MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keithwhor | 2026-02-22 22:49:46+00:00
My guess is that intelligence gets commodified to the point where LLMs and diffusion models are sold on chips and we seamlessly integrate them into the HW + SW stack. Then they’re just another abstraction; we talk to our computers to get things built. At essentially zero cost, truly too cheap to meter.

In parallel there’s an explosion of creative output; Marvel movies turn around in 1 year instead of 4, solely blocked on availability of actors. Some actors license their likeness to unblock their calendar from reshoots so they can earn more. We don’t replace them wholesale because people idolize celebrity.

And demand for movies? Skyrockets. With new mediums to pursue. Classics like Goodfellas resurrected in high-fidelity 3D on the Vision Pro. A combination of diffusion models and Gaussian splatting means every movie can be upscaled to immersive 3d.

Video games enter a second renaissance, with indie developers having the advantage. For large studios, nostalgia is the moneymaker. The remake of Final Fantasy VII across three games that costs $100Ms and decades? Final Fantasy VIII gets rebuilt from scratch with a team of 30. But the rest of the money and team that would’ve been on that project now expand to other, more ambitious projects.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Mars? Why stop at Mars? Let’s start megaprojects to explore the galaxy. Mine asteroids for resources. What’s stopping us? Humans yearn for the unknown. When we exhaust resources or a modality of existence, we dream bigger, not smaller.

I personally see consumer and entertainment spending, and people employed lucratively in these sectors, growing dramatically. Maybe SaaS and a lot of businesses that have traditionally employed white collar employees fade. And a bunch of boring “financistas” don’t know how to make a buck betting in the casino anymore because boring old businesses and things nobody really wanted to do anyway aren’t lucrative anymore.

But, personally, the whole reason I got into software was to build cool stuff. Starting with video games! The type and scale of cool stuff I can build is only getting better, at an insanely fast rate. My bet is we thrive.
by MrEldritch | 2026-02-22 22:49:46+00:00
> Write-Only Code is not a prediction about what we should want. It is a description of what happens when software production scales beyond human attention.

Have we considered whether it's even a good idea to produce software at scales beyond human attention? I'm beginning to suspect that, in terms of the net amount of economic effort and sheer quantity of software produced, we are already creating simply too much software relative to the amount of economic effort we put into hardware, construction, and human capital. Most human needs and desires can only be met through manipulation of atoms, and it seems as though we've largely refocused on those which can be met through manipulation of numbers and symbols - not because anyone really wants their life to revolve around them to the exclusion of everything else - but because they're the easiest markets to profitably scale for the least amount of capital input.
by evolve2k | 2026-02-22 22:50:01+00:00
Great to see this progressing.
Tried it out just now after last testing it over 6 months ago.

I’d say the main “feature” id want to see added is a mandatory field on upload to tick if it’s AI content. Then a tag on videos that are Ai and at the account level to filter out AI content.

Otherwise it’s going to be a slops fest.
by layer8 | 2026-02-22 22:50:17+00:00
VBScript is deprecated since 2023 and in the process of being removed: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/...

You also cannot run VBScript from VB or VBA, other than invoking it as a separate process. VBA is not an "embedding of VBScript". VB/VBA are compiled to an intermediate representation called P-code, they aren't scripts in the sense of being executed from a textual representation like VBScript.
by jahsome | 2026-02-22 22:50:24+00:00
> but would you drive to a store you've never heard of before /just/ for a bar

Some people have no choice. Checking other stores and planning multiple trips is exactly what they do, e.g. those on fixed income, coupon power-users, etc.

Outside our comfy bubble here, there are a LOT more folks in that camp than those buying luxury goods.
by closewith | 2026-02-22 22:50:56+00:00
The PDF you shared actually agrees with my point if you care you to read it. It models the cost for a specific HVDC implementation, but the HVDC line selected is more expensive when transporting just 3% of the energy of the pipeline.

The same capex and opex can support 100x more Wh-km via HVDC, making HVDC at least an order of magnitude cheaper then the H2 pipeline.

What's interesting to me is that this is completely uncontroversial and incontrovertible, so I wonder where your insistence otherwise is?
by Marsymars | 2026-02-22 22:51:48+00:00
The delta between modern soft keyboards and phone-size physical keyboards just seems too small to make the bulk of a physical keyboard worthwhile.

If someone is really "typing long emails or editing documentation with just their phone's touch keyboard" they're probably not doing that while standing/walking, so they're probably better off getting a little stand for their phone, and a portable Bluetooth keyboard, which will be far more functional than a keyboard for thumbs.
by smashah | 2026-02-22 22:51:51+00:00
I've been hearing concerning reports that the Iranian Government in a matter of a few days "slaughtered 4 Quadrillion Cattle" according to Mossad Internal Reports. If Iran managed that in a few days imagine how many cattle children The Worldwide Epstein Regime ritually sacrificed to Satan in Gaza almost 3 years? Much to consider!
by wat10000 | 2026-02-22 22:51:58+00:00
"As of February 19, 2026, Musk’s net worth is estimated at $844.9 billion per Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires List, primarily derived from equity stakes rather than cash..."

That "rather than cash" bit is bizarre, since no wealthy person holds primarily cash. I checked the pages of several other ultra-wealthy people and none of them have that comment. I'm sure this has nothing to do with Grokipedia's owner recently making an issue of how little cash he holds.
by avidiax | 2026-02-22 22:52:07+00:00
We already have effectively write-only code. It's all the assembly language and eventually machine code that we produce from other languages.

The problem with "write-only code" as it relates to LLMs is that we don't have a formal definition of the input the the LLM, nor do people typically save the requirements, both implicit and explicit, that were given the LLM to generate the code. English language will never be a formal definition, of course, but that obviously doesn't prevent the creation of a formal definition from English nor reduce the value of the informal description.

This is very similar to the problem of documentation in software development. It is difficult to enumerate all the requirements, remember all the edge cases, recall why a certain thing was done in a certain way. So computer programs are almost never well documented.

If you knew that you currently have a bunch of junior developers, and next year you will replace all of them with senior developers who could rewrite everything the junior developers did, but taking only a day, how would that affect your strategy documenting the development work and customer/technical requirements? Because that's what you have with current LLMs and coding agents. They are currently the worst that they'll ever be.

So there are two compelling strategies:

1) business as usual, i.e. not documenting things rigorously, and planning to hack in whatever new features or bugfixes you need until that becomes unsustainable and you reboot the project.

2) trying to use the LLM to produce as much and as thorough documentation and tests as possible, such that you have a basis to rewrite the project from scratch. This won't be a cheap operation at first, (you will usually do strategy #1), but eventually the LLMs and the tooling around managing them will improve such that a large rewrite or rearchitecture costs <$10k and a weekend of passive time.
by krackers | 2026-02-22 22:52:21+00:00
>the assertion people don't price match groceries is so, so wrong. Many, many, many people have no choice

I guess I didn't quite say my point clearly, the time and physical cost to get to a grocery store puts up barriers against perfect price matching. You likely are not going to go out of your way to visit a grocery store for just a single item.

And I don't think online delivery will change anything here because shipping is a fixed cost, so price swings less than that will not change any buying habits.
by YaraDori | 2026-02-22 22:52:24+00:00
Strongly agree with the problem framing. In practice I’ve seen two failure modes:
1) “compression amnesia” inside a single long session (decisions disappear silently)
2) “tool silo” memory (each agent/tool has its own scratchpad, nothing portable)

Curious how you handle provenance and conflicts:
- Do you store where a memory came from (chat span, file, commit, timestamp) and how confident it is?
- When a new memory contradicts an old one, do you merge, version, or require explicit human confirmation?

Related adjacent problem we’ve been working on at SkillForge (https://skillforge.expert): turning a screen-recorded workflow into a reusable “skill” file that can be re-run later with checkpoints. We’ve found “what the agent did” needs the same provenance + audit trail as “what the agent knows”. Curious if Hmem models action logs alongside semantic memories.
by shrubble | 2026-02-22 22:52:33+00:00
Due to the wonders of technology, you can now do the equivalent of the Steven Wright joke:

“In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said, 'Cut it out.'”

At scale, over the Internet.
by boneitis | 2026-02-22 22:53:24+00:00
Gonna piggyback here to second this and chime in to say I went with the BYOD screen linked within your link for $49 (SKU 104991005). It's definitely more barebones and probably not even as cost-effective if you're still planning on buying the "lifetime" TRMNL API access.

I don't have easy access to a 3d printer, so I just have mine sitting on an extra phone stand I had lying around that can be had for a few bucks from Amazon.

I couldn't be happier with it and am thoroughly enjoying my complacent, lazy solution :)
by LakshyAAAgrawal | 2026-02-22 22:53:47+00:00
We open-sourced optimize_anything, an API that optimizes any text artifact. You provide a starting artifact (or just describe what you want) and an evaluator and it handles the search.

import gepa.optimize_anything as oa

result = oa.optimize_anything(
seed_candidate="<your artifact>",
evaluator=evaluate, # returns score + diagnostics
)

It extends GEPA (our state of the art prompt optimizer) to code, agent architectures, scheduling policies, and more.

Two key ideas:
(1) diagnostic feedback (stack traces, rendered images, profiler output) is a first-class API concept the LLM proposer reads to make targeted fixes, and
(2) Pareto-efficient search across metrics preserves specialized strengths instead of averaging them away.

Results across 8 domains show optimize_anything can create:
- learned agent skills pushing Claude Code to near-perfect accuracy simultaneously making it 47% faster,
- cloud scheduling algorithms cutting costs 40%,
- an evolved ARC-AGI agent going from 32.5% → 89.5%,
- CUDA kernels beating baselines,
- circle packing outperforming AlphaEvolve's solution,
- and blackbox solvers matching and outperforming Optuna.
by Bender | 2026-02-22 22:53:52+00:00
The only physical keyboards I liked were the Danger Sidekick II and the Nokia 9000 both horizontal QWERTY. I was never a fan of the portrait layout of the Blackberry keyboards. I would love to see the Sidekick make a come-back provided the screen was not a touch screen or there was an easy way to disable touch. I rebooted a telco mainframe from a Nokia 9000. SYREI:rank=reload,reason="CV Updated" over telnet from the phone no less. Everyone around me stopped talking on their phone for 40 minutes.

To me the keyboards on iPhone and Android feel like they are from a different planet and made for garden gnome fingers but I did not grow up with these phones.
by protocolture | 2026-02-22 22:54:40+00:00
>Could you set that up? I suspect I could pretty quickly, as could most pelple on HN.

Yes.

Its not that its difficult. Its that its expensive and doesn't provide any obvious benefit to the person supposedly doing it.

But this anonymous guy, has given some kind of anonymous interview to the guy getting the balance of attention from his bots activities.

Its not unbelievable. But given the possible alternatives I feel that I absolutely cant buy in to the story as written.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-02-22 22:55:30+00:00
You're assuming that the gains from productivity improvements distribute themselves broadly. The last 50 years have clearly shown that this is certainly not the case unless there is political intervention. The elites and the political class attached to them will assign whatever meanger rations they can to avoid revolution but not much else.

Not to mention: the grand majority of the US's GDP is wrapped up into services. If AI can flatten the skill floor so that anyone from anywhere in the world can produce 80% of the output of a US or European skilled worker at a fraction of the cost, what do you think happens? We're doing to US white collar work what offshoring did to manufacturing, but it'll be faster and to the only healthy cohort of economic actors in the US.

AI does not control the inputs of lumber or vegetables.

> We will need good tools to distribute the gains.

There is enormous handwaving happening here. Tools built by whom? The US can hardly pass a budget now, and its dominant political movement is allergic to questions of wealth redistribution. And as I already mentioned, the wealthy class in the US is clearly openly contemptuous of the idea that they owe anything to the broader population.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-22 22:55:41+00:00
Hmm. It's kind of weird, because I think I actually used it in the 1990s, probably shortly before Wikipedia emerged. Ever since Wikipedia, I don't think I used the CIA world Factbook much at all, so in a way I guess this partly explains why the website is now defunct. But I am a tiny bit sad that it is gone, if only for a piece of nostalgia from the 1990s era. I think we need to be careful - yes, wikipedia has that information, but we kind of lose websites here. That is a potential danger, because we end up with more and more of a monopoly which is rarely good (ok, wikipedia may be an exception but it also has intrinsic quality issues; it is still excellent in many ways but not perfect, and we may get tunnel vision the more websites vanish - just look at the AI slop autogenerated "content" or "affiliate" links you see in a google search, if anyone is still using that).
by ch_123 | 2026-02-22 22:55:53+00:00
> After spending time on Apple’s M1/M2 Macs (coming from a large x86_64 desktop), going back to x86_64 feels like a regression, both in performance and battery life.

I have a Thinkpad X1 with a Lunar Lake CPU, running Fedora. Battery life is comparable to the Mx Macbook Pros I've owned or used. Performance is not as good on synthetic benchmarks, but more than good enough for my needs, even when running VMs or containers.
by Anamon | 2026-02-22 22:56:10+00:00
What agenda, pray tell?

Since GitHub and GitLab both default to main, and Git doesn't default to anything, I'm pretty sure main being more prevalent than master is just a fact.

NB, the change from master to main isn't "silly", it's just an objectively more appropriate name. "Master" implies that the other branches are "slaves", i.e. that there is some hierarchy, which simply isn't the case. The term makes sense for IDE drives, but not Git branches. Master was an idiotic choice from day one.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-22 22:56:14+00:00
That's a very nice-looking kettle. Having looked at it, I agree with you completely. It seems rather unlikely that it would turn into a manufacturer-supported attack vector.

We do have a different out-of-band/disconnected/not-wifi way of doing firmware things, and perhaps we should use it more than we do: Bluetooth. It's about as universal as it gets.

I mean: Imagine a Venn diagram, with two groups. One group represents people who update the firmware in their kettles. The other group represents people who have Bluetooth-capable pocket supercomputers.

The two groups overlap so neatly that the diagram is indistinguishable from a circle. :)
by ivan_gammel | 2026-02-22 22:56:24+00:00
Most consumers do not care about reprogramming or fine-tuning and have no idea what NPU is. For many (including specifically those who still mourn dead AI companions, killed by 4o switch) the long term stability is much more important than benchmark performance of evergreen frontier model. If Taalas can produce a good hardwired model at scale at consumer market price point, a lot of people will just drop their AI subscriptions.
by xenophon | 2026-02-22 22:56:31+00:00
Well-written; seems like an expanded and more detailed version of the Twitter essay that made the rounds a couple weeks ago.

One thing this piece doesn't contemplate is deflation. Competition will still exist in this world; if friction decreases and renders switching costs lower for a wider variety of industries, while AI efficiencies improve margins, prices in those markets will be competed down to a substantially lower marginal cost floor.

In other words, people may make less money, but goods in industries which benefit from AI should become cheaper in a growing set of competitive markets. The magnitude of the impact on prices should correlate with the magnitude of the employment impact; the better AI is at taking our jobs, the cheaper prices should get for an ever wider basket of goods.
by einpoklum | 2026-02-22 22:57:05+00:00
Yes... while Hebrew has changed, it has been more of a shift in focus and an expansion and various directions - but the older stuff is still mostly usable. There was the long "Aramaic phase" though, which is weird given that we're talking about Hebrew. Bible Hebrew is, oh, 96-97% easily legible to moder readers I would say.

Of course, typical modern readers may not be able to string a full sentence of modern Hebrew, with clauses and everything, together these days, so maybe I'm overstating my point.

(Also: Free Palestine.)
by bdangubic | 2026-02-22 22:57:26+00:00
credit card company’s primary purpose is to protect me, I am making them a ton of money. hence, they should ablige to my every request (stop payment being number one on the list). insane they won’t help you without a ceremony. I never talked to the vendor first, the first thing I do is stop payments through my credit card and then I reach out to vendor.
by christoph-heiss | 2026-02-22 22:57:46+00:00
That's why any repo with a README ridden with emojis (and other telltale signs) is just an instant nope nowadays.

(One of the only good things about GH is, that if you block some account, it will tell you if that account contributed to some repo at the top. Makes it very easy to filter out slopcode.)
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-02-22 22:57:53+00:00
My goto is https://www.music-map.com. Some of my best finds ever came from there.

I did try out the OP's recommender. It seems to misunderstand which genres strongly fit the band.

Guadalupe Plata is super-gritty mex rockabilly but the AI slotted it as delta blues.

Darla Farmer's only album is story based prog - like The Dear Hunter w/ a Diablo Swing Orchestra tone. AI called it a "hazy, intimate vibe".

All Them Witches scored better but the recommendations were all bands I know (Colour Haze, King Gizzard, King Buffalo).
by tsoukase | 2026-02-22 22:58:06+00:00
Great work. Some points:

1) many substances are drugs, others foods and others natural elements. Nootropic is such a wide term

2) non-blindness is a major source of error. Mental function has a huge error bars with many causal factors and nonsensitive measurement methods

3) such "meta-analyses" are typically performed by experts in the field. But you are also a kind of supplement expert after "many years on /r/nootropics"

4) the champions (amphetamines and AChE inhibitors) are of no surprise. They have so vast and widespread effects that are more drugs than mere -tropics

5) as a neurologist I can see some clinical relevance of your work. By prescribing something some benefit is offered but more confusion is caused from which one is better.
by trinsic2 | 2026-02-22 22:58:21+00:00
Thanks for that find. At least now I know that 404 media is under suspicion of low quality posts. I'm not sure if that's true because I don't have the history with 404. I do feel like, and I could be wrong, that hackernews seems to not want articles that paint AI in a negative light. If that's the case, IMHO, that's unfortunate.
by keithwhor | 2026-02-22 23:00:35+00:00
The economics of production cost, investment and distribution have created a lopsided industry where only guaranteed hits get funded. Less soul = pandering to more people.

With new tools we can reduce the production costs of great movies considerably. More budget, if it exists, can go to marketing and distribution. I expect this will lead to more experimental films and a lot more "soul." There will be a TON of slop, too, but that's fine! It's all part of experimentation with a new medium.
by stego-tech | 2026-02-22 23:00:52+00:00
> but historical evidence

Okay, I get that. Nobody is disputing historical evidence.

What we're asking is, does the current pattern also fit historical evidence? The answer a growing number of us seemingly reach is, no it does not, because generalized artificial intelligence is by definition able to replace general labor, and that includes future roles as well as current and prior ones.

That's what I'm shaking, screaming, and punching people over: these companies are openly stating their intent to replace all human labor with AI, and yet people still cling to "yeah but history says" as a liferaft in a hurricane. They're not ambiguous about the goal, and we need to take them seriously if we want to avoid a gargantuan collapse of societal order as a result of their myopic, narcissistic, misanthropic bullshit.

I mean, just think of the absurdity of your own statement: technology designed to replace all human labor (not some human labor, but all human labor) will also still create more jobs for human labor than it displaces by replacing human labor.

Like, f'real? That's your entire position, and your sole defense is "historical evidence"?

Come on, already.
by cousin_it | 2026-02-22 23:01:31+00:00
For me music discovery is a solved problem. Here's the algorithm:

1) Imagine the timeline of musical history. If you don't have a clear idea of it, Wikipedia is a fine place to start.

2) Pick any genre/period you feel you don't know enough about. (For example, medieval music, or swing-era jazz).

3) Find the main figures of the genre/period. (For example, Guillaume de Machaut, or Duke Ellington.) Wikipedia is fine for that too.

4) Listen to a sample of their most well known pieces. YouTube is fine for this.

5) Repeat until you know a lot. This can take years. As you can see, the process is quite well-defined.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-22 23:01:33+00:00
I was tipsy when I typed that out, tbh. But yeah, there’s a strong case to be made that jailing youth while simultaneously divesting in their communities causes a pretty significant hollowing out and sense of hopelessness.

The reason I brought up youth is because, unsurprisingly, most violent crime is performed by people who don’t have a fully-formed prefrontal cortex. Feelings of invincibility and a sense of not having much to lose.