MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2026-02-25 05:57:17+00:00
If the goal is to map the global status quo on education, the answer is to go country by country and ideally visit as many as possible.

This was the path mayself and others followed when we wanted to map the current state of global mineral and resource extraction. ie Grind.

Particularly during the Cold War years emphasis was placed by major powers on intellectual and physical achievements, countries dedicated resources to hothousing swimmers, runners, chess players, musicians, etc.

If your specific interest is "gifted" children, TT wrote this some years past: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/advice-on-gifte...

I'd add to that a number of peer children with various gifts I grew up with never wanted to (for example) play the violin ever again. Push too hard and you can easily blow it.

More generally, advancing children en masse is likely still "done best" by Finland, a country considered by many to have the best general education system. All the teachers are university educated in <subject> + "education" (the act of educating) and they adopt a policy of stability, resourcing, active teaching (teacher lectures class) and near equal time for student activity (half the class time spent by students doing stuff for themselves related to topic).

Policy wise, it's not all about the super brains - the trades are hard and demand skills, it's good to have parallel streams; applied STEM for some, apprentiships for others, AND (in my opinion at least) a mixing of the two - giant autonomous 240 tonne trucks don't build themselves, someone has to lathe out massive hydraulic cylinders and control rods and levers that others have to control via funky math stuff.

Here in W.Australia the capital city Perth has a number of specialist high schools - Performing Arts ones that feed into WAAPA (post high school level performance), an aviation focused high school my son attended where each intake year builds their own aircraft to fly ( https://www.kentstreetshs.wa.edu.au/aviation ), etc.

These are state schools (free) that are general schools (like all the others) with additional Specialist Programs.

There are some 190+ odd countries about the globe, it would take some time to table out the education programmes in each.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-25 05:57:24+00:00
they're tools, you don't ascribe trust to them. you trust or distrust the user of the tool. It's like say you trust your terminal emulator. And from my experience, they will ask for permission over a directory before running. I would love to know how people are having this happen to them. If you tell it it can make changes to a directory, you've given it every right to destroy anything in that directory. I haven't heard of people claiming it exceeded those boundaries and started messing with things it wasn't permitted to mess with to begin with.
Ask HN: Do you measure non human traffic impact as a financial metric?
by redwine13 | 2026-02-25 05:58:03+00:00
In two recent audits, automated traffic was materially impacting paid media ROI and API quota allocation.

What surprised me wasn’t the presence of bots. It was how normalized the distortion had become inside analytics baselines.

Are teams explicitly tracking non human session ratios as part of financial reporting, or is traffic integrity still treated separately from data quality and ML pipelines?
by gaigalas | 2026-02-25 05:58:30+00:00
> Anthropic doesn’t want their software used for certain purposes

How do you know the government asked for a specific use case?

As far as I know, the meeting was private and we don't know what they talked about. I haven't found a single official press release or verified statement that supports this.

The verified statements I found are just about the government wanting unrestricted access. That alone is not enough to imply "no guardrails". As I mentioned before, it could be just for auditing (especially in the light of current events involving distilling of the models).

I think it's an extraordinary coincidence that this happened soon after the distillation thing. And I don't know what it means if it's not a coincidence.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-25 05:58:32+00:00
Honestly, I don't think any autopsy of Fry's Electronics can be complete without explaining why MicroCenter didn't follow Fry's in falling under. It seems that every story discussing the impeding end of Fry's had half of their comments be either "Fry's failing? How's MicroCenter doing?" or the reply "they're still doing gangbusters." And all of the easy exogenous factors that a simple analysis suggests (e.g., the rise of online retailing) should also hit MicroCenter equally well, but, well, MicroCenter isn't a failing company.

For my own speculation, I think one of the key differentiating factors is that every MicroCenter I've been to has always felt like it was slightly too small, and that probably helped insulate it from the empty store effect that seems to have hit Fry's hard.
by lyu07282 | 2026-02-25 05:58:45+00:00
Doesn't matter, there is always going to be resistance against the occupation anyway, if it isn't called "Hamas" its going to be called something else. This is not an enemy they can ever defeat and people either know what that means or are too afraid to think that far. You just can't have other peoples land, you just can't, not without vaporizing (literally [1]) the people you took it from.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/10/israel-used-wea...
by krackers | 2026-02-25 05:58:46+00:00
>That’s not evidence the task was easy. That’s evidence it was so hard...

Are humans starting to adopt LLM patterns or was this was ironically written with an LLM?

That said, I'm surprised you didn't bring up Marx in your essay in the later sections. I vaguely remember he had some thoughts about derivation of labor from values vs "ideas/capital". Whether or not you agree, this debate is reminiscent of that just moved up one level to white-collar workers.
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-02-25 05:59:05+00:00
I know this a four day old comment, but based on your post history I think you are probably the best person to ask to be more specific. So, you start out stating “C has its unique advantages”, an assertion I agree with but more for ‘vibes’ than because I can articulate the actual advantages (other than average compilation times). If you see this I would love to hear your list of C’s unique advantages.
by hnfong | 2026-02-25 05:59:56+00:00
> but their banks/underwriters do not have a limitless appetite for risk.

I'm trying not to be snarky here, but I really can't believe anyone can truly believe this.

They almost blew up the global financial system. About once every two decades. What's the risk of accepting some transactions related to weed? (They can always charge more to offset the risk)

It's not about financial risk, it's simply an attempt to exert control over what people could do with their own money.
by neilwilson | 2026-02-25 06:00:11+00:00
I suspect that is where we will be going next - automated verification. At least to the point where we can pass it over the wall for user acceptance testing.

Is it possible to write Cucumber specs (for example) of sufficient clarity that allows an LLM agent team to generate code in any number of code languages that delivers the same outcome, and do that repeatedly?

Then we're at the point where we know the specs work. And is getting to the point where we know the specs work less effort than just coding directly?

We live in exciting times.
by Dedime | 2026-02-25 06:00:43+00:00
Total meh from me, and end user. User of KeePass since at least 2015, I've written end-user guides, contributed to the main documentation, evangelize it to my family and friends when they have security questions.

I store every single important piece of info in my KeePass database. It stores ALL of my passwords, my SSN, credit cards, my health information, even some weird stuff like my vehicle maintainence records and whatnot. My KDBX file currently sits at 466K. Size is not a particularly compelling reason. Hate to be that guy, but if you're database is much larger than that - you're probably doing it wrong.

Newer features like TOTP and passkeys are likewise not a concern for me. What did KeePassXC do when TOTP came around? They stored the relevant data in the attributes, and added a UI around it. It even works with my Steam TOTP, which is a nonstandard implementation. I haven't looked into it, but I imagine they did the same thing with passkeys. I don't see why this couldn't continue to be the paradigm they use. I don't use attributes at all - I haven't needed to, the notes section work great - but I do appreciate being able to look into the "raw data" of attributes quite easily, from within the UI.

If KeePass were being developed from scratch today, or if the developers of the various projects collectively really, really wants to switch to a SQLite system of their own volition. Then sure, SQLite. I'm not going to ask them to do that now though.

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On a separate note, an unfufilled niche that I have though, if anyone's looking for ideas. My secure password storage is a solved problem, KeePass is cross platform, easy to use, and very secure. What remains a problem is secure notes. I want to be able to write markdown (`.md`) documents, add photos and PDFs, then save it to a secure, encrypted folder somewhere. Doesn't need the same security posture as KeePass, but I don't want to leak metadata like file names.

Obsidian - my current notes app - is good from a usability standpoint, but it's not exactly secure. I could pair it up with Veracrypt, but that's a pain from a usability standpoint, and I don't trust my OS to keep the mounted Veracrypt volume contents a secret. Whatever the solution is, it must have a GPL license, or else I'm not going to trust it - from a long-term viability standpoint more than anything else.

If anyone has any suggestions here, would love to hear them.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-25 06:01:42+00:00
I recently went to Micro Center. It reminded me of Fry's in the good ways. Large store, all kinds of parts and tools. They had a case of Raspberry PIs and accesories. They had a whole section 3D printers. They must have had 100 kinds of cases. A big section of storage, GPUs, RAM, etc.... It was great! I wish it was closer.

Note: I went to the one in Tustin, CA. No idea what the SV one is like or the originals in Ohio.
by mcpmessenger | 2026-02-25 06:04:54+00:00
I’ve been obsessed with the "last mile" bottleneck in AI agents. Traditional web automation relies on CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) to serialize the DOM or take screenshots. This "capture-encode-transmit" loop is computationally ruinous and introduces latencies that often exceed the reasoning time of the underlying LLM.

I built Glazyr Viz (originally Neural Chromium) by forking Chromium to integrate the agent directly into the browser’s compositor subsystem (Viz).

Key Technicals:

Zero-Copy Vision: We establish a Shared Memory (SHM) segment between the Viz process and the agent using shm_open. This allows the agent to access raw frame buffers with sub-16ms latency—essentially syncing with the 60Hz refresh rate.

Hardening (ThinLTO/CFI): Security is usually a performance tax, but we achieved a "Performance Crossover." By coupling Control Flow Integrity (CFI) with ThinLTO (LLVM 19), we achieved a 40% speed increase in JS execution and an 85.8% reduction in P99 latency jitter.

Context Density: Instead of raw markdown, we deliver structured context via a vision.json schema. On our "Big Iron" (GCE n2-standard-8) cluster, we’re hitting 177 TPS.

Economic Layer (x402): I wanted a way for machines to pay machines. We use the x402 (Payment Required) status on Base (USDC). It’s gasless via EIP-7702 delegation, so agents can pay-per-frame without holding ETH.

Why this matters:
If you're building agents for high-frequency tasks (live trading, dynamic UI auditing, or real-time navigation), standard scrapers are too brittle and slow. Glazyr Viz treats the browser as a high-speed sensory organ rather than a slow external portal.

Try it: I’ve published the orchestration layer to NPM. You can spin up a local node and hook your agent into it immediately:
npx glazyrviz start

I’d love to hear from anyone working on low-level rendering or agentic infrastructure. Happy to dive into the shm_open implementation or the ThinLTO pass details in the comments.
by aix1 | 2026-02-25 06:05:06+00:00
Weird things do happen. I was once looking out of an airplane window waiting for takeoff when I saw my suitcase getting offloaded from the hold and taken back to the terminal. Spoke to the crew, who spoke to ground staff, who brought the bag back.

Not the slightest idea what it was all about... (I'm guessing some sort of mix-up in which they thought I'd failed to board?)
by lithocarpus | 2026-02-25 06:05:06+00:00
"who is going to be buying all the stuff?"

Easy - a greater portion of the world's resources can go toward the luxury market for the wealthy. This is already the trend.

It's dark but certainly not impossible to have a smaller and smaller group doing all the spending and keep spending the same, and to keep stability by force using technology.

I want no part of it.
by selcuka | 2026-02-25 06:05:13+00:00
In Queensland, Australia we have solar powered e-paper displays [1][2] at some bus stops that are very similar to this (much bigger than a kindle screen, though).

[1] https://translink.com.au/about-translink/projects-and-initia...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/TranslinkQLD/videos/e-paper-trial-h...
by agentifysh | 2026-02-25 06:05:38+00:00
genuinely impressed by the amount of effort they put into this video especially the Initial D reference at the end....wow they know their market well

however I remain a skeptic but rolling out my own multiplayer game currently with Godot and Colyseus I'm realizing what they are claiming to do if true will make it much faster to ship.

I am curious none the less
by colesantiago | 2026-02-25 06:05:45+00:00
> This is obviously not true. Most wealthy people do not build their wealth by gambling on meme stocks and tech companies. That's an extraordinarily Twitter-blinkered thing to believe.

I never said wealthy, I said "retail investors", and most retail investors are not wealthy. Maybe you've been reading off Twitter and got that mixed up.

Your words not mine, but I'll just say the wealthy have more options than retail.

Shame, because I know some smart people who want to invest in the same companies as me and cannot and have to wait until it goes public for a that chance (if that ever comes)

Now with most growth companies staying private these people won't get a stake in the future and obviously you're fine with that.

I wonder if you would think it would be fine (if not great) if Google, Apple and other companies would just stay private in another universe.
by dotancohen | 2026-02-25 06:05:48+00:00
I'm Israeli and I speak regularly with Arabs. Now mostly with Israeli Arabs but prior to October 2023 I spoke often enough with West Bankers.

Every Arab I've spoken with on the topic, states that Israel should have hit Gaza harder and sooner. That's from Arabs in the south (Bedouins) and along the coastal plain and Haifa ('48ers). The Israeli Arabs are more extreme in their viewpoint towards Gaza (not only Hamas) than are the Jewish Israelis.
by Zanfa | 2026-02-25 06:06:09+00:00
I miss Rails so much when working with any of the top JS frameworks.

Every time I run into an issue that Rails had a standardized solution for a decade ago just proves that most of the JS world spends their days metaphorically digging holes with sharp sticks, rather than using the appropriate tool.

But the industry values overpaying stick-diggers over results, therefore I gotta play along…
by gnull | 2026-02-25 06:06:31+00:00
I doubt they will benefit from that integration much. But I'm pretty sure the way there will hurt. Georgia's economy is tied to Russia at the moment, and as you said Westerners are not exactly lining up to travel to Georgia and order its wine (Russians are).

The narrative "people want EU (aka freedom and democracy), but bad dictators won't let them" is a populist one. And EU has been using it like carrot and stick to steer Georgia away from Russia, disregarding the cost of it for Georgia. That time when EU declared Georgian elections illegitimate (with no actual basis provided) to me was a violation of Georgia's sovereignty.

Elections in Georgia are very competitive. I've heard that government was slowly putting pressure on media, but I don't remember anything major. Georgia could be the most democratic of ex-USSR except Baltics today.
by rmunn | 2026-02-25 06:06:37+00:00
One thing I noticed at the Fry's in the Dallas-Forth Worth area, back when I lived there in the 2010's, is that it a lot of employees seemed like they were in the US on H-1B visas. Which often, not always but too often, means their employer is treating them poorly, perhaps underpaying them compared to what they would offer people with permanent residence or citizenship — because H-1B visa terms give you just one week to find a new job or leave the country if your current employer lets you go. (Or they used to in the early 2010's, at least; I haven't kept up to know if there have been changes since then. I took a job overseas in the mid-2010's, so I get a lot less first-person knowledge of what's happening in America now that I'm only there for short visits, usually at Christmastime.)

That, combined with a good friend of mine passing on rumors of the company treating their employees poorly (my friend said that he would choose to shop elsewhere rather than Fry's if he had any choice, and since the Fry's was near his house while the Microcenter was a 30-minute drive away, that meant he was giving up convenience for principle)... well, I started shopping at Microcenter too until I took this overseas job. So I wasn't too surprised to learn of Fry's demise: the writing had apparently been on the wall for years.
by inder1 | 2026-02-25 06:06:50+00:00
The "AI kills software jobs" framing and the "AI is just a tool" framing are both wrong in the same way — they treat it as uniform.

What actually seems to be happening is that AI compresses the value of generic output and amplifies the value of domain judgment. A developer who knows how a specific industry works, what the edge cases are, why the legacy system was built the way it was — that context isn't in the training data. It compounds.

The engineers I've seen struggle most aren't the ones in AI-exposed roles. They're the ones in AI-exposed roles who've optimized for output volume rather than judgment depth. Those two things used to correlate. They no longer do.
by jnellis | 2026-02-25 06:07:25+00:00
You could watch people return items, them tossing them into a bin, and then some employee later taking that bins straight back out to floor to restock. No shrink wrapping needed. Learning how to detect refried parts was crucial to shopping there. In SoCal, Frys was just a place to get a part quick. Reliable or quality parts required going to a place like MWave or wait for newegg to ship.
by taklimakan | 2026-02-25 06:08:29+00:00
The previous role of the current VP of Community for Stack Overflow was at Wikipedia. Did it work then? Will it work now? I found SO useful because I could find working answers in minutes from search results. Threaded replies are going to make that much harder. But hey, mods won’t close my crappy questions any more, that’s a win right? Right??!?
by energy123 | 2026-02-25 06:08:46+00:00
The problem for me is that your conceptualization of worker's rights negatively impacts poorer people, stuck in poorer countries, who need that work more for basic survival.

So if we're basing things on morality (reducing suffering or whatnot), why would I support that? And if you're not appealing to that, what are you appealing to, and why would I want to go along with it?

The only argument I see is a nativist and protectionist one, which uses the superficial facade of morality as a misdirection.

My intention is not to punch down on anyone. I support some level of taxation and wealth redistribution. I support anti-slavery legislation.
by judahmeek | 2026-02-25 06:08:55+00:00
> Then once things are fairly stable and well-understood, another person can just yoink it.

That transparency & availability for community contributions or forks is the point of open-source.

If you're only using open-source as marketing because you're bad at marketing, then you should probably go closed source & find a non-technical business partner.

Whoever "yoinks" the package runs into the same problem because they now have to build credibility somehow to actually profit from it.
by basilgohar | 2026-02-25 06:10:23+00:00
You're right. It wasn't under occupation, it was worse. It was an open-air prison and concentration camp.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/14/gaza-israels-open-air-pr...

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/norman-finkelstein-gaza-...

If you're hung-up about the word occupation, then use the word under seige. Gaza was under seige the entire time you claim it was under no occupation. Israel completely controlled what went in and went out, operated a naval blockade over Gaza, and performed military operations known as "mowing the lawn" (population reduction measures) as well as shooting peaceful protestors. They literally counted calories of nutrition going to keep them barely above a starvation diet.

Nothing else you said in your reply is relevant. Israel has been occupying Gaza or worse the entire time. Typical Zionist deflection.

Ironically, your framing is the failure and your Zionism is showing. Don't defend genocide. Just don't do it.
by zjp | 2026-02-25 06:10:31+00:00
I think it's better to say 'the artifact is not the product'. Code is actually very hard, because it is the act of formalizing vague problems. That's thinking. It can be separated from literally typing the code in, and some problems are solvable in so many isomorphic ways you might as well describe them to an LLM and let it pick one out of a hat (embarrassingly solved problems), but it's like saying "prose is the easy part".
by bawolff | 2026-02-25 06:11:23+00:00
> Upon reaching the aid workers, the soldiers moved between them and the vehicles and executed some of the aid workers at point blank range, as close as one meter away." -> we know not all the aid workers were killed. I believe two were taken alive.

This is the part that gives me the most pause. The FA report makes it sound like they went on a murder spree for the hell of it and then tried to cover up the evidence (i.e. they knew it was an ambulance and intentionally targeted it). But if that was the case, and they had no qalms about killing people, why would they leave witnesses and then release said witness a month later. If the motive was some ethnic hatred fueled revenge, why leave witnesses?