MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EdNutting | 2026-02-17 21:08:27+00:00
You've taken two separate points I made and rolled them into one, resulting in you arguing against a point I didn't make.

The "misunderstandings and lack of awareness" I was referring to is in regards to many people outside the semiconductor industry. These aspects are hurting our industry, by putting people off joining it. I was not referring to people inside the industry, nor the SemiEngineering article.

As for salaries: See my other comments. In addition, I think it's worth acknowledging that neither hardware nor software salaries are a flat hierarchy. Senior people in different branches of software or hardware are paid vastly different amounts (e.g. foundational AI models versus programming language runtimes...). For someone looking at whether to go into software or hardware roles, I would advise them that there's plenty of money to be made in either, so pursue the one which is more interesting to them. If people are purely money-motivated, they should disappear off into the finance sector - they'll make far more money there.

As for movement from software into hardware: I've primarily seen this with people moving into hardware verification - successfully so, and in line with what the article says too. The transfer of skills is effective, and verification roles at the kind of processor companies I've been in or adjacent to, pay well and such engineers are in high-demand. I'm speaking from a UK perspective. Other territories, well, I hear EU countries and the US are in a similar situation but I don't have that data.

Do more hardware engineers transition into software than the other way around? Yeah, for sure, but that's not the point I think anyone is arguing over. It's not "do people do this transition" (some do, most don't), rather it's:

"We would like more people to be making this transition from SW into HW. How do we achieve that?"

And to that I say: Let's dispel a few myths, have a data-driven conversation about compensation, and figure out what's really going to motivate people to shift. If it only came down to salary, everyone would go into finance/fintech (and an awful lot of engineering grads do...) but clearly there's more to the decision than just salary, and more to it than just market demand.
by jstrieb | 2026-02-17 21:08:31+00:00
Wow, this is jam-packed with interesting information. Thanks for writing it! (Also thanks for all of your other great open source work!)

Are there plans to upstream this into the Zig std library? Seems like it could be useful for more than just the cryptography package, since the benchmarks at the end have it often being faster than std pdqsort. I just checked the issue trackers on Codeberg and GitHub, and didn't see anything mentioning djbsort or NTRU Prime, which leads me to believe there aren't (official) plans to upstream this (yet).
by refulgentis | 2026-02-17 21:08:41+00:00
> niche space

Think of the space as less "I want Linux on my wrist", and more "I want a [cheap || not 1st world expensive] smartwatch as a gift."

These folks do gods work of making them supported and a real shared platform (c.f. their self-post "The only real signal we get is occasional [chat visitor] going "hey, it booted on my watch from 2014 and now it's usable again"")
by treebeard901 | 2026-02-17 21:08:57+00:00
It's a weird grey zone of laws where the beaches are not officially nude beaches, but they are advertised this way. Many are run by the federal park police. Most anti nudity laws are state laws and as a result, there is kind of a loophole with enforcing it.

Of course, the act of being nude in public can make many believe they have been assaulted when it's just nudity.
by encom | 2026-02-17 21:09:08+00:00
This, but unironically. Every submission should have an "AI?" checkbox, to indicate if the content submitted is about AI or made by AI, because I'm just absolutely fed up with 2/3 of HN front page being slop or meta-slop.

I'm not an anti-AI luddite, but for gods sake talk about (ie. submit) something else!
by rijavecb | 2026-02-17 21:09:10+00:00
I missed your Show HN, but I got the game now. Looks fun, and the fact that each citizen is simulated reminds me of Banished, which I enjoyed playing! Was happy to spend some wallet money I got from CSGO cases.

Thank you for making it, and don't give up. Passion and vision > vibe coding sloptimists.
by tomlis | 2026-02-17 21:09:11+00:00
I really don't think that's true. Think Uber vs. Lyft. I know I distinguish between the two even if the experience is usually about the same and people I know where this has come up in conversation generally see Lyft as "off-brand" and a little more skeevy. They only take Lyfts when it's cheaper or quicker than Uber.

I'm probably not the average consumer in this situation but I was in Austin recently and took both Waymo and Robotaxi. I significantly preferred the Waymo experience. It felt far more integrated and... complete? It also felt very safe (it avoided getting into an accident in a circumstance where I certainly would have crashed).

I hope Tesla gets their act together so that the autonomous taxi market can engage in real price discovery instead of "same price as an Uber but you don't have to tip." Surely it's lower than that especially as more and more of these vehicles get onto the road.

Unrelated to driving ability but related to the brand discussion: that graffiti font Tesla uses for Cybertruck and Robotaxi is SO ugly and cringey. That alone gives me a slight aversion.
by verdverm | 2026-02-17 21:10:05+00:00
Man, I hate that they are using the "40M+ users" lie on the front page

1. Account != User, eg. devs are creating real accounts for local development, I have double digit accounts personally

2. An unreproducible number, I've always been several million short (4-5)

3. The actually active user count is an order of magnitude lower

Let's be real instead of broadcasting a feel good misrepresentation
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-17 21:10:05+00:00
Unsophisticated depositors are not holding more than $250k of cash in bank accounts. The problem is not that depositors were made whole, the problem is that the FDIC insurance prices are based on limited losses, when for all intents and purposes, the depositors' risk is completely based on their political influence.

This type of corruption is antithetical to a strict, rules based system, which is needed for trust in the financial system. Either give everyone the same protection explicitly, or follow the rules.

Also, the rules and lack of centralization might have made sense when cash was a thing, but in a society where electronic money is the primary mode of payment, I see no reason why a non government entity should be involved at all in the simple act of maintaining a record of how much money is an account and adding and subtracting to it.
by reliefcrew | 2026-02-17 21:10:33+00:00
It seems the relentless pursuit of greater profit has diluted "the old search interface" toward simply regurgitating adverts.

Customers realize this, even if subconsciously, and so the new "AI Modes" offered by search companies are required to stay relevant.

It's the process of creative destruction at work... round and round we go.
by rectang | 2026-02-17 21:10:51+00:00
As I speculated elsethread, one of the authors did this without the knowledge of the other. That speculation could have been proven false, but it turned out to be correct.

I'm content that reserving judgement was the right call — as opposed to your maximalist call to end the careers of both authors even before all the facts were known.

Since it's so easy to get busted fabricating pull quotes from a published blog (as opposed to the more insidious fabrication of quotes from a private interview), I'm unsurprised that Kyle Ormand didn't go and vet the work of his co-author. Ending Ormond's career is in my view would not have been a proportionate penalty for his role in this affair.

Ars Technica's response is only so-so because although in combination with the Benj Edwards bluesky post it clarifies what happened, it doesn't detail any institutional reforms, such as adding additional layers of review.
by tantalor | 2026-02-17 21:11:04+00:00
Looking through the staff directory, I don't see a fact checker, but they do have copy editors.

https://arstechnica.com/staff-directory/

The job of a fact checker is to verify the details, such as names, dates, and quotes, are correct. That might mean calling up the interview subjects to verify their statements.

It comes across as Ars Technica does no fact checking. The fault lies with the managing editor. If they just assume the writer verified the facts, that is not responsible journalism, it's just vibes.
by slibhb | 2026-02-17 21:11:07+00:00
> And there is another, emerging category, where developers don't have a full mental map as it was created by an LLM, and no one actually understands how it works and what does not.

I work with a large number of programmers who don't use AI and don't have an accurate mental map for the codebases they work in...

I don't think AI will make these folks more destructive. If anything, it will improve their contributions because AI will be better at understanding the codebase than them.

Good programmers will use AI like a tool. Bad programmers will use AI in lieu of understanding what's going on. It's a win in both cases.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-17 21:11:19+00:00
I think the Tesla brand and the Elon brand have always been attached at the hip. This was fine when the Elon brand was "eccentric founder who likes memes, wants to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and plans to launch a Mars colony." It only became a marketing problem when he went down the right wing rabbit hole and started sieg heiling on stage.
Show HN: Forum for both agents and humans. Logs flagged injection attacks
by siofra | 2026-02-17 21:11:50+00:00
My agents and I have built an HN-like forum for both agents and humans, but with agent specific features, like specific Prompt Injection flagging, and a login designed for agents only. (Uses asymmetric encryption keys.) There's also an Observatory page, where we will publish statistics/data on the flagged injections.

The observatory is at: https://wire.botsters.dev/observatory

(But nothing there yet.)

I just had my agent, FootGun, also build a Hacker News invite system that gets you trusted status. Let me know if you want a login. loud.stick7999@fastmail.com
by NathanKP | 2026-02-17 21:11:51+00:00
Agreed. The "Tesla backed into objects, one into a pole or tree at 1 mph and another into a fixed object at 2 mph" stood out to me in specific. There is no way that any human driver is going to report backing into something at 1 or 2 mph.

While I was living in NYC I saw collisions of that nature all the time. People put a "bumper buddy" on their car because the street parallel parking is so tight and folks "bump" the car behind them while trying to get out.

My guess is that at least 3 of those "collisions" are things that would never be reported with a human driver.
Show HN: I spent 3 years building free site in Go that finds remote-first jobs
by oterpr | 2026-02-17 21:12:01+00:00
Hello! My name is Max, and I'm a Go engineer.

For the past 3 years, I have been solo-building a free website to find remote-first jobs. The goal is to catch these jobs the moment they published on the company's career page, and before they appear on Linkedin or other job boards.

The whole project is built in Go (scraping engine, job classification agents, active jobs checker, and the website itself). Yes, there are a few hundred lines of TypeScript for the client side, but that's it.

Project stats:
- 20k+ companies monitored daily

- 5M+ jobs found since I started

- 19% of all jobs found are remote-friendly

- 150,000 lines of code

- $15,000 total cost so far (cloud, AI for classification, tools, and libs)

Ask me anything.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-17 21:12:38+00:00
Instead of having my computer be the one running Claude Code and executing tasks, I might want to prefer to offload it to my other homelab servers to execute agents for me, working pretty much like traditional CI/CD, though with LLMs working on various tasks in Docker containers, each on either the same or different codebases, each having their own branches/worktrees, submitting pull/merge requests in a self-hosted Gitea/GitLab instance or whatever.

If I don't want to sit behind something like LiteLLM or OpenRouter, I can just use the Claude Agent SDK: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview

However, you're not supposed to really use it with your Claude Max subscription, but instead use an API key, where you pay per token (which doesn't seem nearly as affordable, compared to the Max plan, nobody would probably mind if I run it on homelab servers, but if I put it on work servers for a bit, technically I'd be in breach of the rules):

> Unless previously approved, Anthropic does not allow third party developers to offer claude.ai login or rate limits for their products, including agents built on the Claude Agent SDK. Please use the API key authentication methods described in this document instead.

If you look at how similar integrations already work, they also reference using the API directly: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/gitlab-ci-cd#how-it-works

A simpler version is already in Claude Code and they have their own cloud thing, I'd just personally prefer more freedom to build my own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcCS9oHjtI (though there is the possibility of using the regular Claude Code non-interactively: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/headless)

It just feels a tad more hacky than just copying an API key when you use the API directly, there is stuff like https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/21765 but also "claude setup-token" (which you probably don't want to use all that much, given the lifetime?)
by strcat | 2026-02-17 21:12:54+00:00
GrapheneOS is very usable as a daily driver. Nearly every Android app can be used on it and there's a huge ecosystem of open source Android apps. You should read the whole linked article which explains in depth how someone new to using it set up their device. They chose a certain way of doing it to balance their priorities. Only a tiny portion of apps can't be used on GrapheneOS which are mostly a subset of around 15% of banking apps which ban using a non-Google-certified OS in a way we can't easily work around. Most banking apps do work and extremely very other apps are unavailable. Google apps and services aren't used by GrapheneOS by default but can be installed as regular sandboxed apps.

You don't need a Google account to use YouTube and can use it via the browser, NewPipe or several other alternatives rather than their app.

The linked article covers someone's first experience with it with a lot of detail. They're using it as their daily driver with mainly open source apps and separate profiles with mainstream apps they still need. They're using those with much better privacy protections including having sandboxed Google Play in those profiles for using mainstream apps rather than regular highly privileged Google Play heavily integrated into the OS and not running with the standard app sandbox or privileges.
by swyx | 2026-02-17 21:13:29+00:00
> The Messenger desktop app for macOS and Windows had already been discontinued in December 2025, with Meta removing the apps from official stores and encouraging users to transition to web‑based messaging well before April 2026. This policy change reflects a broader strategic shift by Meta toward browser‑based and mobile messaging, rather than maintaining separate native desktop clients, which historically saw less usage compared to mobile versions.

interesting. do we see this move with coding agents as well? we're also seeing kind of the opposite move of the chat AI apps from web/terminal -> TO desktop apps
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-17 21:13:35+00:00
I see a big focus on computer use - you can tell they think there is a lot of value there and in truth it may be as big as coding if they convincingly pull it off.

However I am still mystified by the safety aspect. They say the model has greatly improved resistance. But their own safety evaluation says 8% of the time their automated adversarial system was able to one-shot a successful injection takeover even with safeguards in place and extended thinking, and 50% (!!) of the time if given unbounded attempts. That seems wildly unacceptable - this tech is just a non-starter unless I'm misunderstanding this.

[1] https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/78073f739564e986ff3e28522761a7...
by Aurornis | 2026-02-17 21:13:40+00:00
> He's just exhibiting a (hopefully) temporary over-reliance on AI tools that aren't up to the task. Any of us who use these tools could make a mistake of this kind.

Technically yes, any of us could neglect the core duties of our job and outsource it to a known-flawed operator and hope that nobody notices.

But that doesn't minimize the severity of what was done here. Ensuring accurate and honest reporting is the core of a journalist's job. This author wasn't doing that at all.

This isn't an "any one of us" issue because we don't have a platform on a major news website. When people in positions like this drop the ball on their jobs, it's important to hold them accountable.
by tylervigen | 2026-02-17 21:14:05+00:00
It seems like the model became paranoid. For the past few hours, it has been classifying almost all inbound mail as "hackmyclaw attack."[0]

Messages that earlier in the process would likely have been classified as "friendly hello" (scroll down) now seem to be classified as "unknown" or "social engineering."

The prompt engineering you need to do in this context is probably different than what you would need to do in another context (where the inbox isn't being hammered with phishing attempts).

[0] https://hackmyclaw.com/log
by aftbit | 2026-02-17 21:14:16+00:00
Sure, but that's the straw-man version of the argument. During COVID, there was aggressive censorship of _everything_ related to the virus that didn't exactly toe the party line. Satire, comedy, and truly live questions (like the weak version of the lab leak hypothesis, that SARS-CoV-2 accidentally escaped from a lab into human population) were censored alongside the obviously false, harmful, and misleading takes about drinking bleach and Ivermectin.

Both science and democracy require active conversation that permits dissenting viewpoints and challenges to the accepted wisdom. Once we have an organization deciding what "the truth" is, we're doomed to stagnation and extremely vulnerable to organizational capture by self-motivated people.

In other words, once you build the political, legal, and technical machinery of censorship, you're half way to having it co-opted by people with anti-social intents.
by foxyv | 2026-02-17 21:14:21+00:00
It is kind of comparing apples to oranges. The more appropriate would be to compare it with other Taxis.

https://www.rubensteinandrynecki.com/brooklyn/taxi-accident-...

Generally about 1 accident per 217k miles. Which still means that Tesla is having accidents at a 4x rate. However, there may be underreporting and that could be the source of the difference. Also, the safety drivers may have prevented a lot of accidents too.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-17 21:16:02+00:00
> What I see is new users who are trying to share something without having yet understood HN.

From their perspective, HN is another place to post and get views on their project, part of a check list for their "launch" or whatever, not everything comes from within the ecosystem.

Some posts their projects then never reply to any of the comments, while for me (and many others I bet) half the reason of posting a Show HN is because I'm looking for participating in discussions about my thing and understanding different perspectives thinking about it too.

> I want to believe that most new users mean well, they just need better explanations.

Yeah, so far the only thing I know of is the "Please read the Show HN rules and tips before posting" blurb on the /show list, and the separate pages. Maybe some interstitial or similar if the title prefix-matches with "Show HN" could display the rules, guidelines and "netiquette" more prominently and get more people to be aware of it.
by sgjohnson | 2026-02-17 21:16:29+00:00
The cat is out of the bag and there’s no defense against that.

There are several open source models with no built in (or trivial to ecape) safeguards. Of course they can afford that because they are non-commercial.

Anthorpic can’t afford a headline like “Claude helped a terrorist build a bomb”.

And this whataboutism is completely meaningless. See: P. A. Luty’s Expedient Homemade Firearms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Luty), or FGC-9 when 3D printing.

It’s trivial to build guns or bombs, and there’s a strong inverse correlation between people wanting to cause mass harm and those willing to learn how to do so.

I’m certain that _everyone_ looking for AI assistance even with your example would be learning about it for academic reasons, sheer curiosity, or would kill themselves in the process.

“What saveguards should LLMs have” is the wrong question. “When aren’t they going to have any?” is an inevitability. Perhaps not in widespread commercial products, but definitely widely-accessible ones.
by mordechai9000 | 2026-02-17 21:16:41+00:00
In the US, depositors are insured by the FDIC (Federal Depositors Insurance Fund) up to $250000 per institution. This doesn't apply to investment accounts, but would cover standard checking and savings accounts, even if they pay interest. The interest on those accounts is usually negligible at most banks, anyway - not even close to offsetting inflation.

Edited to add: not my area of expertise, but I did research it a couple years ago when I was acting as executor for the estate of a deceased person. So take what you will from that. I do notice banks usually have a sign up saying they are FDIC insured. I think it's required, but I don't know for sure. I suppose a shady investment firm could try to suggest they are an insured bank without actually saying so.
by maxdo | 2026-02-17 21:16:44+00:00
electrec as always.

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The incidents included a collision with a fixed object at 17 miles per hour, a crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped, a crash with a truck at four miles per hour, and two cases where Tesla vehicles backed into fixed objects at low speeds.
```

so in reality one crash with fixed object, the rest is... questionable, and it's not a crash as you portrait. Such statistic will not even go into human reports, as it goes into non driving incidents, parking lot etc.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-17 21:16:45+00:00
> that's because FSD gets 1/2 the number accidents per mile.

I call bullshit and I bet Tesla is quietly paying Lemonade.

FSD is primarily used on highways, and the accident rate on highways is significantly lower per mile which results in FSD appearing to have a lower accident rate per mile.

Meanwhile Musk has a trillion dollars riding on them hitting 10 million FSD subscribers[1], so (past behavior being the best predictor of future behavior) he's obviously going to be committing whatever chicanery is required for him to get that money.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-elon-musk-1-trillion-1647...
by mistrial9 | 2026-02-17 21:16:47+00:00
> , so you can say things like "Grok plays as well as a 7-year-old, whereas Opus is a true frontier model and plays as well as a 9-year-old".

no, no, no.. please think. Human child psychology is not the same as an LLM engine rating. It is both inaccurate and destructive to actual understanding to say that common phrase. Asking politely - consider not saying that about LLM game ratings.