MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-27 03:07:37+00:00
Brutally cold capitalist take. Go walk around your city, friend; remember the tragedy of the commons. There is a lot that needs to be done that isn't being done, because we're soaking up people's life's work on this effort that we don't even know the end goal of. It could result in some awful outcomes for everyone if not guided correctly, and it seems like it's not being guided at all - or worse, it's being guided by the Department of War.
by retrac | 2026-02-27 03:07:48+00:00
> There's no way a sensor can tell if a signal was from its own origin?

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978ntc.....2...18F/abstra...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA218226.pdf

> An increasingly popular modulation scheme is Binary Pseudo Random Phase Coding (BPRPC), whereby the phase of the transmitted signal is switched between 0 and 180 under the control of a binary pseudo random sequence

this applies straightforwardly to lidar

basically: optical CDMA or DSSS

spoofing replay may still be a concern
by geoffmanning | 2026-02-27 03:07:53+00:00
that's a good point, we haven't delved too deeply into prompt caching yet, but my understanding is that it only helps for a conversation that remains "hot", not one that a user just comes back to everyday and keep adding more to it over a longer period of time. i could see some optimization there where when the conversation is "hot" we keep the system message with the summarized index and all subsequent conversation messages that haven't been summarized intact until the conversation cools off.
by yunnpp | 2026-02-27 03:08:06+00:00
I'm not the expert and the details that the company would put out are obviously obtuse, but: image detection/identification, predictive policing, and planning. The latter sounds to me like they'd have some system where people enter reports in natural language and an LLM assembles the information together and then proposes some plan of action. As opposed to having to have a more structured data entry and the friction that comes with it. It's all in the article if you read between the lines, really.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-27 03:08:12+00:00
Well two things in my case can both be true.

In my niche - customer facing + strategy + implementations hands on keyboard cloud/app dev consulting and every project I’ve had over the past year and half has involved integrating with LLM - my resume never gets ignored by companies looking for full time consultants not bragging I am old and experienced.

But my niche is just that a niche. “Cloud architects” who spend time doing migrations and infrastructure babysitting are far more in demand since AWS throws money at 3rd party partners for it than software developers who know AWS and can lead consulting projects

I’m very concerned about not being able to find a job in this market. It wasn’t this bad in 2000 in second tier cities as an enterprise dev working for profitable companies

And to your other point, I’m also just over $200k. But our kids (my step sons ) are “taxpayers” and fully launched and my wife and I moved to a condo 1/3 the size of our old house in state tax free Florida in 2022. Our fixed expenses are 35% of my gross. My wife has been retired since 2020 since she was 44. Push comes to shove, I could take a job making $135K (only a little less than I was making in Atlanta before 2020 and my pivot to consulting) and be fine - just wouldn’t be saving much.
by dr_kretyn | 2026-02-27 03:09:16+00:00
I'm generally anti-corpo and capitalism but I agree with you. The guy could've done better but so far he's on a good trajectory and much much better than most. Doesn't mean that he isn't going to make mistakes nor that this might turn out badly but that's the point of leading - making bets.

It sucks to be fired but if I'm a year time everyone lost a job it'd suck even more.
by jackblemming | 2026-02-27 03:09:19+00:00
> What's the last 10,000+ employee org you founded and scaled?

A lot of smart and talented people could do this if given the opportunity. Jack was at the right place at the right time and had enough talent. Same with Elon and others. That’s kind of what happens when you have a population of hundreds of millions, a few get lucky and have enough talent to not screw it up.

It’s best to avoid being delusional and acting like billionaires are 5000 IQ geniuses. They’re regular people too, albeit, yes they are smarter than the average person you pull out of Walmart.

There are also plenty of smart people who simply do not care to run or start businesses.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-02-27 03:09:21+00:00
Believe it or not Steve Bannon is quite concerned about AI development:

>Over on Steve Bannon's show, War Room -- the influential podcast that's emerged as the tip of the spear of the MAGA movement -- Trump's longtime ally unloaded on the efforts behind accelerating AI, calling it likely "the most dangerous technology in the history of mankind."

>...

>"You have more restrictions on starting a nail salon on Capitol Hill or to have your hair braided, then you have on the most dangerous technologies in the history of mankind," Bannon told his listeners.

https://abcnews.com/US/inside-magas-growing-fight-stop-trump...
Show HN: A self-hosted OAuth 2.0 server for authenticating AI agents and machine
by mandarwagh | 2026-02-27 03:09:36+00:00
MachineAuth is a self-hosted OAuth 2.0 server for authenticating AI agents and machines.

What is an AI agent in this context? A software bot (like OpenCLAW, Claude Code, etc.) that makes API calls to access protected resources. Instead of sharing long-lived API keys, your agents can authenticate using OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials and receive short-lived JWT tokens.

Why?

No more sharing API keys
Short-lived tokens (configurable)
Easy credential rotation
Industry-standard security
by xpe | 2026-02-27 03:10:28+00:00
> Without being bothered about it at all.

I disagree: I see lots of evidence that he cares. For one, he cares enough to come out and say it. Second, read about his story and background. Read about Anthropic's culture versus OpenAI's.

Consider this as an ethical dilemma from a consequentialist point of view. Look at the entire picture: compare Anthropic against other major players. A\ leads in promoting safe AI. If A\ stopped building AI altogether, what would happen? In many situations, an organization's maximum influence is achieved by playing the game to some degree while also nudging it: by shaping public awareness, by highlighting weaknesses, by having higher safety standards, by doing more research.

I really like counterfactual thought experiments as a way of building intuition. Would you rather live in a world without Anthropic but where the demand for AI is just as high? Imagine a counterfactual world with just as many AI engineers in the talent pool, just as many companies blundering around trying to figure out how to use it well, and an authoritarian narcissist running the United States who seems to have delegated a large chunk of national security to a dangerously incompetent ideological former Fox news host?
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-27 03:11:31+00:00
We can see that your own noble calling is to be an apologist for a genocidal state. It's a pity that in reality you likely do not actually get paid for the task, though I must imagine you have people accusing you of that on a regular basis. I'm not sure if it would improve or worsen the moral calculus if you did.

I have no issue with Islam being the religion of Palestine, at least not an issue so strong that murdering its people seems like the correct path forward to me. I suppose your moral reasoning differs on the topic, but it's obviously motivated reasoning based on loyalties I cannot share.
by txrx0000 | 2026-02-27 03:11:46+00:00
> I have strong signal that Dario, Jared, and Sam would genuinely burn at the stake before acceding to something that's a) against their values, and b) they think is a net negative in the long term. (Many others, too, they're just well-known.)

I very much doubt it judging by their actions, but let's assume that's cognitive dissonance and engage for a minute.

What are those values that you're defending?

Which one of the following scenarios do you think results in higher X-risk, misuse risk, (...) risk?

- 10 AIs running on 10 machines, each with 10 million GPUs

OR

- 10 million AIs running on 10 million machines, each with 10 GPUs

All of the serious risk scenarios brought up in AI safety discussions can be ameliorated by doing all of the research in the open. Make your orgs 100% transparent. Open-source absolutely everything. Papers, code, weights, financial records. Start a movement to make this the worldwide social norm, and any org that doesn't cooperate is immediately boycotted then shut down. And stop the datacenter build-up race.

There are no meaningful AI risks in such a world, yet very few are working towards this. So what are your values, really? Have you examined your own motivations beneath the surface?
by techblueberry | 2026-02-27 03:12:41+00:00
The sad thing about a lot of these arguments is that, they’re beautiful in some ways, but they’re too idealizstic. I want to believe is that all we have to do is believe in the power of classical liberalism and the spirit of Thomas Jefferson will bless the American future. But the problem is structural and probably economic. People are way more concerned about the cost of tuition then woke, and being able to ask questions about race realism in class, while potentially satisfying won’t help you get a job.

Besides, Even University of Austin the free speech university is suffering under the weight of its own ideological donors.

https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin...
by busko | 2026-02-27 03:13:27+00:00
If you believe marketing hype, then that's exactly what it is... Hype.

If you speak to industry professionals and retain a healthy scepticism, you don't have to look far to find people that absolutely do not believe the marketing.

Quite frankly I like that advances in say quantum computing are publically announced. The hype around what that means for society and our view of the universe is probably where you want to put on that reserved scepticism hat.

Similarly smart glasses were and are a thing, but society is rightly apprehensive about the impact, so the hype has dropped off.
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-27 03:13:31+00:00
I do not blame the people of Palestine for taking the defensive actions they deem correct. I do not consent to the idea of civilians becoming legitimate targets due to defensive architecture. Yes, war crimes are being committed; your comment makes you bear complicity to them, in a small degree, as you serve as an apologist for such actions online.

Of course, both of our posting is pointless, as we know neither will convince the other. You have an advantage in that your particular side is in power; but I bite my thumb at you.
by geoffmanning | 2026-02-27 03:14:14+00:00
oh, one other caveat is that each request could result in the curation of system messages earlier in the chat message history, i haven't done a deep dive into prompt caching, but that could complicate things. the more i think about it, the more i wonder that the prompt caching is a patch for "dumb prompting" to try to save money when you're doing things the dumb way of throwing everything you have at it and praying it gets it right, when it'd just make more sense to keep the entirety of the prompt as lean as possible to prevent context rot and maximize signal to noise ratio.
by Kina | 2026-02-27 03:14:43+00:00
The problem is that there is no hard evidence anywhere to actually prove this.

I’m going to avoid whether or not AI productivity gains are real, but all the “data” I have seen affirming this is black box observations or vibes.

Even your evidence is just conjecture. You’re proposing that they’re going to be successful cutting their workforce like this because AI is such a boon.

The Financial Times ran an article [1] the other week with a title saying that AI is a productivity boost and then the article basically spends a bunch of words talking about how the signs are looking good that AI is useful! Then mentions that all of this is inherently optimistic and is not necessarily indicative of an actual trend yet.

> While the trends are suggestive, a degree of caution is warranted. Productivity metrics are famously volatile, and it will take several more periods of sustained growth to confirm a new long-term trend.

IMHO, at the moment it is not possible to separate trends from AI being an actual game changer vs. AI being used as a smoke screen to launder layoffs for other reasons. We are in a bubble for sure and the problem is that it’s great until it’s not. Bar Kokhba was considered the messiah…until everyone was slaughtered and the Romans depopulated Judaea. Oops.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419...
by no_wizard | 2026-02-27 03:14:46+00:00
It’s fine if someone doesn’t believe that executives should not be held to additional high consequence standard, but you’re boiling down this argument without addressing the central element at play which is viability and wealth gap.

Now, you can absolutely hold a different position here, that’s okay, I’m fine with that, but at least address it head on.

Consider the fact that those getting laid off have disproportionate negative affects compared to what executives face for making terrible decisions in the first place. Jack still keeps his aspen home and whatever wealth he’s extracted out of the company. So he faces no real downside here. He could run block into the ground and still have more money than he would know what to do with.

You’re arguing about shares of paper entitling people to do things to other people’s lives without facing much actual consequence in their personal lives.

Not to mention professional, I’ve watched executives jump from company to company doing terrible things and they still keep getting hired.

Where as the average person is often advised to reduce or obfuscate the fact they were laid off less there be discrimination.

Now you can argue that executives shouldn’t face higher consequences in exchange for wielding such immense power over the lives of those which they employ, I ask that you say it plain, don’t hide behind feigned guise of people who live in a world where they don’t have a choice but to work for corporations or not have a roof over their head and basic needs met.

It’s fine if you want to defend that, but don’t act like people are just making a deliberate choice. This is a choice society has made for them and the wealthiest perpetuate
by yunnpp | 2026-02-27 03:14:55+00:00
> because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking.

It's actually very simple. Put a cop by the sidewalk, have them stop people and issue a fine. You'd be making several grand every day. I would do it myself, but I am not authorized to stop people and take their money. There is no need for cameras when the violations are so blatantly obvious and recurring.
by pembrook | 2026-02-27 03:15:27+00:00
First, I posted the numbers below, it's not ZIRP overhiring in this case.

But even if it was...I'm struggling to understand how "overhiring" is a bad thing for the actual workers who were overhired.

So too many people got paid massive big tech salaries for the last 5 years. How horrible for them? They were robbed of...the opportunity to be paid half as much money working in a non-tech job?

It's bad for inflation in the economy broadly since it's money not being efficiently allocated, but for these 'overhired' people it was literally a life changing amount of money they're better off having had even if it ends now (with an extremely cushy 6 month severance I should add).
by MathMonkeyMan | 2026-02-27 03:15:59+00:00
I regularly refer to [the unix shell specification][1] to remember the specifics of ${foo%%bar} versus ${foo#bar}, ${parameter:+word} versus ${parameter:-word}, and so on.

It also teaches how && and || work, their relation to [output redirection][3] and [command piping][2], [(...) versus {...}][4], and tricky parts like [word expansion][5], even a full grammar. It's not exciting reading, but it's mostly all there, and works on all POSIXy shells, e.g. sh, bash, ksh, dash, ash, zsh.

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html

[2]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html...

[3]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html...

[4]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html...

[5]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html...
by taurath | 2026-02-27 03:16:45+00:00
> it's easy to know how they will act when the going gets rough

Even if you went to burning man and your souls bonded, you only know a person at a particular point in time - people's traits flanderize, they change, they emphasize different values, they develop different incentives or commitments. I've watched very morally certain people fall to mania or deep cynicism over the last 10 years as the pillars of society show their cracks.

That said, it is heartening to know that some would predict anyone in Silicon Valley would still take a moral stance. But it would do better if not the same day he fires 4000 people to do the "scary big cut" for a shift he sees happening. I guess we're back to Thatcherisms, where "There Is No Other Option" to justify our conservatism.
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by kairo_vexley | 2026-02-27 03:16:47+00:00
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by mikestorrent | 2026-02-27 03:16:50+00:00
> Were Hutu right?

I don't need to involve other conflicts in this situation. This is a "whataboutism". Wrongful actions in another conflict do not justify future conflicts. The actions the world has seen do not simply go away because of your comment. I don't need to rehash every factual news article on the topic to justify my position, nor do I need you to rehash the glazing opinion pieces that justify yours; we won't move the needle that way, will we?

> if you can simply say "it's hasbara" and walk away

I'm not walking away, but surely we can both see that there will be no agreement between us. All that I request is that you do not place an explosive device in a pager and send it to me, as that would be very inconsiderate; my neighbour works the night shift and the resulting shockwave would ruin his daytime sleep.
by hsmetric181 | 2026-02-27 03:18:56+00:00
koyeb has a hobby tier (or at least had before they joined mistral,0.1Vcpu ,512MB).
If you want to save config after restart you have to mount volume with the following path <hostPAth>:/app/db.

run.claw.cloud also provides free credits and option to mount volume,so you can try that
by mandeepj | 2026-02-27 03:18:56+00:00
First of all, there's no such thing as "Department of War". A department name change is legal/binding only after it's approved by the Senate. Senator Kelly is still calling it DoD (Department of Defense).

> Mass domestic surveillance.

Since when has DoD started getting involved with the internal affairs of the country?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-27 03:19:00+00:00
Exactly. The problem is the same as a casino, though: we now have an "industry", we have thousands of people making their living through these companies; we have a niche that Someone Will Fill if we shut down the big players and create a vacuum. Imagine getting a city to shut down its casinos when it has all the tax income flowing from them... sucking its own blood, cutting off its nose to spite its face, some such analogy. Maybe eating more sugar will cure my cancer.
by paxys | 2026-02-27 03:19:31+00:00
Toast has already caught up in market share, and dominates the restaurant industry. Square's numbers have been stagnant for many years.

And more importantly, the entire premise when Square launched was that app-based "cloud" PoS systems would replace all traditional cash registers. Except now 15 years later that simply hasn't happened. Existing players in the space all caught up and shipped chip and NFC readers to their retailers, and that's all that was needed.
by kgwxd | 2026-02-27 03:19:59+00:00
> the web was a mistake;

It's not "the web" or HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. That's all instant in vanilla form. Any media in today's quality will of course take time to download but, once cached, is also instant. None of the UX "requires" the crap that makes it slow, certainly not thousands of lines to make a table sortable and filterable. I could do that in IE6 without breaking a sweat. It's way easier, and faster, now. It's just people being lazy in how they do it, Apparetnly now just accepting whatever claude gave them as "best in show".
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-27 03:20:00+00:00
> If the profits are still up and growing

Block has never really made a real profit. These layoffs are basically saying the company is no longer in moonshot mode and it’s now in the extraction phase of whatever it has, which means increase prices for whatever it sells and decrease expenses, i.e. payroll.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XYZ/block/net-inco...
by YZF | 2026-02-27 03:20:25+00:00
There's nothing to understand. The article is solely for the purpose of bashing Israel and bashing Palantir. It's a political hit piece masquerading as a technology related topic.

As part of the ceasefire agreement the US has agreed to take control of aid delivery to Gaza. Israel has decided that it will not cooperate with any organizations that they consider to be allied with Hamas. This article is sort of mixing these things up where they really have nothing to do with each other. Those NGOs that operate inside Gaza are not subject to Israel's restrictions, those restrictions apply in Israel, and anyways the subject of how aid gets to Palestinians is not in Israeli hands any more.

Israel's critics have consistently been complaining about aid delivery to Gaza. So now that there [EDIT: clearly] is aid getting to Gaza they decided they're going to complain about how that aid is monitored.
by bombcar | 2026-02-27 03:20:54+00:00
It’s coming - Clint & Sandy are the romanceables, and the Ape implied a new farm type, too.

https://youtu.be/geiTg6Z7w3A

It’s likely going to be a year or more before we see it based on previous timelines, but the developer of Stardew Valley Expanded is now working for him.
by mistrial9 | 2026-02-27 03:20:58+00:00
> looks like a homeless person

I have heard this once in a while.. really it refers to a hair grooming aesthetic that is disallowed somehow, perhaps.

> he spends his time meditating

said like it is a bad thing. Of course yes, this is a bad thing to many people, I agree.. but among very smart people in California, if he really does that well, it is a plus actually..

> talking about Bitcoin

very polarizing, with grandstanding on both sides of the aisle, agree. However, isn't Bitcoin legal now? as in, a large scale political change in most places where readers of this page might be reading?

overall, the combination of things to point out to launch big criticisms, is more interesting than the fact of criticisms at all, at the moment