MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by markus_zhang | 2026-02-22 22:00:08+00:00
Tangibly related.

IMO the North America economic-societal "model" is High cost + More regulation. Everything is legal and proved by some experts, and regulated to the maximum, but in reality they also build moats after moats for existing interest groups (landlords, insurance companies, big contractors, etc.).

And everyone thinks this is the right model for "democracy" and "ruled by law". People may blame for part of the model (e.g. landlords) but never realize that the whole model is built to support this.

This is my observation so definitely biased.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-22 22:00:24+00:00
Well, yes. I was in Ibiza in a techno club (Pascha) and yes. I had a great time dancing the first two hours but by the time it got 2am the club was so jampacked it took me half an hour to crawl through the crowd to the exit.

I don't think this is fun either, no. Definitely not possible to dance. They do have an expensive VIP area with lots of space but there people were just sitting at tables, not dancing either.

But most clubs I go to aren't overfilled like that.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-02-22 22:01:33+00:00
I'm doubtful there's a universal best way to learn a new language. Part of learning a new language is learning how to learn a new language - what works and what doesn't for you.

For me, doing something everyday[Duolingo], and one on one tutorial instruction[1] have had the biggest payoff. The first for rote memorization, vocab, and exposure to grammar. The second for listening, speaking, and filling in grammar gaps. For Americans, the price of international individual instruction is surprisingly inexpensive due to the dollar being the reserve currency. That translates to about €135/month for to learn French. The workload and cost are both sustainable and my weekly session has become one of my most looked forward to things I do each week.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
by bdangubic | 2026-02-22 22:01:39+00:00
it is management that is successfully convincing people that it is a tough job market - it is not - it is same as before. I am a contractor, have more work offered than I can take (same as before, maybe even slightly more). four friends/former colleagues got new jobs since the beginning of December, each had multiple offers and got decent to significant pay increases compared to previous positions.
by Almondsetat | 2026-02-22 22:01:43+00:00
Short form user generated content being served in our faces in a constant and ever updating feed fucks up our brains. It does not matter if it's proprietary or FOSS or non profit.

>Is your objection in the marketing language or in the inherent technology?

I think saying it's like an open source slot machine is pretty much self-explanatory
by krapp | 2026-02-22 22:02:07+00:00
I agree in principle, but I think the limit should be $1 million. You get to be a millionaire but that's it. Enough money to live well, but not enough to run a pedophile island. Not enough to purchase a government. Not enough to be above the law. Certainly not enough to keep you from working and entirely alienate you from the human condition if you do want to live well.
AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human
by gadjonesq | 2026-02-22 22:03:28+00:00
AWS has been charging me $1,500/month for near-zero usage. For over a year. That is more than $18,000 for infrastructure I barely use.

I tried multiple times to get a human on the phone to discuss it. Every time I requested a callback, AWS would call, a bot would tell me the human wasn't available, and promise a callback. No human ever called back.

So I stopped paying. Why keep paying charges I believe are wrong when the company won't discuss them?

AWS emailed asking if my case was resolved — from a no-reply address. Nobody followed up.

Feb 19: AWS suspended my account. Route 53 DNS down. Domain, business email, website — all dead instantly.

Feb 21: I paid the $1,600 outstanding bill. AWS took the money. Account stayed locked. Why? While I was resolving that bill, another $1,500 bill came in. But because they had already locked me out, I couldn't see it, access it, or pay it. They kept me locked out over a bill they wouldn't let me pay.

The catch-22: my support plan included callbacks when the account was active. Suspending the account killed my support tier. So now I can't request a callback because I'm no longer on a plan that gets callbacks. Because they suspended it.

I can't get support because they killed my support tier. I can't pay the bill because they locked me out of the console. Every support channel is a dead end — phones loop, emails bounce, forms require the login they disabled, can't even create a new account because my phone number is blocked.

@AWSSupport on X responded in seconds, pushed me to DMs, promised internal escalation. 24+ hours later, nothing.

Here is what I think is really happening: AWS has no incentive to resolve billing disputes. Every month of delay is another $1,500. A five-minute call reviewing my CloudWatch metrics would show the charges are wrong — but that call would cost them $1,500/month in revenue. Instead they are holding my domain, my email, and my website hostage.

What I want is simple:

1. Turn my DNS back on right now. There is no justification for holding my domain and email hostage over a billing dispute.
2. Call me — a human — to review a year of invoices. Based on my actual usage, AWS owes me thousands back, not the other way around.

Day 4. Emails will start permanently bouncing within 24-48 hours.

Case 177075616300933. Has anyone gotten through this? Any path to a real person when your account is suspended?
by lich_king | 2026-02-22 22:04:31+00:00
Stick-frame single-family construction is pretty inexpensive. For a single-story structure, rough framing and roof can be done by a couple of low-wage laborers with simple tools in a week.

Prefabrication doesn't save all that much money: you still need several guys, now with a crane, and you need to ship and deliver an oversize load. A lot of the cost is finish (including cabinets, countertops, appliances), and in California, land and compliance.
by SHERIFABDLNABY | 2026-02-22 22:05:31+00:00
Most of Kubernetes clusters I've dealt with wastes >40% of its provisioned resources to fragmentation. It's a shame this become kinda normalized. Tools like Karpenter helped (compared to old days of CAS), however, bin-packing efficiency depends on so many factors (e.g Nodepool design, Pod churn rate, etc) and usually needs to be tuned to each cluster profile.

I built kube-binpacking-exporter to easily track the most important metrics when improving bin-packing, it's like running eks-node-viewer in a loop and exporting metrics to Prometheus (or any O11Y tool). It's not a generic exporter you don't have to be using Karpenter.

While these bin-packing metrics can be calculated with the combination of `kube-state-metrics`, `kubelet` and `cAdvisor` metrics they fall short because:

1. These metrics are pulled from different sources at different intervals. This causes aggregation to not give an accurate snapshot of the cluster state per scrape. When aggregating over long periods of time (days+) the inaccuracies compound.

2. Queries get extremely complex, and you have to handle many cases ( e.g exclude failed & completed pods, handle init containers, not count pending pods, and will need complex `joins` to group by node labels )

3. Some O11Y tools query language ( looking at you Datadog!!!! ) lacks the flexibility to join & combine metrics from different data sources.
by autoexec | 2026-02-22 22:06:05+00:00
typing in what kind of music you like and discovering music was the entire premise of Pandora and it was pretty successful.

You can easily comes up with "song/band sounds like X" but it'd be a lot harder to do with movies and TV shows because beyond genre there's a lot of variation in what makes something good. Acting, direction, lighting, story, effects, actors, etc. Failing on any one of those things means I'm less likely to enjoy a show, but being similar in any one of them could cause a match.

That said, if you were to ask for specifics it might be more helpful. Recommending movies based on tone, or style, or story elements might still be interesting but I think you'd still run into the problem where it may not easily result in something you're likely to enjoy.
by padjo | 2026-02-22 22:06:44+00:00
Comparing this to Thailand/Cambodia is absurd.

Anyway there's no point arguing with people like you. The evidence is clear. The political rhetoric from Israel is clear. People who actually study genocide are very clear. Israel will "cleanse" Gaza of the "animals" and the West bank and idiots in America will lap up the propaganda and argue about whether its actually a genocide or not.
by crooked-v | 2026-02-22 22:06:48+00:00
Here in SF in particular, there are a huge number of people both at the local level and in the city government who just categorically oppose any change of any kind, leading to cases like the historically-designated laundromat [1] where the property owner had to fight the city for years in lawsuits and pay for a $23,000 historical report just to be allowed to demolish that laundromat to build housing [2].

[1]: https://missionlocal.org/2018/06/the-strange-and-terrible-sa...

[2]: https://sfyimby.com/2022/05/san-franciscos-historic-laundrom...

Of course, the tone of thse first article makes the problem even more obvious, in a black comedy kind of way, with the writer complaining about "luxury prices" of the resulting apartments without considering even for a second why the prices might be so high.
by p0w3n3d | 2026-02-22 22:06:54+00:00
This article assumes that AI bubble will never break, and the prices will never go up. While the major LLM providers are located in USA and China, but mostly USA I can imagine the service becoming a hostage for some political interests, and being blocked for a country or more... This also can become a weapon as creation of invisibly malicious code might be advised by LLMs or even executed by LLMs running loose... So I'd say, copying some other author which I read here, that LLM is an exoskeleton and we're not going anywhere, just being strengthened by it and sped up, and constantly held accountable for the code we together with LLM generate
by throwaway2037 | 2026-02-22 22:07:05+00:00
I added that last line as a honeypot, as part of my ongoing project on HN. No matter what I say positive about some country, culture, or institution, someone will pop into the conversation to say: "Yes, but what about this one incident. See, X is not so great after all." I think we need an equivalent of Brandolini's law for counterpoint of negativity in all HN discussions. It is as though people think they are disproving a maths proof by counterpoint. That's not the way the Real World of Human Society works. Weirdly, I see the same pattern on Wiki pages about living people. There is always a section of a bunch of random one-off events trying to discredit the person.

To react to your specific incident, I think a more nuanced view would be to say that all highly functioning democracies have incidents that are "perfectly legal, but appear as an abuse of process". I don't really think that detracts from the overall statement that Germany is a highly functioning democracy. Moreover, highly functional democracies regularly change parliamentary rules to reduce incidents like this.
by YokoZar | 2026-02-22 22:07:05+00:00
> No amount of salary would have made me able to afford housing near work in sfbay

I assure you there are people who live there who can afford to do so because they make enough money. Switching from startup salary to bigco at the same experience level in the same location doubled my comp. A few promotions later and it doubled again. That's when housing started to look affordable.
by mbh159 | 2026-02-22 22:07:19+00:00
The methodology debate in this thread is the most important part.

The commenter who says "add obfuscation and success drops to zero" is right but that's also the wrong approach imo. The experiment isn't claiming AI can defeat a competent attacker. It's asking whether AI agents can replicate what a skilled (RE) specialist does on an unobfuscated binary. That's a legitimate, deployable use case (internal audit, code review, legacy binary analysis) even if it doesn't cover adversarial-grade malware.

The more useful framing: what's the right threat model? If you're defending against script kiddies and automated tooling, AI-assisted RE might already be good enough. If you're defending against targeted attacks by people who know you're using AI detection, the bar is much higher and this test doesn't speak to it.

What would actually settle the "ready for production" question: run the same test with the weakest obfuscation that matters in real deployments (import hiding, string encoding), not adversarial-grade obfuscation. That's the boundary condition.
by einarfd | 2026-02-22 22:07:29+00:00
I’ve been building sandboxing for Claude code workloads. So I can let it run wild without breaking my computer. Originally I used docker, but I’m now in the process of jettisoning that, and switching to qemu.

For my use case I want ssh access and being able to use docker in docker. This allows for things like test containers and docker compose. You can get all of that working with docker. But you kind of have to fight docker the whole way.

NanoClaw might have different needs, and docker could work better for it, and I hope so for their sake. But I’m not optimistic.
by Arkadin | 2026-02-22 22:07:42+00:00
Great job. This works really well.

> "lofi home recordings with no electronic elements and harmonically complex"

Yielded a bunch of things I would have expected but after 5-6 'dig deeper' clicks there were lots of interesting artists I hadn't heard of before.

> "contemporary classical with no electronic elements and small chamber arrangements"

Lots of interesting results I hadn't heard of before.

> "obscure indie bands associated with Olympia, WA formed in the 1980s"

Very good list. Does the time/location-bound results very well.

I think it's a good companion to sites like RYM as a middle ground between 'best of' ratings lists and personally curated lists.
by sergiotapia | 2026-02-22 22:07:44+00:00
I installed nanoclaw last night funny to see it here on HN.

It was easy to install it, and get it running. I could @Andy message it on whatsapp but after that it fell apart fast.

I asked it to login to Facebook and check my notifications, and it started saving credentials and random things in the repo as json files. And din't work. It was hard to even figure out what was happening and why it didn't work.

Then I tried messaging it again and it didn't respond to me.

These things are extremely brittle despite the enourmous amount of github stars. I think it's just normies starring things trying to get on the train unfortunately. The promise of an AI Jarvis is unrealized still.
by voxleone | 2026-02-22 22:08:01+00:00
An existential crisis for the urban middle class, which in the 18th century corresponded to the bourgeoisie or trade classes, making the situation, if unresolved, a potential modern analogue of a French‑Revolution–style crisis. Instead of feudal oppression, it is driven by technological displacement and concentration of capital, both reinforced by feedback loops.
by dang | 2026-02-22 22:08:22+00:00
You broke the site guidelines really quite hideously in this thread—so much so that I actually banned your account, although I've since unbanned it for now (see below).

Worse, you've been breaking the site guidelines a lot in other threads too. Recent examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083277

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987281

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983913

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824319

Surely you realize you can't post like this to HN? It has been a problem for a long time and we've warned you more than once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41692895.

Since you've ignored our requests to stop doing this and have done it repeatedly and egregiously, you're well over the line at which we'd ban an account. However, as mentioned, I've unbanned it again for now, because (a) many of your comments are fine contributions, and (b) I don't feel good about banning one account but not the other in this kind of spat.

But please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this going forward, because it's a serious problem and much as I don't want to ban you, if it happens again I don't think we'll have much choice.
Show HN: Devly – 50 native macOS developer utilities in your menu bar
by aarush-prakash | 2026-02-22 22:08:29+00:00
I built Devly because I got tired of opening browser tabs
every time I needed to format JSON, decode a JWT, or test
a regex. The problem wasn't that tools didn't exist it
was that they all required leaving what I was doing.

Devly lives in your menu bar. One click, pick your tool,
get your result, done. No network requests ever —
everything runs locally using Apple's native frameworks
like CryptoKit and Foundation. Zero third-party dependencies.

What's included:
- Encoding: Base64, URL, HTML, JWT, Unicode, Morse, ROT13
- Hashing: MD5, SHA family, HMAC, bcrypt, UUID generator
- Formats: JSON (+ JSONPath), YAML, XML, CSV, SQL, TOML
- Web: Color converter, CSS/JS minifier, Markdown preview
- Text: Regex tester, diff tool, timestamp converter

The hardest technical challenge was getting all 50+ tools
to work within Apple's App Sandbox without sacrificing
functionality. I ended up building a ToolProtocol pattern
that each tool conforms to which kept things clean and
extensible.

Built in pure SwiftUI, macOS 13+, $4.99 one-time.

Would love feedback from this community.

https://devly.techfixpro.net/
by jahsome | 2026-02-22 22:08:38+00:00
> No one price matches for protein bars because it's a commodity item with minimal price differences (and people often have a preferred brand anyway), but they probably do for $2k laptop.

This is the most "silicon valley" statement I've ever read on this website. Perhaps I'm just being obtuse and misunderstanding, but the assertion people don't price match groceries is so, so wrong. Many, many, many people have no choice. Far more than those regularly purchasing laptops.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-22 22:09:05+00:00
> "Groupthink" informed by extremely broad training sets is more conventionally called "consensus", and that's what we want the LLM to reflect.

Definitely not! I absolutely do not want an LLM that gives much or any truth-weight to the vast majority of writing on the vast majority of topics. Maybe, maybe if they’d existed before the Web and been trained only on published writing, but even then you have stuff like tabloids, cranks self-publishing or publishing through crank-friendly niche publishers, advertisements full of lies, very dumb letters to the editor, vanity autobiographies or narrative business books full of made-up stuff presented as true, et c.

No, that’s good for building a model of something like the probability space of human writing, but an LLM that has some kind of truth-grounding wholly based on that would be far from my ideal.

> And, again, the solution for that is reasonable references grounded in informed consensus. (Whether that should be a curated encyclopedia or a LLM is a different argument.)

“Informed” is a load bearing word in this post, and I don’t really see how the rest holds together if we start to pick at that.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-22 22:09:21+00:00
It's interesting, I doubt it'll ever be successful.

Look, the reason a lot of content makes it's way to Youtube, tiktok, and twitter, etc is because the creators can earn money from the platform. On youtube and tiktok, you can send gifts to your favorite creator. That incentivizes creators to create content.

loops will never have that feature. It's really hard to legally distribute money like that. But further, the decentralized nature of it means that you'll never know if your funds ends up in your creator's account or the instant account.

Without any sort of path to make money, the only content on the platform will be works of passion. Maybe that's a good thing, but it means these people will ultimately burn out.

But on the plus side, it means you probably won't end up with an endless stream of AI slop.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-22 22:09:41+00:00
There are a couple of options for a large, non-backlit, low power display that are less expensive than the e-ink monitor they're using. One is the Samsung EM32DX, a 32" color e-ink digital sign for <$1300 (<$1000 if you can find it on sale) but it has a long refresh time. The other is the SVD rE 32" reflective LCD monitor for ~$1000, but it needs to be in brightly lit rooms because of its low contrast.
by WD-42 | 2026-02-22 22:09:44+00:00
Question: how many people do you think would watch your short form ai videos if they had to actually seek them out and choose to watch them? The reason why the format is problematic is because it feeds off the dopamine hit of scrolling to the next piece of unknown content.

It’s well known that if people need to be intentional about what they consume they consume far less. Something tells me 15 second AI videos aren’t at the top of most people’s lists.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-22 22:10:28+00:00
The problem I find with it is that it's such a monoculture. Everyone is copying everyone else.

As an example: there's this stupid skit going around. Someone asks a waiter "Could I ask you about the menu please?". The waiter comes really close and goes like "The men I please is none of your business".

It's an ok joke but I've seen literally 20 different people doing the same skit in the last two weeks and it gets so damn annoying. And it's not just this one. There's always one that is viral and everyone copies it.