MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kingstnap | 2026-02-27 08:27:07+00:00
But it ultimately doesn't even matter because they contain nothing of value anyway. For example googling G0F6 in google patents yields this weird one from yesterday.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US12411877B1/en?q=(G06F)&c...

This shit patent is effectively claiming to have invented a "layer" that takes user prompts in a service, determines if the prompts need to be responded to in "real time mode", and if so route the prompt to an LLM that runs quickly and return the results. (As opposed to some batched api I suppose?).

I mean this is just routing requests based on if the query is prioritized. Its a patent claiming to have invented an IF statement. Most patents are of this quality or worse.

Might as well read VixRa papers for better ideas. And I mean this sincerely, because at least they aren't as obfuscated and the authors at least pretend to have ideas.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-27 08:27:44+00:00
I could not find the ability to import `.mbox`. Do you have plans for it or am I looking at the wrong options. Gmail exports as .mbox. I have been using Thunderbird as my mail backup but I need to do things manually. 20+ years of mails are scattered across a few mailboxes and exports. I would love to import them in a single searcheable archive.

I like replying to emails from the 2005s, 2010s, etc. Of course, the recipients love them too.
by alterom | 2026-02-27 08:28:14+00:00
I mean, no shit Sherlock, Cyrillic letters being indistinguishable from English ones is what Russian speakers have been using to get around braindead keyword сеnsоrshір¹ forever, same way kids type "de@th" on TikTok to avoid automoderation.

Most of the added value in this article can be summed up by saying that the Cyrillic glyphs are identical to the similar English ones in the fonts that author looked at (which isn't true for all fonts), and author didn't find many other such examples.

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¹ Try matching that word with "censorship" for fun
by DebtDeflation | 2026-02-27 08:28:15+00:00
> the absurd overhiring that they did in 2022 and 2023

The overhiring took place from mid 2020 through mid 2022. The reversal into layoffs started in late 2022 and was in full swing in 2023. While the overhiring problem was real, the correction was largely complete over a year ago. The layoffs we're seeing today have nothing to do with overhiring and everything to do with managing earnings to sustain equity valuations.
by hathym | 2026-02-27 08:28:36+00:00
I had never heard of Block before, but I visited their website and downloaded one of their open-source projects, Goose (an OpenCode alternative). I ran a very simple prompt on one of the projects I’m working on to implement a small feature. It ended up going into what seemed like an infinite loop and consumed three-quarters of my monthly Poe subscription on a single prompt. I uninstalled it immediately.
Nano Banana 2 Is Really Coming! Here's How to Access It Early
by zaaaaooo | 2026-02-27 08:29:40+00:00
If you've been using Nano Banana Pro for image generation, you already know it's been the strongest model in its class since launch. Now Nano Banana 2 is coming, and early preview samples are already circulating. Here's what we know so far and how to get access to it

What’s New & Upgraded
1. Pro Intelligence at Flash Speed and price: NB2 delivers quality close to Pro while keeping generation times in line with the Flash tier, standard generations clock in at under two seconds, with pricing significantly lower than Nano Banana Pro.
2. Precision Text Rendering: Inheriting major upgrades from the Pro version, NB2 renders crisp, accurate text for marketing assets, UI/UX wireframes, and product labels. It also supports seamless translation and localization of text already existing within an image.
3. Large-Scale Subject Consistency: Maintain identity across up to 5 characters and 14 distinct objects within a single workflow. This is a massive leap compared to the original Nano Banana.
4. Real-World Grounding via Search The model leverages Google Search live to accurately render specific logos, landmarks, and real-world products. It can even transform handwritten notes or rough sketches into data-driven charts and infographics.

Use Cases
1. Film & Creative Visuals: Fantasy concept design for pre-production, emphasizing the photorealistic grounding of surreal elements and logical physics.
2. Marketing & E-Commerce Advertising: Rapid generation of product posters featuring precise typography and realistic materials.
3. Documentary Photography & High-Fidelity Character Creation: Cinematic character settings or humanistic documentary projects. Focuses on skin texture, micro-details (e.g., hair, iris reflections), and authentic emotional delivery, breaking away from the "plastic" look of traditional AI generation.
4. Illustration Design & Native Text Rendering: Educational materials, vintage posters, or graphic design assets. The core pain point is accurate spelling and seamless integration of typography into specific artistic styles.

Cost Check
Nano Banana 2
- Official: $0.080
- AtlasCloud.ai: $0.040
- Fal AI: $0.080
- Wavespeed: $0.080
- Higgsfield: $0.057
Nano Banana Pro
- Official: $0.139 - $0.240
- AtlasCloud.ai: $0.063
- Fal AI: $0.150
- Wavespeed: $0.140
- Higgsfield: $0.076
Seedream 5.0 Lite
- Official: $0.035
- AtlasCloud.ai: $0.026
- Fal AI: $0.035
- Wavespeed: $0.035
- Higgsfield: $0.038
Seedream 4.5
- Official: $0.040
- AtlasCloud.ai: $0.038
- Fal AI: $0.040
- Wavespeed: $0.040
- Higgsfield: $0.038

How to access Nano Banana 2
- For creator: Gemini, Lovart.ai，Higgsfield AI, arena ai，Vertex AI
- For developer：AtlasCloud.ai, google ai studio

TL;DR
Nano Banana 2 is undeniably sending shockwaves through the AI image gen scene and it’s poised to become one of the most popular tools. For everyday users and creators like us, this is truly the golden age:D
by seanhunter | 2026-02-27 08:30:04+00:00
Weather derivatives have existed much longer than prediction markets. search for “catastrophe bonds” (normally called “cat bonds” in the markets) if you want to find out more. There is also insurance and reinsurance.

Insurance is what normal people use to hedge weather risk. The insurers use an combination on reinsurance and cat bonds issuance and the reinsurers use cat bonds and weather derivatives.

I seriously doubt there is meaningful weather hedging volume on prediction markets by comparison.
by homebrewer | 2026-02-27 08:30:24+00:00
It's a waste of time unless you're specifically targeting and testing mac, all of the BSDs, various descendants of Solaris, and other flavors of Unix. I wrote enough "portable shell" to run into so many quirks and slight differences in flags, in how different tools handle e.g. SIGPIPE.

Adding a new feature in a straightforward way often makes it work only on 4/7 of the operating systems you're trying to support. You then rewrite it in a slightly different way (because it's shell — there's always 50 ways to do the same thing). This gets you to 5/7 working systems, but breaks one that previously worked. You rewrite it yet another way, fixing the new breakage, but another one breaks. Repeat this over and over again, trying to find an implementation that works everywhere, or start adding workarounds for each system. Spend an hour on a feature that should have taken two minutes.

If it's anything remotely complicated, and you need portability, then use perl/python/go.
by 4j452j45nj | 2026-02-27 08:30:37+00:00
ah, PDE/PTE A/D writes... what a source of variety over the decades!

some chips set them step by step, as shown in the article

others only set them at them very end, together

and then there are chips which follow the read-modify-write op with another read, to check if the RMW succeeded... which promptly causes them to hang hard when the page tables live in read-only memory i.e. ROM... fun fun fun!

as for segmentation fun... think about CS always being writeable in real mode... even though the access rights only have a R but no W bit for it...
by 3rodents | 2026-02-27 08:30:38+00:00
Which companies are you applying to? Even in this new world, titles still matter a great deal. A former “director of AI” and FAANG data scientist is valuable even before considering whether you are competent.

The part that stands out is that you are getting rejection emails from automated systems. With your pedigree, you should be talking direct to whoever is hiring — you’ve earned the right to bypass the automated system in the eyes of most people hiring.

When we are hiring and receive hundreds of applications, we only manage to review a few and send the same rejection to everyone else — even though we haven’t read their application.

At a minimum, you should be getting conversations with the teams you are applying to and then a personal rejection. If you are not getting beyond screening, with your credentials, it is a process issue.

Have you tried going direct to the teams? For larger companies, that can be via LinkedIn, and for startups / smaller companies you should be able to find their email.

If I were in your position, I would be identifying companies I want to work at that are hiring, and then send an email to their most senior technical person (probably CTO). You are talking senior-to-senior, and if they are interested, you will bypass the whole automated system. I can think of a couple of companies that regularly post in the HN hiring threads that would be a great fit for you.

Any suggestion that you are too expensive or over qualified sounds like a nice explanation but even if those things are true, you should still be getting interviews and personal reactions. Hiring is a painful process for most companies, the chance to talk to someone qualified is a nice treat.
by jamiecode | 2026-02-27 08:30:46+00:00
The CLAUDE.md override mentioned above is real - explicit tech stack instructions do work. Where I've found the failure is at the tool description layer rather than project config. Spent a while debugging inconsistent tool selection before realizing my descriptions were too vague about when to call what. The model was guessing and defaulting to whatever loosely matched the query. Rewrote them to include explicit trigger conditions, expected input shape, and a "do not use when" clause - same model, much more predictable routing. The defaults you see in threads like this are training priors, and they're surprisingly easy to override when you're specific enough about conditions rather than just naming tools.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-27 08:31:06+00:00
Not a single one of those wars was in defense of freedom and democracy.

I'm not going to go through all of those wars one-by-one, but are you joking with Iraq War II? That war was sold on the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was somehow behind 9/11, by a president who himself had stolen the 2000 election by getting his brother to halt the counting of votes in Florida.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-27 08:31:55+00:00
Raw unemployment numbers are pretty meaningless alone. Governmenments have ways of counting unemployment to get a desired number like for example only counting those registered as seeking work through the government agency. Like If you're doing some school or training, BAM, you're not counted as unemployed, if you've been unemployed for too long, then you're counted as "long term state welfare" and not as unemployed, if you refuse shitty hard labor jobs from the unemployment office, then you're cut off from unemployment and you're not counted as unemployed, and other such tricks.

Plus, even taking a low unemployment numbers at face value, the job quality has fallen a lot, with a lot of people still technically employed but not in great jobs, but in shitty jobs they do for survival, like fast food delivery.

The reality is that mass layoffs and SME bankruptcies are a current occurrence in many EU countries.
by aussieguy1234 | 2026-02-27 08:32:52+00:00
This is how I see this and most other "AI layoffs".

The company is going through a hard time, and we need to let people go. So how do we explain it in a way that isn't gonna scare investors away?

Do we admit that we overhired, or that we're running out of money, or that we couldnt find the right markets? No, we don't. Instead, we explain the layoffs as AI.

This way, investors will think we are innovating, and may not think to look deeper to see the actual issues.
by torginus | 2026-02-27 08:32:53+00:00
I'm sure after you've had Claude build it, you learned a ton of how to build such a thing (I certainly did for my projects).

Basically, the data model is dead simple, you just spin up a SQLite db, create a React frontend, grabbing a good drag and drop library that implements these cards, write some simple but decent looking CSS, some React and backend boilerplate to wire the thing together - and boom - you're done.

This sounds simple when I write like this, but the complexity comes from knowing what library to use, figuring out its API, and assembling the whole thing together - which Claude is great at, but once you see the whole thing put together, you come to understand these things as well, and become more skilled at building stuff like this.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-27 08:33:01+00:00
>Why are you overlooking European semiconductor champions?

Champions at what? They pale in comparison to the likes of Samsung.

> A bunch of EU dev banks can lend the monies to get it built.

Why would EU banks risk their money on a DRAM fab meant to compete with Asia that has lower wages, lower regulations, less environmentalism, etc?
by hdgvhicv | 2026-02-27 08:33:14+00:00
The fuse is there to melt before the wire.

My bedside lamp has a 1mm (or thinner) wire. If it faulted out and drew 10a the RCD won’t blow, but the wire will melt. Not immediately, but after a while.

The 3A fuse will melt long before the wire though.
by ggm | 2026-02-27 08:33:25+00:00
These kinds of multivariate decisions are extremely hard and what decision support systems were designed to work with. Typically you construct a model with all the qualitative questions, and a process which weighs each of them against each other drives something like a weighted centroid outcome.

The problem with asking strangers is the lack of investment and consequences to decisions. So if I say Portugal it has zero context to how your emotions will cope with e.g. sudden deterioration of your parents health, or racism, or language issues. If I say turkey it's based on outsider sense of place as a visitor with no exposure to the political risk.

Decision support is part of operations research. A good oversight (obviously they push their own model but they explain a lot of the systems)

https://www.1000minds.com/decision-making/what-is-mcdm-mcda

for context I made the decision to up sticks and move to another economy in my late 20s almost 4 decades ago and have never regretted it but it does carry bitter pills, breaking of links, parental death and related family tensions, emotional turmoil. Nothing is easy, but my path was easier than yours given the same language both points of my migration journey, and a different world economy
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-27 08:33:36+00:00
I would love to see a reference for that!

AFAIK the rounds shot to kills ratio is still north of ten thousand in most modern conflicts.

I’ve heard anecdotally that drone operators in Ukraine have a ratio of about ten drones per kill and rack up multiple kills per day every day. Supposedly the pilots “burn out” due to the psychological impacts.
by wiseowise | 2026-02-27 08:33:54+00:00
As someone who comes from a country where it’s very hard to fire people: fuck the companies.

This is the reason why we need the laws in the first place. Many people leave their countries, move their families, buy houses/flats, plan for stability just to be what? Laid off, because investors said so or tripping CEO woke up on the wrong side of the bed? We’re talking about people for fucks sake, workers aren’t Docker pods that are scaled up and down. If they are, they should be compensated for the constant risk they bear.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-27 08:33:57+00:00
In line with "the web was a mistake" I think the idea that you can create cross platform software is an equally big mistake.

You can do the core functionality of your product as cross platform, to some extend, but once you hit the interaction with the OS and especially the UI libraries of the OS, I think you'd get better software if you just accept that you'll need to write multiple application.

We see this on mobile, there's just two target platform really, yet companies don't even want to do that.

The choice isn't surprising, in a world where companies are more concerned with saving and branding, compared to creating good products.
by Megranium | 2026-02-27 08:34:15+00:00
I'm always amazed how Youtube can be so many different things for different people ... It's true that it used to be better a few years back, but people still upload great content even it it's harder to find nowadays.

Also, music ... back in the 90ies, if you were drawn to the obscure side of music, you'd read about it, and could, at best, imagine what it was like, because your local record store didn't have it, the bigger store the next town over didn't have it, and IF anyone could order it was with a non-refundable down payment.

Nowadays, you can probably find it on YT, and that's great IMHO. I my musical horizon would be so much more limited without it.

Also I've learned a lot about guitar repair ...
by habinero | 2026-02-27 08:34:25+00:00
Nope, those people are not competition lol. I get that you want that to be true for some reason, but it's not.

I do not get paid to write code. No software engineer does. The more senior the engineer, the less code they write.

I don't even really talk to the business folks, that's what a PM is for.

I already told you what I actually do, you're free to read it and learn. Or not, I ain't the boss of you
by Certhas | 2026-02-27 08:34:47+00:00
On top of what others have said: In many situations the alternative to Julia isn't Go but C++ (or maybe Rust though its library support is lacking). E.g. if you are writing high-ish* performance algorithmic code that should also run on GPU. Julia also heavily prioritizes composability of libraries. And though that can be a source of bugs at times, there are things we are doing in Julia with one or two PhD students that would be practically impossible (as in require an order of magnitude more implementation work) in any other language.
by parasubvert | 2026-02-27 08:35:51+00:00
This is false. People can have principles, profit motive is not something a corporation has, it's something people have. Corporations do things all the time that are based on everything from principles, to the personal whim of executives, to exercise in ego, to community benefiting actions, or to screw customers for extra profit. It is entirely dependent on the specific people in management roles.

Corporations need profit to survive because the cost of tomorrow is a surplus of today.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-27 08:36:04+00:00
Also doomerism, but I'd argue that a prominent figure that might fit this nihilism bill is / are Elon Musk and similar technocrats / futurists who strongly believe in Roko's Basilisk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk), that is, to paraphrase, "the world is doomed, AI will rise, become our God, and exterminate humankind, but we have to ensure it actually emerges so maybe they will be merciful to us". Which I believe (but I'm no philosopher) is both nihilistic, fatalistic and religious thinking.

To the point where I wouldn't be surprised if these people have or would kill people if they aren't in line with their agendas. They have the connections, power and money.
Show HN: Docsome – Single Markdown file to featured static documentation
by ryuzyy | 2026-02-27 08:36:12+00:00
I made an open source, static documentation site generator for busy builders. It requires you to create a single Markdown file and run the build command with the CLI:
npx docsome build DOCS.md

What you get:

- Elegant UI with light/dark mode toggle

- Fully static build you can host on GitHub Pages

- llms.txt generated so AI agents can parse it more easily

- Search function that indexes your Markdown

Source: https://github.com/guarana-studio/docsome
by jackbventures | 2026-02-27 08:37:18+00:00
HN launch update — 4 hours in:

Shipped based on your feedback: before/after comparison is now live on the page.

For anyone who wants to try it: use code LAUNCH50 at checkout for 50% off (£2.49 instead of £4.99). First 20 uses. No login required.

Still working on the watermarked preview — the stochastic nature of diffusion means we'd need to store the generated output server-side and serve the low-res from there. Doable but adds state to what is currently a stateless app. Building it out this week.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-02-27 08:37:34+00:00
The parallel for this is when Rome changed from only recruiting citizens for their army to recruiting anyone who could pass the physical. They had no choice, and the new armies were much better at fighting. But the soldiers also didn’t have the same stake in the republic that voting citizens did.

Citizens were loyal to Rome. Soldiers were loyal to their commanders. If commanders wanted to launch rebellions, the soldiers would likely support them.

A commander who commands the loyalty of legions by convincing a handful of drone operators would be very dangerous for democracy.
by moron4hire | 2026-02-27 08:37:50+00:00
As a certified expert breakfast cook, I bristle at the idea that scrambled eggs includes any ingredient other than eggs or seasoning.

Also, while I know that omelette is technically the whipping of large amounts of air into what is otherwise scrambled eggs, it feels wrong to me that "omelette" is categorized as "pure egg singularity". Is an omelette worth the time and effort over scrambled eggs if it does not include bits of vegetables, meat, and/or cheese folded inside like a taco?
by voidUpdate | 2026-02-27 08:37:57+00:00
> I haven't seen anyone online say, "We want an all-powerful, immortal system that we cannot control."

No, but having a resilient system that shouldn't be turned off in case of a nuclear strike is probably want some generals want

> I don't see evidence that current systems have any sense of will or a survival instinct.

I seem to recall some recent experiments where the LLM threatened people to try and prevent it being turned off (https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686..., ctrl-f for "blackmail"). They probably didn't have any power other than "send text to user", which is why their only way to try and perform that was to try and convince the operator. I imagine if you got one of those harnesses that can take full control of your computer and instructed it to prevent the computer from being turned off by any means necessary (and gave it root access), it would probably do some dicking about with the files to accomplish that. Its not that it's got innate self preservation, its just that the system was asked to not allow itself to be turned off, so it's doing that
by cyrc | 2026-02-27 08:37:59+00:00
For user interface designers. A sincere request to consider these old interfaces like Palm OS, IBM CUA, Mac System 6 for a modern Linux GUI.

The simple black and white interface reduces cognitive load and decision fatigue. Modern UI like skeumorphic, material, drop shadows, 3d interface, aero, glass etc are high cognitive load for some individuals.

A text heavy interface and GUIs that are explicit, not implicit and learnt through discovery is easier for me.

A link to the an article. The picture shows that the IBM CUA works for both terminal and Windows 2.0 type GUI in simple black and white.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-cua-today-enduring-legac...