MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alwillis | 2026-02-24 22:16:39+00:00
> It doesn't say the Mini will be exclusively produced at this US facility.

What's likely to happen is Mac minis for North America will be made in Houston. Otherwise, the ones for the rest of the world will be made at the same facilities they are now.

Just like iPhones for the US are made in India; iPhones for the rest of the world are made in China.
by dmux | 2026-02-24 22:17:13+00:00
LispWorks and Allegro are both interesting, but I've found their IDE offerings to be very limited. I haven't used either since I was playing around with CL during Covid, but from what I recall, even the basic IDE experience of writing code was severely lacking: poor autocomplete, poor syntax highlighting, clunky interfaces. In most discussions I see about them, they're only recommended for their compilers, not for their IDE offerings.
by tossandthrow | 2026-02-24 22:17:13+00:00
My comment was more an answer to the proposed gatekeeping of science as a human activity.

Yes, Ai is still not good in the grand scheme of things. But everybody actively using it has gotten concerned over the past 2 months by the leap frigging of LLMs - and surprised as they thought we had arrived at the plateau.

We will see in a year or two if humans still hold an advantage in research - currently very few do in software development, despite what they think about themselves.
by incahoots | 2026-02-24 22:17:16+00:00
Might behoove you to know how schooling in that "country" is handled..especially when it comes to Palestinians. Below is an excellent insight as to how this is a "country" wide homegrown effort to raise unhinged cilivians that celebrate the murder of children & women.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/book-review-how-israe...
by justinnk | 2026-02-24 22:17:26+00:00
Thank you for the good laugh! This whole thread is peak satire.
Although, be careful. It reminds me of the foreword to a shortstory someone shared on HN recently: „[…] Read it and laugh, because it is very funny, and at the moment it is satire. If you’re still around forty years from now, do the existing societal equivalent of reading it again, and you may find yourself laughing out of the other side of your mouth (remember mouths?). It will probably be much too conservative.“ — https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618249203/9781618249203___...
by laughing_man | 2026-02-24 22:17:31+00:00
Differential pricing schemes are the primary way Corporations avoid corporate income taxes. I remember reading an article by an old Africa hand where he quoted the manager of an international corporation being exasperated with him and saying "You think I'm actually trying to make money here? This is all about taxes."

In theory overpaying for modules produced by your subsidiary, or overpricing IP, in a low tax country is illegal, at least in the US, but so much of that is subjective it's difficult for tax authorities to actually do anything unless the numbers are eggregious.
by skydhash | 2026-02-24 22:18:11+00:00
Maybe because code is different. A software is a recipe that an autonomous machine can follow (very fast and repeateadly).

But the whole goal of software engineering is not about getting the recipe to the machine. That’s quite easy. It’s about writing the correct recipe so that the output is what’s expected. It’s also about communicating the recipe to fellow developers (sharing knowledge).

But we are not developing recipe that much today. Instead we’ve built enough abstractions that we’re developing recipes of recipes. There’s a lot of indirection between what our recipe says and the final product. While we can be more creative, the failure mode has also increased. But the cost of physically writing a recipe has gone down a lot.

So what matters today is having a good understanding of the tower of abstractions, at least the part that is useful for a project. But you have to be on hand with it to discern the links between each layer and each concept. Because each little one matters. Or you delegate and choose to trust someone else.

Trusting AI is trusting that it can maintain such consistent models so that it produces the expected output. And we all know that they don’t.
by user____name | 2026-02-24 22:18:23+00:00
This is a common excuse, but The Truth is Israel doesn't care they're housing anything in the basement, they'll bomb it anyway. The ethnic cleansing agenda is plainly obvious at this point. In fact they seem to prefer having Hamas in predictable places, easier to take out and a convenient excuse to cull a few hundred of a superfluous population -- the Palestinian birth rate is way above that of Israelis. The operational reality is that Hamas is simply the best advertisement for the political hacks in charge of Israel, the system perpetuates itself because the current situation provides leverage for both ruling parties. And it turns out when you have two antagonistic death cults, people die. Solution: don't get born a Palestinian in Israel? Depressing.
by ijustlovemath | 2026-02-24 22:18:41+00:00
Helene survivor here. What's wild to me is that, regardless of the small scale of this facility, it's only a few hundred meters from a 1% flood zone: https://msc.fema.gov/portal/search

The address I found for the facility is 9101 Windmill Park Lane Hudson, TX 77064

This seems ill advised given recent events like Hurricane Harvey
by TedHerman | 2026-02-24 22:19:00+00:00
Originally published in If magazine in September 1954: in this satirical tale (author is Robert Schekley), advanced robot soldiers fight a war against "Satan's forces," and after their victory, they are raptured upward to a metallic heaven by a divine presence.
Key details of the story "The Battle":
Plot: Humans rely on automatic armies, including robot interceptors, tanks, and H-bombs, to fight their battles.
The Climax: After the battle, a divine force ("The Presence") walks among the shattered robots, repairing them and causing them to ascend into the sky, essentially granting them a form of robot heaven.
Themes: It reflects Sheckley's common themes of technological satire, the absurdity of war, and the blurred lines between man and machine.
This story is sometimes remembered in discussions about "Silicon Heaven" or robot apotheosis.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-24 22:19:25+00:00
Relatedly, the "gamer-oriented" business model of sell cosmetics and subscriptions to every user individually rather than the Slack big enterprise-oriented business model of a central admin paying an entire per-user cost out of pocket was a factor in many of my communities moving from Slack or skipping Slack. It's a lot easier for a small community admin to start for free and find enough "Boosts" from community membership for the nice-to-have server features that cost a bit extra than to foot the entire bill themselves in the hopes that enough users will eventually reimburse them. (It also allows for a hybrid where a community admin centrally pays for some amount of boosts, but doesn't have to pay for all of them.)
by ebbi | 2026-02-24 22:19:43+00:00
A stat I came across recently is that over 60% of Israeli's don't support a two state solution - i.e. they don't support the idea of Palestinians having a state.

This also tracks with my travels to Palestine, friends who have travelled more recently, and various videos and article: the right-left in Israel is quite different to the right-left in other Western nations: namely, if you talk to a leftist Israeli, they will also hold strong view against Palestinians.
by idop | 2026-02-24 22:19:54+00:00
At the end of the day, you made a conscious choice to accept the claim that the IDF confirmed the death toll as truth, and to spread it online as such, despite not having any actual proof. That was Hamas strategy since 0day, long before Israel even managed to clear the last Hamas terrorist from its borders after the attack: just make anti-Israel claims. Just make them. Everybody will accept them, no questions asked.
by vsgherzi | 2026-02-24 22:19:59+00:00
Is no one else interested in the "assemble advanced AI servers, including logic boards produced onsite, which are then used in Apple data centers in the U.S." in the pictures? Are they using nvidia GPUS? Their own silicon? Is there any data out there on what these servers are like? I don't think we've ever seen a picture of them before.
by woodruffw | 2026-02-24 22:20:16+00:00
Mike Huckabee is a clown who was more or less strategically plonked into Israel to feed soothing quotes to the settler minority. I think it'd be an error to assume that his particularly evil flavor of Christian eschatology reflects the political or military policies of Israel (which is saying a lot, since Israel's military policy is very clearly good at producing war crimes).
Show HN: AgentKeeper – Cross-model memory for AI agents
by thinklanceai | 2026-02-24 22:20:39+00:00
I built AgentKeeper to solve a problem I kept hitting: every time I switched LLM providers or an agent crashed, it lost all context.

AgentKeeper introduces a Cognitive Reconstruction Engine (CRE) that stores agent memory independently of any provider and reconstructs optimal context when switching models.

Benchmark: 19/20 critical facts recovered when switching GPT-4 → Claude (and reverse). Bidirectional, tested on real API calls.

Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama. SQLite persistence. MIT license.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-24 22:20:44+00:00
> This comment naively believes in zero sum creation of wealth.

As long as we're in a capitalist society, wealth is certainly zero-sum.

Every technological advancement that made jobs easier just allows corporations to increase their margins or increase the workload. If I automate some of my work and now only need to work 20 hours/week, I don't get 20 more hours/week of free time, I'm just given more work to do.

If someone gets completely automated out of their job, they don't get to relax and enjoy free time. They have to find a new job to pay the bills. With more and more people getting automated out of a job, UBI will become a necessity. We will need to increase taxes on corporations to fund it.
by simonw | 2026-02-24 22:20:57+00:00
I've found that using LLMs has had a very material effect on my productivity as a software developer. I write about them to help other people understand how I'm getting such great results and that this is a learnable skill that they can pick up.

I know about the METR paper that says people over-estimate the productivity gains. Taking that into account, I am still 100% certain that the productivity gains I'm seeing are real.

The other day I knocked out a custom macOS app for presenting web-pages-as-slides in Swift UI in 40 minutes, complete with a Tailscale-backed remote presenter control interface I could run from my phone. I've never touched Swift before. Nobody on earth will convince me that I could have done that without assistance from an LLM.

(And I'm sure you could say that's a bad example and a toy, but I've got several hundred more like that, many of which are useful, robust software I run in production.)
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-24 22:21:02+00:00
I didn't know this, thanks for explaining. If DOM APIs could be reworked for wasm support, and JS can work with those APIs, that would suffice. It won't get sites off normal JS any time soon. As far as speed, is it an optimization problem? I'd think just running bytecode is faster than interpreting a script. It doesn't need to be backwards compatible with existing JS code, it just needs to be possible to write front end code in JS for WASM. Migrating to the new approach could be similar to migrating away from Flash, ActiveX and Applets, but at a much larger scale.

10-20 years from now, is it really ok to be stuck with JS and CSS? The complexity is compounding, ever newer webapi's get encoded as JS APIs, and the dependency mess will only increase. Browsers are about as complex in some ways as an operating system. If we think about the world in terms of decades, what is the plan? This is a very serious issue, because of how much the world depends on browser tech, and effectively, Google is the arbiter and overseer of that technology. I don't think this will work out well, unless there is some timely foresight in the architecture.
by quacker | 2026-02-24 22:21:02+00:00
My family pricing went up by 20%, from $59.88 USD to $71.88 per year.

I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing, and I don't recall any downtime that impacted me. It's easy to setup and 99% hassle free. Works on my various device types (windows, mac, ios). It supports passkeys and 2FA codes. I like having shared and private vaults. I love the ability to share an auto-expiring, one-time-view link to a password. And the billing is a simple subscription fee.

I could do without some bloat. Watchtower feels like an enterprise need that is otherwise low-value and (by default) noisy for individuals/families. I obviously don't need "AI" forced into my password manager. I didn't love the version 7 to 8 transition that required a new app/extension to be installed. But all of that is really not so bad.

So yeah, I don't feel like I'm getting any additional value that justifies the price increase, but it's still more than worth it for me.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-24 22:21:35+00:00
Both companies known for arbitrary restrictions on what transactions can be processed and freezing or closing accounts. The consolidation of basic financial utilities into big mega corporations is bad for society. It means those locked out are also just locked out of the financial system as a whole.

Not to mention, the PayPal mafia and their support for MAGA supremacist ideology, makes PayPal radioactive. I wonder how that’ll infect and corrupt stripe.
by akssassin907 | 2026-02-24 22:21:36+00:00
The architecture here is right, local execution, remote window. Running agents on your own machine means your filesystem, tools, and env stay intact, you're not paying cloud rates for compute that your hardware can already handle.

The "survive interruptions" piece is underrated. Anyone who has had a long agentic run get killed by a dropped connection knows the pain. Session persistence isn't glamorous but it changes how you actually use these tools day to day.

Curious how it handles multiple local sessions — if you're running separate agents on the same machine for different projects, can you switch between them remotely or are you stuck being able to only remote control 1 bot?
by juleiie | 2026-02-24 22:21:57+00:00
Well if you think about AI as another manhattan project this is clearly not that good. Or maybe it is? Maybe it will zero sum into some kind of mutually assured AI superiority destruction. Maybe anything else would be too tempting for the nation with access to super intelligence to not instantly submit the opponent that doesn’t possess an equivalent?

This is a bit overdramatizing. Let’s just think of it as strategic, tactical and planning superalgorithms. A nation without access to them becomes between severely disadvantaged and completely defenseless. Is it in the interest of the world to preserve the exiting status quo and balance of power?

Or let’s say we make china severely behind this technology. Now they cannot defend themselves from a potential USA swift nuclear strike so precise that a chance of retaliation is zero. Is this a net benefit to the world.
by vsgherzi | 2026-02-24 22:22:05+00:00
Just as manufacturing in China took time manufacturing in the US will take time. The US has lost much of its skilled labor and mom and pop parts shop. If we have any hope of re-invigorating this some large company is going to have to bite the bullet. Chicken and egg problem imo. I'll leave whether this is worth it or not up to the economists.
by troupo | 2026-02-24 22:22:07+00:00
Because of literally years of terrorist acts from Hamas? Because the action initially had overwhelming public support? Because, as any military action without proper planning, they promised a quick victory and had no plans beyond "bomb, bomb, bomb"? And had no plans for "what do we do if we don't succeed"?

For an exactly same "military action with no planning but a lot of bravado" scenario see Russia's invasion into Ukraine.
by antiford2049 | 2026-02-24 22:22:42+00:00
Adyen is behind Stripe when it comes to small enterprises but ahead on large enterprises and especially global merchants. They also have scaled back on digital merchants which you can lose easily and focus more on unified commerce, their growth is a lot higher quality. They also report growth differently - ex fees to schemes and banks. Stripe will be on the hook if banks and schemes raise their fees. You also dont know what margin stripe has, just say robust which is enough for the crowd on wallstreet of course but I digress. The fact is Stripe is a good company, but its valuation is set in a room while Adyen's valuation is set on the market 80% of which is pods trading back and forth.
by ModernMech | 2026-02-24 22:23:18+00:00
> New languages and technology will be derivatives of existing tech.

This has always been true.

> There will be no React successor.

No one needs one, but you can have one by just asking the AI to write it if that's what we need.

> There will never be a browser that can run something other than JS.

Why not, just tell the AI to make it.

> And the reason for that is because in 20 years the new engineers will not know how to code anymore.

They may not need to know how to code but they should still be taught how to read and write in constructed languages like programming languages. Maybe in the future we don't use these things to write programs but if you think we're going to go the rest of history with just natural languages and leave all the precision to the AI, revisit why programming languages exist in the first place.

Somehow we have to communicate precise ideas between each other and the LLM, and constructed languages are a crucial part of how we do that. If we go back to a time before we invented these very useful things, we'll be talking past one another all day long. The LLM having the ability to write code doesn't change that we have to understand it; we just have one more entity that has to be considered in the context of writing code. e.g. sometimes the only way to get the LLM to write certain code is to feed it other code, no amount of natural language prompting will get there.
by martinald | 2026-02-24 22:23:24+00:00
Thanks. Btw, doesn't work at all for me. I installed, tried to connect to my WSL2 instance on localhost via SSH, which worked. Selected a folder and got Claude Code is not installed (it is very much installed :)).

Then tried running the Linux version on WSL2 (not ideal because the wayland server on WSL2 is slow) - doesn't work. This 404s: https://github.com/generalaction/emdash/releases/download/v0...

Grabbed the version before and got "PTY unavailable: ... was compiled against a different Node.js version using NODE_MODULE_VERSION 127, this version requires NODE_MODULE_VERSION 123".

Hope you can fix the bugs. I love Conductor on my Mac, but I need something for my WSL2 machine. Ideally Windows which can SSH into WSL2 (for UI speed) or runs on Linux itself. This is very close to what I need if you fix the bugs :).
by rayiner | 2026-02-24 22:23:56+00:00
Because it’s important to have the domestic capacity to build the most sophisticated products. Political power is downstream of manufacturing capacity. The countries that have sophisticated enough centrifuges that they can refine weapons grade plutonium derive an incredible amount of political power from that fact.

Remember that, after World War I, the U.S. had most demobilized its military. The Japanese had more aircraft carriers than the U.S. in 1941. That’s why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor—it thought it could win!

But while the U.S. was weak militarily, it had been the largest industrial producer since the late 19th century. Within a couple of years of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had built a bigger air force and navy than the rest of the world combined.

That’s why it’s better to be able to make Mac Minis in Houston. Because you can repurpose those facilities to produce electronics for warships instead of having to buy parts from countries you might be at war with.
by kizzo16 | 2026-02-24 22:23:59+00:00
The three of us used to track our games in a shared spreadsheet, but it just felt too outdated and lacking all the fun features we actually wanted. We tried different tools but nothing felt clean or satisfying enough, especially compared to how smooth Letterboxd feels.

So we built our own. gamerlog.app

What started as a small weekend idea turned into a late‑night passion project: a simple, clean app to keep track of what we’re playing, what we’ve finished, and what we want to play next. Along the way we added the features we always wished existed:
Gamer DNA insights & personal stats (it’s fully deterministic, not AI-generated fluff).
Custom lists (ranked or free format etc.)
Gamer reviews & impressions
Community‑curated lists
Social interaction: follow players, see activity, share what you’re playing and curate your profile.
We made it for ourselves but we’re soft‑launching it to see what other gamers think. If you’ve ever wanted a smoother way to organize your gaming life, you might enjoy it too.
For gamers, by gamers.
by jasperry | 2026-02-24 22:24:00+00:00
You're right that being a scientist is unlikely to result in personal wealth and so that's not the primary drive for those who seek faculty or research positions. However, it's not just curiosity, prestige and vanity either, because a big factor for promotion and tenure is how much grant money you bring in. That money is what keeps the university's lights on and buys the lab equipment and pays the grad students, so it's still money as a primary driver in the background.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-24 22:24:07+00:00
Yes, many of them don't. They're fed convincing cover-stories like "we need this to stop CSAM" or "this prevents terrorism", and then put on a security theater about E2EE and military-grade cryptography. They sleep like a baby because most of them genuinely think they're the good guys, hell, even people on HN appear to buy the obvious lie whenever Client Side Scanning or Flock is brought up.

You can hire sociopaths to work the ~1% of jobs that require a complete understanding of your moral bankruptcy. Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Larry Ellison, none of these people ever apologized for their ethical flexibility because it's precisely what qualifies them for such a lucrative job. Persona can be a shell org with 20 evil engineers while their partners absentmindedly do the integration work.
by Diti | 2026-02-24 22:24:21+00:00
No, the article’s title is definitely clickbait. The author didn’t teach his dog to vibe code games (that’s what the title on the blog is) – he taught his dog to be rewarded when he types random keystrokes on the keyboard. The vibe-coding is inconsequential – the dog doesn’t play the game, he’s just in it for the treats –, the author just wants the attention because he gets people to believe the dog DID vibe code.

It will stop being clickbaity if the author decides to let his dog respond to stimuli related to the game he’d be building with a feedback loop.
by cholantesh | 2026-02-24 22:25:00+00:00
>Independent 3rd parties were brought in to verify, though.

Reuters was given an IDF escort as they were walked through the tunnel system, during which a room with some servers was called a Hamas data centre, and they nodded along. That's not quite the same thing.

>Lots of the footage in the early days of the war that was claimed to be from Gaza was actually recycled from the Syrian civil war.

Lots of footage that Hamas or advocates for Palestine released or Twitter randos? Not all of those things are equivalent to Israel making a claim.
by nullIsAnObject | 2026-02-24 22:25:09+00:00
Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor consistently does it for me (https://youtu.be/8V41D0Uczf0). I stopped and stared the first time I heard it (thanks Wednesday Addams!), and learning that it is a reflection on the humanity-altering changes of WW1 makes it more emotional than just another ASMR tingle (which I also sometimes get, as does my daughter).