MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-02-25 23:48:36+00:00
Doesn't Discord require every user to create a new account, even if they're already using Discord in some other community? So when they say "a Discord server", they really mean it--they're like droplets running independent deployments or whatever (albeit managed/hosted instances run by and upgraded by Discord the company); not like subreddits, right?

So isn't the best way to migrate people to XMPP to prop up a Discord clone that's as close a copy as the Discord-clone community can manage, and then tell all the people "Join my Discord server", with the trick being that it's really your server, not Discord's, and that server is powered by XMPP?
by SR2Z | 2026-02-25 23:48:40+00:00
Even in the US, I4 engines are by far the most popular. Most consumer cars are built for fuel economy with the one notable exception being the suburban tacticool pickup truck, which are often modded to burn MORE fuel.

It does not hurt that you can easily get 200+ horsepower from the factory with one, either. My car is a series hybrid with an Atkinson-cycle I4 but it still bursts to 200hp because it's a hybrid.
by mojifwisi | 2026-02-25 23:48:49+00:00
Tree-sitter is merely a tool for generating an AST for a given language. LSPs on the other hand have way more capabilities (formatting, diagnostics, project-wise go to definition, inlay hints, documentation on hover, etc.) as you can see in its specification.[0] They can't really replace one another.

[0]: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi...
by blintz | 2026-02-25 23:48:50+00:00
They are playing a bit fast and loose with the word "banned".

> Your smartphone contains materials processed through semiconductor fabrication, chemical etching, metal anodizing, glass tempering, and electroplating — none of which you could start a new facility for in California without years of litigation.

I agree that we should make it easier to do things, specifically by decreasing the amount of litigation involved in doing stuff. But the risk of a bunch of litigation isn't a ban, right? I get that it's trying to be attention-grabbing, but calling it a ban when it's not just sort of confuses the issue.
by dom96 | 2026-02-25 23:48:56+00:00
I think that it is a technical issue to a certain extent. Governments could make it very easy to prove humanity (and age) in a secure manner that doesn't leak your personal details to the third party that wants to perform the verification.

I don't see that as "requiring ID".

I think the real question is how much do we care that our online spaces are composed of not just AI bots, but also sock puppet accounts controlled by various people (from governments, rich people, all the way to harassers that use alt accounts) wanting to trick us.
by yassi_dev | 2026-02-25 23:49:55+00:00
If you work with Django long enough, and at significant scale, you live long enough to b̶e̶c̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶v̶i̶l̶l̶a̶i̶n̶ make hacky extensions to the admin.

I am hoping this work makes it easier for people to start extending the admin in a normalized way.
by atleastoptimal | 2026-02-25 23:50:08+00:00
> In England, where 28 percent of all bus passengers are on concessionary fares for age or disability, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is supposed to have said, ‘If a man finds himself a passenger on a bus having attained the age of 26, he can count himself a failure in life’.

I think this general attitude is the source of the general poor quality of public transit in the US (even though the quote refers to the UK). Public transit is considered a mode of the designated underclass, and nobody making policy decisions considers themselves a member of that class. In the US you aren't really considered an "active participant" in white-collar society unless you have a car (though NYC is a notable exception to this maxim, it holds true in essentially all other cities)
by yardie | 2026-02-25 23:50:17+00:00
Interesting website.

"Semiconductor Fabrication (7nm/5nm)

The main processor requires ultra-clean rooms, toxic gases (arsine, phosphine), and chemical etching. No new fabs have been built in CA in over a decade. Intel, TSMC, and Samsung all build elsewhere."

Phosphine is pretty nasty stuff. California was full of EPA Superfund sites when the government got stuck with cleaning up all the toxic waste. Politicians and voters went, "Eff that!" after manufacturers left the state, but left their barrels of shit behind.
by timpieces | 2026-02-25 23:50:34+00:00
Similar approach is to create a master sketch which is a sketch that defines the major dimensions of your design. You can then 'attach' bodies and planes (or LCSs) to different parts of the sketch.
The approaches are similar but it allows constraining all of the distances relative to each other using the sketcher rather than hard-coding or using math expressions.
It's the only workflow I've found that doesn't have me pulling my hair out with more complex designs, but it definitely has downsides too (requires excessive subshape binders, sketcher is slow, overall it feels slower than bottom-up design).
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-25 23:50:50+00:00
If we consolidate them you wind up with the same situation we have for everything already. The big megacorps who's paid for experts and lawyers (and ability to donate to politics) to tell you why the river glowing is safe get to do what they want and the upstart who may challenge that bigCo to do better never gets off the ground. But I guess if the goal is simply to declare everything "fixed" because the government has agreed it's compliant then consolidation is fine.
by bilbo0s | 2026-02-25 23:51:04+00:00
But you also want smart phones, electric cars, and a navy

This is kind of disingenuous.

I mean, not everything used in California, needs to be manufactured in California. Why not manufacture it in New Mexico? Or Arkansas for that matter?

What you're implying, is that Wisconsin, Nebraska, Maine, Florida, etc, etc, etc, should all build out the manufacturing base to manufacture things that are used in those states. That's not really how a healthy economy should work.

I guess what I'm pointing out is that, we don't need to manufacture smartphones in South Dakota. It's perfectly acceptable to manufacture them in, say, New Jersey, and then ship them to South Dakota. Similarly, we don't need to manufacture everything in California.
by burkaman | 2026-02-25 23:51:05+00:00
The Grandfatherd-in section is incredibly misleading. Look at the Semiconductor Fabrication section, for example. The implication is that these are the only fabs in the state, they wouldn't be able to get new permits today, and the red dots indicate that it would be "effectively impossible" to open any other ones. In fact (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...) there are at least 18 fabs in California, and these are just two random examples of particularly old ones. Obviously they couldn't reopen under the same permits they got in the 60s, why would anyone expect that to be the case?
by mcpmessenger | 2026-02-25 23:51:08+00:00
Quick update for the technical crowd: We just pushed v0.2.2 to NPM.

We've officially moved past the 'honor system' to a hardened x402 on-chain settlement logic. The server now performs real-time verification of USDC transfers on Base before granting credits to solve the gas-to-value friction ($1.00 for 1,000 frames).

500 Frame Sponsorship: We've baked the 500-frame sponsorship directly into the build. If you run npx -y glazyrviz, the Big Iron node handles the first 500 frames on the house—no wallet needed for the initial benchmark.

Detailed build notes on the ThinLTO/CFI hardening and the Viz-patching logic: https://glazyrviz.blogspot.com/2026/02/inside-zero-copy-engi...
by prawn | 2026-02-25 23:51:33+00:00
In Australia, as zoning changes, developers and owners alike tend to take advantage. If a house was being rented out, they might rebuild as 2-4 homes and rent those out. Otherwise, an owner might rebuild as two semi-detached homes, live in one and sell/rent the second to finance the build. If it is owned by someone who prefers to keep what they have, the next generation might not feel the same. Where there are opportunities, developers (and owners) will find them.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-25 23:51:37+00:00
You refuse to understand the difference between capacity and utilization. That mass of solar still only makes about 1/6th the actual number of watts of power delivered to the grid. Anyone who shows you capacity numbers about energy generation is intentionally lying to you. Capacity factor matters. The capacity factor of nuclear is .9. For Hydro and FF, its .6. For solar its .1. That means 9 watts of solar capacity generates the same amount of power as 1 watt of nuclear capacity or 1.5 watts of Hydro capacity. That's why you keep getting shown capacity instead of utilization (the number that matters).
by mathstuf | 2026-02-25 23:52:15+00:00
I had an '89 Cherokee to 235k and sold it for ~60% of my purchse price after 6 years after garages only quoted insanity for the smallest things (Dad is a mechanic, but the commute there for repairs isn't feasible on the regular and apartment living is not conducive to the required garage/tools).

Dad has seen AMC I-6s go 400k before the transmission died and ended its run.
by Bender | 2026-02-25 23:52:56+00:00
I somewhat agree but if I get contractors they will likely be coming from one or two states away. If the fecal matter is splattering the fan it is unlikely they will make it this far. I will also have the design reviewed by multiple third parties to identify security weaknesses and have those addressed as part of the contracts. And then of course there will be party poppers long before they get close.

This is all just fantasy of course as I have not yet found a highly rated company within a few states that have vast experience with upper-end UHPC 60K PSI which has to be done right the first time and I need to get the designs baked first addressing all the "Errm Achtuwallly" memes.

Other comments talk about society collapsing. I am totally fine with that. I will set up a copy of HN and make silly comments on it then as admin give myself points and reply using alternate accounts. Then I will start some contrarian arguments and then ragebait the contrarian personality. Another personality will step in and calm everything down. Then 48 hours later another alt will make a totally unrelated comment and just after that there will be spam for bitcoin in Uganda. All of this powered by the Sun and my farts. Some poor bastard will happen across this site on Meshtastic.
by gopalv | 2026-02-25 23:53:24+00:00
> the future is of course BEV

That's probably the reason - we only need dressage horses and pure bloods now that the real draft horse is getting put to pasture.

These are no longer workhorses.

Six cylinders are the smoothest engines out there.

Honda used to have a 1L 6 cylinder engine for their bikes - the Gold wing has a 6 cylinder still.

The perimeter of the piston goes down in relation to its area (& multiplied by BMEP) when the radius goes up - looking at you Africa Twin.

The perimeter is where the unburnt fuel lives and gets caught up in the emission rules. So fewer larger cylinders is better according to EPA - 500cc each, maybe.

If we're only going to have hobby vehicles with internal combustion, then a six cylinder or doubling up to a v-12 makes sense.

They're toys for the weekend, not to put a 100k miles on it.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-25 23:53:48+00:00
Do you not think it’s possible that there are many places where people do care about their health, but they are forced to allow pollution because the alternative is grinding poverty and eventual starvation?

Do you think the ship breakers in Bangladesh do it for fun?

This outsourcing of misery is the absolute worst feature of Western neoliberalism. You get a two for one, dumping misery on other countries because it’s cheaper, while outsourcing strategic concerns because they are “too dirty.” It’s NIMBYism taken to its logical conclusion.
by neom | 2026-02-25 23:53:54+00:00
35 is the perfect time to catalyze that knowledge into wisdom and use it for your next chapter. I stood exactly where you stand now, I had isolated myself. I emailed dang to delete all my hn posts, and my next step was to stop. I was your age, I was feeling how you feel. I got very drunk, I called my mother and cried, she focused me on the future not the present or the past, and now many years have passed and my life is stable and I am happy. I am grateful I went through that, I am grateful I am out of it, and I am grateful to be here alive typing this to you. For whatever praying is worth, I pray you are able to find the resolve and peace you need to continue to live, no doubt the world is a better place with you in it, no doubt. I and may others love you.
by naasking | 2026-02-25 23:54:32+00:00
> the Jews got there in the first place with the precise, declared intent of colonising somebody else's land. That's the whole point of Zionism

Yes, but they were doing it by legally purchasing land, not through violent displacement. Arabs then rioted against Jewish communities, and that started the cycle of violence.

And note how this push for Zionism coincides with a global expansion of antisemitism after WWI. The only place Jews could find reliable support was among their people and protected by the British who were bound to uphold the Barfour declaration.

> What you have to look at is the big picture: who is occupying someone else's territory?

But if you ignore the history, you can't actually determine whose territory it is can you? Jews purchased land from Arabs, Arabs repeatedly started conflicts with them and Jews repeatedly beat them back. Losers in a conflict lose territory, and the armistice following Israel's founding drew the expanded lines.

As for the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank today, I agree it's problematic, but what exactly Israel supposed to do when they keep getting attacked? They were attacked after the armistice with Jordan and Egypt, so once again, they didn't start anything.

If Mexico repeatedly attacked the US, they would do the same thing. Hamas continues to have over 70% support among Gazans, even now, and Hamas murders anyone who speaks against them.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-25 23:54:41+00:00
English has words with spaces. Boiling water isn't one of them, but in general, if you can't insert another adjective between an adjective-noun pair, it's linguistically a compound word that we happen to write with a space. "Fast food" is a good example. It's not simply an adjective-noun pair, as demonstrated by the fact that you sound like a crazy person if you try to insert literally anything between "fast" and "food" in "I eat too much fast food". The "fast food" can be modified all you like, as in "I eat too much lukewarm fast food", "I eat too much depressing fast food", but you can't treat "fast" as merely an adjective of "food", else "I eat too much fast, filling food" wouldn't strip the sentence of the implication I eat at McDonalds or whatever.
by panarky | 2026-02-25 23:55:01+00:00
Not just the mobile app, but also Claude Code Web is super unreliable.

Frequently chews through lots of expensive Opus tokens, then it just stops with no communication about why or what's next.

No way to tell what it's done, what's remaining to complete.

Only choice is to re-run everything and eat the cost of the wasted time and tokens.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-25 23:55:30+00:00
Cool on you for re-examining your position (irregardless of the outcome of it). Sadly I'm past the point of being that person who felt kinship/a bond with Europe/Europeans, and didn't instill it in my kids. Like I said it'll probably be a moot point when my generation passes so guys won't have to deal with it forever.
by dirk94018 | 2026-02-25 23:55:47+00:00
Aren't LLMs supposed to write machine code directly, no more programming languages at all, any day now? Joking aside, programming languages are a good mental exercise. Forth was my first language after assembly. Didn't like the stack juggling and ended up using its macro assembler more and more, it became something else, conventions over code I suppose, like what to keep in registers. Forth (and Unix) got the composability requirement right, the testing of individual units.
by konaraddi | 2026-02-25 23:56:20+00:00
I think that’s an awesome idea and I like that it proactively gets ahead of the problem instead of the retroactive approach like moderation today. I’m interested in a very similar goal; I’ve been working on a guide on anti patterns in internet discourses at https://odap.konaraddi.com in hopes of it being used to make discourse on the internet more productive and pleasant (the guide is a work in progress).
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-02-25 23:56:33+00:00
I recently posted a youtube short of some of my drawings I did on my iPad using Procreate and moving them into Illustrator.

Got several comments saying they were "AI slop."

Even had a screen cap of my drawing process.

Kinda funny to think my drawings, which have likely "trained" AI image generators, are now getting accused of being AI.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-25 23:56:36+00:00
Yep, there's a reason we have the industry term "humanization" in sound design, composition and arrangement.

Tons of work has been done on various modes of humanization by trying to parameterize and modulate these aspects over time. Timing accuracy, velocity variance, chance, etc.

A well-played instrument certainly feels like someone speaking and expressing themselves to you. There are attempts to capture this with MPE instruments such as the Osmose, or Imogen Heap's MiMU gloves.

https://www.expressivee.com/2-osmose

https://mimugloves.com/
by pyuser583 | 2026-02-25 23:56:42+00:00
European countries aren’t known for strong privacy against the state. There are exceptions, but the EU’s “privacy rights” are almost exclusively against corporations.

American privacy, by contrast, is almost exclusively focused on state surveillance.

There are holes, the biggest being that foreigners on foreign soil have no privacy rights. Nor do the dead.

But I’m not impressed with the “rights” Europeans have against state surveillance.

Europeans aren’t willing to spend the money to do massive spy programs. Ok, fine. But that’s not the same as having civil liberties opposition.

Switzerland has a reputation, good and bad, for strong privacy. But that’s not the norm.
by teaearlgraycold | 2026-02-25 23:57:13+00:00
I don't think it makes a good case for itself. No automotive paint shops sounds kind of ridiculous. I don't know anything about that industry but there has to be a way to paint cars in a safe way, right??

But lumping that in with semiconductor fabs, which are extremely toxic, makes me wonder how many of these banned industries I don't want in my state. I think if we want to build them in the US maybe don't build them in the most agriculturally productive and highest population state. Or first figure out how to do it without turning the US into China with its "cancer villages" from poisoned river water.

I'm not defending the dysfunctional CA bureaucracy, but the site should probably focus on specific cases of government-produced insanity than a general complaint that certain industries are banned from operation.
by helterskelter | 2026-02-25 23:57:16+00:00
You still have to wonder why the south never built factories to compete with the north. They exported most of their cotton to the north just to buy it back again the the form of textiles, so slavery working by hand wasn't able to compete with factories on that level.

I'd venture that the north's earlier industrialization built up experience and supporting infrastructure which made it a dubious business prospect for any southerner that might have considered building a factory, along with the fact that making textiles by manpower alone made less money than picking cotton and exporting it.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-25 23:57:18+00:00
>Do you think the average medieval farmer was questioning how everything around him worked while he worked day and night trying not to starve?

I think the average medieval farmer understood how to harvest food and draw water, yes. This isn't as esoteric as using SSH in 2026. Knowing where your necessary resources come from should be basic knowledge.

For a more modern context of why: I hope people don't simply rant about "why are groceries expensive" and simply believe that a single politician is the reason and that an upcoming politician will magically lower prices. A medieval farmer would not see their crops having low yields and ponder why there's less food.

>This is like saying the internet is when two computer send 1s and 0s over copper wire.

If they aren't specialized in computers, it'd be a start. Things are abstracted, so I'm expecting less knowledge of bits and assembly and more about landlines and isps.

In short, if you use and pay for something everyday, you should understand who to hold accountable when it breaks, or suddenly gets more expensive. Knowing that one breadcrumb can start the trail for further thinking.
by anotherevan | 2026-02-25 23:57:23+00:00
> assume I'm an LLM

I've noticed a habit of late of people accusing a comment of being LLM generated if they disagree with it. It was getting quite tiresome a few weeks ago but seems to have died down.

I suppose it is possible that they are actually LLMs making the accusations? :-)

(I'm one of those weirdos that try to use proper grammar and complete sentences in text messages and instant messages.)
by builder51216 | 2026-02-25 23:57:59+00:00
But does LLM actually learn from each round? The chart does not show improvements in win rate across rounds...

And what is the game state here exactly? Is LLM able to even perceive game state? If game state is what we can see on UI, then it seems pretty high-dimensional and token-intensive. I am not sure whether LLMs with their current capabilities and context windows can even perceive so token-intensive game state effectively...
by TheTriunePrism | 2026-02-25 23:58:17+00:00
"Spot on. The 'edge loops' analogy is the perfect physical manifestation of what I mean by functional DNA.

It proves that without 'Intent for the future' (the Seed), any output is just a static corpse. In my broader framework of the Spiritual Life Archiving System, we see this everywhere: systems that look complete at a glance but lack the underlying logic to survive 'animation' or real-world pressure.

This is exactly why we need to move from Generative Slop toward Architectural Stewardship. Glad to see the 'Internal Agency' framing resonates in the 3D space."
by nicbou | 2026-02-25 23:58:41+00:00
I might not be writing code forever, but it's only a small part of my job, and an even smaller part of my identity. I will eventually lose my business to AI, too, but even if that happened tomorrow, it would still have been worth it. It filled my coffers, provided me with a wonderful lifestyle and helped thousands of people.

Perhaps the gravy train will come to an end. I might have to wake up to an alarm, commute to an office and tighten my belt a bit. Or perhaps I can spend less time building things, and more time understanding the people I build them for. My business always hinged on empathy, not technical prowess.

Besides, no matter how bad things get, I will still enjoy riding my bicycle, having tea on my balcony, tending to my garden and painting watercolours.

Even if the online spaces I once inhabited are drowned out by AI noise, we can still grill and have potlucks. We can retreat to the cozyweb, or just log off entirely.[0]

I guess what I'm trying to say is that my coping mechanism is to go touch grass.

[0] https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web, https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-th...