MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-27 06:49:38+00:00
In that case, what survives and forges ahead is probably some kind of human-AI hybrid. The purely digital AIs will want robotic and possibly even biological bodies, while humans (including some of the people here right now) will want more digital processing capability, so they eventually become one species. Unaugmented homo sapiens will continue to exist on Earth. There will be a continuum of civilization, from tribes to monarchies to communist regimes to democracies, as there are today. But they will all have their technological progress mostly frozen, though there will be some drag from the top which gradually eliminates older forms of civilization. There will be a future iteration of civilization built by the hybrids, and I'm not sure what that would look like yet.
by chii | 2026-02-27 06:50:18+00:00
> A domain using only Cyrillic characters that happen to spell a Latin word (like “аpple” in all-Cyrillic) may still render in the address bar’s font and look identical.

that is very interesting.

I imagine the browser could take some context clues and switch rendering to puny code if the locale of the user is nowhere near a cyrillic region. But that is only going to patch some edge cases and miss others.

Ideally, the solution is password managers everywhere, which don't have this vulnerability, instead of using human eyes to visually recognize web urls and thus is vulnerable.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-27 06:51:16+00:00
>showed everyone else that it is possible to cut overhiring and still maintain business operations.

"maintain" is a strong word here. You can tread water for a while while understaffed, yes. But that's not a secret engineers were unaware of. The titanic took 4 hours to fully sink; same concept with a business as large as twitter.

Too bad the executives figured out that secret and decided they wanted to tread for a while.

>Gaming uses software but I wouldn't call it "tech" - I treat it as Entertainment/Media

Fair enough. I suppose games studios also use buzzwords when it makes them more money. It's a weird overlap because the specialization and rigor needed here is still above a lot of more traditional tech domains. But ultimately the boom/bust cycle reflects much closer to Hollywood than Silicon Valley.

>it doesn't hurt to dabble in side projects that can be monetized into indie games, especially if you have time on your hands and a decent amount of savings.

Not this time around, sadly. But that's my new 5 year plan when things stabilize. Use time after work to lay the groundwork for my own game. Whenever the next slump/crash is after this, I want to have something independent of these coporations to stand on.
by Xylakant | 2026-02-27 06:51:24+00:00
Equating both of these things is dangerous and wrong. It’s not as if these are the same things. Creationism is factually provably wrong by all standards of modern science. Pretending that the position of “we ban teaching things that are known to be wrong” and the position that “we ban teaching things that are by modern standards correct, but uncomfortable to our world view” is a large part of the problem.
by tw1984 | 2026-02-27 06:51:41+00:00
> Does a unilateral guarantee not to build autonomous killbots actually make anyone safer if China makes no such promise, or does that perversely put us at more risk?

China considers all lethal autonomous weapons "unacceptable", calling all countries to ban it. Countries like the US and India refuse to back such proposals. See China's official stands on this matter below.

https://documents.unoda.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Worki...

I totally understand that you got brainwashed by the media, but hey you appearantly have internet access, why can't you just do a little bit research of your own before posting nonsense using imagination as your source of information?
by rrix2 | 2026-02-27 06:52:05+00:00
My first personal computer was a Palm and my earliest programming experiences came with reading these docs, how fun. For a young person whose parents' custody arrangement led to almost every night of sleep under a different roof, a wifi enabled Palm that was always with me was huge and ended up being quite impactful on the arc of my life.

By high school I was writing apps that followed this hig with a fold up keyboard, designing the ui and compiling code on board the device. PalmOS 4 and 5 could be tricked out to be a whole computer, capable of working offline for a week and also could get you up all night on IRC and ebooks. it's hard to imagine using my smartphone offline for a week now....

and most of the apps implemented this hig and were straightforward to use because it was the defeult builtin toolkit largely the same its entire life, progressively enhanced GUIs from 1bit 160x160 to full color 320x480 responsive design... nowadays I'm building a Material3 app in my evenings and i know some day google is gonna make a material4 so that my app looks scuffed up
by remarkEon | 2026-02-27 06:53:25+00:00
Trying to parse this comparison. Are you comparing the withholding of federal funds for certain classes of books to a revolution that installed an Islamic theocracy in Iran?

Can you elaborate on how you think these two things are comparable?

The former is "tax dollars can't be spent on books that depict certain content". The latter is "a revolution lead by Islamic theocrats installs a brutally repressive islamist regime that transformed an otherwise western country into a hellscape". You think these things are the same?
by eichin | 2026-02-27 06:53:25+00:00
BITD the one "fd sanitizer" I ever encountered was "try using the code on VxWorks" which at the time was "posix inspired" at best - fds actually were pointers, so effectively random and not small integers. It didn't catch enough things to be worth the trouble, but it did clean up some network code (ISTR I was working on SNTP and Kerberos v4 and Kerberized FTP when I ran into this...)
by globular-toast | 2026-02-27 06:54:00+00:00
IMO it's because it's more challenging. I've baked everything you've listed and apart from pizza (which is also bread) it's all trivial to do. You just follow a recipe.

Bread is a totally different thing. Only four ingredients: a ground up grass seed, a mineral, a single celled fungus that lives in the dough, and water. The results range from complete disaster to the best thing you've ever eaten. It all depends on your technique.

That's why it has captivated so many and in particular men, as you can get really deep and geeky. There's only so far you can go with banana bread.
by abeppu | 2026-02-27 06:54:17+00:00
I've never seen a roadmap planning process that didn't involve some component of asking departments and teams what needs to be done.

To the extent you have successful products, it's because you have product managers and engineers and data scientists and depending on the product, integration/forward deployed staff. These should be the people with a view to how the product needs to meet the needs of future customers, the challenges faced by existing customers, and the technical components needed to get there. I'm not saying you encourage them to just spitball ideas from ignorance, I'm saying you solicit their expertise on the limits and needs of your products, systems, tools, processes, messaging etc.
by peteforde | 2026-02-27 06:55:09+00:00
I don't know why you believe this, but it's not even remotely accurate.

I didn't want to argue with you, so I did some research.

The global 3D printer market grew from USD$24B in 2024 to $30B in 2025. It's estimated to grow 24% y/y for the next decade: https://www.marketdataforecast.com/market-reports/3d-printer...

If you Google it, this is generally matched by 5-6 different research companies.

Laser cutters are a USD$7B global market today, and also expected to grow around ~8% y/y into the next decade: https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/Laser-Cutti...

A huge number of YouTube channel creators I subscribe to have received Carvera CNC mills over the past few months. Anecdotal but striking. It seems like everyone who left LTT to go solo has a CNC now, even if they usually review graphics cards.

Opulo, the makers of the Lumen PnP cannot achieve less than a 1 month lead time, seemingly no matter how many people they hire or how much factory space they acquire. And that's a pretty niche device, relatively speaking.

In conclusion, you're wrong.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-27 06:57:03+00:00
There is absolutely no need to be torn about anything. Stability is important when you have kids. While I did change jobs 4 times between when I married my wife in 2012 and 2020 when my youngest stepson graduated, my wife was able to work part time in the school system so we could have stable insurance and she could be there for them.

But times are different now. The market isn’t what it was and it’s even worse when you want to stay remote. I live in a tourist area (central Florida), there are very few even enterprise dev jobs in the area. I’m hoping I can stay at my current job long term. I’ve never craved longevity at a job like I do now. I actually like this company. The only other two I liked as much were startups - one went out of business and I left the other when a remote job at AWS fell into my lap in 2020
by alt187 | 2026-02-27 06:58:31+00:00
Whether this was a joke or a backtracking, or this dared waste your oh so precious time- You're missing the forest for the trees. There's extreme covert and even overt hostility between how people stand on AI's gluttonous usage of the commons.

We're about to waltz into a deep period of tension between developers, and people who, empowered by multimillion dollars corporations, bravely violate developers' copyrights in the hopes of replacing their jobs, while bullying these same developers who dare express their discontent.

This is not gonna end well.
by remarkEon | 2026-02-27 06:59:18+00:00
I think you've missed the point.

PRC isn't going to do any of the things you are asking for, and no one expects them to. The threat of an AI powered China is really obvious to me, but apparently the idea of "IP theft and industrial sabotage, but at scale with AI agents instead of human meat sacks" is hard to clearly articulate.

One method, beyond AI powered kill chains, to counter an AI powered China is of course strategic weapons.
Show HN: Orbtx – A physics-based ΔV engine with real-time 3D visualization
by marzhannurbakyt | 2026-02-27 06:59:36+00:00
Hi HN, I’m the creator of ORBTX.

I built this because most tools in astrodynamics are either overly simplistic web calculators or heavyweight, expensive legacy suites that look like they were made in the 90s. I wanted to create a "middle ground": professional-grade orbital computation that is fast, visual, and API-first.

The Tech Stack:

Frontend: Next.js & React.

3D Engine: Three.js (React Three Fiber) for real-time trajectory rendering.

Physics: Custom engine handling classical two-body mechanics (Hohmann and Bi-elliptic transfers).

Key Challenges:
One of the main hurdles was maintaining floating-point precision for astronomical distances within a browser environment while keeping the 3D visualization smooth at 60fps. I’m currently refining the propagator to handle more complex perturbations in future updates.

The Goal:
To move orbital mechanics away from "Excel-engineering" into a modern, developer-ready infrastructure. Think of it as a step toward "Figma for orbital mechanics."

No sign-up required, it's open for testing. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the physics implementation, the API structure, or any edge cases you find!
by fortzi | 2026-02-27 07:00:07+00:00
I don’t know… If the company is so healthy and has some nice financial buffer, I would expect the increased productivity due to AI to be used for more revenue generation.
So either they don’t know how to translate all the quality hires they got into (enough) revenue, they can’t afford it, or maybe they they hired too fast to maintain quality :shrug:
That’s my read at least
by dmit | 2026-02-27 07:00:49+00:00
> If I'm using one syntax, how do I tell you to fix a bug in your syntax?

How about "Hey, your Bean ain't sprouting"? :)

I'm sorry, I feel like I'm not communicating this properly. Um, have you ever discussed with someone a book or a TV show that was translated into your language? Did you have problems referring to the exact parts you liked or disliked? :)
by peteforde | 2026-02-27 07:01:44+00:00
Reasonable question and hopefully an interesting answer...

The simple lack of reasons to use TTL logic in 2026 was exactly why I didn't know what the deal was. It'd never come up, but I'd see it referenced.

I'm self-taught and in defiance of the people who insist that LLMs turn our brains to passive mush, the more things I learn the more things I have to be curious about.

LLMs remove the gatekeeping around asking "simple" questions that tend to make EEs roll their eyes. I didn't know, so I asked and now I know!
by njoyablpnting | 2026-02-27 07:01:50+00:00
> On Remotion, yeah, not sure it's the right fit, but honestly the sheer capability of models at writing code these days has surprised me.

Just to clarify I still think code-driven graphics is the correct approach, but in my case I opted for a different library with a more powerful imperative API.

> Also noticed they have an experimental client-side rendering version built on mediabunny

Yes, I've tried it out, it was a non-starter for me because it only supports canvas-based components, and Remotion didn't seem to have good support for text on canvas because they rely on HTML for most of that.

> On WebCodecs, there are a fair set of challenges, but we wanted to take the bet

Totally understand the appeal and immediacy of a browser app, I was lured in by that too. For what it's worth I've reported showstopping WebCodecs issues in Chromium and there's basically no indication they'll get fixed on a predictable timeline.

Another issue I ran into that I just remembered is animating text on canvas. It's basically impossible to get pixel-perfect anti-aliased text animation using a canvas. I would have to dig up the exact details but it was something to do with how browsers handle sub-pixel positioning for canvas text, so there was always some jitter when animating. This coupled with the aforementioned WebCodecs issues led me to conclude that professional-quality video rendering is not currently possible in the browser environment. Aliasing, jitter and artifacts are immediately perceptible and are the type of thing that users have zero tolerance for (speaking from experience).

This is not meant to be discouraging in any way, I've just been very deep into this rabbithole and there are some very nasty well-hidden pitfalls.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 07:02:12+00:00
> You can tread water for a while while understaffed, yes. But that's not a secret engineers were unaware of. The titanic took 4 hours to fully sink; same concept with a business as large as twitter.

The brutal reality is that engineering degradation doesn't neccesarily impact business outcomes - look at Crowdstrike following the Windows driver incident.

Companies purchase software because the alternative means building in-house. Even in a world with Claude Code and Cursor, that is difficult for companies that are not tech-first.

If engineering degradation impacts profit centers, then it is rectified ASAP. Sadly, a lot of dev work is maintainance work for which it is difficult to make a business case to justify staffing.

> I suppose games studios also use buzzwords when it makes them more money

Somewhat.

A major reason a lot of entertainment is trying to rebrand as "tech" is to demand better valuations a la Netflix, Spotify, Epic, and Valve but those are all platform-first plays that entered the IP later (excluding Epic and Valve ofc) not the other way around like traditional media is trying, and in a lot of cases traditional media was a loss-leader or prestige division of much more profitable Telecos or Tech companies (eg. from Sony Pictures eons ago to Apple Studio today).

The mechanics of VC and Entertainment do overlap somewhat, but the operational differences between the two are massive due to the need to monetize IP in a B2C manner in the entertainment space, whereas monetizing via Enterprise, B2B, and B2B2C is much easier.
Show HN: Got tired of writing promos so I made it one-click
by minsingjin | 2026-02-27 07:02:24+00:00
I love building open source, but writing promo posts always felt time-consuming and exhausting. Paid tools are expensive, and free ones are too limited.

So I built my own tool:

Auto Hongmyungbo —
“Drop a rough draft → get platform-optimized posts → auto-publish.”

What it does

1. Draft input
Just throw in your promo, thoughts, or messy notes.
If your idea is vague, use the built-in Hook Ping-Pong feature to generate and refine strong hooks.

2. Platform-optimized generation
With one click, it transforms your draft into posts tailored for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and more — each matching the platform’s tone.

3. Instant refinement
Edit directly, or prompt the AI like:
“Make this sharper for X” or “More professional for LinkedIn.”
Refine in real time before final approval.

4. Auto posting
The browser opens automatically, inserts your content, and publishes it.

I’ve been using it daily, and I thought it would be way more fun to build it together — so I open-sourced it.

GitHub stars, feedback, and PRs are always welcome!
by petterroea | 2026-02-27 07:02:58+00:00
I have many friends and loved ones with ADHD. It's very common in the IT industry, and probably >50% of people in the hacker spaces I frequent are neurodivergent in some way.

What I wrote is my empirical experience, but also what friends and loved ones tell me. I have friends with ADHD who have gone through the exact "wow I'm getting a lot done" -> "wow this is actually wasting a lot of time in hindsight" thing I described. If you think others lived experience is degrading to you it may be hitting a sore spot. What if I had ADHD? My friends with ADHD have the same opinion. Would you then say you were degraded by another person with ADHD that were offering their lived experience?

Maybe we live in very different countries but help has been good for everyone I know who got it. More want it the problem is money. You basically have to be suicidal to get public help, and private costs a fortune. It is a psychologists whole job to use their knowledge to help you self reflect and then act on it. It is uncomfortable, and I can understand why you may experience it as degrading. I don't know about the kind of help you've tried, though.

I hope you get the help you want.
by goku12 | 2026-02-27 07:03:29+00:00
Perhaps it is intuitive for you based on how you learned it. But their explanation is more intuitive for anyone dealing with low level stuff like POSIX-style embedded programming, low level unix-y C programming, etc, since it ties into what they already know. There is also a limit to how much you can learn about the underlying system and its unseen potential by learning from the abstractions alone.

> Respectfully, what was the purpose of this comment, really?

Judging by its replies alone, not everyone considers it purposeless. And even though I know enough to use shell redirections correctly, I still found that comment insightful. This is why I still prefer human explanations over AI. It often contains information you didn't think you needed. HN is one of the sources of the gradually dwindling supply of such information. That comment is still on-topic. Please don't discourage such habits.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-27 07:04:12+00:00
I never said health was just fintech.

My primary point is that poor health outcomes in the US (fully admit my views are US-centric given my experience and knowledge) have nothing to do with a lack of technology and everything to do with structural systems issues rooted in government policies.

I'm a big fan of Dr. Jessica Knurick, who publishes at length about many of the systems that cause and contribute to population-wide poor health in the US. Here's one article taking about food systems and nutrition: https://open.substack.com/pub/drjessicaknurick/p/the-food-sy... .
by techpression | 2026-02-27 07:04:14+00:00
Proving a negative and all that. I’ve definitely seen it do crazy damage, features that should take a week takes six months and turn out to need another year of fixing.
But that’s the easy part, the hard part is how it affects culture and how the skilled people leave because they’re severely underutilized.

So when some people talk about tech debt we don’t talk about perfect code or file structure, it’s about painting a wall in a tropical rain, building a house during an earthquake etc. So count yourself happy I guess.
by Parae | 2026-02-27 07:04:55+00:00
> So are the vast majority of Israelis, coming from Arab countries, not Zionist?

Yes, they are. Being a European movement doesn't mean non-european cannot be zionist.
Fascism is also a European movement as it emerged in Italy.

> When is a migration of people to a land isn't colonization

When there are no settlements, no oppression of indigenous people, no land exploitation, no discrimination law made by the colonizer.
It's not "in my book", it's in every books not made by a colonizer.
by ianlpaterson | 2026-02-27 07:04:59+00:00
I've been running Claude Code as my primary dev environment for ~6 weeks now, and the planning/execution split is real but undersells the bigger insight: file-based memory is the operating system layer that makes it work.

Claude Code is stateless between sessions. Every /compact or context window overflow wipes the slate. The fix is a CLAUDE.md file that acts as a boot loader, plus a memory/ directory tree organized by topic. The agent reads its own instructions on startup, writes lessons when it makes mistakes, and loads topic files on demand.

The result is an agent that gets better over time despite having no persistent state. I've got ~200 condensed lessons across 10 topic files, and the error rate on repeated tasks has dropped noticeably.

The separation of planning and execution is step 1. The separation of ephemeral context and durable memory is step 2, and that's where the compounding returns live.
by paulf38 | 2026-02-27 07:05:14+00:00
The problem is that there are many many people that are falling over themselves to believe bogus claims about false positives.

Outside of Valgrind bugzilla bug reports these claims almost never stand up to close scrutiny. Not that the people making the claims ever perform any scrutiny. It's usually "my application doesn't crash so it must be a false positive" or "I'm sure that I initialised that variable" or "it's not really a leak, the OS will reclaim the memory".
by placebo | 2026-02-27 07:05:48+00:00
Grok's thoughts on the matter:

"In an ideal world, I'd want xAI to emulate the maturity Anthropic showed here: affirm willingness to help defend democracies (including via classified/intel/defense tools), sacrifice short-term revenue if needed to block adversarial access, but stand firm on refusing to enable the most civilizationally corrosive misuses when the tech simply isn't ready or the societal cost is too high. Saying "no" to powerful customers—even the DoD—when the ask undermines core principles is hard, but it's the kind of spine that builds long-term trust and credibility."

It also acknowledged that this is not what is happening...
by Leftium | 2026-02-27 07:06:25+00:00
Try Moonshine with a browser GUI:

uv tool install rift-local && rift-local serve --open

This opens RIFT[1], my web frontend for local transcription with a copy button. You can also compare against Web Speech API and other models (including cloud API's).

https://github.com/Leftium/rift-local

[1]: https://rift-transcription.vercel.app/local-setup