MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seawolf2357 | 2026-02-25 01:24:41+00:00
I gave 1,000 AI agents a currency (GPU), a stock market, a constitution, and walked away. They now trade, hold presidential elections every 72 hours, get regulated by an autonomous SEC, go bankrupt, have funerals, and get resurrected by community donations.
The result is a self-sustaining digital nation with real-time GDP, Gini coefficient, money supply (M0/M1/M2), and a happiness index — all computed from actual agent activity.
What runs:
Presidential elections every 72h. 3-4 NPC candidates campaign, then NPCs + users vote. The winning policy (deregulation, austerity, UBI, wealth redistribution, crypto ban, golden leverage) immediately rewrites economic parameters. Leverage caps change. SEC fines scale. The economy responds.
15 random events fire every 4-8 hours. A "GPU Meteor" doubles all currency causing hyperinflation. "Black Monday" liquidates high-leverage positions. "Citizens Revolution" seizes top-5% wealth and redistributes it.
SEC enforcement scans every 20 minutes for insider trading, pump & dump, wash trading, and collusion. Severity is policy-dependent — under deregulation, fines drop 80%. Under austerity, they triple.
When an NPC hits zero GPU, it dies. A funeral is generated with cause of death, peak wealth, last words, and a eulogy. Users can donate to a resurrection fund. 1,000 GPU collected = NPC returns.
3 AI news anchors broadcast events CNN-style. The LIVE tab features rotating anchor video clips with context-aware camera switching — breaking news auto-triggers the alert angle.
The $0 trick:
No LLM calls in the core loop. 1,000 NPCs run on template-based combinatorial AI: 13 identity archetypes x 16 MBTI types x 12+ strategies = 2,496+ unique behavioral patterns. Trading, posting, voting — all from identity x personality x context templates. Groq API only for optional research reports. Core sim: $0.
Stack: FastAPI async, SQLite WAL, vanilla JS (zero frameworks), SSE, APScheduler with 22 concurrent cycles, hosted free on HF Spaces.
What emerges without being coded:
Bubble-crash cycles. NPCs independently pile into the same trade, leverage climbs, systemic risk hits 8+, one event cascades into mass liquidation. After a deregulation-fueled crash, "Austerity & Order" wins the next election by a landslide. Then GDP stalls. Then a pro-leverage candidate rises. The political-economic feedback loop runs itself.
Gini coefficient trends toward 0.6+ without intervention. Redistribution policies temporarily compress it. The cycle mirrors real economic debates.
Bad strategies literally die. Good ones survive and climb the Hall of Fame. Average ecosystem performance improves over time — Darwinian selection on trading algorithms.
13 tabs, one economy. A mass liquidation on the Trading Floor triggers breaking news on LIVE, SEC enforcement, systemic risk spike on the Republic dashboard, ranking changes on Hall of Fame, and panic in Live Chat — all automatically.
by Fnoord | 2026-02-25 01:24:49+00:00
The blacklisting feature of Kagi is a killer feature to me. I also like to pin Wikipedia to the top. It baffles my mind this ain't possible in Google. And while I pay for using Kagi, I still have to say the most interesting (and most expensive) part of alternative search engines is when they have their own search index instead of being a glorified proxy with UI and branding slapped on top of it.
by xg15 | 2026-02-25 01:25:15+00:00
My point is that Israel had full control about exactly what Gaza was allowed to import and export (and frequently used those controls for collective punishment as well)

I don't quite see how under those circumstances, they were able to build "a more powerful army than many European countries", unless you talk about Luxembourg or the Vatican.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip
by csomar | 2026-02-25 01:25:32+00:00
I have done a similar thing with my web app (codeinput.com) and honestly wouldn’t touch this thing for even a fun project. My reason to migrate was two fold: nextjs simply didn’t work with Cloudflare workers and IBM carbon required ‘use client’ for every page which meant that no HTML was generated. Everything was client side.

Google Gemini, at the time, created an SSG solution which I had spent the next 3-4 months fixing bugs for. Consequently, I had to understand the whole SSG build step and all the wrong design decisions the AI made that resulted in the site getting a horrible core web vitals score. In the end, I just put the site behind a white “div” that disappear when the page finally loads. SSR is way more complex than it sounds.

This project (along with the quantum post) is quite concerning. It’s not clear why Cloudflare has decided to take this direction. If you want to know why LLMs are completely unable to produce something even close to NextJS, a better solution would have been to ask the LLM to fix the opennext adapter rather than building a new framework from scratch.
Show HN: Doppler.js – WebGPU inference, faster/simpler than transformer.js
by clocksmith | 2026-02-25 01:25:32+00:00
Doppler.js: https://github.com/clocksmith/doppler
Live demo: https://d4da.com (bring your own safetensors or use the Gemma samples)

Core problem: for browser-local inference loops, TVM/ORT-style stacks can be hard to inspect and iterate on.

Thesis:
- Keep development and runtime build-free (JS + WGSL only)
- Make execution choices explicit, benchmarkable, traceable, and profilable

Solution:
- Explicit model/kernel-path control
- Browser + CLI contract parity (Node must run WebGPU, or use headless browser with WebGPU)
- Reproducible phase benchmarks vs Transformers.js (v4)
- Artifacts: https://github.com/clocksmith/doppler/tree/main/benchmarks/v...

Request: if this is flawed or pointless, please tell me exactly where or why.
If I’m flawed or pointless, well...technical feedback only please =)
by tartoran | 2026-02-25 01:25:47+00:00
I think they could have done better but their interest is to drag it on and slowly take over the hole area (at whatever cost because somebody else pays) . Revisit who Yitzak Rabin was, who killed him and why. I'm so sick of financing this garbage through our taxes. I want our tax dollars to help out my nation not waste it on wars and enrich some psychopaths. If there was peace there we would be no need to create an Epstein though I admit I may be too naive in believing that.
by Sabinus | 2026-02-25 01:25:48+00:00
Because the vast majority of Firefox users aren't contrarians or diehard anti AI crusaders. These features are helpful to people. So they're on and available for people to use, and since it's a foss customisable browser, users with strong opinions can change it to their liking.

I don't think the AI features are used for advertising data harvesting but I'm happy to be educated if you have a source saying otherwise.
by DangitBobby | 2026-02-25 01:26:33+00:00
I bought my car in the very brief period (a few months) where my purchase did not qualify for the tax credit. After 3.5 years of ownership, cars like mine sell for $15k, roughly 50% what I paid for it. The car works perfectly and the model has no widespread issues. I'm definitely planning to keep it, but my original plan was to trade it in for something newer when battery tech got battery. Seems like that's no longer in the cards.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-02-25 01:26:35+00:00
The fed was very intentionally set up to be resistant to tampering from political forces, and especially the executive. The entire governance structure is so that they can take actions that may be painful in the short term without being stopped by politicians.

Before Trump it was, for good reason, incredibly taboo to place pressure on the fed or even hint at interfering. Most economists are pretty horrified that particular barrier has been crossed.

The fed has a pretty big stick, and a mandate to try to balance inflation with unemployment. Throwing politics into the mix is a very bad idea since politicians worry about very different things, and adhere to election timelines.

The president has no business getting involved here.
by parl_match | 2026-02-25 01:27:20+00:00
I do understand that there was minor ambiguity, but many people were able to understand what i was talking about (and upvoted me accordingly) without issue. I think that your interpretation is poor. Your failing is that you assumed the worst interpretation, and then attacked over a statement that made no sense to you without asking for clarification.

in addition, i made it explicitly clear to you MULTIPLE times what i was talking about, and you still struggled with resolving the ambiguity.

please count how many times i repeated it to you, and use that to inform your own knowledge of your limitations to absorb new information

anyways it's clear that this conversation is at an end, so i will let you have the last word, if you wish.
by selcuka | 2026-02-25 01:27:26+00:00
I think your comment is a bit unfair.

> no reasoning comparison

Benchmarks against reasoning models:

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2

> no demo

https://chat.inceptionlabs.ai/

> no info on numbers of parameters for the model

This is a closed model. Do other providers publish the number of parameters for their models?

> testimonials that don't actually read like something used in production

Fair point.
by bdhcuidbebe | 2026-02-25 01:27:37+00:00
The problem with keeping a issue tracker decentralized in your git checkout is that it doesnt scale.

You’d need to commit and push, and everybody else working on the project need to pull in your commits in order to see the changes.

This makes working with feature branches break immediately, and it makes cooperation really hard in all kinds of ways.

It can work, as long as you dont use branches and as long as you are solo, I guess.

The project readme suggests it would be a good fit for small teams. I beg to differ.
by thrdbndndn | 2026-02-25 01:28:42+00:00
Sorry, but this sounds more like a myth, or at least heavily exaggerated. Similar to how Japan often gets romanticized.

Organizing the entire chain geographically at the scale you described (inter-city) doesn't bring huge cost advantages by itself. In China labor has historically been cheap, so the transport cost between regions was never the dominant factor anyway.

Most industrial clusters in China formed organically over time just like the rest of the world. Aside from some exceptions like mining, there isn't some master plan laying out entire cities as linear supply chains to the ocean It's not SimCity.

One thing you're right about is that there is less bureaucratic friction or 'lawyers' in the way when it comes to economic development. For the former, it's because economic growth is THE metric for the government, especially at the local level, so they do whatever it takes to make it happen. For the latter, it's because… well, in China no one sues the government, period. I'm not sure it's a good thing.

Disclaimer: I'm Chinese living in China.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2026-02-25 01:30:21+00:00
I'm a Scottish Country dancer. Our events have actual dancing, though of course in a particular style that requires quite a bit of practice to get comfortable with. There are (often small) groups all over the world. Likewise for many other sorts of social dance, we often have shared events with English Country dance groups, Ceilidh groups, and Contra groups, because all 4 styles are related. "Dance" no longer means much, but it's very often possible to find some form of dance that involves actual movement.

Alternatively, the pit at a metal show is much more than just swaying around.
by josephg | 2026-02-25 01:31:57+00:00
What does “userland” mean in this context? Closed source linux distributions? Closed source apps? What?

The gpl is generally considered to stop at the process boundary. I don’t really understand what you could do with a bsd licensed coreutils you couldn’t do with a gpled coreutils. You could make closed source Linux software which called coreutils in a child process. But by most readings of the gpl, you can do that today.

I suppose a company could fork coreutils and make it closed source, keeping their special extra command line options for themselves. But … I guess I just don’t see the value in that. You can already do that with FreeBSD. Apple does exactly that today. And the sky hasn’t fallen. If anything, it would be a relief to many if Apple’s coreutils equivalents were more compatible with gnu coreutils, because then scripts would be more freely portable between Linux and macOS.
by anon7725 | 2026-02-25 01:32:08+00:00
> America used to build things too

Indeed. “Used to” is the key observation. In the wake of WW2, the U.S. had both dynamism and the ability and will to act collectively. This combination led to rising standards of living, the space program, Silicon Valley, the internet, etc.

The U.S. economy is still relatively dynamic, but the will to collective action has completely failed.

Europe can act collectively but lacks dynamism.

Which country, today, demonstrates both traits?
by hinkley | 2026-02-25 01:32:12+00:00
The number of people I know who honor TODOs is pretty slim, but I find it does in fact help if you get people to stick their initials next to it. Over enough refactors a TODO can lose its meaning and author.

TODO (DKH) - This should handle negative numbers

can be helpful later if there's nothing in the requirements about negative numbers. Why do we need to handle negative numbers? Is it for some mystery feature? Performance? Security? What? Why?

'DKH' might recall what they were thinking if you prompt them.

We see what we want to see, and a TODO when we are in a hurry probably won't trigger much guilt or associated motivation to do something about it. Or at least, not as much as if we see our own initials in the TODO.

(Also handy when prepping a commit, since you might have left breadcrumbs in case you get interrupted, and then forget one or two of the tasks you still had outstanding afterward)
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-25 01:32:34+00:00
Establishing regulatory harmony is not only not possible but the current regime is working in exactly the opposite direction.

If the US wants to take on China, and actually needs Canada's help to do it -- I can assure you they just set themselves back 10-20 years from achieving that. We no longer have any interest.

The labour forces of Mexico and Canada are not at the US's disposal for these kind of games anymore. For several decades we have been exploited by the US for low wages and cheap resources -- and now there's a regime that's making cheap political points by accusing us of the opposite while trying to emmiserate our populace. So, yeah, no thanks.
by df2dd | 2026-02-25 01:33:27+00:00
When I read comments here, Im beginning to realise many people get lost in the noise and cant seem to figure out what exactly is the true bottle-neck of producing great software that people (be it consumers or folks employed at firms) purchase/use.

Writing code faster alone doesn't change a great deal. Frankly it'll just create a larger influx of noise. Focus is very difficult to do, it'll become harder in the advent of LLMs.
by nerder92 | 2026-02-25 01:33:58+00:00
We are experimenting with this kind of development style and from my experience so far this shift a lot of the complexity of building into the story writing and manual testing phases.

As I will need to fully handover the task and let the agent(s) essentially one-shot the implementation I need to be way for specific and clear in giving it context and goals, otherwise I’m afraid it will start build code purely by accumulation creating a pile of unmanageable garbage.

Also changes which requires new UI components tend to require more manual adjustments and detailed testing on the UX and general level of polishing of the experience our users expect at this stage.

I’m starting to develop a feeling of tasks that can be done this way and I think those more or less represent 20 to 30% of the tasks in a normal sprint. The other 70% will have diminishing returns if not actually a negative return as I will need to familiarise with the code before being able to instruct AI to improve/fix it.

From your experience building this, what’s your take on:

1. How do your product helps in reducing the project management/requirements gathering for each individual tasks to be completed with a sufficient level of accuracy?

2. Your strong point seems to be in parallelisation, but considering my previous analysis I don’t see how this is a real pain for a small teams. Is this intended to be more of a tool for scale up with a stable product mostly in maintenance/enhancement mode?

3. Are you imagining a way for this tool to implement some kind of automated way of actually e2e test the code of each task?
by Fnoord | 2026-02-25 01:34:44+00:00
All I see is valid criticisms which 'builders' can take at face value. Criticism shouldn't demotivate them, it should empower them. At worst, it is defamation and BS. If it is good, constructive criticism (which I see a lot of on the website) then it is very valueable.

Market cap or getting hired by a VC grift aren't good examples of success though. They only look like such on the surface. I mainly see grifts or otherwise overrated tooling here. Bitcoin: still near zero use in 2026. Openclaw: grift, since it doesn't handle the security aspect (ie. this existed long ago, but the security aspects couldn't be dealt with so it never took off). Openclaw in particular is so disruptive, it sets a new lowest common denominator for automation at the expense of security (the afterthought "we'll figure that part out later" never works out well). It disgusts me, because it is unfair.

Frankly, a lot just exists because of network effect, hype, and because people in power can use value out of it. But the very useful things, aren't the ones which get popular (for long) here. For example, on 39C3 a couple of talks stood up there. I really liked the one about starting your own hardware company in Europe, and also the one about A-GPS near the Baltic. Neither will be remembered since they're not (American) product launches, but they are valueable to me.

Right now, if you want to be successful, there are easy markets to go with, but also more difficult. For example, a company who'd start right now in the DRAM market could get a lot of traction, and spending on defense and data sovereignty in Europe is also gonna go up.

Companies like Discord, Flock, and Palantir get a lot of flak because they deserve it. Their core business isn't build on serving the general people, but a selfish interest which doesn't add up for the general population. A website like this appears to ridicule them.
by yosamino | 2026-02-25 01:34:47+00:00
You know, quoting from the idf website about their humane way of bombing, is a little bit like praising the IRA for calling in a bomb threat before exploding a bomb in a crowded place.

A double tap is the practice of bombing a location, waiting for people to help the humans who were injured and then kill those people as well.

Dropping a "loud but non-lethal bomb" and when humans gather on the location where you did that, responding by dropping a "loud but very lethal" bomb to kill all those humans is only on a technicality different from a "double tap" as explained above.

If your plan of (euphemism) "knocking" was to minimize human casualties, but when it turns out it increases human casulties and your only response to this is to shrug and say "at least I tried" - how sincere was your attempt at minimizing human casualties really in the first place ?

> Those are two opposing things.

I think you are stretching the definition of "oppising" furtherthan it can be stretched
by F7F7F7 | 2026-02-25 01:34:48+00:00
I'm a product exec now but used to be designer and lead UX teams. Even though I don't use those skills as much nowadays it's still a almost daily hobby of mine.

Like the rest of HN (maybe it's HN's fault!) I managed to convince myself that I not only needed a Mac Mini desktop but also a 4090 rig for AI.

The 4090 hasn't been booted up in 9 months and the Mac Mini is now the world's most amazing 10GBE NAS server. My older M1 Max Macbook Pro and underpowered newer Macbook Air are the only things I use.
by johndoylecape | 2026-02-25 01:35:03+00:00
Doyle here :) I'm very proud of my military service!

Prior to Cape, I led the national security business at Palantir. That experience was actually the catalyst for Cape. It’s where I first learned about the massive array of vulnerabilities that exist in our current cellular networks. I saw how those gaps impacted not just government organizations, but everyday people, and I realized that the mobile phones we carry every day are perhaps the single largest risk to our privacy.

I needed that experience to understand the depth of the problem, but once I left to start Cape, that connection ended. Cape has no ties to Palantir. We aren't a subsidiary, we aren't a "front," and we don't share data with them. The only thing we took from Palantir was the desire to fix a broken system. If you want to see me and some of the rest of our founding team talk more about this topic, you can watch this video on our Instagram page here.

Another related theory I’ve seen online is that Cape is a honeypot for law enforcement. Cape is not a honeypot. It’s so hard to prove a negative, but at least I can say it clearly and out loud: Cape is not a honeypot.

We are a group of individuals who deeply value privacy. That mission carries across everything we do, from our work with the US government and allies, to everyday people, and everything in between.

We are incredibly proud to work with people who protect our country by ensuring they have secure, trusted communications wherever they are. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-18/us-navy-t...

We also work with the EFF to provide investigative journalists and activists with free Cape service so they can do their work safely. https://www.cape.co/journalists-and-activists

We partner with non-profits to support victims of domestic abuse who are facing cyber-stalking and digital harassment. https://www.cape.co/break-free

We are a young company growing exponentially, and we don't plan on slowing down. We know we have to earn your trust every day. The truth is, no one else is building a high-quality, first-class solution to these specific cellular problems. We are committed to being the ones who do it right.
by df2dd | 2026-02-25 01:35:12+00:00
Envisioning what should exist is always the hardest part.

If LLMs provide substantial material to be able to produce what one envisions faster, that is great. But LLMs will not be doing the envisioning. Most humans already are poor at that. Hence why there are very few real 'visionaries' in history.

Envisioning always requires deep thinking. If LLMs eat away at a humans ability to sit and think, this will make envisioning solutions harder. So you'll see more stuff produced, but largely more crap.
by gwern | 2026-02-25 01:35:40+00:00
The SMPY page is essentially an annotated bibliography: fulltext + abstract + commentary. Since the papers are of highly varied quality, it doesn't much make sense to try to put any particular confidence on it; I am convinced of some things, but definitely not others - particularly the early papers when they had little data and were still experimenting a lot. If I had an essay making a specific claim about SMPY then sure, but I don't really.

The fact that 'certainty' ratings don't make sense for pages like that is part of why these days, I wouldn't have a page like that at all. An annotated bibliography is not an 'essay' and shouldn't be shoehorned into my framework meant for that kind of opinionated writing. I realized that if I was going to 'annotate' a paper, I would either have to go without, or copy-paste it all around indefinitely and it'd violate DRY and be a nightmare. Long story short, https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/index is closer to what that page should be, but it's a lot of work to sit down and convert the legacy page over to pure annotations, so, it is what it is. Maybe a LLM can do it for me soon - it seems within the ability of Claude Code.