MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by u_sama | 2026-02-25 10:10:23+00:00
No it actually isnt a proposal by "USAian", it is a homegrown issue. I dont care about American idiocy because I dont live there. On the other hand I live in the EU and thus I care about our idiocy. Should I be ok with authoritarianism because "China is also authoritarian".

Please tell me, what Russian propaganda pushed Germany to use its anti-semitism laws to deport foreign students who were protesting against the actions happening in Palestine. We have to stop with the "but look aborad its worse" mentality
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-25 10:10:32+00:00
You're right of course. For me the difference maker is in seeing on a projection chart that if I just cancel 2x zwift, disney and netflix, I can save up to:

Savings from Cuts

€11,048

€60/mo @ 8%

within 10 years. That's HUGE! While the 60 Euro a month seems kind of irrelevant on its own.
by tpm | 2026-02-25 10:12:50+00:00
> were already connected historically with logistics and culture
> Georgia, on the other hand, is surrounded by non-EU countries
> Georgia is super patriarchal and conservative

Greece at the time they entered had no land connection to the rest of EU, completely different language and alphabet etc., and also was "super patriarchal and conservative" FWIW.

But of course you have no interest in factual discourse, you are only here to spew mass-murderer propaganda.
by rowanG077 | 2026-02-25 10:14:08+00:00
This was not undergraduate math in my case, but I still don't agree.

I don't think anyone of average intelligence can excel at undergraduate math. It of course depends on the degree and the school. Can anyone with average intelligence excel at an undergraduate math course in community college for their psychology degree? Probably yes. But an undergraduate math course at oxford as part of a maths degree? Not for sure not.

I think you are severely underestimating how much intelligence factors in how fast and even what at all you can learn. Take the opposite end of the spectrum. The US army rejects candidates with an IQ of ~85 or lower. Because they have found this group cannot contribute meaningfully. Let that sink in. Just a drop of 15 IQ points means the US army has decided you cannot be effectively taught anything to a minimum degree of competence. Now consider that the average IQ of a mathematician is 130 (https://realiqtest.webflow.io/posts/iq-by-occupation-a-compr...).
by wangzhongwang | 2026-02-25 10:14:51+00:00
This reminds me of the classic results showing Turing completeness of things like sendmail.cf and CSS+HTML. The trick of using directory nesting depth as a counter is clever — it essentially turns the filesystem into a tape. I wonder if there is a practical upper bound from filesystem limits (e.g. PATH_MAX) that would make this more like a bounded automaton in practice.
by vidarh | 2026-02-25 10:17:00+00:00
I can't read the article, but on a general note based on this NPR article on the same book[1], his argument appear to be more of the anti-intellectual embodiment nonsense, based on "feelings" and capability of suffering. But sensory input is just data. Maybe it will turn out that they will need that sensory input, but there is no reasonable basis for assuming they can't be given it - real or simulated.

The only thing that would be remotely convincing to me on this topic would be evidence that a) humans can exceed the Turing computable, and b) that whatever mechanism allows that is inherently impossible to replicate or simulate. As it stands we have neither.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5713514/michael-pollan-...
by alexmorley | 2026-02-25 10:19:12+00:00
> "anyone can build a payment processor, nobody can get regulatory approval."

If you want to become a bank regulatory approval is hard. If you don't then its necessary but not the biggest barrier by far. Building trust with card networks, merchants & banks, interfacing with card networks, optimizing acceptance rates to a high level against the black box of card networks etc.

And then you still wouldn't make any money because the margins are extremely low on processing payments themselves - so either you have to have massive scale or have a bunch of value added services that you charge more for. For which you also need a serious commercial engine to be able to sell to either loads of enterprises or some very large ones (who will rarely sign exclusive deals - they will just give you a share of wallet so they can transfer traffic over at will).

Card networks are another story...
A thought on quantum error correction: accuracy without replay feels fragile
by enigmaticsaini | 2026-02-25 10:19:35+00:00
I’ve been thinking about quantum error correction work lately, and one thing keeps bothering me.

A lot of effort goes into reporting decoder accuracy improvements, but much less into whether those results are replayable over time or safe to compare after assumptions change.

In practice, small shifts in noise behavior, detector mapping, or measurement stability can quietly invalidate earlier conclusions. Often everything still “looks reasonable,” so regressions go unnoticed until much later.

It feels similar to early distributed systems work, before reproducibility, rollback, and auditability became normal engineering expectations.

I’m curious how people here think about:

replaying historical syndrome data against newer decoders

surfacing stability or confidence in decoder outputs, not just accuracy

deciding when results shouldn’t be compared at all

Is this already well handled in some parts of the field, or is it still an open gap?
by mamonster | 2026-02-25 10:20:07+00:00
I read the piece but IMO this there is a hidden last step not mentioned:

Present in the article:

1) Core banking was good in the 70s - True

2) Core banking sucks now - Also true

Missing:

3) The switching costs for a major bank are insanely high and no regulator (to my knowledge) has given buy-in for an easier regulatory framework while these systems are moved. The result is that you will have to run 2 books while you transition over and work out all the kinks, then also need to port all the historical data. There is no management team that is going to okay this spike in operational complexity without the regulator giving them a hand.

> Here is the most telling evidence that core banking as an architectural philosophy is obsolete: virtually every new bank built in the last decade has explicitly rejected it.

>Monzo, Starling, Revolut, Nubank, Chime, TymeBank, and dozens of other digital banks have built around domain driven design and event driven architecture from the ground up.

Every single one of these neo-banks has so far only done the "easiest" part of banking, i.e offering a checking account, some savings/investments and maybe basic consumer loan. The current regulatory environment heavily favors universal banks and the problems start once you try entering into commercial/IB/mortgages.

I have friends at UBS and just moving all the clients from the Credit Suisse platform has been a massive shitshow in all departments and already went past their internal deadlines.
by latexr | 2026-02-25 10:20:15+00:00
> “We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models,”

How magnanimous! They are only thinking of others, you see. They are rejecting their safety pledge for you.

> “We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead.”

Oops, said the quiet part out loud that it’s all about money. “I mean, if all of our competitors are kicking puppies in the face, it doesn’t make sense for us to not do it too. Maybe we’ll also kick kittens while we’re at it”.

For all of you who thought Anthropic were “the good guys”, I hope this serves as a wake up call that they were always all the same. None of them care about you, they only care about winning.
by ben_w | 2026-02-25 10:20:16+00:00
There's only so much of it to spend before they run out.

I don't pretend to have detailed domain knowledge here, I may have seen other people's GenAI output rather than reality*, but the numbers people are throwing around for this stuff sum to trillions of USD, slightly higher than other (same caveat, perhaps also GenAI output*) claims I've seen about the total supply of money in the global venture capital markets.

* I miss the days when I could make a decent guess as to which websites were reliable and which were BS
by pjmlp | 2026-02-25 10:20:26+00:00
They did survive, Qt, VCL, FireMonkey, POCO, but the dark energy of the Electron force it too mighty.

Yet another history lesson, before OOP, there was Yourdon Structured Method, and plenty of C enterprise architects jumped into it.

The GoF book used Smalltalk and C++, predating Java by a couple of years.

The Booch Method used C++, and predates Java for a decade.

Ah and there was that whole operating system written in an OOP C dialect, including its drivers, NeXTSTEP, which also survives to this day, with more consumer deployments than the Year of Desktop Linux.
by robkop | 2026-02-25 10:20:31+00:00
We’ve got a long way to go in optimising our environments for these models. Our perception of a terminal is much closer to feeding a video into Gemini than reading a textbook of logs. But we don’t make that ax affordance at the moment.

I wrote a small game for my dev team to experience what it’s like interacting through these painful interfaces over the summer www.youareanagent.app

Jump to the agentic coding level or the mcp level to experience true frustration (call it empathy). I also wrote up a lot more thinking here www.robkopel.me/field-notes/ax-agent-experience/
by nothrabannosir | 2026-02-25 10:20:50+00:00
> He made a bold claim that one day it might reach $100k per coin. I remember thinking it sounded unrealistic - and even if it wasn't, I wasn't going to break my rule.

> ... The opportunity cost came out to tens of millions of dollars.

It doesn't sound, though, like you'd have held until 100k. This calculation only applies to people who'd have held for some reason; e.g. just after the conversation, you slipped into a coma and you just woke up now.

But I usually hear it from people who "could've bought at $2 but didn't!"

If you didn't buy at $2, you wouldn't have held at $4. If you didn't buy at $300, you wouldn't have held at $600. Etc.

Me neither fwiw :)
by nkrisc | 2026-02-25 10:21:32+00:00
I first heard about bitcoin sometime in college (2007-2011). At the time I thought about buying a couple just for fun (might have been a few dollars worth? Can’t remember). But I decided it was a waste of money.

And at the time, it was a complete waste of money. I don’t regret it at all.

Only with knowledge of the future would it have been worthwhile.

But today when I see what cryptocurrency has become, I regret my decision even less.

There are countless ways I could have made millions if I knew the future. I don’t waste my time regretting those.
by eesmith | 2026-02-25 10:21:47+00:00
Will you be updating the text at https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...?

As it currently says:

> A significant risk with coding agents is that they might write code that doesn't work, or build code that is unnecessary and never gets used, or both.

> Test-first development helps protect against both of these common mistakes, and also ensures a robust automated test suite that protects against future regressions.

while the ChatGPT generated code contains bugs, contains unnecessary code which never gets used, and the ChatGPT generated test suite is not robust.

(As an example of unnecessary code which never gets used, _FENCE_RE contains "(?P<info>.*)$" but neither the group name nor the group are used, and the pattern is unneeded -- and all of the tests pass without it.)

Your writings are widely read and influential. I think it's important that you let readers know the results produced in your experiment are not actually a complete example of a "fantastic fit" of Red/Green TDD for coding agents, and to highlight their limitations.
Show HN: Gryt – self-hosted, open-source Discord-style voice chat
by simpvert | 2026-02-25 10:22:25+00:00
This weekend I finally shipped Gryt, a project I’ve been building since 2022 — an open-source, self-hostable Discord-style app focused on reliable voice chat + text.

I’m the creator. I started it after getting fed up with Discord disconnects/paywalls and wanted something self-hosted and auditable.

I started on this in 2022 and had an early proof-of-concept working back then (auth + friends list), but I quickly realized WebRTC voice isn’t something you can duct-tape together. I spent a big chunk of the next couple years learning the stack (ICE/DTLS-SRTP, NAT traversal, SFU design), then came back and built a proper end-to-end architecture and polished it to the point where I felt comfortable releasing it publicly.

Repo: https://github.com/Gryt-chat/gryt
Quick start: https://docs.gryt.chat/docs/guide/quick-start
Web client: https://app.gryt.chat
by amiga386 | 2026-02-25 10:22:46+00:00
They are, but this the next-layer-up problem. Most people don't type memorise and type URLs into their browser bar, they use a search engine result, browser history or browser bookmark.

It's therefore on their choice of search engine, or choice of app store, to lead them from "thunderbird" to "The app downloadable from https://thunderbird.net/", which can then be validated as signed by the verified owner of the same domain.

I'm not proposing changing the permissions system.
by tdeck | 2026-02-25 10:23:41+00:00
This soldier couldn't

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/21/middleeast/gaza-war-israe...

You have to read pretty far into this very sympathetic piece to discover he was running over hundreds of living people with a bullzdozer:

> In a testimony to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”

> “Everything squirts out,” he added.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-25 10:24:05+00:00
>Spanish carves up time with precision English lacks: madrugada for the pre-dawn hours, atardecer for late afternoon waning into evening. The mid-day nap was so compelling we adopted the siesta into English.

"I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening -- or the mid evening. Just the early evening, mid evening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning... But never at dusk." -Steve Martin
by ivannovazzi | 2026-02-25 10:24:19+00:00
The root fix is avoiding .env files entirely. We built KeyEnv (keyenv.dev) with this in mind: a CLI-first secrets manager where you run `keyenv run -- npm start` and secrets are injected as env vars at runtime without ever touching disk. No .env file means nothing for an AI agent (or anyone with filesystem access) to read.

enveil is a good defense-in-depth layer for existing .env workflows. But if you can change the habit, removing the file at the source is cleaner.

Disclosure: I'm one of the builders of KeyEnv.
by brentroose | 2026-02-25 10:24:23+00:00
A month ago, I went on a performance quest trying to optimize a PHP script that took 5 days to run. Together with the help of many talented developers, I eventually got it to run in under 30 seconds. This optimization process with so much fun, and so many people pitched in with their ideas; so I eventually decided I wanted to do something more.

That's why I built a performance challenge for the PHP community

The goal of this challenge is to parse 100 million rows of data with PHP, as efficiently as possible. The challenge will run for about two weeks, and at the end there are some prizes for the best entries (amongst the prize is the very sought-after PhpStorm Elephpant, of which we only have a handful left).

I hope people will have fun with it :)
by ang_cire | 2026-02-25 10:25:03+00:00
You don't actually have to directly communicate with someone in order to collude, you just have to both be knowingly working towards that same end (tacit collusion).

https://www.winston.com/en/blogs-and-podcasts/competition-co...

But that's aside from the ridiculousness of suggesting that BUs are so independent that their actions aren't being viewed in total by the shared management they both report to.

ELT at Amazon is responsible for the outcomes of their BUs, negative ones included, whether the individual BU leaders 'knew' what those outcomes would be or not. In fact, that's literally how it's supposed to work; ELT directs strategic outcomes from the top.
Show HN: ImagineIf – Collaborative storytelling where AI visualizes each segment
by tugaypala | 2026-02-25 10:25:34+00:00
Solo dev here. Built a platform where people write
short story segments starting with "Imagine if..."
and others continue. AI generates an image for each
part, stories branch based on community votes.

Stack: React Native/Expo, FastAPI, MariaDB, FLUX-dev
via Replicate, Groq for text.

Curious what you think — especially about the cold
start problem with collaborative platforms.
Show HN: Ideon – open-source spatial canvas for project context
by expyth0n | 2026-02-25 10:28:18+00:00
Hi HN,

Ideon is a self-hosted workspace that maps project resources (repositories, notes, links, checklists) on a spatial canvas instead of hierarchical lists.

The goal is to preserve the "mental model" of a project visually, reducing context-switching friction when returning to development after a break.

Stack:
- Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript
- PostgreSQL + Prisma
- Docker Compose for self-hosting
- AGPLv3 License

Key features:
- Spatial organization of resources (drag & drop blocks)
- Direct GitHub integration (live issue tracking on canvas)
- Markdown notes with real-time sync
- Fully self-hostable

It's designed to run on a cheap VPS or a home server. I'm looking for feedback on the spatial approach compared to traditional linear project management tools.

Docs: https://www.theideon.com/docs
by fragmede | 2026-02-25 10:28:52+00:00
My question is, why would you do that to yourself? Living with regrets of the past that would never have been, anyway, seems like a recipe for sadness and despair. Maybe my sense of fun or humor or whatever is off, but I just don't get doing this to yourself, man. You could have hooked into them and thought $1,000 is the highest it'll go and sold them all them. Who knows‽

No offense meant. Just my two Satoshis.
by egeozcan | 2026-02-25 10:29:21+00:00
This is amazing. What I do is something else: I make AI agents develop AI scripts (good ol' computer player scripts) and try to beat each other:

https://egeozcan.github.io/unnamed_rts/game/

I occasionally run my tournament script: https://github.com/egeozcan/unnamed_rts/blob/main/src/script...

That calculates the ELOs for each AI implementation, and I feed it to different agents so they get really creative trying to beat each other. Also making rule changes to the game and seeing how some scripts get weaker/stronger is a nice way to measure balance.

Funny thing, Codex gets really aggressive and starts cheating a lot of times: https://bsky.app/profile/egeozcan.bsky.social/post/3mfdtj5dh...
by ivannovazzi | 2026-02-25 10:29:37+00:00
Fair question. A few differentiators:

On open source: tools like Vault, Doppler, or Infisical are excellent but require setup, maintenance, and infra (or their hosted tier). KeyEnv's value prop is zero infra — install the CLI, run `keyenv run -- your-command`, done. For small teams that don't want to manage secrets infra, it's faster.

On hyperscalers: AWS Secrets Manager / GCP Secret Manager work well at scale but have per-secret pricing that adds up, and the DX friction is non-trivial (IAM, SDK calls, region config). We're optimized for developer teams who want CLI-first access without cloud-specific lock-in.

On pricing: the per-user model is intentional — it stays predictable as the secret count grows. You're right that at very high secret counts hyperscalers win on cost. We're not competing there; we're competing on simplicity for teams of 2–20 devs.

Not a fit for every team — just trying to make the tradeoffs honest.
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-25 10:30:31+00:00
If you're looking for low-latency, real-time transcription (and even voice-to-voice interaction) that handles German well, you should check out eboo.ai.

It's designed specifically for these types of high-stakes, low-latency conversational use cases (like sysadmin instructions or IVR). It handles WebRTC for the low latency you're looking for, so you can see the transcript in real-time as you speak.

For the "speaking over each other" part, that's essentially a "barge-in" or full-duplex problem which eboo.ai handles quite gracefully. It allows the system to listen and process even while it (or another person) is talking, which helps resolve those ambiguities early without the awkward "stop-start" of traditional recorders.

Definitely worth a look if you want to move beyond the manual .WAV -> Gemini workflow.
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-25 10:30:41+00:00
Great point on partial stability. For "production" voice agents, that "flickering" transcript is one of the biggest UX killers.

If you're building these pipelines, you might find some of the work we're doing at eboo.ai relevant. We've spent a lot of time optimizing for exactly that—stable partials and sub-second TTFT over WebRTC.

When you move from local testing to a distributed setup, those metrics (especially % partials revised) become the real north star for usability. Curious to see if the Moonshine team has those benchmarks too!
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-25 10:30:52+00:00
Spot on about the TTFT bottleneck. In the voice world, the "thinking" silence is what kills the illusion.

At eboo.ai, we see this constantly—even with faster models, the orchestrator needs to be incredibly tight to keep the total loop under 500-800ms. If Mercury 2 can consistently hit low enough TTFT to keep the turn-taking natural, that would be a game changer for "smart" voice agents.

Right now, most "reasoning" in voice happens asynchronously or with very awkward filler audio. Lowering that floor is the real challenge.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-25 10:31:10+00:00
Inuktitut / Kalaallisut (Greenlandic):

qanik -- snow falling
aput -- snow on the ground
pukak -- crystalline powder snow (like salt)
aniuk -- snow used to make water
maujaq -- deep soft snow you sink into
piqsirpoq (verb) -- drifting snow / blowing snow

Central Alaskan Yup’ik

qanuk -- falling snow
aput -- snow on the ground
nevluk -- wet snow
aniu -- snow for drinking water
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-25 10:31:18+00:00
> One of the applications I was really hoping for was for 3d printers to be able to, by themselves, do things you could ask a human to do. Insert components (like screws, nuts, nylon wire, ...) [...] while printing a 3d model and, you know, just make that work.

Prusa is working on a Pick & Place Toolhead for the Prusa XL that is a step in this direction:

> https://blog.prusa3d.com/xl-in-2026-new-toolheads-lower-pric...

"One Print, Multiple Components: Pick & Place Tool

Some technical prints require additional components, such as magnets, threaded inserts, or bearings, to be placed during the build. Without automation, this typically means you have to pause the print and insert the part(s) by hand. Although PrusaSlicer made this process easier a while ago, The Pick & Place toolhead can do it for you, completely autonomously. This reduces manual intervention and improves placement accuracy.

We’ve co-developed the toolhead with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and it’s designed for models that combine 3D-printed models with off-the-shelf components. We’re currently targeting late 2026 with its implementation."