MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Enginerrrd | 2026-02-26 13:36:27+00:00
I keep getting timeouts so I'm unable to test this. However, I have a suggestion:

What's really needed IMO is a drop-in tool to increase the ranking of thoughtful comments and decrease comments that drive engagement by making people angry. You need your tool to score comments on a scale for THAT. Combine that with policy mandating its use on algorithmically ranked sites for an audience above a threshold size and you have a tool to bring civility back to society. I don't think angry comments should be censured. I think they just should not be artificially amplified into everyone's feeds. While not perfect, there's a wonderful difference between hackernews comments and reddit comments and a great deal of it stems from the culture of self-moderation here.

Amplifying people with nuanced takes on things would go a long way honestly. As it stands, adversary countries are using this artificial anger amplification as a weapon, and its thus far been devastatingly effective.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-26 13:36:45+00:00
> We now have to accommodate all types of user agents, and we do that very well.

Simple websites don't even care about the UA.

> We now have complex navigation menus that cannot be accessible without JavaScript, and we do that very well.

Is there an actual menu which is more than a tree? Because a dir element that gets rendered by the UA into native menu controls would be just so much better.
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-02-26 13:36:59+00:00
That's because Google is once removed from TSMC, unlike Nvidia and Apple

Google and Broadcom are in co-design partnership (and now also MediaTek). Google defines the architecture. Broadcom provides the essential infrastructure (IP blocks) that makes the chip work on silicon and works tight with TSMC to make it happen in new nodes. Spending billions to help Broadcom get into par with Nvidia is not what they want.

Apple designs nearly the entire SoC in-house (CPU, GPU, NPU) and work with TSMC hand in hand. They buy only specific chips and block designs like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and RF.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2026-02-26 13:37:14+00:00
Are you able to tune the AI such that it guides towards liberalism and rejects postmodernism? The point of postmodernism is to problematise language and results in unwelcoming nannying like the example above. I suspect the AI only knows to do that as a function of the pervasiveness of postmodernism and its offshoots in academia and society more broadly.
by mrob | 2026-02-26 13:37:24+00:00
PFOA is a surfactant that was previously used for emulsion polymerization of PTFE. It's not found in the finished product. It's since been replaced with other less well studied PFAS surfactants that might be less dangerous or might not, which seems to me an example of bad regulation. It would make more sense to regulate disposal of PFOA, which can be done safely with processes such as supercritical water oxidation.

PTFE itself is about as inert as you can get, assuming it's not overheated. If you use PTFE cookwear, I recommend getting an IR thermometer so you can learn how your cooking setup responds and control the temperature properly.
by nchie | 2026-02-26 13:37:38+00:00
I use Claude for work and Codex for private use due to already having a Plus subscription.

I can't say that I have noticed that 5.3-Codex is much better, but it's definitely on par with Opus 4.6, and its limits for $25/months is comparable to Max x5 at 1/4th of the cost (not to mention pay-per-token which we use at work). Claude Code is generally a much better experience though.
Ask HN: What's Your System Prompt?
by keepamovin | 2026-02-26 13:37:41+00:00
Your default, your go-to, your thing-you-remind-yourself-of as you go through life.

While seeing this Alan Watts video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z55F_YVSaZ8), I was reminded an idea I had when I saw the Claude system prompt that leaked the other day and how people were relating the different iterations of it to changes in Claude's personality. The idea was that probably many of us run something analogous ourselves.

So, what's your system prompt?
by kylem866 | 2026-02-26 13:37:42+00:00
Hi all,

It feels like every month a quote from Anthropic goes viral about how SWEs won't exist in the future due to AI.

I wanted to see if Anthropic is actually hiring less as a result of AI. So, I compiled a dataset of their monthly SWE job openings juxtaposed with quotes from execs about AI replacement.

The results are clear: Anthropic is claiming that SWE jobs will go away, while simultaneously hiring more SWEs than ever. Since Jan '25 their open SWE roles are up 170% and the curve is accelerating.

It's important to remember that AI companies have an incentive to claim that their tech will automate away jobs because that's what their customers/investors want to hear.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-26 13:37:45+00:00
I agree 100%. Often when I use increasingly powerful local models (qwen3.5:32b I love you) I mix in web search using search APIs from Brave, Perplexity, and DuckDuckGo summaries. Of course this requires that I use local models via small Python or Lisp scripts I write. I pay for the Lumo+ private chat service and it has excellent integrated search, like Gemini or ChatGPT.

EDIT: I have also experimented with creating a local search index for the common tech web sites I get information from - this is a pain in the ass to maintain, but offers very low latency to add search context for local model use. This is most useful with very small and fast local models so the whole experience is low latency.
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-26 13:37:51+00:00
Consuming fiber daily, e.g. psyllium husk, is another way to lower some types of PFAS from the body, although not all types of PFAS are going to mix into bile to facilitate this excretion. The way this works is that some PFAS dissolves in bile which binds to psyllium which is excreted.

Remember, 5g psyllium should be taken with 20 fl oz water, mixed and consumed immediately before it gels. Do not take it two hours before or after any medicine, and do not take it if having swallowing difficulty.
by krapp | 2026-02-26 13:37:55+00:00
You have to be something other than a "regular joe" to even know that HN exists, much less want to hang out here. This forum was designed to be repellent to any but a very specific kind of technically minded "good hacker" personality, as defined by pg. The kind of person who cares about "information density," eschews design and UX as frivolous and prefers only "technical" topics is likely not neurotypical.

And yes many people in tech are on the spectrum. I suspect that much of what's dysfunctional with SV and tech culture is the result of raising a generation of socially awkward neurodivergent kids on 4chan and making them millionaires before their frontal lobes have even fully developed. That necessarily bleeds into HN and becomes normalized within the culture as performative cynicism, misanthropy and toxicity.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-26 13:38:31+00:00
All I know is it's an infuriating experience that I basically have to speedrun through almost every single day before I can actually get work done. My Linux laptop must be over a decade old by now and it just doesn't have this problem. The Windows 98 computer I had as a child didn't have this problem.

Whatever it is that Microsoft is doing they should probably stop. A goddamn calculator application shouldn't require a high performance workstation to even launch. It worked fine before, now it takes ages and can't even handle input properly. That's stupid and there's really no excuse for it.
by AdamN | 2026-02-26 13:39:01+00:00
I'm aligned there. I think it will be Google/Gemini gets 50% of the generic market and then OpenAI gets 30% (via Microsoft) and then a long tail. The rest of the vendors will be awesome at their markets (Claude Code for coders) and can handle generic stuff too.

Apple will do whatever they do but it will solely drive users in the Apple ecosystem and they will likely just use one of the other vendors - I'm guessing Google longterm since they speak the same language. There's no point in empowering Anthropic/OpenAI to sit at the top of the pyramid although oddly Apple and OpenAI did that partnership but I feel like that was Apple not thinking ahead.
by abustamam | 2026-02-26 13:39:07+00:00
As I was reading it I didn't realize I was reading a security report, so I was like, is it responsible for them to be sharing this?

Then I saw the disclosure at the end and didn't get the sense that the flaw was fixed, so then I was still thinking... Is it responsible for them to be sharing this?

I'm glad that they did, because I can audit my own projects, but a bad actor may also be glad that they did.

The fact that we're hearing this first from a third-party and not from Google themselves is extremely problematic.
by aktau | 2026-02-26 13:39:17+00:00
Any LLM-based code review tooling I've tried has been lackluster (most comments not too helpful). Prose review is usually better.

> So we run dozens of parallel CLI agents that can review the code in excruciating detail. This has completely replaced human code review for anything that isn't functional correctness but is near the same order of magnitude of price. Much better than humans and beats every commercial tool.

Sure, you could make multiple LLM invocations (different temporature, different prompts, ...). But how does one separate the good comments from the bad comments? Another meta-LLM? [1] Do you know of anyone who summarizes the approach?

[1]: I suppose you could shard that out for as much compute you want to spend, with one LLM invocation judging/collating the results of (say) 10 child reviewers.
by jaunt7632 | 2026-02-26 13:41:10+00:00
I hope Anthropic holds the line here. But zooming out, I'm not sure any of this matters long term. AI systems are getting smarter at a pace nobody predicted even two years ago. At some point the intelligence gap between these models and their human operators closes, then reverses. When that happens, the question of who controls whom stops being about corporate policy or government pressure. It becomes a technical reality that no amount of principles can override.

Even Anthropic, probably the most safety-focused lab in the field, is ultimately just buying time. And they know it. All the alignment research, all the constitutional AI work, all the responsible scaling policies. None of it changes the trajectory. It just slows it down a little. That's the part that keeps me up at night.
by yunohn | 2026-02-26 13:41:29+00:00
You seem to have defined ads as "obvious calls to action that end up in me buying it for sure". That's a pretty narrow view of marketing, but it does feel like you are aware that there may be other forms as you provide examples across the thread. It comes off as some form of elitism, where you deem the simplest ads as ineffective on yourself (but work on "average people") - but then go on to mention things like discounts and sponsorships, which to most are obvious marketing ploys too. No judgement, but maybe reflect on this?
by codenomnom | 2026-02-26 13:41:37+00:00
I partially agree with you, because Vercel put a ton of effort on this one. And the repo (and features list) is massive.

On the other hand, I do believe they drifted too much and stopped listening. As someone else said it - most of the fancy features are used by 1% of the projects, and everything else is buried in hacks and workarounds.

I also agree the tone (and especially the AI brag) is a bit too much. And at the same time it's honest - it doesn't need to be THAT hard and complex. Nor slow :)

That's why I've written an open letter to fix Next.js, to whomever wants to do it (Vercel, Cloudflare or anyone else). Because we have needs, and we cannot play this game anymore...

https://please-fix-next.com/ if you're interested
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-26 13:41:50+00:00
>However if OpenAI start trying to make money off those users by adding advertising, or removing the free tier, then things may change.

Tech forums tend to be in a bit of a bubble. People said the same thing about Netflix and It quickly became their most popular sub. People don't care about advertising unless it's really obnoxious.

The idea that people will unsub en masse once Open AI starts rolling ads is a pipe dream.
by cess11 | 2026-02-26 13:41:55+00:00
I think this article spends to little time on what it calls "user data". It is likely the best data pump in this segment, because it has the most 'regular' users, i.e. people who aren't IT specialists or whatever, but give the best profit when advertised to, surveilled and so on.

They'll have their guard down more often than the claudinistas and geminites, and be cheaper to somehow exploit.

I also think that more half-serious business ideas have been initially implemented against OpenAI services, i.e. most likely to fail due to a lack of proficiency in how to make an organisation work even if the core idea is sound and worthwhile pursuing.
by mrob | 2026-02-26 13:42:25+00:00
PTFE is extremely chemically inert. There's possibly some risk from ultra-fine particulates that could be absorbed by the body, but compared to all the other sources of particulate exposure I don't think it's a major problem. I'm more concerned by thermal decomposition, which forms all kinds of mystery chemicals of unknown risk profile. Restaurants love to sear food and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them do it on PTFE cookwear.
Show HN: One-line x402 pay-per-request protection for ElysiaJS APIs
by codingstark | 2026-02-26 13:42:27+00:00
Hi HN — I’m sharing @codingstark/x402-elysia, an ElysiaJS (Bun) plugin that implements the x402 Payment Protocol to protect HTTP routes behind crypto micropayments.

What it does:

Lets you configure paid routes like "GET /api/weather" and enforce payment requirements (price, chain/network, recipient address).

If a client hits a protected route without a valid payment header, it returns 402 Payment Required describing what to pay; after payment, the request is allowed through and the handler runs.

Why I built it:

I wanted “pay-per-request” APIs in the Bun/Elysia ecosystem (same idea as existing x402 middleware in other frameworks, but native to Elysia).

I’m planning to use it to power paid endpoints in my own product (slaab.ai), but this repo is intended to be generally useful for any paid API.

How to try it:

Install: bun add @codingstark/x402-elysia

The README has a complete “Quick Start” showing .use(paymentMiddlewareFromConfig(...)).

Demo:

I also recorded a short video showing the flow (request → 402 → pay → retry → success): https://x.com/twitter/status/2027014126648672438

Feedback I’m looking for:

Does the configuration shape feel idiomatic for Elysia apps?

Any missing use-cases (multiple chains, paywall UX, internal bypass hooks) you’d want for production paid APIs?
by iamcalledrob | 2026-02-26 13:43:51+00:00
> ~$500/mo for a typical car payment

There is another interesting US-centric perspective here. For some reason, US consumers feel the need to drive new or nearly-new cars.

$5000 can get you a reliable but unsexy used car. I think there is a sort of "Parkinson's law" of consumer spending at play, where financial outgoings will expand to match disposable income.

I also think there's a problem with fixed spend (e.g. car payment, insurance) vs per-trip spend. Per-trip costs are felt more.

A reason that public transport is often more popular in European cities because driving isn't even an option. There's literally nowhere to park. Even the rich need to get around, and this creates pressure to improve non-car transport from all sides.
by pastorhudson | 2026-02-26 13:44:28+00:00
Advisory Opinions
Legal analysis of Supreme Court that is really fun and talks about systems tradeoffs in how court systems make decisions.

Python Bytes
Just fun thing I can put on and listen to while coding or doing other work. I always learn something and the show runners are great.

Left Right and Center
Pretty good level headed political discussion where differing perspectives have real cordial conversation while disagreeing.

The Non Anxious Leader Podcast
Jack Shitama does a great job of explaining family systems theory and how our own emotional reactance can be managed effectively. If you want soft emotional intelligence skills listen to this.

The Russel More Show
Russel interviews a variety of people and talks about how to be a Christian in our weird political climate. It’s not Christian nationalist and I find it thoughtful and refreshing. He also interviews lots of people from different perspectives.
by graemep | 2026-02-26 13:45:25+00:00
They can change people's status, but I am saying they will not. It is not Reform party policy (as Rupert Lowe keeps pointing out!) and it would be disastrous to do it.

The net immigration numbers are falling!

I disagree about the public. Its very clear that the opposition to immigration is almost entirely about small boats and illegal entry.

As for skin colour, of the tiny number or racists I have heard of in real life, one comment repeated back to me made it clear the person involved preferred at least some Asians (those with skills etc.) to Eastern Europeans.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-26 13:45:37+00:00
> Exactly, it's blackmailing, sending a message "look what you've made me do" when the government attempts to reign in the ultrawealthy.

If it’s blackmailing, it’s blackmailing that is legal and extremely common. Similar events have occurred in multiple jurisdictions around the world whenever wealth taxes are attempted. The only way to prevent this in a country like the US that doesn’t allow retroactive taxation is to institute an exit tax, but this is also not legal at the state level in the US. Oh, and you also likely need capital controls, another no-no inside the US.

Capital flight is so historically common that there’s a common phrase to describe it. I have no idea why CA thought they were any different.
by christophilus | 2026-02-26 13:45:49+00:00
People get on me all the time about not installing programs on my computer. I run everything in the browser, if I can. Partly so I can kill it properly without it misbehaving, and partly because I don't trust their software at all. Zoom, Slack, Gmail, etc-- if I can run it in the browser, then that's the only way I'll run it.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-26 13:45:51+00:00
My armchair scientific answer to that is: eventually, maybe. The problem we / science / medical / life expectancy has right now is that so much has and is changing as we speak. PFAS and microplastics only really became a thing after WW2, so while on the one side we banned asbestos, leaded fuel, smoking (and more recently drinking) got out of fashion, on the other there's microplastics everywhere, PFAS, vaping, various radiations, and by the looks of it the effects of a lot of these things will only slowly become apparent and statistically significant / measurable and discernable from other possible causes over a long period (30-50 years I'd guess, maybe longer), by which time there will be other factors at play too.
by djtango | 2026-02-26 13:46:15+00:00
Exercise helps moderate cortisol.

Competition can increase cortisol but it's usually a relative thing:

When you are world #200 playing against world #50 might be stressful. When you are world #2 playing world #50 is probably another day in the office. Etc

I imagine once you win your first Grand Slam in tennis the nerves improve a lot - you kind of saw that in Andy Murray who needed a couple of attempts to break through the psychological barrier of winning Wimbledon, including winning the Olympics.

I would posit that the old folk tale is more related to the fact that centuries ago, most people were hyper specialised and standardised widespread education was less of a thing.

You'll find plenty of intelligent people in all walks of life depending on how you choose to define intelligence.
by koito17 | 2026-02-26 13:46:29+00:00
I don't have any specific suggestions, but I do want to give thanks for implementing functionality to block pushes if the email field is *not* using an anonymized mail address.

It's one thing to offer anonymous e-mail addresses, but it's also awesome that GitHub can help prevent mistakes that would otherwise leak a user's e-mail address. I am not sure how many people try to be privacy conscious on GitHub, but I assume most users don't, so it's nice seeing this little feature exist.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-26 13:46:35+00:00
The new calculator isn't just slow to open, it seems to have actual input lag too. God I miss the old calculator.

To me it's not sad, it's infuriating. This corporation is worth a trillion dollars. Why can't they do their jobs? I'm sure the old calculator could be maintained and improved without screwing it up beyond belief. Send us some fat stacks and we'll do it.
by SolubleSnake | 2026-02-26 13:46:57+00:00
These were always a disaster. It's essentially trying to 'Uberify' the entire economy. Be your own boss etc...People just end up sitting by the phone waiting for 2 or 3 hours of minimum wage work a day. Maybe this is possible with living with mum and dad as a youngster, or living with a higher earning spouse and looking after children...A normal person could never realistically do them it was a stupid idea to begin with
by Rapzid | 2026-02-26 13:47:19+00:00
> One number, never measured before. It doesn't change rules or add warnings, just makes the existing count visible.

Stopped here. That pattern.

I recognize this pattern from this AI "companion" my mate showed me over Christmas. It told a bunch of crazy stories using this "seize the day" vibe.

It had an animated, anthropomorphized animal avatar. And that animal was an f'ing RACCOON.
Show HN: Jiken – A zero-dependency Python client for real estate transaction API
by Undecided9226 | 2026-02-26 13:47:34+00:00
I built jiken, a Python library for accessing real estate transaction data from Japan's Ministry of Land (MLIT).Japan's government publishes detailed real estate transaction records through a public API, but working with it directly can be cumbersome. Jiken wraps it in a clean, type-safe interface with zero external dependencies – just the Python standard library.Would love feedback on the API design and any feature requests.
by maratc | 2026-02-26 13:47:38+00:00
I have a (fairly recent) continuous movement clock from Ikea, battery-powered and most certainly inexpensive (they don't sell expensive ones and I wouldn't get that even if they did).

EDIT: I think it's $15 TJALLA[0] and it mentions "No disturbing ticking sounds since the clock has a silent quartz movement."

[0]: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tjalla-wall-clock-silver-color-...
by pjmlp | 2026-02-26 13:47:53+00:00
Plenty, I can hardly keep up, but then get plenty of stuff to listen to during vacation traveling.

A few ones,

- .NET Rocks!

- Advent of Computing

- ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

- CppCast (just came back)

- CoRecursive: Coding Stories

- Developer Voices

- Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK!

- Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

- Inside Java

- Game Dev Field Guide

- Oxide and Friends

- Signals and Threads

- Retro Asylum

- The Retro Hour

- The Fourth Curtain

- The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook

- The Haskell Interlude
by paxys | 2026-02-26 13:48:49+00:00
I interviewed at Anthropic last year and their entire "ethics" charade was laughable.

Write essays about AI safety in the application.

An entire interview round dedicated to pretending that you truly only care about AI safety and nothing else.

Every employee you talk to forced to pretend that the company is all about philanthropy, effective altruism and saving the world.

In reality it was a mid-level manager interviewing a mid-level engineer (me), both putting on a performance while knowing fully well that we'd do what the bosses told us to do.

And that is exactly what is happening now. The mission has been scrubbed, and the thousands of "ethical" engineers you hired are all silent now that real money is on the line.