MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oceanplexian | 2026-02-26 22:42:51+00:00
If nuclear winter was real (It isn’t), and if things completely collapsed (They won’t) you still have places like Argentina with self sufficient economies in the Southern hemisphere and natural resources independent of the USA, Russia, or China.

Nuclear war would be terrible but it would be a lot more like Ukraine than The Day After or Threads. If you’re not at ground zero, don’t act stupid and quickly evacuate, manage not to be impaled by debris your chances of walking away are far higher than anyone realizes. They literally did hundreds of atomic tests in Nevada to prove this.
by dangus | 2026-02-26 22:42:51+00:00
Removing docking functionality could possibly reduce RAM usage by never enabling 4K screen output. This would be similar to the switch lite.

Although, for an $450 device that doesn’t need to make much of a profit on its own, I also don’t think they’re heavy on memory in the first place. You can buy top quality Chinese Android handhelds with more RAM and better Qualcomm processors than the Switch 2 for about the same price (e.g., AYN Thor Max is $450 with a 16GB/1TB configuration).
by shinycode | 2026-02-26 22:43:34+00:00
Even if LLM will one day be autonomously updated, they started from us, from our knowledge.
The human brain « is smart », it’s wired up to be in any kind of culture or knowledge. We fill up to be smarter from experience but LLM can’t do that, I can’t teach Claude something that it will use with you the next day, it needs to be retrained with knowledge stopping at some point.
Even if technology catches up and the machine becomes more autonomous, what will say this machine would ever want to integrate to our society or share anything with us ?
They have eternity, given there is electricity. Why would they want anything to do with humans if you go that way ?
If it’s really conscious, should we consider it a slave then ? Why couldn’t « it » have fundamental rights and freedom to do whatever it wants ?
by m_ke | 2026-02-26 22:44:08+00:00
It's going to get really ugly, Jason Lemkin called this out as a possibility a few hours ago: https://youtu.be/mBE_9vGJBUM?si=WSyZXYgV48WfrNrv&t=2908

We're about to see a lot of public SAAS companies do the same and rebrand as "AI" first
by strken | 2026-02-26 22:45:29+00:00
This seems like it's reading too much into things. I'm sure driving an ambulance slower vs faster doesn't make a difference to survival in most cases, but on the margins it absolutely does.

Startups are also quite different from ambulances; surviving and minimising patient harm isn't the most important thing for a startup. Instead, it's building a profitable and valuable business. You're not just worrying about the margins, you're also hoping to squeeze out every bit of growth you can.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-26 22:45:37+00:00
I recently started learning how to do iOS apps for work and the short answer is: you don't.

Apple seemingly wants all apps to be static jpegs that never need to connect to any data local or remote, and never do any processing. If you want to do something in the background so that your user can multitask, too damn bad.

You can run in the background, for a non-deterministic amount of time. If you do that, iOS nags your user to make it stop. If you access radios, iOS nags your user to disable it.

It's honestly insane. I don't know why or how anyone develops for this platform.

Not to mention the fact that you have to spend $5k minimum just to put hello world on the screen. I can't believe that apple gets away with forcing you to buy a goddamn Mac to complile a program.
by appellations | 2026-02-26 22:46:11+00:00
The problem wouldn’t be your competitors cribbing your ideas, it would be more like letting anyone with a bone to pick audit you for minor compliance violations, customers relying on internal implementation details or judging you unfairly for legacy horrors, or devs getting self conscious about their sloppy 2am fix and prolonging an outage for rational public image/ego reasons
by ej88 | 2026-02-26 22:46:19+00:00
i feel similarly. suppose ai makes people more productive:

1. companies that are not doing well (slow growth, losing to competition etc) or are in a monopoly and are under pressure to save in the short term are going to use the added productivity to reduce their opex

2. companies that are doing well (growth, in competitive markets) will get even more work done and can't hire enough people

my hunch is block is not doing as well as they seem to be
by otterley | 2026-02-26 22:46:28+00:00
I'm afraid that's not how it works in modern law in the U.S.:

"In addition to establishing that the defendant was aware of his
statement's defamatory meaning, the plaintiff also must show that
the defamatory statement is false. The falsity requirement has
evolved gradually through a two-step process. Initially, the courts
recognized that truth was a defense in a defamation suit. With
time, however, the burden of proof on the issue of the statement's
truth or falsity shifted to the plaintiff, so that now a statement is
not actionable unless it can be proven false."

https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/c... (pp. 851ff).
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-02-26 22:46:32+00:00
> I wonder whether we’ll see a secondary effect in the resale market.

I'm paying more on ebay for thinkcentre tiny and thinkpads - 12th gen intel and newer.

Refurbished spinny drives have been steadily climbing - up 50% since late last year. That's on top of the 20% mystery jump that happened in the last week of 2024.
by bogzz | 2026-02-26 22:46:42+00:00
LLMs are really a marvel, GPT 2 actually inspired me to go back to college (not directly, rather I needed to understand how it worked).

I have unlimited derision for morally spineless worms who disingenuously make it out to be more than it is-- looking at Dario, Sam, and the silly CEO of Control AI. Also, I hate to say it but Andrej Karpathy on twitter-- he's a worthless follow now. I can't blame, but am daily exasperated by media figures who can't help but go with what they hear prominent individuals in the field say.

If I were a junior now, and less confident, I would be abandoning my career in this climate.

LLMs are not going away. They will get a little better than they are now, and new model paradigms will come around at some point. But this tale of massive redundancy and skyrocketing unemployment is not going to come from LLMs.

This is the only reason why I cannot wait for a pop, and pray to God that it comes sooner than later. I just want to feel good about technology again. I want to tinker, to feel positivity, to know how sustainable the tools I'm using actually are.

I don't want to be reminded daily of the disgusting reality of unbridled capitalism.
by throwback_dev | 2026-02-26 22:47:01+00:00
Block cutting from 10,000 to 6,000 while gross profit is growing is the clearest signal yet that fintech headcount peaked in 2024.

I’ve worked in LATAM fintech for years. The pattern Jack describes — “intelligence tools paired with smaller and flatter teams” — is already playing out across the industry. The compliance teams that used to need 15 people to handle KYC/AML across multiple jurisdictions are being compressed to 4-5 people supervising automated pipelines. Not because the work disappeared, but because the ratio of human judgment to routine processing flipped.

The honest part of this letter is the admission that gradual cuts would have reached the same number. Most companies do the slow version and pretend each round is the last. Dorsey is essentially saying “we modeled our org with AI-augmented productivity and this is the number we landed on.” Whether you think that’s brave or ruthless depends on whether the model is right.

The part that concerns me: “customers can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities.” That’s a pivot from platform to infrastructure. It’s also a bet that your remaining 6,000 people can serve the same customer base with composable APIs instead of bespoke
by dataviz1000 | 2026-02-26 22:47:24+00:00
1. An oracle delivers a prophecy.

2. The hero takes action to avoid it.

3. Those very actions are what make the prophecy come true.

Peter Thiel has all these paranoid delusions about the future. (Dude, I know you are listening, if you are scraping my Hacker News posts we seriously need to have a conversation about this!) Yet, his actions trying to prevent this future he is terrified of are the very things that will bring it to fruition. Hamlet is correct -- we defy augury.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-26 22:47:25+00:00
Employing people is very different, hence a separate term, separate laws. Or do you think society just missed this whole wisdom you are sharing?

So much of thought put forward on this site is 'ignore the hundreds of years of policy and discussion and causes that led to the creation of something I don't like, throw it all out' be it labor laws, intellectual property rights, financial policy. Meanwhile the same tech minds couldn't even deliver on the tech-optimist world promised in the early 2000s that was brand new, created form the ground up and instead delivered an enshitified tech world.
by KittenInABox | 2026-02-26 22:47:27+00:00
I feel like the idea that X doesn't owe you Y is fundamentally at odds with the fact that humans are a cooperative species and survive the best when they are cooperating. A choir can hold a note together because individuals can stop singing to breathe, safely covered by peers who will take their turn to breathe later. What is the point of organizing socially if not for the benefit of all society members?

I know we have to balance inefficiency and optimal allocation of resources... but I agree it doesn't seem optimal for social wellbeing to remove people from their access to health and risking their ability to house and feed themselves without a financial need to do so (like Block going bankrupt).
by AshleyGrant | 2026-02-26 22:47:32+00:00
You completely avoided my question and just gave a lecture on why it is the way it is.

I am well versed in why the Senate is structured the way that it is. That is beside the point. The simple fact is we have a legislative structure that does not properly give voice to voters in larger states while over-representing people who choose to live in small states. It is patently unfair and should be fixed.

There is no universe in which the vast swaths of unpopulated land in Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, or the Dakotas deserve the same amount of legislative power as the densely populated states of California, New York, Texas, and Florida.

But here we are, and this country has borne the painful lessons of a Constitution that over-represents residents of these lightly populated states through the tyranny of minority rule.
Show HN: HelioSim – Real-time N-body simulator in WebAssembly
by JustClemens | 2026-02-26 22:47:33+00:00
Hi HN!

I built HelioSim, a real-time N-body gravitational system simulator running directly in the browser via WebAssembly.

It’s written in C++ and uses OpenGL ES 3.0, GLFW, and Emscripten. The entire simulation and rendering pipeline runs in WebAssembly.

Features:
- Real-time N-body gravitational simulation
- Predictive orbit trails
- Collision handling
- Time controls (slow motion / fast-forward)
- Dynamic body spawning

This was my first larger WebAssembly project, and I was honestly surprised how well modern browsers handle a C++ + OpenGL ES pipeline compiled to WASM.

One interesting challenge was bridging events and state between JavaScript and C++, which can honestly be a bit exhausting.

Source code:https://github.com/clemenskoprolin/heliosim

I’d love feedback on performance on other machines. Thanks!
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-26 22:47:43+00:00
In the US, you could work 400 hours per day, and still nothing would change in regards of wealth concentration.

Inheriting money from your parents is taxed lower than earning your own money through work. Making more money due to already having money is taxed lower than earning your own money.

US Americans by a large majority over decades got trained to believe changing that would have something to do with "socialism", which was made a bad word.

But this isn't about re-distribution, making people equal or anything.

It's just that it is not logical, does not make sense, and in the end will destroy your society if already having money, which provides no benefit to society whatsoever, is rewarded over producing something, which does provide a benefit.

Why does a teacher who provides REAL benefit to society in the US has less yearly net income than someone who does not work at all but has once inherited 200k from his parents?

You have been trained to find all of this normal, and to believe it's your fault. Just work harder! No, it's not your fault. Working harder won't change anything.

So imagine you have one of the richest countries on this planet. But you don't really have enough work for every human to work full-time. Why is this a problem instead of an ideal? What strange goal is "everyone should work hard" when it comes to enjoying life? If you have an insanely rich country, there are far better solutions than trying to artificially create jobs that make no sense.

You can not compare this to a POOR country with high unemployment. There unemployment is a problem. In the US? Who cares if there is no factory to work in? Instead go help your neighbor. Study something. Become an artist. Do a public gardening project.

Again, the problem is that "having money already" that is of no use to society whatsoever is valued and awarded higher than any of those useful things above.

So, Step 1 for the US would be: You don't have to take away anything from anyone. But stop rewarding people for already having money.

As the CEO and owner of a German limited company I can choose between paying me a salary, getting taxed 45% ) for that, or paying myself a dividend, getting taxed 25% ). The first time I learned that 20 years ago I found it totally crazy and could not believe it. I still find it crazy today. Even in my own f'ing company my OWN work is valued less by society than me owning my company!

*) Oversimplification, but the ratios are correct
by tim-tday | 2026-02-26 22:48:11+00:00
Not too hard.

Dad tells kid “never harm your neighbors even when threatened by a bully”.

Bully wants dad’s help harming a neighbor. Bully threatens dad.
Dad can either stand strong and live the example he wishes his child to follow, or cave displaying the opposite of what he said.

In humans what you do is far more important than what you say. You can tell a kid to tell the truth a thousand times and if you show by example that lying is ok, they will lie.

Conversely if you live a life where you simply don’t lie for any reason, your kids will learn to live honestly.

Not sure how well this translates to LLMS. Probably not cleanly.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2026-02-26 22:48:13+00:00
Even in "AI psychosis" I don't see how firing people is a logical response to advances in AI.

If AI tools really are a significant multiplier to productivity, companies should be hiring more people to take advantage of that multiplier.

If you suddenly have the ability to get more output per dollar spent, a healthy business should respond by spending more dollars, not spending less to keep output the same.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-26 22:48:15+00:00
Government and civil service departments are mostly based in and around London, as is most BBC infrastructure/HQ.

London has umpteen infrastructure updates whether motorways or underground lines. Also vanity projects such as the Garden Bridge which cost tens of millions without ever being built, or the Wembley Stadium refit which cost than the Scottish Parliament building (but garnered a fraction of the negative press.)
by matt_d | 2026-02-26 22:48:22+00:00
Repo:

K-Search: LLM-Driven GPU Kernel Optimization with Co-Evolving Intrinsic World Model, https://github.com/caoshiyi/K-Search

> K-Search is an automated kernel engineering system that uses large language models (GPT-5, Gemini etc.) to iteratively generate and optimize GPU kernels. Unlike one-shot code generation, K-Search maintains a co-evolving world model — a structured search tree that encodes hypotheses about kernel bottlenecks, design alternatives, and optimization strategies — guiding multi-round, evidence-driven search over the kernel design space efficiently.
by sunaookami | 2026-02-26 22:48:40+00:00
Well StreetView was released in 2010 in Germany and not updated until 2023 (!). And the article doesn't take pixelated houses into account. Nowadays the material is finally up2date again and fewer houses pixelated (I think you had to request it again but nobody cared enough because there was no outrage like back then). The backlash in 2010 was overblown even back then.
Show HN: Praktor – Multi-agent Claude Code orchestrator with Docker isolation
by mtzanidakis | 2026-02-26 22:48:41+00:00
I built Praktor to run my own AI agents in isolated Docker containers, accessible from Telegram.

It's a single Go binary: receives Telegram messages, routes them to named agents (each with its own role, model, and config), spins up Docker containers running Claude Code via the Agent SDK, and streams responses back. A Mission Control web UI provides real-time monitoring.

Some highlights:
- Named agents with smart routing (@agent_name or AI-powered)
- Each agent in its own Docker container with isolated filesystem
- Persistent per-agent memory via SQLite + MCP tools
- Agent swarms: fan-out, pipeline, and collaborative patterns
- Encrypted secrets vault (AES-256-GCM), never exposed to the LLM
- Nix package manager — agents install tools on demand
- Browser automation via playwright-cli
- Per-agent MCP servers, plugins, and skills from the UI
- Hot config reload, scheduled tasks, backup/restore

Would love feedback.
by AshleyGrant | 2026-02-26 22:49:21+00:00
Both you and the other person who responded to me completely avoided the question I posed and hid behind "The Founding Fathers said it should be this way, so it is that way."

I didn't ask why it is the way that it is or if it is operating to the plan presented by the Founding Fathers.

I asked in what universe is it remotely fair or democratic. Care to try and come up with an answer to that question?
by tkzed49 | 2026-02-26 22:49:24+00:00
The average LLM writes cleaner, better-factored code than the average engineer at my company. However, I worry about the volume of code leading to system-scale issues. Prior to LLMs, the social contract was that a human needs to understand changes and the system as a whole.

With that contract being eroded, I think the sloppiness of testing, validation, and even architecture in many organizations is going to be exposed.
by IncreasePosts | 2026-02-26 22:49:30+00:00
If you're looking at it solely from perspective of "value" in experimentation and play, then that value mostly comes from expert level understanding of the ingredients and the process. To not ask for guidance from people right near you who know far more than you just seems like egotism.

Who has a better chance of developing an innovative omelette dish? Thomas Keller, or someone who can't make scrambled eggs without setting off the smoke alarm?

The point is, experts can bootstrap you so you can progress quicker than you can on your own. This is why mentors exist, and is the basis of Bloom's 2 sigma study.
by kace91 | 2026-02-26 22:49:37+00:00
>we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.

In my country, this action would be literally illegal.

Even in countries where it isn’t, it feels highly immoral. “I’m not in any kind of pressure to do this but I’m choosing to shed the people who created my wealth for greater personal gain”.
Show HN: I built a minimal file organizer CLI and underestimated filesystem case
by chris-corner | 2026-02-26 22:49:39+00:00
I built a small CLI tool that organizes files in the current directory based on their extensions.

The idea came from staring at my messy “Downloads” folder and thinking: what if I could fix this with a single command?

The tool is intentionally minimal and opinionated:

- It groups files into predefined categories (Images, Documents, Archives, Code, etc.)

- It never deletes or overwrites anything

- It stops execution if a filename collision is detected

- It only operates inside the current working directory

- It works out of the box, but also includes optional flags like --only, --exclude, and --preview

One interesting lesson was around hidden/system files.

In early versions, any unrecognized extension was moved into an “Others” folder.
That worked — until I enabled hidden files and realized system files were being moved too.

That forced me to rethink what “safe by default” really means.
Now the tool only moves explicitly whitelisted extensions.

Another issue I underestimated was filename collisions.
Currently, if a file already exists in the target folder, execution stops and shows an error.

I’m now thinking about:

- Whether to implement safer/atomic move strategies

- How to handle large numbers of files more robustly

- Whether user-defined extension mappings are worth the added complexity

It’s built with plain Node.js (no TypeScript), using minimal dependencies (Chalk and Ora).

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially around:

- Filesystem edge cases I might not be considering

- Safer move strategies

- The trade-off between minimalism and flexibility in CLI tools

Repo: https://github.com/ChristianRincon/auto-organize
by nephihaha | 2026-02-26 22:49:43+00:00
The biggest subsidy is the presence of government/civil service and royal "machinery", which ensures a steady flow of public money into the area before we even look at the vast amounts spent on London's infrastructure.

Much of British transport infrastructure is also designed to feed people into London (although London is less bad for that than Paris which is the hub of nearly all the French rail network.) The Channel Tunnel certainly does. Even the motorway and rail networks of Wales do to some extent.
by xnyan | 2026-02-26 22:49:51+00:00
>reasonable stance

Within the last 12 months, I had to write a script for a buddy at work that turned off availability of freaking freaking 56 bit DES in OpenSSH, which was available because was provided by openssl. I'm certain it was still there to provide compatibility for something(s) critical out there that depends on it, and while I can't imagine why anybody would choose to use it, it's there and it's awful.
by x3ro | 2026-02-26 22:50:11+00:00
So you're just upset that you can't own it alone, then? Jeff is that you? Be honest :)

Seriously though: I don't know what the latest numbers are, but I think we are around 15 people owning ~50% of the global wealth, iirc. So I don't know about you, but unless you are a billionaire, common ownership of the means of production sounds pretty great to most people.
by walterbell | 2026-02-26 22:50:42+00:00
Upcoming Apple display mounted to wall or robot arm is rumored to have audio interface and new OS without 3rd-party apps, only "AI".

Jony Ive at OpenAI is rumored to have smart speaker, pendant, pen and bone-conducting headset in the launch pipeline. Audio interfaces, no screens,

Meta is selling millions of smart glasses, with Apple and others following.

If the memory market was not distorted, home AI + agents + open models could have a bigger role via AMD Strix Halo. Instead, they will be reserved for those who can afford to spend five figures on 512GB or 1TB unified memory on Mac Studio Ultra devices.