MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-26 15:14:30+00:00
> It's not sustainable

You know what's not sustainable? Exponential growth fueled by credit.

Banks loaning money at nearly zero percent interest. Money that gets loaned out, spent, deposited back into the bank and loaned out again, and again, exponentially, until a ludicrously huge financial callstack is created.

This financial callstack wants to unwind. It can only do so safely by the payment of debts. At some point, someone will actually have to go out there and extract value out of this planet in order to pay back those debts. Since debt grows exponentially, so does the harvesting of the resources of this planet.

If you want to solve the problem, you need to go to the source. You need to get rid of credit. Without this, environmentalism is nothing but national suicide. You're opting out of exponential growth and promptly outcompeted by the countries that didn't opt out.

> In developed countries, nobody has to struggle anymore just to stay alive, which is a far cry from the way it was 200 years ago.

Yeah... Because they industrialized and got filthy rich. Now they can afford to give so called "rights" to their citizens.

Rights cost money. They don't appear out of thin air. Somebody's gotta work to provide them. Even the right to not get killed in broad daylight only exists because extremely violent men with guns are protecting the rest. Those men gotta be paid.

Money is not infinite. It runs out. The music can't stop. Gotta keep making money in order to keep providing all those nifty rights. The simple reality is if you don't have real industries you're probably not making that much money. My country is essentially the world's soy farm, nvidia stock alone probably moves more money in a day than my entire country put together.

Look at the national debts of countries the world over. That's money they don't have. Money future generations will be paying interest on for a long time. You want to get reelected but you're broke, so you borrow money you don't have and spend it all giving "benefits" to a population that is dumb enough to think it comes for free. Then there's so much money circulating the value of the currency is inflated away, and people's children grow up and get radicalized when they realize most of their taxes are spent on interest payments on loans made by the previous generation.
by xnorswap | 2026-02-26 15:14:32+00:00
A zero hours contract has been useful for me, as someone who needed to work around a medical condition. I worked the hours I could, got paid for them, but I could also take days off at short notice if I wasn't up to working that day.

I have had to negotiate a reduced-hours permanent contract now, but the zero-hours contract I had has genuinely helped me a lot, and was more flexible than the reduced hours contract I'm moving to.

But I also accept that not everyone is in the privileged position of being a software developer at a good company, and that there are many predatory companies taking the piss.

So I support the crackdown on zero-hours while also finding myself missing the fact that I will no longer benefit from it.
by atombender | 2026-02-26 15:14:35+00:00
Lots of engineers write, too. My favorite example of "very different day job" is Gene Wolfe, who worked as an industrial engineer (he famously worked on the original machine that produced Pringles potato chips), and spent most of his working life as an editor of the magazine Plant Engineering.

R. A. Lafferty worked as a full-time electrical engineer for Clark Electrical Supply Company all his life, though he eventually moved to a salesperson position.
by zachrip | 2026-02-26 15:14:55+00:00
Oauth with mcp is more than just traditional oauth. It allows dynamic client registration among other things, so any mcp client can connect to any mcp server without the developers on either side having to issue client ids, secrets, etc. Obviously a cli could use DCR as well, but afaik nobody really does that, and again, your cli doesn't run in claude or chatgpt.
by Delk | 2026-02-26 15:14:56+00:00
If running low on memory seems to matter less now than it did a couple of decades ago, I'd rather say that's because fast SSDs make swapping a lot faster. Even though virtual memory and swapping were available even on PCs since Windows 3.x or so, running out of memory could still make multitasking slow as molasses due to thrashing and the lack of memory for disk cache. The performance hit from swapping can be a lot less noticeable now.

Of course compression being now computationally cheap also helps.
by man8alexd | 2026-02-26 15:15:21+00:00
All LRUs, file-backend and anonymous are handled by the same code. There are some conditionals here and there - executable pages are promoted to active LRU on the first access, locked pages (if I remember correctly) too, but all pages go through the same cycle. See this Linux Plumbers conference presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnWQF7WQP0 with the following slides https://d3s.mff.cuni.cz/files/teaching/nswi161/2023_24/08_li...
by kunai | 2026-02-26 15:16:31+00:00
Except this is not the age of the Rockefellers or the Carnegies, who, despite being far more philanthropic than modern-day billionaires, drew ire from every corner of society for their wealth accumulation. It wasn't until the New Deal that the balance shifted.

Unconstrained accumulation of capital into the hands of the few without appropriate investment into labor is illiberal and incompatible with democracy and true freedom. Those of us who are capitalists see surplus value as a compromise to ensure good economic growth. The hidden subtext of that is that all the wealth accumulated needs to be re-allocated to serve not only capital enterprise, but the needs of society as a whole. It's hard to see the current system as appropriate for that given how blindly and wildly investments are made with no DD or going long, or no effort paid to the social or environmental opportunity costs of certain practices.

A lot of this comes down to the crippling of the SEC and FTC, but even then, investors cry and whine every time you suggest reworking the regs to inhibit some of the predatory practices common in this post-80s era of hypernormalization. Our current system does not resemble a healthy capitalist economy at all. It's rife with monopsony and monopolistic competition, inequality of opportunity, and a strained underclass that's responsible for our inverted population pyramid -- how can you have kids when we're so atomized and there is no village to help you? You can raise kids in a nuclear family if and only if you have enough money to do so. Otherwise, historically, people relied on their communities when raising children in less-than-ideal circumstances. Those communities are drying up.
by nickdothutton | 2026-02-26 15:16:52+00:00
Non-compete or any kind of limitation on who a zero hours contract person can work for, has been specifically and explicitly illegal since 2016 in the UK. In practice it has been unenforceable since more or less forever. [1]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/zero-hours-contra... (last para.)
by aa-jv | 2026-02-26 15:16:54+00:00
Article 19:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Seeking and receiving information covers gathering facts, evidence, or observations from public events or spaces (e.g., documenting protests, government actions, police conduct, or everyday occurrences visible in public).

You might not like it, but its a key mechanism by which we, the people, keep despots and the police state in check.
by varispeed | 2026-02-26 15:17:00+00:00
> as you have disguised employees.

That's such a classist term. Surely little working class person cannot have its own business, it's disguised employment!
It's like micro agency with resource of 1. But somehow we don't say agencies run "disguised employment", because the profits are going to the rich shareholders instead of filthy unwashed pleb.
by bn_layc | 2026-02-26 15:17:11+00:00
He seems to be the driving force behind all this. Mediocrities are attracted to AI like moths.

The press always say "the Pentagon negotiates". Does any publication have an evidence that it is "the Pentagon" and not Hegseth? In general, I see a lot of common sense from the real Pentagon as opposed to the Secretary of War.

I hope Westpoint will check for AI psychosis in their entrance interviews and completely forbid AI usage. These people need to be grounded.
by macNchz | 2026-02-26 15:17:18+00:00
Interesting idea on the local search index! It occurs to me that running something that passively saves down content that I browse and things that AI turns up while it does its own searches, plus a little agent to curate/expand/enrich/update the index could be super handy. I imagine once it had docs on the stuff I use most frequently that even a small model would feel quite smart.
Show HN: StageWright – A performance-focused Playwright reporter with AI
by qagaryparker | 2026-02-26 15:18:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the creator of StageWright (and the open-source playwright-smart-reporter).

I’ve been frustrated by the "black box" nature of E2E test failures. Standard reporters tell you that a test failed, but they don't help you understand why it’s failing across 50 different runs or whether its execution time is trending toward a regression.

I built StageWright to treat test results as a performance and stability dataset.

Key Technical Features:

Historical Flakiness Detection: Unlike Playwright's default "retry" logic, we track failures across runs. A test only gets a high "Stability Grade" if it consistently passes over time.

Flamechart Step Timelines: We added a color-coded flamechart for test steps (v1.0.8). It categorizes steps into Navigation, Action, and API, making it easy to see if a 10s test is hanging on a locator or a slow backend response.

2-Sigma Anomaly Detection: The trends view uses moving averages and 2-sigma outlier detection to flag performance regressions that might otherwise go unnoticed.

AI-Powered Failure Clustering: We batch failures and use Claude/GPT-4 to cluster similar errors. Instead of 20 separate failures, you see "1 cluster: TimeoutError on payment-submit-btn."

Virtual Scroll Performance: We optimized the UI with virtual scrolling to handle suites with 500+ tests without the browser freezing—a common issue with the default HTML reporter.

Native Trace & Network Logs: Traces and network waterfalls are embedded directly in the report. No downloading .zip files from CI; they open instantly in an inline viewer.

The Architecture:
StageWright is built to be "Playwright-native." It hooks into the reporter API and can run locally (outputting a standalone HTML/JSON history) or via our new Starter/Pro cloud tiers. The Pro tier provides a centralized dashboard for teams, long-term history retention, and cross-project analytics.

I’m currently supporting both Node.js and Python (pytest-playwright) environments.

I’d love to hear what the community thinks—especially regarding how you handle "test debt" in large CI pipelines. I'm here for any questions!
by IceWreck | 2026-02-26 15:18:02+00:00
At this point why not make the agents use a restricted subset of python, typescript or lua or something.

Bash has been unchanged for decades but its not a very nice language.

I know pydantic has been experimenting with https://github.com/pydantic/monty (restricted python) and I think Cloudflare and co were experimenting with giving typescript to agents.
by Xophmeister | 2026-02-26 15:18:03+00:00
We have "part time" as well, but it's different from zero hours. Part timers are usually (AFAIK) salaried employees that work a fixed <1 FTE (but not zero) and paid pro rata, with the usual statutory benefits such as holiday entitlement, pension, etc. You _could_ work multiple PT positions, if you could get them to line up and your employment contracts say it's fine.

Zero hours, to my understanding, is different: I'm not sure what statutory benefits you're entitled to, but yes, I believe you can be signed up to many zero hour contracts and it's up to you whether you take a job with (in theory) no repercussions if you choose not to.
by huntaub | 2026-02-26 15:18:23+00:00
We just released a driver that allows users of just-bash to attach a full Archil file system, synced to S3. This would let you run just-bash in an enrivonment where you don't have a full VM and get high-performance access to data that's in your S3 bucket already to do like greps or edits.

Check it out here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@archildata/just-bash
by ben_w | 2026-02-26 15:18:25+00:00
Irrelevant, given the points in the article:

Professional services firms, tech groups and manufacturing conglomerates have found once-routine visa applications face longer wait times and are more likely to be denied — leaving some employees stuck abroad — as the president tries to narrow the pathways for legal immigration.

and:

White House policies including a $100,000 fee for new applicants to the H-1B scheme for specialised workers and enhanced social media activity reviews have upended multinationals’ abilities to bring top engineers, consultants and scientists from across the globe to the US, according to more than a dozen employees, executives and recruiters who spoke to the FT.
by graemep | 2026-02-26 15:18:28+00:00
That is not really measuring things like quality of life etc. It just shows tax payments are higher (because incomes are higher, property is worth more, and lots of companies that operate nationally, or even internationally, are registered with London addresses) by more than government expenditure is higher.

Someone living outside London might have a lower income but also have much lower expenses (especially rent or mortgage payments, but lots of other things).
by rurban | 2026-02-26 15:18:39+00:00
I didn't get the top4grep tool to download most paper indices. This looked useful, but I only got results for a few conferences.

But the link to https://decompilation.wiki/#decompilation-paper-list
got me to a much better list of papers, with actual links.

The wiki history section is also much better: https://decompilation.wiki/decompilers/dec-history-1/ though it misses a couple of bytecode decompilers. (java, perl, python, ...)
by jfyi | 2026-02-26 15:18:39+00:00
Is fentanyl even that big of an issue in a clinical setting? It's not like it's the go to opiate of choice for general pain anyway.

The problem with fentanyl is that it is easy to make and smuggle and we managed to leave a giant black market hole to be filled when we went ape shit about oxy, which was an objectively better situation than we are currently in with street opiates.
by we_have_options | 2026-02-26 15:19:04+00:00
And what I'm wondering is why SecDev H thinks that forcing Anthropic to integrate their AI with the country's mass surveillance and autonomous drone strike technology is a winning move for him.

"Ok, if you don't do what I tell you then you HAVE to connect the autonomous AI engine that only you understand and control, I repeat you HAVE to connect your golem to my control systems."

Like a bank robber threatening to hand the gun to the teller if they don't put the money in the bag.

Like SecDev H "open claw"-ing the entire US military.
by re-thc | 2026-02-26 15:19:05+00:00
> Apple, for example, designs nearly the entire SoC in-house

I already mentioned Apple lost their top spot. They're also are paying a 100% price hike for Samsung RAM.

> Spending billions to help Broadcom get into par with Nvidia is not what they want

Point being if Apple doesn't have enough whether Google is once removed or not still won't have anywhere near enough to compete. This is about supply. Nvidia reserved capacity. You can't get it.

Even if Nvidia GPUs were worse - they have 10-100x more of them. What would you as a large customer want? Tesla for example has many buildings racking GPUs and more in the works. Specialized hardware like what OpenAI is doing with the new "spark" will just be "experimental" and side projects because better or not there won't be enough for real demand.
by marcoglauser | 2026-02-26 15:19:43+00:00
Thank you for building and maintaining PRQL! I'm surprised to hear that growth stalled due to LLMs.

I just found out about PRQL yesterday! I was looking for a query language that is more token efficient and easier to reason about for LLMs than SQL.

PRQL looks amazing for data analytics agents. Our first few test are quite promising.

I also really appreciate the python bindings. We don't give our agent direct access to the database, we only provide the schema information. The python api makes it super easy to convert a query into an AST, which lets us do some basic offline validation of table names, etc.
by sigbottle | 2026-02-26 15:20:28+00:00
There's one tweet from the the blog a few days ago (astral something?) that sums up my view of the problem pretty well.

General population: How will AI get to the point where it destroys humanity?

Yudkowsky: [insert some complicated argument about instrumented convergence and deception]

The government: because we told you to.

Again, not saying that AI is useless or anything. Just that we're more likely to cause our own downfall with weaker AI, than some abstract super AGI. The bar for mass destruction and oppression is lower than the bar for what we typically think of as intelligence for the benefit for humanity ( with the right systems in place, current AI systems are more than enough to get the job done - hence why the Pentagon wants it so bad...)
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-26 15:20:35+00:00
We don't need everyone to be completely anonymous to state and corporate actors. We just need to make it so that they can't identify and surveil everyone at once, because it would be too expensive.

The US defense budget is about $1T dollars. They can't spend it all on surveillance, but let's say tech companies + gov spends about this amount per year on surveillance in total. If we can raise the cost to surveil the average person to over $10K/yr, they just lose. This is very doable.

Every little precaution you take will raise the cost, probably more than you think. Every open-source project that aims to anonymize and decentralize is an arrow in their knee. They're hoping that you'll get cynical and stop trying because they don't stand a chance otherwise.
by kenjackson | 2026-02-26 15:20:43+00:00
In 1995 no one used the web still. Sure, we all did, but it was pretty niche. I think you could argue that chatbots are niche as well, but the user base of OpenAI is way larger now than Netscape in 1995. Netscape had probably 25 million users at the end of 1995. ChatGPT has about 800 million.
Show HN: The von Neumann era is over. Fabricating physical 3-phase AC ternary AI
by tech_founder | 2026-02-26 15:21:07+00:00
The current binary computing paradigm has hit a hard thermodynamic wall. We are watching the most advanced digital systems throttle their own logic because the energy cost of algorithmic emulation, forcing continuous reality through billions of discrete, microscopic gates, has become fundamentally unsustainable.
For the past decade, I have been engineering the foundation of a new era: a non-algorithmic architecture that utilizes 3-phase AC power directly as the computational medium.
Instead of binary voltage thresholds, the architecture computes using the continuous phase differential of macroscopic wave superposition. The foundational logic is driven by the physical integration of phase vectors:

V_net(t) = Σ [A_n * sin(ωt + Φ_n)]

By engineering the physical medium to capture specific interference patterns, we achieve true ternary logic states based on thermodynamic phase tension, natively undercutting the Landauer limit of binary bit-erasure:

L(ΔΦ) =[ 1 if ΔΦ > θ_th ]
[ 0 if |ΔΦ| ≤ θ_th ]
[ -1 if ΔΦ < -θ_th ]

Because there is zero algorithmic translation, the continuous wave translates instantaneously into discrete natural language tokens. It doesn't just calculate; it generates complex vector embeddings and fluid natural speech as a single physical event, completely bypassing the massive GPU arrays currently suffocating under LLM power demands.
Applications:
The implications extend far beyond the datacenters. In orbital space missions, where cosmic radiation regularly causes catastrophic binary bit-flips, this architecture is completely immune. You cannot bit-flip a continuous AC wave, providing unbreakable physical autonomy for rovers and satellites.
Show HN: Phone a Friend for Claude Code – GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek via MCP
by spranab | 2026-02-26 15:21:24+00:00
I built an MCP server that gives Claude Code a "phone a friend" lifeline. Instead of relying on one model's perspective, Claude can pull in GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, or any OpenAI-compatible model for a structured multi-round debate — and participate as an active debater itself.

How it works:

You ask Claude to brainstorm a topic
All configured models respond in parallel (Round 1)
Claude reads their responses and pushes back with its own take
Models see each other's responses and refine across rounds
A synthesizer produces the final consolidated output
Claude isn't just orchestrating — it has full conversation context, so it knows what you're working on and argues its position alongside the other models. They genuinely build on and challenge each other's ideas.

A 3-round debate with 3 models costs ~$0.02-0.05. One model failing doesn't kill the debate — results are resilient.

npm: npx brainstorm-mcp
GitHub: https://github.com/spranab/brainstorm-mcp
Sample debate (GPT-5.2 vs DeepSeek vs Claude): https://gist.github.com/spranab/c1770d0bfdff409c33cc9f985043...

Free, MIT licensed. Works with any OpenAI-compatible API including local Ollama.
Show HN: Termstage – Animated terminal SVGs from YAML, no screen recording
by saikatkumardey | 2026-02-26 15:21:28+00:00
I built termstage because I was tired of screen-recording CLI demos and ending up with heavy GIFs that look bad in READMEs.

termstage lets you describe a terminal session in YAML and renders it as an animated SVG — lightweight, crisp at any size, embeds directly in GitHub READMEs.

Example:

steps:
- cmd: "notes list"
output: "#1 Fix the login bug"
- cmd: "notes done 1"
output: "Marked #1 as done"

Run `termstage render demo.yaml --animated` and you get an SVG you can drop anywhere.

Install: pipx install termstage

GitHub: https://github.com/saikatkumardey/termstage
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/termstage/
by daxfohl | 2026-02-26 15:21:56+00:00
Even for coding. I mean, there's what, maybe a few thousand common useful technologies, algorithms, and design patterns? A million uncommon ones? I think all that could fit in a local model at some point.

Especially if, for example, Amazon ever develops an AWS-specific model that only needs to know AWS tech and maybe even picks a single language to support, or maybe a different model for each language, etc. Maybe that could end up being tiny and super fast.

I mean, most of what we do is simple CRUD wrappers. Sometimes I think humans in the loop cause more problems than they solve, overindex on clever abstractions that end up mismatching the next feature, painting themselves into fragile designs they can't fix due to backward compatibility, using dozens of unnecessary AWS features just for the buzz, etc.

If there's ever a model architecture that allows some kind of plugin functionality (like LoRA but more composable; like Skills but better), that'd immediately take over. You get a generic coding skeleton LLM and add the plugins for whatever tech you have in your stack. I'm still holding out for that as the end game.