MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-26 22:15:55+00:00
The Gigafactory is less than 20 miles from a drinking water reservoir (and recreation area) in one direction, and the city of Reno in the other.

~30 miles to Lake Tahoe.

And according to https://www.reno.gov/home/showpublishedimage/4088/6351980817..., it's about two miles from the watershed that feeds it.
by wlesieutre | 2026-02-26 22:16:23+00:00
It's very cool but I don't understand why they've decided to basically not do it in the US and UK.

Meanwhile they have nearly full coverage of the rest of western Europe, plus a huge amount of Canada and Mexico.

https://i.imgur.com/ZPTozti.png

This was launched in 2019. A few years ago I remember speculating that they were holding it back with the cool 3D effects to do a big push alongside Vision Pro, but that's come and gone with no significant change to Look Around.

California isn't doing bad, but outside of that they're averaging about 0.5 locations per state.

They haven't been to Nashville but they sent someone to drive to Rainbow Lake, Alberta? What gives?
by selridge | 2026-02-26 22:16:36+00:00
The problem is, we have no real understanding of what people will or will not do with this technology. Will humans only be interested in “real“ activity?

We have no idea, and most people are just guessing in a way that flatters some understanding of art that they have. We also frankly have no idea what the permanent relationship of humans to art is even without AI.

The television is less than 100 years old. There aren’t very many, but there are some people alive today who were alive before the television was created. The computer is about 80 years old. The whole idea of photography and of recorded audio is less uthan 150 years old.

We are still living in the aftershocks of industrial production of art. It is foolish to imagine that in the midst of this chaos, we can point the way forward with ease.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-26 22:16:40+00:00
I should have specified the regulation I was referring to is related to things like being able to let go of employees or pay for them while unemployed or cash when they are retired, etc.

I did not intend to wrap in stuff like minimum ages, maximum hours without supplemental pay, discrimination, sexual harassment, safety, or other quality of life related labor laws.

Only the laws related to the business interaction a labor selling choosing to sell their labor, and a labor buyer choosing to buy labor. It should be as easy as possible, if the goal is to have an efficient market. Which is not antithetical to the goal of also having a society that provides a minimum quality of life.

>This is simply no evidence to support this. It's a simplistic comment about political incentives, not a demonstrated explanation of why labour rules exist, why they are wrong etc.

My evidence is the ever increasing push for "privatization" and loans instead of subsidies. And voters support it, especially in the US. But I believe it is like that in the UK also. For example, I think the UK has reduced its higher education subsidies so that now 18 year olds in the UK also take out student loans, at least borrow much more than before.

Instead of giving people cash to buy homes (which would increase taxes because that cash has to be accounted for), the voters opt to give people loans underwritten by future taxpayers.

And the underlying dynamic of this is that as a society's median age gets higher and higher, it needs to squeeze its young more and more to deliver on the benefits to its largest and most reliable voting bloc, the old and soon to be old.
by parliament32 | 2026-02-26 22:16:46+00:00
When I look at LLMs as an interface, I'm reminded of back when speech-to-text first became mainstream. So many promises about how this is the interface for how we'll talk to computers forevermore.

Here we are a few decades later, and we don't see business units using Word's built-in dictation feature to write documents, right? Funny how that tech seems to have barely improved in all that time. And, despite dictation being far faster than typing, it's not used all that often because.. the error rate is still too high for it to be useful, because errors in speech-to-text are fundamentally an unsolvable problem (you can only get so far with background noise filtering and accounting for accents etc).

I see the parallel in how LLM hallucinations are fundamentally an unsolvable component of transformers-based models, and I suspect LLM usage in 20 years will be around the level of speech-to-text today: ubiquitously in the background, you use it here and there to set a timer or talk to a device, but ultimately not useful for any serious work.
by palmotea | 2026-02-26 22:16:51+00:00
>>> In communism the beginning state is slave labor. (your work is owned by the state, not yourself)

> That is Literally the definition: society based on common ownership of the means of production

So, you're saying in communism, the state is owned by you, and your work is owned by the state. And that somehow is more slave-like than when your work is owned by an employer-organization that's owned by some boss?

> They try to hide that away by flowering you with "everything is free" and "communal this and that" but when it comes down to it, the very exact definition is you don't own your labor.

It's not any worse than a capitalist company town.

And honestly: a nation than banned private business and mandated that all workplaces be worker-owned cooperatives sounds both pretty communist to me and in no way worse to labor than our current system.
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-26 22:17:05+00:00
"So what would you do if you ACTUALLY cared about the people and environment?"

- I don't need a car, I'll use public transport.
- I will only buy and eat the amount of calories I actually burn.
- This 10 year old phone actually works pretty well. I don't need a new one.

etc

You need new factories because you want more stuff. If you stop wanting more stuff, you don't need more factories, and therefore nobody needs to cry about his industry being "banned".

I have visited the US a hell lot of times. I swear, I never ever in all these visits in any part of the US had the following thought in my head: "Boy, these people really need more car factories!".
by muzani | 2026-02-26 22:17:10+00:00
Weirdly enough, no.

1) Pricing too low would actually discourage buyers. Half of the time someone says this, it's nonsense; customers prefer cheaper. But 10% is too low. Would you buy a Slack clone at $0.50/head or a $2/month TalkGPT?

2) A good amount of cost would be non-software. Hardware is becoming a larger portion of costs.

3) Software development isn't just writing code. Most of my day now is just writing notes to verify what AI is doing, i.e. actual engineering. AI has gotten so damn good that fixes are about 1-10 lines or so per ticket, but now the comments become longer than the code. You do save time, but now we're tackling Highest Priority bugs that have been around since 2023.

4) Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the space. Your competitors also have the same tools. You'll see companies like Stripe drop from #1 to #4. The market share will be taken by new players willing to work 996 but using AI to cut it down to 40 hours/week.
by Clueed | 2026-02-26 22:17:28+00:00
Really interesting. The crazy changes in opus 4.6 really make me think that Anthropic is doing library-level RL. I think that is also the way forward to have 'llm-native' frameworks as a way to not get stuck in current coding practices forever. Instead of learning python 3.15, one would license a proprietary model that has been trained on python 3.15 (and the migrations) and gain the ability to generate python 3.15 code.
by bawolff | 2026-02-26 22:17:51+00:00
> There were three hostages in his father’s apartment. He was also staying there, but the home belonged to his father.

Does it matter who owns the apartment? It seems likely based on this description he could be deemed as participating.

Like in normal domestic law, if someone is kidnapped, and the fbi raids the apartment where the kidnapped person is being held, i imagine everyone living in the apartment is going to jail. Who owns the apartment isn't really relavent.
by mhitza | 2026-02-26 22:18:07+00:00
You have to give them at least some benefit of the doubt.

I have my own questions yet which I haven't materialized, about the bylaws and selection criteria. But at least they are proposing a new approach.

I'd at least give them a year tryout to see in what it materializes.

At the current state of things I'm a bit in doubts about the market, and how that will change across the year. Though, it would also be interesting, as an idea, to participate in such a process as a member.
by alexsmirnov | 2026-02-26 22:18:45+00:00
Considering how little data needed to poison llm https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison , this is a way to replace SEO by llm product placement:

1. create several hundreds github repos with projects that use your product ( may be clones or AI generated )

2. create website with similar instructions, connect to hundred domains

3. generate reddit, facebook, X posts, wikipedia pages with the same information

Wait half a year ? until scrappers collect it and use to train new models

Profit...
by xg15 | 2026-02-26 22:19:04+00:00
> they are overly-focused on versioning and legacy support (from APIs to DB schemas--even if you're working on a brand new project)

I mean, DB schema versioning is one of the things that you can dismiss as "I won't need it" for a long time - until you do need it, at which point it will be a major pain to add.
by Spivak | 2026-02-26 22:19:10+00:00
Yeah but the only alternative that's actually better is paid. Google is still best ad supported search engine out there. There's no one obvious to turn to or recommend.

The best free alternative to Google right is ironically $preferred_llm_provider and ChatGPT is the obvious uncapped free option. I think free will end up being OpenAI's most if they manage to make it profitable.
by jpadkins | 2026-02-26 22:20:08+00:00
> 4. Taste continues to be the single most important thing. The vast, vast majority of AI art out there is...not very good. It's not going to get better, because the lack of taste isn't a technical problem.

I agree on current AI art taste, but disagree that it can't be improved. I think art AI companies can hire skilled "taste makers" and use their feedback loop as RL for AI art models. I think this area will always be in flux, and will vary by subpopulation so it will be a job role always in demand.

Do you think taste is something that cannot be taught/learned? Are certain individuals just born with good taste; it's an immutable property?
by inigyou | 2026-02-26 22:20:09+00:00
> for their investors will discipline them

Worse: they'll be sacked and replaced with someone who will.

Like Trump's FCC chair was saying he'll revoke the license of stations that make republicans look bad. Those stations will then be replaced with more copies of Newsmax. CBS either toes the line or it gets shut down and replaced by a station that will.
by the_af | 2026-02-26 22:20:28+00:00
> I think now you are freed up to make a shooter that people will actually want to play. Or at least attempt it.

Taking this to an extreme, let's say vibe coding becomes real enough, and frictionless enough, that you can prompt a first person shooter into existence in a few minutes or hours.

If/when this becomes true, nobody will want to play your shooter. You'll share your shooter with people and if they care at all about shooters, they'll just go prompt their favorite AI tool and conjure their own into existence.

Admittedly this is a bit extreme, and we aren't there yet. But I've thought about this in relation to art, and how some people now go "well, this empowers people who didn't know how to make a movie/cartoon/painting/game, it's empowering and democratizing". But in my mind, art is a form of communication between humans. Without the exchange between humans, art cannot exist. If all of us are each lost in our own AI-powered projects, and if anything can be easily conjured out of thin air, then why bother with the next person's art project (game or whatever)? I don't care about your game, let me make my own in a few minutes.

I'm thinking about potential counterpoints: ah, yes, but it's about "ideas". While we can both make our ideas reality, my ideas are more inventive, so my AI-powered projects are more appealing. I'm not convinced about this; I think slop will dominate and invade public spaces, but also... why draw the line at ideas? Why is "skill with a pencil" replaceable with AI-slop, but ideas aren't? Ideas are often overrated, what matters is execution, anyway.
by matheus-rr | 2026-02-26 22:20:51+00:00
In my experience the problem is how people write them. Descriptive statements get ignored because the model treats them as context it can reason past.

"We use PostgreSQL" reads as a soft preference. The model weighs it against whatever it thinks is optimal and decides you'd be better off with Supabase.

"NEVER create accounts for external databases. All persistence uses the existing PostgreSQL instance. If you're about to recommend a new service, stop." actually sticks.

The pattern that works: imperative prohibitions with specific reasoning. "Do not use Redis because we run a single node and pg_notify covers our pubsub needs" gives enough context that it won't reinvent the decision every session.

Your AGENTS.md should read less like a README and more like a linter config. Bullet points with DO/DON'T rules, not prose descriptions of your stack.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-26 22:21:12+00:00
I'm not in the US, but isn't the Bay Area quite specifically very polluted, very densely populated, and has some weird geographical/meteorological quirk that makes it very hard to get air pollution to blow away?

So, the restrictions on incredibly stinky processes like spray painting cars that emit lots of VOCs and dust are somewhat reasonable?

Or to put it more crudely, isn't it a bit like putting up a big "NO FARTING" sign in a crowded room where the windows don't open, and then simply expecting people to understand that this is a place where they should not fart?
by jcims | 2026-02-26 22:21:23+00:00
>If the profits are still up and growing, why on earth would you evict 40% of the company, to send them into this job market?

To avoid laying them off in next year's job market.

Dripping a 10% cut every year for the next four years when you *know* that you're going to do it is cowardice.
by matheus-rr | 2026-02-26 22:21:25+00:00
The --mount=type=cache for package managers is genuinely transformative once you figure it out. Before that, every pip install or apt-get in a Dockerfile was either slow (no caching) or fragile (COPY requirements.txt early and pray the layer cache holds).

What nobody tells you is that the cache mount is local to the builder daemon. If you're running builds on ephemeral CI instances, those caches are gone every build and you're back to square one. The registry cache backend exists to solve this but it adds enough complexity that most teams give up and just eat the slow builds.

The other underrated BuildKit feature is the ssh mount. Being able to forward your SSH agent into a build step without baking keys into layers is the kind of thing that should have been in Docker from day one. The number of production images I've seen with SSH keys accidentally left in intermediate layers is genuinely concerning.
by toast0 | 2026-02-26 22:21:46+00:00
Maybe I'm a big capitalist, but 5 months of severance seems very generous; a job hasn't been a commitment that the company will take care of you forever in several generations. Covering you until the middle of this year should go a long way, and yeah the job market is messed up, but at least it's not mid-November where holidays mean hiring falls off the rails.
by hokumguru | 2026-02-26 22:21:59+00:00
I'm still not sure I quite agree with this AI replacement premise.

Assuming the premise of profitability and a sound business
then this sounds like a failure of product if anything. It just doesn't follow for me that when you see more productive teams the immediate answer is that you need less people. Especially for silicon valley types this seems antithetical to scaling.

Thinking of it in two ways

- Yes you could (in theory but I still argue not 100%) cut workforce and have a smaller # of people do the work that everyone else was doing

Or

- You could keep your people, who are ostensibly more productive with AI, and get even more work done

Why would you ever choose the first?
by throwback_dev | 2026-02-26 22:22:06+00:00
I’ve been running a modified setup for fintech workflows where the agent handles KYC verification and compliance checks across WhatsApp and Telegram. The multi-channel aspect is genuinely powerful — clients in Latin America strongly prefer WhatsApp for everything, including document submission.

The biggest pain point is memory. SOUL.md and Markdown memory files have no structure, no provenance, and no way to verify that what the agent “remembers” is consistent with its actual history. For regulated workflows where you need audit trails, flat files are a non-starter. I ended up building a semantic layer on top that stores facts as RDF triples with cryptographic provenance — essentially giving the agent verifiable memory instead of just text files.

The security posture required significant hardening. Running in Docker with network isolation, separate credentials per channel, and explicit tool allowlists. Even then, the prompt injection surface through incoming messages is real and unresolved.
by joshuamorton | 2026-02-26 22:22:18+00:00
> My custom youtube clients would never be approved by google. My (free) apps for watching anime and reading manga would never get approved by Google.

Google isn't approving apps though. A developer provides identity verification and a set of apps (apk names & keys) they are responsible for. There is no verification process or approval from google. The entire process as outlined in https://developer.android.com/developer-verification is that you prove you own signing keys for an apk name.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-26 22:22:21+00:00
They're still a megacorp, roughly, with like 6k people remaining. That's a huge company. Huge companies need hierarchy to function, the "flat" thing is a really dumb idea. There's no way to make it analogous to that <50ppl team that executes well and moves fast. To do that you actually need to have a small company.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-02-26 22:22:39+00:00
This is the police "prioritising".

Regarding your second point, I don't think you'd go scotch free but the police wouldn't bother coming to the registered keeper's address and attempt to seize the car. I believe you'd simply get automatic fines for no MOT or no insurance (plus penalty points).

So that's that as long as you don't tweet tendencious things because then they might send several cars to arrest you /s
by lordnacho | 2026-02-26 22:22:45+00:00
> Firms are just other people.

Firms aren't people. They are artificial constructs that we invented to solve an organizational issue a long time ago. Some aspects of natural persons were emulated in corporation law, but a lot of them aren't:

- Firms can't go to jail

- Firms don't naturally pass away

- They have their own taxation

- They can be in more than one jurisdiction at once

- There's more than one type of corporate entity.

It's just a matter of taking the right decisions regarding what rules we think are useful to society.
by awad | 2026-02-26 22:22:47+00:00
There are competing terms currently being decided on by the market at large:
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

Candidly I am working on a startup in this space myself, though with a bit of a different angle than most incumbents. While it's still early days for the space, I sense a lot of the original entrants who focus on, essentially, 'generate more content ideally with our paid tools' will run in to challenges as the general population has a pretty negative perception of 'AI Slop.' Doubly so when making purchasing decisions, hence the rise of influencers and popularity of reviews (though those are also in danger of sloppification).

There's an inevitable GIGO scenario if left unchecked IMO.
by pibaker | 2026-02-26 22:22:53+00:00
You can absolutely care about your health and still enjoy some unhealthy things every once in a while, be it dinning out, a grill party, a glass of wine or a motorcycle ride.

Thinking that you must optimize every single bit of your health 100% of the time or you do not care about your health at all is just pathological black and white thinking. What a miserable way to spend the mere decades you have on this planet.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-26 22:22:59+00:00
The stuff my dad used for cleaning down beryllium copper sheets that then had silicon, gold, and nichrome deposited onto them to make tiny medical pressure sensors was generally various stages of xylene, amyl acetate, freon, and - on one notable occasion when a shipment of the sheet stock came heavily contaminated with tractor oil - plain ordinary petrol.

This was back in the 80s.

You are very much Not Allowed To Do That Now.
by cryptonector | 2026-02-26 22:23:29+00:00
We used to reuse code a lot. But then we got problems like diamond dependency hell. Why did we reuse code a lot? To save on labor. Now we don't have to.

So we might roll-your-own more things. But then we'll have a tremendous amount of code duplication, effectively, and bigger tech debt issues, minus the diamond dependency hell issue. It might be better this way; time will tell.
by raddan | 2026-02-26 22:24:13+00:00
> That's not going to be hot enough to be a problem for the battery even if for some reason they mounted it in contact with the bottom of the top surface, which I doubt they did.

My point is that’s what safety standards are for. Do they do safe things or not? You might be surprised to hear how many manufacturers do dumb things for one reason or another. If they really do comply with safety standards then they should be able to say which ones. Why don’t they say?
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-26 22:24:19+00:00
For most industries: No, you aren't. The limiting factor mostly is natural resources. Which is what the articles author is complaining about. "I am not allowed to use up the last drops of drinking water California still has! SOCIALISM!".

And the other limiting factor is knowledge/education. Your region has been known for 100 years to be highly skilled at building $THING? That knowledge is still there and has not fully retired? That's also a resource.

"High labor cost" is a smoke screen. We are not talking about acquiring from a pool of lazy dancing monkeys. The labor you need are for tasks that machines can not yet do. Those jobs are either really shitty, or need a lot of qualification.

Due to this: If you want to build a factory in an area where there aren't already similar factories, you first need to build a University and come back 25 years later.

The articles author should next try to build a business based on offering camel riding in Greenland. Camel riding? Banned in Greenland!!!1
Show HN: The easiest way to run shell commands in plain English (no app needed)
by iafan | 2026-02-26 22:24:38+00:00
Sometimes I want to run a shell command but don't remember the exact syntax. There are apps that aim to resolve that, as well as AI integrations into shells (like iTerm).

I thought there have to be an easier way to achieve this. And it turns out, there is (at least on zsh / macOS). It's just a one-liner prompt and an alias command to add to your .zshrc. After that, '@ run ffmpeg to convert my.mov to mp4' will be converted to the actual command, ready to press Enter.

An interesting side effect is that your '@ whatever' commands become a part of the shell history, so you can rerun them again as regular shell commands.

The entire repo above is simply a README. Just point Claude Code to it and it will install it for you.