MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-02-27 03:21:00+00:00
You had responded to my other comment with a comment I 100% agreed with, and I was going to write a substantive response when I had the time. Maybe you deleted it because it was a little ranty?

I'd go further and say it's not just social media optimizing for engagement, though. I think part of it is the utter lack of social context for internet messages, which is usually a moderating factor. In meatspace interactions, you can signal disagreement without getting into an overt argument. And you can even maintain the relationship afterwards, as there are other dimensions to it that you do respect. Whereas online the sheer majority of the context is the comment you're responding to itself, and one generally dives right into pressing fully-fleshed-out arguments.

Additionally I'd say there is a different dynamic whereby there are a lot of valid rightist criticisms of leftist extremism, and valid leftist criticisms of rightist extremism. Which then make perfectly reasonable people and reasonable comments appear to be from "the other side", and presumably held with extremists views of the other side (see the above lack of moderating context).
by petterroea | 2026-02-27 03:21:53+00:00
My empirical experience is that people with ADHD are more vulnerable to get addicted to LLMs due to the feeling of instant gratification. But when PRs take ages and 3 different people are reviewing, you are just making prompting a group effort. If you think meetings are a time waste multiplier you should watch LLM PRs.

For that reason, and my own experience with AI users being unaware of how bad of a job the LLM is doing (I've had to confront multiple people about their code quality suddenly dropping), if someone says they can rely on LLM I've learned to not trust them.

When I was younger if I had an idea for a project I would spend time thinking of a cool project name, creating a git repo, and designing an UI for my surely badass project. All easy stuff that gave me the feeling of progress. Then I would immediately lose interest when I realized the actual project idea was harder than that, and quit. This is the vibe I get from LLM use.

I pray you do not become the next HN user to be screwed over by over-trusting LLM when you have it fill out legal documents for you.
by xpe | 2026-02-27 03:22:00+00:00
> Also, ironically, they are the most dangerous lab for humanity.

Show us your reasoning please. There are many factors involved: what is your mental map of how they relate? What kind of dangers are you considering and how do you weight them?

Why not: Baidu? Tencent? Alibaba? Google? DeepMind? OpenAI? Meta? xAI? Microsoft? Amazon?

I think the above take is wrong, but I'm willing to listen to a well thought out case. I've watched the space for years, and Anthropic consistently advances AI safety more than any of the rest.

Don't get me wrong: the field is very dangerous, as a system. System dynamics shows us these kinds of systems often ratchet out of control. If any AI anywhere reaches superintelligence with the current levels of understanding and regulation (actually, the lack thereof), humanity as we know it is in for a rough ride.
by theamk | 2026-02-27 03:22:22+00:00
It's a mesh based on spanning-tree protocol, with single, global root based on smallest random generated address. Each node has single global "depth" (determined by connectivity) and nodes with smaller depth get to route higher proportion of the traffic.

The choice of spanning tree is an interesting one - as it makes some nodes more important than others. Based on the description, I'd expect something more decentralized, like a DHT.
by rmunn | 2026-02-27 03:22:28+00:00
Tell me you've never done any farming in your life without telling me you've never done any farming in your life. The difference between male and female animals matters, a lot, to farmers (or ranchers). There's a reason the English language has the words cow and bull, sow and boar, ewe and ram, rooster and hen, nanny and billy, mare and stallion, and many more (and has had those words for centuries). And that reason is precisely because of how mammal (and avian) reproduction works. A cow can't do a bull's job, nor vice-versa, if you want to have calves next year, and grow the size of your herd (or sell the extra animals for income). And so, centuries ago, English-speaking farmers who didn't want to spend the extra syllables on words like "male cattle" and "female cattle" came up with handy, short words (one-syllable words for most species, though not goats and horses) to express those distinctions. Because as I mentioned, they matter a lot when you're raising animals.
by david927 | 2026-02-27 03:23:16+00:00
I didn't go to the gym a single day for November and December and it was heart-breaking when I started again in January how much I had set back. But slowly I got back to a good rate again.

A week ago someone asked why I was going to the gym that evening and I said, "Because it will make going tomorrow so much easier."

Start again.
by vkou | 2026-02-27 03:23:17+00:00
> The world collectively just decided the end-all be-all of baking was… sourdough.

I can't speak for the world, but:

1. Good bread is really hard to come by in the United States. Unless you're going to a bakery twice a week[1], or your local grocery has a contract with one [2]... Your idea of 'bread' is probably mushy garbage that I would describe as more similar to 'cake'.

2. Sourdough is relatively easy to make. Flour, salt, water, starter, time[3].

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[1] Going anywhere to buy one item that is eaten or goes bad in three days is a big ask... Which is why this isn't a great option.

[2] The overwhelming majority don't, and when they do, they want $7 a loaf.

[3] Which a lot of people had plenty of.
Show HN: CleverMock – An AI voice interviewer that interrupts you
by devinda-dilshan | 2026-02-27 03:23:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a project to solve a problem I had with mock interview platforms: they don’t feel real. The biggest factor is that they let you give perfect, rehearsed answers without interruption. Real interviews are dynamic conversations.

I created CleverMock, an AI-powered voice interviewer for software engineers. The core differentiator is a feature that simulates a real interviewer's behavior by interrupting the user's answers to ask clarifying questions or redirect the conversation, based on what it's hearing.

It uses a pipeline of speech-to-text, LLMs for conversational logic, and text-to-speech to create a fluid, real-time interview session. You can specify the company and role to get tailored system design and behavioral questions. After a 45-minute session, it generates a detailed scorecard on your performance.

It’s currently in beta and free for early users. I’m looking for feedback on the core "interruption" mechanic and the quality of the questions/feedback.

Link: https://www.clevermock.com
by thelastgallon | 2026-02-27 03:23:41+00:00
Tangentially related:

There are currently 15 types of domestic electrical outlet plugs in use worldwide, each of which has been assigned a letter by the US Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (ITA), starting with A and moving through the alphabet. These letters are completely arbitrary: they don't actually mandate anything -- https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/

How Japan Made Their Outlet Safe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqClY6PDCW0
by borroka | 2026-02-27 03:24:00+00:00
This could be a problem, but only if I had interviews or even just a phone call from a recruiter. But I'm not even getting to that stage. I just get rejection after rejection via email for every type of company and position I apply for.

Dozens of rejections, and you get to a point where it becomes a waste of time to even apply. Also, many of the job postings are clearly fake; companies like Capital One, JP Morgan, or NBC, just to name the first three companies that come to my mind, have been advertising the same positions for months, if not years.

What happens is that you fall out of the loop and become invisible, if not an outcast that no one wants to touch. You reach out to your network and you receive cold indifference; all the "friends" you thought you had are not interested in providing any factual support (e.g., strong referrals). Basically, it comes to a point where you are begging for attention and some support.

What's discouraging is that there are so many people in leadership positions who have terrible leadership skills or competence. Not that it's something others should think I possess, I'm clearly biased in this case, but they certainly don't have it.

The world is what it is, and plenty of people get laid off and are able to get interviews and find jobs. I am certainly in part responsible for the situation I am in (not in the sense that I did anything shameful or despicable, in the sense that maybe I should have spent time developing a network different from the one I have), but it is not a fun situation to be in.
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2026-02-27 03:24:55+00:00
It's interesting. No one is a 100% law-abiding citizen. You can see this in traffic, for example, when a driver gets upset about pedestrians ignoring red lights, while they themselves are driving a few miles per hour over the speed limit and have the number right in front of them. The transgressions of others should always be severely punished. One's own transgressions are minor trifles that are not worth mentioning, or small privileges that one naturally claims. And when one is penalized a little for one's own misconduct, e.g., with a fine, one acts as if one were a victim of fascist repression.
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-27 03:25:17+00:00
I do it because coffee shop employees get paid poorly, and get little respect or status from the job. That's not fair!

I second-guess it not from losing money, but by tipping, I may be incentivizing this low wage. I.e. I don't like the idea of tipping, but it's an easy way to contribute back to people who are getting hosed by our system.
by leviathant | 2026-02-27 03:25:25+00:00
Nano Banana was the first generative image tool that seemed to understand architecture. I have some 18th century engravings that I've been trying to get AI tools to visualize as though they were photographs of real structures, and the results were comically bad until Nano Banana came along. I remember seeing the announcement, dropping a sketch into Gemini with the prompt "Make this a photo" and it preserved all the features and dimensions, but added photorealistic textures.

I still do a lot of modeling of historical buildings in Sketchup and Twinmotion, but Nano Banana has really helped me with more easily visualizing a world before photography.
by itake | 2026-02-27 03:25:27+00:00
My understanding is the original value these markets create is the ability to hedge risk.

If you're worried an event may impact you materially (like cat 5 hurricane in Florida), then you can place a bet that the event will happen, thus hedging some risk if it does happen.

Insurance companies can participate in these products for the same reasons.

Or if you need to hedge against an event that isn't insurable. For example, if you are a high level democrat party leader and you will lose your job if a republican wins, you might take a bet to hedge your risk if your party looses the next cycle.
by mystraline | 2026-02-27 03:25:33+00:00
Generative content is going to make things super weird with the following.

Theres TONS of 1950-1990 SciFi content. Lots of 1 off books, or trilogies. Really cool stories.

And generative video could get to the point where we can make those books into movies.

The weird place here is who owns the rights, and all that. And it coukd easily fall into an area like The Last Ringbearer is in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer

Epub free, because of weird rights issues with Tolkien estate. https://www.tenseg.net/press/lastringbearer
by bsenftner | 2026-02-27 03:25:45+00:00
I wonder about heavy curation of data sets, and then only senior level developers in the Alignment/RLHF phases, such that the expertise of a senior level developer were the training. The psychology of those senior level developers would be interesting, because they would knowingly be putting huge numbers of their peers, globally, out of work. I wonder about if it would, then if course it will, and then I question if we're really that desperate.
by wasabi991011 | 2026-02-27 03:26:12+00:00
> S combinator always duplicates its last parameter, never deletes it. That's why K is needed for universality.

This is somewhat covered in the first link of the background, a Modern Introduction to Combinators:

> So how might this work for S combinator expressions? Basically any sophisticated computation has to live on top of an infinite combinator growth process. Or, put another way, the computation has to exist as some kind of “transient” of potentially unbounded length, that in effect “modulates” the infinite growth “carrier”.

> One would set up a program by picking an appropriate combinator expression from the infinite collection that lead to infinite growth. Then the evolution of the combinator expression would “run” the program. And one would use some computationally bounded process (perhaps a bounded version of a tree automaton) to identify when the result of the computation is ready—and one would “read it out” by using some computationally bounded “decoder”.

I understand it as "you don't need the S combinator application sequence to halt for it to compute something".
by rootsudo | 2026-02-27 03:26:17+00:00
This corporate messaging piece really falls flat.

So they caught $4000 and $200. Sounds very much like sacrificial pieces.

“yes but see they don’t tolerate insider trading!”

That’s it? One from a social media post by the own person who did it, and another in a slim market and had tips come in?

So it basically comes down to:

1. Don brag about doing something, that I’m not quite sure is illegal but supposedly breaks kalshis terms of service (oh no)!

2. Instead of operating in a thin t̶r̶a̶d̶i̶n̶g̶, sorry, prediction market pool, stick with ones that enable more plausible deniability?

If anything there should be more regulation against prediction markets like Kalshi or even elimination.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-27 03:27:04+00:00
> I don't need to involve other conflicts in this situation. This is a "whataboutism".

No, “whataboutism” is using shifting a conversation to a different issue. For example:

Person A: "The democrats did X!"

Person B: "But the republicans..."

Person B is engaging in whataboutism.

I am not discussing Hutu. What I am doing is I am providing you an example why the reasoning that majority is never wrong is a fallacy via an example.

> 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.

Neither because of yours. Palestinians shoot rockets towards civilians for the past 20 years. Tells us quite a lot who’s the “genocidal” here.

> 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?

I am not trying to change your mind. I am posting here for others to see your double standards and flaws in your reasoning. They will see and judge themselves.

> 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.

Interesting choice of words here. Should I ask you not to blow yourself on the bus, or in a cafe? Or in a wedding? This is good that you wrote it, it shows exactly what I wanted to see.
by stopbulying | 2026-02-27 03:27:06+00:00
"After Hostile Takeover Fail, Ellison's Paramount Skydance Sues WBD Netflix"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642776

"Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery" https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/jared-kushner-paramount-war... ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195124 :

> Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing

> Affinity Partners was not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196242 :

> "Letter to DOJ on Kushner - FARA (Wyden - Raskin) final.pdf" (October 2024) https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/demo... :

> Recent public reports and a Senate investigation have uncovered significant evidence that Mr. Kushner acted as an unregistered foreign agent of [SA]

>> Kushner - who was never credentialed by State Department, an ambassador, or registered as a foreign agent in the US or in any other country - has now, in 2025, helped sell Electronic Arts to SA and is trying to help sell Warner Brothers Discovery to SA, a foreign territory which does not support Freedom of Speech.

"Kushner's Affinity Partners exits Paramount bid for Warner Bros. Discovery" (2025-12)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/kushner-affinity-paramount-w...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196370 :

>> Trump wanted Ellison to purchase TikTok (from the owners in China that weren't offering to sell it) so that US data would remain in the US.

>> By comparison, why did Trump/Kushner help sell EA (NFL Madden, NBA Live, PGA Tour,) to foreign interests, and why is Trump/Kushner trying to help sell WBD to foreign interests?
by Kina | 2026-02-27 03:28:20+00:00
The future is not evidence? I don’t understand what you’re saying.

> The company is going to produce 5-6X the revenue with a similar number of employees as they had 6-7 years ago before the overhiring boom.

That’s not evidence. That’s a belief. I’m not disagreeing they overhired, but this statement contains no evidence that reducing the size of the company like this is going to yield the same or greater profits.
by jettfu | 2026-02-27 03:28:28+00:00
This is a textbook example of concentration risk — your entity formation, payment processing, and customer relationship all running through a single provider. When Stripe Atlas handles your LLC and your payments, a compliance flag in one system can cascade across your entire business.

Two structural things worth separating going forward: (1) your legal entity from your payment processor — so a payment shutdown doesn't threaten your corporate standing, and (2) your payment stack itself — having a warm backup processor (not just "integrated" but actively processing some volume) means you can switch in hours, not days.

The eSIM space isn't uniquely risky, but any business where Stripe's fraud model doesn't have great training data for your vertical is exposed to this.
by rogerrogerr | 2026-02-27 03:29:03+00:00
This argument is the one that shook me, I’m curious if you think there’s any merit to it:

Humans have essentially three traits we can use to create value: we can do stuff in the physical world through strength and dexterity, and we can use our brains to do creative, knowledge, or otherwise “intelligent” work.

(Note by “dexterity” I mean “things that humans are better at than physical robots because of our shape and nervous system, like walking around complex surfaces and squeezing into tight spaces and assembling things”)

The Industrial Revolution, the one of coal and steam and eventually hydraulics, destroyed the jobs where humans were creating value through their strength. Approximately no one is hired today because they can swing a hammer harder than the next guy. Every job you can get in the first world today is fundamentally you creating value with your dexterity or intelligence.

I think AI is coming for the intelligence jobs. It’s just getting too good too quickly.

Indirectly, I think it’s also coming for dexterity jobs through the very rapid advances in robotics that appear to be partly fueled by AI models.

So… what’s left?
by johng | 2026-02-27 03:29:52+00:00
I'm curious about this. The letter specifically states that if you surrender it, it will be replaced with a new one with the correct sex. So, even if the SAVE act was passed, they would be able to vote with the replacement ID right?

They definitely should have put a grace period on it, seems like people had almost no warning and that is a bunch of BS.
by hugmynutus | 2026-02-27 03:29:54+00:00
> Or is it restricted to 0/1/2 by the shell?

It is not. You can use any arbitrary numbers provided they're initialized properly. These values are just file descriptors.

For Example -> https://gist.github.com/valarauca/71b99af82ccbb156e0601c5df8...

I've used (see: example) to handle applications that just dump pointless noise into stdout/stderr, which is only useful when the binary crashes/fails. Provided the error is marked by a non-zero return code, this will then correctly display the stdout/stderr (provided there is <64KiB of it).
by fooker | 2026-02-27 03:30:19+00:00
No, that's not how it works.

It implements the (pretty large) subset of the tool I personally need.

But everyone needs a different subset, and maintaining a coherent codebase that supports everyone's need is difficult.

What could put Adobe and others out of business is everyone reaching for Claude code, cursor or codex the next time they need complex software tailored to their use case instead of the one size fits all software that is commercially available.
by ninjagoo | 2026-02-27 03:30:40+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

Previous case of tangling with the Government.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OfZFJThiVLI

Jolly Boys - I Fought the Law

Overall, this seems like it might be a campaign contribution issue. The DoD/DoW is happy to accept supplier contracts that prevent them from repairing their own equipment during battle (ref. military testimony favoring right-to-repair laws), so corporate matters like this shouldn't really be coming to a head publicly.
by csmantle | 2026-02-27 03:30:54+00:00
Related threads:

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188156 ("[2026-02-27] Incident Thread")

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188151 ("Having trouble finding & showing repository's wiki page with non-ASCII page title")

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188152 ("Broken UI and 404 to files and directories with non-ASCII names")
by rytill | 2026-02-27 03:31:32+00:00
> that corporate profits would rise while consumer spend dropped are literally incompatible realities

These are not incompatible realities.

I would be willing to accept the statement that corporate revenues increasing and consumer spending decreasing are incompatible realities.

But it’s feasible to think the following occurs:

- labor income falls

- consumer spending drops

- corporate revenues drop

- corporate profits moderately increase because profit margins get much higher

- government deficit continues (which, from an accounting perspective, means other accounts are in surplus, potentially US corporations)

I’m not saying I strongly predict the above, necessarily! I just don’t think it’s correct to say it’s not a conceivable reality.