MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akarii | 2026-02-26 22:32:02+00:00
Digital Photography and digital painting. Both were considered deeply offensive to a lot of artists. I have witnessed both first hand and the criticisms were verbatim the same as AI.

They said you couldn't become a good photographer if you didn't learn it with the limitation of film that forced you to make each shot count. Photoshopping a picture made it "not a real photo" and was banned from online communities and irl events, drawing in photoshop was not considered art. I find it very ironic that digital artists are repeating the exact same argument as the one used against their art
by ezst | 2026-02-26 22:32:10+00:00
The only brand new definition of AI is the one that came in full marketing speed shortly after ChatGPT, to have us believe that "AI has been solved and is a commodity, now" while all we got were more chatbots.

In the academic fields where this taxonomy matters, nothing much has changed with LLMs, or not more than with DNNs, SVMs, etc. Nobody that's been involved in ML research for more than 5 years seriously thinks "job's done pals, we got to pack it up, after 70 or so years of effort, we've finally figured it out, and that AI we were looking for, we got it".
by owlcompliance | 2026-02-26 22:32:13+00:00
I have to jump in the car soon, so to end on a good note: I now know you are not a troll, but I did start thinking that for a bit.

As an employee, we take part in charting the course for the business, but businesses have owners, and they have the ultimate say. A nation does not have owners. A nation has citizens, which is why democracy makes sense in a nation, but not a business; although loosely speaking, putting things to a vote when it's appropriate is not a bad thing. But no employee is entitled to that unless it is directly related to the scope of his or her employment.

Ultimately, you are conflating two different worlds: private enterprise and politics. They are two separate things; two separate animals; with two separate natures.
by DowsingSpoon | 2026-02-26 22:32:24+00:00
You’re not wrong. You’re not the only one saying this either. Though, I’m currently of the mind that the concern is overblown. I’m finding Opus 4.6 is only really capable of solving a problem when the prompt explains the fix in such concrete detail that coding is incredibly straightforward. For example, if the prompt has enough detail that any decent human programmer would read it and end up writing basically the same code then Claude can probably manage it too.

While I haven’t used other models like Codex and Gemini all that much recently, Anthropic’s is one of the top-tier models, and so I believe the others are probably the same in this way.

A junior’s mind will not rot because the prompt basically has to contain detailed pseudocode in order to get anywhere.
by shinycode | 2026-02-26 22:32:35+00:00
Physicalists say consciousness emerges from matter.
The other camp says matter comes from consciousness.
Federico Faggin, inventor of the microprocessor, says consciousness cannot emerge from matter because matter is inert and not self-conscious, so it cannot produce consciousness.
Who’s right and who’s wrong? Time will tell. But it is also wrong to claim that consciousness emerges from matter until it is proven (aka the “hard problem of consciousness.”)
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-26 22:33:16+00:00
I agree with your reasoning in principle, but I think it doesn't hold up for California specifically. According to Gemini, 90% of California's population lives in 5% of its land area, and 45-50% of the land is government-owned, much of it being unpopulated wild areas including large parts of the Mojave and Colorado deserts.

The state is large, diverse and already contains vast chunks of unpopulated land. Almost everywhere that isn't near the poles is similar to some part of California.
by nickburns | 2026-02-26 22:33:26+00:00
Disagree with your final statement. There's good security (and performance) reason to use any/all viable network isolation/segmentation/separation, etc., whenever/wherever possible. So-called Wi-Fi 'client isolation' is but a single network security strategy. No single strategy should be relied upon exclusively, nor avoided for that matter.

But it seems we otherwise agree on the overall impact of this vector. My point was mostly about the statement regarding any 'bypassing' of encryption.
by oblio | 2026-02-26 22:33:34+00:00
Maybe an upside? These past years it feels like meaningful hardware spec bumps are on the horizon, like in the 90s, 2010s.

After all this churn subsides there is a chance entry level Windows laptops will start at 32GB RAM and maybe 8-12GB VRAM?

Which could end up being about 5-10-15 years of progress packed into 2-3-4.
by ectospheno | 2026-02-26 22:33:58+00:00
I'll append the current list below. My primary issue is protecting my son. His educational difficulties present a problem when it comes to determining when a link is good or bad. It is easier to cast a very wide net and whitelist good sites. There are other reasons for some of the TLDs but I can't go into that here.

ad ads adult af alibaba alipay analytics anquan asia baidu
bar bcn bible blockbuster by cf cfd cg chintai christmas
citic click cloud cn coop country creditunion cyou data
dish diy dm dot dtv dvr et feedback food forum fun gift
hiphop hiv hk hkt host icbc il in iq ir kfh kp ky latino
lb lifestyle link living locker lol love ly ml mm mo
mobile moscow mov music my nhk ni nz observer ollo online
ott ph phone pid porn press property pw quest realty
redstone ren rest ru sbs sex sexy shouji site sling
so sohu space st store su sy tech to top trust ua unicom
uno vana ve wang website xihuan xxx yandex ye yun zip
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-26 22:34:11+00:00
> or being so dumbed down and rigid to be actually usable (GNOME, to a lesser extend CDE)

What do you find "dumbed down" and unusable about it?

Press ctrl-alt-T, and a terminal appears. Begin typing.

Press the flag key and a kind of menu thing you can type the name of apps into appears. Type "firefox" or "vscode" as appropriate, begin typing.

It could hardly be made any more straightforward.
by pedalpete | 2026-02-26 22:34:44+00:00
Exactly! If this post had been written 20 years ago it would have started with

Internet, handheld computers, electric cars...The problem is the same dudes.

Putting beanie babies in with Quantum Computing and Nuclear Power completely ignores the potential life changing elements of some technologies, even if they don't work.

Oh, and smart glasses he put in there, so he'll be eating his words in 2 years.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-26 22:35:24+00:00
this is what happens when a "public" key type quietly turns into a privileged key type without forcing people to re-scope it, not really a dev mistake IMO, it's a platform design bug and google needs hard separation between publishable and secret keys or this repeats every time they ship a new API. pretty disappointed in google tbh, looked up to them for security for the longest time
by solid_fuel | 2026-02-26 22:35:31+00:00
This is a prescient warning about yet another abuse of power by the Trump administration that we would all do well to heed, so I'm sure it will be flagged to death within an hour or two. Many people here like to consider themselves "above politics" and "apolitical", thinking that if they just ignore all noise they can just keep living their lives as if this is all normal. But it is not normal. I think the priority of the "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth here is likely political surveillance and suppression at home, not autonomous nuclear weapons, but he is a known alcoholic who has repeatedly shown terrible judgement so I can't really rule anything out.

This administration is criminal and has repeatedly shown disdain for the fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution. Our democratic system is only as strong as the will of the people to protect it.

The call to action at the end of the article is good. I think it's worth calling your senators and house reps to speak up about this. Politicians in general are slimy and spineless, those seem to be traits required to succeed in politics, but as a consequence they do tend to notice when people really speak up and care about issues. As a survival instinct if nothing else.
by jaccola | 2026-02-26 22:35:43+00:00
Honestly the whole Silicon Valley shtick is becoming old. The fake positivity, the quirky writing style, the "I think the most important quality is sticktuitiveness" linkedin-esque bullshit. Not to mention the cargo-cult that is so obvious in every GPT-wrapper startup.

This was mostly born out of counter signalling the businesses that valued serious people over competent people in the 20th century.

But, like with all things, the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. I believe the next wave of tech countersignalling will be people who actually do take themselves seriously, maybe even dress in suits, etc..
by mlyle | 2026-02-26 22:36:35+00:00
One reason we end up with excess capacity is process improvements; adding new fabs to get more density or performance doesn't make old fabs go away, and so we go through cycles of excess capacity. Demand has been relatively constant.

Here we're facing different forces-- unprecedented demand for DRAM that may be durable. But it also looks like the pace of supply changes may be decreased as process improvements get smaller and the industry stops moving so much in lockstep.

It still matters what happens to the demand function, though. If enough AI startups blow up that there's a lot of secondhand SDRAM in the market, and demand for new SDRAM is impacted, too, that will push things down.

Sort of like what happened with the glut of telecom equipment after
by 2muchclout | 2026-02-26 22:37:26+00:00
I also have a personal stigma against AI art (for commercial purposes) because I don’t see the cost vs the value doesn’t add up to me. I am trying to see if my own bias was negatively effecting my progress or if staying hand drawn was what the average age dev was doing. As for programming, I find it does help aid when I know what I want but can’t quite find the syntax, it’s the balance between that and still learning that I struggle with.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-26 22:37:34+00:00
> I'm sorry, but you've got to be a delusional lunatic to attempt to defend that kind of brazen biblical gaslighting. I don't agree with it because it's absolutely objectively insane and mendacious and unjustifiable in any context, no matter how much insincere self-serving apologetics and white-washing you can dig up. And your leaping to its defense is just as evil.

These are all priors that I don't necessarily agree with. Ad hominems aren't really convincing arguments.

> you still have to justify the institutionalized cannibalism and vampirism

Are you now just making shit up? Or do you have any evidence, that the Holy See thinks fairies and vampires are real?

> the Catholic Church and you complicit enablers also defend and support and perpetuate thousands of years of worldwide institutionalized child rape and pedophilia.

It is true that priests raped children at least in the last century, to me explainable, as priests are also only a cross-section from the general population. It is also true, that diocese administrations hide reports and didn't report them to the local law enforcement. That is indeed shameful. I am not aware that they defended and supported rape. That sounds like a made-up claim. Same for that it is somehow institutionalized. These priests were still prosecuted by the law of the Church. The information that surfaces now, also comes from evidence collected as part of legal proceedings in the Catholic Church. However sending someone to prison is none of the Churchs business. Most nations on earth would rightfully object to the Catholic Church issuing prison sentences to their citizens.

> No wonder Catholics are so supportive of and defensive about Trump and Epstein

Are they? Historically Catholics are less in favor of authoritarian movements, because they ground they identity in an outside person and international administration, and don't need to identify with the local administration as much as members of national churches may do. I don't know about the situation in the US, but the publications of the Holy See/pope don't sound like they are in favour of the Trump administration at all.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PhantomBorders/comments/19cx0ui/per...

http://econhist.userweb.mwn.de/konfess.htm

It is also unclear to me how your baseless claims affect doctrins of faith about the nature of eucharistia and eucharistic miracles.
by sixhobbits | 2026-02-26 22:37:44+00:00
This is interesting data but the report itself seems quite Sloppy, and over presented instead if just telling me what "pointed at a repo" means and how often they ran each prompt over what time period and some other important variables for this kind of research.

We've been doing some similar "what do agents like" research at techstackups.com and it's definitely interesting to watch but also changes hourly/daily.

Definitely not a good time to be an underdog in dev tooling
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-26 22:37:59+00:00
iOS I think has really aggressive background task killing, and it also drives me insane. I know they do it for battery life but I'm about ready to switch to Android, and would have a long time ago if I that didn't also mean replacing my watch, headphones, etc.

Is it too much to ask for me to manage my own background processes on my phone? I don't want the OS arbitrarily deciding what to pause & kill. If it actually does OOM, give me a dialog like macOS and ask me what to kill. Then again, if a phone is going OOM with 12GB of RAM there's a serious optimization problem going on with mobile apps.
by kace91 | 2026-02-26 22:38:06+00:00
The latest phone reviews have been eyebrow raising.

The just announced pixel is the same phone as last year. I know it sounds like a usual complaint, but look at the actual specs, it literally is the same phone with differences so small that hey might have passed as regional variance.

As for the Samsung, the screen can darken when looked from the side for privacy. That’s pretty much it. Price increased though.

Coupled with the current iOS situation it seems like things are… rotting. Everything in decline.
by ajb | 2026-02-26 22:38:11+00:00
At some point, they will start using violence to discipline their own side. Today, the people currently dismantling the rule of law, still in their heads imagine that they can do that and retain the benefits themselves. That's why the footsoldiers can still to some extent be intimidated into backing down by citizen opposition - they don't actually fear their own captains more.

After they use violence to discipline their own side, everything gets much more serious. But it's also a point of risk for them, because it might break their coalition. So it's important to defend the rights even of those who are on the side of autocracy . Because if they are successful in establishing violence as their right over even their own allies and followers, there may be no way back without civil war.
by wahern | 2026-02-26 22:38:18+00:00
I find it easier to understand in terms of the Unix syscall API. `2>&1` literally translates as `dup2(1, 2)`, and indeed that's exactly how it works. In the classic unix shells that's all that happens; in more modern shells there may be some additional internal bookkeeping to remember state. Understanding it as dup2 means it's easier to understand how successive redirections work, though you also have to know that redirection operators are executed left-to-right, and traditionally each operator was executed immediately as it was parsed, left-to-right. The pipe operator works similarly, though it's a combination of fork and dup'ing, with the command being forked off from the shell as a child before processing the remainder of the line.

Though, understanding it this way makes the direction of the angled bracket a little odd; at least for me it's more natural to understand dup2(2, 1) as 2<1, as in make fd 2 a duplicate of fd 1, but in terms of abstract I/O semantics that would be misleading.
by defrost | 2026-02-26 22:38:27+00:00
Sure, it's morphed from the original in various ways .. but perhaps not substantially enough to protect it from being gamed.

Transparency, limiting campaign funding, taking away corporate lobbyinging, universal suffrage (including everyone), indpendant commissions for electrol boundaries (stop parties directly dicking about with boundaries), ranked voting, more room for independant blocs, no "presidental" elections, cicada like co-prime terms for justices / other heads of non-p[olicy arms, ... many ways to improve the current system to increase broadly democratic representation.

The original point by the green account stands though, "problems with the US system have been known for a long time" .. perceived or otherwise, as evidenced by many others looking at the US system and picking and choosing what they use.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-26 22:38:33+00:00
January 6, 2021 (and the events leading up to it) was certainly a line, but maybe not the line.

I would say, when the administration openly refuses to follow a court decision. (And in practice, it's going to have to be a Supreme Court decision, because the administration seems to appeal every lower court decision that is against them.) Or, when they openly and blatantly interfere in the 2026 election (either by cancelling it via martial law or state of emergency, or interfere in it via troops or ICE in the streets or state of emergency, or after the fact refusing to accept the results because of some claim of invalidity).
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-26 22:38:46+00:00
I really dont understand that at all. Web Pages are mostly static, you would think the iPhone would cache websites reasonably well.

I remember on Android I dont recall the app name specifically, but it would let me download any website for offline browsing or something, would use it when I knew I might have no internet like a cruise.

Heck there used to be an iOS client for HN that was defunct after some time, but it would let you cache comments and articles for offline reading.
by eibrahim | 2026-02-26 22:39:12+00:00
The maker movement comparison is interesting but I think it breaks down in one key way: the marginal cost of software distribution is basically zero. 3D printing still requires physical materials and shipping. Vibe coded apps can reach users instantly if there's a discovery mechanism.

The real parallel might be the early web era where anyone could make a website but finding them required Yahoo directories and later Google. Right now vibe coded apps have the same discovery problem - they exist but there's no effective way to find or evaluate them.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-26 22:39:37+00:00
Updated to two tricks. And you could argue three if you call banking its own trick. Afterpay was an acquisition (and much smaller) so IDK if that counts.

Still, all the bitcoin stuff, music, other side ventures, most of the international expansion, attempts to appeal to bigger businesses, the recent "focus local" vision, all hardly made a dent in the respective markets and I wouldn't be surprised if they lost money or are still losing money on most of those things.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-26 22:39:57+00:00
Wasn't the 2DS just a 3DS minus the lenticular screen, and especially minus the front-facing camera that did face tracking to improve the quality of the 3D?

My understanding was that market research showed a lot of users were turning off the 3D stuff anyway, so it seemed reasonable to offer a model at lower cost without the associated hardware.
by avanticc | 2026-02-26 22:40:17+00:00
The Dune reference earlier in the thread is spot on. We often think of the Butlerian Jihad as a fight against sentient robots, but Herbert's core warning was actually about humans delegating their thinking and agency to machines. We are seeing that play out now not through some sci-fi uprising, but through the quiet erosion of accountability. When we let an algorithm decide who gets a loan or who is targeted in a conflict, we are not just using a tool. We are essentially offloading our moral responsibility to a black box that cannot be held accountable.
by apolloartemis | 2026-02-26 22:42:23+00:00
I hope that Gary reads this comment because an important correction is needed. The Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous AI Act was passed as part (last sentence) of Section 1638 of the FY2025 NDAA:

SEC. 1638. Sense of Congress with respect to use of artificial intelligence to support strategic deterrence.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--

(1) the considered use of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools presents opportunities to strengthen the security of critical strategic communications and early warning networks, improve the efficiency of planning processes to reduce the risk of collateral damage, and enhance U.S. capabilities for modeling weapons functionality in support of stockpile stewardship; and

(2) even with such applications, particular care must be taken to ensure that the incorporation of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools does not increase the risk that our Nation's most critical strategic assets can be compromised.

(b) Statement of policy.--It is the policy of the United States that the use of artificial intelligence efforts should not compromise the integrity of nuclear safeguards, whether through the functionality of weapons systems, the validation of communications from command authorities, or the principle of requiring positive human actions in execution of decisions by the President with respect to the employment of nuclear weapons.
by 2muchclout | 2026-02-26 22:42:32+00:00
I’m sure it would speed you up tremendously, would the output be the same though? Someone with no commercial ambitions doesn’t really need to worry about that, but if you do it is definitely worth measuring the trade offs. I’m not including coding in that statement, I think that for programming everyone should use it as long as you are still learning how to use the engine.
by avanticc | 2026-02-26 22:42:46+00:00
It is wild to think that Street View was once the most futuristic thing on the internet. Now it feels like a digital relic. The idea of a seamless transition from space to the front door has been a demo-room staple for years, yet we still have that clunky 'click to jump' navigation. It is not just about the visuals. It is about the lost metadata. There is so much semantic information in those images that could be powering a much more intelligent map, but instead, it feels like we are just looking at a very large, very static photo album.
by rcxdude | 2026-02-26 22:42:47+00:00
I think volume and cost was never really the issue. Even if 3D printing something was 3x the cost it could justify itself just by the sheer amount of overhead it can otherwise remove. Ultimately what limits 3D printing is what you can make with it, and the fact that it doesn't remove assembly as a manufacturing step. If you could 3D print full products then I think the promised revolution would have happened. (As it stands 3D printing has already had a massive impact on manufacturing. More stuff than you would think is 3D printed now, it's just not complete consumer items)

(Not to mention, it's only in the last few years where consumer-accessible 3D printers are more than hobbyist grade that required a huge amount of tinkering to actually work properly)
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-26 22:42:49+00:00
I doubt. Microsoft would much rather sell you a thin client & a Windows 365 subscription, and Nvidia wants you to use GeForce now instead of buying a GPU.

The shortage is manufactured, I have my doubts it will "end" in a conventional sense. I'm more skeptical and feel like this is yet another consolidation of wealth and a means of taking away compute power from people, which prevents startup competition. This way the hyperscalers are the only ones that can offer any meaningful compute.