MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NietzscheanNull | 2026-02-26 00:06:49+00:00
> [...] a lot of young founders here seem to have since embraced a punishing work culture — the 996 ethos. What are your thoughts about what’s happening?

> I kind of love it, honestly. I think Silicon Valley got really lazy during COVID

Honest question: is this the type of culture that anyone outside of VC actually wants?

Do a majority (or a significant plurality) of people support this infinite-grind mentality, and if so, to what end? It's framed in the context of a "race" with China, but all I see is a race to the bottom. What prize do we win if we beat China in this "race"? What is the goal here, who benefits from achieving the goal, and what purpose does it serve? (Aside from enriching a handful of VCs and executives, that is.)
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-26 00:06:57+00:00
The most important two words in this article are the last two: for now.

Indeed, for now generative models generate triangle soup without much thought. The same was true for 2D illustrations where generative models like Deep Dream came up with horrendous images with eyes all over, dogs with multitudes of heads and oh did I mention the eyes? That was about 10 years ago. Things changed, models improved, the eyes were tamed. Yes, people had too many or too few fingers but that also changed. From nightmare fuelling imagery with many-eyed dog heads sticking out where you don't want them to fully animated hi-res video only took a decade and things are still speeding up. The triangle soup of current 3D generative models is like the eye soup of Deep Dream, something to remember somewhat fondly which is no longer relevant now.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-26 00:07:01+00:00
Every time I look at a city/county budget, the schools absolutely dwarf everything else (it's not quick to disentangle different levels of government, but roughly speaking, it seems like schools are usually roughly the same cost as all other services combined where I've looked), which makes it hard for me to take seriously the idea that it's infrastructure like roads and sewage specifically leading to unsustainable budgets. e.g. if I remember correctly, special ed programs cost more than roads when I looked at the previous metro I lived in's budget, and sewers were revenue neutral with a county sewer fee.

Strongtowns seems a bit motivated in their analysis, to put it mildly.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-26 00:07:26+00:00
Can you name a hospital in Israel that doesn't have an IDF presence?

"Presence" is an incredibly vague claim. In order to attack a hospital, you have to prove that the enemy is actively shooting at you from it, and your attack has to be proportionate. Vaguely asserting that some enemy might have set foot in the hospital at some point does not give you carte blanche to blow up a hospital full of civilians. Yet that's exactly what Israel has done over and over again.
by pixelpoet | 2026-02-26 00:07:59+00:00
Over the last few months to year I've noticed haaaardcore influx of random accounts created seconds before posting some divisive or incendiary comment, as well as general "shifting sands" feeling like the HN of old is getting manipulated a lot. The Claw thing feels like another such instance.

Unfortunately the time of not being able to trust anything on the internet seems to have finally arrived :/
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-26 00:08:07+00:00
> Point to point transportation is often slower and less convenient if buses and public transit is done right.

Only if you're also intentionally making point-to-point worse.

Note that I'm not comparing to "get in your own car and drive", which has the disadvantage of having to park. I'm comparing the ideal taxi-shaped thing to the ideal bus-and-tram-and-train-shaped thing.
by slg | 2026-02-26 00:08:21+00:00
Your opinion of the US is too high.

>Israel, by contrast, systematically murdered civilians,

I'm not willing to ignore the US's propensity for bombing weddings.[1][2][3][4][5]

>journalists

Or the notorious Collateral Murder strikes.[6]

> starved a civilian population with impunity and with government intent

I already hit on this with the mentioning of Gaza's population density and the mechanics of war. Gaza is much smaller and denser which means that the same bomb dropped there will kill more people and destroy more infrastructure than in Iraq or Afghanistan. That has caused a larger percentage of the arable land in Gaza to be destroyed and they already had less of it to begin with. This had made them more reliant on Israel. The US simply didn't have the opportunity to control the food supply in the same way and I'm not willing to categorize a lack of opportunity as evidence of a lack of intent. And despite that all, the long tail of the US's actions still has led to a food crisis.[7]

>Just read the reprehensible words of some of the current Israeli cabinet. Not some radical fringe, but the actual Israeli cabinet.... The current "administration" is a disgusting body, and the Zionist ideology, in its current form, is an absurd, preposterous ideology which gives birth to a population who dehumanise their "enemy" in exactly the same way as the Nazis dehumanised the Jews

If we're talking "reprehensible words" and dehumanization, it hasn't even been two weeks since a US congressperson said that Muslims were below dogs. The US has the benefit of two extra decades of hindsight and many still haven't learned the lesson you're discussing.[8].

I genuinely think you should read through some of this[9]. It sounds like it might open your eyes to the US's actual record of behavior.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airs...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haska_Meyna_wedding_party_airs...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massa...

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruzgan_wedding_bombing

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Radda_airstrike

[6] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstri...

[7] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_hunger_crisi...

[8] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Fine#Muslims

[9] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#War_o...
by standardUser | 2026-02-26 00:08:31+00:00
> The permitting and regulatory process is so extremely hostile that even when you want to and are able to do so safely and without emissions, it’s impossible.

This didn't occur in a vacuum. Business interests and their aligned politicians fought successfully for a century for their freedom to destroy human health and life in pursuit of profit. Many died, many were injured and countless more had their lifespans cut short. There's obviously legitimate concerns about over-regulation, but concerns about corporate abuse of power are just as legitimate if not more so based on the history. And it's not unopposed either, but most of the backlash in California has centered on housing construction and occupational licensing - not the rights of investors to build new industrial facilities in a post-industrial state.
by vintagedave | 2026-02-26 00:08:39+00:00
Just to update, the "Of course it is!" bug is now fixed, same with the 'horrible people' one. Thankyou very much for that :)

The note on language getting weird -- yeah. We hope that by keeping it up to date, we can be as far (or close to it) as language changes. I agree: that trend is concerning.
by CGamesPlay | 2026-02-26 00:08:49+00:00
This is untrue. Subpoenas, wiretapping, and other extrajudicial means can be stopped by legislation that bans them. You can't say in one breath that legislation that enables it (Patriot Act) cannot be undone by more legislation. There are many hurdles required to produce the required legislation, which may not even be broadly supported by the public, but it isn't correct to say "no amount of legislation can stop existing legislation".
by kylenessen | 2026-02-26 00:09:04+00:00
This seems like really great research, and the first time I’ve seen overwhelming praise on HN. Congrats!

I wanted to comment though that your title is not doing you any favors, and I suspect that is why this is not getting more traction (which it deserves). I fully expected some half baked GitHub repo, but instead found something truly awesome.

To use your own words, Neel, “ a very different type of computer use model” would have had me clicking faster. I’m not great at titles, however, and maybe there are better ideas out there.

Anyway, can’t wait to see how this develops! Especially looking forward to the CAD work.
by mothballed | 2026-02-26 00:09:08+00:00
Of course. And the goal in part is to enrich prior entrants and also to create massive unearned gains for them by printing a license for something no one else can have. This explains a lot of the housing prices writ large -- boomers and others who own houses that are grandfathered in via various regulations that let them build for cheap but not you, and making a new one has to be done at much higher regulations, basically printing money for those grandfathered in without them having to do anything but add regulations that apply to everyone else but them.
by mkprc | 2026-02-26 00:09:17+00:00
A counter comment: I'll bet many folks didn't know what an em-dash was until the whole "you can tell it's AI because of the em-dashes" thing. Then everyone learned what an em-dash is, and every pause in every sentence thereafter suddenly deserves an em-dash. While I suspect it's mostly bots, the number of sincere (human) new em-dashers isn't negligible.
by astrange | 2026-02-26 00:09:24+00:00
Oh yeah, they don't know what "transparent" means. Most of them generate the Photoshop checkerboard background. They also don't know "upside-down".

There isn't much R&D going into image models and what you're getting is scraps from labs that care more about other things. NBP is the closest to a reasoning image generator we have.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-26 00:09:41+00:00
I agree but I fail to see how bad water infrastructure that allows poop to get into the water supply in Mexico has anything to do with this topic. Nobody is arguing that you should be able to spew cancer causing chemicals into the air. It is possible to do all these industrial processes responsibly. It just costs more to do it. So either you can allow businesses to do these things with reasonable amounts of regulation locally or you can prevent those businesses (what CA does) and import these products made somewhere where they won't follow your regulations. And since pollution notoriously doesn't honor borders, perhaps its best not to use simplistic scarecrow arguments and instead have a nuanced understanding of the topic. But don't let me stop your partisan hackery, I'm sure you enjoy it.
by hinkley | 2026-02-26 00:09:55+00:00
The problem they were trying to solve was multiple inheritance, and by nominal type not by code reuse. So interfaces, basically.

So these guys essentially assigned a hashcode to every function of every interface and then you would do dispatch instead of obj.vtable[12] you would do modular math x = singature.hash % len(obj.vtable) and call that.

I believe this was sometime around 2005-2008 and they found that it was fast enough on hardware of that era to be usable.
by rmunn | 2026-02-26 00:09:56+00:00
> You beat [GPU] scalpers by going to Micro Center. They’ll only sell them in store and they check ID to make sure you don’t buy them more than once every 30 days.

That didn't even occur to me, but that's why, when I went to Micro Center to buy a Raspberry Pi, they had a limit of one per customer. I asked the employee helping me about the limit, because I was thinking of buying four Pis to build a small Kubernetes cluster for my homelab. He said if I was buying four Pis, that would probably be fine, just let them know ahead of time. I figured they were trying to keep them in-stock to match demand; the idea of scalpers just didn't occur to me. Of course, GPUs are in way higher demand than Pis.
by lenkite | 2026-02-26 00:10:06+00:00
It is certainly perceptibly slow. Carried out a test on my 12 year old PC running Win-10 vs a new HP Win11 laptop of my friend which he bought in a hurry before price increases. Opened a directory of several thousand files with nested folders - much slower at navigation. Much slower at opening right-click menus. Much slower at pretty much everything.

M$ has now introduced web-latency into the desktop along with their adoption of web-tech into the OS. You gotta get used to staring at that spinning blue circle, counting the many precious moments of your life draining away.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-02-26 00:10:54+00:00
Ok, but curb cuts also positively impact wheelchair users, people with canes or walkers, people with injuries that require crutches or a knee scooter, parents with strollers, people with rolling bags, cyclists, delivery workers and more. They are widely understood to benefit many many people beyond just people with disabilities (so much so that their benefit has given a name to the "curb cut effect").

Also, $60k/year is a) not nearly enough to pay a contractor full time living wage and b) not enough to cover the greater than full time necessary to assist someone. Blind people need to navigate the world at all hours on all days...
by billyxp74 | 2026-02-26 00:11:12+00:00
You think your data is yours.

But is it really?

If your AI runs in the cloud – Microsoft, Google, AWS – here's what you need to know:

The US CLOUD Act (2018) allows US authorities to demand access to your data, even if it's stored in Europe. Even if it violates GDPR.

In 2025, the General Manager of Microsoft France testified under oath before the French Senate:
"I cannot guarantee that French citizens' data is safe from US authorities."

Google, Amazon and Salesforce said the same.

Storing data in an EU data centre is not enough.
If the provider is a US company – US law follows the data.

---

This is why I built GO-GATE with 100% on-premise as the core principle.

Your AI. Your hardware. Your country. Your laws.

No cloud required for the core.
No foreign jurisdiction over your data.
No backdoors you didn't build yourself.

GO-GATE gives AI agents clear boundaries:
Low risk → Auto-approved
Medium risk → Verified first
High risk (sharing data, deleting records) → YOU approve from your phone

Full audit trail. Always.

Built in Norway • Apache 2.0 • Open Source
github.com/billyxp74/go-gate

Where does your organisation's AI run?
Do you know who has access to that data?
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-26 00:11:14+00:00
There's potentially an even better option than the I6 layout: opposed piston I3 2 stroke. Same number of power pulses per rev as I6 4 stroke, no valves, no cylinder heads. It seems that these guys solved the oil loss problem and by using 2 injectors and some awesome combustion modeling they've been able to beat emissions standards without after treatment: https://achatespower.com
Show HN: I built an LLM comment detector for HN (I got banned)
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-26 00:11:17+00:00
Got banned from HN a few days ago for LLM posting. i honestly deserved it. 100+ comments in a few days, that's just abusive.

I have RSI so I use voice and LLM to type. Dictate my thoughts, model shapes the sentences. I got lazy about where the line was and automated too much.

After getting unbanned I went through all the comments dang has flagged for LLM posting over the years(https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and looked for patterns. Some are obvious, some surprised me:

- curly/typographic quotes (“ ” instead of " ") or even ’ vs ' (that’s is LLM, that's is human)

- humans typing in a browser text box produce straight ASCII. finding curly quotes in a plain HN comment means the text was generated elsewhere and pasted in

- exactly 3 paragraphs of 1-2 sentences each - extremely common LLM output shape

- examples always come in threes - "for example, X, Y, and Z"

- → arrows and — em dashes (sometimes replaced with - en dashes to evade detection)

- overly sycophantic openers - "great point", "this is really interesting" before saying anything

- fake personal framing - "in practice I've found..." immediately followed by a generic claim

Built a detector around these + some heavier signals (TF-IDF cosine similarity across a user's comment history, optional
Anthropic/OpenAI LLM pass). You can paste any HN comment URL/ID or just raw text and see what fires

I ran my own banned comments through it. They score 70-85. Sounds about right.

https://hn-bot-detector.vercel.app/

gh: https://github.com/umairnadeem/hn-bot-detector

I wrote this post myself btw
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-26 00:11:26+00:00
The claim that aluminum anodizing is "banned in California" because of the sulfuric acid waste it produces is patently absurd. There are no shortage of labs, factories, and more in California that use sulfuric acid, and they all figure out how to dispose of their waste without going "fuck it, YOLO it into the river".
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-26 00:11:27+00:00
The Israelis could be Shinto or Sikh, and it would make no difference at all to the Palestinians.

The Palestinians just care that foreigners came in and took over their land.

By casting this as the Palestinians hating "the Jews," you're trying to frame the conflict as just another example of antisemitism. The Palestinians get cast in the role of the Nazis, and the Israelis get to pretend they're the victims of antisemitism.

The actual situation is completely flipped. The Israelis exercise military rule over the Palestinians and subject them to an apartheid system, not the other way around.
by rbliss | 2026-02-26 00:11:47+00:00
I've been following Sam for awhile, his business model makes heavy use of outsourcing production of components to skilled partners. It's no sweat off him if he makes the Impulse stove in California or not.

His point is that it's impossible to manufacture much of anything in California if you aren't grandfathered in. Seems pretty important for economic and security issues.

The electric induction cooktop he and his team has made is pretty cool! I'd check it out.
by verdverm | 2026-02-26 00:12:01+00:00
There are a couple of extra steps to be made to get to the root of it (openclaw)

How many new accounts are submitting github links as their first post?

How many new accounts include a first comment that is copied from the other side of the link?

Look at the timings between first commit, last commit, and account creation. Many happen in quick succession and in this order. Fastest I've seen so far is 25m from first commit to first post on HN, with account creation in between.
by hinkley | 2026-02-26 00:12:17+00:00
As I just mentioned in another reply, the problem they were trying to solve was hierarchies where it makes sense for a group of types to be constructed by the combination of two or three narrowly scoped interfaces.

For instance, if you treat some collections as read only, you can define comprehensions across them with a single implementation. But that means the mutators have to be contained in another type, which a subset will implement, and may have covariant inputs.
by itishappy | 2026-02-26 00:12:24+00:00
Totally agree, but that's not a justification. "We already do a thing you don't like so you won't mind if we do it lot more, right?"

The same talking points still apply to cell phones. I think people who record TikToks in public are similarly gross and I go out of my way to avoid them.

I watched a guy setup a cell phone to record his laps in a pool yesterday. He swam one lap right about a meter from the 15 year-old girl playing with her mom, then climbed out of the pool, shut off his phone, and walked away. The remainder of the pool was open. Should I have called him out? I couldn't decide, and therefore didn't. This is normal now.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-26 00:12:34+00:00
> If you could have gotten the same result with any input, or with /dev/random, then effectively no useful information was encoded in the input.

It's not that the input contained useful information—obviously it does not—it's that it's causing the output to be more random, and thus more "creative".

Without the gibberish, "generate a random game" would likely repeatedly surface high-probability concepts—platformers, space shooters, tower defense—whatever sits near the top of the model's prior distribution for "game." The gibberish forces the model through its approximate-string-matching, landing on concepts like "frog" that it would almost never reach otherwise.
by bogzz | 2026-02-26 00:12:55+00:00
It just blew my mind! I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at all, JS was written for manipulating the DOM but I was NOT expecting a cool terminal style with a typing/Matrix-style transition animation from some of the first webpages ever.

My brain even ascribed a CRT distortion effect to it, even though that's not actually happening.

edit: okay, no, I am an idiot. Those pages were made in 2013:

https://line-mode.cern.ch/
by eldavido | 2026-02-26 00:13:19+00:00
Vincent - nice work on this, there's clearly a good kernel of insight here, and I can tell you've been at this a couple years.

I completed a (rather large) contract to reverse-engineer, and eventually rebuild, a hotel chain's property management system from scratch from 2015-2018. We did it all: keycard integration, booking channel sync, credit cards, group bookings, yield management, front-desk GUI, supply management, taking rooms into/out of service, reservation migration from old system to new...you name it, we probably touched it. Dozens of small lessons about the lodging (and broader hospitality i.e. restaurants, country clubs, bars) business domain.

One thing is that hotel = brand (flag) + real estate + operations. You can remix those things in a lot of different ways, e.g. a single ownership group might have two properties on opposite sides of a street, one Hyatt the other Hilton, and they might look different but share staff, or procurement.

The industry's term for brand -- "flag" -- says a lot about how they view Hilton/Hyatt. They come and go, even if the staff running the property stays the same. The main reason hotels choose to flag vs. stay independent, is access to the chain's booking flow.

One of the more interesting consequences of this setup, is that small, independent hotels, are kind of a shit show in terms of technology. Chains generally require a lot of standardization of their member properties, including what software they run to manage the property. Many properties that don't affiliate with a chain don't have any property management system at all. It's basically 10-20 rooms run directly off the moral equivalent of an Excel sheet at the front desk. And why wouldn't it be--small boutique hotels often gross $1-2 million/year; there isn't budget for expensive enterprise software, or maybe more critically, the people who know how to deploy and operate it.

A significant value-add of Expedia and booking.com, especially with independent properties, is getting the supply (hotel) side of the market organized. Many of these hotels outsource their entire reservation tracking system to a single channel (e.g. booking.com) because trying to keep track of bookings across phone, direct web, Expedia, booking.com, and others, is just too hard without specialist software that requires more IT muscle to deploy than a single non-chain hotel can muster.

I mention this because I go to church every Sunday and was thinking about how much real estate churches have (event halls) that sit unused, and what a schlep it would be -- although good for everyone -- to expose the collective supply of the world's churches, HOAs, park districts, and other nonprofits, to the kind of events you're trying to do. It would indeed be a tremendous pain in the ass to get all the physical access (keys), contract terms, payment systems, availability, etc ironed out, but it's a massively underused class of real estate and many of these organizations could really use the cash.