MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-23 14:18:52+00:00
I wish this comment can be on the absolute top of this page. This really is one of my frustrations with the AI bubble.

Fwiw, the days of creating an good ol' reliable hosting provider/Vps provider are over. I looked extensively into it one time out of curiosity but this would be one of the worst times in history to do that.

We would be sort of stuck with the options that we have right now and more and more shops in Lowend are even shutting down or raising prices with the sheer ram crisis and even HDD and storage crisis now.

A provider in LET had a post which said, "what should we providers do to deal with the ram shortage/ram prices"

These providers gave competition/had different unique features too to have chosen them but they were also incredibly price sensitive and the AI bubble blew the sensitivity by raising the prices almost 5 times or more. This would impact real businesses.

Thank you for creating this comment. I hope more people can read this. I genuinely just want this bubble to burst asap so that we can see a sense of rationality back within the market/the market functioning as expected without the immense irrationality/unpredictability of future.

another point is this, from my hosting provider idea, I shut it down. Why? because it literally makes 0 sense to start now, its postponed indefinitely untill the bubble bursts/ram prices are decreased.

How many other projects might be going through something similar. Gck1's comment next to mine also gives an example of a project whose value of cost increased 10 times.

How many of such projects would simply be unable to be built because of the ram inflation can't be underestimated imo.

and forget people who wish to game and many other things too. Basic comodities in the previous year or two feel like luxury now. All because of AI. It's insane.
by rogerrogerr | 2026-02-23 14:18:57+00:00
> if you do it in an aircraft equipped with autopilot

There's also a (stupid, imo) tendency for APs to conveniently become inop right before a checkride. It's not accurate to say that all pilots, or even all pilots that have taken an IR ride, are "pilots who understand the capabilities and limits of aviation autopilot technology."
by nepeckman | 2026-02-23 14:19:08+00:00
I think its disingenuous at best that the projects from recent years are all LLM based. Those were all significantly worse on release! All the negative comments were true! Compare to most of the older projects, which while they got better over time, offered _something_ usable on launch that the comments were overlooking. Also its wild to include anything from this year. We have no idea where OpenClaw will be in 5-10 years or even in December. This site is billed as a retrospective, how can we retrospect on something that is actively happening right now?
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-23 14:20:03+00:00
I'm still astonished how poorly optimized the YouTube app is/has always been on Apple TV. It's fucking wild how slow they can make it move about a bunch of rectangular icons, the same unit that can run honest to goodness videogames (if simple ones).

Though I suppose my XBox Series X can run Halo Infinite at 4K/60hz (with a ton of asterisks) and still chokes on the main menu which is also coincidentally a bunch of rectangles.

Maybe rectangles are just really hard to draw.
by BoxFour | 2026-02-23 14:20:13+00:00
Doesn’t sound that crazy to me.

With many newborns there’s a lot of "hurry up and wait" if you’re able to be on parental leave (or just on the weekends). They sleep a ton. Honestly, I’ve never been more caught up on movies or TV than during those overnight newborn shifts with my first child.

The real hectic "I have no free time" era, at least for me, came after that: Toddlers require (and you should try to appreciate giving them) all your available time.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-23 14:20:50+00:00
This behavior is present in plenty of families that don’t have the kinds of pressure on them that you’re describing. It’s not really connected to that (and needing to reach your kid instantly at 11:00AM on a Tuesday isn’t that common a thing to fall out of families being under most sorts of pressure)

I’m telling you, lots of parents just have very different attitudes toward school than one might expect (than I expected, certainly!). The phone stuff is just one manifestation of this.
Show HN: A standardized safety module for robot brains (15 patents, solo)
by opencxms | 2026-02-23 14:21:05+00:00
I'm a solo inventor in rural Pennsylvania. Over 13 days in February 2026, I filed 15 provisional patent applications (134 claims) with the USPTO describing a complete hardware and software standard for AI-controlled robot safety.

The core idea: a dedicated safety processor on its own independent power rail has physical control over whether AI processors receive electricity. When the system powers on, only the safety processor boots. AI gets zero power until safety completes self-test. During operation, the safety processor monitors AI-specific indicators — context exhaustion, inference latency, consensus failures — and can physically cut power without any software involvement.

The AI cannot prevent its own shutdown. Same Safe Torque Off principle industrial motor controllers have used for decades, applied to AI compute for the first time.

The spec (SASM — Standardized Autonomous Safety Module) also defines:

- Three standardized form factors (drone-sized to humanoid-sized)

- Universal connector (any compliant brain fits any compliant robot)

- Multi-vendor AI consensus (up to 9 different AI models must agree before physical action)

- Human-readable audit trail (every decision in plain-text Markdown files)

I built all of this working alongside AI, using an open-source context management system I created that gives AI assistants persistent memory across sessions. The tool that solved AI's memory problem became the tool that let me design a robot brain in 13 days.

Press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pennsylvania-public... s-302691316.html

Open-source tool: https://github.com/RobSB2/CxMS

Website: https://opencxms.org

Happy to answer questions about the hardware spec, the safety architecture, or what it's like filing 15 patents in 13 days as a solo inventor using AI.
by hocuspocus | 2026-02-23 14:21:09+00:00
Apple actually did put some resources behind it, the toolchain is reasonably pleasant to use outside macOS and Xcode, they have people building an ecosystem in the Swift Server Workgroup, and arguably some recent language design decisions don't seem to be purely motivated by desktop/mobile usage.

But in the end I can't help but feel Swift has become an absolute beast of a multi-paradigm language with even worse compile times than Rust or C++ for dubious ergonomics gains.
by lukan | 2026-02-23 14:21:30+00:00
No one has to proof anything. If A invites B and B invites C who acts openly bad, you can remove all parties at once and maybe revoke on appeal. All up to the community. Otherwise it would be indeed simple to defeat. But before banning A, one can also just give a Warning. No restrictions here in principle, but I am also open for concrete implementations that work well.
by rayiner | 2026-02-23 14:21:42+00:00
> It's that AI companies are vacuuming up every DRAM chip on the planet and the rest of us get to pay the tax.

That’s a redefinition of the term “tax.” The supply of DRAM is constrained because capacity decisions were made years ago. And these AI companies highly value the DRAM so they’re willing to pay more. It’s not a “tax” on everyone else, it’s just supply and demand.
Show HN: BasaltSurge – Web3 POS checkout and AI-agent commerce API
by mayordelmar | 2026-02-23 14:22:00+00:00
I’m Michael, and my team at BasaltHQ has been building BasaltSurge. We originally started this under the name PortalPay, but recently rebranded as the scope expanded. It’s a payment engine designed to bypass legacy card rails at the physical point of sale and provide a standardized checkout layer for AI agents.

Having worked extensively on data and payment solutions for high-friction retail environments where traditional processors take massive cuts or deny service entirely, we wanted to build something genuinely permissionless.

Here is a breakdown of what we built:

QR-Based POS Checkout: Merchants print a QR code on their standard POS receipt. Customers scan it to access a white-labeled, web3-native checkout on their phone. It accepts USDC, USDT, cbBTC, and ETH on the Base network. We utilize Account Abstraction (AA) for gas sponsorship so the end-user UX isn't bottlenecked by network fee friction.

Built for the Machine Economy: We unified Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) with the HTTP 402 (Payment Required) standard. The platform auto-generates llms.txt markdown feeds of a merchant's inventory so AI models can reliably discover and cart items without fragile DOM scraping. When an agent hits the 402 challenge, it negotiates an instant on-chain settlement.

Programmable Routing & Splits: Everything settles on-chain with automated revenue splitting and reserve management, allowing businesses to dictate token mix and partner payouts without a middleman.

We also recently added a module called Osiris USBN—an on-chain identifier for publishers that costs $0.002 instead of the legacy $250 ISBN standard, while baking in programmable royalties on resale.

We’ve shipped SDKs (TypeScript, Python, Go) and headless checkout integrations for Shopify and WooCommerce to make adoption as zero-friction as possible.

There's a live mobile portal preview right on the landing page you can click through to test the UI. I'd love to get your feedback on the UCP/402 implementation, our architecture on Base, or how you see agent-to-agent checkout evolving!
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-23 14:22:04+00:00
This knee-jerk reply is old and tired, and the counterarguments are well-trod at this point. Even if cameras-only can build a car that’s as good as humans, why should we settle for “as good as“ humans, who cause 40,000 fatalities a year in the US? If we can do better than humans with more advanced sensors, we are practically morally obligated to do that.
by epic_ai | 2026-02-23 14:22:23+00:00
Hi HN
I built EPIC, a lightweight, bootstrapped design editor focused on simplicity, performance, and honest pricing.
Most design tools feel bloated, expensive, or lock basic exports behind paywalls. I wanted something:
Fast and minimal
Watermark-free exports (PNG, JPG, PDF)
₹10/month student plan
Optional AI mode (but not AI-first clutter)
Built-in sitemap generator (for indie builders & founders)
EPIC isn’t trying to be another “AI everything” tool.
It’s a focused design + utility platform for students, indie hackers, and early-stage founders.
Stack:
Built using Lovable
Performance-focused frontend
Iterating weekly
No external heavy tracking scripts
I’m especially interested in feedback on:
UX simplicity
Performance bottlenecks
Feature prioritization
What would make you switch from Canva or Figma?
This is still early, and I’m shipping updates constantly.
Brutal feedback welcome.
by rramadass | 2026-02-23 14:22:54+00:00
Yep, a very badly written article.

I made a full pass but was annoyed with the author's contention that "History of History of Software" (WTF does this even mean?) should be treated as seriously as "Computer Science" itself. While there is some logic in saying "Computing" involves "Computer Science + all its various usages in various domains" focusing on the latter (ancillary) and not the former (primary) is certainly "dumbing down" as Knuth correctly takes issue. A good parallel would be a "Scientific Theory" and its "various realizations in various domains".

This, for me, was the final validation that this article is not to be taken seriously;

In his paper, Campbell-Kelly offered a “biographical mea culpa” for his own early work that he now reads with a “mild flush of embarrassment.” He came to see his erstwhile enthusiasm for technical history as a youthful indiscretion and his conversion to business history as an act of redemption,
by stetrain | 2026-02-23 14:23:30+00:00
The whole industry is always working on improved batteries. But it's a long road from lab-scale to mass production, and often improvements in one area have downsides in another.

New generations of cells that improve energy density usually start out more expensive than existing chemistries, so they show up at the high end of the market first and work their way down.

If we do get truly improved solid-state batteries available in EVs in the next 5 years, it will likely start at the high end of the market and work its way down over many years to cheaper segments as production capacity ramps up. The base model EVs aren't going to suddenly have their batteries swapped out with ones that are twice as good for the same price.
by raesene9 | 2026-02-23 14:23:52+00:00
I've just been looking in to this as I've got quite a lot of older hardware that'll be fine for running some websites lying around.

My ISP has a static IP option for £5/month, but I reckon I can save £30/month+ on server costs even before any rises.

Ofc it does mean I have to do my own sysadmining, but a combination of my general knowledge + an LLM should make that relatively easy.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-23 14:24:05+00:00
> Can modern Office reliably open the old formats? If so they must have implemented the parsers correctly no?

It can. But at two costs: first, MS has to keep all that legacy garbage code around - and we all know that just blindly deserializing stuff from potentially hostile input raw into C structs is ripe for getting exploited, and there have been a lot of bugs in there. And the second cost is, you can't reliably save an old document into a new XML document, hence the warning you get "this document was created in an old version of Office, are you sure you want to save it".
by doikor | 2026-02-23 14:24:13+00:00
The electric motorbike company (Verge Motorcycles) owned by the same people also has such bad accounting/paperwork that they could not find an auditor willing to give an opinion.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20205916 (article in Finnish)

"According to the auditor's report, no opinion was given on the company's financial statements because sufficient audit evidence was not available."

The company claims to have a couple million in inventory but no system saying anything about what is in their inventory, 300k in revenue in Finland without any papertrail of it actually happening, 2.5 million in R&D without any explanation/papertrail on what it was spent on (salaries? materials? machines?), etc.

Also the company has taken really expensive loans from family members of the leadership (12% interest which is way over the market rate).
by opencxms | 2026-02-23 14:24:21+00:00
The backstory: I built an open-source context management system (CxMS) to solve a problem I kept hitting — AI assistants lose everything between sessions. No memory, no continuity. The tool gives AI persistent, human-readable memory using plain Markdown files. 460+ people cloned it on GitHub.

While using it daily, I realized the same architecture that solves "AI forgets everything" also solves "AI has no auditable safety record." If every decision is already written to human-readable files in real time, you have an audit trail a regulator can actually read. That became the foundation.

The hardware side came from a simple question: why does every AI safety system run as software inside the system it's supposed to constrain? Industrial automation solved this decades ago — Safe Torque Off gives a safety controller physical authority over motor power. The motor can't override it because there's no software path between them.

SASM applies that principle to AI compute. Dedicated safety processor on its own power rail. AI gets zero electricity until safety boots and passes self-test. During operation, the safety processor can cut AI power in under 10ms. No software command, no API call — GPIO pins driving MOSFET gates directly.

The EU AI Act goes fully into effect August 2, 2026. Every robot near humans needs auditable decisions, transparent operation, and human override capability. Nobody has a published standard that meets all three. That's what we filed.

15 PPAs, 134 claims, filed Feb 4-17, 2026. All of it designed working alongside AI tools using the memory system I built.

Open to questions about the hardware spec, the safety architecture, the patent process, or what it's like building a patent portfolio from a living room in rural Pennsylvania.
by volkadav | 2026-02-23 14:24:43+00:00
Doesn't seem to apply to older/deprecated gen instances. I've got a CX22 there for personal screw-around projects and it's the same £3.95/mo (pre-VAT) afaict. So maybe not much help to folks ordering new or running on the current gen as the older kit isn't something you can order now, but a small boon for us laggards.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-23 14:25:26+00:00
> If you compare it to the very recend C++ implementations they are using, I tend to agree. But if you compare it to a much more mature technology like e.g. Ada, I have my doubts.

I agree with you in the sense that it would've definitely been interesting to read what Andreas thinks of Ada/D and the discussion surrounding it and your overall comment too.

I do wish that anyone from ladybird team/maybe even Andreas if he's on HN (not sure) could respond to the original query if possible.

I remember ladybird had a discord server I once joined, perhaps someone from the community could ask Andreas about it there if possible since It would be genuinely fascinating to read.

Although a point I am worried about is if Ladybird changes the language again let's say after a discussion of using Ada/D. It might be awkward.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-23 14:25:50+00:00
Any considerable bump in model capability craters my willingness to tolerate the ineptitude of less capable models. And I'm far from being alone in this.

Ever wondered why those stupid "they secretly nerfed the model!" myths persist? Why users report that "model got dumber", even if benchmarks stay consistent, even if you're on the inference side yourself and know with certainty that they are actually being served the same inference over the same exact weights on the same hardware quantized the same way?

Because user demands rise over time, always.

Users get a new flashy model, and it impresses them. It can do things the old model couldn't. Then they push it, and learn its limitations and quirks as they use it. And then it feels like it "got dumber" - because they got more aggressive about using it, got better at spotting all the ways it was always dumb in.

It's a treadmill, and you pretty much have to keep improving the models just to stay ahead of user expectations.
by gck1 | 2026-02-23 14:25:58+00:00
This is a different kind of shortage though. Previous ones were cyclical and caused by supply/demand mismatches or natural disasters. This one is structural. The manufacturers are actively choosing to prioritize AI because the margins are dramatically higher, and AI market has virtually unlimited money right now.

> eventually washed over

Eventually is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Several years of constrained supply have real consequences for people and businesses. Hardware manufacturers are saying most of their capacity is already sold out to AI customers through 2026, and possibly even through 2027 and 2028, with the rest of the markets getting what's left over. This is a fundamentally different market dynamic.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 14:26:21+00:00
When I have looked on Newegg and on Amazon USA last month, I have seen even greater prices than here in Europe, by 30% to 40% greater, which is reversed from previous years, when computers and computer-related components were cheaper in USA than in Europe.

So I think that the victims are all the computer users of the entire world, with the exception of a negligible number of humans tied to the AI companies. Moreover, the US victims appear to be hit by the price hikes even more than in other countries, at least for now.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-23 14:26:51+00:00
My understanding from a brief read of the Swift issue is that they kept running into bugs in the Swift compiler which, in practice, prevented them from doing the things that they ought to be do in theory. This went on for long enough, that they got fed up and abandoned Swift.

The Rust compiler is incredibly solid (across all target platforms), and while it's C/C++ interop is relatively simplistic, what does exist is extensively battle tested in production codebases.
by devilbunny | 2026-02-23 14:28:15+00:00
Market size: approximately zero.

The number of people who 1) really want local-only control and 2) can deal with Home Assistant and Tailscale but 3) don't actually have the skill set to put together a Raspberry Pi or other small Linux box and set up HA and TS themselves is tiny.

The cloud systems are insecure and invasive, but it's really hard to get Normal People to understand why it's a problem. "So someone can tell if I'm not home; so what? I live in a gated community, they can't just drive in at night and burgle the house." They're not entirely wrong about that; it is unlikely. The hard push for subscription services by these companies has turned out to be the best way to push people into locally hosted alternatives, because they don't want to pay for another service, but the usual approach is just to do without the service when they realize that the "smart" functions are not that useful. Most people don't have the free time, knowledge, or inclination to set up and maintain Home Assistant. They can appreciate it when they see it done well, but they aren't going to pay for a professional installation and maintenance and they aren't able to do it themselves.
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-23 14:29:14+00:00
> How does the system know when that can be done?

At the earlist in the first frame the application UI description code doesn't mention an UI item (that means UI items need a persistent id, in Dear ImGui this is a string hash, usually created from the item's label which can have a hidden `##` identifier to make it unique, plus a push/pop-id stack for hierarchical namespacing.

> then the others will lose their state because of this

Once an item is visible, the state must have been provided by the application's UI description code, when the item is invisible, that state becomes irrelevant.
by umit-ozturk | 2026-02-23 14:29:50+00:00
How efficient can you really be as an individual?
It is directly related to how well your software is distributed in the market.
- You can build the best product.
- You can write the cleanest code.
- You can solve real problems.

But if nobody sees it, none of that matters.
In today’s world, efficiency is not just about execution.
It is about reach.

One founder with strong distribution can outperform a team of ten with a better product but no visibility.
Your product matters.
- Your vision matters.
But your distribution matters just as much.
If your tool is hidden on page five of Google, buried in inboxes, or invisible on social feeds, your potential is leaking.
Efficiency is about:
• Getting discovered
• Being remembered
• Being shared
• Being trusted
When your product flows naturally through communities, channels, and platforms, growth becomes compounding.
Show HN: Balance Buckets – Savings Buckets for Small, One-Owner Businesses
by codazoda | 2026-02-23 14:30:03+00:00
I love the bucket/envelope accounting options provided by some personal bank accounts, but my small business account doesn’t have it. So I built a minimal, stand-alone version.

Eventually, you’ll have a full accounting system, a bookkeeper, and all that, but in the meantime, you might want to set aside money in buckets.

Balance Buckets takes your current balance, calculates what you need in your savings buckets, and lets you know what’s safe to spend.

It’s 2-minute accounting.

https://buckets.joelryan.com