MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-17 14:51:19+00:00
(1) The tests on icons is really not fair, I mean, PNG is always going to win on that kind of image.

(2) It is little realized that AVIF kinda sucks for high-quality photographic images. I mean, if you are making a hero image for your blog and you want it to be big and fast loading and it doesn't have to stand up to close inspection it is great. If you took it with your mirrorless and you want it to look like you took it with a mirrorless you do very well with JPEG or (better) WebP. I mean, AVIF is meant for encoding video where people don't look closely at individual frames. JPEG XL rules for high quality photographs.
by MontyCarloHall | 2026-02-17 14:52:17+00:00
>>Brynjolfsson found a 13% relative decline in employment for early-career workers (ages 22-25) in AI-exposed occupations since late 2022. For young software developers specifically, employment fell almost 20% from its 2022 peak

>This is confounding AI-exposed white collar occupations with occupations that were overrepresented with extended remote work.

Yup. If you look at Brynjolfsson's actual publication [0], you'll see that precipitous decline in hiring juniors in "AI-exposed occupations" starts in late 2022. This is when ChatGPT first came out, and far too early to see any effects of AI on the job market.

You know what else happened in late 2022? The end of ZIRP and Section 174, which immediately put a stop to the frantic post-COVID overhiring of bootcamp juniors just to pad headcount and signal growth. The problem with Brynjolfsson's paper is that it doesn't effectively deconvolve "AI-exposed occupations" from "ZIRP/Section 174-exposed occupations," which overlap significantly.

[0] https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/app/uploads/2025/11/Cana...
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-17 14:52:17+00:00
Obama and Bush came after Clinton pushed through the WTO stuff with China. Free trade most definitely had a positive factor in the economy in the next 16 years, even if tariffs still existed. A lot of the blowback from the Trumpers is that not everyone benefitted equally, not that the economy didnt benefit from it overall (ironically speaking they elected a billionaire due to equality issues).
Show HN: AudioNimbus – Safe Rust Wrapper for Steam Audio
by mxncmr | 2026-02-17 14:52:18+00:00
I just released a new version of AudioNimbus. AudioNimbus is a safe Rust wrapper around Steam Audio, Valve's library for physics-based spatial audio (occlusion, reflections, reverb, HRTF) in games.

v0.12.0 comes with support for the latest Steam Audio version, major safety improvements, improved API ergonomics and documentation.

The library also includes an 'auto-install' feature that automatically downloads and links Steam Audio for you, removing the usual hassle of linking a C library.

Link to the project: https://github.com/MaxenceMaire/audionimbus

It is dual-licensed under MIT/Apache-2.0.

Release notes: https://github.com/MaxenceMaire/audionimbus/releases/tag/0.1...
by dust42 | 2026-02-17 14:52:32+00:00
"It showed that dogs process information from their environment and use it to make predictions"

Exactly that is not what the experiment is about because we all know that dogs will quickly learn the connection between bell and food as dogs are easy to teach new tricks.

If you replace 'dogs' with 'humans', it becomes an empty phrase: "It showed that humans process information from their environment and use it to make predictions" - we all know that.

The groundbreaking part of the experiment was that it showed there are responses which are not part of the conscious mind and which are not willingly controllable by the conscious mind. The dog did not 'decide' to produce saliva.

The experiment was done with a dog because obviously you wont find humans willing to undergo surgery to have the saliva come out of the cheeks instead of into the mouth.

One has to forget about the dog and mentally replace it with a human: now the observation that the human connects the bell with the food is shallow. But the conditioned saliva reflex remains and can't be suppressed - and that is a remarkable insight. It works both with negative and positive stimuli. The latter one being a recipe for a long-lasting happy relationship ;)
by fantasizr | 2026-02-17 14:52:49+00:00
This resonates because nowadays popular developer culture is about how you need to spend $200/mo with a ronco 'set it and forget it' mindset as your AI swarm writes 100k lines of code overnight so you can post about it on twitter the next day.

Anyone questioning this methodology gets a 'enjoy being left behind' mantra akin to the 'have fun staying poor' of the crypto bro 5 years ago.
by eukara | 2026-02-17 14:53:09+00:00
Thank you for signaling you had no idea this was happening. I wouldn't make such a thing up, if that's what you're asking. If you have no idea this happened that's one thing - but I am telling you the truth in saying that is what I saw.

You might also want to evaluate what kind of people are attracted by your image. Your actions have spoken far louder than any accusations I have made here. Hint.

> it's easy to make unfalsifiable "There's probably archives" b.s. claims on HN.

The grapevine literally called them (not my words) "brave shill threads". Companies have been scraping the text based web for decades. Of course there's archives. They may not necessarily be indexed by search engines.
by elliotbnvl | 2026-02-17 14:53:20+00:00
I love that point and it’s a really good reframe. But I feel like so many people are relying on AI to do everything for them already that this is a really really hard problem.

I love your piece though and the call to action: “Make the internet more human again.”

It’s really inspiring, I hope it works, but I also feel like we should try multiple things at the same time just to be safe.

And what if you do want a place where you can just go and have one feed for your friends and family?

Maybe my essay should be titled “social media is dead” instead.
by madeforhnyo | 2026-02-17 14:53:37+00:00
A collegue of mine was tech lead at a large online bank. For the mobile app, the first and foremost threat that security auditors would find was "The app runs on a rooted phone!!!". Security theater at its finest, checkboxes gotta be checked. The irony is that the devs were using rooted phones for QA and debugging.
by rawgabbit | 2026-02-17 14:53:38+00:00
OKRs attempts to impose top down centralized command and control. What ends up happening is an executive who is accountable notices an OKR trends the wrong way and when he asks why, the best bullshitters deflect blame. And nothing is resolved.

The Toyota Way attempts bottom up process improvement. Teams generally organize themselves. Team leads take responsibility for quality and report it up the chain. Instead of deflecting blame, they often work themselves to exhaustion. Which is not an ideal result either.
by fcarraldo | 2026-02-17 14:53:52+00:00
100%. A lot of these AI anxiety driven odes to the loss of craft have me wondering whether anyone cares about the value being provided to the user (or the business), which is the part that is actually your job.

Elegant, well-written and technically sound projects will continue to exist, but I’ve seen too many “well crafted” implementations of such technically vexing features as “fetching data and returning it” that were so overengineered that it should have been considered theft of company money.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-02-17 14:54:08+00:00
Can't we just accept that some kids do cool stuff that many adults can't even think of? Note that this kid was distinguished in a competition for STEM projects by kids, so he's not unique, but that doesn't reduce the fact that he's uncommon to say the least.

I'm trying to think of what I did when I was 14 that was as cool as that and I can't. I had an imagination and I created stuff all the time, but nothing I'd brag about today. The Space Pistol with Disintegrator Ray was only a prototype that I never managed to really put into production.
by palata | 2026-02-17 14:54:18+00:00
> Mine is running /e/ and reporting Android 13, which appears to be the last one Fairphone support.

This is not the manufacturer updates. I was talking about the manufacturer updates. I just checked and someone complained a few months ago and they updated them. Before that, they had not been updated in years on /e/OS, but they were up-to-date on Stock Android.

> Edit: Murena make it clear which phones are officially supported and which have "community" support.

I bought a phone to Murena, advertised by Murena, through Murena. It really felt like it would be officially supported, otherwise they should have made it clear that they advertise and sell something that they won't support, wouldn't you say? My feeling is that they just stopped supporting it after a while.

Also I would assume that "supported" means that it receives both the LineageOS updates and the manufacturer updates. Apparently they have a different definition of "supported" (which is fine, maybe it's just "we will continue sending you our own updates"). It's just that in my book, if I get more security updates with the Stock Android than with /e/OS, then Stock Android is more secure.
by Findecanor | 2026-02-17 14:54:21+00:00
A similar bit-flipping trick was used to swap between numeric row + symbol keys on the keyboard, and the shifted symbols on the same keys.
These bit-flips made it easier to construct the circuits for keyboards that output ASCII.

I believe the layout of the shifted symbols on the numeric row were based on an early IBM Selectric typewriter for the US market. Then IBM went and changed it, and the latter is the origin of the ANSI keyboard layout we have now.
by krastanov | 2026-02-17 14:55:36+00:00
I am happy to hear that things as not as bad as I thought, but my experience being judge/mentor for a couple of years for the high school science fair near a top university was very discouraging and closer to what the author of the article describes.

Maybe the mass of the kids at the first round were what you describe, but very quickly the focus turned to the top 20% who were very much "reputation laundering" and "CV padding" internships at labs, not actual curiosity driven independent exploration
by peanut_merchant | 2026-02-17 14:56:00+00:00
One of the backend developers at Anam here, one of the hardest parts of developing this has been monitoring and analytics.

Most off the shelf solutions, or existing platforms heavily skew towards the normal http web service world. However, the bulk of our interactions happen over webrtc in long-running sessions, where the existing solutions for in-depth metrics and monitoring are much less mature and well documented.

Currently we're using influxdb, prometheus, grafana and some hand rolled monitoring code alongside the stats that webrtc offers itself. Would be interested to know how anyone out there is monitoring conversational flows, and webrtc traffic.
Show HN: Threema plugin for OpenClaw – no phone number, no gateway needed
by crazycheesu | 2026-02-17 14:56:16+00:00
Since basically all chat apps pretend to save the data encrypted (they dont). I wanted an easy and convenient alternative. The chat server at threema has no storage and works since 13 years on an old ruby script. Since Gateway costs money and account creation is paywalled behind platform DRM (Apple Appstore / Google Play Store). The only right solution is to (miss)use the existing multi device functionality via qr code linking. Thanks to codex for helping me with this.
by microtonal | 2026-02-17 14:56:38+00:00
Pixels are really great despite being from Google. I hope they will continue to make them unlockable/relockable. As you say they are also surprisingly hard to brick. Here is someone trying to break it intentionally during the GrapheneOS install:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0AiO0WtuU

If you don't like giving money to Google, plenty of companies offer refurbished Pixel phones.
by mystraline | 2026-02-17 14:56:57+00:00
I found that realtors can't even do basic searches to determine which ISPs serve the house.

To expect them to be aware of multiple GIS layers is likely way out of their normal scope. Maybe it shouldn't be? But thats how things are now.

You, the client, should also do your own data collection from public and semi-public sources for things that are strictly outside MLS data capture.
Show HN: Discoding – run AI CLIs locally, relay them to Discord
by siisee11 | 2026-02-17 14:57:04+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Discode: a bridge that runs AI coding CLIs in tmux and relays progress to Discord (or Slack) in real time.

I built this after experimenting with OpenClaw. Even with full system permissions, I realized I preferred conversational control over full autonomy.

Instead of building another dashboard, I wired my AI CLI to Discord.

Discode runs your AI agent in tmux and simply relays output to Discord - no wrappers, no hidden execution layers, no cloud dependency.

Happy to answer questions or feedback.
by jlokier | 2026-02-17 14:57:07+00:00
.COM binaries yes, but a.out binaries do have a header, similar in size to ELF.

When ELF was added to Linux, I think it used a bit less RAM than a.out.

ELF made it easier to build and deploy shared libraries, and the design was more consistent at keeping code sections read-only despite run-time linking (the PLT stuff), so more RAM pages ended up automatically shared between processes by the kernel, compared with a.out.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-17 14:57:31+00:00
It's not about adapting. I use AI a fair bit in my work. I've seen what it does, I know what it's good at and what it's not.

The problem begins people see this as a know everything magic orb and trust it blindly for everything. It's still a pattern matching model, it's not sentient. It should remain a tool rather than one you should be asking for, let's say, system design.

Also I've seen people waste massive amount of tokens to add two tabs to a line of code to fix indents. Said they don't want to click the damn line. Bro you just typed a larger prompt, sent the complete file, instead of two keystrokes. And guess what it took multiple attempts. It's like watching someone type google into google 3 times before typing what they want. I'm worried about the future.

Not all software is showelware crud from your standard service company, some software runs critical life threatening infra everywhere. We need people who know about these, and they're discouraged from the school level not to.
by jonahrd | 2026-02-17 14:57:31+00:00
I agree with your comment. While reading the article, I had sympathy for the author, but also unintendedly pictured them as a mix of all of the "wizard" seniors I have worked with over the years. These are the type of people who when pair programming, constantly point out what they perceive as problems with your development setup, IDE, keyboard-macro skills, lack of tiling layout, etc etc. Not to mention what they will suggest on your actual PRs.

At the end of the day, I like the mental model of programming, and I am somewhat uninterested in shaving every millimeter of friction off of every surface I touch on my computer. Does that make me a worse programmer? Maybe? I still delivered plenty of high quality code.
by yellow_lead | 2026-02-17 14:57:42+00:00
> Brynjolfsson analyzed millions of ADP payroll records and found a 13% relative decline in employment for early-career workers (ages 22-25) in AI-exposed occupations since late 2022.

> So what’s the mechanism at play? AI replaces codified knowledge

Many job postings peaked in 2022 due to the pandemic. The original paper tries to account for this but falls short in my opinion.

Original paper said[1]:

> One possibility is that our results are explained by a general slowdown in technology hiring from 2022 to 2023 as firms recovered from the COVID-19 Pandemic...

> Figure A12 shows employment changes by age and exposure quintile after excluding computer occupations...

> Figure A13 shows results when excluding firms in information technology or computer systems design...

> ... These results indicate that our findings are not specific to technology roles.

Excluding computer and IT jobs is not enough in my opinion. Look at all these other occupations which had peak hiring in 2022.

Nursing jobs in the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPNURS

Sales jobs in the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSALE

Scientific research & development jobs in the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSCREDE

Baking & finance jobs in the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPBAFI

[1] https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/app/uploads/2025/12/Cana...
by dangus | 2026-02-17 14:57:46+00:00
Yes, to clarify, I’m not making any claim on Android versus Apple and which one is better, who is catching up to whom. Which operating system is ahead or better is essentially irrelevant to the point I’m making.

My main claim revolves around your second sentence: Google is a major primary source of AI research and has access to frontier models before all their customers, especially competitors like Apple who are clearly behind in the AI race and/or not participating in the same way.

In theory, if AI is transformational to developer velocity, Android and all other products under Google’s umbrella should be moving faster than competitors that don’t have early access and preferential wholesale cost AI infrastructure, and they should be clearly iterating faster and better than they did prior to ~2022-2024.

To me, the biggest argument for an AI bubble burst is that companies like Meta and Google won’t actually be able to show their prospective customers that their own workflows have benefitted. Google can’t say “we now ship major [Google Product] features n% faster/better” because there’s no evidence of it. They might make the claim but nobody will believe them.

Major corporations will try the products, start spending $20-200 per engineer per month extra, they’ll see productivity gains of <5% and maybe even see code quality drop, then they’ll decide that the experiment was a bust.

Essentially, this experience will be the most common one: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1r6olcv/an...
by ammmaker | 2026-02-17 14:57:51+00:00
I built a set of contracts where each ENS subdomain (usdc.amm.eth, dai.amm.eth, etc.) points to a Receiver contract. When ETH hits receive(), it wraps to WETH, swaps via Uniswap V3, and sends tokens back to msg.sender. Chainlink price feeds handle slippage protection.

The idea is that any wallet that can send ETH to an ENS name can swap — no dapp, no approve, no frontend needed. Works from hardware wallets, mobile wallets, anything.

Contracts are verified on Etherscan. 0.3% fee. Would love feedback on the approach.
by mos_basik | 2026-02-17 14:58:04+00:00
The more complete version of this line of reasoning is (which I've seen more than once, but no links to hand, sorry) is:

After solidly internalizing the messaging of "teen pregnancy is the worst thing ever" & "sex leads to teen pregnancy", there's no "switch" to make those thought patterns disappear without a trace at the point at which it's "ok" (by whatever metric is relevant to the individual) to participate in sex, child-rearing, etc. So individuals find themselves dealing with long-term guilt at having sex and/or aversion to having children, neither of which is "rational" according to their values but which nonetheless is real and affects their behavior.
by arctic-true | 2026-02-17 14:58:26+00:00
A simpler answer would simply be that, if you lay someone off on the basis that an AI can replace their entire job functionality, you have to keep paying their salary dollar for dollar until they find something else to do. This incentivizes companies to try and figure out creative ways to continue using their existing workforce to maximize the value they get out of AI systems.

You’d counterbalance that - and solve the other problem - by offering massive tax relief for companies who hire junior employees. In the same way that we use tax relief to encourage real estate and infrastructure investment in underserved areas, we can use it to tip the scales of economic rationality toward continuing to employ young people with no experience or specialized expertise.

Notice that neither of these proposals requires redistribution as such (seizing wealth).
by RamblingCTO | 2026-02-17 14:58:39+00:00
Thank you! I don't get how so many people want to see dark patterns everywhere. All arguments miss the big counterargument: in a world where you have competitors, even free ones, you can't fuck around. You need to get it working. it's not a slot machine for me. How on earth are people using it? And if it would be I'd take my money elsewhere (kimi for example, openrouter or whatever). It needs to do my work as correct as possible. That's the business they are in. Tech folks talking about economics is so cringe. It's always just "corporations bad". As if they exist in a vacuum.
by Bender | 2026-02-17 14:58:50+00:00
You know this to be true. You can feel it every time you open an app.

Apps and their related platforms are not the internet. The internet works almost like it did decades ago, just faster and more resilient.

Some of the platforms on the internet may feel fake however. When platforms get big they get infiltrated by people that wish to impose their grift, beliefs and cultures on the people using said platforms. These people automate their efforts via bots and try to start conversations between people and bots. This is why we can't have nice things. I do really think it is that simple.

Oh and the internet itself is far from dead. If anything it is faster and more stable than ever. The internet, not platforms. Platforms can be replaced or rendered a ghost town. Motivate those that run your platforms to block all the bots even if it means the platform may feel less active. Not just block but get creative and punish the botters.
by nemomarx | 2026-02-17 14:59:00+00:00
I feel like people underrate make work a bit. If you look around at our infrastructure in the us, the number of roads and bridges with flaws, decaying buildings, the lack of housing in areas...

It's clear there's some things out there that aren't economically very profitable to do but would be nice to have done. So public works programs could soak up a lot of that and turn labor power on various stuff pretty easily I think.
by strogonoff | 2026-02-17 14:59:08+00:00
It is possible to say that whatever harms we come to as a result of some technology are attributed to one underlying issue or another, never to the technology itself—this is true of any technology, 100% of the time (be it LLMs or guns), because no technology is inherently good or bad; it is always humans using it for those ends.

I would be bold, however, and say that in case of a particularly disastrous outcome it is absolutely vital to solve such underlying issues before we introduce respective technology all over the place.