MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-25 03:34:18+00:00
Fwiw @dicklesworthstone / jeff Emanuel is definitely my favorite dragon rider right now, doing the most with AI, to the most effect.

Their agent mail was great & very early in agent orchestration. Code agent search is amazing & will tell you what's happening in every harness. Their Franktui is a ridiculously good rust tui. They have project after project after project after project and they are all so good.

Didn't know they had a rust Pi. Nice.
by twoodfin | 2026-02-25 03:34:26+00:00
The number Matt’s quoting doesn’t include AWS, AFAICT. It’s “North American segment” revenue in AMZN accounting. AWS is accounted separately as a global unit.

Though now that I write that, I wonder if Matt divided by the total number of North American households or the number of US ones.

EDIT: Amazon North American segment revenue divided by aggregate North American household count is roughly $2,300. But I’m guessing the real number is closer to Matt’s estimate as US households are wealthier and likely represent a disproportionate fraction of that revenue.
Ask HN: Is the offline user SaaS more profitable than online startups?
by vinzdg | 2026-02-25 03:34:35+00:00
Dear HN,

i currently feeling stuck with my own choice choosing whether to stick to the SAAS like a POS app that focused on offline business user or online SAAS such as tools for startups, freelancer, or onlines environmental business.

I'd really appreciate insights from founders who've faced a similar decision.
by closeparen | 2026-02-25 03:34:44+00:00
The corporate security theater that kills me is insisting that everyone tap their badge on the reader next to an already-open door. Even in the presence of a guard, this merely ensures that everyone passing through the open door has some object, plausibly badge-shaped, to hold near the reader. Essentially any NFC card will make it beep. Only a valid credential will actuate the lock, but the door is already open, and the click is too subtle for its absence to alarm anyone.

There is a device you can deploy if you're serious about ensuring that every single individual in a moving crowd has a valid credential... a turnstile! Assuming you've calculated the appropriate number of them for the expected traffic flow.
by discarded1023 | 2026-02-25 03:36:10+00:00
If we're going down that path: Ehud Shapiro got there back in 1984 [1]. His PhD thesis is excellent and shows what logic programming could do (/could have been).

He viewed the task of learning predicates (programs/relations) as a debugging task. The magic is in a refinement operator that enumerates new programs. The diagnostic part was wildly insightful -- he showed how to operationalise Popper's notion of falsification. There are plenty of more modern accounts of that aspect but sadly the learning part was broadly neglected.

There are more recent probabilistic accounts of this approach to learning from the 1990s.

... and if you want to go all the way back you can dig up Gordon Plotkin's PhD thesis on antiunification from the early 1970s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_program_debugging
by crazygringo | 2026-02-25 03:36:59+00:00
> I waited in line for at least 30 minutes just to make it to the lobby... Scanning was already slow, you had to wait to be approved. But once you passed the turnstile, there was another line for the elevators.

I'm baffled. I've worked in multiple buildings with turnstiles. There's never been a line. They take about a second to scan. Is this just some horrible broken implementation?

I get why they're used. They protect randos from walking in and stealing stuff. It's not about "feeling" secure. When you have someone make off with 10 laptops, it's actual security. And that's before you start worrying about more serious threats that come from plugging in USB keys...
by analog31 | 2026-02-25 03:37:01+00:00
This has always seemed like a paradox to me. Once I got past the initial learning curve, coding seemed easy and fun. But most people can't or won't get past that learning curve, for reasons that I don't think we understand.

But if coding were hard, then writing small pieces of code would be as hard as writing big pieces. To make an analogy, playing the violin in tune doesn't get any easier, the shorter the piece that you have to play.

Developing software is hard. Some sort of "phase transition" occurs when a project gets big and complex, where coding is no longer what makes it hard. And writing software in a way that is not a net burden to a project or organization is hard, involving not just complexity but humanity. Most smart people in an organization have subtly arranged their affairs so that their career progress doesn't hinge on the success of a software project.

I admit that I only say these things as an observer, since I can code all day, but didn't pursue a software development career.

I also admit that I'm waiting for AI to handle the second two levels of software development. I'll concede that AI can develop software when The Mythical Man Month no longer reads like it was written yesterday.
by tbrownaw | 2026-02-25 03:37:11+00:00
> committed to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee in advance that the company’s safety measures were adequate

That doesn't even make sense.

What stops one model from spouting wrongthink and suicide HOWTOs might not work for a different model, and fine-tuning things away uses the base model as a starting point.

You don't know the thing's failure modes until you've characterized it, and for LLMs the way you do that is by first training it and then exercising it.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-25 03:37:23+00:00
He stopped playing video games, presumably in part because of this event. [1] Many, if not most of us, would instead just let our professional life dip a bit and try to roll back the gaming a bit. Going completely cold turkey is a person with a special sort of dedication and ethic.

[1] - https://archive.is/dIpCu
by PostOnce | 2026-02-25 03:37:30+00:00
Their side of the story is that they want to flag people as "too risky to be allowed to use AI"?

There's a problem here, right? Who else might want to flag you and lock you out of shit? Is this the new normal?

Will they flag Republicans / Democrats / Catholics / Buddhists / People Of Any Particular Skintone / People with Blue Shoes Who Are Exactly 5'9 / ????

The corporations are out of control. We should bring them to heel.

We should also resist and refuse to comply with these totally arbitrary requests we don't have to comply with.
by estsauver | 2026-02-25 03:39:12+00:00
Do you guys all think you'll be able to convert open source models to diffusion models relatively cheaply ala the d1 // LLaDA series of papers? If so, that seems like an extremely powerful story where you get to retool the much, much larger capex of open models into high performance diffusion models.

(I can also see a world where it just doesn't make sense to share most of the layers/infra and you diverge, but curious how you all see the approach.)
by no_news_is | 2026-02-25 03:39:13+00:00
From https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wr...

"While support for pretty shipped in Chrome 117, Edge 177, and Opera 103 in Fall 2023, and Samsung Internet 24 in 2024, the Chromium version is more limited in what it accomplishes. According to an article by the Chrome team, Chromium only makes adjustments to the last four lines of a paragraph. It’s focused on preventing short last lines. It also adjusts hyphenation if consecutive hyphenated lines appear at the end of a paragraph."

The article goes on to talk about how it's up to the browser (and not necessarily permanent) about how to handle the setting, and furthermore a new
value was agreed upon to do what Chromium was doing, called "text-wrap: avoid-short-last-lines".

Here's the article on what the Chromium version does:
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-wrap-pretty/
by onecommit | 2026-02-25 03:39:16+00:00
Yes! By default, every new task runs in its own worktree. In the .emdash.json config (or in the UI on your project page), you can specify setup, run, and teardown scripts -- pnpm install, pnpm run dev, etc.

We also inject convenience env vars into every task. For example, $EMDASH_PORT gives each task a unique port, so you can do PORT=$EMDASH_PORT pnpm run dev and never collide on dev servers.

More here https://docs.emdash.sh/project-config -- does that help?
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-25 03:40:16+00:00
Agreed. I rarely find the guardrails of plan to be necessary; I basically never use it on opencode. I have some custom commands I use to ask for plan making, discussion.

As for subagents, Pi has sessions. And it has a full session tree & forking. This is one of my favorite things, in all harnesses: build the thing with half the context, then keep using that as a checkpoint, doing new work, from that same branch point. It means still having a very usable lengthy context window but having good fundamental project knowledge loaded.
by eviks | 2026-02-25 03:40:30+00:00
> Once investigators unlocked her workplace laptop, they took photos and audio recordings of the conversations in the laptop’s Signal application.

Does it not have a good alternative protection like a short password in addition to biometrics? Per conversation locks? Or was it simply not setup by the journalist?

> It first needs to be installed on your mobile device

That's been a common criticism of Spinal for years, still no fix in sight?
Show HN: AI-Native "Medicare for All" Prototype
by arionhardison | 2026-02-25 03:40:49+00:00
Medicare.dev is a fully-functional prototype of how I think an AI-native, single-payer healthcare system could work. It uses "programs" and not "plans" because I do not think plans make sense given that nobody plans on getting sick. It also uses one big market-network instead of provider networks, you can also add your own providers if you want to.

How It Works:

1. Define the Problem — A patient or provider describes a health need in natural language. Just press the mic and explain whats wrong e.g.: "I have a headache and I fell down the stairs". AI analyzes the statement, identifies underlying issues, maps stakeholders, and surfaces relevant programs, financing options, and expertise.

2. Codify the Solution — The platform auto-generates a structured care protocol: assessments, activities, challenges, follow-ups, KPI tracking, nudges, and medical orders — organized into adaptive, branching pathways that account for success and failure scenarios.

Note: ^ is sent to an actual medical provider to approve but I turned off the HITL for this step because it cost $ but its still live so providers will actually be contacted.

3. Assemble the Team — AI matches the problem to qualified specialists (physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors) and assembles a care team with role-based permissions and task assignments.

4. Execute the Program — The patient follows the protocol step-by-step, guided by a personal AI agent that answers questions, sends reminders, tracks progress, and escalates issues. If a step fails, the protocol adapts — branching to alternative pathways or looping back to redefine the problem.

5. Verify the Outcome — Results are confirmed, funds are distributed to providers, and the system closes the loop — or restarts the cycle if the original problem was misidentified.

tl;dr - AI guides you through your entire care-plan from onset to outcome.
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-02-25 03:41:05+00:00
Just because you're on Sauron's side when it wins, doesn't mean you'll be on Sauron's side at any other point in the future.

One of the things I find interesting about classifying literally any kind of trait within bounds of 'normality', and the culling / suppressing / discouragement of anything outside of that definition, is that there will just be new 'edges', and in short order these edges will be 'other', suddenly outside the definition because times are bad and it has to be someone's fault.

And so an ad infinitum until the single supreme ruler is the one entity representative of normal, atop a mountain of dead abominations.
by dang | 2026-02-25 03:41:54+00:00
This is answered in many of the past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... and the links they include. If you read some of those and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

The short answer is (1) most, but not all political stories are off topic here, (2) a certain amount of political overlap is inevitable, and (3) we try to moderate this question in a principled way, although consistency is impossible in practice. You'll find many descriptions of the principles we try to follow at the link I just mentioned.
by ranacseruet | 2026-02-25 03:42:14+00:00
Thanks for the complement.
Yeah, so as the project's readme already explains, this is motivated/influenced by use cases for users who wants lightweight setup for ther openclaw deployment(local VM/VPC) without any complex/heavy setup(TTS/STT) on their openclaw server.
As the project grows and the light-weight path is stable, media-stream support could definitely be a logical next step.

About barge-in/interruptions, we have partial support. You can look at the codebase and/or the documentations we have for architecture, research as well as what's being planned to address etc: https://github.com/ranacseruet/clawphone/tree/main/docs . Feel free to engage on the repo through issue tracking/suggestions etc.

Hope that helps. Thanks!
by crazygringo | 2026-02-25 03:43:19+00:00
Ha. Oh wow. OK, I got "implementation" to hyphenate... but only once I changed the zoom level, and only for one specific exact window width. One pixel narrower or wider, and it stopped hyphenating.

So hyphenation exists in theory, but I'm just going to go ahead and say that however it's tuned seems completely broken.
by adrianwaj | 2026-02-25 03:43:49+00:00
"If you are being targeted even the Rasperry Pi you just ordered might be compromised."

Is that like owning a car and having some third-party (who?) remotely cut the brake cable because the manufacturer fitted that "feature" in stealth? Or maybe they did something more benign (ie disable car speakers) just as a reminder as to "who is the boss?"
by estsauver | 2026-02-25 03:44:07+00:00
I think the fast inference options have historically been only marginally more expensive then their slow cousins. There's a whole set of research about optimal efficiency, speed, and intelligence pareto curves. If you can deliver even an outdated low intelligence/old model at high efficiency, everyone will be interested. If you can deliver a model very fast, everyone will be interested. (If you can deliver a very smart model, everyone is obviously the most interested, but that's the free space.)

But to be clear, 1000 tokens/second is WAY better. Anthropic's Haiku serves at ~50 tokens per second.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-25 03:44:32+00:00
> The features which are being exploited to implement this are indeed advances.

The specific way it became Turing complete seems more accidental than anything. We could have had pretty much the same features without the same --var handling.

> You’re missing my point. Nobody is actually suggesting replacing JS with CSS, but many new CSS features eliminate the need to use JS to accomplish what you need in terms of behavior or style.

I'm also talking about replacing specific things. But none of the specific things done in this article are easier in CSS than in JS.

If you're talking about different posts about CSS, I haven't seen those ones.
by mcoliver | 2026-02-25 03:45:39+00:00
Code was the easy part for people who wrote code day in day out with very strictly defined requirements. But even for someone like me that's been doing it for 30 years...new frameworks, languages, architectures, wiring up 3rd party apis, banging my head because I fat fingered something, greping debug logs, late nights, early mornings and lots of coffee. There were few times where I would call it "easy". I just ideated and built an app optimized for mobile and laptop, and deployed it globally in two hours and built a Roku companion app in a couple nights after the kids went to bed. I had never built a Roku app before and am pleased with the polish for something that went from an idea to launch in two hours.

Yes I have 30 years of experience and there were still areas that were not easy but man it was fun. Writing the code, building and deploying product is easier than it was before by a huge margin.

Skicamslive.con if you're wondering what I built. Feedback welcome
by taurath | 2026-02-25 03:46:02+00:00
> 1. Average American spends THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR year at Amazon.

Where else would americans be getting home goods like soap, appliances, electronics? Vitamins, perscriptions, etc?

The answer to almost every one of those, for the vast majority of Americans, is one of like 5 megacorps. Target, Walmart, Kroger, CVS, Amazon. Things have largely stopped being available retail because of all this consolidation. If I want to go buy a multivitamin, its no joke like $25 a bottle at my grocery store, and $8 on amazon. It is just kinda... a part of people's lives now, and the alternatives all involve either spending more money or time.
by estsauver | 2026-02-25 03:46:19+00:00
For what it's worth, most people already are doing this! Some of the subagents in Claude Code (Explore, I think even compaction) default to Haiku and then you have to manually overwrite it with an env variable if you want to change it.

Imagine the quality of life upgrade of getting compaction down to a few second blip, or the "Explore" going 20 times faster! As these models get better, it will be super exciting!
by dang | 2026-02-25 03:46:20+00:00
I can't remember virtually anything - this is not a joke - having one's brain be sandblasted by the firehose every day turns memory into a dodgy thing (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). I believe there have been some, though not as many. That's largely a function of the submission feed, i.e. which articles the community submits, upvotes, or flags. All we can do is respond case-by-case, and we try to do that in a principled way. The principles we apply (or try to) have been explained many times and can be found via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... and links from those comments.

If you feel like the submission feed and/or the moderation decisions on top of it are biased, all I can tell you is that everyone feels that way, especially on any topic they are passionate about. You needn't look far for examples of commenters complaining that we're suppressing and censoring the Gaza story - there are some in this thread.

What I feel a lot more confident talking about, in terms of balanced moderation, is the comments. We've moderated, warned, and banned many accounts for breaking the site guidelines while posting anti-Israeli (and sometimes even anti-semitic) comments, and we'll continue to do that. That's something we take very seriously, and of course, we do the same the other way round as well.
by cjmoran | 2026-02-25 03:46:30+00:00
I have an even more radical solution. The real root of the problem is that we use this "money" concept to represent value. If money didn't exist there wouldn't be any reason to steal, hack, or scam.

What do we replace it with? Haha, idk man. How about water? More difficult to hoard in ridiculous quantities, better spend it before it evaporates, and it occasionally falls from the sky (UBI). That's what I call a liquid asset!
by tolerance | 2026-02-25 03:48:36+00:00
> “We desperately need to understand what the baseline of human flatulence patterns are,” says Brantley Hall, the study’s principal researcher at UMD. Hall is also co-founder of Ventoscity, a startup launched to commercialize the sensor. “It’s 2026 and we don’t know how many times the average American is farting every day.”

https://archive.ph/zj3JL
Ask HN: Is Meshtastic worth it, what have you done with it?
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-25 03:48:38+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been reading up on Meshtastic, the idea seems great. But I don't have an elaborate use case in mind for it, is it useful nonetheless?

Have you had any luck, or experiences with the public channels? Is it similar to Hamradio?
by 46493168 | 2026-02-25 03:49:34+00:00
There was never a process where Arab or Muslim conquerors completely replaced the native population, they just added to it. Conversion and Arabization gradually transformed the existing population’s identity. If descent from conquerors means colonizer, then virtually no population on earth is non-colonial. Arabs in Palestine, Normans in England, Turks in Anatolia, Romans everywhere…

Colonizer status is typically attached to an event and structure, not inherited indefinitely.
by ethmarks | 2026-02-25 03:52:38+00:00
Putting aside both my age and the latency of my initial response, all that I was trying to do was correct godelski's erroneous attempted correction of sweetjuly's lighthearted joke. The "colloquial usage of zip" that godelski was chiding sweetjuly for "hyperfixating" on is exactly the usage that godelski was using in their original reply. I did not misunderstand godelski's intended use: they were using "zip" to refer to "any compression format whatsoever, be it lossy or lossless". This is a technically incorrect usage, which would be fine if not for the snarky chiding. I think that misusing a term and then accusing people of "hyperfixating" when they lightheartedly correct you isn't a particularly nice thing to do.
by motoxpro | 2026-02-25 03:52:38+00:00
I think thats a great analogy. There are a lot more people who can dictate a story page by page to a "writing machine" and create a 300 page book than there are who can write a 300 page book of a the same quality without a writing machine.

Same with coding. Most programmers, and writers, are average. They are not doing amazing work. They get paid 80-120k, same as the HR professional, or the account manager.

Creating average work was always relatively easy for writing and coding and is now relatively easy for everyone.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-25 03:52:52+00:00
As one of the naysayers who talked a lot about the original study, I enthusiastically endorse any attempt at all to actually measure AI productivity. An increase from 20% slowdown to 20% speedup over the past year seems broadly consistent with my understanding of how things have gone. I think I remain classified as a "naysayer", though, because the "booster" case has gone from "I'm multiple times more productive" to "I never have to look at code my AI agents just handle everything" over the same period.
by tolerance | 2026-02-25 03:53:29+00:00
I’m out of my element here. At least I’m speaking as an observer and not a participant of the programming language debates that I feel are less prevalent in communities like here than they are in the past. Ostensibly due to the raise of LLMs and debates about them taking up most of the programming discourse now.

I wonder if someone with real experience/insight thinks that this claim is revisionist.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-25 03:54:16+00:00
> There isnt going to be a HAL or Terminator style situation ...

I don't believe for a second we'll have an evil AI. However I do believe it's very likely we may rely on AI slop so much that we'll have countless outages with "nobody knowing how to turn the mediocrity off".

The risk ain't "super-intelligent evil AI": the risk is idiots putting even more idiotic things in charge.

And I'm no luddite: I use models daily.
by twoodfin | 2026-02-25 03:54:24+00:00
I dunno, going in with the starting assumption that Matt Stoller is innumerate and/or will twist statistics to support his otherwise specious arguments is not a terrible approach.

On the particulars of this number, he seems to be close enough, but it’s not nearly as shocking with any context: The average American household Walmart spend is comparable, Apple captures almost half that with a handful of devices and services.