon will have given you the typical unjustified sense of intelligence and authority, and entirely insular sense of the world, that people tend to have when they work for FAANG, but you need to do your best to fight against it, dude.

You don’t know about every organisation. You don’t know about their risk profiles. Are you saying that the two-person bootstrapped spare-time side-project is the creation of two “idiots” because they don’t have an enterprise agreement with Anthropic? What about the organisations where the code is more-so incidental aspect of their organisation, rather than the secret sauce? You know that this is the vast, vast majority of organisations, right? Do you genuinely think that your code is so precious that anyone else having access to it (let alone munged up in an LLM) will be in any way detrimental to the business? That is very, very, very rarely the case. We’re all capable of reading ‘Designing Data-Intensive Applications’, I assure you.
Show HN: A Vaadin Algebra and Calculus Solver Built with AI Assistance
by bellaOxmyx | 2026-02-23 00:04:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I’d like to share a side project that has gradually become my main creative outlet: The Algebrator, a web-based algebra and calculus solver I built using Java, Spring Boot, Vaadin 24, and a symbolic math engine under the hood.

It started as a personal attempt to revisit the math I loved in middle/high school, but it evolved into a multi-year design experiment in AI-augmented software engineering. I built and iterated on this app using a paired-programming workflow with LLMs (ChatGPT + GitHub Copilot), and the project ended up teaching me more about agentic AI development than anything else I’ve worked on.

What it does

Lets users type equations, inequalities, and expressions in a calculator-like UI

Solves algebraic equations, systems, trigonometry, calculus operations, and iterative “problem templates”

Supports fraction/decimal modes, radians/degrees, comparison operators, user-defined functions, and multi-character variables

Includes utility “extras” like prime generation, Fibonacci, random integers, etc.

All built in a Vaadin UI designed to feel like a pocket calculator

Why I built it

I wanted a tool that makes algebra feel like it did on my old TI calculator, but with the flexibility of a symbolic engine. I also wanted to explore how far I could push “AI-paired development” in a real project — not just code generation, but architecture, UI/UX reasoning, and rapid iteration.

What might interest HN

It’s a full Java/Vaadin project, not JavaScript

It demonstrates a real, sustained AI-augmented workflow

It blends symbolic math (Symja) with custom arithmetic logic in Java

The UI is dynamic: variables appear as buttons as you type them

It’s deployed live (Spring Boot on Railway)

It’s fully open-source

Looking for feedback on:

Architecture and code clarity

Ideas for additional math features or real-world templates

Best practices for symbolic math in a Java environment

How to present AI-augmented workflows professionally

Repo: [https://github.com/eGantry/algebrator-repo1a]
Live demo: [https://algebrator-repo1a-production.up.railway.app/]

Thanks for taking a look — feedback and critique are welcome.
by polski-g | 2026-02-23 00:04:20+00:00
I was at work the other day and we were talking about my mouse problem in my basement. My coworker asked how many mouse traps I had.

I said 74.

74?! That's way to many mouse traps. No one would ever need that many mouse traps.

But sir, I haven't told you how many mice I have.

The number of incarcerated individuals is not a relevant statistic if you're also not including the number of criminals there are.
by avazhi | 2026-02-23 00:04:33+00:00
Google deciding to willy nilly unilaterally ban my 20+ year old primary Google account is probably my greatest internet fear, given how famously awful their support is. Seems like it's the singular best example of a tech company so big that through some combination of internal silos and TOS bureaucracy you have no shot of getting your account back, no matter how unreasonable the ban actually is.

A while back I made completely separate Google accounts for YouTube and Maps just so my longstanding Gmail account wouldn't get banned if the system somehow detected that my Youtube account for example breached Google's TOS.
by ocdtrekkie | 2026-02-23 00:05:38+00:00
Do however be warned that filing a chargeback might make you ineligible for any number of Google's pantheon of services for you or your family for the foreseeable future. Upset the beast at your own risk.

When you suddenly discover you can never again distribute an app to an Android device because you once hooked up your AI subscription to a toy AI assistant.
by smashah | 2026-02-23 00:06:03+00:00
Take your money to the Chinese companies instead. These evil megacorps are more interested in destroyed your privacy in service to the Epstein Cabal controlling every facet of your life. How dare Google, a trillion dollar company, charge you for AI ultra then ban you for using your own credits/usage allowance. This whole debacle, along with Anthropic, fall foul of The Digital Human Right to Adversarial Interoperability.

It is imperative that open source wins this battle. Not these evil megacorps and their substandard tools.

Are Google engineers so inept as to not be able to integrate technical measures against oc use? Do they think people using these plugins know the mechanisms used? And after all that they have the nerve to ban you from using their own products (AG). Ridiculous company.
by tptacek | 2026-02-23 00:06:32+00:00
The claim that this has happened in the past is obviously well-supported. The claim that it's broad practice or representative in any general way of policing is more or less completely unfounded.

In fact, general cognitive tests of any sort aren't common recruiting practice. States have standardized reading comprehension and writing tests, like CA PELLET-B, but there's no high-end cutoff score for them, and there's also no direct analog between them and IQ.
by gjsman-1000 | 2026-02-23 00:06:49+00:00
Why is it unreasonable?

It’s a subsidized price; conditional to using their tooling. Don’t want to use their tooling? Pay the API rates. The API is sitting right there, ready to use for a broader range of purposes.

It’s only unreasonable if you think the customer has a right to have their cake and eat it too.
by mapcars | 2026-02-23 00:07:26+00:00
> Lisp and similar are just "hey it's really easy to write a parser if we just make all programmers write the AST directly!".

Its not just that, it makes syntax more uniform and it allows adding all sorts of features using the same parens syntax where other languages have to invent all sorts of special symbols to distinguish between things.

It makes it easier to parse for both machines and humans. This is why I asked if you ever wrote in lisps, because it takes some time to adjust but once you do it all makes sense.

Many languages tried to make programming look like a human-readable text, they all failed in one way or another. Because writing program instructions requires specific structure and s-expressions do that extremely well.
by idontwantthis | 2026-02-23 00:08:19+00:00
This is a cool project and I know hacking is good in and of itself, but I wanted to share that my family and I use a whiteboard on the fridge and a paper calendar to great effect. It brings us closer to each other while keeping us from missing appointments and events, and allows us to leave messages for each other to be viewed in slow time.
by not_a9 | 2026-02-23 00:08:29+00:00
From what someone told me rev/crypto/misc are the most broken, with pwn/web being more iffy and depending on challenge specifics.

I can't speak on AI usage very clearly (fun fact: just putting the challenge into ChatGPT's web UI sometimes works!), but I think the most egregious is orchestration platforms for agents (with MCP/whatever else) to autonomously solve challenges.
by kelipso | 2026-02-23 00:08:29+00:00
I said LLM doesn’t have such instinct but yeah I agree there should be less anthropomorphizing and more evaluation based framing when talking about LLMs, but it’s not that easy in regular discussions.

About Wikipedia, there is obvious bias and cliques there as has been discussed in this thread and HN for many years, not to mention the its bias is reason that Grokipedia came about in the first place.
by simonw | 2026-02-23 00:08:36+00:00
https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt is a conversation between Knuth and Wolfram about GPT-4.

> I find it fascinating that novelists galore have written for decades about scenarios that might occur after a "singularity" in which superintelligent machines exist. But as far as I know, not a single novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent (say), and in which millions of real people would be able to interact with them freely at essentially no cost.

> I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same.
by gingerBill | 2026-02-23 00:09:31+00:00
The categorizes are useful for understand how people perceive a language. It's a human psychology category, and just because you think it is "irrelevant" misunderstands why I made the categorical distinctions in the first place.

People actually talk this way about languages, and they already have this conception.

And I've just realized what your psychological hang-up is now too, the word "focused". I originally didn't use this term when I wrote the article in 2018, but a friend suggested the term instead because it was probably a little more "neutral". I honestly cannot remember what I used before now since I have just absorbed this arbitrary term "focused", even if the distinctions are useful.

You might not think this way about languages. I know I don't when I program. But I know this is how others things, and that's the entire aspect of design. Design is just so much about understanding humans. How they function, mentally and physically. Perception, psychology, sociology, physiology, ergonomics, needs, desires, etc. It's all about being able to put yourself in other people's shoes, more than making _the thing_.

And that's what I've been trying to understand and that categorization has been helpful for understand other people. I don't care if you think the categorizes are "irrelevant" but you are not "everyone".
by bubblewand | 2026-02-23 00:10:11+00:00
Attempting to manage this as a parent is hellish.

I can't speak for other parents, but some standards for parental controls—the presence of which and adherence to might be enforced by law, if need be, and need probably would be since none of this is stuff vendors couldn't have figured out on their own long ago if they cared to—we could leverage would be goddamn nice and is all I'd really want.

Especially as devices get more locked-down and it becomes hard to control stuff at the network level if you don't have root on the devices themselves, like... man, it's such a time-suck, and I'm 100% sure I'd be having to choose between "I guess we just don't have the Internet in this house" and "fuck it, I give up, go stumble on gore videos I guess" if I weren't a lot better at this stuff than the median parent. I feel for them, this stuff is entirely hopeless for 'em.

Like, my kids have Chromebooks from school. They pretty much have to bring them home. So now I have this extra physical item I can't administrate that I must police at night if I don't want them to stay up all night on trash-tier web games or something. So I'll block the devices at the network level at night, right? Easy fix! Nope, the fucking things rotate MAC addresses as an anti-tracking measure I guess. We have zero need for that feature (the number of times they're gonna use the things outside school and home over their whole school careers is going to be very small) but I'm not admin on those devices, so, stuck with it. So there's an extra hurdle to making that happen.

Repeat some other incredible frustration for every single thing. Oh look, AppleTV has a simple rating interface so I can at least make sure nothing too bad can get through if I mess something up. Great. Oh except almost nothing on the device except Apple's own software respects the setting, at all, just ignores it. You have to go dick around with every single service on there to lock them down, then hope it sticks through updates and other nonsense. Awesome, great feature that's actually totally useless because nobody cares about the users. Sigh.

Your options are go full-luddite, give up and leave them to the Internet gods, or take on this load of work and stress that our parents did not have.
by gjsman-1000 | 2026-02-23 00:10:14+00:00
Yes; because they have no obligation to provide this service tier at all.

It could be API prices for anyone, everywhere. They offer a discounted plan, $200/mo., for a restricted set of use cases. Abuse that at your peril.

It’s like complaining your phone’s unlimited data plan is insufficient to run an apartment building with all units. I was told it was Unlimited! That means I can totally run 500 units through it if I want to, Verizon!
by g947o | 2026-02-23 00:10:26+00:00
Which is exactly why I de-Googled much of my digital life (email, notes, password management, photos, chatbot, browser etc) except where there is no reasonable/practical alternative. The "main" account is only for those things and for old contacts in case someone reaches me via the old email. I use a secondary Google account for anything that is remotely risky.
by chongli | 2026-02-23 00:10:44+00:00
Friendly reminder that Google Takeout [1] exists. When I read a story a few years ago about a guy who had his primary Google account banned with no recourse (for reselling Pixel phones) and permanently lost 20 years worth of emails and family photos, I researched and found Takeout and used it to back up all my data, then subsequently stopped using Google services altogether (apart from YouTube).

[1] https://takeout.google.com/
by wolrah | 2026-02-23 00:11:10+00:00
> I never saw Instagram as appealing to photography hobbyists. Instead, I saw it as deliberately nerfing things where hobbyists have advantages (image quality, choice of aspect ratios, posting from desktop PCs), likely to increase participation by making it less intimidating to share snapshots taken on phone cameras.

I agree with this 100%, on top of what you said remember that Instagram launched in 2010 as an iOS exclusive during a time where Apple was not particularly focused on camera quality, ignoring Android where there were numerous devices with substantially better cameras. IIRC someone was even selling one with an optical system in the ballpark of a low-end mirrorless. They also limited image resolution to 640 pixels square until 2015.
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-23 00:11:39+00:00
Would you also accept a city providing benefits to only white residents?

You could provide benefits on a criteria like poverty, which is intrinsically race-blind and agreeable but happens to include a higher ratio of black people. Like you could provide a scholarship based on test scores, which is intrinsically race-blind but happens to include more Asians. But this is objectively racist, and I believe unlikely to benefit even black people in the long run due to the underlying message.
by apical_dendrite | 2026-02-23 00:12:33+00:00
> Coding agents had collapsed the barrier to entry for launching a delivery app. A competent developer could deploy a functional competitor in weeks, and dozens did, enticing drivers away from DoorDash and Uber Eats by passing 90-95% of the delivery fee through to the driver. Multi-app dashboards let gig workers track incoming jobs from twenty or thirty platforms at once, eliminating the lock-in that the incumbents depended on. The market fragmented overnight and margins compressed to nearly nothing.

This doesn't make a ton of sense to me. The barrier to entry isn't the app, it's the network of drivers and restaurants, and all the money that apps like DoorDash poured into marketing. Just having a functioning app doesn't really do very much.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-23 00:12:53+00:00
> The rest of the world sits back snd takes just one guess as to which country you’re from.

Are football and F1 not immensely popular in Europe and the rest of the world?

> Modern masculinity has lapped femininity in how utterly performative it is. This shit is so tiring.

People like what they like, big whoop.
The possibilities for micro-intelligent fungus
by justellemno | 2026-02-23 00:12:55+00:00
The Mysterious Grey Goo! Imagine if we don't revert back to nature and normal life, we accidentally create plasma based nanobots that someone combined with a super fungus. That would inevitably create a living super organism that can and will consume the entire world. Could it somehow consume the entire universe? Sci-Fi isn't all sci-fi after all.

Maybe those in this world who want to keep consciousness alive need to act before it's too late.
Show HN: Treni – single-binary GPU runtime for uncertainty-aware agents 5ms TTFT
by andrewmonostate | 2026-02-23 00:12:59+00:00
We built Treni, a C/CUDA runtime where routing, tokenization, tool models, and state run in one GPU process.

Most agent stacks only get serialized tool strings back.
Treni exposes execution signals in-process (entropy/logprobs/retrieval distance/route confidence), so the agent can branch before committing bad output.

Canonical A10G (G5), token-parity vs vLLM (max_tokens=48):

TTFT: 5.130 ms (Treni) vs 84.837 ms (vLLM) -> 16.537x
Full request: 316.403 ms vs 1232.660 ms -> 3.896x
Cold total first response: 1320.240 ms vs 28937.430 ms -> 21.918x
Steady state:

Warm mean: 80.602 ms
Warm p99: 90.350 ms
Additional checks:

Frontend A/B repeatability (warm_fixed + mixed_churn, repeats=3): custom path wins all tracked metrics
Numerical parity vs PyTorch (strict mode): 0 failures
Separate OpenAI routing-overhead test (different question, not engine-vs-engine):

Same model endpoint on both sides (gpt-5.2)
Internal path: client -> OpenAI
External path: client -> controller/tool hop -> same OpenAI endpoint
Fairness-hardened local controls (runs=8):
model-only: near parity (int = 0.971x)
tool-only: external slower (int = 1.038x)
Docs + raw artifacts:

https://treni-docs.pages.dev/docs/
https://treni-docs.pages.dev/docs/objectives-and-thesis
https://treni-docs.pages.dev/docs/leaderboard
https://treni-docs.pages.dev/docs/trackb-claim-safe-table
https://treni-docs.pages.dev/docs/raw-artifacts
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-02-23 00:12:59+00:00
I am thinking more and more that the current capitalist economic system we have right now will turn out just to be a blip in history and something else will evolve. It seems pretty clear that not too far in the future machines will do pretty much anything better than humans which then makes the current system of trading our time against money obsolete.

It may lead to a very positive future or to a very dark future for most people. Not sure what it will be.
by SockThief | 2026-02-23 00:13:48+00:00
Actually that is exactly what it is:

”Thank you for your continued patience as we have thoroughly investigated your account access issue. Please be assured that we conducted a comprehensive investigation, exploring every possible avenue to restore your access.

Our product engineering team has confirmed that your account was suspended from using our Antigravity service. This suspension affects your access to the Gemini CLI and any other service that uses the Cloud Code Private API.

Our investigation specifically confirmed that the use of your credentials within the third-party tool “open claw” for testing purposes constitutes a violation of the Google Terms of Service [1]. This is due to the use of Antigravity servers to power a non-Antigravity product.

I must be transparent and inform you that, in accordance with Google’s policy, this situation falls under a zero tolerance policy, and we are unable to reverse the suspension. I am truly sorry to share this difficult news with you.”
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-23 00:14:03+00:00
I can guarantee in their attempt to stop OpenClaw users, some users using it normally will get caught in the dragnet. It could mean your whole Google account is suspended, not just for Antigravity.

I would highly encourage you to not only stop using Antigravity oAuth for OpenClaw, but to use Antigravity with a side account or stop using it altogether. Is using Antigravity worth losing your main account or getting it banned for using paid services (for extra storage, YouTube premium, etc). Even side accounts are risky since in the post thread people are saying Google applied the ban to all their accounts.
by techblueberry | 2026-02-23 00:14:25+00:00
When I was a kid 5 gigantic companies didn’t basically control the whole internet.

Skeet shooting isn’t in every pocket, school, library, Best Buy kiosk. Etc. Maybe if the phones were open source and I truly had the capability to control access this would make sense but the currently available tools are obviously toothless in a way meant to ensure that your u feel like your in control.

I’m not really scared about what my kids might do or see. If the internet was still countercultural and not everything was fucking force fed to you by gigantic billionaire mega corps it would be fine. But there should be some friction.
by jsheard | 2026-02-23 00:15:09+00:00
> But it's also not exactly a secret that they are all taking VERY heavy losses even with pricey subscriptions.

It's absurd, there's people out there paying $200 for the equivalent of $1600 in API credits. Of course there's a catch! What did you expect!

https://bsky.app/profile/borum.dev/post/3meynioealc2x

That tool is "ccusage" if you're a Claude subscriber and want to see exactly what the damage will be if/when Anthropic decides to pull the rug.
by protocolture | 2026-02-23 00:15:24+00:00
How would that be successful money laundering?

Money Laundering is really good with cash only businesses because you can just pretend you had 1000 more customers than you actually did.

But this money is going towards a high profile public works project with fixed outcomes. You might get ~5% of the money back clean, assuming the government is corrupt enough. Not to mention that its highly unlikely the government doesnt know who donated it. So theres really no "clean" money, its documented somewhere if investigators go looking.

The donator would be better off laundering through a car wash or corner store.

The "everything i dont understand is money laundering" crowd baffles me sometimes.