MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2026-02-26 23:36:59+00:00
I'm not suggesting it exists, but I could plausibly see something where the range to refresh could be changed at runtime. If you could adjust refresh on your 8 GB phone in 1 GB intervals (refresh up to 1/2/4/8 GB etc; or refresh yes/no for each 1GB interval), the OS could be sure to put its memory at low addresses, and the OS could do memory compaction into lower addresses and disable refresh on higher addresses from time to time. Or ... I think there's apis for allocations for background memory vs foreground memory; if you allocate background memory at low addresses and foreground memory at high addresses, then when the OS wants to sleep, it kills the process logically and then turns off refresh on the ram ... when it wants to use it again later, it will have to zero the ram cause who knows what it'll have.

I don't work at that kind of level, so I dunno if the juice would be worth the squeeze (sleep with DRAM refresh is already very low power on phone scales), but it seems doable.
by afavour | 2026-02-26 23:37:04+00:00
I wasn’t bowled over by the idea of Netflix ownership but a merge of Paramount and Warner seems way, way worse. In a sane political situation this would raise huge antitrust concerns but… well, here we are I guess.

If it does go through I wonder if there’s a scenario where it still works out for Netflix: they could pick up assets at bargain prices when the merged studios inevitably sell and lay off everything they can.
Show HN: GoldRush CLI – one command for blockchain data
by Ferns765 | 2026-02-26 23:37:27+00:00
I work on this at Covalent/GoldRush.

We built this because agent builders kept hitting the same setup friction when breaking workflow when vibecoding for blockchain and pricing data.

This release is CLI-first and aimed at getting from zero to a working agent flow quickly.

Would love blunt feedback on:
- what feels overcomplicated
- missing commands
- where onboarding still breaks
by hi_hi | 2026-02-26 23:37:45+00:00
This is a great and worthwhile discussion. People are loosing sight of what art is. The art is the idea, not the medium. And just because something is easy, doesn't mean it will be good.

I've seen some fantastic original pictures that actual artists have generated through AI. I can't wait to see what current and future artists can do with the new tools at their disposal.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-26 23:37:53+00:00
I'm glad to see this as the top comment. I was, until recently, a loyal Anthropic customer. No more. Because the way non-Americans are spoken of by a company that serves an international market (and this isn't the first instance):

"Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass _domestic_ surveillance is incompatible with democratic values."

Second class citizens. Americans have rights, you don't. "Democratic values" applies only to the United States. We'll take your money and then spy on you and it's ok because we headquartered ourselves and our bank accounts in the United States.

Very questionable. American exceptionalism that tries to define "democracy" as the thing that happens within its own borders, seemingly only. Twice as tone-deaf after what we've seen from certain prominent US citizens over the last year. Subscription cancelled after I got a whiff of this a month ago.

(Not to mention the definition of "lawful foreign intelligence" has often, and especially now, been quite ethically questionable from the United States.)

EDIT: don't just downvote me. Explain why you think using their product for surveillance of non-Americans is ethical. Justify your position.
by fluidcruft | 2026-02-26 23:38:07+00:00
It's not inconceivable that AI could become better than humans at targeting things. For example if it can reliably identify enemy warcraft or drones faster than people can react. I'm not saying Claude's models are suited for that but humans aren't perfect and in theory AI can be better than humans. It's not currently true and would need to be proved, but it doesn't seem unreasonable. It could well be better than something like deploying mines.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-02-26 23:38:19+00:00
> Driver training that closes the 15–20% gap between the best and worst operators in a fleet.

As a naive non-trucker, I'm surprised to hear that the difference between the best and worst operator is this significant. I realize it's a bad look, and shows I thought this was a low-skill job, but I'll be honest and try to call out my own prejudice. It's cool that skill actually does have a large impact here.
by bryant | 2026-02-26 23:38:31+00:00
> because the Chinese government probably isn't going to do anything about whatever they find out.

This really depends. If a foreign adversary's surveillance finds you have a particular weakness exploitable for corporate or government espionage, you're cooked.

Domestic governments are at least still theoretically somewhat accountable to domestic laws, at least in theory (current failure modes in the US aside).
by fzeroracer | 2026-02-26 23:39:27+00:00
Rich assholes are all consolidating their media empires together so that they can control everything. It's all so tiresome every time some rich dipshit runs off to whine to the president so that they can get a more favorable deal on their billion dollar acquisition.

Netflix is happy to walk away with this since they get the money and will just buy it up in a fire sale when Larry Ellison is done gutting everything for his own personal satisfaction.
by borroka | 2026-02-26 23:39:32+00:00
One needs to tease apart the effects of Musk and Musk's "policies" on advertising investments, number of users, the boom and slow decline of social media (see facebook, istagram coming down from their peak, tiktok gaining grounds but people seem to be already tired of it and waiting for something new) and the technical/technological part of the enterprise.

I don't like layoffs, in particular when I am the one getting laid off (not at X), but the X experience, for a casual user like me, did not get worse because there are way fewer people working at X. One may say, I don't like the algos, but that's not coming from a lack of engineers, it is a policy.
by mr_toad | 2026-02-26 23:39:42+00:00
> Companies have reduced staff prematurely on the promise of productivity improvements that have not occurred and lost customers to terrible customer service and declining product quality.

Companies have reduced staff because of the impact of tariffs, because of low consumer confidence and spending, or as a ploy to pump share prices. Then they claim it’s AI, because it sounds a lot better to say that you’re reducing headcount because of AI than it does to admit that you’re cutting costs because of falling revenue.
by XorNot | 2026-02-26 23:40:55+00:00
Fox news is going to talk about trans people a lot is the thing. Journalists will turn up to press conferences about anything and ask about trans people. Any response at all will be all that appears on TV.

Last election cycle the "niche issues" people complain about were overwhelmingly talked about more by people saying they opposed them.

Controlling the narrative is very easy when you have a cowardly or bought media, and plan to traffic in rage and clickbait.
by ForHackernews | 2026-02-26 23:41:15+00:00
There's already a book about this: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)[0]

> The conditions for an analogous insight are more favorable in the present. And if changes in the medium of contemporary perception can be comprehended as decay of the aura, it is possible to show its social causes.

[0] https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf
by aidenn0 | 2026-02-26 23:41:25+00:00
Please tell me what "If I wanted to build a new car factory, I literally couldn't paint the cars." has to do with white supremacy?

Maybe the regulations for new car factories are good, maybe they are bad, maybe Musk was exaggerating or making things up whole cloth, but the veracity of these things is mostly unrelated to Musk's views on race.
by krapp | 2026-02-26 23:41:32+00:00
>that’s a disappointingly hard question to answer

It shouldn't be. The US government is already sending armed and masked thugs to shoot political dissidents dead or sending them to concentration camps, threatening state governments and private companies to comply with suppressing free speech and oppressing undesirables, and openly discussing using emergency powers to suspend the next election.

What exactly is the commensurate threat from China? The real tacit threat, not abstract fears like "TikTok is Chinese mind control." What can China actually do to you, an American, that the US isn't already more capable of doing, and more likely to do?

To me it isn't even a question. Even comparing worst case scenarios - open war with China versus civil war within the US - the latter is more of a threat to citizens of the US than the former unless the nukes drop. And even then, the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons in warfare is the US.
by mrandish | 2026-02-26 23:41:34+00:00
> In 2007 it was visionary and essential ... In 2026 it is a symbol of Google's stagnation.

Since around ~2010, Google's culture has gradually transitioned from exploring, discovering and building new businesses to defending and extracting maximum value from existing businesses (eg Enshittification).

I was vividly reminded of this listening to the Acquired podcast's three episode Google arc last year. Although the hosts don't explicitly call it out, they do such a good job of exploring all the ways in which pre-2010 Google was incredibly innovative. visionary and exciting, the contrast to today is sobering.

While Google deserves credit for leading the way on early AI research pre-2010, they squandered much of their pole position because LLMs were more threat/risk to their huge legacy search business (despite being deployed under the hood). Then, only when the external threat became undeniable, did they respond - requiring a huge come-from-behind to regain most of the lead they'd lost.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company
by inigyou | 2026-02-26 23:42:04+00:00
They're all stable, but the countries you listed aren't very good. Japan's economy is still fucked, Germany is still extremely weird about anything to do with Jews and a very risky place to do business (but German people are raised to accept risks that seem unacceptable to everyone else) and I've never been to Italy but they don't seem very productive either.
by MarsIronPI | 2026-02-26 23:42:13+00:00
I don't subscribe to this view but this is what some people might think:

LLMs aren't like any software we've made before (if we can even call them software). They act like humans: they can arrive at logical conclusions, they can make plans, they have "knowledge" and they say they have emotions. Who are we to say that they don't? They might not have human-level feelings, but dog-level feelings? Maybe.
by coryrc | 2026-02-26 23:42:24+00:00
> Level of ruts you see are considered acceptable or they would be replaced.

I guess you don't know how the USA works, and Seattle in particular. We are spending a fraction of what is necessary to keep infrastructure from failing. We had a major bridge nearly collapse and was out of commission for years. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-dep...

Many of our roads are not what we call acceptable.

> However, ultimately the same entity is paying for the busses and road maintenance.

Hahaha nope. We have so many different organizations with their own funding sources. Roads come from State and local funds. Metro is primarily funded with dedicated sales tax.

> If lighter busses saved taxpayers money that’s what they would use which is a major sign your analysis is inherently flawed.

Sorry, but this is possibly the most naive thing I've ever heard.
by matansfb | 2026-02-26 23:42:26+00:00
1 point by matansfb 22 days ago | prev | next [–]

I built a tool that tracks SSD prices across Amazon US. It calculates the real cost per GB and lets you compare new vs used drives.
The tool updates every few hours and lets you filter by capacity, form factor, and condition.

Would love to hear your feedback!
by ogou | 2026-02-26 23:42:30+00:00
The maker movement evolved. It didn't disappear. Once the tools became accessible to a much wider audience, such as children, it became an integrated aspect of education. It also became a cultural tool. The author is focusing on a very narrow path to monetization and manufacturing. That wasn't the goal of the movement at all. That was how startup pitches tried to capture the movement and extract value. I see 3D printing machines that create structures out of adobe now. Huge ones. I see whole niche industries coming from laser cutters and CnC machines. People who started on Arduino boards now build music synthesizers and modular synth components. That movement continues and now offers a wide array of dividends.
by yodsanklai | 2026-02-26 23:42:37+00:00
Everybody is on the edge, with the fear of a big layoff wave happening.

We see more and more people claiming they are so much more productive thanks to coding agents, big tech CEOs driving the use of AI like crazy, pundits anticipating rise of unemployment. Personally, I feel that productivity gains are overrated, but still, I'm pretty worried to lose my job in the near future. I'm saving aggressively.
by shaftway | 2026-02-26 23:42:48+00:00
I've actually had really positive responses. I'm fairly senior (~20 years of experience). I was laid off by Meta in 2022, started at Block 3 months later. Laid off by Block in 2024, started at a smaller company 1 month later. Decided to leave that company in early 2025, contacted one company from a HN Who's Hiring post and took that job. That ended up being a poor fit, and I went back to a FAANG around July of 2025.

In the last three transitions I applied to a grand total of 5 companies.

Also, looking at the recruiter emails I've been getting, they've been ramping up over the last few months, and I'm back up to one or two cold emails per week.

But again, I'm fairly senior, and I have deep domain knowledge in a few key areas. I understand the market is brutal if you're early career or your knowledge isn't "T" shaped.
Show HN: FeatureFlare – safer feature rollouts with targeting, release workflows
by jsonstcyr | 2026-02-26 23:42:53+00:00
I’m building FeatureFlare, a feature flag platform focused on safe production releases for small engineering teams.

The newest work adds a tighter “release safety loop”: stronger rollout controls, better targeting workflow, and production-hardening around automated rollback behavior. The goal is to make it easier to ship gradually, detect bad rollouts quickly, and recover without manual scramble.

I’ve also been building integration foundations so flag changes can connect to the tools teams already use across CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

What I’d love feedback on:

Does the rollback + targeting flow match how your team actually ships?
Which integration would make this immediately useful for you?
What would block you from trusting this in prod?

Happy to share implementation details, tradeoffs, and roadmap if helpful.
by ghshephard | 2026-02-26 23:43:31+00:00
I think it goes without saying that ones the systems are reliable, fully-autonomous weapons will be unleashed on the battlefield. But they have to have safeguards to ensure that they don't turn on friendly forces and only kill the enemy. What Anthropic is saying, is that right now - they can't provide those assurances. When they can - I suspect those restrictions will be relaxed.
by statuslover9000 | 2026-02-26 23:43:42+00:00
The Sinophobic culture at Anthropic is worrying. Say what you will about authoritarianism, but China’s non-imperialist foreign policy means their economy is less reliant on a military-industrial complex.

All they have to do is continue to pump out exponentially more solar panels and the petrodollar will fall, possibly taking our reserve currency status with it. The U.S. seems more likely to start a hot war in the name of “democracy” as it fails to gracefully metabolize the end of its geopolitical dominance, and Dario’s rhetoric pushes us further in that direction.
by rco8786 | 2026-02-26 23:43:59+00:00
> My impression of Block was that it was mostly a one-trick pony (okay, two if you include CashApp) with a bunch of side initiatives that never seemed to pan out,

I worked at Block for ~6.5 years up until 2024. This is mostly correct.

They were the first to market for portable CC readers, and segued that into "high tech" POS systems which, to be fair, were significantly better than the available alternatives at the time. But flashy hardware design and iPads isn't really a moat, and the company never developed a great muscle for launching other initiatives. The strategy was "omnibus" - trying to do everything for everyone and win on the ecosystem efficiencies...but when none of your products are particularly standout it's hard to get and keep customers.

CashApp being the notable exception, because they gave the founder carte blanche. It was effectively 2 different companies operating under the $SQ ticker. They even had their own interview process for internal transfers. Although ironically the engineering standards on the CashApp side of the fence were significantly sloppier than on the Square side...to the point where I stopped using CashApp and stopped recommending it to friends once I transferred to that org and saw how the sausage was made.
by testbjjl | 2026-02-26 23:44:22+00:00
Some people like to pick cherries and some are cherry pickers. California is amazing. If we lose some employers and our economy falters okay. Happy to take it as it comes personally. Growing up here was can remember when it was a quiet place I would come home to from college breaks. Those were the good old days for me. Today’s days are pretty good too.
by WJW | 2026-02-26 23:44:35+00:00
Well sure, but surely this takes some inspiration from both `&` as the "address of" operator in C as well as the `>` operator which (apart from being the greater-than operator) very much implies "into" in many circumstances.

So `>&1` is "into the file descriptor pointed to by 1", and at the time any reasonable programmer would have known that fd 1 == STDOUT.
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-26 23:44:47+00:00
Residential grade receptacles are basically complete garbage, always buy commercial spec grade wiring devices at the bare minimum, heavy duty receptacles will last even longer.

Video illustrating the much better device you get for $1.50 more: https://youtu.be/JoL7TzGhMt0

Hospital grade receptacles have extra strong contacts which make it more difficult to remove a plug, but I wouldn’t use them in a home.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-26 23:45:00+00:00
Same reason they cut funding for universities that had DEI mandates, etc. and made a big spectacle of doing it despite it often being very little money etc. etc.

It's an ideological war, they're desperate to win it, and they're aiming to put a segment of US civil society into submission, and setting an example for everyone else.

He smelled weakness, and like any schoolyard bully personality, he couldn't help but turn it into a display of power.
by vunderba | 2026-02-26 23:45:04+00:00
Results are in for `gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview` (NB 2) for the GenAI Showdown site in the editing comparisons. Remember to click the "Pass/Fail" button to toggle between pass/fail and a weighted score to account for additional factors like steerability, image quality, etc.

Unfortunately, unlike the leap from NB to NB Pro, we did not see significant gains from NB Pro to NB Pro 2.

In several cases (such as the Jaws Poster), we observed that it was substantially more difficult to prevent NB Pro 2 from making significant changes to the rest of the image. Localization of edits, in general, seems to have changed and not necessarily for the better.

http://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing

Comparison solely between the Gemini models (NB, NB Pro, and NB Pro 2):

http://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing?models=nb,nbp,...
by dddgghhbbfblk | 2026-02-26 23:45:46+00:00
A moral stand? ... What? Did we read the same statement? It opens right out the gate with:

>I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

>Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. We were the first frontier AI company to deploy our models in the US government’s classified networks, the first to deploy them at the National Laboratories, and the first to provide custom models for national security customers. Claude is extensively deployed across the Department of War and other national security agencies for mission-critical applications, such as intelligence analysis, modeling and simulation, operational planning, cyber operations, and more.

which I find frankly disgusting.
by lacoolj | 2026-02-26 23:46:17+00:00
OK two things

First, how did shadcn/ui become the go-to library for UI components? Claude isn't the only one that defaults to it, so I'm guessing it's the way it's pushed in the wild somehow.

Second, building on this ^, and maybe this isn't quantifiable, but if we tell Claude to use anything except shadcn (or one of the other crazy-high defaults), will Claude's output drop in quality? Or speed, reliability, other metric?

Like, is shadcn/ui used by default because of the breadth of documentation and examples and questions on stack overflow? Or is there just a flood of sites back-linking and referencing "shadcn/ui" to cause this on purpose? Or maybe a mix of both?

Or could it be that there was a time early on when LLMs started refining training sets, and shadcn had such a vast number of references at that point in time, that the weights became too ingrained in the model to even drop anymore?

Honestly I had never used shadcn before Gemini shoved it into a React dashboard I asked for mid-late-2025.

I think I'm rambling now. Hopefully someone out there knows what I'm asking.
by zotimer | 2026-02-26 23:46:32+00:00
I use Daneel as an addendum to Anthropic's system prompt because it's generic. It's not about any specific AI task, it's about an approach to work and dealing with humans and their instructions (doesn't matter if the instructions are direct or indirect).

I go over the motivation for what you call "some theater" quite a bit in the readme and why I think it's far, far more powerful than just giving some directives. I even support it with research.

You haven't referred to any of the arguments in the readme, though. I'm happy to talk about the actual substance of the experiment.
by levocardia | 2026-02-26 23:46:34+00:00
You, using normal Claude under the consumer ToS, cannot use it to make weapons, kill people, spy on adversaries, etc. The Pentagon, using War Claude, under their currently-existing contract, can use it to make weapons and spy on (foreign) adversaries, but not to (autonomously) kill people. I don't love this but I am even less excited about the CCP having WarKimi while we have no military AI.
by ak217 | 2026-02-26 23:46:55+00:00
Oh it's quite practical, many cities have done it. It just requires standing up to a bunch of selfish assholes who would rather pave over every bit of available space so they can drive around really fast in their giant SUVs while pedestrians and cyclists scurry about on the broken pavement of the 5% of the street right of way given to them, and get run over when they don't get out of the way of the SUVs fast enough.
by Dumblydorr | 2026-02-26 23:46:59+00:00
That’s just historically inaccurate. You had massive upheavals across numerous countries throughout time, this is small in comparison to the civil war’s impact on the USA for instance. You think this is worse than half the government rebelling and revolting and killing an amount of young men that today would be equivalent to 6 million deaths? It’s bad now but your comment lacks historical evidence.