MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tombert | 2026-02-27 21:50:14+00:00
I saw a video recently that talked about something kind of strange and upsetting about the stock market.

With the rise of relatively low-risk ETFs and Index Funds, we get into this kind of strange situation where people who might be able to create value by creating businesses and products will instead just invest into the stock market. On an individual level, this is an objectively good decision; most new businesses fail and most of the ones that don't still don't beat the S&P 500 in growth, and even if you manage to match the S&P that required a lot of effort on your end vs. clicking three buttons on E-Trade. Yes, maybe you'll be one of the happy few who manage to actually grow faster than the S&P, and that's great, if someone in that boat is in that position I wish you all the future success in the world [1].

I'm not judging, I'm no better that the people I'm describing. I don't run a business and I just buy ETFs for that reason; it's relatively low-risk, high-return, and basically zero effort on my end. Now it's created this situation where we a) have an over-reliance on BigCos because all of our money is tied with them, b) a shortage of people who are willing to challenge these BigCos because the risk isn't worth it, and as such we have less diversity and competition in the market.

I have thought about starting a business dozens of times. I have a few projects that I think have a non-zero chance of being something cool that instead just languish in private repos because I am too much of a coward to actually try and make a go of it. I don't really know how to find investors, and even if I knew how I would have to prepare for the (very) high potential of them not funding me, and then I have to determine if it's worth self-funding, and at that point I could just take that same capital I would spend, throw it into VOO or QQQ and likely make more money without any effort.

I doubt I'm unique in this reasoning, especially on this forum. This is a relatively well-educated group (by internet standards) and I suspect a lot of people who frequent this forum are in the same boat that I am; I've seen some very interesting stuff in the "what are you working on?" threads here that I think could become businesses but mostly just end up living on Github accruing 100 stars and then languishing into obscurity.

[1] Unless you've made it to "billionaire" status in which case I doubt you did it in a way that I would describe as "ethical", and I very likely do not wish you any success.
by Robdel12 | 2026-02-27 21:50:49+00:00
And we can't forget the nationalism at the time. Everyone was rallied behind the program and wanting to beat the Soviet Union. I mean, sputnik scared the hell out of everyone.

I think that's probably important framing for how things were reported back then. But also, I'm wrong like 99.9999999% of the time. So!
by CWuestefeld | 2026-02-27 21:50:51+00:00
The fact that the USA and others are also trending authoritarian isn't really relevant. The point I was trying to make is that people have legit fears of the PRC government, enough so that legitimate business like settling a deceased parent's affairs isn't sufficient to convince people to enter the country.

You haven't addressed at all the parts about blacklisting whole families for political reasons, or horrible return-to-normal policies for covid-19 three years ago, or the general pendulum-swing-back-to-evil trend.
by bstrama | 2026-02-27 21:50:52+00:00
The core idea behind Gace AI was to treat AI plugins and tools like standard JS functions or packages, rather than the more heavyweight approach seen in MCP which requires a persistent server.

The biggest challenge was achieving this without the typical latency associated with spinning up new sandboxes. We eventually landed on using quickjs-emscripten, which utilizes a WASM-compiled QuickJS engine to execute JS scripts in a secure, isolated environment.

By going this route, we managed to achieve 0.025s cold starts for new sandboxes. This allows us to offer a free hosting and a hot reload experience where you can host and call tools instantly without worrying about the infrastructure overhead.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-02-27 21:51:01+00:00
> each model is roughly 2x profitable on its own, but each next model costs 10x the last. The whole thing only works if scaling keeps delivering.

This is a decent argument, but it's not the death knell you think.

Models are getting 99% more efficient every 3 years - to get the same amount of output, combined with hardware and (mostly) software upgrades - you can use 99% less power.

The number of applications where AI is already "good enough" keeps growing every day. If the cost goes down 99% every three years, it doesn't take long until you can make a ton of money on those applications.

If AI stopped progressing today, it would take probably a decade or longer for us to take full advantage of it. So there is tons of forward looking revenue that isn't counted yet.

For the foreseeable future, there are MANY MANY uses of models where a company would not want to host its own models and would be GLAD to pay an 4-5x cost for someone else to host the model and hardware for them.

I'm as bullish on OpenAI being "worth" $730B as I was on Snap being worth what it IPO'd for - which it's still down about 80% (AFTER inflation, or about ~95% adjusting for gold inflation).

But guess what - these are MINIMUM valuations based on 50-80% margins - i.e. they're really getting about ~$30B - the rest is market value of hardware and hosting. OpenAI could be worth 80% less, and they could still make a metric fuck-ton of money selling at IPO with a $1T+ market cap to speculative morons easily...

Realistically, very rich people with high risk tolerance are saying that they think OpenAI has a MINIMUM value of ~$100B. That seems very reasonable given the insanity of current valuations.
by unethical_ban | 2026-02-27 21:51:43+00:00
Imagine if a private company had developed the nuclear bomb, and said in its terms "This can never be used as a first strike weapon and must only be used as a retaliation against imminent existential attacks on the US homeland". I think a lot of people would have lauded the attempt by a weapon's creators to restrain the destructive potential of their creation.

Separately:

An opinion piece in the NYT suggested that Anthropic should not have restrictions and that "lawful use" provision should properly constrain the government. The fact that we have to hope Anthropic holds to their commitment is a show of no-confidence in the rule of law and the legislature of the United States to protect the people.

Seriously. All they said was "don't do mass surveillance and don't create autonomous killbots" and the president literally frames it as "Anthropic vs. the Constitution" and calls them woke radicals. How any citizen doesn't immediately have their stomach churning is beyond me.

Oh wait, out of [Fox, WSJ, NYT, WaPo, NPR, Newsmax] only Fox doesn't have an article up about it, and Newsmax left out the part about domestic mass surveillance. I am shocked!
by Willish42 | 2026-02-27 21:51:47+00:00
I've been meaning to get off Gmail, and Proton Mail does seem like my favorite of the alternatives from a quick glance, but I'm also concerned about privacy focused services like Proton getting blocked or compromised in the US... This was a pretty good read

Also,

> I do my best to boycott bad things. And I fail pretty often. I still use Amazon on occasion and I can’t get off Spotify. I use Uber and DoorDash a lot more than I’d like. And I have too many Apple products/services.

OK, I can intuit why most of those are bad, but can somebody give me a good-faith interpretation on what's bad about Apple?

I'd assume it's the working conditions and material extraction processes in China, parts of Africa, and elsewhere, but isn't that true of every piece of consumer technology? The only better companies for consumer hardware that come to mind are Framework and Google for recycling parts and raw materials, but the whole point of the article is about de-googling and Framework's products are relatively niche and at a much lower price and performance / market category.
by recurrence | 2026-02-27 21:51:49+00:00
I'm Biased since I'm a cohost, but ADI Pod (Artificial Developer Intelligence) at https://www.adipod.ai/

My cohosts Dan, Rahul and I do weekly coverage of AI news for developers, our pet projects, work wins and new technique / tools.

What I think sets us apart from the usual AI podcast space, other than our decade long friendship, 'good vibes', and crippling HN addiction, is the fact that it's a passion project by developers and for developers. You'll hear us break down a paper on diffusion-autoregression hybrid architectures and then immediately talk about wasting 40 minutes having Claude fix test coverage when the real fix was a one-line change.

Recent episodes covered cognitive debt from AI-generated code, my experience convincing AI that the Earth is flat, and the Thoughtworks retreat and its 'agentic manifesto'. Episodes are weekly and about an hour each. The idea came to me when I wanted to listen to a more casual AI podcast during weekend long runs (so no heavy math and no startup pitches), hope it serves that purpose well.
by aizk | 2026-02-27 21:52:07+00:00
I worked on a puzzle like this roughly 2 years ago from Anthropic. I did the first half, the easier part of the CTF, and my friend did the second half, the more technical ML stuff. We both got interviews at Anthropic, which was cool -
I wasn't anywhere close to nailing an interview at Anthropic but it gave me a lot of confidence to end up going all in on tech, which paid off greatly.
My friend's short write up:
https://x.com/samlakig/status/1797464904703910084
by yoavm | 2026-02-27 21:52:29+00:00
No, the Nazis had an army that took over all of Europe and some of Africa. The Jews had no weapons at all. Palestinians have weapons, they receive support in military training, and often coordinated their attacks with other armies from the countries surrounding Israel.

The "influence over the US" metric is ridiculous, the US was an enemy of the Nazis, of course they didn't have control over it. It's like saying the Nazis never had such a strong influence over Iran as the Palestinians do.
by mijoharas | 2026-02-27 21:52:36+00:00
Ignoring the calculator side of things (fair enough if they don't wanna implement it) is this just requiring an age value for the user of the operating system?

Because if so, that seems a lot more sensible than the online crap where you need to give ID or something. I remember someone suggesting requiring an `X-User-Age` header, and having adults responsible for having their children's account setup with their age, which this proposal seems to be more in line with.

From some of the other responses people seem against this proposal, am I missing something? (I only briefly skimmed the links) Is there some kind of attestation/ID required when the age is input?
by simon666 | 2026-02-27 21:52:42+00:00
> So I feel pretty confident in stating that it's either gonna be ads or payments.

I'm assuming you mean exclusive disjunction here, but in reality it's something closer to a conjunction, if not occasionally an inclusive disjunction. So many subscription services also have ads and if they don't, they eventually do.

The problem isn't that people want things for free; hell, we all pay for access to the internet already. The problem is a shit-ton of monied interests want to squeeze every possible dollar from people always. So we're slammed with ads and our behavior is manipulated and tracked and monetized and sold.

This was not how things were on the internet or the web in mid 90s. It was not the ethos then, but it became the ethos when monied interests took over.
by leoliuv | 2026-02-27 21:52:48+00:00
Frevana (frevana.com) Launches AEO Agent Team to Help Brands Win the Answer Economy

As AI platforms increasingly replace traditional search in product discovery, businesses face a new challenge: ensuring their content is surfaced, recommended, and trusted by AI systems. Frevana's AEO Agent Team and AI-native CMS are designed to meet this need through fully automated AEO operations.

"Frevana is the AI that does expert-level work," said Leo Liu, Founder and CEO of Frevana. "Our AEO Agent Team is the first step toward reinventing the answer economy"

Frevana's AEO Agent Team functions as an integrated system of specialized AI agents that manage the entire AEO lifecycle. These agents work together to research, generate, optimize, publish, and continuously refine content to maximize visibility and authority across AI answer platforms.
Tell HN: There's something weird happening with the front page algo
by senko | 2026-02-27 21:54:15+00:00
As of right now there's several stories on a hot topic, each of which have 15-30 upvotes and several comments, and none of which are on the front page: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=false&query=trump%20anthropic&sort=byPopularity&type=story

Hope dang &co can get a handle on the issue!
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-27 21:54:20+00:00
> i can keep going all day

Denmark is like the Netherlands - where I'm originally from - and in some ways like Sweden - where I live. More like the Netherlands, really, Swedes are less likely to vocalise their dissatisfaction because they're more 'konflikträdd' or 'scared of conflicts'. Descartes may have claimed that 'Cogito, ergo sum' is one of the foundations of western philosophy but as far as the Dutch go 'Queror, ergo sum' often seems just as fitting.
by ticulatedspline | 2026-02-27 21:54:28+00:00
that creepy feeling of "being watched" has mostly kept me from taking advantage of any SOTA models, i only dabble in a few local ones.

The level of detail does not seem surprising. they're both charged with maintaining a facade of privacy while eliminating any and all miss-use. Certainly they heavily analyze basically everything given to them.

And generally as a society we've been ok with basically zero privacy as long as the data we send stays inside the company we sent it too. Google reads all your emails? Sure thing, read away, just don't send them to the popo. Apple knows when you're ovulating? no problem, just don't tell Amazon. etc
by claugo | 2026-02-27 21:54:30+00:00
I'm the author. Some additional context:

*Performance Notes:*
- Measured on Intel i7-6700K (consumer hardware, 2015)
- Single-threaded, no SIMD optimizations yet
- C++17, compiled with /O3 and /arch:AVX2
- Times include full validation pipeline

*Validation Methodology:*
- Miller-Rabin: 100 iterations per candidate
- Sample range: 10^7 to 3×10^11
- Zero false positives observed across all ranges

*Why Linear Scaling?*
The orthogonal approach (mod-60 + mod-7) maintains
constant structural overhead as range increases, unlike
traditional wheels which expand geometrically.

*What I'm Most Curious About:*
1. Rust/Julia implementations - can they match C++?
2. SIMD potential - AVX-512 should help significantly
3. GPU feasibility - is the algorithm parallelizable?
4. Theoretical bounds - what's the limit of orthogonal extension?

Contributions, feedback, and collaboration welcome.
Full source on GitHub, MIT licensed.
by carefulfungi | 2026-02-27 21:54:58+00:00
I was curious about your question and googled. Here's the legislative history of the law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm....

Reading the first analysis PDF:

> This bill, sponsored by the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children and Children Now, seeks to require device and operating systems manufacturers to develop an age assurance signal that will be sent to application developers informing them of the age-bracket of the user who is downloading their application or entering their website. Depending on the age range of the user, a parent or guardian will have to consent prior to the user being allowed access to the platform. The bill presents a potentially elegant solution to a vexing problem underpinning many efforts to protect children online. However, there are several details to be worked out on the bill to ensure technical feasibility and that it strikes the appropriate balance
between parental control and the autonomy of children, particularly older teens.
The bill is supported by several parents’ organizations, including Parents for School Options, Protect our Kids, and Parents Support for Online Learning. In addition, the TransLatin Coalition and The Source LGBT+ Center are in support. The bill is opposed by Oakland Privacy, TechNet, and Chamber of Progress.
by 0x3f | 2026-02-27 21:55:08+00:00
I'm not sure you could alter these without significant negative effects on the other things you're trying to encourage.

It's not like capital is uninvolved in the provision of biotech, or that medical startup founders aren't also motivated by massive tax-efficient future payouts, for example.

If anything I'd think you'd want to encourage the movement of investment into riskier bets, which would generally mean _decreasing_ capital gains taxes.
by prpl | 2026-02-27 21:55:09+00:00
It is different this time.

In certain professions it wasn't uncommon to spend $3k/year or more (in 2026 dollars) on software licenses - Adobe CS4/CS6 etc... with a handful of products easily pushed over that. In other professions. All sorts of other jobs require people to pay for their own tools as well.

What I get for $150/month I'd easily pay twice or more for that if I had to, even out of pocket if I had to for current functionality - even if was frozen in time. I'd imagine many, if not most, readers on hacker news would do the same. Multiplied across the entire population of software developers (and broader population using AI) - I think it's clear to see what AI is worth in a grounded way.
by elxr | 2026-02-27 21:55:20+00:00
> If you have an existing paid Anthropic subscription, your current billing will be paused for the duration of the Benefit Period and will resume at your then-current plan and rate at the end of the Benefit Period, unless you cancel. If you have an existing free Anthropic account, the Program subscription will be applied to that account and your free subscription will resume at the end of the Benefit Period, unless you cancel.

Wrong. They've explicitly stated it won't autorenew at the Max 20X tier.
by johnbarron | 2026-02-27 21:56:37+00:00
Despite the complete Archie Bunker energy in that post here is something interesting from the post:

"Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow."

with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.

WTF !!!
by spacechild1 | 2026-02-27 21:56:41+00:00
Personally, I only use alloca() if:

1. I know that the function will never be called recursively and

2. the total amount of stack allocation is limited to a few kilobytes at most.

alloca() is more problematic on embedded platforms because default stack sizes tend to be tiny. Either document your stack usage requirements or provide an option to disable all calls to alloca(). For example, Opus has the OPUS_NONTHREADSAFE_PSEUDOSTACK option.
by tryauuum | 2026-02-27 21:56:44+00:00
shame to admit, I wasn't able to predict the start of the war even though I was in Russia at that time. It's was always some news on the periphery of my brain. At somepoint there were news about the russian army "stopping their maneuvering" and I thought "ah, this was a scare tactic after all, no one is insane to start a war"
by geerlingguy | 2026-02-27 21:58:15+00:00
I have done that for years, and so far have received the equivalent of $25 (through three mBTC transactions) on my Bitcoin address, and maybe $90 through whatever the token is Brave uses (BAT?).

I still get random donations through an old PayPal email address that's listed on the same page as my bitcoin address, and that totals more like $100 (a year, not over the lifetime).
by nz | 2026-02-27 21:58:17+00:00
Even though I understand your sentiment, and think it is sincere, I think this is intellectually dishonest. Even though I have been programming since I was 16 (20 years), I still program like a child playing with Duplo blocks, when using a novel or otherwise unfamiliar technology. I bet that you do too. I also think that every programmer should play with their computers once in a while. Explore. Discover. Even if it means allowing yourself to be alienated from your means of production.
by roenxi | 2026-02-27 21:58:30+00:00
> So we don’t have professional legislatures with long-term electability incentives or leadership goals

Raises an interesting question of who is less popular, the Californian government or the US Senate. The experiments with long-term professional legislatures have generally not been very promising - rather than statesmen it tends to be people with a certain limpet-like staying power and a limpet-like ability to learn from their mistakes. In almost all cases people's political solution is just "well we didn't try my idea hard enough" and increasing their tenure in office doesn't really help the overall situation.
by bawolff | 2026-02-27 21:58:34+00:00
I used to hate the google AI summaries, but recently its like a switch flipped and im finding them actually useful.

Especially when my search query is looking up something basic from the docs (like say library function name or argument order), it really just answers what i want.

Of course a big part of the problem is that google is inundated with seo spam when it comes to programming topics .
by tombert | 2026-02-27 21:59:30+00:00
I pay for Kagi primarily for this reason.

I think I get more than $10/month of value out of search engines, and I would rather give money to a company instead of them selling all my data and/or spamming me with a bunch of advertisements. If I am paying for something, then almost by definition the company has a means of making revenue that doesn't require ads.

I hate self-promotion but I wrote about this a bit ago [1], but the TL;DR is that I think people are actually more willing to pay for things if they actually like those things. Something Awful has fallen out of favor now, but for awhile people were happy enough to buy an account because Something Awful was fun to be on [2], and a one-time $10 fee wasn't enough to "exclude" anyone, but it did become a way to support the site in the process. I don't think this model was or is broken, I think SA fell out of fashion because Lowtax stopped caring after a certain point.

Kagi has been growing; I don't know if it's profitable yet, but it has been steadily growing an audience and regardless of your opinion on this specific service, I think this indicates that people will pay for things. At least some of us will.

[1] https://blog.tombert.com/Posts/Personal/2026/02-February/Peo...

[2] It actually still is! I bought a new account about a year ago and I had forgotten how funny a lot of the posters actually are. It's a blast.
by smalltorch | 2026-02-27 22:00:29+00:00
I am totally interested in a 2kbs encoding if that's possible. I didn't think opus could encode below 6. Making this as slim as possible is definitely what I'm aiming for. Really though the latency basically all coming from Tor.

Someone also suggested that you can configure Tor to take only one hop. You loose anonimity but gain speed right away. May be something to look into as optional setting.

I also learned today I can pipe direct binary without encoding base64. This will chop overhead right away. I didn't think it was possible to pipe through bash but I was using the wrong command.

I do plan to continue to optimize that's great feedback thanks!