MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-16 22:16:30+00:00
The difference is that until recently, consumers could swap/add RAM/NPU/GPU/etc. Now they're more often epoxied together on the same chip, even if they were produced on two different silicon wafers.

For example, the newer Intel Lunar Lake chip packages together a CPU+iGPU+NPU chiplet and two LPDDR5X RAM chiplets [0][1][2]. If laptop manufacturers want to offer different amounts of RAM, they have to buy a different CPU SKU for 16GB RAM vs 32GB RAM. Panther Lake, the succeeding generation, reversed this and will support off-package RAM modules, but some reasonable people might assume that in the long term RAM will generally be on-package for anything that's not a server/HEDT.

You won't have to worry about making sure the RAM you buy is on the CPU & Motherboard QVL list, but also you won't ever buy RAM by itself at all.

Intel's Clearwater Forest Xeon chip has 12 CPU chiplets, connected together in groups of 4 CPUs each connected to the same 1-of-3 "base" chiplets, and then 2 I/O chiplets. [3]

0: https://www.flickr.com/photos/130561288@N04/albums/721777203...

1: (pages 3 and 4) https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/8244...

2: (also pages 3 and 4, but the technical detail in the rest of these slides is much more detailed) https://hc2024.hotchips.org/assets/program/conference/day1/5...

3: page 12 https://hc2025.hotchips.org/assets/program/conference/day1/1...
by 6r17 | 2026-02-16 22:16:40+00:00
I don't know - i'm 33 ~ now - recently with AI learning is much easier - don't get me wrong I definitely won't say that the brain does not slow down - but I'd definitely argue that we have advantages over kids - be it discipline, knowing how to learn ; and stuff like that - for example let's take coq which is I suppose one of the hardest thing we can learn - you can decompose it in ways myself as a kid or as a 20yo wouldn't even be able to. What I mean is that there is a lot of complexities or stuff i would get stuck upon that I just fly over today and know I'm alright - much better ability to focus in a sense
by jtrn | 2026-02-16 22:17:06+00:00
I agree that "sardonic" is a better word. It’s just not used much, and it didn’t even come to mind. It's similar to how people misuse "ironic." But people usually understand what is meant.

The general thrust of the underlying messagr is not dishonest just because you say so. The general pattern is that there are degrees of governmental control over people's lives at the core. I don’t think it’s dishonest because my point is that bureaucracy has no limit on what it tries to control given enough time, even though my framing is vulgar.

and should we do stuff to reduce waist and help the environmen? Absolutely!! should we do this? if this worked, it would be a good thing. But if you just want to virtue signal without caring about reality, I think we disagree on more than just definitions.

My reference to "Freakonomics" is a collection of real contradictions to your theory. Since you didn't consider it, here are the expanded findings:

Most of the "recycled" material collected under these new laws is being "downcycled" into insulation, mattress stuffing, or industrial rags—markets that are already saturated and low-value. Reports show these organizations were overwhelmed with low-quality fast fashion that they could not sell. Instead of companies paying to burn it, the charities now had to pay to store or manage it.

The fines are real. France has set fines of up to €15,000 per infraction for companies caught destroying unsold goods. This is why companies are dumping the stock on charities rather than risking the fine. I’m giving how you speak about corporation. I’m guessing you have absolutely no empathy for people who run small single person or small team business and our overwhelmed by all the regulatory traps they can fall into at any point in time.

Then The Freakonomics data (Sanford, Maine case study) showed that when you charge people for trash, they generate less trash, but illegal dumping often spikes, forcing the city to spend more on cleanup patrols.

To pay for this new collection and sorting system, brands pay an "Extended Producer Responsibility" (EPR) fee. In 2025, this fee for textiles in systems like France/Netherlands ranged roughly from €0.12 to €0.50 per kilogram of clothing put on the market. In other words, the cost ultimately falls back on consumers.

So in general, no, I don’t agree at all. I think you are discounting the massive cost to not just corporations but also individuals when it comes to micromanagement. On a second layer, I’m not even against micromanagement, just bad micromanagement, especially micromanagement that is at best naïve regarding effectiveness, and at worst purely virtue signaling.

In short, we should focus on what works, not what you feel is righteously good.
by jaggederest | 2026-02-16 22:17:21+00:00
My experience has been about 50/50 with that. Twice when I haven't given the number first, they've pleasantly surprised me with significantly higher offers than I would have expected. Twice when I did give a number, they said "oh no that's way too low, we want you to be extremely happy with comp" and bumped me up. In all other circumstances I don't think it mattered, and I suspect that giving the number or not was moot in all 4 of those cases.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-16 22:17:27+00:00
> I think such influence will be extremely minimal.

AI will accelerate “natural” change in language like anything else.

And as AI changes our environment (mentally, socially, and inevitably physically) we will change and change our language.

But what will be interesting is the rise of agent to agent communication via human languages. As that kind of communication shows up in training sets, there will be a powerful eigenvector of change we can’t predict. Other than that it’s the path of efficient communication for them, and we are likely to pick up on those changes as from any other source of change.
by bsder | 2026-02-16 22:17:37+00:00
> I think looking at the data you’d have to conclude that women can’t play chess as well as men, that black men can’t play chess as well as white men, and that Judeo-Christian (and perhaps Hindu Brahmins) beliefs are just as indicative.

Actually, chess data suggests that all of them are as good as one another. As soon as you have enough candidates in the pipeline, magically, any specific group suddenly becomes as good as any other.

On the women's side, the Polgar sisters are both exemplar and counterexample. Clearly, given sufficient training, women CAN be rated highly (Judit cracked 2700). The fact that the women's side hasn't exploded just like the men's side can mostly be tracked to the fact that chess isn't considered a "feminine pursuit" worth putting the time into (that finally seems to be changing slowly in recent decades).
by kianN | 2026-02-16 22:17:40+00:00
I totally agree that the metric is imperfect for a long term analysis. I was initially leaning toward a quantile based approach to really focus in on topic trends over time, but when I was initially exploring the data, the relative challenge of having a Show HN become popular in 2025 compared to previous years caught my curiosity, and for this decade I felt a static cutoff provided a simple and easy to understand threshold.

I do think as a metric for total reach, a static cutoff actually works reasonably well. I think some form of square root normalization over total users is probably the best balance.
by tptacek | 2026-02-16 22:17:50+00:00
The story only matters if it produces an industry-wide displacement in jobs. Failed billion-dollar IT projects are not a new thing, and don't disrupt the entire labor market.

To be clear: I'm not claiming that AI rollouts won't be billion-dollar failed IT projects! They very well could be. But if that's the case, they aren't going to disrupt the labor market.

Again: you have to pick a lane with the pessimism. Both lanes are valid. I buy neither of them. But recognize a coherent argument when I see one. This, however, isn't one.
by paulcole | 2026-02-16 22:17:54+00:00
I think right now I have Claude, ChatGPT, MidJourney, and Perplexity. I guess that's not quite $100 now but I used to do Gemini, too.

Personally:

Perplexity has replaced Google searches for me – basically looking things up

ChatGPT/Claude is what I use for generating code (I'm not a programmer but I like scripting tasks at work)

Claude I think is better at writing than ChatGPT

MidJourney is $10 and I like it best for image generation which I do for work and like to keep it around.
by raincole | 2026-02-16 22:18:06+00:00
> But it's worth noting that nearly identical catalogs were compiled for every major technological shift in modern history.

And it has been... quite a correct view? In the past few decades the US cranked up its Gini index from 0.35 to ~0.5, successfully eliminated single-earner housebuyers[0]. It's natural to assume the current technology shift will eliminate double-earner housebuyers too. The next one would probably eliminate PC-buyers if we're lucky!

[0]: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/02/12/the-decli...
by jostylr | 2026-02-16 22:18:19+00:00
We are at a fork in the road with lots of potential darkness, but simply thinking any old social safety net is going to work is not going to cut it. Nets can be, and generally are, used to capture.

An interesting multi-pronged approach is post labor economics which is being promoted by David Shapiro: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveShap

The basic premise is that currently we have households being supported by labor, capital, and transfers. With labor largely going away, the leaves capital and transfers. Relying on transfers alone will lead to ownership of the people by government. So we have to find ways to generate way more distributed capital ownership by the masses. This is what he plans, discusses, and promotes.
by xg15 | 2026-02-16 22:18:27+00:00
I don't know much about glibc's specifics, but in general: Security comes before a lot of things but not before accidental breakage. If you say "our compat guarantees are so strong you shouldn't keep track of versions at all", I expect this to mean that APIs and ABIs will never change, or at least not without a massive awareness campaign and transition plan being announced before - because such a breakage would take out my project or might even introduce new vulnerabilities.

A security update that also does breaking changes is sort of the worst case, because dependents are essentially damned if they apply it and damned if they don't. They can't always be avoided if an API is so insecure it's beyond repair - but then dependents will have to update in their own time because they will also have to fix their own implementations. So this would be an argument for version pins in that case.
by Sayrus | 2026-02-16 22:18:28+00:00
Assuming you want ID verification, why would you need a blockchain? Your identity is deeply linked to who you are and we have identity documents and trusted entities to provide them. These entities can absolutely act as a third-party to verify who you are. This can happen with several different parameters: whether your identity is provided to the site you are using, whether the site your are using is known to your identity provider, whether identities across sites are identical or only linkable by the trusted party. But in all those examples (that are currently implemented by some countries), blockchain is not a requirement.

Assuming you don't want actual ID verification, the choices are even larger but with different trade-offs.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-16 22:18:39+00:00
I'm aware I've been building my own alternative to Beads for weeks now. the instructions.md file and something like Beads is epic.

https://github.com/Giancarlos/guardrails

I didnt like how married to git hooks beads was, so I made my own thats primarily a SQLite workhorse. Been using it just the same as I have used Beads, works just as good, drastically less code. I added a concept called "gates" to stop the AI model from just closing tasks without any testing or validation (human or otherwise) because it was another pain point for me with Beads.

I fully sync the issues to GitHub to boot.

https://github.com/Giancarlos/guardrails/issues

Works both ways, to GitHub, from GitHub. When you claim a task, its supposed to update on GitHub too (though looking at the last one I claimed, doesnt seem to be 100% foolproof yet).
by bigiain | 2026-02-16 22:18:43+00:00
> I have lots of BLE wearables and other sensors. They only send data to my own computer which I control

That's perhaps technically correct, but a naive interpretation of the risk. I don't need to see the data your BLE devices are sending you, all I need is traffic analysis and meta data from the signals they are broadcasting - and they broadcast that to anyone within detection range which includes attackers with much higher gain antennas than you who can likely pick up those broadcasts at ten times the distance any of your devices will communicate at.

"Flying helicopters low and slow over the Tucson desert in Arizona, the FBI has been using "signal sniffers" to try to locate Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker.

As the search for the 84-year-old mother of US Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie entered its third week, investigators took to the sky with advanced bluetooth technology.

They were hoping to pick up signals emitted from the device implanted in Ms Guthrie's chest to help trace her whereabouts, US media outlets NewsNation and Fox News reported."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/nancy-guthrie-pacemak...
by topocite | 2026-02-16 22:18:49+00:00
I just don't agree with this at all.

Right now is the good time for the job market. The S&P is at an all time high.

In the next recession, I expect massive layoffs in white collar work and there is no way those jobs are coming back on the other side.

40-50% of US white collar work hours are spent on procedural, rules-based tasks. Then another large chunk is managing the people doing procedural, rules-based tasks and support of people doing rules based tasks. Salary and benefits are 50% of operating costs for most business.

Maybe you do something really interesting and unique but that is just not what most white collar workers in the US are doing.

I know for myself, these are the final days of white collar work before I am unemployable as a white collar worker. I don't think the company I work for will exist either in 5 years. It is not a matter of Claude code being able to update a legacy system or not. It is that the tide hasn't really gone out in 15 years and all these zombie companies are going to get wiped out at the same time AI is automating the white collar jobs. Delaying the business cycle from clearing over and over is not a free lunch, it is a bill that has been stacking up for a long time.

On the other side, the business as usual of today won't be an option.

From my own white collar experience, I think if you view procedural rules-based tasks as a graph, the automation of any one task depends so much on other tasks being automated. So it will seem like the automation is not working but at some point you get a contagion of automation. Then so much automation will happen at once.
by CharlieDigital | 2026-02-16 22:19:00+00:00
The LLM can be non-deterministic, but in the end, as long as we have compilers and integration tests, isn't it the same? You go from non-deterministic human interpretation of requirements and specs into a compiled, deterministic state machine. Now you have a non-deterministic coding agent doing the same and simply replacing the typing portion of that work.

So long as you supply the agent well-curated set of guidance, it should ultimately produce more consistent code with higher quality than if the same task were given to a team of random humans of varying skill and experience levels.

The key now is how much a team invests in writing the high quality guidance in the first place.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-02-16 22:19:02+00:00
This is not always true. If the 'index' is all that is missing the only thing is that you cannot seek. That's easily fixable. In the case of the files my camera writes a lot more info is only at the end. I can't remember what exactly but at least the resolution and the framerate were only stored at the end. And maybe even codec settings I can't remember.

I looked at it very thoroughly back then (it was a video I did not want to loose). Without grafted on info from a video with identical settings the video could only be played back as 8x8 squares of random noise.
by stream_anupam | 2026-02-16 22:19:20+00:00
Thanks YCroaster for supporting fonders.

I applied to YC & out of curiosity, built this app to see how Paul Graham will evaluate it (FREE):
https://www.ecoservity.com/2025

Just input:
1) founder's LinkedIn,
2) summary of the product &
3) what stage of application

Try it out & give feedback on how to make it useful for founders.
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-16 22:19:22+00:00
> Imagine the damage one bad kid could cause using deepfakes

Deepfakes are highly damaging right now because much of the world still doesn't realise that people can make deepfakes.

When everyone knows that a photo is no longer reliable evidence by itself, the harm that can be done with a deepfake will drop to a similar level as that of other unreliable forms of evidence, like spoken or written claims. (Which is not to say that they won't be harmful at all -- you can still damage someone's reputation by circulating completely fabricated rumours about them -- but people will no longer treat photorealistic images as gospel.)
by mmooss | 2026-02-16 22:20:11+00:00
Those are lovely rose-colored glasses! :) My understanding is that they also charged high rates for calling the next city, and more for calling further, opposed / dragged their heels on new tech like broadband data .... Since then we have essentially free communication - voice, video, and text - anywhere in the world, several broadband technologies, cell phones, endless VOIP options, faxes (did AT&T support those?) ... in fact, landlines are mostly gone.

Just imagine the world without broadband. I don't love the phone systems of today in all respects, but there is no comparison.
Ask HN: (Why) are you using AI to browse the web?
by ATechGuy | 2026-02-16 22:20:13+00:00
Do you still browse the web the same way you did (say 5 years ago) or you use AI to browse, summarize, etc. on websites? Is it about speed/efficiency, instant answers (gratification), or something else?

I've noticed I'm less willing to read long articles now that I can get instant summaries. I'm curious to understand if AI is saving us time or is it training us to avoid effort.
by globalnode | 2026-02-16 22:21:34+00:00
I don't think Kim Dotcom or Palantir are trustworthy. So the information is useless in the sense that it could be truth or lies. The only people who this information might be useful to are probably spies for other countries that would have some idea as to whether what theyre seeing matches other data points. And that aint' me so idgaf.
by Bender | 2026-02-16 22:21:39+00:00
I use Firefox on a Linux workstation. I do not foresee that changing in my lifetime.

I only use LLM's to somewhat validate my theories but I give them very little weight as they can not think critically or even think for that matter. They sort the garbage they absorb from the internet and look for consensus. Even billions of people can be wrong which means LLM's can be wrong.
by playhard | 2026-02-16 22:22:03+00:00
The Execution Event: Why the 2026 Economic Collapse Is Built on Efficiency

https://ramakanth-d.medium.com/the-march-cliff-why-the-2026-...

The Caloric Execution: The Death of the Cheap Calorie

https://ramakanth-d.medium.com/the-caloric-execution-the-dea...
by carshodev | 2026-02-16 22:22:26+00:00
Yes but this is again nothing to do with svelte.

This is just how Node works, it's not a compiled language and you are not tree shaking all the components from libraries so this is bound to occur.

You can solve this by making your own libraries or just copying the individual source code for specific components into your project instead of including the whole package.

With sveltekit(and maybe nextjs aswell) you are only serving the necessary files to the client instead of including full library source code.
by lirbank | 2026-02-16 22:22:35+00:00
Good call, SERIALIZABLE is a strong option - it eliminates a whole class of bugs at the isolation level. The trade-off is your app needs to handle serialization failures with retry logic, which introduces its own complexity. That retry logic itself needs testing, and barriers work for that too.
On randomized testing - that actually has the same limitation you mentioned about barriers: you need to know where to point it. And without coordination, the odds of two operations overlapping at exactly the wrong moment are slim. You'd need enormous pressure to trigger the race reliably, and even then a passing run doesn't prove much. Barriers make the interleaving deterministic so a pass actually means something.
by yes_really | 2026-02-16 22:22:41+00:00
I heard many bizarre conspiracy theories about Jewish people. But this one, I can't even understand what you mean.

To be clear, do you deny that there are multiple terrorist groups targeting civilians in Israel such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and multiple individuals who attacked civilians indiscriminately with bombs, knives and guns?

Do you deny that Israel uses its intelligence services to detect and stop these terrorist attacks?
by metalman | 2026-02-16 22:23:00+00:00
If the ultimate form of goodness is a miracle, and the ultimate form of badness is evil,then, in reality evil, is infinitly easier to realise, perform, refine, and produce at scale, and miracles remain hard and rare, but of course, somehow spoken of as some sort of yet to come but assuredly triumphant ,however eventualy.
now with real time personalised halucinations!
by WalterBright | 2026-02-16 22:23:34+00:00
I remember wandering into Cartier's in NYC dressed in my shaggy jeans and t-shirt. They didn't throw me out, but a security guard followed me around, definitely edging into my personal space to make me uncomfortable. I laughed, said I get it, looked a bit more, and left.

I remember the days when you were expected to wear a suit on a jet, even the kids. These days, even the first class travelers wear track shorts. I kinda wish the airlines would have a dress code.
by ebbi | 2026-02-16 22:23:55+00:00
It's the convenience, for me anyway - why carry around multiple devices, when one can do the job.

For travel photography, I went from carrying around a Sony full frame, to a Fuji XT3, to hoping by iPhone 19-20 that I can sell all my bodies and lenses and just rely on the iPhone.

The Sony felt like a chore - from carrying around a big camera and lens, through to the editing and photo management.
The Fuji was a breath of fresh air - a bit more compact, and the film sims allowed me to cut the editing process out. But there was still lugging around a camera, and then the photo transfer etc.

With mobile phones' improvements in photography, coupled with the endless opportunities for apps, I can't wait to rely on it as my sole camera.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-02-16 22:24:21+00:00
That's what I mean with 'the road is too busy'. If you can't maintain a 3 second distance the speed needs to go down until you can. But you are right that this is sadly not something you can always do on your own.

I'm still convinced people decide way too soon that the 3 second distance is more dangerous. You might be right if people are constantly cutting in the moment you leave a gap, but if someone cuts in every 5 minutes you're still safer off with the gap.