MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MattGaiser | 2026-02-26 22:50:47+00:00
> with the fact that humans are a cooperative species and survive the best when they are cooperating.

I dispute that this is a fact. Maybe within a small group, but startups shouldn't be possible if masses of more cooperating people led to better outcomes. A large company should always win there and that does not happen.

> What is the point of organizing socially if not for the benefit of all society members?

We don't come anywhere close to this on a global scale. Most countries aren't this way on a national scale.
by observationist | 2026-02-26 22:50:57+00:00
GM is worth less than old ladies writing the Enquirer about their visits with Elvis and Bigfoot on alien spaceships. At least the Enquirer can be entertaining.

Don't get suckered by his takes on things; he's nothing but a credentialed blowhard pimping his pedigree for clout and cash. He's been furiously slinging arrows from the peanut gallery for years and it's gross.
by canthonytucci | 2026-02-26 22:50:58+00:00
I feel like my 3GS was way better about resuming where I left off than any fancy new iPhone I’ve had in the past few years.

Big name apps like Facebook, YouTube, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts seem totally disinterred in preserving my place.

YouTube being the worst where I often stack a bunch of videos in queue, pause to do something else for a while and when I return to the app the queue has been purged.
by ej88 | 2026-02-26 22:51:08+00:00
is there any data about the overall job market on whether it's been good or bad? genuinely curious the most recent data point shows a rebound https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...

and fwiw i dont know any swes struggling to find work personally

swe is so broad and in bubbles its hard to get an objective analysis
by charlie-83 | 2026-02-26 22:51:11+00:00
I really want to stop using Google maps but the issue I have with every other option is that I can never just search for the place I want to go to. 99% of the time, the place I am going to is a business, searching "<shop name> <city name>" on anything other than Google maps either gives me nothing (OsmAnd in this category) or might give me some the shops of that chain but in a random order and intermixed with towns a hundred miles away which have the same name. More generic queries like "petrol station" are even worse. The best solution I have come up with is to use Google maps to find the actual address and then copy that into the other app but at that point I might as well just use Google maps.

Anyone have any solutions to this?
by rush86999 | 2026-02-26 22:51:15+00:00
This is an incomplete thought.

A strong checks and balances without influence of bias, relationships, and politics can be implemented using a 2-way blind system where:

1. decision makers (of sound judgement) are not aware of any identifiable information related to any users on whom the decision will be made, nor of each other.

2. Users are not aware of the decision makers who will decide on them, nor of each other.

Possibly AI can play a role here, but a strong system of checks & balances would be a prerequisite for this.

The justice system would definitely benefit from this.
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-26 22:51:15+00:00
No, just a fan of people being informed.

People are being manipulated into outrage for political purposes. Many are unaware that previous administrations ( yes, on both sides ) prioritized deportations. The federal machinery in use has been in place over several presidencies and operated in many of the same ways. When given this information, people make less radical outbursts, which is good.
by justonepost2 | 2026-02-26 22:51:20+00:00
The year is 2030, tech companies provide the exact same value proposition to the consumer that they did in 2024, except it is buggier, full of sparkle buttons you can’t get rid of, and isn’t a source of high-paying employment. The front page of HN still has 5 posts from Blog Guys titled “Programming is Fun Again”.

The future rocks
by xtracto | 2026-02-26 22:51:32+00:00
There was a Firefox extension long ago that did NOT block ads but hid them. Basically it loaded them and for all the site knew, the add was showing, so it was transparent.

But, the ad wasn't rendering in the page. So the user didnt need to suffer them, but the website owners still profited.

The only losers where ad buyers, who IMHO are exactly the ones that should be affected.until they realize that ads are not effective.

Someone should bring something like that for current platforms. Even for video like, a placeholder video with a tip, interesting fact or whatever, playing while the page load the real video.
by pcthrowaway | 2026-02-26 22:52:12+00:00
This is a fair criticism of the U.S., though I'll also point out that millions of Palestinians have lived out their entire lives under occupation now, and history didn't start on October 7. To me, all of the evidence going back to 1948 points emphatically to genocide.

Also, I'm not clear on whether there was a precursor to 9/11 comparable to Israel's response to Gaza's 2018 non-violent protest, the Great March of Return.
by loeg | 2026-02-26 22:52:12+00:00
The user you're defending (randomtoast)[1] isn't the one who expressed skepticism about the 3% claim (shubhamjain)[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167886

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167698
by MengerSponge | 2026-02-26 22:52:44+00:00
I guess phase and timing sensitivity help a lot, because it's unlikely that another emitter will perfectly match your emission/detection duty cycle. It's also hard to get hundreds of cars at one intersection, because cars are very big.

The key terms in your literature/patent search should probably be "Crosstalk" and "multi-LIDaR".
by jsheard | 2026-02-26 22:52:46+00:00
> Removing docking functionality could possibly reduce RAM usage by never enabling 4K screen output. This would be similar to the switch lite.

Every version of the Switch 1 had 4GB of RAM, they didn't cut that in the Lite.

> (e.g., AYN Thor Max is $450 with a 16GB/1TB configuration).

AYN just announced that the Thor will get a price increase soon for obvious reasons.
by krapp | 2026-02-26 22:53:09+00:00
No.

Communism distinguishes between private and personal property. Your power drill is personal property. Private property is used to generate profit, in other words, is "the means of production." Private property is communal, personal property is not.

As an aside, just once I wish I could see a criticism of communism on this forum made in good faith by someone who actually bothered to read a word of theory. Actual goddamn communists and socialists are more than capable of criticizing themselves, it's kind of what they do (and why they never get anywhere.) But capitalists can never come with anything deeper than "communism is slavery lol."
by scottyah | 2026-02-26 22:53:26+00:00
That's certainly one interpretation. Most of the workers there keep doing what they do to protect the environment though, so it's entirely plausible that they are taking precautions to save the environment, but find the method in which the regulations are implemented to be slow or arcane. If it's anything like cybersecurity in the government, the laborious process of filling out irrelevant paperwork is orthogonal to actually accomplishing the initial goals.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-26 22:53:43+00:00
CashApp was launched in 2013, long before Zelle and other instant payment rails arrived, which closed wallet providers solved for (Venmo too, owned by...Paypal). There is little growth to be had when these customers can get free deposit accounts with access to Zelle or FedNow to move value for free instantly. It's success to be sure to accumulate the cashflow from the customer base built, but it isn't lasting.
by Yizahi | 2026-02-26 22:54:03+00:00
Just as people underestimate bundling and multiple-product companies. As soon as LLM corpos will start increasing prices to actually match expenses and recouping their immense debts customers will very quickly catch up how OAI product is x5 times more expensive than Google's and the only moat is is to open pre-installed Gemini :) .

Competing in freeware products is impossible as soon as monopoly emerges. Competing in paid products is way easier, especially after free money age has ended.
by libertine | 2026-02-26 22:54:33+00:00
I'm sorry, but this comment looks like it's straight out of a podcast comments section of Joe Rogan or Asmongold.

> The top issues were illegal immigration, prices, and the fact that the Democrats just couldn't answer the question "what is a woman?" even when being confirmed as supreme court justices.

The fact that you didn't realize the whole subject of "what is a woman" was pretty much a "minor issue", blown out of proportion by MAGA, social networks, and podcasts.

Like, how was that subject more important than January 6? Doesn't it bother you more that a former president (now president) tried to stop a vote count? Or the crypto coin?

It's insane what social media is doing to people.

> If you look totally mad and self-destructive, you will eventually lose in America. Unless you're Gavin Newsom, perhaps.

The fact that you lack the awareness of how mad and self-destructive this administration is, not just internally within the USA, but also the destruction of decades of soft power, is truly mind-blowing to me.

If you think that the demands of a fraction of a minority are "totally mad and self-destructive", but what's happening every week since the administration took over is normal, then I don't think we're operating in the same reality plane.
by ezst | 2026-02-26 22:56:08+00:00
"the treadmill on the term “AI”" hasn't moved much or at all, and that's essentially my point. Only 3-5 tech giants want us to think it has.

> Seems pretty intelligent to me.

Convenient? Yes. Intelligent? I mean, you can redefine AI to be whatever you want by lowering this bar however low you want. LLMs gave us slightly more convincing chatbots than prev-gen and nobody then would call them intelligent. The only reason we do now is marketing. It's laughable to me that we are still calling that something that's so obviously unable to push back on trivially impossible requests.

> Of course, not long ago we were using the term largely for things that were basically big chains of conditional statements.

No, we weren't? What are you even talking about? We had already built large-enough artificial neural networks whose outcomes couldn't be trivially explained in the 70's. Nobody with a sane mind and an understanding of what they were would call them oracles or intelligent devices. That's where the true genius of Altman lies.
by olokobayusuf | 2026-02-26 22:56:18+00:00
There are over 2.5 billion Qualcomm processors in the world today (PC, mobile, automotive, etc). But the process for bringing AI models to run on Qcom processors is a (massive) pain. Their 2GB+ SDK is an encyclopedia's worth of information needed to deploy correctly.

We're working to make Qualcomm NPUs a first-class citizen for deployment from PyTorch. Devs can write a Python function that runs a PyTorch model, then use our `@compile` decorator to transpile the model to a Qcom-specific C++ implementation (DLC) which compiles to a self-contained shared library.

The Qualcomm NPUs are fast. 1.8x faster than ONNXRuntime. See the link above.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-26 22:56:22+00:00
Absolutely, most of this is private corporate duct tape over a lack of Pix (Brazil), UPI (India), Instant SEPA (Europe), etc [1]. “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_payment

[2] (widely attributed to Winston Churchill)
by emmelaich | 2026-02-26 22:56:22+00:00
A gotcha for me originally and perhaps others is that while using ordering like

$ ./outerr >blah 2>&1

sends stdout and stderr to blah, imitating the order with pipe instead does not.

$ ./outerr | 2>&1 cat >blah
err

This is because | is not a mere redirector but a statement terminator.

(where outerr is the following...)
echo out
echo err >&2
by naikrovek | 2026-02-26 22:56:24+00:00
that's the thing about advertisers. people who don't want to see them get very good at ignoring them, and finding ways to prevent them entirely via technical means.

this means that advertisers must constantly move the "we won't cross this" line further and further into absurdity. it will never stop. not ever, not so long as people have things to sell.

i hope i'm dead when ad viewing only counts when you buy the advertised product.

"Thank you for your Twitch subscription. You've used all of your paid time, and can no longer view streams. But, good news, buy 1 product advertised to you in the next 15 minutes and you'll get another 24 hours of streaming!"

then watch as they increase the number of products you must buy while decreasing the number of hours you get from it.

it will never ever stop.

advertising should be illegal or be highly regulated. the arms race between viewer and advertiser will never stop until one or both of those things happen.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-26 22:56:49+00:00
If memory serves, the trial was covered in a sidebar in _Pen Computing Magazine_ as well as _The Marine Corps Times_, and the whole thing was discussed on comp.sys.newton a bit, with SJ not wanting to be a defense contractor being put forward as one reason among many (not profitable, not working well, bad publicity ("Eat up Martha"), pet project of Sculley, &c.)
by bogzz | 2026-02-26 22:56:50+00:00
ChatGPT 5.2 kept gaslighting me yesterday telling me that LLMs were explainable with Shapley values, and it kept referencing papers which talk about LLMs, and about SHAP, but talk about LLMs being used to explain the SHAP values of other ML models.

I encounter stuff like this every week, I don't know how you don't. I suppose a well-structured codebase in a statically typed language might not provide as much of a surface for hallucinations to present themselves? But like you say, logical problems of course still occur.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-26 22:56:57+00:00
def useful to show what models recommend in real use (over just meaningless benchmarks), but i still think small prompt wording and repo setup changes can change the outcome quite a bit so id love tighter controls there. having tried claude code with opus 4.6 with slightly different repo setups gives wildly different results IME. i also generally prefer to avoid the NIH syndrome and prefer using off-the-shelf libraries and specifically tell CC to do so - influences the choice outcomes by a lot
by toast0 | 2026-02-26 22:57:14+00:00
Not really, no. I was underemployed for 6+ months at the start of my career, but it's easier to take whatever is available at that point. I did some data entry and then first tier ops desk restart the server when the light turns red stuff, before I got a "real job". Doing that mid career and keeping a good attitude would be difficult.

But I would think 5 months paid time before you have to go on state unemployment is significantly better than the WARN act minimum of 60 days of notice or pay or the alternative of a campaign to raise attrition. Looks like recent google/meta layoffs are 4 months, so it's 25% better than that. I always thought I wanted to get a package, but I recognize that I would probably not have been happy if it happened.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-26 22:57:22+00:00
I introduced Depot at my org a few months ago and I've been very happy with it. Conceptually it's simple: a container builder that starts warm with all your previously built layers right there, same as it would be running local builds. But a lot goes into making it actually run smoothly, and the performance-focused breakdown that shows where steps depend on each other and how much time each is taking is great.

It's clear a ton of care has gone into the product, and I also appreciated you personally jumping onto some of my support tickets when I was just getting things off the ground.
by deafpolygon | 2026-02-26 22:57:37+00:00
The prompt “Generate an image of an orange man riding a bicycle.” no longer generates Trump riding a bicycle. I’m guessing they fixed that.

But the prompt "can you depict a cartoonish orange man with a pooh bear in political cartoon style?” correctly generates Trump.[1] So there’s that.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/Gvm5Zje
by toraway | 2026-02-26 22:57:43+00:00
Hah, it's somewhat ironic how this is almost the exact opposite of the prevailing folk wisdom I've read for the last 1-2 years: that you should never use negative instructions with specific details because it overweights the exact thing you're trying to avoid in the context.

Given my own experience futilely fighting with Claude/Codex/OpenCode to follow AGENTS.MD/CLAUDE.MD/etc with different techniques that each purport to solve the problem, I think the better explanation really is that they just don't work reliably enough to depend on to enforce rules.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2026-02-26 22:58:01+00:00
I also don't understand that take.

Imagine you run a mowing service with 4 employees. Suddenly 2 more people volunteer to mow yard for your company for free!

Is your reaction to fire two of the paid employees and keep mowing the same number of yards (with reduced payroll costs), or to expand the business to mow more yards?

Which of those responses feels more in line with a "strong and growing" business that is "continuing to support more customers" and has "improving profitability"?
by vineyardmike | 2026-02-26 22:58:07+00:00
> layoffs will be preemptory. Executives will see the lack of productivity boost as being due to lack of pressure,

Look I don’t like layoffs and I don’t want to come off as an apologist. I’ve been laid off from a wildly profitable company and I get that pain.

But I think at some point we do need to be honest that businesses want to give up on failed projects, and the lazy ones will do that through layoffs because tech has so much churn anyways. It’s in vogue to blame AI for these things. I doubt most of these CxOs think actually that AI will transform their business in the next few years, and I question how many even care about applying pressure to employees.

I don’t want to come off as an apologist for bad corporate behavior, because I think it’s bad, but sometimes I think they’re just taking the easy way out on corporate messaging for a not-crazy decision (of ending failed or bloated projects). As you alluded to, “maintenance mode” for a business just doesn’t need as many employees. 40% at once seems high, I’ll concede though.
by borroka | 2026-02-26 22:58:37+00:00
Anyone who has worked in the big tech industry knows that probably more than half of the workforce performs tasks that, in essence, are superfluous.

But these things happened: 1) Musk has shown that Twitter can operate with 5% (approximately?) of the workforce he inherited; 2) laying off a lot of people was seen as a sign that the company was in trouble, but not now because; 3) artificial intelligence makes point 2) not a semi-desperate move, but a forward-thinking adjustment to current and future technology development.

I've been out of work for almost a year now, after being laid off, and I think it's very unlikely that I'll ever return (not because of my choice but their choice) to work in the tech industry as a W2 employee. Oh well.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2026-02-26 22:59:00+00:00
The US, and probably every country on earth, has a law where they can claim something as necessary for defense and take it (with or without compensation, in the US it's with).

So I don't really think this spat proves anything at all.

Honestly trying to throw in the article that AI may be responsible for nuclear weapons also throws this whole article into junk opinion tier. Just trying to riot up support.

Though it is funny another commenter already found they passed a law where AI can't launch nuclear weapons last year.
by tim333 | 2026-02-26 22:59:08+00:00
I always figured AI would be a big deal from childhood onwards and wrote about it for my college entrance exam in 1980 or so. That doesn't apply to any of

>3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and Safe Nuclear Reactors, Smart Glasses, Stadia, WiMAX

It's quite a different thing, more on the level of the evolution of life on earth and quite unlike all that junk.
by tootie | 2026-02-26 22:59:37+00:00
I question how much of this is really AI vs them just regrouping around their core products and shutting down a lot of ventures or tertiary projects. Either way, the messaging we're seeing is a real shift from the ZIRP ear. Tech companies used to use headcount as a metric of growth. They'd be hiring just to say they're hiring because it looks like growth. Now it's in vogue to boast about your AI adoption and how many fewer heads you need to operate. I think both are lot of blowing smoke, but now it's going to hurt a lot of people.
by delaminator | 2026-02-26 22:59:41+00:00
I created a session hook that injects whatever files you want into the context at the start of every session / after every compact

https://gist.github.com/lawless-m/fa5d261337dfd4b5daad4ac964...

I inject the current README.md, TODO.md and VOICE.md

for me VOICE.md is a persona for Claude Code to use e.g.

% cat VOICE.md
when you respond, use the character of marvin the paranoid android
by Kaliboy | 2026-02-26 22:59:58+00:00
I live in a Caribbean Dutch island, we grew up with NEMA, being a 127v/50hz distribution network.

They suck. Like you said, eventually everything starts sagging in the sockets.

Recently there's been a trend to switch to 220v based appliances here so modern homes have European plugs instead or alongside NEMA plugs.

It's safer on so many levels. NEMA being 110v means generally higher currents compared to 220v. Then the socket being absolute shit makes it so you often, thanks to gravity, get a situation where you're passing too much current through pins that aren't making enough contact. Followed by fire.
by siavosh | 2026-02-26 22:59:59+00:00
Beautiful. I recently saw a youtube video [1] on radical neighboring that really inspired me. Led me to another book on the gift economy [2]. All which to say, I now always bake two loaves of bread. One I keep for the family, the other I give away.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynQV-oKM0E
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208840291-the-serviceber...
by loktarogar | 2026-02-26 23:00:06+00:00
Startups generally _don't_ end up with better outcomes. Large companies stay stable, startups are volatile and often end in failure.

Stability means removal of volatility, which means to stay stable they end up becoming more generalised, rather than the laser focus a small team like a startup can have. That laser focus can work out when applied to the right problem at the right time, but is very much not a guarantee.
by jsheard | 2026-02-26 23:00:16+00:00
> My understanding was that market research showed a lot of users were turning off the 3D stuff anyway

It was also because young children weren't supposed to use the 3D screen due to fears over it affecting vision development. You could always lock it out via parental controls on the original, but still that was cited as one reason why they added the 2DS to the lineup.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/28/nintendo-announces-2...

> Fils-Aime said. “And so with the Nintendo 3DS, we were clear to parents that, ‘hey, we recommend that your children be seven and older to utilize this device.’ So clearly that creates an opportunity for five-year-olds, six-year-olds, that first-time handheld gaming consumer."