MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-22 22:38:02+00:00
> I actually laughed out loud. Try upgrading CentOS to Rocky vs FreeBSD 11 to 15 ( that's FOUR major versions from 2017 I think ), and tell me again how good it is.

I laughed out loud, there is no in-place upgrade mechanism for that in those distros and never has been, that is the nature of those distros. They release patch/security updates until they go EOL, which is measured in units closer to decades than years.

I don’t have a problem with BSDs. That’s cool you like upgrading in place.

The best and most laugh-inducing part of your whole point is that centos now not only allows you to do in-place upgrades, that’s the whole fucking point.
by tomega2134 | 2026-02-22 22:38:17+00:00
ZFS boot+root on Linux is amazing as well. It's kind of sad to see Linux Mint has moved away from supporting this in their installer, but it probably could still be done manually I guess. After upgrade, if something goes wrong? zfs rollback both to a snapshot made just before the upgrade and reboot.

I don't use it full time, only in a VM, but all these things sound positive to me.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-22 22:38:44+00:00
>Ray Peat

>Seems bizarre to just not have a page on a subject discussed every day on Twitter.

The idea that if a guy writes “avocados cause cancer and honey cures it” he should be put in the encyclopedia if it gets enough retweets is the organizing principle behind grokipedia. It would be much more bizarre to expect a serious encyclopedia to work the same way for no good reason.
by jrm4 | 2026-02-22 22:38:53+00:00
I've long wanted to kill (or drastically reduce) the narrative of "the swing voter" -- who mostly doesn't matter, and even if they do, is not reliable enough to be able to "influence."

In the US, it's basically about turnout and/or "suppression." There's a wall of "red no matter who" that's kind of the default, and whether or not blue wins is up to getting enough young people excited -- and perhaps, more importantly, ensuring that blue voters and votes aren't "cheated."
by throwaway5752 | 2026-02-22 22:39:30+00:00
Trust is what we've always had for dealing with this. It is an incredible force multiplier for intellectual capacity.

We've just forgotten it. This doesn't require a technical solution, it just requires operating in a trustworthy manner and only extending your web of trust in your platforms to trustworthy entities.

Price matching across vendors does not matter if you trust one vendor. You can just go with "order from Costco" and avoid a complicated technical problem.

So much of what we are doing now is rediscovering trust, integrity, and ethics. Think about Meta and the challenges they would have to being a foundational model provider in light of that analysis, for example.
by lopatin | 2026-02-22 22:39:54+00:00
From your post it's not clear that you understand how AWS charges. CloudWatch metrics would only validate your case if these were pay-per-use services like Lambdas or something. But you use the word "infrastructure" which implies you have allocated resources and simply don't use them. That's a valid charge.

Again maybe you are aware, but it wasn't clear from your post.
by vmg12 | 2026-02-22 22:40:02+00:00
> mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings

The AI could also research which stores are reputable.

> People still /are/ scared to buy things from Amazon for things that go on or in their body.

Sure, there are also people scared of flying in airplanes, those must be a dud too going by your logic.
by SpecialistK | 2026-02-22 22:40:09+00:00
The Economist app and Inoreader are higher on my front page than Instagram is, so I am being slightly tongue in cheek.

But I do maintain that there is a place for mindless time killing. Life is stressful, I'm constantly switching between different projects and responsibilities, and a few minutes of mindless scrolling is nice.

But it is very addicting and can very easily vacuum up many hours of time I can't get back.
by wjb3 | 2026-02-22 22:40:24+00:00
I have noticed on multiple occassions that under conditions of extreme exertion (i.e., exceeding my textbook maximum heart rate), I get pain in my mouth, almost like every tooth has an infected cavity. I had always just found it an interesting effect. But, in reading this, I presume that elite athletes are in such states far more often than I, and that whatever the underlying mechanism is that causes the pain might also be deteriorating the dental health. I've never been able to find a plausible explanation of the effect that tracks with my actual circumstances (i.e., as far as my dentist and I can tell, I have excellent dental health, but I am not an elite athlete, just a weekend warrior who sometimes overdoes it).
by jojomodding | 2026-02-22 22:40:58+00:00
For comparison, in Rust they track down the differences in which flags are ignored in a certain kind of `fcntl` syscall across all the architectures that have this C function, which includes Solaris, Mac OS, the BSDs, Linux, ...
This is so that this is correctly handled in Miri, which can then be used to run the test-suite of the OS-specific parts of the standard library, and observe if this uses unsupported features in some way. This ensures that the standard library relies on documented features and not on whatever happens to work right now.

See for example this PR comment: https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/pull/4840#discussion_r2836...
by georgecalm | 2026-02-22 22:41:13+00:00
> This is the most expensive failure mode with AI-assisted coding, and it’s not wrong syntax or bad logic. It’s implementations that work in isolation but break the surrounding system.

This is spot on. Zooming out, a perfectly written implementation that follows all the conventions but misses the mark on its business goal is as, if not more, expensive. I think adding a brief.md artifact to the beginning of the flow (where you store the problem, desired change, primary metric, feature-kill criteria) can go a long way.
by argee | 2026-02-22 22:41:18+00:00
Early on in Amazon’s history (long before same day shipping), they added a feature that would tell you, on a product page, whether you had recently bought that same product. The metrics spoke loud and clear: it caused purchase count to go down. Human common sense about the customer’s experience overruled the data and they have some variation of that feature to this day. That’s the “customer obsession,” but unfortunately most businesses only copy the “data driven”.
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-22 22:41:29+00:00
If I understand this correctly, the whole chain depends on Phase 1 being right, that agentic coding makes SaaS replicable in weeks. We got a live test of that in February when Claude Cowork plugins wiped ~$2T off enterprise software. As I see it the market made a category error though, pricing Salesforce and ServiceNow the same when systems of record and systems of engagement have very different exposure: https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-saaspocalypse-paradox/

The displacement numbers are the other thing (support hires down 65% in eight quarters) but historical evidence keeps showing tech creates more jobs than it kills.
by deklesen | 2026-02-22 22:41:40+00:00
You seem knowledgeable about this.. Care to test my old project for music recommendation? I built it by looking at co-occurrence of artists in Spotify playlists, which gives me word2vec-style vectors, and then its just kNN.

No login needed, just enter some artist names and see what you get:

https://blog.jonas-klesen.de/artist2vec
by rndphs | 2026-02-22 22:41:51+00:00
The situation is clear. There is a great risk to the livelihoods and bargaining power of workers everywhere. This risk is driven by a race dynamic that is accelerating. In tech we can see this earlier than others because we are close to the technology at the heart of this.

This is quickly becoming one of the largests threats to the public in history and the concentration of power of this trajectory threatens democracy. Irreversable shifts in the structure of power are on the table.
by Spivak | 2026-02-22 22:41:54+00:00
Gotta be honest, when I go to an encyclopedia the last thing I want is what the mathematically average chronically online person knows and thinks about a topic. Because common misconceptions and the "facts" you see parroted on online forums on all sorts of niche topics look just like consensus but ya know… wrong.

I would rather have an actual
audio engineer's take than than the opinion of an amalgamation of hifi forums' talking pseudoscience and the latter is way more numerous in the training.
by potatototoo99 | 2026-02-22 22:42:07+00:00
No it isn't. For example in my EU country I can see the list of all websites blocked, and all of them are for piracy/copyright infringement and illegal betting (legal betting is allowed, but must register and pay taxes). That and rt.com. I can also say/post whatever I want in social media except stalk and harass individual people. There is no "censorship" at all compared to virtually anywhere else in the world, US included.
Show HN: Parallel Code – Running multiple AI agents in parallel with worktrees
by johannesjo | 2026-02-22 22:42:40+00:00
I kept running into a structural problem with AI coding tools.
You try one agent. It makes changes. You try another. Now you're manually diffing branches and cleaning up experimental commits.
The tools are powerful, but the workflow isn’t designed for comparison.
So I built Parallel Code.
It runs Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI natively (no API wrapper, no feature abstraction), but isolates each agent in:
its own terminal
its own Git worktree
its own feature branch
The workflow becomes:
Spawn N worktrees
Assign one AI agent per worktree
Let them implement independently
Compare diffs
Merge the best result
Instead of sequential trial-and-error, you get parallel exploration with safe isolation.
Why not just use tmux?
You can — but you still manually manage:
branch creation
worktree cleanup
session naming
context switching
Parallel Code automates the Git structure and keeps the sessions visually organized.
This is aimed at people already using AI CLIs heavily.
I’m curious: Has anyone else moved toward multi-agent parallel workflows instead of single-agent iteration?
GitHub: https://github.com/johannesjo/parallel-code
by theginger | 2026-02-22 22:42:41+00:00
It's not impossible that the Aws charges were wrong, it's pretty unheard of.
I don't understand why the details of the charges aren't mentioned in the post.
If you think it's unlikely you could have a $1500 bill because you 'barely use' it then that's just wrong. In the cloud single unoptimised choices can cost thousands if you don't keep an eye on your costs, you need to look at the charges.
by einpoklum | 2026-02-22 22:43:02+00:00
English is my third language, although the one I used the most other than my first. I know a bit of Dutch, German and French.

I managed fine all the way through 1400. I was missing a word here and there, and by 1500 I deduced the semantics of some words from the context, roots, similar words, and other European languages.

1300 was quite challenging; I understood more than half the words, but there was not enough context to fill in the gaps. I got the gist of the story, but not enough of the details.

1200 and onwards were inscrutable to me.
Ask HN: Submission not going live, not flagged
by trinsic2 | 2026-02-22 22:43:09+00:00
I submitted this article about 3 hours ago and so far I don't think it has going live. It not flagged and it doesn't appear to be against the rules. Anybody know why it hasn't gone live?

Its the top article of my submission list "
Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation (404media.co)"[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=trinsic2
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-02-22 22:43:40+00:00
I think the clear point of this piece is that we have the space and opportunity now to ask ourselves as a group: what are we doing? Who actually stands to benefit from the massive devaluation of services in an economy that is buoyed by service-based roles?

There has been so little thought to the multi-order effects of the future we're pushing toward, and even if AI fails to deliver on its lofty promises, it will likely cause an economic crisis in its collapse.

The people saying that AI will rapidly drive costs down are frankly delusional. The things that people actually need to live like food, shelter, and clothes all have inputs that are physical and real. Even if AI somehow can drive the input costs of those things down, it will be delayed, and people will suffer in the interim.

The AI future that I worry about isn't the terminators coming to get us, it is the top 0.1% using this technology to accumulate more wealth. Unlike feudalism, however, the feudal lords will not be dependent on or responsible for the serfs, they can rely on a small minority of humans for production of critical goods for themselves.

These wealthy people don't really hide how they feel either[1], they are clearly stating their contempt for the unwashed masses below them. As Lasch predicted in his "Revolt of the Elites," they are separating themselves entirely from culture in favor of their own insulated fiefdoms. This is already happening: companies more than ever are orienting toward ultra-luxury: from travel, to housing, and everything in-between.

[1]: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-billio...
by formerly_proven | 2026-02-22 22:44:25+00:00
The current AI-meta-shopping-research experience (using e.g. ChatGPT Deep Research) is largely garbage, especially for goods where the infosphere is dominated by the manufacturers and they're also using SKU-spraying, e.g. white goods. DR is of course fairly decent (if rather slow) at comparing hard-facts, but that's often easy for most goods anyway ("find me a motherboard with features X, Y, Z" goes _way_ quicker using a site like skinflint than chatgpt). Meanwhile it sucks at comparing stuff that are also annoying to compare manually. So the gain here is very low in my experience.
by krackers | 2026-02-22 22:44:30+00:00
>or just outright not buy it

Yes, but that is different from going out of your way to purchase the protein bar at the lower price in the place you can find it. You are not going to drive to another supermarket for just the protein bar alone. So there is an intrinsic stickiness. You might hold off on the purchase if you're happening to visit the other store in the near future, but would you drive to a store you've never heard of before /just/ for a bar?
by tugaypala | 2026-02-22 22:44:33+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Tugay, a solo developer from Turkey. I built ImagineIf because I always wanted a collaborative version of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books — but with AI-generated visuals. How it works:

- Someone starts a chain with "Imagine if..."
- Others add 280-character segments
- AI (FLUX-dev via Replicate) generates a visual for each segment
- Stories can branch — readers pick which direction to follow

Tech stack: React Native/Expo frontend, FastAPI backend, MariaDB, FLUX-dev for image generation, Groq API for text processing. Hosted on Vercel (frontend) + custom server (backend). Supports 22 languages with automatic translation.

What I'm struggling with: Getting the first real users beyond friends and family. The platform has content but needs more active contributors to make the collaborative aspect work. Classic chicken-and-egg problem.

What's interesting technically: Maintaining visual consistency across story segments is hard. Each new image needs to match the established visual style of the chain while reflecting new narrative developments. I built a prompt-building system that carries forward visual context from previous segments.

I'd love honest feedback — what works, what doesn't, what feels off. Try starting a chain or contributing to an existing one.
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-22 22:45:02+00:00
The tools-vs-toys framing is right but understates how badly the "tools" side is going. 85% of enterprise AI projects fail to reach production, and it's mostly because companies build chatbot demos instead of touching the coordination layer where employees actually spend 57% of their day. Incumbents have the advantage but they're blowing it too: https://philippdubach.com/posts/enterprise-ai-strategy-is-ba...
by Zak | 2026-02-22 22:45:08+00:00
Here's a study showing an immediate negative impact on prospective memory from switching context repeatedly on short-form video platforms: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107...

Unlimited skipping until a video is sufficiently stimulating had a negative impact regardless of the content, while people limited to ten skips in ten minutes did not experience a negative impact. This suggests that the format itself has harmful cognitive effects.
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-22 22:45:30+00:00
Nielsen did the middle power realism thing perfectly here.
>"We have free healthcare, talk to us instead of posting on social media."

Reject the patronage, assert sovereignty through existing institutions, keep the door open. Same playbook Carney used at Davos when he told US allies to stop pretending the old framework still works: https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-rise-of-middle-power-rea...
by amatecha | 2026-02-22 22:46:27+00:00
I mean.. I'm not feeling like you have sufficiently debunked the argument I was citing/referencing. I have a 2012 thinkpad, and a 2018 thinkpad. They both pull the same wattage. It didn't benefit anyone for me to upgrade to the newer model, other than I can have way more browser tabs open or whatever. But the newer machine had to be manufactured, packaged, shipped, etc.

Yeah, servers are far more power-efficient than they used to be, but that's not really what millions of households worldwide are constantly buying.

Here, since I didn't have any links/quotes initially, I figured I should spend the time to dig some up.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.03.004
> The manufacturing phase represents 62–70% of total primary energy of manufacturing and operation.

https://web.mit.edu/2.813/www/readings/Williams%20-%20Energy...
> life cycle energy use of a computer is dominated by production (81%) as opposed to operation (19%).
by lich_king | 2026-02-22 22:46:30+00:00
Nah. Wikipedia is popular because it is the #1 search result for a lot of stuff. Most of people going there just want to look up something for a homework assignment, online argument, or whatever. If Grokipedia has an error rate 5%, compared to 1% for Wikipedia, it's probably still fine.

If Wikipedia traffic shrinks down just to the true "encyclopedia reader" crowd, they will be in trouble, because I suspect that's less than 10% of their current donations. And Grokipedia is already starting to crop up in search results.
by YaraDori | 2026-02-22 22:47:10+00:00
This is a neat angle — “AI session doesn’t end after the first draft” is exactly the missing piece in most form builders.

Two questions from the automation/agent side:
1) Do you store the user’s edits as structured deltas (so the system learns preferences like validation rules, conditional logic patterns, copy tone)?
2) When requirements change, how do you keep the form stable without breaking downstream integrations (webhooks, schema, analytics events)?

I’m working on SkillForge (https://skillforge.expert) — we’re tackling a similar problem but for web workflows: record a process once, then convert it into a reusable skill with checkpoints + retries so it stays maintainable as UIs evolve. Curious if you’ve considered an “audit trail” of changes + checkpoints for form evolution too.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-22 22:47:39+00:00
How is “speculation leads to crashing” mean that China is over their speculation phase? It took Japan a decade after their bubble to pop for them to completely detach from property speculation. China is basically Japan 2.0+ in this regard. Hopefully it lands at a Japanese equilibrium where property is priced more sanely, but they are definitely not there yet. My family owns a villa in a tier 88 so I have skin in this game.
by runako | 2026-02-22 22:48:29+00:00
I'll come at it from another angle. Some of the most popular podcasts (and YouTubers) produce hours of long-form video (an acceptable format) daily. Without naming names, some of those convey less information in 2-3 hours of video than some short form creators do in 2-3 minutes.

The medium influences the message, but the channel still matters.

(And some messengers, especially public intellectuals, are not doing the long form video/audio at all. One prominent TikTok poster has a $$$$$ job as a public intellectual and outside of short form, the other options to consume his content involve $$$ subscriptions or $$$$ in-person events. I'll take his 5-minute videos over those alternatives.)

Separately, I am chuckling at people saying TikTok is "all X" or "nothing but Y" or "overrun with Z." Do people still not know that statements like these are confessions?
by anematode | 2026-02-22 22:48:37+00:00
Grokipedia is worse than useless. I scanned through an article on a semi-obscure topic which I know quite deeply, because I researched and wrote the Wikipedia article on that topic. There were dozens of factual errors, of course, but the funniest part was how Grok routinely overstated the importance of the subject. No, Grok, this one historical tree is not critical to the ecology of the area. It's just a tree.

I spent a month on and off doing research for that project, visiting libraries and a local historical society, talking to the historian there, looking through Newspapers.com, etc. The Grokipedia article, if it weren't so ridiculous, would be vaguely insulting.
by tovej | 2026-02-22 22:48:45+00:00
Ok, let's use the more accurate term: disinformation.

This is what this site is built for. Even the premise of the site is disinformation. Europe does not currently censor much of anything on the internet very strictly. We can still access X, 4chan, 8kun, kick, etc., and all the absolutely vile discourse on them. Not to mention our homegrown nazi breeding grounds.

But a site which will presumably be used to curate a selected list of far-right propaganda? By the US govt? That propably needs to see pushback.
by foxglacier | 2026-02-22 22:49:42+00:00
We're talking about factories using low/no labor to produce goods, right? Those goods will be cheaper because they cost less (man-hours) to make. That's obviously already true for all the mass-produced stuff we have that's cheaper (measured by hours of work needed to pay for it) than 500 year old artisinal furniture, cookware, clothes, etc. which was very labour intensive.

Housing is weird because it just sucks up whatever leftover money people have. We all have to eventually spend all our income on something so it's impossible for everything to get cheaper in the long term. That doesn't mean we won't be able to afford stuff, just that we'll spend all our money just like we always have done.

Food would be encheapened by labour-free production just like products.