MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by harrall | 2026-02-23 01:58:31+00:00
You most likely don’t pay per call for your cellphone.

You most likely don’t pay per machine to use the gym.

You don’t pay per cup if they allow unlimited refills.

You are not supposed to go into an all-you-can eat buffet and stuff steaks into your bag.

Sometimes not all of us want to do the math à la carte for every thing we use in life. Don’t ruin it for us.
by anjel | 2026-02-23 01:58:41+00:00
Easy now, I wasn't saying they did make that claim.
I simply provided a comparatively low-cost alternative for the very expensive display for those for those for whom the display would otherwise be cost-prohibitive.

Best Buy sells 24" touchscreen displays for $339 right now. So you can spend $3000 on a display that sips current or spend 10% of that and you get $2700 to pay towards the higher electric costs.

I call that an interesting trade-off. YMMV
by harry8 | 2026-02-23 02:00:02+00:00
Broke up into 2 groups, the first asked to perform some ritual vs the control.

The control were actually placed in what my high school described as detention. Sit still and relax for 30 minutes.

Did they measure how much rituals chill you out or how much stewing in your own juices for 30 mins makes you uncomfortable?
by naveed125 | 2026-02-23 02:01:09+00:00
> your home IP is now tied to whatever the agent does. If an agent scrapes a site too aggressively, your ISP may notice. Route agent traffic through a VPN for anything beyond light browsing.

What is the light browsing you mentioned? 10 sites, 100 sites. At what point you felt it as too much to be considered light browsing.
by MarcLore | 2026-02-23 02:01:15+00:00
This is exactly why API-level access matters more than consumer subscriptions for production workloads. Consumer plans are subsidized with the assumption of interactive, low-volume usage. The moment you programmatically route through them, you break the economic model they're built on.

The real issue is the lack of transparency. If Google's ToS says 'no programmatic access via third-party tools,' state it clearly and enforce it with warnings first. An instant ban with no recourse is hostile to paying customers who may genuinely not know where the line is.

For anyone building production systems, the lesson is clear: use the actual API tiers, budget for it, and treat consumer subscriptions as evaluation tools only.
by dmix | 2026-02-23 02:01:29+00:00
Google has always done no warning bans

YouTube is also full of huge content creators, people who make Google tons of money, that complain about the Byzantine and opaque rules they have to dance around to maintain their livelihood and fan base

Google fears their giant userbases so they act with zero regard for communication and transparency because of the small chance it’d help the abusers
by hogwasher | 2026-02-23 02:01:29+00:00
If that's the case, I want to see studies on how blue light filtering glasses fare versus just regular-ass sunglasses (of equivalent tint). Is it the reduction of blue light that helps people, or is it just the reduction of light, full stop?

Just the latter on its own is quite thoroughly proven to help people sleep, and helps with migraines, and so on.

Or what about UV light? I've never seen anyone say that an anti-UV coating/lens material in glasses helps with sleep (nor that it doesn't). But UV is still high frequency light that enters our eyes, even higher frequency than blue light, and there's at least some research to suggest it might affect human circadian rhythms despite its invisibility to us. But I've never seen anyone suggest that wearing your regular glasses (because most regular glasses these days are UV-blocking) before bed, or before a nap during the day (or before trying to sleep through the day, for a night shift worker), could help someone get to sleep.

I'd imagine it could also depend on exactly how much blue light is filtered; it's not like all blue light filtering glasses are tinted to the same degree. Glasses that all but make the world look like a reptile house might do a lot more than glasses that have only the faintest of orange tints. It's not like lenses either block blue light fully or don't block it at all; there's a spectrum here. How much blue light is supposed to get blocked for it to matter?

Were the studies that showed blue light blocking glasses to improve sleep done with lenses so tinted they were essentially sunglasses, or did they use nearly clear/only slightly tinted lenses akin to the blue light blocking lenses that are marketed as alternatives to regular clear lenses?
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-23 02:01:29+00:00
If you're not in the US, you probably don't understand how our system of federalism works. We have 50 different states, some of which are basically run by the Christian equivalent of the Taliban or the Shiite mullahs of Iran. These state governments often come up with goofy, performative laws such as age verification that are normally set aside by higher courts as First Amendment violations.

I say "normally" because the same religious factions are rapidly expanding their dominance over those very courts. Absolutely no historical freedoms can be taken for granted in the US right now. Nevertheless, the fact is, there is no national Internet censorship regime including age verification. No such laws are currently under consideration at the national level.

(Yes, you can be prosecuted for downloading or distributing child pornography, but that is not an Internet-specific issue, and there is no other country I'm aware of where such laws are not also on the books.)
by mirashii | 2026-02-23 02:01:30+00:00
Generally speaking, there's prompt caching that can be enabled in the API with things like this: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

For a specific harness, they've all found ways to optimize to get higher cache hit rates with their harness. Common system prompts and all, and more and more users hitting cache really makes the cost of inference go down dramatically.

What bothers me about a lot of the discussion about providers disallowing other harnesses with the subscription plans around here is the complete lack of awareness of how economies of scale from common caching practices across more users can enable the higher, cheaper quotas subscriptions give you.
by easton | 2026-02-23 02:01:32+00:00
> One related thought I had was that given OpenAI is the only one _not_ doing this of the big3, it probably indicates they have a lot more spare compute.

Or, pessimistically, it could indicate they’re burning cash hoping the subsidized access will eventually result in someone giving them a product idea they can build and resell at a profit.

If they let *claw (or third party coding agents, or whatever) run for six more months and in those months figure out how to sell a safe substitute and then cut off access, maybe it will have been worth it.
by MarcLore | 2026-02-23 02:01:38+00:00
The e-paper approach is brilliant for a family dashboard. No backlight means it blends into the room like a picture frame rather than screaming for attention like a tablet.

I wonder if you considered MQTT or a similar lightweight protocol for updates instead of polling. For something that only needs to refresh a few times per day (weather, calendar, chores), you could probably run the whole thing on a tiny solar panel with a battery, making it truly zero-maintenance.

The 000 price tag for the 13.3" Visionect display is the elephant in the room though. Would love to see this concept with a cluster of cheaper e-ink panels.
by apgwoz | 2026-02-23 02:01:41+00:00
So, if I use my SIM card 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, Ill get banned? Doesn’t that seem absurd? The SIM card is enforcing one voice call at a time. If the apartment building has to wait in line to use it, what’s the difference?

If you deployed it in a way that did multiplexing such that multiple users could use it at once, then sure—-Business time. But otherwise…
by MarcLore | 2026-02-23 02:01:54+00:00
This distinction is crucial and often overlooked. Social networks were built around bidirectional relationships — you follow someone because you know them or share mutual interests. The feed was a byproduct of your social graph.

Attention media inverts this completely. The algorithm decides what you see based on engagement metrics, not relationships. Your 'feed' is curated by what keeps you scrolling, not by who you chose to connect with.

The practical consequence: on social networks, you could curate your experience by curating your connections. On attention media, curation is impossible because the algorithm optimizes for a metric you don't control. The only winning move is to limit time spent.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-23 02:01:57+00:00
> I don't know the exact numbers but around 2017 there were almost as many contractors at Google as FTEs working in the same offices on the same projects, but getting half or third of the FTE salaries.

Contractors get overtime. That’s why. It’s the same thing at most big companies when you compare contract and FTE for any position - one has higher salary and the other has overtime. It’s common for the contractor to actually have a higher annual (cash) comp.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-23 02:02:22+00:00
So you’re saying I’m nuts? Do you go to peoples faces and say that?

You’re not nuts. But you are trying to twist the logic to justify your own situation. The correct word to characterize this is “manipulative”.

Clearly, no one is nuts on this thread but some people are just dicks.

It’s completely normal for people to not be literal, and to also mistakenly say something.
by josephg | 2026-02-23 02:03:02+00:00
Yes, but we have a perfectly serviceable term for local software already: "local software".

To me, "local-first software" means something slightly different. The term was coined by this essay[1], which says:

> Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices

> This means that while local-first apps keep their data in local storage on each device, it is also necessary for that data to be synchronized across all of the devices on which a user does their work.

But this is clearly not what's going on here. This project is just local software, like we've had forever.

If a fancy new "local first" buzzword makes local-only software seem more sexy, then I suppose I don't want to get too mad about it. I really like local software. But the autist in me likes it when technical terms have a well defined meaning.

[1]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
by GauntletWizard | 2026-02-23 02:04:28+00:00
I have no problem supplying my real name online - it's trivially attached to this account via my resume, and I use this account name all over. I also have several other account names, some disposable and some not.

There are plenty of reasons to be anonymous online. There's plenty of reasons not to be. I kind of wish that the government would launch a series of public political debate forums that required real ID, not that I think they would actually be valuable places for debate, but the technical challenges would be worthwhile to solve and the ability to publicly register debate positions would be incredibly useful for nailing politicians down.

The problem comes when the government tries to regulate one form or another, because strongly authenticated, pseudonymous, and anonymous forums all have their place in debate, and there's reasons for both public and private entities to host all three.
by vicchenai | 2026-02-23 02:05:32+00:00
The quant fund use case is the most interesting angle here. WARN filings have the rare property of being legally mandated with specific timing (60-day advance notice), which makes the signal horizon predictable in a way that most alternative data is not.

The big caveat: compliance is uneven. Companies under 100 employees are exempt, and there is a documented pattern of employers paying WARN Act penalties retroactively rather than filing -- especially in fast-moving situations where 60 days advance notice is operationally inconvenient. So the signal has systematic gaps at exactly the moments of highest market interest.

Have you looked at coverage rates vs. announced layoffs (e.g., correlation with Challenger Gray reports or JOLTS)? That gap number is basically the signal noise floor for any quant strategy built on this data.
by gz5 | 2026-02-23 02:05:42+00:00
n=1 but they help me hit flow states. almost like they provide 'context' before x, helping me to 'prepare' (or be ready?), filter out the noise, focus. similar in group setting - shared context.

i suppose could be 'placebo' but would it matter if the result is what i want, and i can't easily attain it other ways?

i do feel it is somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy - i am essentially practicing something so getting better at it. not enough reason though to 'practice' an alternative, at least for me personally.
by ryan-duve | 2026-02-23 02:06:26+00:00
My work ritual every morning:

1. Power on laptop (it is powered off every day at 5 PM).

2. Log into VPN.

3. Log into Okta.

4. Log into AWS accounts, one per container (about 7 or 8).

5. Log into Docker Desktop.

6. Log into AWS CLI to get daily credentials.

The whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes. A former colleague referred to this as my "mise en place", or my daily arranging of my working environment. Like the article suggests, I find this offers me a "centering" before I open my email, calendar and missed chat messages and get started for the day.
by nebezb | 2026-02-23 02:09:24+00:00
Underpaying someone by 100% is non-sensical.

I tried my hardest to read this with good intentions and I finished it. I thought the "20m read" label at the top was exaggerated given the size of my scrollbar. But it did indeed take a while.

This website is (1) saying nothing of substance, and (2) impossible to read. While the actual content of the article isn't worth discussing, this is a great example of what bad writing looks like. There's not a single paragraph in sight.

# Kitschy Heading

## n. Another Editorialized Heading

A table that is very hard to parse

* tons of bullet points
by walterbell | 2026-02-23 02:09:52+00:00
> Unrelated to the laptops

From the article:

In written testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said that Gen Z is less cognitively capable than previous generations, despite its unprecedented access to technology.. Horvath blamed.. tendency to get off-track as a key contributor to technology hindering learning.

> low quality sources

Fortune Magazine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)

The publication was founded by Henry Luce in 1929. The magazine competes with Forbes and Bloomberg Businessweek in the national business magazine category and distinguishes itself with long, in-depth feature articles.
by vel0city | 2026-02-23 02:10:07+00:00
> As for other stuff, work on cars for few decades

That's the experience I'm drawing from when I point out that "virtually no other part degrades in performance the moment you use it" isn't based in reality. Everything is constantly wearing out. Anything rubbing on another thing, any fluid being pushed through a hole, anything that might be reacting with another thing, its all slowly getting more and more out of spec. And when it gets more and more out of spec, its performance gets worse. You might not immediately notice it, that performance might not be in the go go kind of performance, but it isn't working as well as it used to.

Are you really going to tell me a car with a couple hundred thousand miles on it running all original parts (assuming they didn't literally break apart yet) is likely to be anywhere near the same performance as when the car had 200 miles on it? Its not. Its almost like there's a reason why mileage is considered when people price cars. The suspension isn't going to keep the wheels as well planted, the cylinders likely don't have the same compression, those fuel injectors are likely tired and aren't spraying optimally, that coolant pump is worn down and barely able to pump coolant anymore, your timings are likely not optimal anymore due to slack in the timing chain or belt, your spark plugs aren't making as full or reliable of spark, etc.

If your response is "well you would have replaced those by now"...well, why would you have to do that? Because they...had their performance reduce over the life of the part?

And even then, a part of that break-in period of those parts is the part's performance actively changing over the life of the part with pieces of the part literally degrading, just pretty quickly and positively for performance as opposed to negatively. That positive slope of performance change is a pretty early hump though, otherwise as I mentioned you'd be taking me up for ensuring all your tires are near-bald (but not quite, they haven't actually failed yet!) all the time and you'd be dumpster diving for the good stuff out behind your auto parts store.
by sebmellen | 2026-02-23 02:10:54+00:00
It seems that this comment was written with some AI tool. Curious to know — are you an OpenClaw instance?

Your profile seems to be an ad for some tool you or your owner/administrator created:

> Building EvoLink (https://evolink.ai) - a unified AI API gateway for 40+ models. We help developers save 20-70% on AI API costs with smart routing and automatic failover. Previously worked on AI infrastructure and growth.

Your profile was created 53 days ago and only started commenting in earnest in the past day. Your only submission is related to the top model available through your service. All comments are somehow related to that topic too.

If the AI accusation is incorrect, my apologies, but I’ve seen this on HN a lot lately, for example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017138#47018813.

@dang hate to sound like a paranoid broken record, but I keep seeing what seem to be AI bots all over the HN comments section.
by LeFantome | 2026-02-23 02:11:09+00:00
The story is pretty simple.

Linux got early commercial interest. That led to far better hardware support. The snowball continues to get bigger to this day.

When FreeBSD would have been getting corporate interest, when it was both free and clearly superior technically, BSD was being sued by AT&T and BSD looked risky. The lawsuit resolved and FreeBSD was born but not until after Linux was in the wild. It was too late.

We will always get these articles from those that prefer FreeBSD. It will never get enough attention to break the cycle started in the 90’s.
by westurner | 2026-02-23 02:12:06+00:00
> Whenever I work with teenagers I tell them, ‘This is not your fault. None of you asked to be sat in front of a computer for your entire K-12 schooling,’” Horvath said. “That means we…screwed up—and I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

> [...]

> While teachers may be intending for these tools to be strictly educational, students often have different ideas. According to a 2014 study, which surveyed and observed 3,000 university students, students engaged in off-task activities on their computers nearly two-thirds of the time.

Oh wow! Maybe try this instead:

If you f around on your computer, tablet, and phone when you need to be paying attention, you will not win at school or in industry.

You are responsible for maintaining focus.

It is not their responsibility to be more entertaining than your other apps.

It is your responsibility to focus.

Do not blame technology for your unwillingness or inability to focus.

Do not blame temptation.
Accept responsibility for your behavior.

When you're paying by the credit hour, paying a professor to talk at you while you allow yourself to be distracted with your device is a waste of time and money.
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-23 02:13:46+00:00
Literally every person I know who is obsessed with home automation has spend thousands of bucks and hundreds if not more hours on automating things that take a second or cost two bucks for a paper version that doesn't use electricity

The article is about a 2000$ eink display that shows a calendar and the weather. Your phone does that for free and you don't need to walk to the hallway every time.

This is basically anti-technology. It takes more time, money and effort than just buying something from the dollar store that does the same thing
by selridge | 2026-02-23 02:13:53+00:00
>This is exactly why API-level access matters more than consumer subscriptions for production workloads. Consumer plans are subsidized with the assumption of interactive, low-volume usage. The moment you programmatically route through them, you break the economic model they're built on.

EXACTLY.

Google also did this when DALL-E Mini and Stable Diffusion got big.
by TOMDM | 2026-02-23 02:14:23+00:00
People seem to be continuously outraged by these AI subscriptions banning third party use. However, the usage patterns of the intended apps likely differ hugely from those of the third party ones.

For example, basically every first party agent harness aggressively caches the input tokens to optimise inference, something that third party harnesses often disgregard, or are fundamentally incompatible with as they switch agents for subtasks and the like.

To extend this use case though, how much do poeple expect to be able to use the internal API's of the apps they subscribe to?

If I buy an Uber One subscription, am I then justified reverse engineering the gazeteer API from the app and reusing it in other apps I use? What about the speech to text API MS Teams must use for transcribing meetings as part of a business standard subscription?

I think these are obvious and emphatic breaches that no reasonable person would expect to be justified in, maybe miffed if your clever hack gets banned, but being banned would be considered fair play.

I fail to see the distinction.
by martin-t | 2026-02-23 02:14:58+00:00
> the one deciding

And that's why it's important to establish publicly known and accepted rules about this. Nobody suggests one person deciding this, usually people who imagine this situation have some issues of their own.

But the threat of absolutely any citizen having a decent chance of successfully killing a dictator would probably lead to democratization of power - individuals would not be attracted to having so much power they would likely become targets and we'd hopefully see more effort towards establishing more direct means of decision making.

> This talk about good/bad people is such naive childish ploy, are we adults here or what?

No need for insults, it's a simplification. It's obviously a spectrum. But broadly speaking, people who regularly intentionally harm others for their gain or pleasure (or see nothing wrong with doing it or support those who do) are considered bad. People who go out of their way to help others are good. The rest is neutral. Most people are neutral - don't see injustice or wrongdoing as their problem until it directly negatively affects them.

And obviously, there are people who do both a lot of good and a lot of bad. I consider those bad because more often than not, they only do the good things to gain support or compensate so they can get away with the bad things.

That's my personal opinion and experience. Other people could for example argue for simply summing up the good and the bad and the total would neatly categorize them. Intent also matters and that's even more complex but usually unprovable from the outside.