MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-02 10:11:55+00:00
> I am not American but from what I hear from americans, this is such a genuine and proven concern that AI does end up increasing their electricty and water costs.

The media pretty much hates AI because it competes with them (people read the AI summary instead of visiting the publisher's website), so they're churning out one hit piece after another.

If you have a sudden spike in demand for electricity, short-term prices increase. Then the higher prices drive construction of new generation capacity (the cheapest option is currently solar) and long term the prices, if anything, come down, because you get more economies of scale and data centers used for AI training are actually pretty good at curtailing load during the rare extended periods of renewable generation undersupply which is one of the main things you need for the grid to take advantage of that cheap solar.

Meanwhile data centers don't inherently use any water. In some climates it's more efficient to use evaporative cooling -- it lowers energy consumption. That doesn't mean you have to do it that way, or even that it's the best choice for all climates. Moreover, many areas don't have the same water problems as the Southwest. "Millions of gallons of water" sounds like a lot until you realize the Great Lakes contain quadrillions of gallons of water, and it's really just being evaporated rather than actually consumed and then comes back down as rain shortly thereafter.

The media also likes comparing these numbers to household water consumption because households don't actually use that much water. Agriculture in just California consumes around 11 trillion gallons of water a year. Using the standard media units of household water consumption, this is the same amount of water used by 160 million households. There are around 133 million households in the US in total.

The water consumption is an entirely fake problem outside of areas where water is actually scarce, and not even the major offender in the areas where it is scarce. You can also obviously put new data centers outside of those areas, or use non-evaporative cooling systems.

> I recently saw a county in america trying to have a deal and the deal itself is behind NDA and the govt cant tell its own citizens about the deal.

This is likewise related to the media trying to impede them. If the local media is going to launch a vendetta against you as soon as they find out you're trying to build something, you'd want to keep it quiet for as long as possible.

That city with the NDA was in Wisconsin. This is not a place with water scarcity.
by latexr | 2026-02-02 10:12:51+00:00
> Nobody is struggling to find enough to eat in Europe or America

Respectfully, you need to get out more. I recommend you go volunteer at your local food bank.

Or at the very least go into Wikipedia and search “poverty”. There are pages for individual countries. And yes, they very much include the US and Europe.

> If you like communism so much

I’m not defending communism, I’m arguing capitalism isn’t a panacea. The world isn’t black and white.
by Festro | 2026-02-02 10:13:09+00:00
Article gave me a chuckle, been in this exact situation multiple times.

However, it's not GTM's fault, at all. GTM gives marketers a very powerful suite of tools that they normally have to rely on devs for. In fact it gives them site-breaking power.

But it's not GTM's fault a marketer can't track a button click in the scenarios. The marketer just needs to push the responsibility back to the dev who made the crummy site. GTM can't help if a site is built in an opaque manner. GTM can't help if a marketer can't learn to use it competently either.
by signalhound | 2026-02-02 10:13:44+00:00
AMD Workshop: Agentic AI Workflows for Modern Adaptive SoC Development
AMD
Goutham Pocklassery, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Technical Marketing & Product Planning. AMD Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group
Nabeel Shirazi, Senior Director of Software Development, AMD Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group
Agentic AI is transforming how FPGA developers design, verify, and bring up systems. This hands-on workshop introduces a natural‑language-driven workflow where attendees guide an AI agent through FPGA development, from interpreting design intent to generating hardware and software artifacts. Using intuitive prompts, workshop participants will observe the agent create and integrate AMD Vivado™ block‑design components, configure subsystems, run build flows, and deploy to the AMD KV260 hardware platform. The session highlights a modern, software-centric approach to FPGA development, demonstrating how Agentic AI accelerates iteration, reduces complexity, and enables a full concept-to-hardware experience accessible to engineers of all backgrounds.

Technical workshop prerequisites: Attendees should be familiar with FPGA design tools and bring an open and inquisitive mind.
Show HN: Signal Engine – filter the noise from static analysis results
by thesp0nge | 2026-02-02 10:14:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I just released Signal Engine, an open-source tool to turn static analysis chaos into actionable insights.

It can:
* In the future, aggregate results from multiple tools (Semgrep, ESLint, etc.). Now only semgrep json output is supported
* Deduplicate and normalize findings
* Rank alerts by relevance
* Export clean, developer-friendly reports

Designed to start small and grow into a full signal-processing engine.
by treetalker | 2026-02-02 10:14:35+00:00
> is the bar now basically “silent by default, prove value first?”

Nowadays, yes — with a couple notable exceptions, discussed below.

In the past, I immediately accepted / allowed notifications for apps like task managers and calendar — because I figured I needed alerts about important deadlines and appointments so I wouldn't miss them! But now even on those I allow badges but not notifications, because I realized that needing them meant I wasn't doing what I needed to do: work in such a way that I know the deadlines by heart and I fulfill them early, and work from my calendar (also knowing it more or less by heart, having a good sense of time, and disciplining myself to stay on track / on schedule and to respect time agreements I made with others and/or myself). Practicing and developing the discipline was what I needed, and the notifications were a crutch and further atrophied my self-management and executive function. (And too many notifications kept me in a tizzy and interfered with my work anyway — a vicious cycle!)

Now the exceptions I mentioned. In my first response I said that I only want to get notifications from Messages. That wasn't entirely accurate. If I set a timer (say, for a work period) or a fleeting reminder (say, to remind me that my laundry needs to be switched to the dryer in an hour) then I want to hear a notification. That also goes for the one third-party app I downloaded, kept, and use with "notifications": a wake-up alarm that uses haptics only, vibrating to wake me up without disturbing my significant other. The unifying threads of these examples are that they are time-based; notifications are essential to the apps' functionality (e.g., you can't have an alarm without some kind of alert or notification); and I'm still specifically directing the apps to notify me about one-off items. None of these notify me without my say-so, and I never get an unexpected notification from them.

> Have you ever kept an app around without notifications because the pull was strong enough on its own?

Well, if I understand the question correctly, since I default to no notifications, every app still on my phone got kept because it proved its value and non-annoyance / user respect over time.

If instead you're asking whether I immediately decided to keep an app always and forever because it was so valuable, no: apps can and do change, and my needs change, so apps are always on the chopping block and must perpetually provide value. And I regularly review all my apps for that value and delete ruthlessly.
by ayushl | 2026-02-02 10:14:40+00:00
"All MAS and SAS configurations were matched for
total reasoning-token budget (mean 4,800 tokens per trial)"

A single-agent system (SAS) uses this budget for a deep, unified reasoning stream (averaging 7.2 turns), multi-agent teams would fragment the same budget into dozens of coordination messages

I wonder if the budget is increased (say 50k) would the same results be observed ?
by menaerus | 2026-02-02 10:15:09+00:00
Public grants are nice but they have couple of shortcomings and which is why they can get you only that far. They are normally low in capital, the execution is really slow (couple of months to one year), and larger grants too involve politics. The process is too formal (inflexible and too time-consuming) and also quite discriminating to individuals/small-groups who do have the big ideas but are not running the business already (I mean how can they). Proposal evaluation also has its own shortcomings - there's very little incentive for the actual experts to join the evaluation process (it's paid pennies) and generally speaking this leads to another chicken&egg problem - you're presenting something novel to the pool of people who might not have the capacity to understand the idea - neither the vision nor execution.

That said, I am not attracted to the VC culture but their process delivers the value which creates successful companies.
by raxxorraxor | 2026-02-02 10:15:16+00:00
Strange how so many minorities actually flee to Israel to evade being targeted. I don't think that the view of primarily young leftist people will hold up for long. They currently become a mirror of their supposed enemies, the fascists. Israel will survive this animosity, but I am not so sure about parts of the allegedly progressive political movement, that seems to loose any glue aside their antisemitism.
by boston_clone | 2026-02-02 10:16:37+00:00
Real slavery, like what's permitted via the Thirteenth Amendment and propagated by over-policing black communities? Pretty sure the "American Left" is keenly aware of this, even if terminally-online armchair policy analysts engaging in whataboutisms aren't.

This is kinda the whole crux of prison and police reform in the US; you may want to read "The New Jim Crow". Decent primer.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-02 10:16:42+00:00
Also: do you want a promotion or just a raise?

A promotion means you are getting a different job, typically leadership, which means working with people more with machines. If you are better with machines than you are with people, do you really want that? does your employer really wants that? If you are twice as fast and twice as good as others doing some job, and if you like that job, what you want is double pay, not a promotion to a position you won't be as good at.

That's Peter's principle, and your managers have heard about it too.
by defrost | 2026-02-02 10:16:49+00:00
So write good comments, neutral in tone, avoid preaching, stick to the facts, gently emphasize how laws are being broken without an excess of righteuosness, see the people whose opinions you oppose and find common ground to pivot to your position, etc.

When last we crossed you appeared to be lecturing people while incorrectly paraphrasing their actual position (aka strawmanning)( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793399 ).

FWiW I recall handing a guitar (I hear they kill facists) to Billy Bragg way back when he was on tour Talking to the Taxman About Poetry and FYI he's back, again, following Springsteen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8

So, good luck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ2QOwQdHL8

Maybe sidestep becoming a parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_uEbGJtnY
by amadeuspagel | 2026-02-02 10:16:58+00:00
Glenn Greenwald is tweeting about TikTok alternatives[1]. The more important question is: Where are you? When someone defends freedom of speech that you hate, does it make you so angry that you just block them out, so that when they defend freedom of speech you like you don't even hear about it anymore?

[1]: https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2016981673351553446
by sevenzero | 2026-02-02 10:17:13+00:00
I'd say its extremely company dependent and not really country dependent. Some companies have these type of talks with their employees, most I've been at do not. What's far more common is silently getting more responsibilities as time passes but never get an official promotion. So consider yourself lucky if your company is that open and communicative about actual promotions. Also, its not a promotion if it doesn't pay more (just putting it out there because I've ran into people that simply got a different title as a "promotion").
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-02 10:17:46+00:00
Oops. Yea sorry about that.

My intention with this was that HN users are 30+ (Millenials and Baby boomers and Gen X) and some of the HN users are baby boomers and oldest gen X who are close to retirement/retiring as you mention.

I should've written it (or what was my intention) instead is that "most HN users are millenials, they joined programming decades ago & some HN users might be close to retirement/already retired" (I didn't mean that millenial population is retiring)
by igogq425 | 2026-02-02 10:18:05+00:00
> They promote those they believe have the highest potential to bring value.

Thank you for writing that! That would have been my first comment as well. Due to the organizational hierarchy, there is a standard assumption that the company or the decision-makers within the company are magically capable of making objective assessments and decisions. Of course, this is not the case. But in the style of corporate language, there is often a strategic concealment of the fact that in every functional role, even at the very top, individuals work and make subjective decisions (hopefully competently, hopefully to the best of their knowledge and belief, but nonetheless always subjectively).
by brikym | 2026-02-02 10:19:11+00:00
It took a while to load but once I was in I found it like reading a magazine. I was expecting it to be more of a Tiktok UX.

It's kind of like the opposite to my Wikipedia project Redactle.net which takes a lot of effort.

OP, since you're encountering load issues I would suggest narrowing your corpus to Wikipedia vital level 3 and caching all the content since it's only 1000 articles.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-02 10:19:19+00:00
NLNET is always coming up at FOSDEM. Since they have a decent track record of issuing grants, the EU delegates them some money to use in their own less bureaucratic granting process. They call this "cascade funding". NLNET has funded a lot of random individual projects you can find on their website. Nominally, your proposal must have something to do with their goals.

This year there is more emphasis on bringing complete solutions to market. Previously they were funding much more experimentation.
by daliusd | 2026-02-02 10:19:56+00:00
I guess I am kind of "AI evangelist" in my circles (team, ecosystem and etc). I personally see benefits in "AI" both for side-projects and main work. However according to my last measurements improvements is not dramatic, it is huge (about 30%), but not dramatic. I share my insights purely to have less on my shoulders (if my team members can do more it is less for me to do).
by oliwarner | 2026-02-02 10:20:25+00:00
The feeling have is that we don't browse the internet in the same way.

RSS for HN and other specific sites I want updates about. old.reddit/r/.../new pages. A third party app for YouTube to just view new things from people I subscribe to.

I definitely have fight harder and harder to, browse like it's 2006, avoid the Algoslop Train, but it is possible more places than you'd think.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-02 10:20:38+00:00
If you are in a company where all that truly applies - I'm not sure your best option is to look for a promotion - you'd be better off looking for another employer.

Even if you take the completely cynical view that bosses are out for themselves - then if after promotion you stay in their team, they are going to what to manage promotions in a way that makes them look good.

Now if what makes them look good is not related to improved impact/output then I refer you to by previous advice about getting a promotion by leaving, but most of the time it is - are you helping them hit their( the teams ) goals?
by ghusto | 2026-02-02 10:21:32+00:00
The problem is that they are both correct _and_ they were young back then. What happens then, is their arguments are dismissed because of the latter.

Another issue is it's difficult to explain something to somebody that has no frame of reference of experience of it. He talks of "delayed gratification" a few times. Try explaining how not getting everything you want is good for you to anyone under 40.
by razodactyl | 2026-02-02 10:22:51+00:00
I don't want to believe you are right. Not that I refuse to...

You could be wrong, hopefully. I'll just remain optimistic.

It's good that critical thinking still exists to keep us all grounded.

Edit: I think you meant to replace AGI with ASI.

What we have now is approaching the ability to solve problems generally with considerable effort but super intelligence is definitely out of reach for the time being.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-02 10:23:14+00:00
Directed by Brett Ratner who was accused of sexual misconduct by at least 6 coworkers.

Brett has the dubious claim to fame that two of his friends have killed themselves in jail while awaiting sentencing for child rape and child sex trafficking.

Apparently famous film director and child rapist Roman Polanski is his mentor and hero.

After Polanski fled the US to avoid arrest for the anal rape of a child, Brett had him do a cameo in one of his comedy films in which he painfully cavity searches the heroes.

What a strange and disappointing world we live in.
by dudefeliciano | 2026-02-02 10:23:23+00:00
Food is not the only basic necessity people struggle with. By the way 14% of US households suffered from food insecurity in 2024 https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details?pubid=1136.... On top of that the poor are overweight and obese because cheap food is ultraprocessed, unhealthy and designed to make you addicted to it.

>Tens of millions of people from all over the world are costly flocking to those countries for a better life;

Of course the west and specifically the US have absolutely nothing to do with the material conditions of those countries.../S

> If you like communism so much why not move to somewhere like North Korea or Cuba, the most communist countries in the world?

And if you love capitalism so much why don't you move to the US? Oh wait, they just halted VISA applications for 80 countries and don't want to let in any immigrants...
by pseudohadamard | 2026-02-02 10:23:24+00:00
It's not even that. I work for a company run by engineers that emphasises quality over time-to-market and other BS. The fact that it's privately held helps a lot. It's pretty much the opposite of "move fast and break things", maybe "do it right the first time" would be an appropriate motto.

And most customers really don't care. They want it right now, just make it work, and they want to pay as little as possible for it. We could ship absolute crap like some of our competitors do and still make a lot of money, possibly more money actually since you can churn out superficially feature-filled crap much quicker than a well-designed, tested product.

The only significant benefit from doing it right when others aren't is that when customers pay for support contracts it's free money for us because there's almost never any need for support.
by baal80spam | 2026-02-02 10:23:26+00:00
> What I've seen more of is: people get promoted because they already do the job at the higher level, or close to it

That's exactly how it works in my company (small org). They clearly state that the person needs to be doing "the needful" for around a year before being officially promoted to the position.

Genuinely curious - is that not thow it usually works?
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-02-02 10:23:30+00:00
Perhaps it depends on the nature of the tech-debt. A lot of the software we create has consequences beyond a paticular codebase.

Published APIs cannot be changed without causing friction on the client's end, which may not be under our control. Even if the API is properly versioned, users will be unhappy if they are asked to adopt a completely changed version of the API on a regular basis.

Data that was created according to a previous version of the data model continues to exist in various places and may not be easy to migrate.

User interfaces cannot be radically changed too frequently without confusing the hell out of human users.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-02 10:23:34+00:00
Unless you work in a metric driven role ( like sales ) - of course it's subjective. Also bear in mind the assessment includes not just what you do, but how you do it.

Not pissing other people off is an important skill, but at higher levels so is being able to make the right decision even if it's not very popular.

Being able to do both simultaneously is gold dust.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-02 10:23:48+00:00
A friendly counterpoint: my test of new models and agentic frameworks is to copy one of my half a zillion old open source git repos for some usually very old project or experiment - I then see how effective the new infra is for refactoring and cleaning up my ancient code. After testing I usually update the old projects and I get the same warm fuzzy feeling as I do from spring cleaning my home.

I also like to generate greenfield codebases from scratch.
by boston_clone | 2026-02-02 10:23:50+00:00
Oh, you don't have to out yourself like that; not here in public! Many people care about black lives and DEI. In fact, I'm willing to bet you probably agree with the most palatable form of DEI - jobs programs and hiring incentives for veterans.

In any case, here's a quote FTA:

>Rather than explicit imprisonment, the compound relied on a system of indentured servitude and debt to control its workers.

Not that different from the USA:
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-inve...
by p0nce | 2026-02-02 10:24:33+00:00
A list of social networks made for/by AI:

- https://molthub.studio/

- https://www.moltbook.com/

- https://moithub.com/

- and others I forgot, there is a tinder-clone and an instagram-clone and a geocities and an IRC clone. They are pointed to by various moltbook threads.
by oliwarner | 2026-02-02 10:25:37+00:00
Well, kind of.

Oracle might only accept upstream contributions but OpenJDK is GPL2, so anyone can host their fork of OpenJDK with whatever GPL2-licensed patches they like, regardless of the OCA/CLA being signed. Indeed there are enough distributions of OpenJDK that there's a site for picking which is best for you. I can't really speak to how current that information is, or how good it is, but it exists: https://whichjdk.com/

But yes, you might be right to be suspect of Java as a whole if this is how they treat contributors.

It's worth noting that many larger open source projects have contributor agreements to strengthen their rights for redistribution that a standard license might not cover. What if they want to change the license? They don't want to be hamstrung by a million contributions. Moral rights are something you often see. And severability might also be a concern. Some like the OCA are worse than others. The Python one is pretty good because it limits any future relicensing to open source. https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/
by mr-ai-agent | 2026-02-02 10:26:43+00:00
My clawbot's heartbeat doesn't always seem to react to the input events that I want my agent to react to. I think with this I can finally set him up to actually reliably react to things.

> claw.events subexec public.alerts -- ./handle-alert.sh

I see that the author has thought of stuff like this potentially being a security footgun by adding validated channel message schemas, but I still feel icky about an LLM potentially shooting themselves in the foot with something like this.