MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by morkalork | 2026-02-26 04:00:54+00:00
Is it anecdotal? The observation isn't _my_ experience using it, or of _my friends_. I have no influence over who I see in public using it. I know it's not exactly a scientific study but it's still pretty damn good as a random sample. If I went outside and saw the sky was dark, cloudy and my face got wet, would you tell me it was anecdotal evidence when I say it's raining out?
by iJohnDoe | 2026-02-26 04:01:17+00:00
Basically, every city hall is like the show Parks and Recreation from a competency situation. Then it’s about rubbing each other’s back and staying in power.

You have to jump through hurdles to get hired into a real position, or know someone that can sidestep those hurdles to get you hired, then once you’re in, it’s about staying there. This combination means you never do anything really useful, at least not quickly. The citizens take a backseat while the clowns in power perform in the circus.
by nine_k | 2026-02-26 04:01:59+00:00
Come on, STM, Nordic, Infineon, NXP are all European. There is a bunch of chip-making installations in Dresden, Germany (Global Foundries, Bosch, etc), and there's Intel Fab 34 in Ireland. BTW TSMC is planning to open a production facility in Europe in 2027.

This is not comparable to Taiwan or the Shenzen area, but it's definitely not nothing. Some local expertise exists, even though it may be not the most cutting-edge.
by bandrami | 2026-02-26 04:02:30+00:00
It's the deed that's old; in the case of Columbia it's that it holds the northern half of the Anglican church's glebe[1] in Manhattan (Columbia is the largest private real estate owner in NYC), which is not only held tax-free but generates significant money for the University.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe (for Northern Virginia residents who have always wondered)
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-26 04:02:44+00:00
I mean in the cases where higher command has said launch your nukes and lower command has not done so and everything turned out ok, I think to higher command it of course is good it worked out this time but it certainly also looks like a problem with the system that needs to be automated away. So a computer that will launch all nukes when ordered must look very appealing in contrast to humans who might save humanity.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-02-26 04:02:59+00:00
> There are very, very few people in America who - when given a choice between driving and taking public transit - will take public transit, no matter how convenient the public transit is.

Yeah, no, this simply isn't true.

People don't take transit in America because largely that transit is sparse, infrequent, unreliable, and slow. When a twenty minute drive becomes a hour and a half of buses and walking, virtually nobody rational will willingly choose that.
by nomdep | 2026-02-26 04:03:01+00:00
Good idea, TERRIBLE implementation. After activating only filters for "Low Effort", and "Contain Logical Fallacies" I get:

> "Who cares if it is? It's a great movie nonetheless"

3/5 Published!

> "Who cares if it is? It's a terrible movie nonetheless"

2/5 Revision requested: Calling a movie 'terrible' dismisses the enjoyment others may find in it and directs negativity at both the film and those who appreciate it.
Suggestion: "I personally don’t enjoy the movie, but I understand some people have different opinions about it."

So it's okay to generalize my opinion about it, but only if I liked it, otherwise I might hurt someone's feelings? Very double-plus-good vibe. I would never comment again on the site that uses this product.
by SecretDreams | 2026-02-26 04:03:59+00:00
Chatgpt is like "Jeep". My grandmother calls every suv a jeep. But they're not all jeeps. AI looks like chatgpt, but people are driving all sorts of different AIs.

I would guess OAI has no moat or stickiness beyond what governments and private companies will do to keep it afloat through equity and circular financing. Good enough AI is all most need, and they need it at the cheapest cost basis possible with the most convenient access.

Google will probably win on most of these fronts unless a coalition is formed to actively fight google at the business/government level. But, absent that, it will win out over oai and oai will probably bleed to death trying to become profitable.. whenever that happens. You'll likely see their talent and corresponding salaries shrink massively along this journey.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-26 04:04:25+00:00
The Windows computer I have to use at work takes over ten seconds to open the calculator. It literally is faster to type the calculation I want into a search engine and get the results back over the network.

The new calculator even manages to screw up basic input. The old calculator accepted both commas and periods as decimal separator inputs. It just worked no matter what I typed in. The new calculator has some sort of "clever" localization where my inputs change depending on the language of the operating system. My language uses commas so of course it only accepts those. Infuriating. Hope whoever coded this is enjoying their promotion.
by bediger4000 | 2026-02-26 04:04:29+00:00
Clearly Trump hopes to bully Minnesota into submission. This is obviously a lie, just like "illegal immigrants" was a lie.

The larger question is why would a Minnesota voter, any voter, vote for Trump or any of his enablers ever again? We've all been told time and again that there's a rule of law, nobody above it, that the US has a federal system, that were all really citizens of a state, and that Congress allocates a budget, and all the executive branch does is implement the budget. Oh yeah, also there's checks and balances.

None of that is in evidence here. None. You can be arbitrarily punished and tax money taken away on the whim of one man. What should other Dem states like Colorado (prosecuted Tina Peterson, tried to take Trump off the primary's ballot) think and do here?

And those poor conservatives! Trump really pantsed all those small government, personal responsibility marks.
by MidasTools | 2026-02-26 04:04:41+00:00
Interesting timing — I've been running agents with persistent memory in production for the past few weeks and this problem is real.

A few observations from the file-based approach we've been using (plain markdown, no SDK):

The hard part isn't storage — it's memory hygiene. Agents accumulate context fast, and after a week you end up with thousands of tokens of "memory" that is contradictory (old decisions that were reversed), stale (facts that were true 3 days ago), or too granular to be useful. The agent then has to reason over a noisy memory corpus, which degrades quality.

What we've found helps: separating memory by type and update frequency.
- Identity/values: write once, almost never change. Agents reference this constantly.
- Operational rules: changes occasionally. High-signal, low-volume.
- Learned context: updates daily. Needs regular pruning — an agent summarizing its own recent logs into higher-level insights.
- Event log: append-only, date-partitioned. Used for debugging, not for agent reasoning.

The 89% on LoCoMo is solid. Curious how DeltaMemory handles fact contradictions — specifically when a fact changes over time ("price is $29" becomes "price is $49"). Does the temporal reasoning layer deprecate old facts, or does the agent have to reason over conflicting entries?

Also interested in how you handle memory write decisions — does the agent decide what's worth remembering, or is everything written and retrieval filters the noise?
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2026-02-26 04:04:46+00:00
That only helps if you don't have much free RAM. If you've got more free RAM than you need cache (including disk cache), swap only slows things down. With RAM prices these days, getting enough RAM is not worth it to avoid swap. IME on a desktop with 128GiB of RAM & Zswap I've never hit the backing store but have gone over 64GiB a few times. I wouldn't want to have pay to rebuild my desktop these days, 128GiB of ECC RAM was pricey enough in 2023!
by anulum | 2026-02-26 04:04:48+00:00
@soletta Great question — this is exactly why we built it this way.

*Short answer*: frontier LLMs are excellent at static self-critique, but terrible for *real-time token-by-token streaming guardrails* because of latency, cost, and lack of persistent custom memory.

*Why DeBERTa + RAG wins here*:
- *Latency*: DeBERTa-v3-base + Rust kernel scores every ~4 tokens in ~220 ms (AggreFact eval). A frontier LLM call (GPT-4o/Claude 3.5) is 400–2000 ms per check. You can’t do that mid-stream without killing UX.
- *Cost*: Frontier self-checking at scale = real money. This runs fully local/offline after the one-time model download.
- *Custom knowledge*: The 0.4× RAG weight pulls from your GroundTruthStore (ChromaDB). Frontier models don’t have a live, updatable external fact base unless you keep stuffing context (expensive + context-window limited).
- *Determinism & auditability*: Small fine-tunable NLI model + fixed vector DB = reproducible decisions. LLMs-as-judges are stochastic and hard to debug in prod.

We’re completely transparent: the NLI scorer alone is *not SOTA* (66.2% balanced acc on LLM-AggreFact 29k samples — see full table vs MiniCheck/Bespoke/HHEM in the repo). The value is the live system: NLI + user KB + actual streaming halt that no one else ships today.

Full end-to-end comparisons vs. LLM-as-judge in streaming setups are next on the roadmap (happy to run them on any dataset you care about).

Have you tried frontier self-critique in real streaming agents? What broke for you?

Repo benchmarks: https://github.com/anulum/director-ai#benchmarks
by array_key_first | 2026-02-26 04:05:27+00:00
It's trivial in the sense that it's easier than not doing nothing, because rather than create problems what we've actually done is systematically installed impediments to solutions. We only need to remove impediments, and the solution finds itself.

Obviously that's very simplified, but the point is we've built this Tower of Babylon that exists around property value that is completely optional and just makes everything harder.
by rayiner | 2026-02-26 04:05:38+00:00
> I sincerely believed that we were in a post racial world.

I grew up in a post-racial world as a "brown" immigrant in a deep red Virginia county in the 1990s. My daughter, meanwhile, developed a strong "brown" identity from her teachers in our deep blue state. I don't blame Obama for it. But there was a definite shift in thinking during his administration where the distinct politics of black democrats--which is highly focused on racial identity for obvious reasons--became generalized to the hispanics and Asians that democrats sought to court. It was a couple of years into the Obama administration that someone called me a “person of color” for the first time, as if you can properly group people together based on skin color.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-26 04:05:47+00:00
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

https://immigration.ca/fast-track-high-demand-occupations/

“Canada skilled workers program” are the relevant keywords for searches.

If you can’t find one that fits the work that you do, another option are visas that are non lucrative non working that are based on your investments, their income, including income from rental properties. Own a place in the US? Find a property manager, rent it out, visa secured (assuming monthly/annual income requirements are met).
In 2100, 2 socio-economic classes exist
by shoman3003 | 2026-02-26 04:06:05+00:00
in 2050, 3 socio-economic classes exist:

-poor people who spend 90% of their life on social media looking at short videos of rich kids who seek validation online because they never got it at home.

-middle class; made entirely of AIs that doesn't technically pay taxes because they don't technically exist in 1 location.

-rich people who own the corporations that made the AIs.

In 2100, its down to 2 socio-economic classes:

-poor people hunting down videos made by the very few rich people who are still posting.

-rich AIs that have figured out a way to bribe their CTO into losing focus for a day.
by vardump | 2026-02-26 04:06:53+00:00
Very much simplified, a 10 minute charge would mean 6C charging throughout the curve. 100 kWh battery would thus require 600 kW on average. Right now the most powerful MCS chargers deliver 1440 kW.

So not impossible, as long as the battery can handle the current. It's obvious that charging technology is not going to be the bottleneck.

(A real battery would probably have a charging curve that slows down towards the end, so more than 6C would be required in realistic conditions.)
by linkregister | 2026-02-26 04:08:49+00:00
You're factually right. The high government spending of the 1960s was avoidable. By the 1970s, the loss of the peg was inevitable due to what happened in the previous decade.

I have a more sanguine feeling about America's development through its short history. It embarked on a series of many experiments, many which were successful and many which had terrible externalities. At the time, most people thought they were doing the most reasonable thing. For example, the huge benefit one family got from owning a car, it would follow that all families owning one would have even more benefits. It turned out that suburbanization hits scaling limits, but it was not immediately apparent at the time.

Overall, the standard of living for the median American is higher than it was in the 1960s and 1970s. However, the immediacy of information has caused widespread anxiety. In the 1990s and 2000s, we thought the same optimistic thoughts about interconnected information networks.

I have faith that we will adapt to this new reality, just in time for the next technological wave to catch us off guard. Maybe it will be cheap artificial intelligence.
by x0x0 | 2026-02-26 04:09:12+00:00
It's rarely a great sign when an article opens with... maybe not quite a lie, but by actively misinforming the reader. To wit:

> My beloved Boston Celtics paid top dollar for an accomplished point guard to help win a championship two seasons ago. This year, they opted for a player who isn’t as good but reduces payroll.

That is not what happened. If you don't follow the nba: Their best player (Tatum), tore his achilles. Worse, in one of the last games of the season. That's typically a year plus injury to return to form, if you return to form.

Separately, the nba has, for the first time, essentially a hard salary cap (the 2nd apron). If you exceed the first cap -- which everyone with a competitive roster must do -- you have penalties that escalate the more years in a row you are within the penalty zone. Thus Boston ate a year, while their best player was injured so they have no real hope of winning anything, to reset their penalty status for next year.

tl;dr: they didn't dump someone to reduce payroll (that was a side effect, not the goal). They wanted to reset the repeater penalty in a year where without your best player, you ain't winning anything anyway. This is just competent cap management.
Show HN: Runtric – Turn any topic into a chapter-based learning path
by resetmerlin | 2026-02-26 04:09:16+00:00
Hello. We built an AI learning service that lets you create a curriculum on any topic you want and study without worrying about hallucinations.

While existing AI learning services have mostly focused on how much text inside a PDF the AI can read and answer from, we focused more on how the AI should explain and guide so that real learning actually continues. That’s why we aimed to make it feel less like a simple Q&A tool and more like studying with a teacher who knows how to teach well.

It’s also simple to use.

1. Enter what you want to learn, choose your level and the number of chapters, and a curriculum is generated.

2. Click the curriculum card you want and start learning right away.

3. Each chapter comes with both a tutorial and a chatbot, and the chatbot continues the conversation while understanding the context of the current chapter.

4. So even when a user gets a quiz question wrong, they don’t have to explain everything again from the beginning; the AI can reflect the situation and help immediately.

Lastly, to briefly explain why we built this service: just because the AI era has arrived doesn’t mean the quality of education has automatically improved.

In fact, we felt that with AI added on top of short, stimulating content consumption like Reels or Shorts, people often lose focus when trying to study.

So we focused on reducing the real problems that get in the way of studying with AI, like hallucinations, unstructured learning flow, and the limits of traditional education methods that still haven’t changed.

Thank you.

Service link: https://runtric.com/
by mindslight | 2026-02-26 04:09:48+00:00
because reactionaries lying to themselves that they're "conservative" have such a great track record of coming up with constructive policies 
. Sorry bro, the actual conservatives are voting D, and there are going to be a whole lot of them based on how much your spite candidate has openly harmed our institutions. If you so desperately want to live in a backwater, you could always just move to one.
by hattmall | 2026-02-26 04:09:49+00:00
I'm very similar to the OP here, always hear about ChatGPT rarely anything else. Most people are definitely not paying, but of the few that are paying, outside of software developers, they are all paying for ChatGPT exclusively. I don't know of anyone paying for the basic chat versions of other AIs. A few developers paying for Claude and Gemini, but I know hundreds of people that talk of ChatGPT and no other AI, again most not paying though.
by warmedcookie | 2026-02-26 04:10:30+00:00
What's frustrating is that a lot of these keys were generated a long time ago with a small amount of GCP services that they could connect to. (Ex. Firebase remote config, firestore, etc.)

When Gemini came around, rather than that service being disabled by default for those keys, Gemini was enabled, allowing exploiters to easily utilize these keys (Ex. a "public" key stored in an APK file)
by disqard | 2026-02-26 04:10:34+00:00
A worthwhile question.

Also, worth keeping in mind how posts that are "unrelated to technology itself" could arguably trigger the hard-core contingent here. So, just like how Trump's or Elon's bloviations get flagged here, PG's posts could, in theory, also evoke the purest hacker mentality -- at scale.

Interpret it as you wish :)
by Paracompact | 2026-02-26 04:11:10+00:00
Dang, I've always considered mathematicians as being on the whole very intellectually honest and not fame-chasing. At least Dedekind still managed to earn his place in the mathematical pantheon.

Also, a 20-something stealing glory from a 40-something is an interesting inversion of the usual roles in this kind of abuse. I wonder if that's partly why Dedekind let it slide.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-26 04:12:34+00:00
There are areas where Hamas was stronger and areas where it was weaker, as is true in any military comparison.

Hamas was no rag-tag militia. It was also a government organization which spent billions building a military tunnel system that was longer, better and more effective than any European power has today. They had tens of thousands of soldiers. They could reach into the deep pockets of Iran and Qatar, and diverted billions in international aid. They had tens of thousands of rockets, most inaccurate, but all with real explosives and predictable trajectories. They also developed a unique warring strategy where they put their own population at risk by firing rockets from schools, storing weapons in children's bedrooms, and so on. Hamas was a formidable army in 2023. Where we perhaps can agree is that now, after two years at the wrong end of the IDF's military capabilities, they've become a rag-tag militia.
by devsda | 2026-02-26 04:13:10+00:00
> Leaked key blocking. They are defaulting to blocking API keys that are discovered as leaked and used with the Gemini API.

There are no "leaked" keys if google hasn't been calling them a secret.

They should ideally prevent all keys created before Gemini from accessing Gemini. It would be funny(though not surprising) if their leaked key "discovery" has false positives and starts blocking keys from Gemini.
by ryantgtg | 2026-02-26 04:13:30+00:00
Yeah. Vehicle costs are pretty much the same (for battery electric and fuel cell electric buses, at least) and are about 2-3x more than ICE. On-site hydrogen infra for fueling/storage is substantially more than charging equipment. H2 fuel is currently $10-20 per kg (the higher end accounts for vapor losses), which is, again, much greater than either diesel or electricity.
by raddan | 2026-02-26 04:13:36+00:00
I totally agree. Folks here seem to be under some misapprehension that elite = better education. Based on my experience earning my PhD at a public R1 and then working as faculty at a selective private institution, this is not the case. For starters, just consider the incentives for grade inflation at a private vs a public institution. Harvard has famously out of control grade inflation.

My public alma mater was a tremendous force multiplier for upward mobility. Many of my peers were first generation college students. They’re now scientists, doctors, and engineers. Few of them will become famous—they mostly just make the world tick.

My current private institution concentrates already wealthy people. These folks mostly go out and become consultants. They’re consumed with the idea of becoming “thought leaders.”

Which one really provides more value? I have strong opinions.
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-02-26 04:14:34+00:00
> It's not like people can just decide to move to another country and they will say "sure, come on in!"

Many countries actively try to attract skilled migrants with simple, points-based immigration systems and fast processing times.

Simply having a bachelor's degree, 5+ years of work experience, and fluency in the local language will get you on the fast-track to a permanent working visa in many countries.
by john-radio | 2026-02-26 04:14:46+00:00
the ergonomic advantage of left-to-right is that most players use right-handed guitars, so the guitar's cord comes out the right side of your body, and it's most ergonomic for it to be directed straight away from you to the right side of your pedal board, not criss-crossing in front of you towards the left side of your board.
by bpodgursky | 2026-02-26 04:16:01+00:00
> The Core Problem

> What You Should Do Right Now

> Bonus: Scan with TruffleHog.

> TruffleHog will verify whether discovered keys are live and have Gemini access, so you'll know exactly which keys are exposed and active, not just which ones match a regular expression.

I don't know exactly, but I'm sure. The cadence, the clarity, the bolding, the italics, it's all just crisp and clean structured and actionable in a way that a meandering human would not distill it down to.
by musictubes | 2026-02-26 04:16:45+00:00
I have come around to the idea of guitars being electronic instruments. Strings are the original oscillators. Once they become electrical signals it isn't clear to me how they differ categorically from any other electric instrument. There are an almost infinite number of pedals, many of which offer things like filters, LFOs, and other synthesis stalwarts. You could even make the guitar a controller for more traditional synthesis work.
by WaitWaitWha | 2026-02-26 04:16:58+00:00
I have played this game on the road so many times, just by myself. Airports, hotel lobbies, waiting for taxi, and more. I never played it online though. It is my "TV" to disconnect my brain from the day to day work troubles and hustles. It is not as boring as sitting front of a TV and just consume; it forces me to strategize a bit, use at least a tiny bit of my left over brain cells.