MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-22 10:19:59+00:00
EV depreciation is a very different beast. Basically, EVs are still being sold at a higher price point than their actual cost justifies in some markets. Part of that is manufacturers being a bit behind on their cost cutting and part of that is just because the market is incentivizing selling vehicles at inflated prices.

If you strip that away, you get to more reasonable price points already getting common all over Asia, Australia, and even the EU market right now. There you might find reasonably priced new vehicles at around 25K euros or even below 20K. A few years ago, those vehicles didn't exist and ASPs were closer to 40-50K for a cheap one. So, the second hand value of those older vehicles has indeed depreciated enormously. Because they simply are not worth as much relative to the much cheaper newer generation of cars. These vehicles got obsoleted by a better and cheaper generation of cars.

With hydrogen cars, companies sell them at a loss. They always have. That's why Toyota, the biggest proponent, sells more EVs than they ever built hydrogen cars. Pretty much every quarter now.

The better/cheaper generation of hydrogen cars never materialized. And it probably never will. The hydrogen distribution network never happened either. Because as it turns out, making hydrogen is really expensive. So aside from a few heavily subsidized filling stations, the economics for those is so terrible that they tend to shut down as soon as the subsidies run out. So, that's why they are relatively worthless as a second hand car. You are better off buying a second hand EV. And since those have depreciated a lot, hydrogen cars simply aren't worth more second hand.

And since there is no realistic prospect of ever producing hydrogen cars or hydrogen at price points that can match those of EVs and electricity, hydrogen based transport is at this point dead as a door nail.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-22 10:20:38+00:00
> Since it'll encourage Open weighs models

Is this accurate? I don't know enough about hardware, but perhaps someone could clarify: how hard would it be to reverse engineer this to "leak" the model weights? Is it even possible?

There are some labs that sell access to their models (mistral, cohere, etc) without having their models open. I could see a world where more companies can do this if this turns out to be a viable way. Even to end customers, if reverse engineering is deemed impossible. You could have a device that does most of the inference locally and only "call home" when stumped (think alexa with local processing for intent detection and cloud processing for the rest, but better).
by lioeters | 2026-02-22 10:21:46+00:00
> If you compare Clojure (77.91%) to C# (58.4%), it seems the average C# developer writes 20% more redundant code every single day just to satisfy the compiler. Even with tools like resharper and LLM’s to help thats not a insignificant amount of effort.

Code density or "dryness" is an interesting metric to consider, where too much density may result in a codebase that's hard to read. It may be influenced by personal preference too, or language design goal. Surprising how Go and Rust ended up with similar numbers.

Would be curious to see more languages included, I imagine K and some esoteric languages rank even higher on density.
by southerntofu | 2026-02-22 10:21:49+00:00
> This is precisely why there are multiple protocols out there and bridges between them.

Yes, that's great! What's not great is Bluesky attempting a hostile takeover on federated and decentralized social networks. It's been advertised from day 1 as an alternative to centralized silos and it's a lie. [0]

To be fair, projects like Blacksky try to decentralize it (except the identity server, as it's impossible??), and there's now a vibrant developer community around ATProto. That doesn't make the centralization and false marketing claims any less problematic.

Develop the protocol you want. Don't lure my friends into it by pretending it's something that it's not.

[0] https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
by yellowapple | 2026-02-22 10:22:33+00:00
The additional value in Collapse OS is that — as the hardware capable of running even Dusk OS (let alone a more complicated 32+-bit operating system) continues to break down and dwindle in supply — you still have an option such that you can reasonably-comfortably use those more constrained systems for simple tasks and free up the complicated hardware for complicated tasks. You don't need a multicore 64-bit CPU to keep a typical water system running; an 8-bit microcontroller is typically enough, and having a software stack already ready to go (including an ease of adapting to whatever specific hardware might be wired to that microcontroller's pins) is a pretty big deal even long before the point where we're shooting each other over the last Z80s and PICs.
by baq | 2026-02-22 10:23:03+00:00
Goalposts wooshing by at maglev speed.

Of course it needs human supervision, see IBM 1979. Oversight however doesn’t mean the robots wait for approvals doing r&d and that’s where the magic is - the magic being robots overseeing their training and improvement of their harnesses.

IOW only the ethics and deployment decisions need to be gated by human decisions. The rest is just chugging along 1% a month, 1% a week, 1% a day…
by Thanemate | 2026-02-22 10:23:11+00:00
>Most people use ai to rewrite or clean up content

I think your sentence should have been "people who use ai do so to mostly rewrite or clean up content", but even then I'd question the statistical truth behind that claim.

Personally, seeing something written by AI means that the person who wrote it did so just for looks and not for substance. Claiming to be a great author requires both penmanship and communication skills, and delegating one or either of them to a large language model inherently makes you less than that.

However, when the point is just the contents of the paragraph(s) and nothing more then I don't care who or what wrote it. An example is the result of a research, because I'd certainly won't care about the prose or effort given to write the thesis but more on the results (is this about curing cancer now and forever? If yes, no one cares if it's written with AI).

With that being said, there's still that I get anywhere close to understanding the author behind the thoughts and opinions. I believe the way someone writes hints to the way they think and act. In that sense, using LLM's to rewrite something to make it sound more professional than what you would actually talk in appropriate contexts makes it hard for me to judge someone's character, professionalism, and mannerisms. Almost feels like they're trying to mask part of themselves. Perhaps they lack confidence in their ability to sound professional and convincing?
by richardjennings | 2026-02-22 10:24:06+00:00
This is similar to what I do. I instruct an Architect mode with a set of rules related to phased implementation and detailed code artifacts output to a report.md file. After a couple of rounds of review and usually some responses that either tie together behaviors across context, critique poor choices or correct assumptions, there is a piece of work defined for a coder LLM to perform. With the new Opus 4.6 I then select specialist agents to review the report.md, prompted with detailed insight into particular areas of the software. The feedback from these specialist agent reviews is often very good and sometimes catches things I had missed. Once all of this is done, I let the agent make the changes and move onto doing something else. I typically rename and commit the report.md files which can be useful as an alternative to git diff / commit messages etc.
by roryirvine | 2026-02-22 10:24:07+00:00
Yeah, there's a reason why it's a standard perk for tech employees - they're dirt cheap to insure.

I'm a bit older than you, and the taxable value of my PHI is £140/month. I've not looked into what that covers, or what the excess etc is, and have never even considered making use of it.

And why would I? When I needed treatment in a hurry, I was blue lighted to Barts and spent two weeks in their ITU getting world-class care free of charge, with not a single thought given to cost or having to call my insurer to ask permission for particular treatments or whatever. Thank fuck for the NHS!
Show HN: Monitor your team's Cursor AI spend before the invoice hits
by ofershap | 2026-02-22 10:24:51+00:00
My company has 100+ developers on Cursor. One of our devs switched to
opus-max thinking "fast" meant cheaper. It costs 35x more per request.
He burned $1,200 in a single day before anyone noticed.

That's when I built this. It connects to Cursor's Enterprise APIs and
gives you per-developer spend breakdown by model, three-layer anomaly
detection (thresholds, z-score, trend analysis), Slack/email alerts on
spend spikes, and incident tracking with MTTD/MTTI/MTTR.

We've saved our team ~$6K/month just by identifying devs running long
sessions with massive context caches and helping them start fresh chats.

Self-hosted, SQLite, Docker. Clone and run in 5 minutes. MIT licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/ofershap/cursor-usage-tracker

Demo (90s): https://youtube.com/watch?v=DqPjFWGI57A
by polotics | 2026-02-22 10:24:55+00:00
Decades of psychology study beg to differ:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48553218
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33734775/ https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/34/10/bhae414/782463...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decisio...

...also, open your eyes?
by ErneX | 2026-02-22 10:25:46+00:00
I’ll never forget the PS2 US launch. I visited the US for holidays and landed just the day before launch. I thought I was going to be able to get one unit the next day if I asked in a few shops if they knew they were going to have stock. After my sister took me to a few it was clear it was going to be next to impossible, some were going to get as few as a dozen of them and those were already reserved.

But in the last Best Buy we visited the person I asked about the launch told me the same as all the other stores we visited before but said “you really want one?” And he pulled out his wallet and started digging into a bunch of papers and gave me a receipt of his own PS2 reservation at another chain (I think it was Electronics Boutique?) and said “keep it, I don’t feel like getting it now I’ll just get one down the road”, he didn’t want any money for it, we insisted profusely, even though his reservation had like 15 dollars already paid. I was so lucky.

That other store was doing a midnight launch, they even had police in the parking lot keeping an eye. Picked up the console with Ridge Racer V, Tekken Tag Tournament, Kessen and a 2nd controller if I recall correctly.

Good times.
by palata | 2026-02-22 10:26:53+00:00
Nice article!

> To solve the distribution and isolation problem, Linux engineers built a set of kernel primitives (namespaces, cgroups, seccomp) and then, in a very Linux fashion, built an entire ecosystem of abstractions on top to “simplify” things: [...] Somehow we ended up with an overengineered mess of leaky abstractions

Not sure I like the value judgement here. I think it's more of a consequence of Linux' success. I am convinced that if it was reversed (Linux was niche and *BSD the norm), then a ton of abstractions would come, and the average user would "use an overengineered mess" because they don't know better (or don't care or don't have a need to care).

Not that I like it when people ship their binary in a 6G docker image. But I don't think it's fair to put that on "those Linux engineers".
by ginko | 2026-02-22 10:27:15+00:00
>In the end, the console wars of the late 1990s were won by Nintendo, which built on the momentum of the Nintendo 64 by launching the GameCube in 2001, along with an arsenal of handheld systems

Does the author live in a parallel universe where Sony didn't completely dominate gen 5 & gen 6 sales?

>The limited amount of storage on the cartridge means that the textures laid over the game’s polygons are blurry and often hideously ugly.

The cartridge storage wasn't the limiting factor here. The problem was the unified RDRAM memory architecture of the N64 which turned out to be too slow for texturing. Instead developers had to use a 4KiB bit of onboard memory which was just too little in hindsight.
by bambax | 2026-02-22 10:27:32+00:00
Agreed. The process described is much more elaborate than what I do but quite similar. I start to discuss in great details what I want to do, sometimes asking the same question to different LLMs. Then a todo list, then manual review of the code, esp. each function signature, checking if the instructions have been followed and if there are no obvious refactoring opportunities (there almost always are).

The LLM does most of the coding, yet I wouldn't call it "vibe coding" at all.

"Tele coding" would be more appropriate.
by replooda | 2026-02-22 10:27:38+00:00
You didn't specify branding, but I reckon its name is part of the "public API surface design," so: wouldn't `twitter-rs` be a more effective choice? If not for the fact that, despite Mr. Musk's names, people are far more likely to immediately associate `twitter` than `x` with the social network, but also because you'd be less likely to get bug reports for OpenXcom. [0]

[0] https://openxcom.org/
by southerntofu | 2026-02-22 10:28:23+00:00
I'm sorry you were not convinced. Of course a "file format" could be anything. I personally am convinced that a standard file format (filed for ISO) should have proper semantics that precisely escape assumptions about the application's internal state and framework.

That's why administrative interop formats are standardized XML files with a schema and not a random Oracle SQL export from any given entity with their custom database layout.
by quantum2022 | 2026-02-22 10:29:01+00:00
I built this using Claude. I am not a programmer. I also learned how to use GitHub from Claude so if I messed that up sorry :)
This is a calendar to help out my cousin who's a single mother raising two little girls alone. She has trouble balancing all their doctors appointments, dentist appointments, soccer practices, baseball practices, school events, etc.
It's supposed to be a calendar that's greyed out to anyone viewing except the owner. Anyone with the web address can update the calendar with whatever event it is. Only the owner (Kimble or if anyone else ever uses it them) would be able to see what the events were and the descriptions.
Basically, I was wondering if anyone could review this and see if it's really doing what it should be doing. Also, any ideas on how other people if they wanted to use it could get a free calendar website (or just have them use github for that?) would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time!
by yellowapple | 2026-02-22 10:29:12+00:00
> Because capitalism is what destroys the world. Fucking duh.

The issue is that “commercial” includes plenty of not-necessarily-capitalist entities as well, like sole proprietors and cooperatives (sole proprietors being single-member worker cooperatives).

Of course, a society in which worker cooperatives and individual craftspersons are the dominant forms of economic participation is probably (hopefully!) also a society which has done away with intellectual property and the enforcement thereof, rendering software license terms (including non-commercial use clauses) entirely moot.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-22 10:29:49+00:00
> Even if there are 10x more bad nodes than good nodes [...] the good nodes should still be able to find each other

What network, distributed or decentralized, can survive such an event? Most of the protocols break down once you hit some N% threshold of the network being bad nodes, asking it to survive 1000%+ bad nodes when others usually is something like "When at least half the nodes are good". Are there existing decentralized/distributed protocols that would survive a 1000% attack of bad nodes?
by usefulposter | 2026-02-22 10:29:50+00:00
You have to believe me this time!

The homogenization of your computing life to revolve around a chatbot in a loop———is all you need!

Give in! Hackernews NEEDS you to use the 1000th vibecoded clawmolt because the influencers said so! Who needs neural net or web framework experience when you have claws?
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-22 10:31:12+00:00
I have no doubts that it does for many people. But the time/cost tradeoff is still unquestionable. I know I could create what LLMs do for me in the frontend/backend in most cases as good or better - I know that, because I've done it at work for years. But to create a somewhat complex app with lots of pages/features/apis etc. would take me months if not a year++ since I'd be working on it only on the weekends for a few hours. Claude code helps me out by getting me to my goal in a fraction of the time. Its superpower lies not only in doign what I know but faster, but in doing what I don't know as well.

I yield similar benefits at work. I can wow management with LLM assited/vibe coded apps. What previously would've taken a multi-man team weeks of planning and executing, stand ups, jour fixes, architecture diagrams, etc. can now be done within a single week by myself. For the type of work I do, managers do not care whether I could do it better if I'd code it myself. They are amazed however that what has taken months previously, can be done in hours nowadays. And I for sure will try to reap benefits of LLMs for as long as they don't replace me rather than being idealistic and fighting against them.
by lifeisstillgood | 2026-02-22 10:33:42+00:00
I ran a whole company on top of FreeBSD back in the day (2005 ish). It was great, and ran all my personal pcs the same way (hell, refusing to install windows to try out this bitcoin idea is even now a good idea).

But somehow Linux still took over my personal and professional life.

Going back seems nice but there need to be a compelling reason -docker is fine, the costs don’t add up any more. I do t have a real logical argument beyond that.
by h4ch1 | 2026-02-22 10:33:53+00:00
This doomer attitude is something I have towards all software products these days, not just *claws.

People use dependencies willy-nilly, avoid proper auditing of LLM output; all that have disastrous consequences as we've seen the past few years. NPM supply chain attacks, prompt injection causing data exfil, etc.

I am simply saying it's imperative to UNDERSTAND the platform before making it a core part of your life. If wanting proper understanding of vibe coded projects with dependency hell is Chicken Little doomerism, oh well.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-02-22 10:34:53+00:00
lisp-free emacs to me is like tomato-free ketchup? I mean, the main reason to use an editor with such arcane keybindings is the way you can live-edit the running editor?

So for me personally there's no demand. But still, if it scratches your personal itch, there are most probably others who would like that itch scratched. It might also because I rarely have to use windows these days and in linux there's not much 'setup' in using normal lispy emacs.

Also, for me , electron based editors have too much input latency.
by zamadatix | 2026-02-22 10:35:34+00:00
If a Walmart has ~100 people in it and wants to get rid of 4 shoplifters but really sucks at selecting them well then the likely result is 4 normal people are very upset while all of the shoplifters are still there.

In the same scenario, even if Walmart is right about who they ejected 75% of the time then they still have ~1 shoplifter remaining and ~1 very upset person.

Even in an ideal world where Walmart is right about ejection 100% of the time it doesn't mean they start receiving 0 new shoplifters either, it just means the number of people wrongly made upset is 0.

Discord's problem (on both ends) lies in lack of depth in investigating bans. It takes resources to review when someone shouldn't be banned and it takes resources to make sure you ban everybody. Putting too low of resources into banning just means that both sides of the scale manage to get tipped in the wring direction at the same time.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-22 10:35:52+00:00
Prior to the DMCA, copyright violations were a grey area. In most countries, in order to seek damages a company had to show users were selling copies or using IP for promotional purposes.

Now... people are using the same RIAA/DMCA laws to hijack youtube channel content from legitimate creators. The damage to publishers is done by the time it is sorted out.

As a business, it has always been better to go after distribution channels rather than squeezing customers. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2EdZvXwh0Y
by mike-cardwell | 2026-02-22 10:37:08+00:00
What's nice about AtomicMail.io? I just tested it with https://www.emailprivacytester.com and it leaked my IP and when I read the email. And I can't even find an option to turn off remote content loading, which has been a standard feature of email and webmail clients for privacy reasons for decades, and should be turned to off by default.
by PacificSpecific | 2026-02-22 10:37:19+00:00
If you wouldn't mind sharing more about this in the future I'd love to read about it.

I've been thinking about doing something like that myself because I'm one of those people who have tried countless apps but there's always a couple deal breakers that cause me to drop the app.

I figured trying to agentically develop a planner app with the exact feature set I need would be an interesting and fun experiment.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-22 10:37:30+00:00
Japan has a lot of potential for wind and geothermal power. And much of it isn't too bad for solar either.

The madness with hydrogen in Japan is that they produce most of it from imported LNG. If they'd solve domestic clean energy, they'd have no need for hydrogen in transport. EVs are a lot more efficient than hydrogen vehicles. So they'd need a lot less clean energy to power those.

Japan is slowly and belatedly figuring out that physics and economics just won't favor hydrogen, ever. The Mirai is an exercise in futility. It doesn't make any economic sense whatsoever. It never has. Toyota at this point is grudgingly producing more EVs per quarter than it ever produced hydrogen vehicles (in total). They only sell a few hundred per year at this point. The only reason they still make them at all is because they are being subsidized to do that.
by jcul | 2026-02-22 10:37:36+00:00
This struck me too, the fact that this task is so impossible.

Language changes in the time axis but also in the location and social axes. The best we can probably hope for is one snapshot in time.
However this is meant to be a blogger, journalist, writer etc., through time this may have been the expected style for writing of this sort.

Especially in medieval times, I understand it may have been impossible to understand people a few towns away as the dialect could change so dramatically.

Disclaimer, I'm no expert, but I find linguistics fascinating.

Still, I really enjoyed this and I commend the effort!
by defrost | 2026-02-22 10:37:50+00:00
> I didn't realize that a "green" carbon atom is different from a regular carbon atom.

Easy mistake to make, don't beat yourself up over it.

It's not the individual carbon atoms that carry the signature, it's the atoms in bulk that give the story ... eg: 6 x 10^23 carbon atoms

See: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7757245/
by alexrezvov | 2026-02-22 10:38:13+00:00
Thanks, this is useful!

I'm currently at the stage where my agentic dev loop is running and feedback is flowing, but I haven't reached true autonomy yet. I still have to control things with manual workarounds constantly. That's exactly why I'm curious about others' experiences.

The most interesting challenge to me is the transition path in practice: how do you get from the messy reality to that clean ideal picture when a team is already mid-project with their own ingrained habits and tooling preferences?