MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wheelinsupial | 2026-02-10 20:30:32+00:00
In my observation, there are a lot of unaccounted for and unintended issues that can arise from this.

Where I live, we are going through a lot of this right now (98+% of population growth is from immigration).

Immigrants have more kids than the non-immigrant population, but they do not actually have above replacement rate amounts of kids, so they are going to require more immigrants to take care of them later on. Also, the children of immigrants have non-immigrant level fertility rates. So, it's not a long term, sustainable way to "replace the aging population."

On top of this, immigrants often want to bring their elderly relatives with them when they are possible. I know there are some ways to try to mitigate this (e.g., immigration limits, charging them extra fees on immigration), but at some point there becomes a large enough immigrant voting bloc that this changes. Now you have extra, unaccounted for elderly people that are required to be looked after.

I have no idea what the solutions are, but if we are trying to plug the gap through immigration, it'll require perpetual immigration. Most countries globally are now at below replacement fertility rates, so this opens up a huge can of worms. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but it doesn't seem like anything other than a quick band-aid or a solution that's doing anything other than adding "debt" to the issue.
by nutjob2 | 2026-02-10 20:30:58+00:00
> The hype is real. Will we see drastically reduced operational costs the coming years or will it follow the same curve as we've seen in productivity since 1750?

There's a third possibility: slop driven productivity declines as people realize they took a wrong turn.

Which makes me wonder: what is the best 'huge AI bust' trade?
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-10 20:31:00+00:00
For whatever it's worth, it's my perception that even within the US there are many who come from a culture where it's expected for adults to settle down and raise a family at some point in their lives. That describes my background, and I would like to have kids myself.

I believe for many, the desire is there, but it's not so strong as to overcome the forces against it. It's a major life decision and can make the difference between relative financial stability and a decent retirement or struggling their whole lives and standing in a grocery store all day bagging groceries to keep a roof over their head in their 70s.
by spacemark | 2026-02-10 20:31:06+00:00
Lol. Speak for yourself, AI has not diminished my thinking in any material way and has indeed accelerated my ability to learn.

Anyone predicting the "end of humanity" is playing prophet and echoing the same nonsensical prophecies we heard with the invention of the printing press, radio, TV, internet, or a number of other step-change technologies.

There's a false premise built into the assertion that humanity can even end - it's not some static thing, it's constantly evolving and changing into something else.
by jmalicki | 2026-02-10 20:31:21+00:00
> A programmer might write a function, notice it becoming too long or doing too much, and then decide break it down into smaller subroutines. I've never seen an LLM really do this, they seem biased towards being additive.

The nice thing is a programmer with an LLM just steps in here, and course-corrects, and still has that value add, without taking all the time to write the boilerplate in between.

And in general, the cleaner your codebase the cleaner LLM modifications will be, it does pick up on coding style.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-10 20:31:21+00:00
>I started out with Debian

>There are still issues with driver and software compatibility but it is getting better in the recent years thanks to projects like Wine and Proton .

OP, stop using outdated linux. Debian is intentionally outdated. You will never have a good experience with drivers when you are always using 2 year old kernels and software. 99.9% of humans think the word 'Stable' means bug free, but that isnt what Debian means by it.

I recommend Fedora, which is not Arch, its just up-to-date linux.
by thatcat | 2026-02-10 20:31:25+00:00
They're selling side by sides today in the <3500 dry wt. category which can be road registered. If used primarily for agriculture, they're even tax exempt from registration in some states. The 80's toyota pickup is better than a side by side and weighs less than 3500, arguably safer, and offers better utility for agriculture. There are plenty of Toyota manufacturing facilities in the US, which would avoid the chicken tax on import. It's not impossible or unreasonable for light weight toyota turbo diesels with hydraulic systems, an aluminum frame, and manual locking hubs to materialize.
by shinycode | 2026-02-10 20:31:38+00:00
Because companies made models build/stolen from other people’s work, and this has massive layoff consequences, the paradigm is shifting, layoffs are massive and law makers are too slow.
Shouldn’t we shift the whole capitalist paradigm and just ask the companies to gives all their LLM work for free to the world as well ?
It’s just a circle, AI is build from human knowledge and should be given back to all people for free. No companies should have all this power. If nobody learns how to code because all code is generated, what would stop the gatekeepers of AI to up the prices x1000 and lock everyone out of building things at all because it’s too expensive and too slow to do by hand ?
It all should freely be made accessible to all humans for all humans to for ever be able to build things from it.
by jbeninger | 2026-02-10 20:31:43+00:00
I've been through a few cycles of using LLMs and my current usage does scratch the itch. It doesn't feel like I've lost anything. The trick is I'm still programming. I name classes and functions. I define the directory structure. I define the algorithms. By the time I'm prompting an LLM I'm describing how the code will look and it becomes a supercharged autocomplete.

When I go overboard and just tell it "now I want a form that does X", it ends up frustrating, low-quality, and takes as long to fix as if I'd just done it myself.

YMMV, but from what I've seen all the "ai made my whole app" hype isn't trustworthy and is written by people who don't actually know what problems have been introduced until it's too late. Traditional coding practices still reign supreme. We just have a free pair of extra eyes.
by segmenta | 2026-02-10 20:31:49+00:00
The graph building agent processes the raw files (like emails) in a batch. It gets two things: a lightweight index of the entire knowledge graph, and the raw source files for the current batch being processed.

Before each batch, we rebuild an index of all existing entities (people, orgs, projects, topics) including aliases and key metadata. That index plus the batch’s raw content goes into the prompt. The agent also has tool access to read full notes or search for entity mentions in existing knowledge if it needs more detail than what’s in the index.

It’s effectively multi-pass: we process in batches and rebuild the index between batches, so later batches see entities created earlier. That keeps context manageable while still letting the graph converge over time.
by taurath | 2026-02-10 20:32:06+00:00
> the state is usually a much more sloppy investor

I don’t find this to be true

The state invests in important things that have 2nd and 3rd order positive benefit but aren’t immediately profitable. Money in a food bank is a “lost” investment.

Alternatively the state plays power games and gets a little too attached to its military toys.
by davrosthedalek | 2026-02-10 20:32:22+00:00
The sun is not at the center of the solar system.
The intellectual leap was not to replace earth with the sun. Earth does not "revolve around the sun". The intellectual leap was to realize that the situation is somewhat symmetric -- they both attract each other, and they orbit around their center of gravity (which, yes, is in the sun. But not because the sun is the center.)

This sounds like a distinction without consequence, but I think that's wrong. The sun is not special. It just has a lot of mass. If somebody learns: The earth orbits the sun-- They don't understand how two black holes can orbit each other. If somebody learns: The sun and the earth orbit their CM -- They will be able to understand that.
by shell0x | 2026-02-10 20:32:59+00:00
They don’t execute your kid for smoking pot.

“Any Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident found to have abused drugs overseas will be treated as if he/she had abused drugs within Singapore. Consumption of a controlled drug is an offence and a person may face imprisonment of a minimum of 1 year and up to 10 years, or a fine not exceeding S$20,000 or both.”
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by randfish | 2026-02-10 20:33:02+00:00
Built this tool as a personal passion/side project last year along with a couple Seattle friends. It's now got 3K+ folks tracking their name/brand/interests for free and ~150 paying subs, too. Not quite breakeven yet, but close (though none of us are getting paid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). Suspect it might be useful/interesting to some of y'all.
by cvhc | 2026-02-10 20:33:10+00:00
I dunno. Maybe because I used to do research at a Chinese lab when I was a student? That was my impression when I was once questioned for many hours by DHS at the airport. It's impossible to get an answer. They are granted broad legal authority to screen foreign nationals.

No indictment. Nothing physical. But a lot of headaches like delays in visa/immigrant application :shrug:
by dmix | 2026-02-10 20:33:31+00:00
The OP article itself explains the history

> The core problem has always been fragmentation. Each EU country developed its own domestic payment solution — Bizum in Spain, iDEAL in the Netherlands, Payconiq in Belgium, Girocard in Germany — but none could work across borders. A Belgian consumer buying from a Dutch retailer still needed Visa or Mastercard. National pride and competing banking interests repeatedly sabotaged attempts at unification.

> The network effect compounds the challenge. Merchants accept Visa and Mastercard because consumers carry them. Consumers carry them because merchants accept them. Breaking that loop requires either regulatory force or a critical mass of users large enough to make merchants care — which is precisely what the EuroPA deal attempts to deliver by connecting existing national user bases rather than building from scratch.
by antisthenes | 2026-02-10 20:33:35+00:00
> It seems like all my single friends around 30 talk about how the dating pool is terrible

Let's call it out specifically - few women want to have kids. I'm using an app right now and for every 1 woman who has "wants kids" in their profile, there's probably 2-3 women who say they don't want kids or "aren't sure".

And these aren't young women either, the age range is roughly 29-35, so even on the older side of optimal age for having kids.

Regardless of what men want, if so few women want to have kids - fertility will drop like a rock.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-10 20:33:38+00:00
My job for the last 8 years has involved

Talking to sales to get an idea what the customer wanted from the business side (first B2B at a product company and now consulting) -> talking to the customer and hashing out more detailed requirements -> designing the architecture and a proposed technical plan -> presenting it to the stakeholder (sometime internal sometime external) -> doing the work or delegating and leading the work -> presenting the work to the stakeholder and leading the UAT -> getting it to production.

The coding part has been a commodity for enterprise developers for well over a decade. I knew a decade ago that I wasn’t going to be 50 years old reversing b trees on a whiteboard trying to prove my worth.

Doing the work is the only thing that the AI does.

While I don’t make the eye popping BigTech comp (been there. Done that and would rather get a daily anal probe than go back), I am making more than I could make if I were still selling myself as someone who “codez real gud” as sn enterprise dev.
by thewavesignal | 2026-02-10 20:34:12+00:00
It’s multi-source by design.

Structured team sub 30s check-ins available daily, real-time KPI feeds, company and project milestones logging to track lead up, during and after effects of big events, and how the organisation responds when those events land.

Layered with workload signals, team personality composition, and internal vs external pressure indicators, including external social context.

Friction testing comes from the metadata taken from email flow, slack volumes, calendar load, meeting churn. No message content.

Everything is aggregated to team, department and org level with quorum thresholds so no individual signal is ever exposed.

AI correlates patterns across time to surface leading indicators, not post-hoc explanations.

It’s amazing what you see, when you can actually look.
by phendrenad2 | 2026-02-10 20:34:15+00:00
You need 1000 engineers because you have poor engineering leadership, or no engineering leadership, and engineering is a black hole that management shovels money into where it falls directly onto a huge plane of middle managers who do the best they can with their limited power and understanding. Meanwhile your sales team is writing specifications for the next version of the product, which they already promised to customers, and they hired an outside consultant to transform it into 500 spec documents written in damn near legalese, which will appear one day on the lead engineer's desk with no foreshadowing. It turns out that throwing more engineers at the problem helps here because you'll run out of tasks to assign to all of them and some will roam the halls and accidentally connect distributed knowledge back together.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-10 20:34:39+00:00
Ultimately it's better for the public and users to be informed about this occurring though. If Google wanted to they could salvage it and explain their legal duties and how that applies to these situations. I don't think Google is worried though. They have multiple captive markets and have seen continued growth so it's obviously not affecting the bottom line.

It's a good contrast to Apple where any bit of bad news that makes headlines becomes priority one to fix. Which just creates a privileged class of users and makes the brand look fragile.
by felipellrocha | 2026-02-10 20:34:40+00:00
We’re building Chaotic, a high-performance 3D game engine and editor written in Rust. It targets WebAssembly and WebGL2, making it possible to deliver near-native performance and console-quality visuals directly in the browser. On top of the engine, we’re currently developing a multiplayer cozy farming game inspired by Animal Crossing called Fireflies Meadow: https://firefliesmeadow.com/?admin=SkipTheLine&skip=IKnowWha...

Fireflies Meadow isn’t ready for prime time yet, but we’re proud of the progress so far and actively iterating on it.

If you’re interested in the engine, the game, or just want to follow along, feel free to reach out on our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/mHsQayQNdp

I’d be curious to hear your feedback on whether the game is working for you or not.
by Someone | 2026-02-10 20:34:55+00:00
> In my view nonnegative real numbers have good physical representations

In my view, that isn’t even true for nonnegative integers. What’s the physical representation of the relatively tiny (compared to ‘most integers’) Graham’s number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number)?

Back to the reals: in your view, do reals that cannot be computed have good physical representations?
by matttproud | 2026-02-10 20:35:00+00:00
Short version is this:

If you are going to get into the business of introducing order dependence to test cases through global state (see my other reply on the parent), you will always want the cleanup to work correctly.

1. Using (testing.TB).Cleanup is a good defensive habit to have if you author test helpers, especially if the test helpers (see: (testing.TB).Helper) themselves do something (e.g., resource provisioning) that requires ordered teardown. Using (testing.TB).Cleanup is better than returning a cancellation or cleanup function from them.

2. (testing.TB).Cleanup has stronger guarantees about when it is called, especially when the test case itself crashes. Example: https://go.dev/play/p/a3j6O9RK_OK.

I am certain that I am forgetting another edge case or two here.

Generally nobody should be designing their APIs to be testable through mutable global state. That solves half the problem here.
by roamerz | 2026-02-10 20:35:00+00:00
Absolutely love Zulip. I think they are the #1 open source project out there for many reasons. Here are a few that come to mind:

1. Open source and the commitment to keep it there.
2. The continued technical excellence of the product.
3. Excellent and up-to-date documentation
4. Open to the public development effort that allows public participation (chat.zulip.org)
5. Availability of help from front line engineers and owners as well as the community.
6. Modern and organized UI with many options to tailor it to use case and environment.
7. Excellent choice of tech stack which has evolved to keep up with new technology.
8. An excellent place for aspiring developers to learn not only coding but other skills such as communication and relationship values.
by warmreed | 2026-02-10 20:35:04+00:00
The core issue is lock-in. When users form an emotional bond with an AI and the company can just flip a switch and delete it, that is a recipe for harm. This is why I think the future is decentralized AI companions where users own their conversation history and memory. I have been experimenting with building something along these lines on Telegram (https://t.me/adola2048_bot) where the memory layer persists independently. Still early but the emotional attachment people form even with basic implementations is real and companies need to take that responsibility seriously.
by Razengan | 2026-02-10 20:35:18+00:00
"lighting, rounding, color, and visual strength" along with "clarity, content-focused" etc. are used as hollow buzzwords just as much as "golden ratio"

The whole minimalism/flat movement from iOS 7 and Google's Material and Microsoft's Metro crap was frankly a lazy and weak copout, a give-up on trying to make nice looking UI that could also be functional.

Why is it that sci-fi has always had such beautiful UI since Star Trek but the real world is still so boring?
by emmawirt | 2026-02-10 20:36:06+00:00
yeah you're totally right, good catch. S3 has been strongly consistent since 2020. That weakens the specific framing but the broader point about Iceberg's design assumptions still holds: the architecture was built for a world of eventual consistency and massive concurrent writes, and a lot of that complexity doesn't disappear just because S3 improved. But I should have been more precise there, appreciate the correction.
by prasoonds | 2026-02-10 20:36:07+00:00
That’s a fair point. But of course, this library also helps with other matters - wallets, credits and a code as config based system which can be quite useful too.

And also, if you record all the webhooks events (and a backfill), that basically gives you your whole Stripe data available locally - I’ve actually put it to good use in diagnosing payment failure issues before.
by warmreed | 2026-02-10 20:36:11+00:00
This aligns with what I have seen building AI companion systems. The pressure to optimize engagement metrics naturally pushes toward manipulative patterns. The solution has to be architectural, not just policy. I have been working on a Telegram-based AI companion (https://t.me/adola2048_bot) where the constraints are baked into the system design rather than relying on RLHF guardrails that can be circumvented under pressure. The memory layer is transparent to the user and the optimization target is explicit user satisfaction rather than engagement time. Still early days but the ethical alignment problem is much more tractable when you start with the right incentive structure.
by simion314 | 2026-02-10 20:36:13+00:00
Right, cause latest packages bring only latest features and bug fixes and never bring new bugs, do you ever wonder how those bugs that the latest packages fix get in ?

I recommend for people that want things to not change and not get new bugs every update to use an LTS distro like Kubuntu and only get latest kernels or drivers from a PPA or upstream if you really have to. I am not running the latest KDE stuff and I feel fine, I am not suffering in pain for some cool new feature in Plasma and some new bug, I am comfortable with the existing features and existing bugs.
by HighGoldstein | 2026-02-10 20:36:18+00:00
> Wrong. It's barbaric and primitive.

Source?

> Yes, it is. People make mistakes. People have infinite possibility to grow, change and contribute to society. Snuffing everything someone is out because of an arbitrary society rule that ultimately does less harm than murder is indefensible.

Putting aside statistics on actual reform instead of fantastical infinite possibility, as I understand this policy mostly serves to deter foreigners from attempting the potentially very lucrative business of smuggling drugs into Singapore. Even if Singapore didn't take the "barbaric" approach of executing them, they would have to either host them as prisoners on their already very limited land, or go through the process of deporting them to their home country, where they might not even face any consequences and just try again. Why should they bear this burden for people who have no ties to Singapore and will never contribute anything to it?
by warmreed | 2026-02-10 20:36:33+00:00
Interesting to see this space maturing. One thing I notice is that most AI agent platforms focus on developer productivity and enterprise workflows, but there is a huge underserved market for personal AI agents that maintain long-term memory and context. I have been working on exactly that for Telegram (https://t.me/adola2048_bot) and the retention numbers when you give users an AI that actually remembers them are striking compared to stateless chatbots. The agent framework here looks solid but I wonder how they handle persistent user context across sessions.
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-10 20:36:54+00:00
> So far, the European citizens are very privacy senstive.

In some areas, sure - like GDPR.

In other areas, absolutely not - like chat control.

As another commenter pointed out, it seems as if government mandated privacy intrusion is OK, while violations by corporations are quickly shutdown. It’s like the opposite of how it works here in the US.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-10 20:36:58+00:00
> Reminder EUV is basically a "tiny" ass effort

You illustrate a fundamental lack of understanding. 9 women can't produce a single baby in one month. That's just not how it works.

I think you really don't appreciate how utterly ridiculous the implementation details of the smaller lithography processes are. It wasn't merely limited to the west, it was limited to a single company.

> VS west has "easier" M/HREE tree to rebuild on paper but lack both talent #s, and state capacity to execute.

Wrong. The west currently lacks investors willing to shift focus to that extent and the state lacks the willingness to divert resources and step in themselves.

> It's a mass scale industrial mobilization problem that west is uniquely not well equipped to deal with.

It's not that the west is unable. We don't currently have sufficient motivation to overcome the political barriers that prevent speed.

I agree that retooling for that would take many years due to the scale of the physical infrastructure involved, and in practice will likely take multiple decades due to lack of urgency. Where I disagree is the comparison with EUV.