MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by partiallypro | 2026-02-25 18:36:26+00:00
I don't know how to break this to you, but Europe itself has been the burning building for 20 years. I don't see that changing any time soon. The anti-US stuff is largely flailing, the US is better positioned than Europe for the next 20 years also. They struggle with investment, have almost no large companies left of any merit in tech, have political problems that are similar to the US's, and regulate themselves to death. It would take a political revolution in Europe to fix that, and frankly they don't have it in them.
by bravetraveler | 2026-02-25 18:36:27+00:00
I can't say absolutely, yet! Hasn't struck. No hint towards more output expected, and if so [and I were to play along], they would be sorely disappointed. Simply not limited by content generation/consumption.

All beside the point, anyway. I'll worry about meeting raised expectations in the next place... where I can renegotiate my side of the terms, too. The work doesn't really call for it, there are options (both internal and external).

TLDR: my 'agents' were called 'pipelines' 20 years ago, they serve us well. The surrounding logistics need to be streamlined before an agent might have any meaningful impact. We have all the code/docs/whatever we might need, so I suspect it's a wash. There's a lot on the tool-belt already.
by sandgardenhq | 2026-02-25 18:37:03+00:00
You know, I tried to convince people of a number of various other pronunciations. But when we saw it written down, everyone just naturally pronounced it "sky." My natural impulse was to avoid it, since there are already a ton of AI-related things called Sky, but I think I've accepted that it was inevitable.

Besides -- and I've obviously thought about this a little too much -- when you actually say the word "sky," are you using a hard k? After saying it out loud to myself about a billion times (and long after the word lost all meaning) I think I actually use a hard g.
by skrebbel | 2026-02-25 18:37:04+00:00
The article has examples about people naming themselves "Аdministrator". That's not about machine-readable identifiers, it's about display names. This entire subthread is either people missing that and thinking they're talking about login usernames and the likes, in which case I don't disagree, or people actually believing it's OK to limit people's screen names to a-zA-Z0-9 in which case I say, that's deeply imperialistic and a super shit thing to do.
by reconnecting | 2026-02-25 18:37:49+00:00
tirreno guy here, we develop an open-source fraud prevention / security platform (1).

Sometimes there is no clear explanation for fake account registration. Perhaps they were registered to be actively used in the future, as most fraud prevention techniques target new account registration and therefore old, aged accounts won't raise suspicion.

Slightly off-topic, but there are relatively new `services` that offer native brand mentions in reddit comments. Perhaps this will soon be available for HN as well, and warming up accounts might be needed for this purpose.

1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
by TZubiri | 2026-02-25 18:37:55+00:00
>"Agent"

> (2022)

Has there been a rebrand as of late? What was the product pitch before that? I guess "AI for planning company retreats" (and possibly SaaS for company retreats before that)

This capacity to pivot into these buzzwords shows that at least sometimes they are more phenomenons with marketing (or at least UX) definitions rather than technological ones.
by Beijinger | 2026-02-25 18:37:55+00:00
I never heard about "boiling water" as a state of matter. Boiling water has two states of matter. Liquid and Gas, including a phase change. There are many of states of matter. I, as a chemist, would not be able to tell you most of them out of my head.
Bose-Einstein condensate being one of them. Boiling water is not a state of matter. It may be a description of water, like cold water, flavoured water, carbonated water.
by edanm | 2026-02-25 18:37:55+00:00
I'm exactly the opposite. It'd been on my todo list for years to one day learn the difference between the different dashes. I kept putting not doing it.

Then came LLMs, and there was so much talk of them using em dashes. A few weeks ago, I finally decided it's time and learned the difference. (Which took all of 2 minutes, btw.) Now I love em dashes and am putting them everywhere I can! Even though most people now assume I'm using AI to write for me.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-25 18:38:20+00:00
> Oil is over

Then why has both global [0] and US [1] consumption been rising year-over-year for the last few years and projected to continue to rise [2]?

All those articles you're posting about short term changes in the dynamics of the oil market (except China, which is remains a net energy importer only because of oil, so they have a strong strategic reason to reduce oil depdence, though they still use quite a bit[3]).

Btw I'm not citing these things because I'm a big supporter of hydrocarbons or against green energy (which will continue to grow with or without boosters, since there is a real demand for that energy), but more so a realist pointing out that we are absolutely not making any progress in reducing our global need for hydrocarbons.

0. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-consumption-by-countr...

1. https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10324

2. https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/global_oil.php

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China#/media/File:Chin...
by flyingsilverfin | 2026-02-25 18:38:23+00:00
Hi HN, I'm CTO at TypeDB. We shipped an agent mode in our web Studio that lets you describe what you want in plain English and get executable database queries back. The blog calls it "vibe querying," which is a little tongue-in-cheek, but the workflow is what you expect: ask a question, get TypeQL, run it, iterate.

TypeDB's data model has a strict schema, higher-level abstractions (role-based interfaces, subtyping & inheritance), and hypergraph structures (n-ary relations & relations in relations) built in. This combination enables better AI query generation.

It's like giving the LLM a strongly typed language instead of a loosely typed one. With a relational db, the model has to infer relationships from foreign keys and naming conventions. With graph databases, there's no enforced schema. In TypeDB, the schema says "friendship is a relation with two friends, each played by a person" — the LLM gets a constraint space to navigate rather than guess at. It still gets things wrong — the post shows a syntax error it had to recover from — but the error surface is smaller and more correctable.

Would love to hear your thoughts. Happy to answer anything about TypeDB as well!
by enraged_camel | 2026-02-25 18:38:27+00:00
>> Maybe it goes without saying, but the reason you don’t mind the bus in Europe is not because you are European but because the European buses are nicer.

Actually I think it is both. Car culture in Europe is nowhere as dominant as it is in the US. Many Europeans grow up with public transportation as the default mode of getting around. So they are more likely to be accustomed to things that become grievances for Americans.

I was born and raised in Turkey, and now live in the US. In Turkey when you take a bus or train during rush hour you’re often packed like sardines. No concept of personal space. Same with many cities in Europe. That type of thing wouldn’t fly anywhere in the US, except maybe NYC. Even then though New Yorkers tend to dislike it.
by adamsilkey | 2026-02-25 18:38:44+00:00
I feel the same way. I've used em-dashes in my writing forever, and I was always particular about making sure they were used properly (from a typography standpoint with no surrounding spaces).

But now, I have to be so picky about when I use them, even when I think it's the perfect punctuation mark. I'll often just resort to a single hyphen with spaces around. It's wrong, but it doesn't signal someone to go "AI AI AI!!"
by danielodievich | 2026-02-25 18:38:57+00:00
I post under my real name here, pretty much the only place I post. It keeps me honest and straight in what I say when I choose to say it. I tried talking to my children about leaving as clean of a footprint on the internet as one can in anticipation of future people/systems taking that into consideration. I don't know what it will be but I would expect some adversarial stuff. Trying to keep clean is what I'd prefer for myself and my kids.

On other hand, the Neal Stephenson's Fall or, Dodge in Hell book has an interesting idea in early phase of the book where a person agrees to what we now know "flood the zone with sh*t" (Steve Bannon's sadly very effective strategy) to battle some trolls. Instead of trying to keep clean, the intent is just to spam like crazy with anything so nobody understands the core. It is cleverly explored in the book albeit for too short of a time before moving into the virtual reality. I think there are a few people out here right now practicing this.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-25 18:39:23+00:00
Overstep?

ICC members make judgements that are abided by ICC member states. They have every authority to make those judgments, and it does not matter what the busted idiocracy US of A, acting as a pathetic supplicant state for their boss Israel, thinks about it.

Maybe Trump can complain to his unbelievably pathetic Board of Peace. Christ.

The war criminal Netanyahu can stick to the rogue shitholes he is welcomed at. The US -- which btw is currently engaged in BLATANTLY criminal activities in a number of venues -- can get fucked. The US has *ZERO* authority to tell members of the ICC who or what they can declare a warcrime, or who members of the ICC will hold to account if they enter their country.

What a bizarre take.

And yes, the US can sanction whoever they want, but such actions are far from free.. When every American firm is sent packing, enjoy the results. And yes, American payment processors are discovering in super-rapid quicktime how this rogue cabal of war criminal, paedos and criminal grifters are destroying their future.
by sys_ravi | 2026-02-25 18:39:28+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm Ravi, and I've spent the last few months building **SysNav** (https://sysnav.ai). It's an intelligent terminal workspace designed specifically for SREs who want the speed of a native shell but the
context-awareness of an AI when things break.

**The Problem**
I found myself constantly context-switching: run `kubectl`, see error, copy to LLM, sanitize PII manually, paste, get generic fix, modify for my variables... it was friction-heavy.

**The Solution: SysNav**
I built SysNav as a "Assistant for DevOps and Ops". It wraps your terminal in a native "Intelligent Cockpit" interface:

1. **Ask Mode (Safe)**: You ask "Why is the redis pod crashing?". SysNav inspects the screen output (using a local PTY buffer), anonymizes PII, and sends *only* the context to the LLM. It returns a
suggested command. **It creates a human-in-the-loop safety barrier.**
2. **Agent Mode (Autonomous)**: If you trust it, you can give it a goal ("Find all zombie processes and kill them"), and it will execute the steps one by one, stopping if it encounters an unexpected
error.

**Security Architecture (The "Paranoia" Check)**
This was the most important part for me. SysNav uses a **Local-First Architecture**:
* **SSH Keys & Env Vars**: Never leave your machine. They are stored in your release of the Electron app.
* **Context**: We only send the text buffer of the terminal (logs/errors) to the inference layer. We have a redact-pii step that runs locally before network requests.

**Status**
We are currently in **Public Beta**. The core terminal is "fast-enough" (<100ms startup), and the AI context awareness is saving me about 30 minutes per incident.

I'd love for you to roast the architecture or tell me what features would make you actually trust an AI in your production environment.

Check it out: https://sysnav.ai
(Download available for macOS/Linux/Windows)
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-25 18:39:37+00:00
128 to 210 WEEKS for power transformers. You can fab more GPUs in 18 months but the electrical infrastructure to run them takes 3-4 years and there are maybe a handful of manufacturers. Feels like the stories from the telecom fiber overbuild of 2000 except this time the supply chain can't even overbuild if it wanted to.
by Kye | 2026-02-25 18:39:53+00:00
You also get 30 years of efficiency improvements and 20 years of capacity and reliability improvements when you replace them.

In practice: https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2026/0116/1553440-mayo-wind...

>> "Each one of the new wind turbines will be capable of supplying more power to the national electricity grid than was generated by the entire Bellacorick wind farm."
by cgriswald | 2026-02-25 18:39:58+00:00
A poster commented that he read parenthetical remarks in an old-timey voice (I’d guess the trans-Atlantic accent). I love that idea. But for me they read almost as if you’re saying them under your breath (or a character is breaking the fourth wall and talking to the camera quietly). I read them but my brain assigns them less importance.

Em-dashes keep everything on the same level of importance in my brain.

Commas don’t feel as powerful. To be fair to the comma I’d probably do this:

Em-dash matches how I speak and think: A halt, then push onto the digression stack, then pop. So I use them like that.

Edit: I accidentally used an em-dash in the word em-dash. Interestingly HN didn’t consider changing the dash to be a change in my text so didn’t update it. I had to make a separate change and take that change out for my dash change to stick.
by mort96 | 2026-02-25 18:40:28+00:00
I've had a ton of issues trying to use Podman instead of Docker on Fedora. SELinux keeps blocking Podman from doing stuff it needs to, while Docker just works.

I've also experienced Podman "getting stuck" sometimes: it's just running a build, but ctrl+c somehow doesn't stop the build system and instead freezes Podman. Doesn't really happen with Docker.
by legitster | 2026-02-25 18:40:51+00:00
- The difference between Ben Franklin writing about farming in the 1770s and the civil war was that industrialization didn't hit the US until the 1810s/1820s when the first steel mills and steam engines were set up.

- "These people categorically did not want to start a farm; otherwise they would not have been facing famine." The vast majority of immigrants to the US at this time WERE farmers who were not allowed to own land in Europe. The reason they came to the North instead of the South is because they were largely not allowed to settle anywhere East of the Appalachians in the South. The South was staunchly anti-immigrant and barely had any cities at the time.

- At the outbreak of war, the Union army was almost entirely made up of American born volunteers. Later, immigrant brigades were enlisted, but most were highly regarded and commended and still made up less than half of the army.

- Your explanation cutely ignores the fact that Southern troops fired first in the Civil War
by streptomycin | 2026-02-25 18:41:01+00:00
The article says the city claims the biggest issue is federal regulations (the ADA) not city regulations.

My neighborhood in NJ just got those fancy ADA compliant curb ramps last year, along with a repaving. It did take them much longer to install the curb ramps (like a week or two?) than it did to pave (one day) so I can imagine there is a significant cost, even if it's a smaller amount of materials.
by dalvrosa | 2026-02-25 18:41:23+00:00
Ever wondered why your “clean” polymorphic design underperforms in benchmarks? Virtual dispatch enables polymorphism, but it comes with hidden overhead: pointer indirection, larger object layouts, and fewer inlining opportunities.

Compilers do their best to devirtualize these calls, but it isn’t always possible. On latency-sensitive paths, it’s beneficial to manually replace dynamic dispatch with static polymorphism, so calls are resolved at compile time and the abstraction has effectively zero runtime cost.
by latexr | 2026-02-25 18:41:34+00:00
> I hope people don't do that, but I expect they probably do.

How about the corporate vice president of Microsoft Word?

https://www.omarknows.ai/p/meet-lobster-my-personal-ai-assis...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarshahine

It’s not going to be amusing when he gets hacked. Zero sense of responsibility.
by MereInterest | 2026-02-25 18:41:36+00:00
> Oh man. The infinite loops of impossible verification by large companies that should know better are massive pain peeve of mine.

I got hit by this from google.

1. Gmail added requirement for 2FA on my primary email address. Since I had no phone number on file, it instead used my recovery email address. Thankfully, I still had the password for my recovery email address, and could continue to (2).

2. Gmail added requirement for 2FA on my recovery email address. Since I had no phone number on file, it instead used by recovery's recovery email address. Thankfully, I still had the password for my recovery's recovery email address, and could continue to (3).

3. SBC Communications no longer exists, as it merged with AT&T in 2005. Email addresses at `sbcglobal.net` were maintained up until around 2021-ish, when they started purging any mailboxes that had been idle for more than 12 months.

Fundamentally, this was google's fault for misusing a recovery email for 2FA. Unfortunately, the only way to fix it would be to contact AT&T, asking them to pretty please update the email settings for somebody who hadn't been a paying customer for two decades.
by l72 | 2026-02-25 18:42:05+00:00
Evolution has worked with every corporate environment I’ve been in since 2003. Mail, calendar, contacts, tasks has always worked great, including companies that have used outlook, Google, and others.

I personally don’t love thunderbird, but what is it missing?

Gnome through their online accounts supports most major corporate providers which has calendars showing up in evolution, the dedicated calendar app, and in the status bar of gnome shell.
by downsplat | 2026-02-25 18:42:10+00:00
I don't think openclaw can possibly be secured given the current paradigm. It has access to your personal stuff (that's its main use case), access to the net, and it gets untrusted third party inputs. That's the unfixable trifecta right there. No amount of filtering band-aid whack-a-mole is going to fix that.

Sandboxes are a good measure for things like Claude Code or Amp. I use a bubblewrap wrapper to make sure it can't read $HOME or access my ssh keys. And even there, you have to make sure you don't give the bot write access to files you'll be executing outside the sandbox.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-25 18:42:20+00:00
> And this is becasue huge international investors still own sites like malls and retail centers and still remember the massive rents they used to command for those units.

Oh no. It's US pension funds that own a lot of real estate, and these will continue to get bailed out or protected by the government.

The decision of the US to back pensions on the stonk market has insane, crippling side effects not just on their economy but also on the rest of the world.
by devmor | 2026-02-25 18:42:23+00:00
As someone who built full ecommerce websites on wordpress over 15 years ago, I can tell you exactly why it hasn't been replaced - the plugin/theme ecosystem.

There are tens of thousands of plugins and themes to make a Wordpress website do whatever you want and look however you want, either for free or a very low fee. You have to replace that entire ecosystem for the same price to replace Wordpress.

No matter how many times people get hacked, the perceived value of getting something for nothing outweighs the eventual cost.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-02-25 18:42:24+00:00
The Palestinians receive billion(s) from Arabic oil states, Iran, and UN aid groups.

That money is controlled / siphoned / embezzled by the two political factions dominant in the two areas: PLO in the West Bank, Hamas in Gaza.

Which the finders accept, because the primary geopolitical purpose of that aid isn't to help the Palestinians, it is the ensure Israel is distracted and doesn't use its overwhelming military advantage in the region to take over it's neighbors.

It is a quid pro quo.

If you want to hand over money to these essentially organized crime groups, hey it is your money.

No one spending big bucks in the Israel Palestine conflict is doing it out of the good of their hearts. This is ultimately about regional power and gulf oil politics.

There is no good side in this conflict. The Israelis are controlled by a murderous far right wing zealot, and the Palestinians are ruled by even more murderous people. If you give money, it goes to the murderous people in charge.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-25 18:42:27+00:00
Django Admin definitely needs extensions like this. I hope someday they make it a stronger more capable Admin UI. Their own docs if I remember correctly tell you to build your own UI if you're hitting limits with the admin UI itself, which is fine, but there's so much OOTB that works nicely for the admin UI.

I like the spirit of this, and could see Django heavy shops wanting to add bits and pieces that display tooling / services they care about in Django admin.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-25 18:42:28+00:00
It bothers me that you attribute this to Elon Musk. This has been obvious to everyone for 75 years or more. The lecturer in my freshman thermodynamics class mentioned it, 35 years ago. In 1999, NREL scientists writing in the journal Science under the title "A Realizable Renewable Energy Future" made the specific claim about 10000 square miles.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-02-25 18:42:57+00:00
I've seen it work pretty well in a number of places in the form of privately owned minibuses/vans that can rapidly go where the demand is needed.

As an example, all throughout the Eastern Caribbean this system works really well (in my experience better than most centrally planned bus systems in large cities). On any given island you can go to any main road and within a few minutes a minibus will come along. Most of the time if your aren't familiar with the geography, you just tell the conductor where you are trying to get to, and they will make sure that you get off in the right spot to get where you are going or connect to another minibus. Typical cost was ~$2.

Predictability was pretty low, but because of the small size of busses, there were a lot of them roaming around, I don't think I ever waited more than 15 minutes, and that was in very out of the way places.
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-25 18:43:01+00:00
15% defaults would be brutal but honestly not that surprising.

AQR's 2026 capital market assumptions (1) had U.S. buyout returns at 4.2% vs 3.9% for public equities. A 30bp premium for years of lockup.

Way too much capital chased the same trades and now the risk is showing up. Did some research recently (2) about how the illiquidity premium got arbitraged away.

(1) https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Alternative-Thinking/2...

(2) https://philippdubach.com/posts/is-private-equity-just-beta-...
by tialaramex | 2026-02-25 18:43:02+00:00
In several countries their freight trains are electric today. Trucks can be electric too, and a lot of shipping needn't run on fossil fuels although we're further off widespread commercial offerings than we are for trains or trucks which you can just buy today.

The main obstacle is aeroplanes, so that's Jet-A aka Kerosene as fuel, but even then if the numbers get nasty the airlines will kill a lot of services rather than try to pass on unaffordable prices and eat the fuel cost when there aren't enough buyers.
by ramoz | 2026-02-25 18:43:26+00:00
Meta: https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363
context: meta alignment lead made rookie mistakes (their words) in instructing openclaw and lost their inbox to it.

Goog: https://deadline.com/2026/02/google-apologizes-bafta-news-al... *

Ant: https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-...

* There is now a clarification in the press saying it was not ai-generated.

Alignment as a solution to all of this has a rough long road ahead is my point.