MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yongjik | 2026-02-16 21:00:20+00:00
Protectionism may work in some cases, but even when it works, it works by making things more expensive. People don't buy American cars because it's cheaper to make similar cars in Mexico. Fine, so let's force companies to make cars in America. It's now more expensive (otherwise we won't be importing from Mexico in the first place).

You add more and more protectionism, it may get some jobs back, but the price is that things get more and more expensive. And not by a few percent, more like by 50% or more. (Just think of how much money an American worker needs to have an ordinary middle-class life compared to a Mexican worker.)

Now consider how much people were angry over the Covid-era inflation and how it was a major factor in Trump coming back (and looks like it's going to be a major factor in Republicans losing the mid-term election this year). Nobody wants prices to go up. Americans say they want protectionism but what they want is a fairy tale protectionism where jobs comes back but prices magically stay stable. It cannot happen, and if the choice is between some other group of Americans in Michigan getting better jobs and you getting your SUV at a "reasonable" price, people will choose the latter. (I'm not digging at Americans - the same is going to happen everywhere.)

It's basically "It's extremely hard to defeat capitalism at its own game." Nobody likes capitalism, but that doesn't mean you'll get popular by defying capitalism.
by credit_guy | 2026-02-16 21:00:22+00:00
> COVID dropped US life expectancy by about 2 years.

It was a temporary blip. The most recent life expectancy numbers, published last month by the CDC, show that the life expectancy in the US rebounded, and it is at a historical all time high, for both sexes:

2019 (before Covid): males - 76.3, females - 81.4 ([1], page 5)

2021 (after 2 years of decreases): males - 73.5, females - 79.3 ([2], page 3)

2022 (1st year of rebound): males - 74.8, females - 80.2 [3]

2024 (3rd year of rebound): males - 76.5, females - 81.4 [4]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr71/nvsr71-01.pdf

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-12.pdf

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db521.htm

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db548.htm
by boricj | 2026-02-16 21:00:35+00:00
Indeed, you can kludge anything together into working chimeras, as long as you can mend the ABIs together.

I've done a case study where I've ported a Linux a.out program into a native Windows PE program without source code: https://boricj.net/atari-jaguar-sdk/2023/11/27/introduction....

Another case study was ripping the archive code from a PlayStation game and stuffing it into a Linux MIPS program to create an asset extractor: https://boricj.net/tenchu1/2024/03/18/part-6.html
by reaperducer | 2026-02-16 21:01:00+00:00
CPAP machine is broadcasting some type of BT signal 24/7

A lot of them also have cellular modems.

It's marketed to the patient as a way to send data to their doctor.

However, the most common use is for the health insurance company to make sure they're being used because the insurance company doesn't want to pay for something that is gathering dust. If it doesn't connect for a certain amount of time, the insurance company will send a letter to the patient threatening to stop paying for the machine.

You can get the insurance company off your back temporarily by turning off the cellular connection and claiming that there's no service in your home. But you'll have to bring the SD card to your doctor every six months or so, so the insurance company can see it.

/Works in healthcare
by braiamp | 2026-02-16 21:01:08+00:00
Yeah, this is a common problem with these kinds of issues. Data can be open, data can be available, but if it's not easily exploitable and parseable by anyone there will always be a third party that would do so for a premium. Data has to be ready for consumption when shared by the state. That's why one of my very strong objections that we divide datasets by year on a continuous registry. It should be one dataset with a single column that tells you the year the row corresponds to.
by lukeigel | 2026-02-16 21:01:55+00:00
https://jmail.world/thread/07ff1467c0f2bb976664ecafc5829aa4?...

Many Yahoo emails do show you the original source, and the original is just an EML file. These were files directly exported from Epstein's Yahoo account. Bloomberg used these EMLs to confirm that the Yahoo emails are real (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-12/epstei...).

We don't tamper with these EMLs, so we currently don't make the EML accessible if the team had to redact any contents of that email.

See this for example.

https://jmail.world/thread/97d4a52d1df3948368770068262d2aab?...

We can fix examples where there are no redactions yet no EML download is available
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-16 21:02:17+00:00
They can, though. They just aren't always very good at it.

As an experiment, recently I've been using Codex CLI to configure some consumer networking gear in unusual ways to solve my unusual set of problems. Stuff that pros don't bother with (they don't have the same problems I face), and that consumers tend to shy away from futzing with. The hardware includes a cheap managed switch, an OpenWRT router, and a Mikrotik access point. It's definitely a rather niche area of interest.

And by "using," I mean: In this experiment, the bot gets right in there, plugging away with SSH directly.

It was awful with this at first, mostly consisting of a long-winded way to yet-again brick a device that lacks any OOB console port. It'd concoct these elaborate strings of shit and feed them in, and then I'd wander over and reset whatever box was borked again. Footgun city.

But after I tired of that, I had it define some rules for engaging with hardware, validation, constraints, and for order of execution, and commit those rules to AGENTS.md. It got pretty decent at following high-level instructions to get things done in the manner that I specified, and the footguns ceased.

I didn't save any time by doing this. But I also didn't have to think about it much: I never got bogged down in wildly-differing CLI syntax of the weirdo switch, the router (whose documentation is locked behind a bot firewall), and access point's bespoke userland. I didn't touch those bits myself at all.

My time was instead spent observing the fuckups and creating a rather generic framework that manages the bot, and just telling it what to do -- sometimes, with some questions. I did that using plain English.

Now that this is done, I get to re-use this framework for as many projects as I dare, revising it where that seems useful.

(That cheap switch, by the way? It's broken. It has bizarro-world hardware failure modes that are unrelated to software configuration or firmware rev. Today, a very different cheap switch showed up to replace it. When I get around to it, I'll have the bot sort that transition out. I expect that to involve a bit of Q&A, and I also expect it to go fine.)
by TZubiri | 2026-02-16 21:02:24+00:00
that cost is proportional to how long the cache is held. Currently the cache is not application controlled, it's like CPU caches.

If you hit the cache 1ns after it's been held, you get charged the same as if it's held for 5 minutes or 1 hour.

Also, in terms of LLM APIs, I'm almost certain that the state is offloaded onto RAM and then reloaded onto the GPU memory. If you are renting a GPU, you could keep the inferred state in GPU memory. If you are just holding it for very short periods of time, like my example of generating 1 output token at a time and doing some programmatic logic, then it's currently prohibitively expensive to use an API and you must self-host.
by nicoco | 2026-02-16 21:02:36+00:00
TBH I am not well-versed into DNS and certificates and security, but I guess you have to trust your provider with a certificate for `example.com` if you allow them to manage JIDs of the form `anything@example.com`, indeed. Again, I am not very knowledgeable about the subject, so take this with a grain of salt.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-16 21:02:41+00:00
I got the numbers swapped. Turns out there was an increase of about 40 games between last January and this. Which is exactly what you wouldn’t expect if the 5-10x claims are true.

Also the accelerating trend dates back to 2018 if you remove the early COVID dip. Which is exactly my point. You can look at the graph and there is no noticeable impact correlated to any major AI advancements.

The iOS data is interesting. But it’s an outlier because the Play Store and Steam show nothing similar. And the iOS App Store is weird because they’ve had numerous periods of negative growth follow by huge positive growth over the years. My guess is that it probably has more to do with all of the VC money flowing into AI startups and all the small teams following the hype building wrappers and post training existing models. If you look at a random sample of the iOS new apps that looks likely.

Seriously go to the App Store,
search AI and scroll until you get bored. There are literally thousands of AI API wrappers.
by cperciva | 2026-02-16 21:03:31+00:00
The company hires N people per year, you get hired by 1 company every N years.

Sure, but the company hires you even less often -- at most once every 2N years and probably even less than that.

If you are interchangable with all their other hires... well, that's not a good position to be in for many reasons.
Show HN: Twsla – A tiny, high-speed log analyzer written in Go
by twsnmp | 2026-02-16 21:05:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I built TWSLA because I was tired of waiting for grep/awk on multi-gigabyte logs, and I didn't want to spin up a full ELK stack just for a quick analysis.

TWSLA is a single binary CLI tool that focuses on three things:
1. Speed: Blazing fast log parsing and counting.
2. Simplicity: One command to extract data or generate terminal-based graphs.
3. Portability: No dependencies, works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

It handles Syslog, Apache/Nginx access logs, and custom formats easily. I've been refining this as part of my 25-year journey in network management tools.

Key features:
- High-speed filtering and counting
- Data extraction (IPs, Emails, etc.) via simple commands
- Built-in graphing capabilities (even in the terminal for some environments)

I'd love to hear how you currently handle "quick and dirty" log analysis and if TWSLA could fit into your workflow.

GitHub: https://github.com/twsnmp/twsla
by twsnmp | 2026-02-16 21:05:10+00:00
Hi HN,

I built TWSLA because I was tired of waiting for grep/awk on multi-gigabyte logs, and I didn't want to spin up a full ELK stack just for a quick analysis.

TWSLA is a single binary CLI tool that focuses on three things:
1. Speed: Blazing fast log parsing and counting.
2. Simplicity: One command to extract data or generate terminal-based graphs.
3. Portability: No dependencies, works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

It handles Syslog, Apache/Nginx access logs, and custom formats easily. I've been refining this as part of my 25-year journey in network management tools.

Key features:
- High-speed filtering and counting
- Data extraction (IPs, Emails, etc.) via simple commands
- Built-in graphing capabilities (even in the terminal for some environments)

I'd love to hear how you currently handle "quick and dirty" log analysis and if TWSLA could fit into your workflow.

GitHub: https://github.com/twsnmp/twsla
by charcircuit | 2026-02-16 21:05:14+00:00
>Not a big deal when the kid is 27, but a pretty big deal at 40 when they have no other marketable skills

Let's say someone started building products since 10. By the time they were 27 they would have 17 years of experience. By 40 they would have 30 years of experience. That is more than enough time for one to gain a marketable skill that people are looking for.

>they don’t know what they don’t know… in which case the AI won’t help at all.

I think you are underestimating at AI's ability to sus out such unknown unknowns.
by lollobomb | 2026-02-16 21:05:49+00:00
Sorry, this is utter BS, or at least it doesn't apply to all situations.

I played exactly this script during my first interviews, never giving the first number, etc. It worked well for me exactly one time: the very first job I had out of academia where I did actually have to negotiate a salary. All the other times it resulted in waste of time and loss of sanity.

I am now very upfront with my expectations, or at least my non-expectations: "My current salary is X and I have Y perks, and I am in a good team; I wouldn't even consider moving for less than this, regardless of how cool your team is, and if you don't beat these numbers substantially I already know that my current employer will make me a counteroffer, and then you lose time but I win regardless." (of course not literally, but the message is this).

Less interviews, less time wasted.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-16 21:07:03+00:00
If I tasked you to find a novel hallucination in a leading LLM, how long would it take you? I used to be able to find these and run into them often, but right now I can't generate new failure modes, I just have my list of known failures and run into them organically once every couple of weeks.

I don't think anyone at this stage believes that they don't make mistakes, but we prefer to use them for the times they are useful.

It can do very difficult things, and fail at very basic things. If you look at either of those and try to extrapolate, you can generate a hot take that it's super smart, or super dumb, sure. But it's a reductionist take that fails to see the bigger picture either way.
by hocuspocus | 2026-02-16 21:07:42+00:00
There's no need for a worldwide solution, federation and interoperability between major schemes are enough.

The same way AliPay can be used in most Asian countries already, we can imagine a world where EPI, UPI, Pix and so on interoperate smoothly.

I assume Visa and MC will try to remain walled off as the US are a big and slow mover in this space, until they'll need to open up as well.

Note: payments (unlike transfers) are never really zero fees, for good reasons.
by topspin | 2026-02-16 21:07:44+00:00
> It was ridiculously reliable.

Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, getting broadband was a problem where I lived. I oscillated among a few wireless internet providers (actual 802.11 Wifi to a repeater 11 miles away in one case,) and acoustic modems, as I changed properties.

For a couple years I used Qwest ISDN. That was by far the most reliable and consistent Internet I'd ever seen: it wasn't fast (128 Kbps,) but it never went down, and the latency and jitter was lower then anything I've had, then or since.
by bitwize | 2026-02-16 21:08:11+00:00
The AI bubble is almost exactly like Theranos. I honestly believe that Elizabeth Holmes believed in what she was doing, and that if she strung investors along for long enough, she could fund the development of her magical nanofluidic CGM on steroids. She didn't have the knowledge to pull it off, nor to know that everybody else was far from pulling it off, and she Dunning-Kruger'd herself into a situation where the jig was up and she was caught.

The difference is, with AI, it looks like they're really pulling it together and delivering something. For years it was "any minute now, this is gonna change everything, keep giving us money please" and it was all amusing but not-worth-the-hassle chatbots until recently, but Professor Harold Hill came through in the clutch and put together a band that can play something resembling music at the latest possible moment. And now we have agents that can do real work and the distinct possibility that the hermetic magicians might actually awaken their electronic god.
by dataflow | 2026-02-16 21:08:36+00:00
> People love to cherry pick ones that make the model stupid but refuse to allow the ones that make it smart.

I haven't seen anybody refuse to allow anything. People are just commenting on what they see. The more frequently they see something, the more they comment on it. I'm sure there are plenty of us interested in seeing where an AI model makes assumptions different from that of most humans and it actually turns out the AI is correct. You know, the opposite of this situation. If you run into such cases, please do share them. I certainly don't see them coming up often, and I'm not aware of others that do either.
by moron4hire | 2026-02-16 21:08:47+00:00
This idea doesn't sit well with me. Like, I recognize it very likely could happen, but it feels kind of like a dumb magic trick. Like learning economy goes up because people generally believe economy should go up.

If everyone is out of a job, then what is the point of the economy? Who is doing what work for whom? If nobody can afford anything, then why are we even doing this?

And, at some point, needs have to be met. If you were to drop 1000 random people on a remote island, you wouldn't expect nothing to happen just because there aren't any employers with jobs to hire people to do. People would spontaneously organize for survival and a local economy would form.

I find depictions of post-apocalyptic societies in sci-fi to be difficult to accept, too. Like Elysium: how could the entire Earth be an underclass, yet the space station needs them to work to be able to survive? That would be the easiest siege warfare of all time; do literally nothing and the space station eventually starves to death. Like Fallout: how could places stay completely run down for centuries? You mean to tell me that nobody would at least start a scrap yard and start cleaning up the old baby buggies and scrap metal from burnt out hulks of cars?

And then grown-ass adults tell stories about what could happen as if they are experts in Economy. Nobody knows how Economy work. Hell, half the Nobel prizes in economics in the last decade have basically been about proving the stupid, fairytale version of economics that existed for the last 100 years was a complete farce.

Yeah, I can definitely see a market collapse leading to a lot of mortgages getting foreclosed. But a complete shutdown? It seems preposterous. How? Why would everyone go along with it?
by microtonal | 2026-02-16 21:08:52+00:00
I can't pick up a slab of beer at Albert Heijn because it requires Google Pay. But some banks (I think Rabobank) have their own NFC app and then it works fine.

But instant online iDEAL payments etc. work fine. Person to person payments using Tikkie/betaalverzoek as wel.

Put differently, I never use my bank's web interface, only the phone app.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-16 21:08:53+00:00
It's not the size of the car per se, but the vast amount of technology and features crammed into the car that drives up the cost. An old VW bus could fit a lot of people, but was still produced cheaply compared to production costs today. That old bus had no self-driving, no power windows, no lane assist, no anti-lock brakes, no automatic transmission, no infotainement center, no air suspension, no automatic seat adjustments or backup camera, no soundproofing, no heads up display, no A/C, it didn't beep when something was in your blind spots, it had no crumple zones or other safety features. I'm not even sure if it had a catalytic converter. Just think of the huge number of electrical computer modules and the hundreds of miles of wiring, the millions of lines of software code. And those computers need to work in the Arizona heat when you park your car in the sun, even though you might fry a consumer grade laptop if you left it in the same car.

That's why smaller cars aren't that much cheaper. They are still crammed with all these features.

The BLS measures inflation which requires making the much maligned hedonic adjustments, which is basically saying things like "the new widget holds twice as much memory" or "this car also has an airbag". For automobiles, they look at production costs, and when you take production costs into account, cars aren't that much more expensive in real terms today. We just cram so many features into them now.
by flashbrew | 2026-02-16 21:09:05+00:00
Think create-react-app, but for AI agent skills.

Build Skill is a CLI that scaffolds AI agent skill repositories in seconds. One command — npx build-skill — gives you a fully spec-compliant repo with the right folder structure, SKILL.md templates, marketplace config, GitHub Actions for validation and syncing, and helper scripts to add new skills as you grow. Interactive or quiet mode for CI pipelines
by TZubiri | 2026-02-16 21:09:17+00:00
I have seen exactly one model that charges more for longer contexts:

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing

Gemini 1M context window

That said the cost increase isn't very significant, approximately 2x at the longer end of the context window.

This is in stark contrast with the quadratic phenomenon claimed by the article.
by tl2do | 2026-02-16 21:10:25+00:00
Fair callout. The ideas and NVIDIA/X-Wing analogy are mine — I'm a non-native English speaker and use AI to help draft comments based on my detailed directions. The "Reply to" text was an artifact I should have removed — that's on me.
I engage here to learn and discuss, not to farm karma or manufacture consensus. Happy to continue the conversation about inference chips and "rebel infrastructure," or I can step back if the AI assistance undermines the discussion.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-16 21:11:46+00:00
> Step 4: stop the robot when it's making a dumb decision

Yeah I can't stop myself when I'm about to make a dumb decision, just look at my github repo. I ported Forth to a 1980s sampler and wrote DSP code on an 8-bit Arduino.

How am I going to stop a robot making dumb decisions?

Also, this all sounds like I'm doing a lot of skivvy work typing stuff in (which I hate) and not actually writing much code (which is the bit I like).
by adregan | 2026-02-16 21:11:55+00:00
How are folks navigating the sheer rate of inflation in the last 5 years?

In job listings, I’ve seen salaries for Senior or Staff remain about the same as they were (thought usually edging a little lower), but adjusted for inflation, they are way lower.

If I were to insist on my 2021 salary with inflation adjustment, I’m often blowing past the listed range by anything from 15k to 30k.

With the market the way it is, how are y’all handling that?
by MrJohz | 2026-02-16 21:11:58+00:00
I think in that case, you're missing what the article is saying. It's not talking about building something new but not having people understand it. It's saying that anything new that you can build, someone else can build faster with AI.

To stretch the book analogy beyond breaking point, it would be like if Patrick Rothfuss released The Name of the Wind, and JK Rowling immediately put out "Harry Potter and the Kingkiller Chronicles, now with added Kvothe", and basically used her name and the Harry Potter brand to outcompete Rothfuss selling the same thing. (Obviously for books, you've got copyright, but there's no copyright for your favourite app idea.)

I think the extent to which that is actually true is hard to say, but I think it's a different point to the one you're arguing against here.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-16 21:12:04+00:00
Volvo has had absolutely terrible software since Geely acquired them. I own a Volvo and like the brand, I still think the cars are beautiful and the engineering outside of the software is pretty good, but the software is an embarrassment. It's just so bad. Shockingly bad. The worst of all the automakers by far. I'm worried it will sink the brand, and am not looking forward to owning a car made by a defunct automaker. I hope Volvo cleans house in the software department.
Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife
by AnujNayyar | 2026-02-16 21:12:07+00:00
Dear HN,

My wife and I both love nature and have always wanted a Pokémon go style app, to collect and learn about different species we find.

All the usual species identifying apps were didn’t feel fun enough, so we designed and built one together!

Would love for you guys to give it a try and share any thoughts you have.