MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fnoord | 2026-02-26 01:14:57+00:00
Legends Never Die - ‪Leagueoflegends‬ + Ethnic Instruments by Belle Sisoski [1]. And no, I've never played LoL, I probably never will, and I haven't seen that series based on it (Arcana or something?) either.

Also, I haven't checked what Juno Reactor do these days, but their old work in phantastic. My fav show of them is Juno Reactor – Shango Tour 2001 Tokyo [2].

For electric violin, I love Ed Alleyne-Johnson [3]. Never seen him live (I'm not from UK) but I own a couple of his earlier works. It reminds me of that time when my dad was in his final years of his lives, and when he finally passed away. Makes me cry every time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMIL1YbUQrI

[2] https://www.discogs.com/master/782091-Juno-Reactor-Shango-To...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson
by lapcat | 2026-02-26 01:14:58+00:00
> philanthropic initiatives, non-profits

> All of which pay taxes

I think not.

> It's short-sighted to think Page doesn't pay taxes nor contribute to California in significant, meaningful ways.

Provide documentation and numbers, otherwise this alleged "significant" contribution is just hand-waving.

> generations of extracting value from the Page family

If Larry can just up and leave now, on very short notice, then there's absolutely zero guarantee of any future "generations" of value.

> I get it's fashionable to hate on billionaires right now

Fashionable? Why do you think it's fashionable now? For no reason?

> California should be encouraging people like Page to move here

It's a total perversion of the fundamental idea of capitalism that governments are competing for companies and wealthy people. That's not how capitalist competition is supposed to work.

> What about the "Next Google"? Will it's founders even start a business in California?

Larry and Sergey met at Stanford as students. They didn't choose a state because of tax policy.

Let me offer a public benefit to driving away the billionaires who refuse to pay higher taxes: less local spending on politicians, i.e., corruption.
by adolph | 2026-02-26 01:15:16+00:00
Truely rail-fans are transportation equivalent to vegans in food or cross-fit in exercise. I've spent many an hour on the Isle of Sodor and appreciate how useful those engines are in so many contexts. Yet still, there are buses that move alongside Percy, and pick up stranded passengers, and the Fat Controller (aka Sir Topham Hat) still has a sedan. It's a multi-modal world out there and the tractor trailer still has a place in it.
by viraptor | 2026-02-26 01:15:17+00:00
There are two pretend types:

- they move their official residence and happen to stay most of the time at the "totally just rented" place in the same state anyway

- or keep telling everyone how they're going to move, but don't actually do.

Because let's be honest - if there wasn't a big reason to live where they do, and it wasn't a pain to work from another state, they wouldn't be there to begin with. They're paying the higher taxes because they benefit(ed) in some way.

They also benefit from being famous and threatening to leave.
Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts
by zyoralabs | 2026-02-26 01:15:25+00:00
I've been building ZSE (Z Server Engine) for the past few weeks — an open-source LLM inference engine focused on two things nobody has fully solved together: memory efficiency and fast cold starts.

The problem I was trying to solve:
Running a 32B model normally requires ~64 GB VRAM. Most developers don't have that. And even when quantization helps with memory, cold starts with bitsandbytes NF4 take 2+ minutes on first load and 45–120 seconds on warm restarts — which kills serverless and autoscaling use cases.

What ZSE does differently:

Fits 32B in 19.3 GB VRAM (70% reduction vs FP16) — runs on a single A100-40GB

Fits 7B in 5.2 GB VRAM (63% reduction) — runs on consumer GPUs

Native .zse pre-quantized format with memory-mapped weights: 3.9s cold start for 7B, 21.4s for 32B — vs 45s and 120s with bitsandbytes, ~30s for vLLM

All benchmarks verified on Modal A100-80GB (Feb 2026)

It ships with:

OpenAI-compatible API server (drop-in replacement)

Interactive CLI (zse serve, zse chat, zse convert, zse hardware)

Web dashboard with real-time GPU monitoring

Continuous batching (3.45× throughput)

GGUF support via llama.cpp

CPU fallback — works without a GPU

Rate limiting, audit logging, API key auth

Install:

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pip install zllm-zse
zse serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
For fast cold starts (one-time conversion):

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zse convert Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct -o qwen-7b.zse
zse serve qwen-7b.zse # 3.9s every time

The cold start improvement comes from the .zse format storing pre-quantized weights as memory-mapped safetensors — no quantization step at load time, no weight conversion, just mmap + GPU transfer. On NVMe SSDs this gets under 4 seconds for 7B. On spinning HDDs it'll be slower.

All code is real — no mock implementations. Built at Zyora Labs. Apache 2.0.

Happy to answer questions about the quantization approach, the .zse format design, or the memory efficiency techniques.
by debazel | 2026-02-26 01:15:28+00:00
On what OS are you using these settings? I found that Windows will refuse to allocate more virtual memory when the commit charge hit the max RAM size even if there is plenty of physical memory left to use.

I have 64 GiB of RAM and programs would start to crash at only 25 GiB of physical memory usage in some workloads because of high commit charge. I had to re-enable a 64 GiB SWAP file again just to be able to actually use my RAM.

My understanding is that Linux will not crash on the allocation and instead crash when too much virtual memory becomes active instead. Not sure how Mac handles it.
by Rochus | 2026-02-26 01:15:36+00:00
Interesting. How long did it take until the result effectively worked? What agent did you use? I recently tried to generate an Oberon to C99 transpiler in devin.ai from an existing parser and validated AST I have already implemented myself in C++, but after two days of round-tripping and the LLM increasingly entangling in special cases and producing strange code with more and more redundancy, I stopped and wrote it myself. That was a costly exercise which didn't succeed. The language was not the problem. Devin showed it understood Oberon. But it got completely confused with the different variants of arrays (fixed size by value, fixed or variable size dynamic, fixed or variable size var or value parameter) and spread redundant code all over losing track. I also tried to make it generate a Risc-V code generator, which was neither successful (bug fixing didn't seem to converge and even seemed to turn in circles).
by obelisk79 | 2026-02-26 01:16:26+00:00
The org politics (which has actually improved tremendously in the last 3 years), in particular related to realthunder's solution, was related to code compartmentalization and maintainability. Yes realthunder's solution worked, and he submitted massive monolithic PR's to FreeCAD main for integration and then basically disappeared. Ultimately, it ended up getting chunked out into smaller parts and reverse engineered and restructured by a couple of other FreeCAD dev's under grants paid for by FreeCAD and it took them about a year to accomplish. The man who did the bulk of the work, Brad McLean, unfortunately died shortly before 1.0 released with all of his work included in it.

Not trivial work.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-02-26 01:16:35+00:00
Yes. "Show Code", not "Show CPU cycles". There's a difference. Writing code is not the same as running code. It looks to you like it ran the code. But you have no proof that it did. I've seen many times LLM systems from companies that claimed that their LLMs would run code and return the output claiming that they ran some code and returned the output but the output was not what the shown code actually produced when run.
by simonw | 2026-02-26 01:16:40+00:00
Just because you are working with a team of coding agents doesn't mean you don't also get to work with other humans as well.

What's changed is the scope of ambition of the projects you can take on with that team.

Think about a project that a team of 3 could have taken on together in 2022. I expect that many projects of that scale could be handled in 2025 by a single expert coding agent enhanced engineer.

So now we get to ask ourselves what a team of 3 coding agent enhanced engineers working together can take on instead!

I've always been frustrated at how long it takes to build interesting software. Part of the joy for me right now is rediscovering how large a project an individual or a small team can take on.
by flashbrew | 2026-02-26 01:16:51+00:00
Most people use AI the same way: open a chat, type a prompt, hope for the best. Sometimes it works. Often it doesn't, because the AI has no idea how your business operates, what tools you use, or what good output looks like for your team.

Agent skills change that. They're a simple, open format for giving AI agents the specific knowledge they need to do a job well. And they're about to reshape how marketing teams, designers, and agencies work with AI.
by jameshart | 2026-02-26 01:16:53+00:00
There is no meaning in converting a conventionally destructive, random, chaotic act into a directed, aesthetic, meaningful one?

The fact he has a portrait of Kamala Harris called “glass ceiling breaker” and one of the victims of the Beirut explosion called #weareunbreakable suggests that you don’t need to dig particularly deep to find meaningful subtext in the choice of material and technique.

If anything it’s maybe a bit on-the-nose.
by nomel | 2026-02-26 01:17:04+00:00
I would like to see the relation between competence and strength of political alignment (as in, deviation from 50/50 red/blue vote for local government).

I naively expect that less strongly aligned cities are run more competently, because the concept of "consequences" can exist. Where I am, there's a very strong political alignment, so no consequences at all. The same group of people will be voted for, no matter what they do.
by scoofy | 2026-02-26 01:17:06+00:00
You’re making an argument about school budgets being too high. That’s fine. I’m arguing that, our school budgets are set, in large part, by our available resources. Viewing our resources from a long run perspective helps us set our current budgets.

If we cut the school budget only when we need to repave roads, we are playing fast and loose with our children’s future. When we set our budgets to be sustainable, we don’t rug pull parents who are trying to build a life in our cities.
by sensanaty | 2026-02-26 01:17:42+00:00
What people really misunderstand in these discussions is that no one is talking about completely killing off driving as an option, and no one says that public transportation works in literally 100% of circumstances.

We just want there to be viable public transportation options for situations where it makes sense. This even makes it easier for the people who do have to drive, like you, as there will be less congestion because a single bus can replace literally dozens of cars, combine that with a single tram and a single metro car and you're replacing literally hundreds of cars that would otherwise be on the roads instead.
by izucken | 2026-02-26 01:17:50+00:00
I am bitter about this.

Do you really with your mind and with your heart believe that:
- LLMs are fundamentally fit for this type of comprehension
- Misjudgements posted in this thread are "bugs", "errors"
- Agents who choose to act in bad faith will be anyhow affected
- It is desirable by a majority of the group whose opinion you would even consider (is there such a group?), that everyone should have this kind of thing shoved into their face
- Promotion of this kind of thing does not also promote (and help build) harsher censorship mechanisms

Do you think that every single thing you will ever say publicly from now on will be considered constructive by all future filters with all of their different biases and "bugs"? Do you think that this new "constructive speak" will not make you want to blow your brains out at some point? Do you not see it everywhere already and get nauseus from it? I would prefer trash talk to that - at least seldom honest and true. If you don't like the message - hide it, timeout the poster, block them or whatever - with your own agency. If you think they welcome education from you - dm them a book.

Or perhaps you imagine yourselves as above that kind of filtering? Then there is no question.

Also, nothing new under the sun. Can't remember exactly but I saw not long ago on a medical platform a review filtering system. It "isn't" censhorship per say, of course, the same as your idea. Only, you can't post a review you want - only a much more milder version (and therefore useless) with transformations akin: "This thing doesn't work" -> "I felt like this thing didn't work for me in this instance, but there were such an such positives". Way to go - turning everything into "we are sorry you feel that way".
by bdangubic | 2026-02-26 01:17:51+00:00
The story here should be “Larry Page, a billionaire, was a legal resident of California to begin with”

He can live anywhere he wants to and have residency anywhere he wants to. This sounds like “Larry can’t afford to live in Cali and is forced to “move” to Florida and never set foot in Cali ever again” He’ll move his mail and get FL Driver License and continue to chill in Cali (which he should have done decade ago
by MaKey | 2026-02-26 01:17:54+00:00
You're still arguing from a technical perspective while not addressing the societal issues that online ID verification leads to. Do we as society really want an internet that resembles a gated community where you can only enter with an ID? What about the people we exclude? Should we abandon the free internet just because of bots and sock puppet accounts? What about other ways to address the issue?
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-26 01:18:19+00:00
> But I’m not impressed with the “rights” Europeans have against state surveillance.

Me neither. Lately the EU Commission came up with a plan to create an inventory of every single valuable items owned by every single EU citizen: from Magic The Gathering and Pokemon cards to jewelry/heirloom, paintings, gold and silver coins/bars, cryptocurrencies coins, watches, cars, boats, etc. Anything with some value: would go in the inventory. The European Parliament asked the question: "Can you guarantee us this will never ever be used as a basis to confiscate these items?" to which the European Commission answered: "No, we cannot guarantee that".

That's basically where we're at in the EU now.

Full commie style inventory of every single item with any value. And it's obvious that either taxation of confiscation is the end goal.

It's not passed yet as a law, but that's the kind of thing the EU Commission has its busy bees working on.

If I have to choose: as an EU citizen I'm not just a bit but much more comfortable with my data in the hands of US companies than EU ones. Now of course I'd prefer my data to be neither with Uncle Sam nor with the EU but that's not realistic.
by phronimos | 2026-02-26 01:18:32+00:00
Interesting factoid: modern guitar effects typically have their input jacks on the right-hand side, and output jacks on the left. In this article's guitar rig diagram, the jacks are reversed, but this is accurate: back then, for whatever reason the jacks were reversed on each of these pedals. Modern reissues of the round-enclosure Fuzz Face pedals preserve this pattern despite the reversal of industry trends.
by verdverm | 2026-02-26 01:18:47+00:00
If you use something like VertexAI or Google Workspace for Business, they are separate from your personal (internet browsing) identity and have clear language that your inputs and interactions are not used for training.

Legal department approved

This is enough for me personally. Besides which, large scale deanonymization is now powered by LLMs and agents. Even with all the VPN and such, you have so many "fingerprints" that it's actually pretty easy to narrow things down to the point you can know exactly who you are.
by raddan | 2026-02-26 01:18:48+00:00
> There are always some people who get extremely defensive whenever I say that techno didn't click for me until I heard this kind of "techlow" music. Specifically about the part where I think that the reason is also a human expression problem, because of limitations imposed by the electronic media used.

I guess the part people don't like hearing is the implication techno is somehow not expressive. I'm not sure that it lacks expressiveness, but it is certainly more "controlled" than traditional music. When I first heard techno as a teenager in the 90s, my mind was blown. I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard Underworld [1], Photek [2], and Autechre [3]. I think I was attracted to these sounds _because_ they were so different. I think it's hard for electronic music fans like myself to accept the idea that it isn't expressive _because_ it is so different. Isn't it just a different kind of expression?

Still, people like what they like. I'm glad you found a version of dance music that works for you. I've long since moved on being judgmental about people's musical tastes. I think it's just wonderful that music exists at all!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5GjVvlmg3o
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xl1xzSRaV0
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zT3kVtpHc
by obelisk79 | 2026-02-26 01:19:03+00:00
that's basically because all commercial cad software are built on the same 3 geometric kernels (none of which are open source) and have robust and mature solutions. FreeCAD's is improving over time but it's a game of catch-up and the math and algorithms involved are complex.

The kernel FreeCAD uses doesn't really have a robust heuristic for this, so FreeCAD had to implement its own.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-26 01:19:16+00:00
Yeah. Why wouldn't US sources be available?

People invest in things that maximize returns. 30 years ago they had a choice: invest in building out more manufacturing infrastructure in the US, or doing it in China. China was, and is, less expensive to run. So China got the investment dollars.

You could absolutely build any product in the US. You'd just also have to build the infrastructure to build the industrial base, and that means spending more money than you would in China.

It always comes down to cost. Always.
by fwipsy | 2026-02-26 01:20:30+00:00
Their take is simplistic, but yours is worse.

Some companies have good intent. Public benefit corporations are a thing. They aren't really relevant, because unscrupulous companies outcompete them.

Your assertion that pro-consumer companies would outcompete unscrupulous ones depends on consumers and regulators holding them accountable. So why are you arguing against being suspicious of companies?

Obviously the best strategy for companies is to appear to be pro-consumer, but "cheat" (meaning price fixing but also things like advertising and buying up competitors) as much as possible. In that context, "all companies are anti-consumer" is a decent shorthand for "you should assume every company is anti-consumer because the regulatory environment favors it, even if there are exceptions."
by cgio | 2026-02-26 01:20:34+00:00
US abducted the leader of a sovereign in a night without having any military installations in his country. Sovereignty is very brittle in this context. I am sure an unprepared installation can still be useful if need be. But in any case no need in sight. Europe is not sovereign because it’s not a nation, it’s a loose union with very limited actual integration outside the integration required to facilitate easier trading from strong industrial economies to their poor neighbours. There is nothing to be concerned about in this space for the US until someone in Europe (France or Germany) actually becomes more dangerous to Europe than the US.
by XCSme | 2026-02-26 01:20:39+00:00
Strong agree on clicks over surveys. Once I move from a video prototype to a live MVP, the real signal comes from watching what people actually do.

I built UXWizz mainly for this. Self-hosted heatmaps and recordings make it pretty obvious where people get confused or drop off, and you don’t have to rely on polite feedback [0].

[0] https://www.uxwizz.com
by QuercusMax | 2026-02-26 01:21:50+00:00
Either read the source code if you have it, or read the docs and do your best. That's how it worked when I was learning to code as a middle schooler in the early 90s.

In grad school I worked on TinyOS, and my advisor told me to print out the source code and spend a week reading it until I knew how to make the changes I wanted.

When I worked at Google there was no external documentation to use, so if you couldn't find the docs, you better figure out how to read the source. They have very good code search there.
by mlinsey | 2026-02-26 01:22:58+00:00
I have a hook in my claude.json that fires on "Stop", it calls a shell script (written by Claude, of course) that calls the Pushover API: https://pushover.net/, which lets you send push notifications to your device. It's paid, but just a one-time fee when you install the app on your phone.

The shell script takes a message which includes Claude's message, but unfortunately there's no deeplinking back to my ssh app (for obvious reasons, the notification just routes you to the pushover app), so instead of tapping the message, I know to just open my Blink shell app to respond to Claude.

This is also quite noisy when I'm just sitting at my desk working, but I usually turn off phone notifications while working anyway.
by flir | 2026-02-26 01:23:00+00:00
Assuming we consume ~20 TW on average, a metre-squared panel kicks out ~40 W on average, and we halve that to account for batteries and other infra... I reckon we're talking about 1 million square kilometres (people will be along in a sec to check my working, but it's just a Fermi estimate).

Call it 10% of the Sahara.

Bear in mind that if we go all-electric, raw energy consumption falls significantly, many panels will be sited on buildings, solar isn't the only renewable, and solar farms aren't ecological deserts - you can graze animals below them.

Honestly, seems like a good trade to me.
by scoofy | 2026-02-26 01:23:14+00:00
Yes, the problem is that our cities are already leveraged up to their eyeballs. At some point, the actual humans buying those bonds start becoming skeptical of the city’s ability to pay them back.

LA currently has about a billion dollars of outstanding general obligation bonds. They're still rated AA, but I presume that is because the credit writing agencies understand how many untapped revenue streams LA has, but again, those will require unpalatable political change. You can’t keep refinancing forever.

Philadelphia, Miami, and Chicago are getting close to junk bond status, and when that happens, the option to refinance starts evaporating very quickly.
by numpad0 | 2026-02-26 01:23:40+00:00
As much as I find H2 fuel cell technology - which is a type of a gas based electric battery with no moving parts - fascinating, I can't help but wonder if we would be better off just running hybrids on e-fuels.

e-fuels are just low quality gasoline, IIUC, made by (waves hands) ethical means from thin air using electricity. They still generate NOx gases, but ICEs just take them as is, and they're much more energy dense compared to long range batteries.

The only real problem is that there don't seem to be many green and scalable means to produce them, but if we could, I think it can be an overall better alternative to seemingly unworkable hydrogen based EVs and/or unrecyclable battery based EVs.
by grogenaut | 2026-02-26 01:23:42+00:00
Or write your own MCP server and make lots of little tools that activate on demand or put smarts or a second layer LLM into crafting GQL queries on the fly and reducing the results on the fly. They're kinda trivial to write now.

I do agree that MCP context management should be better. Amazon kiro took a stab at that with powers