MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyberax | 2026-02-26 03:44:45+00:00
> uhhhhhh what. What does every 10 minutes have to do with this at all

See the word "effective". Think about the road space that a bus requires but doesn't use if it is just once per 10 minutes.

> I have never ever seen a bus with 3 drivers in it. If you're talking about 3 drivers over the course of 24h, those drivers are not in the bus at the same time, and therefore don't make up 20% of the passengers on the bus.

Yes, I'm talking about the drivers that are needed for a reasonable 16-hour bus service. And the typical ratio is actually a bit more than 3 drivers per 1 bus.

> If you're saying the average bus route serves 15 people per day, you are certainly mistaken.

No. I'm saying that on _average_ there are 15 people in a bus. More during the rush hour, fewer during the off-hours.
by rich_sasha | 2026-02-26 03:45:38+00:00
I wonder what this will do to the US developer salary premium. You could, for reasons I never entirely understood, make so much more money doing the same job in the US than anywhere else. And I don't mean comparing to India or China, but comparable CoL countries in e.g. Europe.

Sure, US is more productive, has bigger tech companies, attracts talent, and not least, their hectocorns are truly making the world a better place with their CRUD apps and REST APIs.

But at these levels of imbalance, already a long time ago I would have expected US companies to move a lot of their software engineering efforts to Europe or India or elsewhere, and it just wasn't happening, despite SE being one of the most remote-able jobs ever.

But now, the trickle of expat workers into the US appears to be drying up, apparently Americans are leaving too. There will be more and more pressure for these companies to hire abroad even for non-monetary reasons (as is already happening) and I fear for my fellow American HNians that they will like paying a fraction of the cost for the same job.
by rickydroll | 2026-02-26 03:47:18+00:00
The ADHD issue is because I always think I can get more done in the time before I need to leave, and I end up hyper-focusing and missing the leave time. Another ADHD factor is that if I don't sit and watch every stop go by, I am likely to miss it because I'm reading and not paying attention. This is not a problem when driving.
by MBCook | 2026-02-26 03:47:23+00:00
Look I’m happy to play “pin the tail on the finance bros”, and I hate crypto with a passion, but I don’t see evidence here.

The company in charge of a crypto thing made a sudden (and I assume unexpected) withdraw of $150 million.

Jane Street, who worked with them, dumped $80 million within 10 minutes.

Are we supposed to think Jane Street wasn’t supposed to be monitoring what was going on? If I was working with a bunch of crypto people who suddenly took out a ton of money without warning me, I can absolutely see wanting to pull my money before everything collapses. Crypto is volatile.

As other people pointed out, this is 10 MINUTES. You don’t need secret information to notice something happening that fast. You need dial-up. That would be plenty fast enough.

Sure if you can actually produce records where someone from TerraLabs said “we are running away, pull out quick“ fine. But even then… if they waited most of 10 minutes did they even need that information? It’s not like rug pulls are an unknown thing in crypto.

I get the lawyer wants to help his clients but unless he gets some discovery and finds something pretty damning I’m not sure there’s anything here. I was expecting to see one of those allegations where they did it within like two seconds. I can see two seconds being collusion.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-26 03:47:42+00:00
Sort of. The locomotives are diesel electric series hybrids. Which means you can make one that can travel anywhere that isn't electrified but add a pantograph to it for minimal additional cost and then stop burning diesel anywhere that is, and electrify the lines piecemeal.

Add a battery car and you only have to electrify a minority of the lines to be off diesel a majority of the time.
by throw_m239339 | 2026-02-26 03:47:46+00:00
> Doesn’t the EU have an excellent education system?

Well, the EU has not manufactured a whole lot of chips in the last 30 years, where do you get the people with the professional experience to teach new engineers... Oh you mean you have to import the teachers from South Asia too? /s and it takes what, 5 years at the minimum to train an engineer? France and UK used to produce entire home computers... in the 80's...
by wzdd | 2026-02-26 03:47:54+00:00
Not seeming unnatural is literally what the LLM is trained to be, but it's pretty interesting how little sense they make when you dig in. Goes to how little attention we pay normally, and/or how much weight we put on text seeming natural.

"A new lawsuit doesn’t just revisit the $40 billion Terra-Luna meltdown; it questions whether..." -- the purpose of a lawsuit is to question something (by making an allegation), you don't sue someone to "revisit".

"Ten minutes is not a coincidence. It is a trade." So is an hour, or thirty seconds, or...?

"Not just as bystanders, but as alleged participants" -- the "just" doesn't make sense; participants aren't bystanders.

Of the list, only "It reads less like a rescue offer" and "These are not isolated; they are part of Snyder’s broader efforts..." makes any sense in context.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-26 03:48:28+00:00
If you are in Spain on a tourist visa, and apply for the equivalent of a digital nomad visa while in country, you get three years as a temporary resident. At three years, you re-apply for another two years, and after five years you can apply for permanent residency. 80% of your income must come from outside of Spain. One example of an exit strategy.

Resources:

https://relocateme.substack.com/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AmerExit/comments/urwlbr/a_guide_fo...

https://old.reddit.com/user/Shufflebuzz/comments/1iv4dud/shu...

https://www.helpmeleave.us/

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se... (Canadian citizenship by descent)

https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b58914ce-b98d-4330... from https://pancakeonastick.substack.com/ (Digital Nomad Visa Map)
by bsimpson | 2026-02-26 03:48:37+00:00
I hope so.

Resource usage has been on a hedonic treadmill at least since I came online in the 90s. Good things have come from that, of course, but there's also plenty of abstraction/waste that's permitted because "new computers can handle it."

With so many gaming devices based on the AMD Z1 Extreme platform (and its custom Valve corollaries) over the past few years, it'll be great to see that be the target/baseline for a while. Brings access to more players and staves of e-waste for longer.
by SolubleSnake | 2026-02-26 03:50:02+00:00
I am a CAD engineer and software developer who has worked in manufacturing a lot in the UK in various industries - products as big as superyachts and as small as peristaltic pumps. I think if the UK and EU are to try and defend their weakening and shrinking manufacturing sectors (these industries have been disappearing for my entire adult life) then it is possible but difficult...In 10 to 20 years it will be impossible.

The reason is as you have described. We are getting close to where the numbers of people with practical experience working in, managing, and designing things like the work processes and factory layouts in industries that build physical products are disappearing. We're losing a lot of capable practical engineers with hands on experience. We can keep the universities going teaching the physical subjects but those lecturers wouldn't know even where to begin on designing and building efficient factories unfortunately.

We'd probably end up having to get Chinese and Taiwanese businesses to outsource their 'experts' back to us in order to actually do this and pay them a fortune - basically the reverse of what was happening in the manufacturing sector in the 80s and 90s!
by modeless | 2026-02-26 03:50:25+00:00
> The models have a very large user base, but very narrow engagement and stickiness, and no network effect or any other winner-takes-all effect so far that provides a clear path to turning that user base into something broader and durable.

I think this is clearly wrong. Users provide lots of data useful for making the models better and that is already being leveraged today. It seems like network effects are likely in the future too. And they have several ways to get stickiness including memory.
by goolz | 2026-02-26 03:50:42+00:00
How many of those people are paying? I think many say “use ChatGPT” to mean any LLM. As you noted it seems you just see ChatGPT in the wild but that is anecdotal. It is certainly pervasive right now. But I know a lot of people currently switching to Gemini.

I personally prefer claude models for all my work. If I were them I would be very worried. They are never giving us AGI and I am skeptical they are worth .5 trillion. Their cash burn is insane. Once ads and price hikes come, people will migrate to companies that can still afford to subsidize (like Google).

Plus I heard they lowered projections recently? Sam honestly comes off as a grifter.
by anonnon | 2026-02-26 03:50:44+00:00
Article is paywalled, but I'm guessing "record numbers" is still quite low in absolute terms.

But regardless, "self-deportation" isn't a bad thing. At the very least, they may appreciate America more after spending time away from it, and if not, then they'll have found a place to live that's more to their liking. And if it becomes a bona fide trend (which it probably won't), it will help--along with reduced legal and illegal immigration, and the natural tendency for conservatives to out-breed liberals, and the high heritability of political attitudes (40-60%)--to solidify America's conservative majority.
by LarsDu88 | 2026-02-26 03:52:06+00:00
Trellis is like a year old and practically free. There are already better models to make comparisons to.

Because they all use latent diffusion, and many techniques use voxelized intermediate representations of 3d models, often generated from images, topology is bound to be bad.

There is a lot of ongoing research around getting better topology. I expect these critiques to still be valid as much as 2 years from now, but the economics of modeling will change drastically as the models get better
by bloaf | 2026-02-26 03:52:14+00:00
I'm not a fan of the way grey hydrogen was written off: That hydrogen is already being produced today by several different refinery processes, and then burned in a furnace because no one else wants it.

So the right way to handle the carbon accounting isn't to assume that all the CO2 produced by the refinery processes count against the hydrogen produced, but rather that the energy that refineries get from burning the hydrogen would be replaced by them burning natural gas instead.

The per-kg energy value of burning H2 is ~2.5x the value of natural gas (refineries generally use LHV for this accounting). But each kg of natural gas that gets burned produces ~2.8 kg of CO2 (because burning replaces the puny hydrogen with relatively larger oxygen atoms).

2.5*2.8 = 7kg of CO2 per kg of H2 taken out of the refinery. Which isn't as big a difference from the 10kg reported in the article as I expected when I set about writing this comment.
by CharlesW | 2026-02-26 03:53:09+00:00
> Everyone is actually underestimating stickiness.

I think you're underestimating how fickle consumers are, and how much their choices are based on fashion and emotion. A couple more of these, and OpenAI will find itself relegated to the kids' table with Grok and Perplexity. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/15/1121900/gpt4o-gr...
LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed
by masaTokyo | 2026-02-26 03:53:32+00:00
I get my best coding ideas when I'm nowhere near my desk — usually right
as I'm falling asleep. I got tired of losing that momentum, so I built
LazyGravity.

It's a local Discord bot that hooks up Antigravity to your phone. I can
ship fixes, kick off long implementation tasks, or start whole features
from bed, the train, wherever. Send a message in Discord, Antigravity
executes it on your home PC, results come back as rich embeds you can
reply to for follow-up instructions.

How it works: it drives the Antigravity UI directly via Chrome DevTools
Protocol over WebSocket (Runtime.evaluate on the Electron shell's DOM).
No private API hacking — no risk of account bans like with tools that
reverse-engineer proprietary APIs.

A few things I care about:

- Local-first: your code never leaves your machine. No exposed ports,
no cloud relays, no intermediate server.
- Secure: whitelist-based access — only your Discord ID can trigger
commands. (I recommend a dedicated server to keep things private.)
- Context threading: reply to any result embed to continue the
conversation with full context preserved.

What you can actually do from your phone:

- Route local projects to Discord categories, sessions to channels
— automatic workspace management
- Toggle LLM models or modes (Plan/Code/Architect) with /model and /mode
- /screenshot to see exactly what's happening on your desktop in real-time
- One-click prompt templates for common tasks
- Auto-detect and approve/deny file change dialogs from Discord

Still early alpha (v0.1.0), but it's been a game-changer for my own
workflow. Looking for folks to try it out, roast the architecture,
, add new features and help squash bugs.

npm install -g lazy-gravity
lazy-gravity setup
Demo video in Readme:
https://github.com/tokyoweb3/LazyGravity
Show HN: Director-AI – token-level NLI+RAG
by anulum | 2026-02-26 03:54:34+00:00
Hey HN,

After watching too many agents confidently lie in production, I built Director-AI.

It sits between your LLM and the user, scoring every generated token with:
• 0.6× DeBERTa-v3 NLI (contradiction detection)
• 0.4× RAG against your own ChromaDB knowledge base

If coherence < threshold → Rust kernel halts the stream before the token is sent.

Key technical bits:
• Works with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, Groq, OpenAI, Claude…)
• StreamingKernel + windowed scoring
• GroundTruthStore.add() for easy fact ingestion
• Dual licensing: AGPL open + commercial (closed-source/SaaS OK)

Honest AggreFact numbers inside (66.2% balanced acc with streaming enabled). Not claiming SOTA on static NLI — the value is in the live gating + custom KB system.

Repo + full examples: https://github.com/anulum/director-ai

Would love feedback on the scoring weights, halt logic, or kernel design. What hallucination problems are you solving today?
by rurp | 2026-02-26 03:54:46+00:00
Yeah... the more I learn about nuclear weapon history the more I discount our society's long term viability. There are way too many frighteningly close calls already, and there are probably others that aren't widely known.

It's not just nukes that are concerning either. If we're unable to mitigate such a visceral existential risk, we aren't going to do any better with more subtle vulnerabilities. AI of course accelarates some risks and introduces new ones.

This doesn't mean we're doomed or anything, but if I had a magic portal to peer a few hundred years in the future and saw humans had been obliterated by nukes, runaway AI, some generated supervirus, runaway climate change, or some other manufactured risk I would be completely unsurprised.
by nine_k | 2026-02-26 03:54:58+00:00
Even the most excellent education system takes several yeas to educate a high-schooler to a level of a junior engineer. Then several more years are needed for the best of them to become senior engineers, with the knowledge and experience that a university alone cannot provide.

So, we're looking a a decade-long project at least, even if everything goes as planned, and crazy fast, in the technical and administrative departments.
by sebastiandoyle | 2026-02-26 03:55:10+00:00
Hey HN! I built Sidedesk because I was tired of every AI interface looking like the same flat chatbox. It is an AI assistant inbox with a retro Outlook 2003 UI — your agents send you emails, make voice calls, and push structured content (tables, code, progress bars) in pixel-perfect XP styling. The email metaphor actually works better than chat for AI: messages persist, they thread naturally, and structured content renders as cards. Tech: Python/FastAPI, LiveKit WebRTC voice, SQLite, vanilla HTML/CSS/JS (zero frameworks). Started as a personal project for my autonomous iOS app build agents, open-sourced because it turned out useful. Marketing site: https://sidedesk-marketing.vercel.app — MIT licensed, feedback welcome.
by throwaway13337 | 2026-02-26 03:55:12+00:00
It seems likely that no one will win. And therefore everyone else will win.

This is because LLMs are commodities. And they destroy the 'power' - as the article puts it - that platforms have over their prisoners.

These sorts of doom articles are interesting in that they are from the perspective of tech company valuations. Why is this the important perspective?

For the humanity perspective, this doom is very optimistic. It says that these LLMs currently disrupting the platforms cannot themselves be the next platforms.

Maybe no one owns the next platforms.

Sounds good to me.
by SolubleSnake | 2026-02-26 03:55:17+00:00
This is a fairly odd statement given that BOMs are managed in manufacturing systems and for accounting and engineering purposes in multiple different ways. This can be for anything to do with sales data for a client or for guys on the factory floor or for the accountants. There are sales BOMs, manufacturing BOMs procurement BOMs and nested BOMs etc all for different parts of the business process...you would have BOMs within the organisation that were probably nearly 70% etc or those that were 0%!
by _carbyau_ | 2026-02-26 03:55:45+00:00
> enable 10-minute charging.

I have a problem with the current physics of this. A car requires a LOT of energy to run. The electrical requirements "at the pump" are going to be pretty hefty for 10 minute charging.

Unless:

1. Reduce capacity requirements. IE Cars evolve smaller and smaller until they are practically aerodynamically efficient go-karts. A trend opposite of current affairs....

2. Charge for longer timeframes but swap in less than 10 minutes. IE standardise and replace batteries as needed.

I suspect that the "10 minute recharge" meme will be obviated by ridiculous ranges allowing us to then charge while sleeping instead.
by Root_Denied | 2026-02-26 03:55:47+00:00
Sign me up.

I'm optimistic at the response from the EU on tech investment, but I haven't seen them put their money where their mouth is yet. If they want to poach talent from the US they'll also have to figure out an work visa path that makes it easier to move there (bureaucratically, like the classic "you need a phone number to sign up for a bank account, you need a bank account to rent an apartment, you need an address to sign up for a phone number") and direct investments away from the US and into local tech providers in support of infrastructure and development (that isn't AI related datacenters).
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-26 03:55:48+00:00
It's a false positive. He would get banned even though he was not cheating.

Whether it's "reasonable" or not comes down to politics. Optimizing for either false positives or false negatives is a policy decision. Do you punish innocents to ensure you catch every single cheater? Do you let cheaters go to ensure you don't punish innocents?

I don't really intend to discuss the above questions. I'm just pointing out the fact one of those so called complainers in the forums could very well turn out to be one of these false positives. That's what the system is optimized for.
by arctic-true | 2026-02-26 03:56:36+00:00
To go vertical they’d need to illustrate the value-add, a problem that the vertical competitors already have. Why use Claude for Accountants at $300/month when regular Claude will do the same thing for much less? The stock answer is that Claude for Accountants keeps your data more secure and doesn’t train on it. But a) I think the enterprise consumer is much less likely to trust a model creator not to stick its hand in the cookie jar than a middleman who needs the trust to survive, and b) the vertical competitors typically don’t use the absolute most up-to-date models in their products anyway, so why not just go open-source and run everything in-house? 6 months is a long time in tech, but it’s the blink of an eye in most white-collar professions.
by alisadev | 2026-02-26 03:56:56+00:00
Then why won't they focus on fixing the root of the problem, with educating and healing (psychologically) people before they have children so that there won't be neglected children to protect in the first place?

Having children should be a privilege, not a human right. Especially when the majority of children end up being abused either way (either physically, emotionally or both). It is far more common to have abusive or neglectful parents than it seems.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-26 03:57:13+00:00
You don't need evidence for things that are obviously true and already proven by simple probability and reasoning. If I really wanted to be an asshole, I could just prove there's malware on the play store by asking you to prove that there are no apps which do not contain malware, which of course nobody can do.

It's a big repository, it's a lot of code, and Google has read approximately 0% of it. Fucking obviously there's malware, it's not rocket science.

My biggest mistake is humoring people who either play stupid or are so stupid that they can barely function. Why do I do this? Is this a form of masochism? Is there a medicine for this? And, if so, is it in-network?
Show HN: DeltaMemory – Persistent cognitive memory for production AI agents
by bikidev | 2026-02-26 03:57:22+00:00
Most AI agents forget everything between sessions. We built DeltaMemory to fix that.

It's a cognitive memory layer that gives agents persistent recall, automatic fact extraction, and temporal reasoning — via a single SDK call.

Key numbers:
- 89% accuracy on LoCoMo long-term conversation benchmark
- 50ms p50 retrieval latency
- 97% cost reduction vs raw token re-processing

Open source SDKs, works with any LLM stack. Currently in early access.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, benchmark methodology, or how we handle knowledge graphs.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-26 03:57:25+00:00
Given much of the free world depends on the US for defense, maybe it's not "zero tangible benefits"?

Yea, it's annoying, though. Under $130k a year you don't pay. So this is a 1%-er problem. And, you still deduct your foreign taxes and just pay the difference. I'm not saying that makes it ok, but you aren't double taxed, you're just taxes as tho you were back in the USA.
by jen20 | 2026-02-26 03:59:22+00:00
I actually encountered this today - one of a group I am planning a trip with posted some of the breathless nonsense that ChatGPT produced ("you're not picking a hotel, you're picking a group dynamic..." and other such textual diarrhea).

It turned out the only reason ChatGPT was because it is free for small enough volume usage. My suggestion to see what Claude had to say instead was met with "huh, you have to pay for it?". It's not like these are people that can't afford $20 per month for a subscription, but it might be that these assistants aren't even worth that for typical "normie" use cases.
by peterlk | 2026-02-26 04:00:12+00:00
I have quite a bit of family in Germany, and have had several friends move from the US to Europe. Europe absolutely knows that they have an opportunity to capture a ton of talent right now. If you have skills that are in demand, basically any country in the Schengen zone will find a way to get you a visa. For example, if you’re a trans researcher, you will find open arms at academic institutions in Europe.

You could also lie and claim your address as a US address, and then just live in another country. This is obviously illegal, but I’ve met a few people who made it work for a while. But I’m also speaking abstractly on the internet, so maybe I’m just making all this up.