MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-27 00:48:21+00:00
I think this is pretty spot on. It's already been mentioned a ton before how many of these "we're having layoffs to better utilize AI" stories are really just cover for axing lots of unprofitable projects that were birthed during the ZIRP/early pandemic era.

I think the additional wrinkle with AI is that it's having an impact, just not really in the way these execs are saying. Before ChatGPT, there was lots of speculative investment into SaaS-type products as companies looked for another hit. Now, though, I think there is a general sense that, except for AI, Internet tech (and lots of other tech) is fully mature. This huge amount of investment in "the next big tech" thing (again, ex-AI) is just over, and the transition happened pretty fast. Blockchain, NFTs, the metaverse, Alexa and other voice assistants, yada yada, were all ventures looking for something as big as, say, the rise of mobile, and they all failed and are getting killed basically simultaneously.

I think the scary thing going forward is that, over the past 25-30 years or so, tech provided a huge amount of the average wage growth, at least in the US. Even if AI doesn't result in huge employment reductions due to productivity gains, the number of high quality jobs in the AI space is just a lot smaller than, say, the overall Internet space. Lots of people have commented here how so many of these AI startups are just wrappers around the big models, and even previous hits are looking dicey now than the big model providers are pulling more stuff in house (and I say this as a previous Cursor subscriber who switched to Claude Code).

I'm curious what future batches of YCombinator will look like. Perhaps it's just a failure of my imagination, but it's really hard for me to think of a speculative tech startup that I think could be a big hit, and that's a huge change for me from, say, the 2005-2020 timeframe. Yeah, I can think of some AI ideas, but it's hard for me to think of things beyond "wrapper" projects on one hand and hugely capital intensive projects for training models on the other.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-27 00:48:28+00:00
> and it makes me want to throw my phone across the train (Where the internet often cuts out!).

Spotted the German lol

The general problem is that many people don't bother testing their apps outside of their office wifi with low latency, low jitter, low packet loss and high bandwidth. Something like persisting the state when the OOM/battery-save killer comes knocking onto some cloud endpoint? Perfectly fine on wifi... but on a mobile connection that might just be EDGE, cut entirely because the user is just getting a phone call and the carrier does not do VoLTE, or be of an absurd latency? Whoops. Process killer knocks a -9 and that's it, state be gone.

Side note: Anyone know of a way to prevent the iPhone hotspot from disassociating with a MacBook when the phone loses network connectivity? It's darn annoying, I counted having to reconnect twenty times on a train ride less than an hour.
Show HN: A lightweight, capture tool for Windows
by woodgh | 2026-02-27 00:49:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve always admired Xnapper on macOS for its ability to create beautiful, ready-to-share screenshots with nice backgrounds and padding. However, since there wasn’t a direct Windows equivalent that felt just as snappy and minimal, I decided to build my own.

Key Features:
Built with C++: Focus on performance and low resource overhead.

Ultra-lightweight: The entire app is a single 329KB executable.

No Installation Required: Completely portable; just download and run.

Clean UI/UX: Designed to make your screenshots look professional instantly.

Core Functionality: Includes essential features like smart cropping, customizable backgrounds, and adjustable padding.

I’m sharing this because I wanted a tool that does one thing well without the bloat of modern "electron-based" utilities.

I’d love to hear your feedback or any feature suggestions you might have!

Thank you!
by ajross | 2026-02-27 00:49:42+00:00
We already are. Check eBay at the component level, which is showing it quite clearly. Look for secondary/reclaimed/refurbished components to backfill the gaps too.

Also be aware that this stuff whipsaws, if OpenAI actually takes posession of that memory and decides they can't use it and dumps, we're going to see a crash. Likewise if they back out of the deals with the memory fabs (or fail and default). There's some scary volatility on the horizon.
by cthalupa | 2026-02-27 00:50:17+00:00
> The thing is CAD models look perfect.

No they don't. I am explicitly saying they often have the exact topology issues that are showcased here. They don't have some of the other issues - but a huge chunk of this article is about bad topology. I have imported hundreds of step files into CG software that have absolutely horrific topology, because one cares about producing real things and the other is about CG modeling.

> They are completely un-editable in that state however.

This is also untrue. I do plenty of hard surface modeling work on imported step files. Including the retopology I've talked about.

> You have to go back to the cad program to make edits to the original solid model.

If you need to modify it for production, yeah? But the whole use case here seems to be ecommerce website uses. In which case you can 100% take a cad file you've imported and modify it (if you managed to get a good topo out of it) for visual/aesthetic stuff.

(Some CAD software actually does a good job exporting - I have a moi3d license specifically because it has way better exports topology wise than solidworks or fusion. I build shit in solidworks and send it to moi before opening it in blender or houdini to do any render work)
by felixding | 2026-02-27 00:50:27+00:00
I can’t recommend another excellent free ebook by Zen of Palm enough.

It accurately describes the key differences between designing for desktop and mobile, which explains why PalmOS was so much easier to use than the various Windows-based mobile formats from Microsoft at the time. I even wrote a whole blog series about this book two decades ago (https://dingyu.me/blog/zen-of-palm-1).

I switched from a Dell Pocket PC to a Treo 650, and it was such a revelation. IMHO, this little phone is still one of the best in terms of simplicity, even today.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-27 00:50:59+00:00
> The message with AI from execs is that you have to go fast (rush!). Quality of work drops when you rush.

Sure, but otherwise, the competition will be first to market, and the exec may lose their bonus. So, the exec keeps their bonus, and when the tech debt collapses, the exec will either have departed long ago or will be let go with a golden parachute, and in the worst case an entire product line goes down the drain, if not the entire company.

The financialization and stonkmarketization of everything is killing our society.
by ildar | 2026-02-27 00:51:27+00:00
Update: SecurityScorecard just published numbers that make this worse than the original post suggested.

40,214 exposed instances. 63% vulnerable. 12,812 exploitable via RCE. Endor Labs dropped 6 new CVEs this week.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/researchers-40000...

Malwarebytes describes OpenClaw as "an over-eager intern with an adventurous nature, a long memory, and no real understanding of what should stay private."

The Dutch DPA has now formally warned organizations not to deploy OpenClaw on systems handling sensitive data.

The practical question remains: most people will run it anyway because it is useful. What runtime monitoring do you layer on top? Sandboxes help with blast radius but do not monitor credential access, skill behavior, or network egress within the sandbox.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-27 00:51:51+00:00
> who is lending the money for these leveraged buyout deals? They seem to leave the lenders holding the bag at some point when it all implodes. Do these deals really pay off often enough to be worth financing them?

For this deal, it is:

- ~$57b Debt financing: Bank of America, Citigroup, Apollo

- ~$46b Equity backing: Ellison's dad, RedBird Capital Partners

- Sovereign wealth funds on the equity side: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi
by zeristor | 2026-02-27 00:52:01+00:00
On the Underground there were two carriages for smokers, they were usually a bit more empty, and they were browned with tar on the walls and ceiling.

The ban on smoking on the Underground was after the second tube station fire when they realised it might be dangerous, there was also a football stadium that caught fire around the same time too.

The root cause seem to be a build up of rubbish, along with a cigarette but starting it.

So many tragedies in the mid-eighties UK.
by winstonwinston | 2026-02-27 00:52:18+00:00
Yes, though do all of these wifi devices actually have a formal assurance (as in written specification) of network L2/L3 isolation between virtual APs?

I have some of those wifi APs that do not even provide any sort of isolation besides just implementing multiple SSID on the same wifi radio aka Guest SSID. No guarantee, no isolation.
by dongekon | 2026-02-27 00:52:28+00:00
Hi, I'm the author. I built this because I use Claude Code across ~10 projects and had no idea what I'd been
allowing over time.

Claude Code saves every approved permission (Bash commands, MCP tools, etc.) in .claude/settings.json per project.
They accumulate silently across global, shared, and local settings — all merged at runtime.

ccperm scans ~, finds all these files, and shows them in a TUI with risk classification. You can also delete or
promote permissions to global directly.

npx ccperm

Zero deps, Node 18+, MIT licensed. Feedback welcome.
by nickjj | 2026-02-27 00:52:29+00:00
Did it happen to them in the last few days? Did it self fix itself?

I wish there were better options for phones. It's absolutely crazy to me that a phone can be perfectly working one day and then it starts getting issues like this out of the blue.

It makes it completely undependable. All I want is a phone I can trust traveling with where I'm not going to wake up the next day and then the phone starts draining 3-4x faster than it normally does.

There hasn't even been a system update for almost 3 weeks, so it wasn't an update that busted things.
by testrun | 2026-02-27 00:52:32+00:00
I think the most important is number 2. People are now looking for things that are made by humans. Most detest AI slop. And if they find out that you are peddling slop, you lost trust.

It seems to me that we will go through the same phases that chess went through when chess on computers became a thing. First, people thought that this will kill chess, then people start using it as a tool to play better chess. Now, chess is thriving, despite AI being used in chess. I can see a similar path with art. Using AI to generate ideas, still create art by humans.
by xenadu02 | 2026-02-27 00:52:44+00:00
> The IDC article says that DRAM prices are not expected to come down again

Sure thing. I'd take a look at IDC & similar firms' forecasting history before worrying too much about what they say.

There is an AI boom right now. There will be a consolidation cycle at some point. When that happens half the players, if not more, will disappear. The huge hardware budgets will go with them.

We also can't be certain that the DRAM makers aren't capitalizing on this opportunity because they can. Remember: all of them are convicted monopolists. As in actual prison time convicted. And fined. And lost civil lawsuits. Multiple times.

I just can't see AI paying enough of a premium on HBM to justify the DRAM spikes. Frankly I can't see the volume either. Wafer starts on DRAM are dramatically bigger than you are probably imagining. DRAM is in practically everything these days. AI servers is but a drop in the bucket. 10% of the market? Yeah right, if its 4% I'd be shocked. And you are telling me a shift of 4% of wafers to HBM is driving these prices and shortages?

I humbly suggest if you look at the numbers something smells funny.

Disclaimer: none of us has access to the actual data, a lot of it is inferred by industry players. Some are well connected and usually accurate but that is not evidence. Therefore it is possible this is a genuine market action and nothing nefarious is going on.
by cgio | 2026-02-27 00:53:25+00:00
I think we fall into the trap of seeing art from a consumption point of view. “Of what use is a human vs AI piece of art to Me?” Art is residing in the productive space too, the artist is considering not his/her utility but his/her presence in the world. Maybe what you describe is the way forward for art monetisation but not for art, and we know experientially how the production of real art is not always in tandem with its appreciation.
by quietbritishjim | 2026-02-27 00:54:07+00:00
Those aren't contradictory at all. If I need a particular type of bolt for my fighter jet but I can only get it from a dodgy Chinese company, then that bolt is a supply chain risk (because they could introduce deliberate defects or simply stop producing it) and also clearly important to national security. In fact, it's a supply chain risk because is important to national security.
by ildar | 2026-02-27 00:54:53+00:00
The OAuth token replay discussion here highlights a broader problem with the OpenClaw ecosystem: there is no standardized trust model between agents and the services they access.

When people grab OAuth tokens for replay in OpenClaw, they are essentially doing at the user level what malicious skills do at the agent level — bypassing intended access controls because the system has no way to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate use.

This is the same pattern showing up everywhere:
- 312,000 instances on Shodan with no auth (CyberSecurityNews)
- 40,000+ exposed instances (SecurityScorecard this week)
- 824+ malicious skills in ClawHub
- Infostealers now grabbing entire agent identities (Hudson Rock)

The common thread: agents operate with broad, undifferentiated access. No permission tiers, no credential isolation, no audit trail.

Until the ecosystem adds proper trust layers at both the platform level (what Google is clumsily trying to do here) and the host level (monitoring what agents actually do with their access), this cat-and-mouse will continue.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-27 00:55:18+00:00
CoMaps is by far one of the best offline navigation map app available.

They forked from Organic Maps project which seems to have gone evil.

CoMaps calculation is very fast, map update is constant, it is very lightweight, it has a very clean layout, usability is top tier.
CoMaps can find places by the business name, there is still room for improvement but it works.

I was using EarthMagic before that, it was the perfect 10/10 opensource app until they went greedy, and the app now has tons of problems.

I went back to Sygic which is an awesome offline map app, I have a lifetime Premium licensing and as expected, now there is a Premium Plus license which some features were moved to like TTS and limited map update.

CoMaps also works really well with Android Auto and I am running GrapheneOS, it was actually somebody within GOS who recommended it to me.

CoMaps also display trains line, buses stops, public toilets, even motorcycle parking.
If you are tired of dramas, give CoMaps a go.

CoMaps is available via Codeberg opensource alternative to GitHub and they are pretty active towards reporting issues.
by 650 | 2026-02-27 00:55:33+00:00
This is akin to the is-ought fallacy. Just because a company had layoffs and cited AI, doesn't mean other companies should follow suit or that it will happen. As others have noted in the comments, BTC dropped heavily which Block was invested in, and a lot of their bets went south. Block managers complained at times about certain people not working privately. They also acquired a few companies at peak valuations post COVID.
by lanfeust6 | 2026-02-27 00:55:51+00:00
This doesn't make much sense. Since the late 19th century, every country that got rich also heavily polluted the environment, though increasingly less over time. As it stands, fossil fuel demand in China has plateaued. The "wage suppression" thing also doesn't track; their citizens got much, much richer since Nixon's visit, despite being on average poorer than Westerners. Their GDP per capita is low because there's like a billion of them in the country.

The only thing to say is that it's still authoritarian. Once that gets a hold of a country, it's very difficult to shed off. Interestingly, both South Korea and Singapore shifted away from being dictatorships and were not ideologically socialist. Countries taken over by Communists remain authoritarian. The true believers will never give that up.
by cthalupa | 2026-02-27 00:56:19+00:00
If Democrats actually knew how to message on what they accomplished instead of letting the other side control the narrative and refocus everything on to fringe issues that only the fringe of the party cares about, as well as matching every Biden brain fart/stutter/"senior moment" with the equivalents from Trump, I suspect a Biden vs. Trump rematch would have been a Biden victory.

But they suck at that. And when they failed to convince Biden to drop out early, they should have stuck with him and just ran hard on actual accomplishments during the admin. But Harris was a last minute pivot and it showed. I think she would have been perfectly fine as a president, and I voted for her, but not surprised in the slightest that she lost - and I expected her to lose bigger than she did.

The fact that Trump couldn't even get half the popular vote when running against a last minute ticket change that was never selected to be the presidential candidate by the party she was representing is a pretty big indictment of how unpopular he really is.

I think there's been learning that you can't just be "not Trump", but yeah - I don't know that the party in general has any idea how to handle messaging and narratives.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-27 00:56:51+00:00
> Be honest, who had "Sam Altman kills Apple Computer" on their 2025/6 Bingo card?

Not the person Sam Altman specifically, but AI in general. It was obvious even in 2024 that braindead beancounters were jumping on the hype train, so much so that coal power plants were kept alive to satiate the power hunger [1]. The last time that shit happened, it was the coin craze [2], but unlike cryptocurrencies there was and is an actual product being made...

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/ai_datacenters_coal/

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...
by Davidzheng | 2026-02-27 00:57:19+00:00
Neither of these things are useful signals. Other labs surely trained on similar material (presumably not even buying hard copies). Also how "bothered" someone is about their predictions is a bad indicator -- the prediction, taken at face value, is supposed to be trying to ask people to prepare for what he cannot stop if he wanted to.

None of this means I am a huge fan of Dario - I think he has over-idealization of the implementation of democratic ideals in western countries and is unhealthily obsessed with US "winning" over China based on this. But I don't like the reasons you listed.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-27 00:57:31+00:00
I'd say that personality-wise, you probably don't know Jobs well enough to serve as a character witness. I'm not aware of any recorded interview where he explains how far he'd go to defend his business from unfair government treatment. He never saw a preview of the 2016 election or cast a ballot in the vote. He didn't live the interceding years leading up to the election, or form an opinion on the politics dominating the polls.

I think Jobs would have been blindsided by Trump just as much as we all were. On a personal level I can believe that he's offended just like Cook is. But neither Cook nor Jobs' conscience has really ever stopped them from making a profitable business decision that they can take credit for. Even if it means building a meaningless gold trophy or somesuch, to appease the ego in charge.
by kyriakos | 2026-02-27 00:57:56+00:00
Reading comments here looks like most of the commenters didn't read past the title.

This is not the same as a privacy screen protector. The screen hardware itself can dynamically protect parts of the screen on demand down to pixel level, the OS can then dim only the app or notifications you want dimmed. There is no screen degrading for parts that are not in privacy mode.
Add pre-flight credit check before PR creation on coverage dashboard
by nishiohiroshi | 2026-02-27 00:58:13+00:00
A user with $0 balance created two PRs from our dashboard before getting blocked by the backend credit check. The PRs already existed on GitHub by then. Now the website checks credits upfront - if you can't afford it, you see a modal with your balance and a link to buy credits. No wasted PRs.
by kalleboo | 2026-02-27 00:59:20+00:00
Even system apps like Photos have completely given up on state restore. I'm deep in an album comparing a photo to something on the web? Sorry, Safari needs all that RAM, Photos all is kicked out, and Photos can't possibly remember you were inside an album (despite, you know, all the APIs Apple specifically has to manage this [0]). They USED to care about these things and made it seamless enough that you weren't supposed to know that the the app was killed in the background, but they just don't seem to care anymore

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/SwiftUI/restoring-...
by furyofantares | 2026-02-27 00:59:32+00:00
I don't think it's addressed to Hegseth, but to anyone who might be sympathetic to Hegseth. Which I think actually strengthens your point, the goal appears to be to make it so the only possible complaint with the letter for someone sympathetic to the administration is "but mass domestic surveillance / fully autonomous weapons are legal" and not "look at this lunatic leftist who calls it the department of defense".
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-27 00:59:36+00:00
The ACLU raised a mighty ruckus about the methods being used by previous administrations. Nobody else cared.

This is political theatre.

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrol-wa...

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/speed-over-fairn...

https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/immigration-policy-o...

There are many more articles. The prior administrations deported more people and introduced new tactics and precedents used to this day.
by cthalupa | 2026-02-27 00:59:39+00:00
I'm a Texan so I'm following this pretty closely. I slightly prefer Crockett to Talarico, but I voted for him in the primary because I think he's got a significantly better shot to win.

Texas is going to need moderate and centrist votes to swing blue - we're not making the state more liberal at a rate that is gonna hand either of them a victory. Both are actually fairly progressive. But Talarico is a lot better at selling those progressive values to everyday people. The hispanic vote is one of the biggest factors in Texas, and while they're obviously not a monolith, culturally a lot of them have much more mixed social values than other voting demographics. Statistically, way more likely to be heavily religious, and that's at odds with a lot of the social values from more progressive candidates. Talarico effortlessly refrains these issues in a way that aligns with stuff he can directly quote scripture on.

I'm an atheist so I don't care what scripture says on the matter, but it's the sort of thing that plays well with a lot of a key voting demographic that Crockett just can't do.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-27 00:59:57+00:00
You said al Shifa isn't operational. I proved it is. Now you're trying to redefine "operational" to mean "yes, you can get treatment at the hospital but it's not working well." That's a major switcheroo.

I stand by my claim that Israel has not bombed any hospital buildings. If you think this is false, find me a hospital building that Israel has bombed, tell me when it's been bombed, the munition used, etc.