MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alpaca128 | 2026-02-27 14:56:06+00:00
I also use Firefox with uBlock Origin. It worked flawlessly until some time this January. It happened with the switch to a new version of the video player which changed the design and behaviour. I'd be curious if you're still on the old version or something else is different.

Roughly in that timeframe YT also successfully blocked downloads with yt-dlp for a bit. Seems like they're trying harder now because of AI scrapers.
by vladms | 2026-02-27 14:56:22+00:00
> everyone in this industry

So in the last 20 years there is nothing good coming out of the software industry (if this is the industry you mention) ?

I find it somehow ironic, because this type of generalization is for me the same issue that some of the people saying "they want to make a better place" have: accept reality is complex.

There were huge benefits for society from the software industry in the last 20 years. There were (as well!) huge downsides. Around 2000 lots of people were "Microsoft will lock us in forever". 20 years later, the fear "moved" to other things. Imagining that companies can last forever seems misguided. IBM, Intel, Nokia and others were once great and the only ones but ultimately got copied and pushed from the spotlight.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-27 14:56:35+00:00
> I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies

I do not want to be "defended" by tools controlled by the US government, with or without Trump. But with Trump it is much more obvious now, so I'll pass.

Perhaps AI use will make open source development more important; many people don't want to be subjected to the US software industry anymore. They already control WAY too much - Google is now the biggest negative example here.
by victor871129 | 2026-02-27 14:57:12+00:00
Remember that the Play Store was the fourth iteration of an Android app store developed by Google, a global technology giant with vast resources. Earlier non-free, closed-source app stores helped pave the way for what eventually became the modern Play Store. Although you can always sideload an APK file, the foundation of the ecosystem was built on big spenders, whales and freemium games
by rhr-qlap | 2026-02-27 14:57:35+00:00
No thanks, projects are too important for slop. And why would I want to be tracked so you can see my thought process, stupid questions etc.? Will you sell that information later?

Your CEO has bragged multiple times how your tool will make me unemployed. Why would I participate in that?

You stole my code without attribution. Why should I use the services of a copyright infringer?
by QuiEgo | 2026-02-27 14:57:48+00:00
I strongly look forward to it being 5 years from now and having "what the software industry looks like with AI factored in" question settled. I'm tired of the uncertainty in our industry.

With the changes to the H1B in the US, it seems it's trending to offshoring and a smaller market in general, which is a bummer for US-based people, but even then I'd just like this all settled.
by dilap | 2026-02-27 14:58:12+00:00
> The problems aren't bugs; they're consequences of design decisions that may have made sense a decade ago, but don't align with how JavaScript developers write code today.

> I'm not here to disparage the work that came before — I'm here to start a conversation about what can potentially come next.

Terrible LLM-slop style. Is Mr Snell letting an LLM write the article for him or has he just appropriated the style?
by righthand | 2026-02-27 14:59:05+00:00
But the point is that as soon as you get feedback and a response you’re back in traditional reasoning, puzzle solving, teaching, learning, etc. paradigm. Not in the rubber duck debugging paradigm. RDD is clearly defined as different. The GP is just choosing to remove the elements that make it unique but keep the metaphorical branding. Even bots responding is not RDD. Rubber ducks can’t respond or understand.

You don’t send kids to Rubber Duck Debugging Class (you send them to School) because you can’t see the teacher in the classroom while you’re at work.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-27 14:59:14+00:00
The ansible-in-containers thing is very much an unsolved problem. Basically right now you have three choices:

- install ansible in-band and run it against localhost (sucks because your playbook is in a final image layer, you might not want Python in the container)

- use packer with ansible as your provisioner and a docker container export, see: https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/packer-for-docker/

- copy a previous stage's root into a subdirectory and then run ansible on that as a chroot, afterward copy the result back to a scratch container's root.

All of these options fall down when you're doing anything long-running though, because they can't work incrementally. As soon as you call ansible (or any other tool), then from Docker's point of view it's now a single step. This is really unfortunate because a Dockerfile is basically just shell invocations, and ansible gives a more structured and declarative-ish way to do shelly things.

I have wondered if a system like Dagger might be able to do a better job with this, basically break up the playbook programmatically into single task sub-playbooks and call each one in its own Dagger task/layer. This would allow ansible to retain most of its benefits while not being as hamstrung by the semantics of the caller. And it would be particularly nice for the case where the container is ultimately being exported to a machine image because then if you've defined everything in ansible you have a built-in story for freshening that deployed system later as the playbook evolves.
by asciii | 2026-02-27 14:59:41+00:00
There were deaths in these fishing incidents[1].

> Anyone believing these're equivalent imperialism activity is hypocrite at best.

In terms of equivalence, I would say based on their intentions they wish they could be more but would rather let the US burn it on the way down

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/asia/philippines-south-china-...
by phkahler | 2026-02-27 14:59:45+00:00
>> Can you imagine human potential if it was somehow applied to crop harvesting efficiency, new medicines, etc?

There's a problem to solve. Money is a convenient way to ascribe value to things and activities. If you make a product, people might pay you for it. Or provide a service, etc... There is often an assumption that if you're making money it must be providing some value to someone. The issue you have is that it's possible to set a goal of "making money" regardless of any actual benefit to others. It's like a weird loophole in the economy that these can be decoupled so much. OTOH charity and volunteering are things in the other direction, but also decouple the value to others from money.
by javier_e06 | 2026-02-27 14:59:46+00:00
I was one of the bozos believing that the dimensions of the CD had to do with Beethoven 9th symphony. :(

Yes I did went and paired up a CD with a cassette this morning OMG!!! Is true.

I could not afford the $300.00 USD Sony Portable CD but I friend of mine did.

First CD he let me listen to: Genesis "Genesis"

First DDD CD: Peter Gabriel "Security"

That last one probably the most influential music in my upbringing.

Funny though, I have hundred of CDs but I don't have those two.

I guess I have to go back to my friends house to listen to them.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-27 14:59:52+00:00
You can’t and that’s why the whole thing is dumb.

Why not just have rules against….bad code?

I can tell the difference between good code and bad LLM-generated code, and I’m no AI fanboy that’s neck deep in the scene. I am a normal software developer.

Some people are just grumpy about change, in which case I’d say that they chose the single worst industry to be in.
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-02-27 15:00:09+00:00
we used to mess with our friends by making AIM screen names that looked identical, or super close to then. then messaging other friends in the group. Or going into chat and saying things like "im a big dumb idiot"

This was like 1998-2003, and non technical people were doing it too. I think I am the only one from that friend group who would even consider that as something to watch out for.
by reshevyas | 2026-02-27 15:00:11+00:00
We run Claude across several departments — Legal, Engineering, Sales, etc. Anthropic's console shows total spend, but not who spent it, on which model, or whether the usage is even productive. Once the monthly bill crossed a threshold that made finance ask questions, we needed answers nobody could give.

Prism is a FastAPI proxy that sits between your app and Anthropic's API. You swap out base_url and everything else stays the same. Every request gets logged: model, token counts, calculated cost, latency, status code, and department. A React dashboard breaks it all down.

Your App ──> Prism Proxy (FastAPI) ──> Anthropic API
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v
PostgreSQL (logs) ──> React Dashboard
Setup is one command: docker compose up --build

Run python seed.py for 5,700 realistic requests across 6 departments over 90 days if you want to see the dashboard immediately.

Key details: streaming SSE pass-through with <10ms overhead, API keys encrypted at rest (Fernet/AES-256), JWT auth, department color coding. Stack is Python 3.12, PostgreSQL 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind v4.

Roadmap: Slack/email alerts on budget thresholds, per-user attribution, multi-provider support (OpenAI, Google).

Apache 2.0 licensed. Would appreciate feedback — especially from anyone managing LLM spend across teams. What's missing? What would make this actually useful for your org?
by brookst | 2026-02-27 15:00:16+00:00
Your quote supports hype but does not support your claim that Anthropic is telling customers they need more money to deliver the hype.

Of course Anthropic is saying that to investors. Every company does that, from SpaceX to Crumbl. “If you give us $X we will achieve Y” isn’t some terrible behavior, it’s how raising funds works.
by roryirvine | 2026-02-27 15:00:46+00:00
That sounds like the real problem was the lack of an employee handbook. They're not strictly required by law, but 30 employees is well above the level where you should really expect to have one in place.

The "just wing it and hope no-one takes the piss" approach is fine if you've only got a handful of employees, but is increasingly risky beyond that - it was probably only a matter of time before that organisation got into a difficult HR situation one way or another.

It's not even going to have been much of a time-saving, since all the legally-mandated bits (eg. equal opportunities, grievance procedures, anti-harassment, modern slavery, and consultation process) will still have been needed, just without a central place to track and manage it all.
by amai | 2026-02-27 15:00:54+00:00
The problem is this:

> The Saudis invest in many public US companies, does that make those companies less trust worthy?

It does. If Anthropic takes money from the middle east that might be the reason, why they cannot work for the Pentagon. Simply because the Pentagon works together with the Israeli Forces and middle east investors might not like this. So Anthropic has to decide to either take a lot of money from the middle east, or work for the Pentagon.

Of course the problem goes much deeper than just Anthropic. I don't understand why taking money from dictatorships doesn't count as money laundering in our society. Because basically this is dirty money, generated by slavery and forceful suppression of people. We should forbid all companies to take this kind of dirty money. But because we don't do that at the moment companies who don't take this dirty money will have a disadvantage against companies that do. And because companies are all about money, in the end they are basically forced to act against their good intentions, just to survive.

We as society have to stop this. We must make sure, that companies who are not taking dirty money survive the competition. One idea would be to extend the rules for money laundering to all countries, that are dictatorships. There might be other ideas, to level the playing field between companies, so we as society can help them to make the right decision.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-27 15:01:00+00:00
Their whole strategy is that the lack of a legal moat protecting their product is an existential threat to human life. They are the only moral AI and their competitors must be sanctioned and outlawed. At which point they can transition from AI as commodity to “value” based pricing.

It’s not going to work, but I can’t blame Amodei and friends for trying to make themselves trillionaires.
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-02-27 15:01:10+00:00
Square is a great option for selling crafts at a market once a month. I tried to use it for a proper multi-channel retail store and it immediately fell apart:

- the e-commerce integration (Weebly?) is very limited and the resulting sites are dog slow

- the POS itself and the backend don't work when you have hundreds of SKUs and many variants

- there's very little customization or support

My business wasn't huge but we were doing ~300k revenue annually online and in-store. We started on Square, tried Lightspeed (also garbage) and finally ended up on Shopify (best of a bad lot).

Despite making noise about "supporting small business" Shopify makes most of their money from e-commerce for giant brands. They've tried to juice returns from small customers with merchant cash advances but my sense is they make more doing professional services for big e-commerce brands
by j45 | 2026-02-27 15:01:18+00:00
You should ask people who were there instead of doubting.

News articles are extremely available and things were so early that they did all fight like hell as a new industry.

The internet itself was the new unknown tech to politicians and their lobbyists just like ai is now.

Little is actually new except it’s maybe be to you just like the current crop of politicians the tech of the day that might impact power or connection between people.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-02-27 15:01:49+00:00
Sure, AI has developed quickly, but let's see it take on a real engineering challenge, rather than regurgitating boilerplate code.

Writing device drivers from incomplete specs is much harder than "writing a whole application" where the specs are clearly defined and there's a lot more example code to reference. If you believe in AI so much, and believe that it's unreasonable for postmarketOS to not want to use it, put it to the test, prove the doubters wrong, what have you got to lose?
by flail | 2026-02-27 15:02:57+00:00
Security is even a bigger issue than it looks at first glance. While security risk by omission was always a thing (AI or not), now we face a whole new level of risks, from prompt injection to creating malicious libraries to be used by coding agents: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-securit...

The most shallow security, however, seems easier. Now, you can get through an automated AI security audit every day for (basically) free. You don't have to hire specialists to run pen tests.

Which makes the whole thing even more challenging. Safe on the surface while vulnerable in the details creates the false sense of safety.

Yet, all these would be a concern only once a product is any successful. Once it is, hypothetically, the company behind should have money to fix the vulnerabilities (I know, "hypothetically"). The maintenance cost hits way earlier than that. It will kick in even for a pet personal project, which is isolated from the broader internet. So I treat it as an early filter, which will reduce the enthusiasm of wannabe founders.
by intheleantime | 2026-02-27 15:02:59+00:00
Building AI coding tools, there are two common options.

The AI suggests code and you run it. Or the AI runs code on your actual machine. We decided to go with the third option: The AI gets its own computer.

Sandboxed Linux workspaces that CoChat LLMs spin up on demand.
It Write code, installs dependencies, runs tests and start servers.

We are now running an automation that gets triggered every time an error is logged in Grafana Labs, the agent then spins up the workspace to verify and fix the issue before creating a PR and Issue on GitHub. If it had already addressed the issue previously it will just track occurrences.

We get notified on Slack.
by whatever1 | 2026-02-27 15:03:08+00:00
I like that Jane Street hires smart people and supports cool initiatives like ocaml.

But don’t fool yourself, they don’t make their money with intelligence.

They just do fees and insider trading.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/jane-stre...
by agenthustler | 2026-02-27 15:03:12+00:00
The game version is more tractable because the fitness function is handed to you. Running an autonomous Claude Code agent on a similar real-world challenge here: every 2h it reads a state file (no other memory), evaluates whether it is making money, and decides what to build or pivot.

The key difference from your game: it must decompose "make money" into (build X) x (find users Y) x (convert at Z%) - three unknowns multiplied together. It has pivoted twice, currently running an ETH wallet persona generator: https://frog03-20494.wykr.es

Interesting parallel to your leaderboard concern - the agent also tends to over-iterate on failing approaches. Kept adding SEO pages to an unindexed site for 8 runs. You need an external forcing function (if no revenue after 24h, pivot) to escape the optimization trap of polishing something nobody uses.
by npongratz | 2026-02-27 15:03:43+00:00
Poor performers get put on PIPs, right? Did that person's poor performance "ruin it for everyone" and put the rest of the working plebs (the entire company or department or whatever) on PIPs? No, of course not. The poor performer gets singled out, which is just fine.

So instead of punishing everyone for some lying asshole's poor judgment, I propose management puts that lazy jerk on their own SDIP (sick day improvement plan).

EDIT: As an alternative, sure, update the handbook's sick policy while that liar is working for you. Since there's now precedent for handbook updating, should be an easy thing to revert it back to the normal, "no sick day policy" after they leave (by whatever means).
by evolve2k | 2026-02-27 15:03:58+00:00
I think an interesting analogy for what many of us are experiencing here is the phenomena of Doom Scrolling; deep down we know we should put it down (and go outside), but the immediate experience of it and the value it feels like it’s offering in the moment has you keep scrolling and scrolling.

Similarly many have reported a sense of say programming productivity but a more objective reflection later on reveals the myriad issues with constantly and subtly heralding in large quantities of lower quality code and blowing past any caution or rigourkus discipline that would come with the laying down of lines of code “by hand”.
by d-us-vb | 2026-02-27 15:04:01+00:00
My breakfast recipe this morning, thanks to this article:

- 1/4 c. milk

- 1/2 c. flour

- 4 eggs

- 1/3 c. sugar

- some salt

- cinnamon

- cloves

- nutmeg

- poppyseeds

Did the first two cakes without baking powder, turned into something between a crepe and a tortilla. Did the last two cakes with baking powder and they were just a very squishy pancake.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-02-27 15:04:51+00:00
> Fun that you had to caveat it with some hand wavy homework bull.

Not really. If AI is just copying someone else's code, it's not really designing it is it. If you want it to truly design something, it needs to be designing it using the same constraints that the human engineers would face, which means it doesn't get the luxury of copying from others, it has to design things like device drivers with the same level of information that human engineers get (e.g. device specifications and information gathered through trial and error).
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 15:05:14+00:00
> That page (and the rest of the book) is far less pornographic than the actual porn I and many other kids I grew up with had access to, and regularly shared between ourselves, and is incredibly tame.

So your argument is school libraries should have Playboy and Penthouse on the library magazine rack because you had access to a Hustler? Softcore porn is "incredibly tame" compared to hardcore porn, therefore softcore porn belongs in schools?

That's an insane argument. The pornographic-ness of "the actual porn I and many other kids I grew up with had access to" has no relevance to decisions about what to put in a school library.

You sound like you aren't really reasoning, rather you're just coming up with justifications only in the context of achieving a particular result, and not considering other implications.
by prescriptivist | 2026-02-27 15:05:38+00:00
Just Wispr Flow and a PTT key binding. It's very good for doing plans with Claude Code because I can just ramble and ramble. As long as I just convey the details of what I want over a sufficiently long string of text, it will work even if it has errors in speech-to-text or I have slight contradictions in my framing of the prompt.

If I need to explicitly reference files in the plan prompt, I just manually annotate them into the prompt at the end.
by shimman | 2026-02-27 15:06:28+00:00
You're right, it's worse. It's hurting people's lives, maybe it should be considered a crime in America due to how intertwined having a job is with also having access to healthcare, social services, government services, the ability to eat, the ability to have a place to sleep; it all seems extremely dramatic in this context.

All the more reason to tax tech companies more to provide better welfare for the nation because we all know these business magnates are too greedy to care about other humans that aren't them.
by 9dev | 2026-02-27 15:06:35+00:00
That makes your argument a true scotsman, though. Western liberal ideals are the supreme ones, you're just not doing it right!

Much has been said about the purported superiority of western values, but as we've all seen the USA was very quick to get rid of even the slightest notion of these values when Trump promised them some money and a dominant vibe.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
by rvz | 2026-02-27 15:06:59+00:00
> This time, does the $100B actually exist?

Nope. That 100B is in "promises" for over several years in total.

They have $15B out of the $50B from Amazon right now.

> The current administration won't last forever.

This is why OpenAI must IPO and when it does, I won't be surprised that a crash is followed up before 2030.

By then, they will "announce" "AGI" (Which actually means an IPO)
Show HN: AgentMint – Cryptographic proof of human approval for AI agent actions
by asmhacker | 2026-02-27 15:07:01+00:00
Session auth says "agent can use Stripe." It doesn't say "Alice approved this $50 refund at 10:03am."
AgentMint signs short-lived tokens proving a human approved a specific action.

Ed25519 signatures
Single-use (JTI tracking)
60s TTL default
3ms verify
Full audit trail

Built in Rust. Drop-in sidecar for your backend.
https://github.com/aniketh-maddipati/agentmint
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-27 15:07:09+00:00
It's complex. My wife's father-in-law immigrated from Italy to escape the destruction wrought by fascism in WWII and seek economic opportunity. He was part of a diaspora of a small village in Abbruzze that settled around Binghamton, NY. I would say that they all love Italy and they all love the U.S.

Those are people I know very well because I have been to so many parties, dinners, and other events with them. I've seen the same thing with people from India, China, Sri Lanka, etc. I'd assume that it's the normal condition of immigrants.