MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajsnigrutin | 2026-02-26 14:21:43+00:00
As someone born in a socialist country that doesn't exist anymore (i'm still here), a very common progress of time over here was:

- a factory is built relatively far away from populated areas

- workers were moving closer to the factory, building houses (when factory workers could still afford them and were allowed to build them) closer and closer to the factory

- workers retire, die, their now adult children live in, or inherit, the houses

- adult children complain about factory being too close to the city, complain about trucks, noise, pollution, dust, demand this and that

In some cases, there is the next step too:

- factory eventually closes down, people complain about having to drive to work far away, usually to the capital city where factories and many other businesses still operate. Centralization bad! Same people protest when someone else wants to start a new factory, industrial zone, anything in their city.

In some more extreme cases:

- since everyone is driving to the capital city, they also shop there, send post there, visit doctors there, do bank stuff there... this means that the store, post office, the bank, etc. close down in their smaller city. Again, people protest. Sometimes literally: https://siol-net.translate.goog/novice/slovenija/krajani-gri... & https://www-nadlani-si.translate.goog/novice/zapirajo-kar-dv... & https://www-kostel-si.translate.goog/objava/1129317?_x_tr_sl...
by smalltorch | 2026-02-26 14:21:54+00:00
Yes it's encoding in opus, and optionally you can configure encoding quality from 6kbs to 64kbs.

I was really surprised at the intelligability even at 6kbs.

The caviot is if your on termux we have to use the seperate termux API application to pipe audio to termux, and ffmpeg to convert MP4 to opus. Unfortunately termux cannot activate the mic on its own.
by pjerem | 2026-02-26 14:22:05+00:00
Games are actually pretty well optimized nowadays. I mostly "game" on a 10 years old computer with a mid-range GPU I bought maybe 3 or 4 years ago and on a Steam Deck.

I sometimes have to disable graphical options but it's more the exception than the rule. On a lot of games, I can even play in 4K.

Of course as you can imagine, I don't game at 245 fps :D
by killerstorm | 2026-02-26 14:22:11+00:00
Conrad Barski, Feb 25, 2026:

> Working atari 2600 flappy bird, by just asking chatgpt to directly output the raw bytes for a cartridge image

TBH this is a bit unexpected: it should know how to encode instructions, of course, but calculating all jumps on the fly is rather hard (I think).
by bjourne | 2026-02-26 14:22:21+00:00
> I used to live next to a large river for about 35 years. As a kid, it was forbidden to swim in it, and if you did, you had weird oily chemicals on your skin that felt unhealthy (burn, itching etc).

That's almost exactly how my dad and many of his siblings got permanently disabling muscular dystonia. The old times were fucking bad and we don't want them back.

> So, if the US wants production industry again

It should be noted that the VALUE of US industrial output is many times higher than it was 20 years ago, even if the VOLUME is lower.
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-02-26 14:22:41+00:00
The "supply chain risk" option is to remove that company from the supply chain all together. The 'risk' is because the company is compromised by a foreign entity.

It is not about disciplining them to get better.

1.
So one option is about forcing them to produce something. You must build this for us.

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The other option is saying they are compromised so stop using them all together. We will not use what you build for us at all because we don't trust it.

So . Contradictory.
by lazide | 2026-02-26 14:22:52+00:00
In my experience, it’s the conflict of the ‘in theory’ vs
‘In practice’.

Practically, ‘in theory’ might actually be doable - if there was a single, overarching regulatory environment. That was enforced.

Chances are, that would defacto make a bunch of people starve in poorer countries, and blow a lot of stuff up, so would also likely be worse than ‘the disease’. At least right now.

But maybe I’m just being a cynical bastard.
by lnsru | 2026-02-26 14:23:14+00:00
I am self employed electrician in Germany. I will never ever hire someone due to sick regulations here. I can work with clothing and tools I want. I can use my old stable ladder. For my employee I must get very expensive hardware and be liable for his work and his health. So thanks, it will never happen. I work all the time with other self employed people and they do share same opinion.
by GoalTipz | 2026-02-26 14:23:21+00:00
GOALTIPZ is an educational football analytics project. It publishes experimental statistical estimates of minimum and maximum goals in league matches and does not offer betting advice or financial recommendations.

This Project has been in works for over +15 years, the percentage of success is mostly over +95.

Everything is free, and you can just visit the website and observe the new and old predictions.

predictions represent statistical experiments based on historical and public match data
by watwut | 2026-02-26 14:23:24+00:00
They do not dismiss soft skills. But, they do not know how to play the politics and were given bad advice. I would even say that their observations are entirely correct, they accurately described how teams function. What they do not know is how to influence people.

Bad advice given to them:

> The standard advice is always "communicate better, get buy-in, frame it differently." [...] The advice for this position is always the same: communicate better. Get buy-in. Frame it as their idea. Pick your battles. Show, don't tell.

That sort of naive kindergarten advice is how people want things to work, but how they rarely work. Literally the only functional part of it is the "pick your battles" part. That one is necessary, but not sufficient. The listed advice will make you be seen as nice cooperative person. It is not how you achieve the change.

So OP comes to the "the problem isn't communication. It's structural." conclusion.
by happyraul | 2026-02-26 14:23:31+00:00
FEIE is only one of the options for avoiding federal income tax. The other is the Foreign Tax Credit, which has no such limit: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1116.pdf. If the place an American lives and works has a higher income tax rate than the US one, in practice he will not face any tax liability, regardless of income level.
by deltarholamda | 2026-02-26 14:23:48+00:00
The article mentions "Building software at Google's scale is extraordinarily difficult...", which I've seen many times before when one or another of these big corporations has a serious security flaw.

If a company like Google, with its ability to attract the best of the best, cannot handle the complexity of security and safety with SaaS/PaaS products, at what point do we say that perhaps this sector needs much more oversight?
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-26 14:24:06+00:00
I'd choose to be the powerful and rich industrial country every single time. If I had a button that would wipe out the entire Amazon jungle and replace it with a world class high technology industry, I wouldn't even think twice before pressing it. Clean water to swim in? Build a pool.

Frankly, any deindustrialized country is quite simply irrelevant. You need industry to have a middle class. You need middle class for capitalist consumption. There's a reason why american corporations kowtow to China now. The USA thought it could deindustrialize and act as the world's boss. China is proving them wrong via relentless industrialization. I only wish my own country had the balls to do the same.
by sgarland | 2026-02-26 14:24:30+00:00
> Sometimes such team members learn to adapt their approach while holding onto their ideals, and they become valued colleagues.

What's frustrating (I've said that a lot, I know) to me is that my skills are seen as valued, but my opinions aren't. I also have a pathological need to help people, and so when someone asks me, I can't help but patiently explain for the Nth time how a B+tree works (I include docs! I've written internal docs at varying levels!) and why their index design won't work. This is usually met with "Thanks!" because I've solved their problem, until the next problem occurs. When I then point out that they have a systemic issue, and point to the incidents proving this, they don't want to hear it, because that turns "I made an error, and have fixed it" into "I have made a deep architectural mistake," and people apparently cannot stand to be wrong.

That also baffles me - I don't think I'm arrogant or conceited; when I'm wrong, I publicly say so, and explain precisely where I was mistaken, what the correct answer is, and provide references. Being wrong isn't a moral failing, or even necessarily an indictment on your skills, but for some reason, people are deathly afraid to admit they were wrong.
by victorbjorklund | 2026-02-26 14:24:41+00:00
Good luck resisting nukes on American cities. It will be easier to occupy all of China than trying to occupy the rest of NATO. No one seriously thinks US could defeat and occupy rest of NATO.

How many million Americans dead to capture it? How many million Americans will die during the occupation when we resist? Does Americans even wanna go to Europe and occupy Europe and have a legitimate target on their back?

What is even the longterm plan? Concentration camps? Or do you think people will suddenly accept American occupation?
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-02-26 14:24:51+00:00
Yeah, many podcasts are either: (1) an advertising platform for a guest's new book, (2) a platform for the guest to play their "greatest hits" without engaging critically or exploring new ideas, or (3) a platform for the host to tell you their half-baked opinion about $CURRENT_EVENT in order to keep the slop machine running.
by CalRobert | 2026-02-26 14:24:52+00:00
The entire situation where you have great rights for “permanent” workers but nothing but precarity for so called “temporary” workers has been a disaster in Europe. It creates an entire underclass, even for people in high paying jobs. It was easier to get a mortgage, etc. in the US as an at-will employee who could be fired at any time than it was as a worker on a temp contract in Europe, in part because at least in the US there was a level playing field.

I realise the UK isn’t in the EU but it is part of the broader trend of creating a privileged class of permanent workers over all others.

This also increases friction in the labour market since changing jobs means likely giving up a permanent contract.
by jjk166 | 2026-02-26 14:25:02+00:00
Those mandatory breaks are 45 minutes long. You're not charging 750 kWh in 45 minutes. With a fast charger 750 kWh is 2 to 7 hours. At the far more common level 2 chargers it's 18 hours. Either mandatory breaks need to be substantially longer, you need a substantially larger battery than just that required to go between breaks, or you need some sort of specialized technology for dramatically speeding up charging rates well beyond those for personal EVs, any of which cut hard into the economics.
by quesera | 2026-02-26 14:25:42+00:00
> My problem is more with governments ... pushing people to ... Google/Apple.

It's worse than that. Many municipalities and schools etc only post public notices to Facebook/Twitter or some similarly hostile environment.

> The article is definitely a bit over the top, it is just my personal blog and me trying to write a bit more funny to counter the bland LLMs.

But. Your headline contradicts your story. The only excuse for that (and it is weak) is when writers don't get to write their own headlines (this is common) and the editors who do write the headlines are corrupted for clicks or drama (but I repeat myself).

This way lies madness, the road to hell, etc.

This is not the way of the honest writer.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-02-26 14:25:54+00:00
You seem polite enough even psuedonymously, so I'd say you're doing a good job so far. :)

>I have had some paranoid thoughts as to what if I get into controversy later on in life because of some things I do in my teen years

I have a relevant anecdote, from back in halcyon 2008. Maybe it will help you when it comes to believing your friend, or at least it will temper your paranoia, which I think is well meaning in small doses.

When I was 13 or 14 years old I got suspended from high school because a friend posted a link to the Anarchist's Cookbook, which I had never heard of, on my Facebook wall. Some of my classmates got very scared and called the headmaster saying I had made a bomb threat against the school.

When the principal pulled me in to talk to me about this, it became very clear I had no idea what they were talking about. We talked for much longer than I think anyone in the room expected, maybe for three hours about existentialism, Zappfe's essay The Last Messiah which I had read the night before, whether I thought I was a victim of bullying (I didn't), what I thought of the school (excellent, a welcome refuge from a very turbulent home), thoughts on Cicero's speeches, the books we were reading in English class at the time.

I got "suspended" for a week and my parents took me to a therapist for several months afterward. I had thought after this for the rest of high school that my chances of ever going to college were totally shot, because a suspension appears on your permanent record. However, when it came time for me to actually apply to colleges, I found out no such record of the week at home ever existed. There appeared to have been a miscommunication all those years ago; I had actually been put on some kind of medical leave.

Now of course going through all of high school thinking that no college in the country will accept you now no matter how hard you do is going to change your incentives a bit. Ironically the very thinkers I had been reading at the time helped me quickly conclude that I wanted to do my level best anyway, even if there was going to be no payoff at the end of the road at all for me. In some ways it let me take more risks than my other classmates. I became the earliest person in my class to take our infamously hard physics course, and I walked out with top marks on both kinematics and electromagnetism. I don't think I would have taken that risk if I thought I had to optimize my GPA.

I trust you to think about this story and come to your own conclusions on how it moves your needle.
Show HN: CDNs – A simple Go CLI to switch DNS servers in one second
by unsorted2270 | 2026-02-26 14:26:00+00:00
Hey HN,

I got tired of digging through cluttered OS network settings every time I wanted to change my DNS provider (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, etc.). It always felt like too many clicks for such a basic task.

To fix this, I built cdns in Go. It’s a minimal, single-purpose CLI tool that strictly follows the KISS principle. You run one command, pick your provider, and your system's DNS is updated instantly right from the terminal.

https://github.com/junevm/cdns

I'd love to hear your thoughts, any feedback on the Go implementation, or if you run into any OS-specific edge cases!
by HelixSequencing | 2026-02-26 14:26:15+00:00
This tracks with what I've seen across the industry. The safety theater exists because it's great marketing — "we're the responsible ones" is a differentiator when you're competing for enterprise contracts and talent who want to feel good about where they work.

The structural problem is that once you've taken billions in VC, safety becomes a negotiable constraint rather than a core value. The board's fiduciary duty runs toward returns, not toward whatever was in the mission statement. PBC status doesn't change that in practice — there's basically zero enforcement mechanism.

What's wild is how fast the cycle has compressed. Google took maybe 15 years to go from "don't be evil" to removing it from the code of conduct. OpenAI took about 5 years from nonprofit to capped-profit to whatever they are now. Anthropic is speedrunning it in under 3. At this rate the next AI startup will launch as a PBC and pivot before their Series B closes.
by Terretta | 2026-02-26 14:26:20+00:00
LLMs originally learned these patterns from LinkedIn and the “$1000 for my newsletter” SEO pillions. Both accomplish a goal. Now that's become a loop.

There is a delayed but direct association between RLHF results we see in LLM responses and volume of LinkedIn-spiration generated by humans disrupting ${trend.hireable} from coffee shops and couches.

// from my couch above a coffee shop, disrupting cowork on HN. no avatars. no stories. just skills.md
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-26 14:26:36+00:00
It's all tradeoffs. I can't remember names or faces even if doing so is worth money.

Instead, I can recall the complete works of Roger Waters or Nine Inch Nails, but not the names of the songs unless I really studied that part. I can recall themes from TV shows from decades ago, but be unable to place the name of the show.

At any given time, anywhere at all, I can listen to any of at least five different covers of Fat Bottomed Girls -- and have no idea who performed any of them, and therefore no ability to share them with others.

It's an interesting way to be and it is the only way I know, but there's reasons that I'm terrible at being a DJ.
by quotemstr | 2026-02-26 14:26:42+00:00
The point is that if you unite authority and responsibility in the same individual, you can move fast and confidently because you don't drain people's time and energy by making them "influence people". In a healthy organization, responsible people act and are held to account by their results. Democracy is a choice, not an obligation.

You're right that organizations do often become consensus-driven. It's a failure mode, not something to which we should aspire. And we certainly shouldn't tell people to deal with a shortfall of authority in an organization by becoming social slime balls that get their way through manipulating emotions and not atoms. People who advise doing this ruin good technologists by turning them into middling politicians.

"Disagree and commit" is a good thing. Escalating disagreement to a "single threaded owner" for a quick decision is a good thing. It avoids endless argumentation and aligns incentives the right way. Committees (formal or not) diffuse responsibility. Maturity is understanding that hierarchy is normal and desirable.
by samiv | 2026-02-26 14:26:44+00:00
This is a tremendous opportunity for the capitalists and industrialists to dodge their obligations towards normal employees. Essentially outsource their costs, healthcare, pension, unemployment etc employee protections to the working class while additionally driving down the wages. They profit and the rest of the society (Ie the tax payers that still remain) have to shoulder the cost.

A labour union in Finland interviewed some Wolt gig workers and found that after discounting for time waited for delivery and expenses their effective take home pay was around 2.5€ per hour.

We can expect this to spread more and more from taxis and delivery service to wider spectrums.
by bitwize | 2026-02-26 14:26:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skbgEGEn80

Why were old PCs beige? It turns out, Germany had workplace standards laws that mandated light, unobtrusive colors on office equipment. Because it was expensive to offer different SKUs for different regions, gray or beige PC cases became the only ones available worldwide.

If a jurisdiction as big or important as California passes a law mandating certain features on products available there, manufacturers may make those features part of their products worldwide to save on costs. OEMs may make bootloader-locked PCs which cannot run operating systems that don't do age check in order to comply with the law in California and Brazil, and decide it's not worth it to offer a bootloader-unlocked version.

If you think PC manufacturers are required to make bootloader-unlockable PCs, the only thing requiring them to do so is an edict from Microsoft, something they can and will reverse in order to comply with the law.
by pas | 2026-02-26 14:26:52+00:00
They are already buying a locked down phone most of the time. And they already want this! (Unfortunately the bootloaders are locked, as far as I know.)

Developers want developer phones, non-developers want safe phones that are resistant to their and their shitty bank's goddamn fucking stupidity. (Because banks UX is so so so so bad that most of the time the phishing attack seems like just a normal part of the bank's UX.)

But it's hard to separate people on a webshop, if a shop runs out of non-developer phones they'll happily sell the developer phones to non-developers.
by ourmandave | 2026-02-26 14:27:10+00:00
And it was the GOP senate that rubber stamped RFK, with only McConnell holding out because he had polio as a child before the vaccine was created.

Yesterday Trump's pick for Surgeon General was before the senate. She doesn't have a medical degree and dodged questions about vaccines.

But I have full confidence even Mitch is onboard with the stupid this time.
by techjamie | 2026-02-26 14:27:13+00:00
Burger King already was doing this at their drive thru to check if employees were saying keywords like "you rule" and determining the customer's mood. Also saving a recording of the interaction for who knows how long. BobDaHacker got into their system with an auth bypass and exposed it[1]. It's very draconian.

[1] https://archive.is/fMYQp (BK DMCA'd the original article offline[2])

[2] https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/
by crazygringo | 2026-02-26 14:27:15+00:00
I don't know... it works for me?

I understand how all of those could be problems in theory. But when I actually spend a couple minutes reading the reviews with less than 5 stars, it quickly becomes apparent if there are genuine problems with the item, or just people who don't understand why their cast iron pan rusted when they put it in the dishwasher. Finding the signal in the noise is pretty easy?

If you read the reviews with critical thinking and a good bullshit detector, and stick to items with at least 100 reviews (preferably several hundred), it works great for me. It's invaluable really -- don't know what I'd do without Amazon reviews.

> Strangely, AFAIK Amazon does not provide a possibility to filter those out.

You can always limit reviews to the single item/color/size etc. It's the filter option. I do that all the time when I want the reviews e.g. just for the spatula not the masher or ladle. Or when I want photos of the item in just the one particular color.
by latexr | 2026-02-26 14:27:52+00:00
> People have just moved the goalposts

Yes, I agree. Just not in the direction you’re claiming.

> imagine explaining Opus 4.6’s capabilities to someone even 10 years ago, it would definitely have been called AGI.

No, it would have been called AI. A decade ago most people were not familiar with AGI as a term, that just got popularised because AI was taken over to be basically what we used to call ML.