MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by corford | 2026-02-25 22:52:50+00:00
A huge chunk of those trillions come from European and other non-US sources. Capital controls (or triggering the EU anti-coercion legislation), a truly integrated EU capital market and a few failed USD treasury auctions could very rapidly re-direct those flows.

If https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IIPUSNETIQ starts reversing, you'll see a lot of US & EU tech re-pricing (and not in the US's favour). Europe's tech talent is excellent, it's the structural financing disadvantages (and loaded trade agreements, see: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-01...) that have historically held it back.
by tomxor | 2026-02-25 22:53:06+00:00
> I started making deliberate grammar and spelling mistakes in professional context.

I've also noticed an increase of this in myself and others, I used to edit a lot more before sending anything, but now it seems more authentic if you just hit send so it's more off the cuff with typos, broken sentences and all.

I'm sure an LLM could easily mimic this but it's not their default.
by rayiner | 2026-02-25 22:53:17+00:00
No, it’s not the same logic because there’s two different numbers: border crossings versus deportations. Nobody is saying the numbers are “cooked.” Just that you have to understand the methodology to compare Obama and Trump.

The LA Times article explains that the deportations number includes deportations of people who were caught shortly after illegal crossing. During Obama, there were a large number of border crossings. So anyone who got caught shortly after crossing was counted as a deportation. But border crossings dropped to nearly zero under Trump. That drives down the deportation numbers. The low hanging fruit is gone.
by washedup | 2026-02-25 22:53:25+00:00
I personally love Jane Street lore. I think there is a lot of value to this theory, but people saying BTC would be at $150,000 feels misguided, since there are a lot of complex stories developing across the global economy. A lot of the sell off since October is, not only due to these ETF mechanisms, but also a general liquidity crunch that also affected performance of traditional software companies as economic uncertainty grows. I am reading more about bitcoin as a "canary in coal mine" for global liquidity uncertainty, a lot of which is coming from the current US Admin around tariffs, data reporting methodologies, and other policies.
by MegaDeKay | 2026-02-25 22:53:30+00:00
The ability to pull in projected geometry as real geometry or construction geometry is in the release candidate for V1.1 that should be released reasonably soon. There's a lot of other cool features in V1.1 as well.

I treat FreeCAD as a rolling release, using the dev version on a decently complex model [0] and it has been a really good experience so far. Lots of useful features and fixees going in all the time.

[0] https://github.com/dekay/vpin-cabinet/
by dheera | 2026-02-25 22:54:07+00:00
> Some botocalypse is going to happen at some point.

Yeah the bots can duke it out. As long as my time is saved.

For me the main concern is, before I have a stash of millions of dollars saved up, my medical expenses need to be paid for by the system, because I can't afford surprise bills. Hopefully the bots can fight more on my side in the near future.

Hopefully in the far future when the botocalypse happens I'll have saved up enough that insurance evading payment of $5500 won't be an issue for me, and/or I'll be of retirement age, don't need job opportunities anymore, and can go live in a country with better healthcare.

Call me selfish, but I don't control the insurance/medical system, I don't have space to think about more than protecting myself from it.
by jonasn | 2026-02-25 22:54:31+00:00
Every GC algorithm in HotSpot is designed with a specific set of trade-offs in mind.

ZGC and G1 are fantastic engineering achievements for applications that require low latency and high responsiveness. However, if you are running a pure batch data pipeline where pause times simply don't matter, Parallel GC remains an incredibly powerful tool and probably the one I would pick for that scenario. By accepting the pauses, you get the benefit of zero concurrent overhead, dedicating 100% of the CPU to your application threads while they are running.
by petercooper | 2026-02-25 22:54:41+00:00
"large pothole" .. Oh sweet summer child, I can think of at least ten bigger than that in my small British town. It seems they're doing something in LA, even if asphalting over half the width of a road isn't ideal. Over here, we packing the potholes with loose material, only for it to all come out again within a few weeks. We've gone through several tyres (including one total blowout, cords and all) in the past couple of years, and pothole related callouts are up 18% in the past year apparently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddn0n3p2ppo
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-25 22:55:13+00:00
That's stretching the term to the breaking point, for me. Is there some evidence of systematic analysis of component parts? attempts to model elements of the problem? data gathering and data analysis? simulation? Intentional application of principles of physics or some other pure domain to a real world problem?

Artistic endeavors come from lots of places, not just people with an analytical mindset. Historically those two are seen as opposing tendencies, which I think is unfair, but it points to the importance of intuition and navigating perception and emotion for artists.
by soco | 2026-02-25 22:55:13+00:00
Probably here lies the entire chasm between the US and Europe. In Europe insulting people on the street is not considered acceptable, also spreading neonazi propaganda and everything - ACLU or not (btw ACLU is also an US thing). So the US will jump at the idea of containing someone who publishes threats and insults, while the European will, well, try to contain them. I'm an European and call that respect for your co citizens, something not understandable for the US. Maybe that's also why social-democracy is here so well established, because we believe in a community, while the US advocates the person against everybody else. Just thinking loud.
by _whiteCaps_ | 2026-02-25 22:55:36+00:00
Yes, sorry, I was in a rush and didn't explain enough. For our usage, the cabin isn't occupied during the winter, and can drop below 0*C occasionally. The solar system is turned off though, so we don't worry about it.

If you're permanently there, it shouldn't be a concern. Sounds like modern BMS can disable charging at low temperatures so maybe not a worry for you at all if you're buying new batteries.
by harrall | 2026-02-25 22:55:52+00:00
Not true.

California is doing a ton of things to create housing — just look at the many state bills that have passed in a span of 2-3 years: https://cayimby.org/legislation/?_filter_by_status=signed

Sure, some cities are resisting or having trouble but even the state is overriding them with state policies.

It’s just going to take time between passing bills, incentives lining up, and getting money for building homes. That’s also why the state has focused on ADUs too — because individuals can get through a whole decision process to develop housing quicker than a big developer can. ADUs have a lot of problems but the state knows this and is attacking the issue on both short and long term scales.

You don’t just steer the 4th largest economy in the world. It’s built like a steakhouse and steers like one.
by plst | 2026-02-25 22:56:14+00:00
> I'm arguing that a curation process that includes security review is likely to produce a more secure set of software

I actually totally agree! There is no external entity users can rely on to make sure apps they download are legitimate. I read the thread from root to this comment and I don't see it mentioned, so I'm not sure if you know this and are just arguing something else but...

There is actually nothing about testing or verifying apps themselves in the announcement made by Google. It's just about enforcing developer verification in some Google service and "registering the apps".

https://support.google.com/android-developer-console/answer/...
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-de...

> it's a false sense of security, but it's still more security

Well here I don't agree, I would much rather be aware of the dangers than think I'm safe when I'm actually not.
by analog31 | 2026-02-25 22:56:31+00:00
>>> The "deal" often being made with academia is "we'll give you a place to do research, and even fund your research, but you have to teach the next generation." This isn't a bad deal, and is the reason many scientists give up MUCH larger paychecks that they'd get from the private sector to be a professor. These people would rather do research than have a more directed engineering (or engineering research) role that the private sector would give them.

Teaching graduate students. Most undergraduate teaching is done by "adjuncts" who do not do research.

Salaries are a mixed bag. Scientists who want to continue doing research in the private sector also give up much larger paychecks. Many work in facilities that are barely nicer than sweatshops.

Disclosure: Adjunct for one semester, 30 years ago.
Show HN: I challenged an LLM to find a hidden problem in my telemetry data [video]
by rabidpraxis | 2026-02-25 22:56:36+00:00
I hid a performance bug in a Rails cart’s telemetry (no errors, global latency looked fine) and challenged an LLM to find it just by querying the data. It did, then built a dashboard + alert through an MCP server we built at Honeybadger.

I instrumented a tiny Rails shopping cart (5 lines). Insights auto-captures request/controller + ActiveRecord events, and I added two bits of business context: a session_id injected into every event so checkout activity correlates end-to-end, plus a single intent event that records region, cart_total, payment_gateway, and card_type.

The hidden issue: checkout is slow only for Braintree when card_type=MX and region=EU. No errors, uptime green, overall latency looks fine.

In the 6-min video I give the model a vague prompt (“EU customers report slow checkout”). It segments until it finds the outlier, infers abandonment as GET without POST per session_id, estimates impact (~$69 in the current slice, ~$1.2k over a week, rough), then creates a dashboard + alert via the MCP server.

Happy to discuss the MCP architecture, the query language, and what surprised me vs. fell flat.
by manacit | 2026-02-25 22:56:42+00:00
Grid-connected PV in Texas has grown between 33% and over 100% every year since 2008, which outpaces the growth of solar in the US in the same timeframe.

California's percentage of solar generation as a share of the entire solar generation in the USA has shrunk every year since 2016.

It's not been accurate to say that California is dragging the rest of the country with them for a long time when it comes to energy generation.
by rgbrgb | 2026-02-25 22:56:45+00:00
FWIW I just tried this to monitor / shepherd a PR while I was on the exercise bike and it was pretty seamless. Way easier than the tailscale/vibetunnel thing I got burnt out on last fall.

I was using the Claude app on my iPhone and claude code on a MacBook pro. PR is merged, still on the bike :)
by PeterWhittaker | 2026-02-25 22:56:59+00:00
Huh. Commented upon echo chambers and cults and was told "Request failed: fetch failed". Tried a private session as well, just in case my previous UBI comments had polluted things, but no love. Was it the length? FWIW, here's my comment....

A great many words surround what seem to me to be red herring arguments and arbitrary definitions and groupings, with the word cult appearing in the article precisely 8 times without any justification for the statement in the headline. Moreover, the sentence "We can pop an epistemic bubble simply by exposing its members to the information and arguments that they’ve missed" seems woefully naive: By the definition included in the article, traditional views re the roles of women or blacks in society would be epistemic bubbles and not echo chambers, and women's right were not advanced and slavery not eliminated through the bringing of facts, but through long, arduous moral struggles to convince at least a majority that women and blacks merited the same rights as men and whites.

But it liked my comment on UBI and potential cost reductions through elimination of fraud detection and mitigation, so obviously it does things well. 1/2 /s? :->
by wahern | 2026-02-25 22:57:07+00:00
Several years ago I put up an XMPP server (Prosody) to chat with some friends, and it's still going strong. Years ago we used to have a mailing-list to keep in touch, but that eventually went quiet. I had run an XMPP server ~10 years ago (ejabberd), but that was before mobile chat utterly displaced everything else, it never took hold among my friends, and I stopped using it when Google Talk stopped federating, cutting me off from most of the people I had been occassionally chatting with.

The modern chat experience is all about the clients, and the mobile clients in particular, especially push notification support and seamless setup, so direct comparisons with XMPP to Matrix, et al, kinda misses the point, IMO. Conversations is a really amazing Android client. Our one iPhone member is content with Modal (I use the desktop version sometimes, but it's clearly designed for the iPhone). A new member uses, I think, Gajim on Windows; they don't want the distraction of chatting on their phone.

I host a bunch of other services on OpenBSD, all using the integrated base daemons--httpd, OpenSMTPD, NSD, etc--that sandbox themselves. I was hesitant to run a daemon like Prosody that didn't integrate OpenBSD security features, so I wrote my own module that uses pledge and unveil to sandbox Prosody: https://github.com/wahern/prosody-openbsd Most Prosody users host on Linux, and many of them seem to use Docker containers, which presumably offers some isolation, but I can't really speak to it.

The only non-private, large group chat I've joined recently has been the Prosody support MUC. I'm not a chat power user, but it seems to work just as well as anything else. I've was content with ntalk and IRC back in the day, so I don't really get all the chat protocol bike shedding. I expect XMPP to outlast all the interest in Discord, Matrix, etc.
by close04 | 2026-02-25 22:57:09+00:00
If you want to establish a pattern or rule you’ll need way more than one example you can’t give.

Is Google’s search engine used just because they give money to those who do? Because they pay Apple and Mozilla.

And the last paragraph was obviously a diss at MS for costing a lot in support and having shitty security. Anyone with first hand experience with MS contracts doesn’t need the joke explained.
by ruszki | 2026-02-25 22:57:39+00:00
This was one of the most outrageous data grab in the past years. They replaced the completely working simple Mail app, which I used until that point, with this garbage, and I was just lucky that I paid attention, and I stopped for a sec what is that warning which tells you that they grab literally all of your emails.

Btw, just before that I found this page regarding Edge, and this is why I paid more attention to these things:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/microsoft-edge/priva...

That list is way too long for my taste, and it really indicated me that Windows became completely adversarial.
by cowthulhu | 2026-02-25 22:57:47+00:00
Matt Levine has a fairly reasonable take on this:
'[…] if you go to Jump Trading and Jane Street and say “hello, I have an unregulated poorly designed mechanism that could lead to $50 billion of market value collapsing overnight, would you like to trade with me,” they are going to say yes, but their eyes are going to light up, you know? If at Time 0 you give them an extremely gameable system that can produce billions of dollars of profit, at Time 10 your system is going to be a smoking wreckage and they are going to have billions of dollars of profit. That’s their whole job, you know? […] But as a heuristic, I mean, come on. Terra was like “hello we have a balloon full of money, here is a pin, dooooooon’t pop the balloon.” Guess what!'
by roysting | 2026-02-25 22:57:55+00:00
I am not sure if you meant to say what you said.

By many measures Europe is in fact pretending to be sovereign. I think it is what they are attempting to do at the moment, "stop pretending to be sovereign" and actually BE sovereign. At least that seems to be the claimed attempt.

If anyone is not sure why I would say that Europe is not sovereign, I will answer that question if you ask, but considering the current state of things and even just this discussion about data sovereignty and other related topics about using and deploying European technologies; I suspect most, if not all have a sense that Europe is in fact not sovereign... and that's without even pointing out huge elephants in the room like the 275 US military installations across Europe, and not even to touch on the fact that NATO is really just ** pulls curtain back ** SURPRISE! ... America, Europe Division.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-25 22:58:35+00:00
Gotta be honest, I have a hard time arguing for G1 over ZGC. It seems to me like any situation you'd want G1 you probably want ZGC instead. That default 200ms target latency is already pretty long. If you've made that tradeoff for G1 because you wanted lower latency, you probably are going to be happier with ZGC.

I also find that the parallel collector is often better than G1, particularly for small heaps. With modern CPUs, parallel is really fast. Those 200ms pauses are pretty easy to achieve if you have something like a 4gb heap and 4 cores.

The other benefit of the parallel collector is the off heap memory allocation is quiet low. It was a nasty surprise to us with G1 how much off heap memory was required (with java 11, I know that's gotten a lot better).
by praestigiare | 2026-02-25 22:59:51+00:00
People often have trouble with this saying, and that trouble often boils down to the difference between intent and purpose.

The people who create a system have some intent for it. The system may or may not effectively achieve that intent, may or may not outlive the initial conditions that surrounded its creation, and may or may not have side effects.

Purpose is something humans assign. It is sometimes linked to intent. A carpenter's hammer is intended to drive and pull nails, and that is often also its purpose. The purpose of the hammer I keep in my basement is breaking open walnuts.

The phrase is stating that the purpose we should assign to systems when judging them is their outcome, and not the intent behind them.
by DesaiAshu | 2026-02-25 23:00:04+00:00
Stanford has a $40 billion endowment for 8k undergrads. UCLA has a $10 billion endowment for 34k undergrads. Naturally, the class sizes will be much larger. The UC system does not put 100% of students at UC Berkeley and UCLA, they distribute it across several campuses and distance education and maintain a leveling system that helps promising research talent be in the room with experienced researchers

Despite rising costs, a college degree is still a positive lifetime investment for students (not to mention the positive externalities educated populations have on society at large). The bulk of US college students attend colleges who do not have the resources to build high-quality, industry relevant curriculum, train teachers to teach with modern pedagogy, and efficiently manage dorms, student affairs, and other administrative infrastructure

HYPSM choosing to share land, curriculum, expertise, and administrative infrastructure through network'd partnerships would lead to massive economies of scale and a broad reduction of educational costs. Another way to think about this - is one city of 1 million people more efficient to run per capita than 10 cities of 100k people? The answer is a resounding yes due to urban scaling. Colleges are effectively mini-cities

"I think that you fundamentally misunderstand the markers that make an in-person education higher quality" -> I founded an in-person college with regional accreditation that had a lot more 1:1 and small group teacher time than HYPSM and an average starting salary on par with CS grads from these schools. Our alumni have gone on to become YC founders and can be found at most top tech companies and startups

It is a choice to value exclusivity for exclusivity's sake (eg. withholding JSTOR data from students of colleges who can't afford those costs). The best institutions (eg. YC, Apple) care a lot more about what you can build than what school you got into at age 17
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-25 23:00:32+00:00
What??? Where did you get this idea?

Any guitarist in a 1940s big band would have a big hollowbody guitar and an amp. That combination is incredibly prone to feedback. Everyone worked to reduce feedback and avoid it. That's what I do with my hollowbody when I play with a big band. It's the first thing that happens when you turn up.

Hendrix did not "discover" feedback, and in fact he did not discover the musical uses of feedback - you can hear it in BB King records that predate Hendrix, where feedback makes his notes "sing."

What Hendrix did was turn feedback into an intentional musical creation that he treated as a melodic voice.
by jug | 2026-02-25 23:00:51+00:00
It already does? Even on our work computers which aren't exactly first to get the latest updates.

Personally, I think they should've kept Notepad as-is and reincarnated WordPad instead, rewriting it and giving it Markdown instead of RTF. It already had the formatting options that they're now giving Notepad.

The problem is that Markdown supports quite a bit, even tables, which lends to feature creep. It was already more sluggish without any of this due to moving to WinUI.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-25 23:00:59+00:00
Even without LLMs this was possible.

But with HN, I'd like to ask @dang and HN leadership to support deleting messages, or making them private (requiring an HN account to see your posts).

At first I thought of how this would impact employment. But then I thought about how ICE has been tapping reddit,facebook and other services to monitor dissenters. The whole orwellian concern is no longer theoretical. I personally fear physical violence from my government, as a result. But I will continue to criticize them, I just wish it wasn't so easy for them to retaliate.
by collenjk | 2026-02-25 23:01:28+00:00
Yeah the real problem is that hosted providers basically see everything about you over time. Each prompt alone might seem harmless, but the whole history adds up to a pretty detailed profile.

The way I'd think about it: run a local model for anything it can handle. Keep that stuff on your machine entirely. Then for the stuff that actually needs a more powerful model, don't just dump your whole context in — strip it down to just the specific thing you need answered, like "given X, what's Y" with no surrounding story. The hosted model just sees a decontextualized task, not what's actually going on.

You basically become your own privacy layer. More friction, but the provider never gets the full picture.
by pksebben | 2026-02-25 23:01:35+00:00
I think you've misunderstood the term 'petrodollar'. Petrodollars are the American currency in circulation abroad because we bought other people's oil (principally Saudi), not exported our own.

The 'export' that made the US powerful was finance and political manipulation - toppling socialist / populist leaders to install puppets and controlling economies by manipulating trade.

I think your original point kind of stands, though - we are seeing a decline and independence from our supply chain is going to be a deciding factor in 'who's the next top dog', but I think the decline is going to be a lot uglier than a simple "they have it now and we don't" - it's going to be all the thrashing about that an aggressive international power does when the grift no longer works.