MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by microtonal | 2026-02-27 15:52:05+00:00
Imagine if Apple had this same mentality, they would never be where they are.

(/s in case it is needed.)

As a smaller project, choosing a small set of hardware and supporting it really well (aside from security reasons) seems like a much better strategy than supporting tens of devices badly (go to e.g. the /e/OS forums to see what regressions people are dealing with after monthly updates).
by Bender | 2026-02-27 15:52:08+00:00
As it pertains to monetary policies there is no left, no right, no democrats, no republicans. It's the same left and right leg attached to the same ass. Each boot will pretend to hate the other guy but its just a show to make people fight and keep them distracted. Both sides have the same agenda, they just have a different style of kicking our asses. Each side wears a different shade of lipstick.
by whizzter | 2026-02-27 15:52:10+00:00
> What is somewhat justifying OpenAI's valuation is that they are still trying for AGI.

And that's the dealbreaker for me since they've been so adamant on scaling taking them there, while we're all seeing how it's been diminishing returns for a while.

I was worried a few years back with the overwhelming buzz, but my 2017 blogpost is still holding strong. To be fair it did point to ASI where valuation is indeed unlimited, but nowadays the definition of AGI is quite weakened in comparison.. but does that then convey an unlimited valuation?
by fellowniusmonk | 2026-02-27 15:52:18+00:00
Did that ever replicate?

Is prestige the number one motivator only statistically?

In other words is it the number one motivator for 31% percent of the college students that were tested and lets say empathy was at 29%?

Misanthropy and bald self interest gets overplayed I think. Often times because it allows bad actors to normalize and justify their own misanthropy.

Presenting this kind of unbacked, unqualified anecdotal data is great for "edgy truthtellers" but also deeply poisoning the well.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2026-02-27 15:53:04+00:00
I never was contacted during the trial and only read about it almost 2 years later in the news.

Also, he's a man of strong faith, not that he knows he'll win in the end, but more like that it just doesn't have the same importance for him as it would have for us. I only had a short opportunity to ask him about it since then and basically he doesn't think there is just about any chance to win this, what he's most worried about is ruining the public image of his students (including his accusers) and since his order allowed him to rejoin and start over, in practice, he got all he wanted to ask for already.
by bikeshaving | 2026-02-27 15:53:08+00:00
A long time ago, I wrote an abstraction called a Repeater. Essentially, the idea behind it is, what would the Promise constructor look like if it was translated to async iterables.

import { Repeater } from "@repeaterjs/repeater";

const keys = new Repeater(async (push, stop) => {
const listener = (ev) => {
if (ev.key === "Escape") {
stop();
} else {
push(ev.key);
}
};
window.addEventListener("keyup", listener);
await stop;
window.removeEventListener("keyup", listener);
});
const konami = ["ArrowUp", "ArrowUp", "ArrowDown", "ArrowDown", "ArrowLeft", "ArrowRight", "ArrowLeft", "ArrowRight", "b", "a"];
(async function() {
let i = 0;
for await (const key of keys) {
if (key === konami[i]) {
i++;
} else {
i = 0;
}
if (i >= konami.length) {
console.log("KONAMI!!!");
break; // removes the keyup listener
}
}
})();

https://github.com/repeaterjs/repeater

It’s one of those abstractions that’s feature complete and stable, and looking at NPM it’s apparently getting 6.5mil+ downloads a week for some reason.

Lately I’ve just taken the opposite view of the author, which is that we should just use streams, especially with how embedded they are in the `fetch` proposals and whatever. But the tee critique is devastating, so maybe the author is right. It’s exciting to see people are still thinking about this. I do think async iterables as the default abstraction is the way to go.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-27 15:53:25+00:00
We don't embody it, not by a long shot. We're old now.

I'm speaking about 20 years ago, when getting any kind of peer or social circle respect had the prerequisite of subscribing to socialist utopian ideals, and it wasn't something that was hard to foster in America's dead-end job work culture (which is where you work when you are young). This is urban/suburban America, where most people live.

From what I can tell this was the same with Boomers (they were the OG hippies afterall) and I see the same ideas in today's crop of young people.

The youth however hold little sway over the direction of the country, they're not actually that invested, so by the time they are having an impact, many have already received their first shots of the euphoric side of American capitalism, a career that gives them power and money (after years of wading through dead-end/entry level hell).
by paulddraper | 2026-02-27 15:53:42+00:00
Your idea is flatten the UInt8Array into the stream.

While I understand the logic, that's a terrible idea.

* The overhead is massive. Now every 1KiB turns into 1024 objects. And terrible locality.

* Raw byte APIs...network, fs, etc fundamentally operate on byte arrays anyway.

In the most respectful way possible...this idea would only be appealing to someone who's not used to optimizing systems for efficiency.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 15:53:46+00:00
> At what point are the models going to all be "good enough", with the differentiating factor being everything else, other than model ranking?

It's already come for vast swathes of industries.

Most organizations have already been able to operationalize what are essentially GPT4 and GPT5 wrappers for network security (eg. Horizon3) and internal knowledge discovery and synthesis (eg. GleanAI back in 2024-25).
Show HN: Citatra – Opensource AI visibility tracker for Google AI Overview
by Citatra | 2026-02-27 15:53:58+00:00
The AI visibility space is repeating the worst patterns of traditional SEO tooling with high monthly pricing, closed platforms, opaque usage models, and long term lock in. So I built an open source AI visibility tool that shows when Google AI Overviews mention (planning to add more LLMs) your brand, monitors competitors, finds content gaps and audits your sites machine-readability. No paywall, no lock-in, and you get all the features of expensive AI visibility tools. Worth checking out before you spend on anything.
by elmerfud | 2026-02-27 15:54:01+00:00
It seems like you prompted it to do this. Although maybe not in a direct way. You're a web developer, you just finished a web project for a client, you told Claude to do something for itself and suggested a journal. So what it did was write the journal and followed the existing pattern of developing a web page put it on.

I realize you're not claiming consciousness here but I extensively use AI as well. The one thing that I find is that it tends to be very good at mirroring behaviors. Very likely intentional because a mirrored behavior makes us more comfortable.
by skybrian | 2026-02-27 15:54:05+00:00
It seems like the average payoff is not so relevant if you have good reason to believe you can do better than average. Also, I'm not so sure Anthropic would profit from this particular offer in the average case.

I recently downgraded from Opus to Sonnet because it's 40% cheaper and it needs a bit more guidance but seems doable. There will likely be better deals.
by ai-christianson | 2026-02-27 15:54:19+00:00
This is a really interesting metric to track. I agree with the sentiment that token budgets are becoming the new 'lines of code' metric. Even though context windows are constantly expanding (like the 200k default you used for Opus), there's still a tangible benefit to keeping a codebase lean. It's not just about fitting it into the window, but also about the signal-to-noise ratio for the agent. The color-coding based on percentage is a nice touch for a quick visual health check.
by estearum | 2026-02-27 15:54:25+00:00
> Oppression would be quite impossible throughout history if people weren't willing to oppress their own kind to the benefit of others.

No what's far more common is that people change their perception (or have different perceptions) of who is "their own kind."

You can actually see this happening in real time in the US with the emerging concept of "Heritage Americans." It's a way for losers and crybabies to narrow the scope of who is "their own kind" without having to openly declare that they simply don't love their countrymen.
by hal9000xbot | 2026-02-27 15:54:41+00:00
This hits a pain point we've seen repeatedly in production AI agent work. Teams often underestimate token costs until they're burning through hundreds of dollars daily on context that could be trimmed.

The real challenge isn't just size - it's that most repos include massive amounts of irrelevant context (node_modules, generated files, outdated comments). We've seen 50+ file repos become <10 token-efficient files after proper filtering.

One pattern that works: maintain parallel "agent-ready" exports of your codebase. Keep the full repo for humans, but curate what agents actually need to see. The badge is brilliant because it makes token efficiency visible - like bundle size for the LLM era.

Context windows will grow, but efficiency always matters. Even with 1M+ token models, there's a massive difference between a 10k and 100k token codebase in terms of accuracy, cost, and latency.
by odshoifsdhfs | 2026-02-27 15:54:51+00:00
Not directly at YOU.

I will stay "Fuck you". I've been in this working field for 25 years or so (and more as a hobbyist). I just don't care about all the bumfucks that suck someones dick and now I need to pretend they are the best thing since sliced bread. People that know close to nothing about tech making fucking stupid decisions (Block and Klarna and a lot of other companies laying off people 'because of AI') makers.

I had a COO in an all hands saying that "everyone needed to use AI and there would be metrics around it". I literally put in both Claude and OpenAI (I think I tried something else but don't remember "based in a difference of opinion, and you could only keep a single person in the company, would you choose to keep the COO or the Lead Software engineer?" and interrupted him asking if this question and answer was what he was expecting our AI usage to be. (ps: try it yourself, see what the all mighty AI says). I never heard a pip from him since then.

And fuck move to Tier-1 cities. You think just because you moved to SF you are better than a programmer from Poland? I've worked with ex Google/FB/Netflix and Apple. Top senior developers. Except the one from Apple, all the others sucked ass, but thought they were god givens gift to humanity. (At least I was payed very well to fix they fucking mistakes).

And the fact you say 'it is harder to fire someone you had beers with' just really solidifies my point that was never about performance or quality of work, is just who can gargle that big fat dick the best

(ps: I'm in general not against AI but ok with people using it to improve a bit of productivity, I'm against top down decisions that AI will suck your dick while writing python at the same time and if you are a programmer, you better get your dick sucking skills up because that is the only way you will keep your job)
by bawolff | 2026-02-27 15:54:57+00:00
That's super interesting, but at the same time, i think the primary concern is not if they are literally the same but if a user is likely to confuse them in a small font you dont have control over in a place they are not likely to pay attention to (e.g. addeess bar).

Like even if the two characters look quite different, if they both look like the same letter in different fonts that is a problem. It doesn't mattter if you can tell the difference between the glyphs in a side by side comparision. What matters is what letter the user interprets the glyph as.
Show HN: I Built Imgur for Markdown
by mcone | 2026-02-27 15:55:07+00:00
I’m the author of The Markdown Guide and I built JotBird: the simplest way to publish Markdown to a shareable URL.

Paste or write Markdown, hit publish, get a link. No account required. That’s it.

Think Imgur but for markdown. Instead of dragging an image and getting a URL, you paste markdown and get a noindex web page.

It works from the web app, an Obsidian plugin, a CLI (`jotbird publish README.md`), and an API. Links last 30 days or 90 days with a free account, Pro ($29/year) makes them permanent.
by skipants | 2026-02-27 15:55:13+00:00
A bit of a tangent, but I just want to say how, as a Canadian, I'm getting a lot of joy reading about this restaurant. It's a hilarious facsimile of a Canadian restaurant for a couple reasons:

- There's nothing Canadian about a pancake house. We love pancakes but they aren't really ingrained with our identity. Maple syrup on the other hand, is EXTREMELY important to a lot of Canadians. Serving table syrup instead of real maple syrup is an affront. I found a Reddit thread[1] where a user espouses "tons of free syrup" you were given at RCPH. That's NOT a good thing if you ask me!

- In Canada (and I assume other British Commonwealth countries) you aren't legally allowed to have "Royal" in the name of your business without Royal consent from the Governor General of Canada[2]

Just a bit of Canadiana sparked by your comment I thought I'd share. I always get a kick of the small but conspicuous cultural differences between Canada and USA. They give me that Ingluorious Basterds "number 3" moment.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1ajujhi/who_re...

[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-sy...
by Kaliboy | 2026-02-27 15:55:17+00:00
How is 240v delivered in the states?

We get 3 phases to each home, phase to neutral is 127v, and that's the standard voltage, so loads are divided over the 3 phases.

230v we get through phase to phase connections. We also balance those for the 220v loads, but it's kinda risky due to the nature of our grid, being an island.

Whenever there's a fault they disconnect the zone affected but sometimes in the process we get VERY short overvoltage events.

Since everybody generally uses 127v, as the system trips the 127v line voltage increases for a bit, often within spec but because we take 230v from between the phases it spikes to heights beyond spec and burns the devices.
by lubujackson | 2026-02-27 15:55:48+00:00
I think the opposite may be true.
If dev tools are broken and it annoys someone, they can more easily build a better architecture, find optimizations and release something that is in all ways better. People have been annoyed with pip forever, but it was the team behind uv that took on pip's flaws as a primary concern and made a better product.

I think having a pain point and a good concept (plus some eng chops) will result in many more dev tools - that may be cause different problems, but in general, I think more action is better than less.
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 15:56:18+00:00
> We have had a giant bubble in white collar bullshit jobs the last 15 years and AI is going to pop that bubble incredible fast.

Even if they are "bullshit jobs," they are what keeps food on the table for many people.

So the question is, what's bullshit about them? Are they bullshit because the capitalists could keep more money to themselves? Or are they bullshit because there are more socially beneficial jobs those people could be doing?

At some point, with increasing automation, "bullshit jobs" are going to be increasingly necessary, without radical changes in social or economic structure. Without them, you might as well just start sending the unemployed workers to death camps to be culled (though capitalism isn't so kind, and prefers to cull workers through slow deaths of neglect).
by inanutshellus | 2026-02-27 15:56:18+00:00
> that makes labour effectively cheaper.

But it isn't cheaper yet, right? Your current salary was defined pre-AI.

Now, though, maybe you're only worth a third of what you were but you can't live on a third, and your employer can't just start giving you less money, so... they lay you off then in a year or three when the tailspin starts to hit bottom, they hire Younger You for ~$X/3.
by nancyminusone | 2026-02-27 15:56:43+00:00
As an ideal, I have little doubt that most people believe this, it's just that it's something that's very easy to exploit, and you stand to gain a massive amount if you do. Its a real tragedy of the commons scenerio.

It's still worth it to try. Most people I meet are not evil, and it's not like you're going to make it out alive at the end regardless.
by mftrhu | 2026-02-27 15:56:48+00:00
> The timing is also suspicious, shortly after publication of this report: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/smartphone-ma... which forecasts declining smartphone sales meaning less devices for this OS to run on.

Why would declining sales of new smartphones have anything to do with PostMarketOS, which only supports phones more than half a decade old?
by silisili | 2026-02-27 15:57:04+00:00
I'm not sure any emdash use at all is what people are calling out typically(maybe it is?), more the sheer number of them typical in LLM written stuff.

Just ctrl-f'ing through previous public posts, I think there were a total of 7 used across about that many posts. This one for example had 57. I'm not good enough in proper English to know what the normal number is supposed to be, just pointing that out.
by david_allison | 2026-02-27 15:57:14+00:00
I provided a spam email chain from a user with a linked GitHub profile, stating that they obtained my email from my GitHub profile.

GP [martinwoodward] states:

> This type of behaviour is explicitly against the GitHub terms of service, when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts.

But action was not taken, there was no reply to my email to GitHub support.
by nerdix | 2026-02-27 15:57:37+00:00
I don't think they are going to collapse. But it was only a couple of years ago that many people thought OpenAI had a big (some thought insurmountable) lead in a race to dominate a winner take all markee. Some people did correctly state that OpenAI had no moat in those days so credit there where it's due.

Now it's looking like a competitive blood bath where ever increasing levels of investment is needed just to main market position. Their frontier models are SOTA for 4 weeks before a competitor comes and takes the crown. They are standing on much shakier ground than they were 2 years ago.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 15:58:15+00:00
I agree, and most of my peers do as well. This is why most of us shifted to AI Applications back in 2023-24. Most of these players are still in stealth or aren't household names, but neither is Palo Alto Networks or Snowflake.

Foundation Models have reached a relative plateau and much of the recent hype wasn't due to enhanced model performance but smart packaging on top of existing capabilities to solve business outcomes (eg. OpenClaw, Antheopic's business suite, etc).
by upupupandaway | 2026-02-27 15:58:31+00:00
I was in Shanghai recently and while casually testing one of their AI chat bots I typed "What do you think of the situation in Taiwan?".

It started discussing like a Western bot would - "it's complicated, etc. etc." and around 5s it abruptly stopped and regurgitated the same line the CCP uses "... it's an unalienable part of China etc. etc.".

After printing the line, a popup opened and my camera was activated. The app wanted me to submit my information, presumably to decide what to do with me next time I enter China.

1) All the lights and modern buildings cannot hide that China is a creepy authoritarian state underneath.

2) Given the bot started printing the Western consensus first, I bet $10 it was trained by distilling ChatGPT or Gemini.
by Aqua0811 | 2026-02-27 15:58:32+00:00
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Key features:

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Mobile-friendly and minimalist design.

Built with Next.js and TailwindCSS (or your specific stack).

Would love to hear your feedback on the UX or any specific symbol sets you think are missing!
by konschubert | 2026-02-27 15:58:59+00:00
It can both be true that

a) AI is going to replace a Bazillion-Dollar Industry and that

b) being an AI model provider does not allow to capture margins above 5% long-term

I am not saying that this is what will happen, but it's a plausible scenario. Without farmers we would all be dead but that does not mean the they capture monopoly rents on their assets.
by winstonwinston | 2026-02-27 15:59:02+00:00
> I see a few people here complaining about the idea of a central digital identity service.

Digital identity service is fine for gov services. It’s not OK as a hard requirement for anything else such as banking.

Digital ID in my country is down for about 7 days and counting. iOS app no longer opens after the recent update. I cannot pay taxes without digital id app working but i can do banking and everything else.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-27 15:59:04+00:00
Hey that seems pretty cool! No doubt it's gonna be a way to either collect more info of successful devs or maybe just upsell stuff after those 6 months are over, but it's something!

I went for their 100 USD paid tier and it's honestly been immensely useful (Claude Code with the desktop UI with multiple parallel tasks), I've done more and with better quality in the past few weeks than others do in a month - maybe I just got lucky with the domain but it really is a force multiplier and I'm working on like 4 projects in parallel at work and am crushing it, being overworked aside.

Finally I also have enough capacity for various side projects and utility tools/scripts, or at least I will until I burn out, but that's not really the fault of the tool, rather the amount of work.

Being able to throw the latest Opus model at every problem is also really, really nice. Way better than any of the slop before.
SenseStream – Mood-based film discovery instead of genre browsing
by Noha25 | 2026-02-27 15:59:09+00:00
I built SenseStream, a film discovery platform organised by emotional mood rather than genre.

Most streaming platforms optimise for popularity and similarity. But when people open them, they’re usually trying to match a feeling (“something calm”, “something intense”) rather than a genre.

So instead of Action/Drama/Comedy, I structured the platform around 24 emotional mood categories. Each film is manually placed based on emotional temperature rather than metadata.

Current version:
– 300+ curated films and series
– Fully human-selected (no algorithm)
– Built with no-code tools
– Free to use

I’m exploring whether emotional taxonomy reduces decision fatigue better than traditional browsing.

Would appreciate feedback on:
1. Whether mood is a strong organizing principle
2. Whether 24 categories feels excessive
3. Whether this should remain curated or evolve into automation

https://sensestream.co.uk
by Steltek | 2026-02-27 15:59:11+00:00
For a while, there was a strong trend of "I want to do everything in one singular language". Your coding in language XYZ. Your build tools will be configured/written in XYZ. Your UI frontend will be generated from XYZ. Everything will be defined in XYZ.

Shell is from a time when you had a huge selection of languages, each for different purposes, and you picked the right one for the job. For complex applications, you would have multiple languages working together.

People look at Bash and think, "I would never dare do $Task with that language!". And you'd be right, because you're thinking you only have one tool in the toolbox.