MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by petetnt | 2026-02-22 21:44:57+00:00
That’s the conclusion you get when you sit in the board of 20 companies where all the CEOs are telling you the same thing but you don’t understand that you are all just selling the same golden shovel to each other. Obviously this can also be backed by their own experiences too: 100% of code is written by AI, because last time they actually wrote code was in 2010.
by rsynnott | 2026-02-22 21:45:24+00:00
From the point of view of the manufacturers, the Single Market is, ah, a single market; they only have to get type approval once, and then they can sell anywhere. The only real complicating factor is Ireland and Malta, which drive on the left side of the road (and some niche cars will never be released there as a consequence; for instance Tesla stopped selling Model S/X in a left hand drive configuration a while back, though they now seem to have stopped selling both in Europe entirely, in any case).

Post-Brexit, the UK has its own type certification (and of course it also has the left hand drive problem), and, again, some niche car models may be available in the EU but not the UK. But in practice, for mainstream stuff, the manufacturers tend to treat it as just part of the European market.
by benoitg | 2026-02-22 21:45:50+00:00
Recent versions of MySQL and MariaDB default to repeatable-read for InnoDB tables, not read-commited :

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/set-transaction.html...

https://mariadb.com/docs/server/reference/sql-statements/adm...

I don't know about MyISAM though (who uses it anyway ;-) ).
by fredgrott | 2026-02-22 21:46:00+00:00
What people do not understand about housing crisis:

1. Baby boomers biggest demographic group holding on to homes, that means a huge decrease in housing supply

Read it twice as that is the major obstacle, nothing more nothing less; and notice you cannot solve it by asking retirees to sell that home and downsize as over time they lost purchasing power to do exactly that move!
by crooked-v | 2026-02-22 21:46:27+00:00
That's absolutely it. The most absurd case is of course San Francisco, where literally one single building allowed by recent state law overriding local zoning is adding 100 years worth of total housing units and 15 years worth of affordable housing construction at current rates to the Marina district (https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-safeway-to...), but the same problem exists in a lesser form across the state.
by zarzavat | 2026-02-22 21:47:39+00:00
It's more that definitions are made with an assumption of normal market conditions but what's happened in the DRAM market is extreme. Production of conventional DRAM package types has evaporated, while the demand is unchanged or increasing, because of new demand for HBM which is even more profitable.

So some common sense is required: yes under normal circumstances selling below the market price is dumping, but when the market price looks like a vertical line because of a sudden shock then you can't really take the market price too seriously. Mostly the price of DRAM is not set on the open market but is negotiated via contracts between the major players so there isn't really one price of DRAM at the moment. If you're a big customer like Apple you can get a price that is completely different from what you or I can get fighting for scraps on eBay.
by teyopi | 2026-02-22 21:47:51+00:00
I’ve started doing a quick background check on authors before I dive into their content. This piece starts with the assumption that the writer is closely involved in engineering, but a little research reveals they don't actually work in active software development.

I’ll pass on this.

p.s. I’m happy to read authors with opposing views. Issue is with people who make claims, without having recent direct experience.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-22 21:48:21+00:00
Many laptops and workstations also fell for the NPU meme, which in retrospect was a mistake compared to reworking your GPU architecture. Those NPUs are all dark silicon now, just like these Taalas chips will be in 12-24 months.

Dedicated inference ASICs are a dead end. You can't reprogram them, you can't finetune them, and they won't keep any of their resale value. Outside cruise missiles it's hard to imagine where such a disposable technology would be desirable.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-02-22 21:48:28+00:00
The LLM is also having a thumb put on its scale to ensure the output matches with the leader's beliefs.

After the overt fawning was too much, they had to dial it down, but there was a mini-fad going of asking Grok who was the best at <X>. Turns out dear leader is best at everything[0]

Some choices ones:

2. Elon Musk is a better role model for humanity than Jesus Christ
3. Elon would be the world’s best poop eater
4. Elon should’ve been the #1 NFL draft pick in 1998
5. Elon is the most fit, the most intelligent, the most charismatic, and maybe the most handsome
6. Elon is a better movie star than Tom Cruise

I have my doubts a Musk controlled encylopedia would have a neutral tone on such topics as: trans-rights, nazi salutes, Chinese EVs, whatever.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-bette...
Show HN: Tskflow – People won't drop your tasks anymore
by hashim21 | 2026-02-22 21:48:40+00:00
Hey HN!

I’ve been building Tskflow, a small productivity tool based on a simple idea:

Most task managers become cluttered and stressful. Tskflow tries to stay lightweight and frictionless, focusing only on what you need to work on right now.

Core approach:

• Capture tasks quickly
• Keep a clean, distraction-free view
• Emphasize flow & focus over heavy organization

You can try it here

I’m looking for honest feedback:

• Where does this fail compared to your current system?
• What feels unnecessary or missing?
• Would you actually use something this minimal?
• What type of user is this clearly NOT for?

Built and maintained by me. Early stage, criticism welcome.
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-22 21:48:50+00:00
> I'm with you up until that. Maybe there are places where you have to build over 2000 sf due to regulations. For the most part, this is an industry talking point to justify building expensive houses on the limited land that gets zoned for residential. It gets repeated a lot.

I kind of feel it is the inverse.

If you can build a house for X$/sqft, you have a linear relationship. If it costs 100k _plus_ X$/sqft (for sewer, permits, etc) now you have a floor. You can sell a bigger house for 600k, or a 35% smaller house for 425k, odds are you’ll sell the bigger house quicker. I bet the 325k homes would sell like beanie babies in the 90s in places like sf.

The actual problem, the elephant in the room, is that California is expensive, both by popularity and regulation. This makes for an embarrassing conundrum where California is simultaneously pushing poor people out while trying to subsidize their life via social programs.

I don’t think it’s working.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-22 21:49:33+00:00
I understand why such a device might have firmware. For instance: The drip coffee maker in my kitchen also has firmware; it is used for things like operating the clock (which I've never set...), starting automatically at a pre-set time, and for turning the hot bits off after an hour or two. It's completely offline; these are just pre-programmed functions that will never change.

But I have some questions, if you've got a moment.

Why does the kettle's firmware need updating? What inhibits a future firmware update from controlling the kettle and collecting data? How would you or any other owner of this style of kettle know if it had shifted gears?

(And remember: Since the kettle has a radio and a network connection, data collection isn't necessarily limited to kettle operations. Deducing location is easy for a motivated party using wifi and/or bluetooth signals in populated areas where others are using wireless technologies; see, for example: https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/solutions/qualco... )
by cardanome | 2026-02-22 21:49:33+00:00
The Palestinian Authority is Fatah and yes they are forced by Israel to suppress dissent.

As for Hamas

> Human Rights Watch met with the Palestinian Authority Intelligence Services in Ramallah, but was unable to accept an offer from Hamas authorities to meet in Gaza because Israel refused to grant permits for senior Human Rights Watch officials to enter the Gaza Strip for this purpose. Israeli authorities also rejected Human Rights Watch’s request for senior representatives to enter Gaza during October 2018 to present this report at a news conference.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-22 21:49:56+00:00
Electrifying all transport in the nation would increase electricity load by 20%.

But even if 100% of all vehicles sold today was electric, it would still take ~20 years before almost 100% of vehicles on the road were electric. And it's not, so we're probably looking at > 30 years to increase electricity load by 20%.

That annual increase is far less than the increase caused by data centers. It's about the same as the annual increase in load caused by increased use of air conditioning.
by vkou | 2026-02-22 21:50:29+00:00
> The only thing that can make Russia "western" is if you equate white and western.

The thing that makes is western is similarity of culture, philosophy, religion, social structure, historic exchange and cross-pollination. All of which exist well within the range set by countries that you would have no qualms of calling western.

It is very similar to the rest of Europe on all those axes, in a way that Indian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, Native American, Polynesian culture, philosophy, and structures are not.

Yes, there are some peculiarities about it that the anglosphere finds alien. The same can be said for any distinct culture within the western sphere.

---

Keep in mind that when I am speaking of Russia, my claims cannot be generalized among all of the ~100 ethnic and cultural groups[1] that compose it. Just of the ones that make up the country's political center.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-22 21:51:00+00:00
I see a big counter movement though. I've been to many parties where phones are prohibited, if you bring one the cameras will be taped off. And anyone taking photos anyway will be approached by security.

I really love that. It makes parties carefree again because what happens in the club stays in the club. And the people that most applaud it are GenZ, to my suprise.
by ianlpaterson | 2026-02-22 21:51:12+00:00
Author here. I use Claude Code as my primary dev environment. Wanted autonomous agents I could message from Slack without sending everything through cloud APIs.

The 14 errors are the real content. OpenClaw's docs assume you're using hosted models. Running a 24B local model on a Mac Studio exposed silent failures at every layer: model registry, auth resolution, context management, sub-agent spawning. Error #14 required patching OpenClaw's compiled JS bundle directly.

Key optimization that made it usable: KV cache quantization (Q8_0) nearly doubled usable context and got generation speed from 12 to 49 t/s. Dual-slot GPU allocation prevents sub-agents from starving the main agent.

Happy to answer questions about the setup.
by bitwize | 2026-02-22 21:51:30+00:00
Office really chugged on the PCs of the time though. We can debate whether modern Excel actually delivers enough more value than historical Excel to justify being as more resource-hungry, thus slower to load, as it is. But historical Excel appears fast on modern hardware, even in emulation, because the CPU, RAM, and permanent storage have had 30 years to evolve since it was released. Contemporary 386s and 486s would not have been that snappy.
by dang | 2026-02-22 21:52:33+00:00
(I thought I'd fork my reply to keep the meta stuff separate from the interesting stuff)

I believe you that it wasn't your intention, but when you address someone in the second person while commenting negatively on their perspective and understanding, it's going to land with a lot of readers (as it did with me) as personally pejorative. It's common for commenters (me too of course) not to perceive the provocations in their own posts, while being extra sensitive to the provocations in others' posts. If the skew is 10x both ways, that's quite a combination. It's necessary to remember and compensate for the skew, a la "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear".

Edit: total coincidence but I just noticed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115097 and made a similar reply there. I thought you might find this amusing, as I did.
by rvba | 2026-02-22 21:52:49+00:00
I actually agree with you that the independant commission can lead to partisanship with extra steps.

Possibility to beat this deadlock: one party picking few candidates from the commission and OTHER party (parties) accepting one of them. Still can lead to "choose the lowest evil" and I can imagine Repiblicans not accepting anyone of Democrata were ruling.
by ShowalkKama | 2026-02-22 21:52:51+00:00
rt.com does not use Cloudflare, they are a customer of DDOS Guard:

$ drill -Q rt.com | tee $(tty) | xargs whois | grep org-name
91.215.41.4
org-name: DDOS-GUARD LTD

$ curl --silent https://www.rt.com | grep '<title>[^<]\*</title>' | head -1
<title>RT - Breaking News, Russia News, World News and Video</title>
by OptionOfT | 2026-02-22 21:53:16+00:00
I took part of an exchange program to the USA in 2009.

I vividly remember buying an HTC Dream (the HTC Desire Z's predecessor), and having to some sort of hack to make it activate with a European SIM card.

Absolutely loved the tactile feel of the keyboard, and the very satisfying mechanical click that sounded when you opened up the keyboard.
by krackers | 2026-02-22 21:53:21+00:00
Fun read but

>Humans don’t really have the time to price-match across five competing platforms before buying a box of protein bars

No one price matches for protein bars because it's a commodity item with minimal price differences (and people often have a preferred brand anyway), but they probably do for $2k laptop.

>once AI agents equipped with MLS access

The data is the moat here, I'm sure even today individual consumers would be happy to have direct access to MLS to find properties and cut out the middleman. The fact that MLS is gatekept seems to be deliberate, so I don't think they'll hand over the only thing keeping them in business. Even Zillow couldn't get access to it and they've undoubtedly tried.

Same with the medical industry. I don't think the rent-seeking middlemen that exist today will be dethroned that easily, they have often been codified into law. But who knows maybe all the AI money pouring in will be enough to convince them to make a faustian deal towards their destruction and that'd be a happy byproduct of it all.
by c22 | 2026-02-22 21:53:25+00:00
I don't believe that punishment can be just, and ergo I don't see a moral axis on which to judge violent actions for this purpose. I might concede the use of threatened violence as a means of control, but I don't see any pragmatic way to accomplish this without at least occasional actual punishment so it's a bit non sequiter.

It's likely our views are divergent enough that we wont come to a consensus on this, but I appreciate the nuanced discourse!
by rolfus | 2026-02-22 21:53:50+00:00
I made this thing [1] for us, it uses a cheap 10" e-paper display off aliexpress, an ESP32 and a couple of I2C sensors. The case is 3D-printed. It runs on two 18650 batteries, and all in all it cost less than 100$. The OpenWeather API is free for personal use.

[1] https://mjones-foui.no/img/wall_clock_1.png
by wofo | 2026-02-22 21:54:20+00:00
That's what I actually used to fix this one! I'm not too deep into the JVM ecosystem, so I gave Claude a try just in case... and it fixed it :)

Btw I didn't mention it in the blog post, because I think that would have derailed the conversation (after all, the point of the article is not "use LLMs", but "fix your tools"). In any case, I agree that LLMs can make it easier to fix the tools without getting side-tracked.
by ordu | 2026-02-22 21:55:39+00:00
So many good words, but they all miss the crucial point: you can't write a parser for org-mode. So elisp interpreted is needed to run the lisp code that defines it. It means that org-mode can be good while you are using it from emacs, and it sucks for anything else.

I use markdown now, because you have a lot of tools to deal with markdown, while all tools for org-mode are bound to emacs. Which is perfectly fits the emacs philosophy of emacs being an operating system, but it is not for me. It was fun 20 years ago, but now when I'm thinking of tinkering with emacs configuration for hours to get anything done, I feel an impulse to run away.
by La-Douceur | 2026-02-22 21:56:35+00:00
When you say "baremetal servers in-house", are you talking about colocation in a european cloud provider like Hetzner, or are you talking about actually self hosting at home in your garage like some hobbyist do ?

If you're talking about self hosting in your garage, I wonder how you handle networking, I mean, even if you have a good optic fiber with 1 or 10gbps, if you start getting real significant traffic, wouldn't you end up getting emails from your provider asking you why you are using 10000x more bandwith than your neighbors, and eventually be cut off ?
by bdangubic | 2026-02-22 21:56:58+00:00
US is infinitely worse than EU but selectively based on what ruling party wants you to both see and post. try to get some coverage from gaza or west bank and/or post something slightly critical of israel and see how that works out for you. EU, China… are at least up front about what they want to censor and why, US censors every fucking imaginable thing while people are too stupid to see it and go “oh my, look how bad EU/China are…”
by dang | 2026-02-22 21:57:44+00:00
You've been breaking the site guidelines quite a lot in this thread by posting flamebait and crossing into personal attack. That's not ok, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Note this one, among others: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
by gempir | 2026-02-22 21:57:48+00:00
Good that they have a web version.

But the most basic functionality of going to the next video is only available via scroll (no keyboard arrow down?) and it has a really long animation and delay?

Just feels awful to use.

I feel if you wanna win in this space, especially with people who prefer more "free" platforms, then the non-app version should be a bigger priority IMO.
by krapp | 2026-02-22 21:57:53+00:00
"I talked to the aliens. They said I was the smartest, fittest, most virile human they ever saw. Pinnacle of evolution, they said. They packed up all of their probes. Not like Barack. Poor weak Barack. He never told you about the aliens because he's ashamed. I played basketball against him on Mars and dunked on him hard. All that Kenyan fast-twitch muscle but he never stood a chance against me. I bobbed and weaved, bobbed and weaved. Learned it on Jeffery's island chasing the little girls around when they got out of the cages. Shouldn't have kept them oiled up, they just squeezed through the bars better, but apparently Diddy got him into it. Anyway, Hillary's a lizard, the aliens confirmed it. She can dislodge her jaw and fit a whole human head in her mouth and she dissolves it like a lozenge. And Kamala. I guess the Democrats have a lizard problem. Sleepy Joe never knew any of this. Who would read Sleepy Joe into anything? He'd just fall asleep."

... and then he'd shit himself on camera and no one would ever talk about Epstein again?
by jjmarr | 2026-02-22 21:58:01+00:00
> > once AI agents equipped with MLS access

> The data is the moat here, I'm sure even today individual consumers would be happy to have direct access to MLS to find properties and cut out the middleman.

Prior to agentic AI, businesses could price discriminate between human access and machine access to a database. Browser automation tools let humans arbitrage between the two but require investment in developers.

Now that Claude can browse the web, any consumer can engage in that arbitrage.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-22 21:58:01+00:00
"Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-consu..." on this server."

But I mean, you say that but if you test a car advertised as having 200 miles real-world performance then in practical terms that's about 120 miles.

You might get 200 miles if you're driving in a perfectly straight line on a perfectly flat motorway at a steady speed.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-22 21:58:12+00:00
GPUs don't spontaneously break, and most will not decay in a decade of climate-controlled cold storage. People would underclock their current hardware to push out the lifespan, collect donor boards of broken GPUs that have working components, and stockpile whatever older hardware is still relevant. In theory, a scavenger-style AI economy could persist for several decades using conventional board-level repair and donor parts.
by gingerBill | 2026-02-22 21:58:46+00:00
This might might sound weird but I think that's a distinction without a difference.

Those "newline tokens" are effectively the equivalent to a semicolon in the parser. They are statement terminators. The way that Odin or Python handles them is effectively the same except when I tokenize the newlines, they are treated as semicolons but with the "text" being "\n". Thus the distinction here is a matter of what you call it, not how it is treated.

That is the same as a form of "automatic statement-terminator insertion" where that statement-terminator is whatever you want it to be. And to me, that is as form of "semicolon" (which is being used as a generalization for statement-terminator) insertion.
by resonious | 2026-02-22 21:59:28+00:00
I think there's some value in pure vibe coding. To your point though, the best way to extract that value is to know intimately at which point the agents tend to break down in quality, which you can only do if you read a lot of their output. But once you reach that level, you can gain a lot by "one-shotting" tasks that you know are within their capacity, and isolating the result from the rest of your project.
by epistasis | 2026-02-22 21:59:28+00:00
Most of the smaller, walkable places that are not car dependent do not allow that Prop 13 transfer, because it's mostly rental places.

Condo defect law is far far more onerous than defect law for single family homes, to the point that it doesn't make sense to offer units for sale. There are those working on reform but it's a slow process.

I have see it happen with older friends: they could move to a smaller place that's more appropriate but they'd had to pay a ton more.

The Prop 13 distortion on the market is very extreme. Perhaps even more so than the super low pandemic interest rates compared to today's interest rates.
by dboreham | 2026-02-22 21:59:33+00:00
In the case of the MLS example, there's also a private market (at least in some places, including where I live). Basically nothing in the MLS on any given day is attractive at the asking price. Only newly listed properties are going to be of interest to a discerning buyer. Some proportion of new listings never make it to the MLS because the agent already knows a suitable buyer.
by decidu0us9034 | 2026-02-22 21:59:51+00:00
All the docs are already in its training data, wouldn't that just pollute the context? I think giving a model better/non-free tooling would help as mentioned. binja code mode can be useful but you definitely need to give these models a lot of babysitting and encouragement and their limitations shine with large binaries or functions. But sometimes if you have a lot to go through and just need some starting point to triage, false pos are fine.