MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hiddencost | 2026-02-25 09:16:50+00:00
I've started to feel like Ed Zitron is actively hurting people I care about.

I'm lucky to have worked in the field for a long time, and be able to spend a lot of tokens. In the last month it's become clear to me that the tech works. The science is done, and what's left is engineering.

There are a lot of risks and mitigations and theory to build, but it's all solvable. The tech isn't mature, but neither was the Internet 30 years ago. And we built transatlantic cables and ran new wires to everyone's house.

People I care about, engineers with 20 years of experience, are having mental health breakdowns, caused by Zitron's work. They insist the tech will never work, and avoid learning about it, becoming progressively more paranoid and isolated. I'm trying to be supportive and help them start to recover, but it's slow going.

If someone is having a crisis about this, I hope they start talking to a therapist. I don't need them to agree with me, but I do need them to not harm themselves.
by tpm | 2026-02-25 09:17:08+00:00
I don't really understand your point here. Sure France is overly protective about their wine, like every country tries to protect their flagship industry. And inside the EU there are many other wine-producing countries who want to protect their producers too.

But I can buy Georgian wine in a few shops and restaurants here, even those made in kvevri. I can buy small-batch Serbian (Serbia is not in the EU either) orange wine too.
It's hard to import into the EU? I'm sure it is, the rules are very strict, but it's doable.
by intended | 2026-02-25 09:17:31+00:00
People haven’t had a choice, so this is not a revealed preference. From what indications I am seeing, people were hesitant to empower government, but are increasingly amenable to the idea.

For countries other than America, it’s not just private enterprise, it’s Foreign Private enterprise.

For both, self serving and genuine reasons, Tech is highly resistant to calls for openness, data sharing, and cooperation with civil society.

A perennial questions from civil society is “how do we engage with tech?”, “what did you do after we sent you data and evidence?”

Ignorance is the only product of this, and that is driving suspicion, fear and anxiety in voters.

Without this swell of resentment, there would be no support for social media bans.
by mynti | 2026-02-25 09:18:57+00:00
I always wondered how these models would reason correctly. I suppose they are diffusing fixed blocks of text for every step and after the first block comes the next and so on (that is how it looks in the chat interface anyways). But what happens if at the end of the first block it would need information about reasoning at the beginning of the first block? Autoregressive Models can use these tokens to refine the reasoning but I guess that Diffusion Models can only adjust their path after every block? Is there a way maybe to have dynamic block length?
by stevekemp | 2026-02-25 09:19:00+00:00
I built a hardware display, with an LCD and a WeMos Mini D1, so that I can see the upcoming tram departure times outside my house. I could use the website, or a phone app, but having the departure times always present right by my front door is a real game-changer.

The actual tram-stop does indeed have a display, but here in Finland it might be -20°C in the winter time so I don't want to walk to the stop earlier than necessary.

Sure waiting ten minutes won't kill me, but I'd much rather wait 1-2 minutes instead. Keep myself toasty-warm indoors.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-02-25 09:19:29+00:00
The people who have been stalked and apprehended by ICE for online criticism of what ICE is doing might not agree.

As might visitors who are being asked to show five years of social media history to make sure their views are politically acceptable.

Free speech is over. If dissent isn't being actively punished - the current push for deanonymisation is coincidental, no doubt - at the very least it's heavily throttled algorithmically.
by XCSme | 2026-02-25 09:19:55+00:00
You can hover over some stuff, click on the model to get more info like tested categories, hover the correct test numbers to see some info about what they got wrong.

I just started on this, so currently adding more tests and I keep improving the UI. Let me know if you have any suggestions.

The ranking currently is mostly about the "smartest" model, which is most likely to respond correctly to any given question or request, regardless of the domain.
by jjav | 2026-02-25 09:20:23+00:00
> This has been similarly true of ICEVs for the better part of the last 100 years.

Well no, since a 1926 engine is very different from a 2026 engine.

An early 90s fuel injected computer controlled engine is pretty similar to a current engine though (just incremental improvements), so we could say fairly similar for the last ~35 years. But not 100.
by gnull | 2026-02-25 09:21:27+00:00
I do believe that the discussion of good and evil is a meaningful one, but it's nuanced and we must be extremely careful with definitions and not to confuse ethics debate with irrational emotions.

If someone points a gun at me, I give the money. If life is a strategy game, then this is the moment where you need to sacrifice a piece in order for the game to even continue. And money is usually a pawn in the big picture of life. I may feel it's unfair or that my ego/honor is hurt, but I'd work though that with my therapist, analyze it philosophically and decide what to do next instead of responding emotionally.

I personally don't value nationalist sentiment. From a humanist perspective, associating yourself with one specific nation and making it your goal to serve the elites who actually control it is unjustifiable. There are things I'd consider good and evil, but they're much more universal and not tied to one's birthplace, taste or mood. Education, progress, science are good to me. So if something damages these, I may call it evil.

Ukraine is not one of these though, it is a conflict where principals are fighting for selfish interests, while working their propaganda machines very hard to convince us that their goals are actually universal and humanistic, to harvest us as a resource. Depending on which bucket you ate your slop from, you get one bias or another. As an average citizen, you should not fool yourself thinking that you're one with something great that you must sacrifice yourself for it, and don't full yourself thinking you're serving some great good.
by troupo | 2026-02-25 09:21:36+00:00
> Are you saying those frameworks aren't impressive because they are also powered by Vite?

That is not what I'm saying

> That's the most important result of this experiment. They achieved something that they'd wanted to do but couldn't pull it off. Do you think they are lying?

Once again, that is very explicitly and very clearly not what I'm saying or thinking.

You could try actually reading and understanding what I wrote instead of responding to words in your head.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-25 09:21:42+00:00
I've never seen this with any other tech adoption. Normally companies are very reluctant to spend money on dev tools or components. Maybe reluctantly some of the Jetbrains suite. But in this case people are being ordered to use an expensive tool! e.g. in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148256

Similar to the tendency of other companies to cram in useless AI buttons for no other reason than to pump the stock. Like I have one in outlook, with two disclaimers "I can help—but I don’t currently have access to your whole inbox, only to the specific email thread you had open", and "AI answers may be incorrect". Or the Notepad one, complete with CVE.

It has much more the feeling of a management reorganization fad, like edicts of the form "we're all going to be agile now! Please submit your sprint planning for the next six months by Friday".
by piker | 2026-02-25 09:23:24+00:00
I suggest you read the annotation if that question isn't just rhetorical. I'm not familiar with Ed, but he has a pretty good take down in here if you can get past his somewhat juvenile writing style.

It is a problem when your doomsday timeline for obsolescence is behind the minute you publish.
The memo itself was fantasy doomer porn on day 1.
by pu_pe | 2026-02-25 09:23:57+00:00
I remember multiple people at HN saying "show me ONE example where AI was used to produce commercial-grade software" like a month ago. Cloudflare alone has posted a couple of examples recently, and yesterday Ladybird was ported to Rust using AI.

The most interesting aspect I see in all these examples is that extensive test suites make the work very straightforward. Maybe AI will produce a comeback of test-driven development.
by con | 2026-02-25 09:24:03+00:00
Why stop at financial loss? I did https://whentheywere.com - enter your DOB and get a feel on how you compare to Einstein, Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs and others.

Here's one for 01/01/1990: https://whentheywere.com/?date=1990-01-01

You can subscribe to a calendar and get notified when you are exactly the age someone was, when they achieved something.
by fennu637 | 2026-02-25 09:24:15+00:00
Chorus isn't just a board, it's an implementation of AI-DLC. It has a Kanban, but that's the view layer.

Underneath, agents autonomously drive Idea → Elaboration → Proposal → DAG
Tasks → Execute → Human Verify, with full session tracking and audit trail.

AI proposes and humans gatekeep, with every decision traceable.
by tpm | 2026-02-25 09:25:04+00:00
Every orange wine is different, so one is not representative.

For example I like the funky, wild ones.

But besides the taste, one thing people tend to like about those wines, although it's not reserved to orange wines, is the natural manufacturing process that for example also often means less or even no added sulfites. For example my wife can't drink wine with a lots of sulfites, she gets stuffed nose immediately and a headache later. While I'm not that sensitive, even I can feel it's easier to process for my body.
by arowthway | 2026-02-25 09:25:18+00:00
The financial market things are over my head and I don't have a dog in the game, but I think "Nobody is replacing salesforce with their internally vibe coded software" is just false? Both taken literally [0] [1] and as denying the general trend. Just in my company we already replaced WMS software subscription with own solution, and I wouldn't be able to write it fast enough and maintain it by myself without the use of Claude Code.
I'd say "Not perfectly or with every edge case handled, but well enough that the CIO reviewing a $500k annual renewal started asking the question “what if we just built this ourselves” " is an accurate description.

[0] https://lovable.dev/blog/how-a-startup-replaced-a-salesforce...

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/news/4144652-klarna-shuts-down-sale...
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-25 09:25:54+00:00
hindsight is 20/20. If I'd known that Nvda, Aapl, Amzn etc. would go up, it's easy to now to regret how much money we'd have. Same thing with "RSU's" we get at FAANG. I often hear from coworkers that if they wouldn't have sold them when they got them, they'd be rich right now. Yes, they would be - but in an alternate universe, they'd have little/nothing and wouldn't have bought the car/camera/vacation they got out of the money when they sold the RSUs.

I added something related to this idea to my life-planning app: what if for projections. I track all my expenses/incomes/investments in my app. I then can with 1 click run a scenario where I move certain expenses to investments. I.e. cancelling netflix for 10 years, or xbox gamepass etc. and seeing what it would actually do to my 10 year projection (which already accounts for ETFs/Stock with variable return rates etc.). i.e.:

Exclude Recurring Expenses
Simulate cutting these expenses and investing the savings
Redirecting €19.99/month to investments

Then I see black on white what would happen if I get rid of all the 'small' subscriptions, on a visual chart. It's eye opening when one selects items that add up to a ~100 Euro ++ a month.
by thoieru402394 | 2026-02-25 09:26:40+00:00
I have great respect for Sarvam and the team behind it.

However, India is neither a sovereign nor a nation.

India's languages, unlike Mandarin, have been reduced to a state where they have zero, if not negative, economic value - which is why even day-laborers scrounge together money from across generations to put their children through India's British-era clerk-factory education, all to mindlessly memorize & "wordcel" until they pass a Govt. exam. Like a bad GPT-1 era LLM.

Those who gain knowledge while going through this horrible, dehumanizing "civilizational" pedagogy (one author calls this linguistic apartheid), will for obvious reasons, migrate to the "real" center of their being, which is the West.

If you look at Sarvam, GoogleAI, MSRI .. & other "social AI" projects (along with technocratic things like Aadhar etc.), they begin with a other-ing of the vast population first and try to solve these plebs' problems as they see them. This doesn't work, because it's essentially a Indian elite version of the white-man's burden.

Eg. Nilekani who is behind AI4Bharat was the head of Aadhar - a project that causes numerous issues to this day because it uses (surprise surprise) Latin encodings for names/places etc. instead of Brahmi-Unicode blocks or IAST. India (rather strangely) doesn't have a standard transliteration scheme, so every one and their pet-dogs have their own transliteration schemes, and will write their names differently at different periods of time. This even if they'd write it the same way in their own regional Brahmi-derived local script! Aadhar centralizes Govt. services massively, and so any change stemming from this linguistic-imposition of English across services requires travelling to a number of offices along with the usual kowtowing. All this ignoring how this is changing languages themselves, given that these languages typ. have more nuanced vowels / consonants compared to latin.

In 1-2 generations, India will not have much left in terms of linguistic diversity given the policies of the same ruling elites, so all this seems moot IMO.

I'd ignore all talk about "civilization" / IKS ... - such folks incl. politicians/bureaucrats can't spit out a single coherent paragraph in their own mother tongues or in their "civilizational" Sanskrit; their children likely are mono-lingual in English like the very British/Americans they try to gain "sovereignty" from, but whom they'll eventually join (eg. the current education minister in Karnataka can't even read Kannada).

The Indian elite have had this horrible disease for centuries - the Marathas/Vijayanagara etc. managed to overcome the Timurid empires that were running amok in India, only to mimic them to the point that their own armies ended up being run by these same people. Gandhi/Nehru "overthrew" the British, only to create a vestigical "mimic" empire that kept every goddamn policy and worldview of the British intact, turning the country to the biggest Anglo-Saxon country culturally/linguistically (and if our friends have their way, religiously).
by dominicrose | 2026-02-25 09:27:20+00:00
Welcome to the Middle East. The Gulf War had 50x deaths on the other side. The repression of the IRGC against peaceful protesters had the same kind of imbalance. Its how governments assert dominance there.

Just look at the reaction of Iran's "leaders" to the USA's threat to attack them. They keep their narrative logic intact: we'll sink your ships, etc. These are fearless people who's power is derived from the appearance of power.
by jwarden | 2026-02-25 09:27:25+00:00
I think we should avoid suggesting that other people on this forum are evil, even if you think their ideas and arguments are harmful.

I think sometimes people are so certain about their beliefs that they perceive any argument that challenges them to be evil, bad faith trickery. But I think the best way to respond to these arguments is simply to give compelling reasons why they are wrong (and not why the person giving them is bad).

Otherwise, some people will be mislead by these bad arguments and you will have done nothing to help but say “don’t listen to him he’s evil”, which is not very convincing really.
by simianwords | 2026-02-25 09:27:56+00:00
Ed's main thesis is that cost is unsustainable for AI companies but this is clearly wrong.

The unit cost is going down and has gone down by more than 20-30x over the years. Sure, the fixed cost of training is going up but that's because of the implied returns. Once the returns to training don't happen, it would simply reduce modulo cutoff date updates. The companies have a choice to just stop training and focus on inference cost reduction.

What am I missing here? Unless the consumers decide that they are no longer willing to pay the same amount as before and their expectations are rising with prices falling, what else?
by raducu | 2026-02-25 09:28:02+00:00
I have conflated those two, but my main point is the monstrous, one-sided destruction Israel has caused in Gaza is a clear proof Israel has gone way, way, way into the genocide territory and not just into the "hamas fighters were hiding among the civilians and after considering the international laws for such cases SOME civilians were killed".

Israel demonstrated complete disregard for human life for the sake of expediency to say in a gentle way, but in a harsher way, you could say the aftermath and details that are emerging point to malicious collective punishment.
by tasuki | 2026-02-25 09:28:36+00:00
1. It is pretty much over. Covid has become (for me at least) indistinguishable from a common cold.

2. Gemini says covid-19 killed 0.086% of world population (over several years). That's about as mild as it gets. More than sharks, but less than anything that usually kills people, like air polution (estimated about 0.095% yearly), cancer (est 0.12% every damn year) or cardiovascular disease (est 0.25% a year). Peak covid was still killing less than business-as-usual cancer or cardiovascular disease.

As far as pandemics go, the deadliest ones kill double digit percentage of people who contract them. That's two orders of magnitude more than covid. Even the single-digit percentage pandemics must be extremely rough. We were lucky[0].

[0]: Not the ones who died or have lasting consequences, but "we" as humanity, were rather lucky with covid. It could've been something much worse.
by zerob4wl | 2026-02-25 09:30:35+00:00
Deck Share is a small self‑hosted app: you upload files (PDF, Office, images, video), put them in “decks” (files and/or folders), and share a single link. Visitors get an in‑app browser to preview and download; you get optional visitor tracking and basic analytics.
Why I built it: I wanted to send a set of documents (specs, slides, spreadsheets) as one link instead of many attachments, with optional password/single‑use and a simple view of who opened what.
Stack: Next.js, React, Prisma/PostgreSQL, Docker. Preview in browser for PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, and video.
Repo: https://github.com/e-hosseini/deck-share
License: MIT
I’d be interested in feedback on the UX and whether the “deck + share link” model fits how you share document sets.
by gnull | 2026-02-25 09:31:00+00:00
What did the ratio of European tourists to Russian look like?

Not sure what grab of power you're referring to.

The inflow of Russians was a boost for Georgia. These are whole IT companies that moved with workers, high-paying jobs and taxes. Many of pro-Western views and European expectations of living standards (because they're from Moscow and St. Petersburg). Check specialty cafes in Tbilisi today and see when they opened. These are the white people with guilt syndrome who will sign up to Georgian language classes to show respect to the local culture. Hell, I'm sure you can see a change in people's average views on LGBT rights since 2022, since Georgia is known to be quite patriarchal homophobic.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-25 09:31:51+00:00
I only know a tiny corner of the language, but for things like this I really wish they'd cite the original Japanese. Precisely because the haiku is a constrained form, it is also an opportunity for ambiguity, double-meaning, and cases where a word may be translated with the same semantics but different connotations.

By comparison, the gold standard for dealing with non-English poetry in English: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1...

You have (1) the original Greek, (2) word-by-word lookup, (3) translation notes, and (4) multiple translations.
Determinant – a minimal deterministic governance layer for AI pipelines
by Hnidopich | 2026-02-25 09:32:00+00:00
I built a small Python toolkit focused on production safety rather than speed-to-demo.

It provides a few deterministic building blocks:
- canonicalization of inputs
- fail-fast invariant checks on model outputs
- cryptographic fingerprints (SHA-256) for auditability

The goal is to make AI pipelines reproducible and inspectable, especially for high-risk use cases (e.g. credit scoring).

Repo: https://github.com/Dawonos/determinant
Example: credit_scoring_high_risk.py

Question: does this solve a real problem for anyone running LLMs in production, or is this usually handled differently?
by jalapenos | 2026-02-25 09:32:16+00:00
The right has only ever had efficiency lip servicemen, no efficiency doers.

Once any right-winger gets in power they do the same thing lefists do - piss away billions of other peoples' money on their favourite things, as fast as they can, with impunity. They might call it some fuckwit name though like "A Big Beautiful Bill".

Oh and they keep all other forms of inefficiency too. Farm subsidies, tariffs, all the other dumb shit, that's well protected.

So not a difficult lift for Mamdami, despite socialism being basically a big middle finger to morals and reality.
by tpm | 2026-02-25 09:32:39+00:00
> I think that a Ukrainian in his sane mind would want to look at options he's dealt and pick the one that leads to most safety and prosperity to him and his family.

They have done this back in 2010's and decided that EU is the safe and prosperous future they want. In response, Russian mass murderers invaded and started to kill them. That is indeed a great ad for safety and prosperity inside the Russian world: you will be miserable and we will kill you whenever we feel like it.

Stop apologising pure evil.
by bobthepanda | 2026-02-25 09:34:13+00:00
EU enlargement largely paused after Bulgaria and Romania because there was a sense that those countries had been let in too early before they had dealt with their corruption issues. Most of the Balkans haven’t made much progress on their accession for this reason.

There has also traditionally been hesitation to let in countries with active border disputes since Cyprus has been a geopolitical headache, but that kind of went out the window with the invasion.
by steinvakt2 | 2026-02-25 09:34:22+00:00
Interesting. Can we get in touch? I just sold my webapp/saas where I used NB-Whisper to transcribe Norwegian media (podcast, radio, TV) and offer alerts and search by indexing it using elasticsearch.

Edit: It was https://muninai.eu (I shut down the backend server yesterday so the functionality is disabled).
by ifh-hn | 2026-02-25 09:34:26+00:00
Piety? To who? Simplistic and/or confrontational doesn't mean wrong, even if you don't like the way it's presented.

Just because a comment is short, sharp, and to the point doesn't mean the author hasn't thought out why that's their view.

No one knows everything, that's certainly why I'm on hacker news. I'm here to learn and expand my knowledge. Unfortunately a lot of people on here would rather driveby-downvote than have a discussion to find out why a person might have an opinion like that expressed by the OP.

I tend to abandon account when/if I get enough karma to be able to down vote. I'd rather not have to temptation of dismissing someone that way. It's quite liberating... Is it worth my time to respond? No, move on; yes, let's discuss. Maybe they'll change my mind...