MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by techpression | 2026-02-23 07:46:01+00:00
It is when you discuss financial health of a company, at least that’s what I picked up after doing fintech and loans, it’s the bottom line that matters, or the projected outcome of the same.
What point is there making money in area A when area B costs more. If you can stop doing B without affecting A that’s usually what happens, but it’s not always possible.

Saying ”we’re positive except the foundation of the company (training models) isn’t” is a tell tale sign.

And I’m sure Anthropic is doing what most others are doing, heavily massaging numbers to make them look good for VC rounds.
by tovej | 2026-02-23 07:46:07+00:00
That would most likely be illegal in Finland. You're not allowed predatory pricing. And the same is true for the EU as a whole, although you may have to be operating in an international market, not just a local one. See Abuse of dominance in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_102_of_the_Treaty_on_t...
by lelanthran | 2026-02-23 07:46:23+00:00
> So, if I use my SIM card 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, Ill get banned?

Probably not - you'll get billed or hit a FUP

> Doesn’t that seem absurd? The SIM card is enforcing one voice call at a time. If the apartment building has to wait in line to use it, what’s the difference?

The difference is that it is perfectly acceptable to enforce a "no-reselling" or a "no-3rd-party" for services.

I can't think of a single service provider that provides a consumer tier permitting reselling or 3rd-party use.
by verdverm | 2026-02-23 07:50:36+00:00
What does it mean to search yourself for words, even if they fall short of the eleganance that Ai can produce?

"What to do when Ai says 'I love you'?" discusses this conundrum

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/what-to-do-when...

I've been paying attention to Sherry Turkle since I caught this show over the summer. She was on a panel at Davos titled "Swipe Left on Reality" which was the first time I heard her use the phrase "frictionless relationships" to describe what interacting with Ai is like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C9Gb3rVMTg
by WithinReason | 2026-02-23 07:52:00+00:00
A US resident consumes 76 MWh per year [0], so 1.52 GWh over 20 years. A single model can be trained once and used by millions. Therefore LLMs are ~10000x more energy efficient than humans.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption#per...
by s1artibartfast | 2026-02-23 07:52:34+00:00
The question is over what timescale and volume.

Toyota shouldn't have to sell their first new car off the line for 100 million to pay for the entire manufacturing line.

Your first SAAS customer shouldn't have to pay back all your costs.

Can you plan to break even after your first month of sales? first year? 10 years?
by mpweiher | 2026-02-23 07:53:02+00:00
Yes, there are probably people for whom this sort of thing can work.

For example, when I was at M$, management came to us extolling the virtues of Cortana and the then new "smart inbox". The manager was ecstatic. And for him, it maybe really was the neatest thing since sliced bread. And I know plenty of people with 10000+ unread in their INBOX. For them, it might be lifesaver.

But all the engineers in the room were "eek, get it away from me and make sure it never gets near my inbox". I personally maintain an INBOX-0 policy, not always perfectly, but it works for me. Unreads never last for more than a few minutes. So I have "situational awareness" of my e-mail, and when Apple also introduced smart inboxes, they broke that situational awareness while adding nothing whatsoever to my benefit. And people I communicate with also started losing e-mails, because they got sorted somewhere they weren't expecting.

So turn that shit off.
by rramadass | 2026-02-23 07:53:44+00:00
> Especially for probability and statistics.

For the general reader, two books by David Spiegelhalter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spiegelhalter) are relevant here;

1) The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck.

2) The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data.

And of course, all the books by Nassim Taleb.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-23 07:53:51+00:00
For me it's not the washing machine, it's the dryer. The time remaining reported by the dryer when you start the cycle has almost no relation to how long it will actually take. Sometimes I go down to the basement after an hour (the dryer says 45m when you start it), and it still says 30m remaining. It's not the end of the world of course, but it is annoying, and it's the sort of annoyance technology can solve pretty easily.
by ksaj | 2026-02-23 07:54:59+00:00
This was a good read.

Mislabeling can happen, but that alone doesn't invalidate the usefulness of the term conspiracy theory. Science can be (and by default, often is) wrong. Some things might genuinely rely on weak or un-falsifiable reasoning. For now.

Every era creates its own intellectual blind spots. We don't know which of today’s dismissed ideas will later look more like actual history.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-23 07:55:11+00:00
> ChatGPT was brutal for it a couple years ago. You could tell when it would go into “lazy mode” during peak usage periods.

ChatGPT web has been doing this for a week now, for me. Ask some technical question and get a reply absolutely filled with AI phrases (Not $X, Just $Y, the key insight, the deeper insight, etc) dominating about 50% of the text, with the remaining 50% some generic filler stuff partially related to the tech I asked.

Last night I read through a ChatGPT web response about solutions for a security bootstrapping problem without holding keys/password, and it spat out pages and pages of key insights, all nicely numbered sections with bullet points in each section, without actually answering the question.

Moved to Claude Web immediately, got a usable answer on the first try.
Show HN: Claudedash – real-time local dashboard for Claude Code agents
by yunusemregurlu | 2026-02-23 07:55:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been using Claude Code heavily for autonomous agent workflows and hit
a consistent pain point: zero visibility into what's running, what's stuck,
and how close to context overflow each session is.

So I built claudedash. One command:

npx -y claudedash@latest start

Opens a local dashboard on port 4317. It passively watches ~/.claude/tasks/
(the files Claude Code writes natively) and renders:

- Live Kanban: pending → in_progress → completed → blocked
- Context health % per session (last-message tokens / model max)
- Worktree observability (per-branch agent status)
- Plan Mode: reads queue.md, renders dependency graph, syncs execution.log
- MCP server: so Claude can query its own dashboard
- Cost tracker, hook event log, session history

Technical notes for the curious:
- Fastify + chokidar for the server
- SSE (one shared connection via module-level singleton)
- Server-side mtime-based caching (no unnecessary file reads)
- Static Next.js export, no server rendering
- Zero telemetry, fully local

The context health feature was trickier than expected — the naive approach
of summing all input_tokens gives wildly wrong numbers. The correct approach
is using only the last message's token counts.

180 commits, MIT license.

GitHub: https://github.com/yunusemrgrl/claudedash

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or design decisions.
by cyberax | 2026-02-23 07:55:38+00:00
> So you are saying a company should never reinvest profits in the company to support another money losing business until it’s profitable?

If it makes it impossible to set up a competitor? Absolutely, yes.

> Should Netflix for instance not invested money from renting DVDs to invest in a streaming service?

Netflix was not priced below the cost of production from the beginning. You're confusing sustainable pricing and paying off all the capital spending immediately at launch.

A better example is Doordash when it was heavily subsidized by VC money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852 And it now faces several anti-trust lawsuits.
by gpt5 | 2026-02-23 07:56:13+00:00
Interestingly, the most cloned animal in the world are horses [1].

Given how popular (and expensive) it is for horses, it likely delivers on the results people are looking for. Note that current cloning techniques don't clone the mitochondria, which represents 1%-2% of the genome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_cloning
by lorinab | 2026-02-23 07:56:49+00:00
Running a technical session on why documentation systems fragment at scale and what actually prevents it.
The problem: Most tools optimize for writing, not surviving. After 3-4 years, you get 20-30% broken links, orphaned pages, and teams asking "where did we document that?" Navigation breaks around 1k pages because hierarchies reflect how one person thought about the problem in 2022, not how new people need to find it in 2026.
What works: Structured content with metadata (so you can rebuild navigation without rewriting), explicit ownership and review cycles (treat docs like code), and content/presentation separation (because how you navigate should evolve as the org grows).
I'll cover the technical architecture using XWiki as the reference (LGPL, built since 2004, handles 100k+ page deployments). Real examples: University of Lorraine migrated 145k pages with full history, KIT moved 9,431 pages from Confluence.
For: DevOps/sysadmin folks dealing with runbooks, internal wikis, or infrastructure docs that need to outlive team turnover.
Free webinar, recording posted after: https://xwiki.com/en/webinars/XWiki-as-a-documentation-tool
Interested in what others have seen work at this scale. What's your approach for keeping technical docs usable after years and multiple people leaving?
by zmgsabst | 2026-02-23 07:56:56+00:00
For pasta: you can make it fresh so it only needs 2-3 minutes to cook, boil water in the microwave, and cook the pasta itself in that heated water (ie, on the counter as it cools from boiling). Like making instant ramen, but fresh pasta — throw in a stock cube and you can serve in the bowl you cook the pasta in.
by mrighele | 2026-02-23 07:57:05+00:00
The microwave has two big related issues (both mentioned in the article).

The first is that it is not easy to make a mental model of how it works. The second is that since it takes little too cook the food, it is unforgiving and you have to be very careful with both timings and amounts.

This makes it hard to learn how to properly use it just by trial and error. Also since now we have inductive stoves there is even less reason to use it.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-23 07:57:07+00:00
Why would it?

The first diagram is literally all over, with just small labels to remind you that this box over here relates to that box over there.

The Microsoft diagram clearly show the parties involved, who they communicate with and in which sequence.

As I mentioned in another post, I found the MS pages very helpful to understand OAuth 2.0, and the clear diagrams was a large part of that.
by bavaga | 2026-02-23 07:57:41+00:00
This article makes me want to finally start the dashboard project that's been living in my procrastination backlog for years.

One of the main blockers has been the cost of larger, high-resolution e-paper displays. I was considering using an ESP32 to drive one, but the display pricing always felt like the convenient excuse.

Reading through the helpful comments here, I'm starting to think there might be more viable options than I assumed, especially in terms of display size trade-offs and keeping the overall cost reasonable.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-23 07:58:51+00:00
> First, yes, subs are probably subsided, but I bet a significant % of users are profitable to serve, especially the "chat" users who don't use dev tools and have short context window conversations.

Why would WebChat users need a subscription? It's free; I've even pasted tarballs of entire repos in there, and haven't hit limits!

>
by yunusemregurlu | 2026-02-23 07:59:05+00:00
Builder here. Happy to answer questions.

Built this because I kept coming back to long Claude Code sessions
with no idea what had happened — which task was done, which was stuck,
how close to context overflow.

The trickiest part technically: context health calculation. The naive
approach (summing all input_tokens across the session lifetime) gives
wildly inflated numbers. The correct approach is using only the LAST
message's input_tokens + cache_read_input_tokens — that's what's actually
in the context window right now.

Stack: Fastify + chokidar (file watcher) + SSE + Next.js static export.
Zero telemetry, everything local.
by gregman1 | 2026-02-23 07:59:07+00:00
I noticed that some lemmy instances and channels are managed in the same way Facebook and Reddit groups are - by corporations, using many bot accounts that fake user behavior/anctivity and make echo chamber environment.

So if corpo approach was compromised why not migrate the plethora of experience and knowledge to another platform to continue brainwashing disguised as marketing strategy and facilitation.
by kombookcha | 2026-02-23 08:00:56+00:00
Guarding your heart with elegant nonsense you don't really mean is a classic defensive posture, and probably is directly impeding their ability to be present in emotionally intense (and often difficult) situations. It reminded me of this:

>There is a scene in the opening of Into the Abyss. Werner Herzog is interviewing a Reverend who in fifteen minutes will go in to be with a boy as the boy is led to the gurney to be executed by injection.

>The Reverend is talking about how the Lord works in mysterious ways, and so on—it is exactly the type of conversation you want to avoid. It is very ChatGPT. It is the Reverend repeating things he’s said before—words that protect him, that allow him to perform the role of Reverend, instead of being what he is: a man named Lopez, who will soon have to watch a boy die.

>At one point, the Reverend, as a part of a monologue about the beauty of God’s creation, mentions that he sometimes meditates on the beauty of the squirrels he sees on the golf course. Herzog, standing in a graveyard with nameless crosses, says, with mad Bavarian seriousness, “Please describe an encounter with a squirrel.”

>Lopez is a bit surprised by the question, but he takes it in a playful spirit—his voice lifts, joyously. He starts to talk faster. (This is where the conversation shifts into the type you want.) He is no longer saying versions of things he has said before, he’s not protecting himself, he’s just there.

>From that point on, it takes about ten seconds before he’s crying.

>In interviews, Herzog likes to mention this conversation to explain his craft. “But how on earth did you know to say that?” says the interviewer. “Were you just trying to say something unexpected to unbalance him?” “No, it was not random”, Herzog says. “I knew I had to say those exact words. Because I know the heart of men.”

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/looking-for-alice
by owickstrom | 2026-02-23 08:01:26+00:00
I'm using oxc_traverse and friends to implement on-the-fly JS instrumentation for https://github.com/antithesishq/bombadil and it has been awesome. That in combination with boa_engine lets me build a statically linked executable rather than a hodgepodge of Node tools to shell out to. Respect to the tools that came before but this is way nicer for distribution. Good times for web tech IMO.
by Gillesray | 2026-02-23 08:01:55+00:00
Although AI assistants are now deeply embedded
in society, there has been limited empirical study
of how their usage affects human empowerment.
We present the first large-scale empirical analysis of disempowerment patterns in real-world AI
assistant interactions, analyzing 1.5 million consumer Claude.ai conversations using a privacypreserving approach. We focus on situational disempowerment potential, which occurs when AI
assistant interactions risk leading users to form
distorted perceptions of reality, make inauthentic value judgments, or act in ways misaligned
with their values.
by japanuspus | 2026-02-23 08:03:15+00:00
I completely agree in the game of chicken. Usually I spend the time up to T-3s wondering how the crazy beepers on microwave ovens is still a thing, generations after the novelty has worn of.

I can sort of understand why beepers where a cool sales gimmick back when the microwave was the only appliance with a micro controller, but really -- it doesn't make sense: Firstly, immediate attention is not critical when the time is up: unlike a stove or an oven, energy transfer stop the moment the magnetron is de-energized. Secondly, the microwave (at least my microwave) is not exactly silent: if you are not deaf, chances are you can easily tell when it is done.

Maybe I should apply the Joe-treatment from my old lab: whenever there was a new shipment of frequency meters for the lab (we always needed more), Joe would meticulously unbox them and stick a pointed screw-driver through all the piezo buzzers to make sure the would never make a sound.

[Edit] microtron (sic) -> magnetron
by Tanjreeve | 2026-02-23 08:03:49+00:00
There are a few people with a powerful platform in terms of money and influence for whom it would be much simpler if the majority of people were not capable of pointing out BS or seeing how they're getting screwed. Purely coincidentally I'm sure the loudest media voices constantly declare various versions of how we should throw in the towel on educating the majority of people while also funding initiatives to enshittify public education and it would be better for most people to go into the trades and not worry their little heads about how the wider world works.

Meanwhile those people's own children are getting educated at schools with no technology allowed and are not going into trades. So it seems it's both possible to educate people given enough effort and a lot of people are capable of tertiary+ education given the right intellectual capital.
Show HN: I rebuilt my 13-year-old budgeting app from scratch in Flutter
by sfluecki-dev | 2026-02-23 08:04:05+00:00
I built BUDGT in 2013 as a broke student who needed one answer: "how much can I spend today without going broke this month?" It divides your monthly budget into a daily allowance — one number, updated in real time as you log expenses.

13 years and thousands of users later, I rebuilt the whole thing from scratch. The original Objective-C app couldn't support what users were asking for (analytics, category budgets), so I moved to Flutter and rewrote every screen.

What's different:
- Full redesign with a modern UI
- Analytics: spending pace, month-over-month, day-of-week patterns, top expenses
- Category targets: set limits per category, not just an overall budget
- Category drill-down: see exactly where money goes within each category

What hasn't changed:
- 100% offline. No account, no cloud, no bank connection, no tracking.
- All data stays on the device. I literally cannot see your data.
- Same daily budget concept — one number, color-coded feedback.

The hardest part was migrating existing users' Core Data (SQLite) to the new Drift database without losing any records. Existing users get the update automatically and see a migration flow that moves their entire history.

Happy to discuss the technical side (Flutter architecture, Core Data migration, App Store continuity with a full rewrite) or the product side.

iOS only: https://apps.apple.com/app/id580812126
by mailund | 2026-02-23 08:05:26+00:00
Depending on where you live, if you're the type of person who spend most of the day away from home, having some understanding of the weather to expect throughout the day is very useful for not experiencing the weather too much.

Very useful to know if it's likely to rain or be windy, and the highs and lows. I might be leaving at noon when it's comfortable and warm outside, but I might be coming home needing a thick jacket and an umbrella. If I'm already outside experiencing the sudden rainstorm and my umbrella is at home, it doesn't really matter that it wasn't raining when I left home many hours ago.
by enjoykaz | 2026-02-23 08:05:42+00:00
The ban isn't the interesting part. It's that he has nothing to offer instead.
"Use your brains, not AI" — the religious equivalent of "just learn to code manually." Correct instinct. Zero staying power against a tool that does it better than you.

The question he can't answer: what is a homily, if AI produces one nobody can tell apart? Two thousand years of theology about genuine faith vs performance. Result: we still can't distinguish them. Priests who lost their faith decades ago deliver sermons every Sunday. AI just automated the gap.

The Pope's problem isn't AI. It's that the Church never solved the authenticity problem without AI — and now a machine exposed it. "Don't use the tool" is an admission that the institution can't detect what the tool replaces.

Same structure in AI alignment. Train models to produce aligned-looking outputs. Can't verify anything behind them. The Pope tells priests not to build facades. The alignment industry builds facades at scale and hopes something real emerges.
Nobody has a test for the difference. Not the Vatican. Not OpenAI. Not in four thousand years.
by echelon | 2026-02-23 08:05:49+00:00
I really don't buy that argument at all.

My parents lived in apartments.

Parents for all of human civilization and history have lived in worse.

The fastest growing populations have less money and safety nets than middle class folks.

It's the dopamine and time suck.

Men and women aren't bored and looking to fill the void and boredom with children. (Kids also can't work as free labor on the farm anymore, either, but that just adds to this argument.)

Kids keep you from nights out with the friends, dating, concerts, fortnite, girl gossip, phone time, etc.

People are choosing "I don't have time for kids (now)" and continuing with their dopamine filled lives. House purchase planning is orthogonal.
by MillionOClock | 2026-02-23 08:05:56+00:00
This is so elegant, especially with the art lights! To me, the desirable future for connected homes is one where technology is everywhere but mostly hidden and this is such a good example! This feels like an upgraded version of a chalkboard or sticky notes, but quite an optimal upgrade: one that makes it more useful and dynamic while keeping it mostly unintrusive.

On the subject of dedicated home control dashboards, I'm not sure I see their value at all given we all have screens in our pockets, so when it comes to enabling interactive controls I feel like using your existing devices or voice controls is the right approach.
by purerandomness | 2026-02-23 08:07:04+00:00
It's been around as long as TUI tools have been around (Midnight Commander, etc)

Here's a blog post from 2014 [1] mentioning it.

Sometimes, we're the one in today's 10000, sometimes it's someone else [2]

[1] https://khanifnasrudin.blogspot.com/2014/11/text-based-user-...
[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/
by ktpsns | 2026-02-23 08:07:35+00:00
Slightly off-topic: https://tonies.com/en-gb/ is a very popular physical music box for children coming from Germany. I guess (not sure) it pioneered figures with NFC chips which then let the wifi-connected speaker stream the music from their platform. Prices are crazy (like EUR30 for a 45min audio play) but wealthy middle class parents happily play it to avoid their children to control their streams from our sad addictive mobile screen world.

As an 1980s child I would love to see more (also cheaper) solutions coming up to make music physical again.
by AYBABTME | 2026-02-23 08:09:08+00:00
Let's say 100k files is 300k syscalls, at ~1-2us per syscall. That's 300ms of syscalls. Then assume 10kb per file, that's 1GB of file, easily done in a fraction of a second when the cache is warm (it'll be from scanning the dir). That's like 600ms used up and plenty left to just parse and analyze 100k things in 2s.