MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stratos123 | 2026-02-24 14:32:55+00:00
What data do you want to see published about water consumption? Here's Google's tiny tiny estimates[1], for example. AFAIK AI water usage has always been a made-up issue, spread by people who never realized before how much water is routinely spent by humanity.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measur...
by akramachamarei | 2026-02-24 14:33:25+00:00
Hyperbole, sure. When you used the word "slave", you didn't mean it. When you used the word "freedom" just now, that's not what you actually meant either, is it? You're probably talking about something like the capabilities model, not actually freedom.

You seem to think it's so unfair that people work, or they starve. I focus on your usage of words like "slavery" and "freedom" because I want to get at what you actually believe. You're implying there's a better way to run the world than to have "capitalism", which is to say, property is enforced, contracts are enforced, and people are allowed to trade consensually without (much) interference from men with badges and guns. But, like your loaded use of the term "slave", the lede has been left implicit; like "freedom" your alternative is left nebulous.

Or is your complaint hyperbole too? Should I not take it seriously? Sure, you might be correct in a limited sense, that an uncharitable reading of OP's comment is wrong. But based on history, I don't see how the average person is going to get a better Return for their Work with some other system which doesn't respect property, contracts, free exchange, and if so, at what cost.

Finally, you're dead wrong about most people in the world. Ever heard of the rise of the global middle class? Poverty is falling on a global scale. That's not because of charity.
by stared | 2026-02-24 14:33:25+00:00
Either I miss something, or is it yet another marketing approach by Stephen Wolfram? The post talks about "foundation tool", yet it offers an MCP to a proprietary app (out of miriads of such).

Sure, as any other tech, Mathematica may have its edges (I used it deeply 10-15 years ago, before I migrated to Python/Jupyter Notebook ecosystem). But in the grand scheme of things, it is yet another tech, and one that is losing rather than gaining traction.

Certainly not "a new kind of science".
by thunderfork | 2026-02-24 14:33:45+00:00
Depending on the transpiler and mode of operation, `var` is sometimes emitted.

For example, esbuild will emit var when targeting ESM, for performance and minification reasons. Because ESM has its own inherent scope barrier, this is fine, but it won't apply the same optimizations when targeting (e.g.) IIFE, because it's not fine in that context.

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/1301
by kube-system | 2026-02-24 14:33:50+00:00
None of those things you cited is “human vision or perception”

“Low visibility during weather events” is a small subset of this.

A ridiculously common example of the limitations of human vision is when people hit curbs parallel parking because of the inherent limitations of relying on depth perception to estimate the exact location of the vehicle when it cannot otherwise be directly seen. Go look in a parking lot and see how common curbed wheels are.

Also, NHTSA estimates that they don’t have any information for 60% of incidents, because they go unreported.
by jfengel | 2026-02-24 14:34:27+00:00
They case they're making is that the claim that they're doing it to remove violent criminals is a lie. They're sweeping up everybody, including some American citizens and others who are legally allowed to be here.

If it were a few individuals, it might be counted as a mistake. But it's not; it's clearly about xenophobia and authoritarianism.
by einr | 2026-02-24 14:34:41+00:00
I'm with you and the only solace in this dystopia is the fact that I increasingly feel like I just don't care. I don't really like using computers anymore. I liked them when they represented freedom and creativity.

So fine, exclude me from all your platforms, there's nothing there for me. It's all bad content from bad people (or increasingly: not even people) running on bad software. I'm not giving up my freedom to partake in that, I'd rather just stop using your shit.

(But I would very much like to be able to pay my bills and buy my train tickets, so I'll play your game and have a smartphone. Fine. You win this round.).
by gbuk2013 | 2026-02-24 14:34:48+00:00
Right, this is what they said in the customers notification email I got today:

“The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.”
by couentine | 2026-02-24 14:34:51+00:00
Most job boards aggregate from other aggregators. I wanted listings that go straight to the source.

JobScroller crawls 900+ company career pages daily using direct ATS integrations — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, Bamboo, and more. Every apply link points to the actual company, never a recruiter or middleman.

It's free for job seekers. No account needed to browse.

What's there right now:
- Search by title, company, location, tech stack, salary
- Personalized daily feed (requires account, also free)
- Kanban tracker for applications
- Resume keyword checker

Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Node.js crawler, Puppeteer

jobscroller.net

Happy to answer questions about how the crawler works or how I handle ATS differences across platforms.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-24 14:34:54+00:00
This is the hardest part because you can easily end up in a situation like you're describing, or having large portions of clients talking to a server just to have their writes rejected.

Further, this system (as described) scales best when writes are colocated (since it maximizes throughput via buffering). So even just by having a second writer you cut your throughput in ~half if one of them is basically dead.

If you split things up you can just do "merge manifests on conflict" since different writers would be writing to different files and the manifest is just an index, or you can do multiple manifests + compaction. DeltaLake does the latter, so you end up with a bunch of `0000.json`, `0001.json` and to reconstruct the full index you read all of them. You still have conflicts on allocating the json file but that's it, no wasted flushing. And then you can merge as you please. This all gets very complex at this stage I think, compaction becomes the "one writer only" bit, but you can serve reads and writes without compaction.

https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415560

Note that since this paper was published we have gotten S3 CAS.

Alternatively, I guess just do what Kafka does or something like that?
by TechnicalVault | 2026-02-24 14:35:13+00:00
The reason the test and actually knowing who is likely to develop the disease is useful is that we don't know enough about the early pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's. A lot of research has been focused on purging the plaques which form in the late stages of the disease and thus failed because these seem to be symptomatic rather than causative. The false positives are also very interesting from a research point of view because if someone is testing positive for the disease but it's not progressing this may give us a clue about how to control it.

The other slightly sad fact is that is also quite likely that any curative treatment will need to be started before you start to show symptoms, because the brain has already lost a lot of it's resilience by then.
by Aachen | 2026-02-24 14:35:17+00:00
My experience is that they somehow print quite modern code despite things like ES6 being too new to be standard knowledge even for me and I'm not even middle-aged yet

Maybe the last 10 years saw so much more modern code than the last cumulative 40+ years of coding and so modern code is statistically more likely to be output? Or maybe they assign higher weights to more recent commits/sources during training? Not sure but it seems to be good at picking this up. And you can always feed the info into its context window until then
by swaminarayan | 2026-02-24 14:35:40+00:00
I have used this https://github.com/hash-anu/sqllite-benchmark-kv/blob/main/t..., in which I called sqlite3_exec for only setting PRAGMA settings, for main operations I never used it. I have used prepared/bound/step/reset functions only. so the gap isn't
statement compilation overhead and the comparison is fair
by flexionU | 2026-02-24 14:35:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Lockrion, a deterministic on-chain issuance protocol on Solana.

An issuance is a standalone smart-contract instance with:

a fixed reward reserve

a time-locked deposit window

deterministic settlement rules

Users deposit a specified SPL token during the active window and later claim rewards after maturity. The reserve is pre-funded by the issuer, and settlement is fully enforced on-chain.

The contracts are complete and tested. Public issuances are not yet live — deployment is pending funding for initial reserve allocation.

In parallel, I implemented a symbolic on-chain support mark (FSM) with fixed supply (10M), no utility, no governance, and no financial rights — purely as an on-chain record of voluntary support.

I’m looking for feedback on:

deterministic settlement models

issuance-based structures vs traditional DeFi designs

potential real-world use cases

Site:
https://lockrion.com

Happy to answer technical questions.

support@lockrion.com
by lp4v4n | 2026-02-24 14:36:03+00:00
So code was apparently cheap, but in fact it was expensive because it was low quality.

Now with LLMs, code is cheap and it also has quality, therefore "quality code can be had in the cheap".

Do you really believe this is the case? Why don't companies fire all their developers if they can have an algorithm that can output cheap and quality code?
by bonsai_spool | 2026-02-24 14:36:14+00:00
> Definitely not the case, not in all regions, not even within the same country

Perhaps—but it's also possible that whoever was in the room with the patient declined STI testing (which I have seen, and which sometimes reflects lack of knowledge around extramarital affairs).

I'm just trying to make it clear that there are dozens of reversible/non-degenerative causes of dementia and there is no way that a fully-trained neurologist doesn't have these memorized.

It's like not knowing what a type system is as a programmer with a reputable degree—impossible.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-24 14:36:41+00:00
"For over two decades, Professor Toshitaka Suzuki dedicated his life to studying the Japanese tit — a small songbird native to Japan’s forests. Through years of careful observation and experiments, he discovered something incredible: these birds use grammar-like rules and combine sounds to form meaning, much like how humans use language."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmys2abx4co
by bigfishrunning | 2026-02-24 14:37:05+00:00
People give away their freedoms all the time. Most people are walking around with facebook and tiktok tracking their every move. they don't care.

Some linux users aren't going to stop this sort of thing from happening. If Chase Bank wants to only allow MacOS and Windows 11 computers to access their website, the 1% of their userbase that uses something else isn't going to move the needle, and 99% of their users won't care (or even notice).

If this was going to happen, it would have already happened. The pieces are all there already.
by fragmede | 2026-02-24 14:37:16+00:00
Then again, the number of shop teachers missing a finger would give anybody pause. Blame is secondary to the fact that you just lost your fucking finger. Thankfully, git's sharp edges won't permanently physically maim you, though guts sharp edges resulting in you committing API keys GitHub can still hurt you, just in your wallet but at least you didn't lose a finger.
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-24 14:37:19+00:00
Over 40 at least you are almost halfway. Definitely you can switch, if you are a half decent thinker, most things are possible; I am sure you can become an electrician and that, at least where I live, makes very good money. Plumbers you cannot find if you are keedeep in your own poop here. In my home country my old classmates (I have an electrician degree but became a software engineer) are making more than most programmers being electricians. Not sure what is wrong with someone who cannot flip burgers after 40.
Show HN: Awsim – Lightweight AWS emulator in Go (40 services in progress)
by sivchari | 2026-02-24 14:38:13+00:00
I built awsim, a lightweight AWS emulator in Go for CI/CD testing.

Core services (S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, IAM) implemented, 40+ services in progress.

- Single binary, no auth required
- Instant startup, in-memory storage
- Contributions welcome

Feedback welcome!
by hippo22 | 2026-02-24 14:38:30+00:00
You can’t predict a coin flip because it is random. However, we have an accurate understanding of the random process producing coin flips and therefore, we can make accurate predictions about large quantities of flips.

Weather may or may not be random. It could be entirely deterministic for all we know. However, we lack the ability to fully model all the factors that contribute to weather and therefore our predictions are inaccurate.

Now let’s consider long term climate predications. Do you think these predictions are more like coin flips, where we have an extremely accurate model of the process, or more like weather, where unknown unknowns have outsized impact on accuracy?

That’s not to say climate change isn’t real, but your analogy doesn’t make sense.
by throw10920 | 2026-02-24 14:38:52+00:00
> None of those things you cited is “human vision or perception”

> “Low visibility during weather events” is a small subset of this.

You're still refusing to do the most basic research or even read my comment:

> In 2023, the combined causes of alcohol, speeding, and distracted driving (all cognitive/attention issues) caused 67% of highway deaths.

Do the math. 100% - 67% is 33%. Even literally not opening Google, you can already deduce that the maximum fraction of fatalities caused by vision is 33%.

Given that you aren't interested in reading or researching and instead just want to push your opinion as fact, I think your claims can be safely discarded.

Edit: Because you're editing your comment because you realize that you're making an absolute fool of yourself:

> A ridiculously common example of the limitations of human vision is when people hit curbs parallel parking

A completely irrelevant distraction - this causes virtually zero accidents and even fewer fatalities, and you know it.

> Also, NHTSA estimates that they don’t have any information for 60% of incidents, because they go unreported.

Aha, so now you actually did research, and found that all of the available data supports my claims, so you're attempting to undermine it. Nice try. "Estimates" vs. actual numbers isn't really a contest.

Come back when you have actual data - until then, you're just continuing to undermine your own point with your ridiculous fallacies and misdirections - because if you actually had a defensible claim, you'd be able to instantly pull out supporting evidence.
by Macha | 2026-02-24 14:38:53+00:00
K-id is the vendor they were proposing which did on device processing. They were trying to downplay the initiative by saying all the k-id data stayed on device.

This was undermined by the fact they were also trialling a switch to Persona (the vendor in the story), which did not uphold that guarantee. It was horrific optics to be reassuring people that it was ok because you didn’t save data but also be trialling a switch to a vendor which did save data, which I guess is a lot of the reason this vendor switch was cancelled. (Though it does call into question discord’s judgment that they thought this was a good idea).

Anyway, Persona was also breached which is how the government links were discovered and also probably a part of this decision. This is not to be confused with the breach in November of 5CA, _another_ vendor they used in the initial UK and Australia roll outs. The fact that two vendors were breached in four months is a good example of why this is a bad idea
by pornel | 2026-02-24 14:38:55+00:00
I've been writing Rust since 0.x versions.

> C is their dad

You can write "C with classes" in the "C/C++/Rust" language, and have users of all three tell you you're doing it wrong. The commonalities between them are mostly necessities of systems programming, FFI, and LLVM-style optimizations, but they all try to get there in different ways.

> There are far more exotic languages out there. APL. Erlang. Forth

Early Rust started as an Erlang clone, with task supervision trees and all (panics, lock poisoning, and the defunct UnwindSafe trait are vestigial features from that experiment).

Rust has more in common with Ocaml than C or C++. It's not a C family language, it just took C-like syntax to avoid the stigma of being "exotic" like the languages that inspired it.

Rust did copy move semantics from C++, but even that ended up being different enough to be incompatible with basic C++ design patterns. Rust chose to have only trivially movable types and guarantee absence of move constructors, so it can't even safely pass a C++ std::string.
by theodric | 2026-02-24 14:39:12+00:00
The power imbalance is not in favor of the individual citizen. Fairly simple to enact a law saying "unlicenced importation of electronic devices is an offence", only license major retailers, and have Customs seize anything that doesn't come with the right paperwork attached (which they already do). Drugs are far easier to make than silicon chips, despite how clever people like Sam Zeloof may be.

To have a firearms permit here, I need a "Good Reason" - that's the language from the law verbatim. "I like guns" is not a Good Reason. In that vein, what would be your Good Reason for receiving an import license to bring in technology which is apparently widely used by radicals to defy duly-ratified legislation about communications visibility and enable the creation of side channels which break the law and can be used to proliferate CSAM, drugs, and terrorism? I'm sure any sane person would agree that those are bad things which need to be stopped. Perhaps you should take up a different hobby, like jogging.

And there we have it!
by orbital-decay | 2026-02-24 14:39:18+00:00
>The idea that the same consciousness algorithm can be run on a variety of different substrates makes no sense when the substrate in question—a brain—is continually being physically reconfigured by whatever information (or “algorithm of consciousness”) is run on it. Brains are simply not interchangeable, neither with computers nor with other brains.

This is kind of self-contradictory. Then humans aren't conscious? Or each has their own consciousness? Then why not the machine? Not sure what's the point being made here. Yes, the states of a human brain and a transformer are absolutely incompatible (humans at least share the common architecture), that's why any attempts to map model's "emotions" to humans' and the entire model welfare concept are pretty dubious. That doesn't prove there's no (or can never be) consciousness in that, though.

That's the most coherent argument from the entire article. It criticizes the Butlin report in particular and extrapolates that to "never", while ignoring modern takes on that (e.g. interpretability studies showing vague similarity of both on a level deeper than just the language) and any possible future evidence.

In a sense the title is right, nobody ever formally defined consciousness, so you and I and anyone else are free to make almost any argument and spin any narrative according to our beliefs and it will be true! Ill-defined terms and baseless solipsism are the main problems with all these discussions. Good thing that in practice they matter as much as the question whether a submarine swims.
by troad | 2026-02-24 14:39:19+00:00
Australia has two major parties that agree on absolutely everything, and a virtually non-existent civil society. No true free debate can take place in such circumstances. The Australian government loves falsely claiming a popular imprimatur for policies that have never been properly debated or put before the people.

The only reason we have any rights left is because the Australian government is - thankfully - comically incompetent.

"Australia is a lucky country" is a quote every Australian knows. Few know the full quote: "Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise." - Donald Horne.

I encourage all my teenage countrymen to connect to as many social services as they desire. Mullvad is a decent VPN and you can pay for it anonymously. Freedom of speech and freedom of association are your human rights. No government gets to take them away from you.
Show HN: StarkZap – Gasless Bitcoin Payments SDK for TypeScript
by starkience | 2026-02-24 14:39:29+00:00
StarkZap is an open-source TypeScript SDK for adding Bitcoin-backed asset transfers, balances, lending & borrowing and staking to web, mobile, or server apps.
The goal is to let developers integrate programmable Bitcoin assets without requiring users to install wallets, manage seed phrases, or hold gas tokens.
Under the hood it runs on Starknet and supports WBTC, tBTC, LBTC, SolvBTC, and other Bitcoin-backed ERC20 tokens.

```import { StarkZap, StarkSigner, Amount, fromAddress, getPresets } from "starkzap";

const sdk = new StarkZap({ network: "sepolia" });
const wallet = await sdk.connectWallet({
account: { signer: new StarkSigner("0xYOUR_PRIVATE_KEY") }
});

await wallet.ensureReady({ deploy: "if_needed" });

const { STRK } = getPresets(wallet.getChainId());
const balance = await wallet.balanceOf(STRK);

if (balance.gte(Amount.parse("10", STRK))) {
const tx = await wallet.transfer(STRK, [
{ to: fromAddress("0xRECIPIENT"), amount: Amount.parse("10", STRK) }
]);
await tx.wait();
console.log(tx.explorerUrl);
}
```

Key properties:
- Gas sponsorship via paymaster (users don’t need gas tokens)
- Multiple auth strategies (email/social via Privy, passkeys via Cartridge)
- Batch transfers and contract calls in a single atomic transaction
- Works in Node, browser, and React Native

The SDK abstracts account management, fee handling, and wallet popups. This won’t make sense for every app (e.g., if you only need fiat checkout). It’s for existing apps that want programmable onchain assets without the wallet UX.

Would appreciate feedback on the API design and whether this abstraction makes sense.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-24 14:39:48+00:00
That’s a solid endorsement, especially coming from someone with your background in RedHat and the older distros. It seems we agree that for the 'non-tech' family members or those just transitioning, Mint is the bridge that actually stays standing. The stability for IoT you mentioned is a great point too—often overlooked in favor of more 'exciting' but fragile setups.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-24 14:40:08+00:00
I don't see why you'd take it to such an extreme. All it would mean is that chatter on medium to large open media is largely fake. Not necessarily a bad thing since a significant minority of it already is, but many people don't realize. But you'd still have endless personal networks, friends from real life, and so on.

I think the general outcome is simply a devaluing of open online chatter as a whole, which I definitely don't see as a bad thing.