MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by romainsimon | 2026-02-26 20:24:24+00:00
Hi HN.

I built this because I was frustrated by the AI-and-jobs conversation. Every take is either dystopian or dismissive, and neither side cites systematic data.

The IDI aggregates 19 public signals into a single 0-100 score across four equally weighted categories: Job Displacement, AI Capacity & Cost, AI Penetration, and Physical Automation.

Current score: 43 (Moderate).

All sources are free/public (BLS, FRED, Indeed, METR, arXiv, CA DMV, Anthropic Economic Index, Amazon filings). 6-month EMA smoothing, domain-specific normalization. 85 months of history, downloadable as JSON (CC BY 4.0).

A few things that surprised me building this:

The biggest signal isn't job losses. It's the collapse in model pricing: $120/MTok to $0.20/MTok in under two years. METR's agent horizon went from 3.5 minutes to ~6.5 hours in the same period. Yet Job Displacement only scores 45. There's a growing gap between what AI can do and what it's actually doing to labor markets.

Counter-signals are real. New business formations are up 23% from 2022. Real wages in tech are still growing. The honest version of this story includes adaptation, not just disruption.

Weighting and signal selection are editorial calls, documented on the page.

Happy to discuss methodology or take suggestions for signals I'm missing.
by dizhn | 2026-02-26 20:24:30+00:00
> I have the nextcloud set to only allow access from my IP. It has to be open to the world with a domain name so I can use LetsEncrypt certs so it cannot only use private ip addresses which cannot be easily configured and trusted for https.

I would put that nextcloud instance on a private/vpn IP and not expose it. For the letsencrypt you can use DNS based approval. Cloudflare DNS is pretty easy to configure for example, they also support setting DNS records for private IPs which I understand is not standard. (If it's on a private IP you don't strictly need HTTPS anyway). Wireguard is ideal for this kind of thing and it works well on mobile as well.

If the above quoted piece is the entirety of your requirements there are a lot of other ways to solve the same issue. Tunnels, reverse proxies etc.

EDIT: Letsencrypt just recently add a new authentication method which uses a one time TXT entry into your DNS record.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-26 20:24:54+00:00
If you want a photocopy of the Go Corp. PenPoint UI guidelines let me know and I'll see if I can dig out a copy from a binder which I got w/ an SDK I purchased years ago --- I really miss PenPoint, and always thought it was one of the better UI environments.

contact info is my user name here at aol.com
by veeduzyl | 2026-02-26 20:25:43+00:00
We’ve published the first installable GitHub Release of MindForge Guard (v1.0.1).

This release is distributed directly via GitHub (no npm registry dependency).

What’s included:

Policy init schema alignment

Legacy v=1 auto-migration

Kernel bundled inside Guard

Installable .tgz

One-step installer script

Install:

npm install -g ./veeduzyl-mindforge-guard-1.0.1.tgz

Verify:

guard --version
guard init
guard validate-policy
guard status
guard drift status

This version focuses on stable distribution and deterministic install flow.

Release page:
https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/mindforge-guard/releases/tag...

Feedback welcome.
by kvinogradov | 2026-02-26 20:26:34+00:00
It is great to see that governments are also funding open source, but I don't think it is sustainable and scalable because:

1) In every country, most politicians and citizens have no clue about the problem we are discussing here. Thus OSS won't have a meaningful share in the gov budget.

2) If an OSS-advanced country funds open source now (like Germany - kudos to them!), it might easily change later with a new administration (like the support of nuclear plants in Germany).

3) If a very stable OSS-advanced country perpetually support open source, that creates a freerider problem - nowadays it seems that German taxpayers are supporting OSS, but others do not and unlikely will.

Meanwhile, private funding is sustainable (endowment model) and scalable because of aligned incentives — people voluntarily join, not taxed.
Are GitHub Copilot code suggestions useful enough?
by waffletower | 2026-02-26 20:26:47+00:00
I have seen a fair amount of suggestions by Copilot and this one crossed a boundary for me:

"The variable name `huge` is somewhat informal. Consider a more descriptive name like exceeds-size-limit? or too-large? to better convey the intent and follow the pattern of boolean variable names like skippable seen elsewhere in the codebase."

I downvoted and commented with:

"Dear copilot, I don't wish to impose on your sense of propriety but your suggestion seems to hail from outside of the Clojure ecosystem, demands unnecessary verbosity and, strangely, explicit formality. It would be helpful not to let Java and Objective-C codebases influence your suggestions for Clojure. Question mark suffixed vars and bindings, while common in Clojure codebases, are not used in clojure.core as they are for functions, and some Clojurists prefer not to extend the convention. And why not `huge?`? Most important, such a killjoy suggestion (particularly when the adjective selected for the binding was succinct and apt: epitomizing Clojure's compact elegance) which attempts to sanitize our codebase of lightness and mirth, is unwelcome. It stands as further evidence that your design and configuration is often overreaching and distracting with the ultimate effect of cheapening your review value reputation. With repetition of marginal output, your suggestions become noise to users and we may ignore high quality insights amidst the AI slop."
by epiccoleman | 2026-02-26 20:27:10+00:00
My grandma made Platonically Ideal Pies, and I took up the art years ago. Mine, if I say so myself, are quite good, given that with Grandma's example I know what I'm shooting for.

I haven't made one for a few years, though - having a pie in my house is a recipe for me eating 5000 calories of pie and vanilla ice cream over the next few days.

When my grandma died a few years ago, I asked my aunts if I could have one of her pie pans. Apparently none of her other 17 grandkids thought to ask that - so I got all three (philistines!). Those basic metal pans are among my most cherished possessions.
by dmix | 2026-02-26 20:27:31+00:00
In Canada all the police cars seem to have automated license plate readers these days.

This article explains there was a 2016 law where California won't share local police plate reader data with the feds, so they made a deal in 2024 where Caltrans (dept of transportation) will let Border Patrol pay for it themselves on roads near border crossing like San Diego County.
by borroka | 2026-02-26 20:27:50+00:00
Being intentional in what we do and learn, and practicing it consistently, inevitably changes our lives.

We mostly live on autopilot, without thinking about what we love to do or what we might love to do.

Every day, we read about people whose lives have been changed by jiu jitsu, CrossFit, or learning a foreign language.

It is dedication, focus, goal setting, and practice that change our lives, not so much the activity we devote our time to.

Although pies are delicious and I love making them.
by Lramseyer | 2026-02-26 20:28:05+00:00
Yeah, I was a bit surprised that the author didn't mention that facet of Open AI. It did mention infrastructure goals, but the reality is that Open AI's infrastructure spending commitments have inflated the stock prices of quite a few hardware companies (like Micron and WD) and caused a strain on the market.

The real danger here is how over-leveraged Open AI is. No other AI player is as exposed. Their massive spending commitments are all precariously balanced on the other end by their user base, and if that evaporates, the whole thing will fall apart and that could crash the stocks of other players ...and by crash, I mean bring them down to a realistic value. But the economy is counting on this to work, which is why I believe that Open AI's strategy here really is to make the market exposed to Open AI's risks.
by 1shooner | 2026-02-26 20:28:19+00:00
But what does 'best' even mean in this context? A photographer sharing their 'best' photos was some combination of sharing their personal perspective and their effort to capture shared memories on behalf of others. So yeah it was a limited/privileged (often patriarchal) role. What they picked was interpretive, but that curation was part of the expression/information the viewer was experiencing.

We can mix and match the media we choose to view or keep so easily, when previously there was so much more material and opportunity cost to choosing what to shoot, develop, keep, and share. I think that inevitably loses some meaning.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-26 20:28:48+00:00
Nice try, but you are rewriting your own claim.

You opened with: the Second Intifada was sparked by Israeli massacres. Now your alleged massacre is Sept 29, the first day of the clashes after Sharon’s visit. That is not a prior massacre that precipitated anything, it is the opening confrontation itself, and you are laundering it with a loaded word. I was alive during the time, and this was obvious to the whole world; your claim relies on people not knowing the history.

Read the Mitchell Report you keep invoking. It says:
- The Sharon visit did not cause the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
- It had no basis to conclude there was a deliberate PA plan to launch a campaign, and also no basis to conclude Israel had a deliberate plan to respond with lethal force. That is not a finding of innocence. It is a limits-of-evidence statement, and it cuts both ways.
- It describes Sept 29 as large demonstrations where Palestinians threw stones and Israeli police used rubber-coated bullets and live ammunition, killing 4 and injuring about 200. Calling that a massacre is not reporting, it is rhetoric.

Source: https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/13561/mitchell-repo...

On Oslo, you did not even mention it until your massacre story fell apart. And your Oslo summary is wrong on the text. Oslo II explicitly defers permanent-status issues (Jerusalem, settlements, borders, refugees, etc.) and excludes them from PA jurisdiction. The 18-month line is about phased interim jurisdiction, not a guaranteed state or full withdrawal.
https://www.peaceagreements.org/agreements/410/

Also, Sharon visiting a holy site under police protection is not violence. Mitchell even says holy places must be accessible to all believers. The choice to turn that into an uprising was a choice.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-26 20:29:02+00:00
> When I watch a movie, I don't care about the artist's life. I care about character life, that's very different.

The target audiences for art and film are not the same. The latter is far more pop culture. You can't apply them the same way, and the narrative of the artist has been extremely important for decades. People will watch slop movies. They don't pay $30K for slop art. They're paying that for historical importance or, if contemporary, artist narrative.

I'm in fandom spaces, and the prejudice against AI art is overwhelming. I also run in art collecting circles, being somewhat wealthy but not a billionaire. They also care about authenticity.

That is to say, the people who pay for original art, and participate in art spaces, are generally educated who actively hate AI. Filmgoers are probably a standard deviation lower in education, and are far more willing to part with the cost of one unit of consumption (a $10 ticket) than art buyers.

AI is a threat to graphic designers and those in their orbit.

The only way I see AI being a threat to professional artists is AI copies of their work. And AI isn't anything new there. I have a friend who gets commissioned by hotels to do one-off pieces for display all over the world. People have been making knockoff pieces of her style and selling them for at least a decade. And that's her lower margin, small pieces made for a couple thousand dollars to hang at your house, not her $100K+ pieces for hotels where they fly her out to supervise reassembly and mounting.
by moregrist | 2026-02-26 20:29:05+00:00
> It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale, did it?

It didn’t and I’m not sure anyone who knew anything about at-scale manufacturing ever saw it that way. Injection molding is far cheaper per unit and more accurate.

But 3D printing has made a major impact on prototyping. Parts that would have taken serious machine shop work or outsourcing can be printed in a few hours. It really changed the game for mechanical engineers.

In terms of vibe coding, time to demo/prototype is greatly reduced. That definitely takes time and cost away from R&D. But I don’t know that it’s had much impact on transfer to manufacturing, which can easily be the hard final 20%.
by rvnx | 2026-02-26 20:29:28+00:00
They can't afford to wait.

OpenAI every day is closer and closer to collapse, they urgently need an IPO to pass the hot potato to someone else.

They have 35B USD in the bank.

They did 13B USD in revenue in 2025, and in 2026 they plan to spend 55B USD.

They are already dead if they don't find new people to lend them money.

One of the solution is to sell the company to fools (the general public / IPO), so founders and investors can get away with it and, buy a bit of runway for the company.
by eesmith | 2026-02-26 20:29:39+00:00
Here is the Complaint of the People of the State of California about Amazon - https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/2022-...

Section V is on Amazon's market power.

Section VII is on the anti-competitive effects of Amazon's conduct.

You argue the market space includes physical retail competitors, which the complaint rejects. They describe their reasoning, point out how Jeff Bezos also doesn't see them as interchangeable, hence "physical stores and online stores are not reasonably interchangeable substitutes for one another from the standpoint of consumers".

Indeed,"most merchants—even those that sell through both channels—do not consider physical brick-and-mortar stores to be in the same market as online stores".

It also describes the effect on third-party sellers, like how Chewy.com, Wayfair.com, and Newegg.com charge lower fees, so the seller would like to set a lower price there, but Amazon's policies and market power inhibit the seller "because doing so would result in the suppression of the Buy Box for their Amazon listing."

There's a dozen or so examples of sellers raising their prices elsewhere in order to no lose the buy box, affecting also Amazon competitors:

> A major competing online marketplace to Amazon itself confirmed that it has heard from merchants that they would need to raise their prices on its marketplace or decline to participate in a discount/sale event because a lower price on its marketplace had disqualified or could disqualify their offers from the Amazon Buy Box. This rival marketplace operator reported that during a sales event, certain merchants contacted it to pull their items from the event or indicated that they would need to raise their prices because they reported that they had lost the Buy Box on Amazon, believed they would lose the Buy Box on Amazon, or believed that they would be delisted on Amazon because their item prices were lower on this competing website for the event. ...

> one Walmart manager reported to Bloomberg that “Walmart routinely fields requests from merchants to raise prices on its marketplace because they worry a lower price on Walmart will jeopardize their sales on Amazon.”

> Amazon’s coerced price parity agreements with Marketplace sellers constitute
unlawful contracts and/or combinations in restraint of trade in violation of the Cartwright Act.

(The Cartwright Act is California's main antitrust law.)

Are you still not convinced, and if not, why not?
by cool_dude85 | 2026-02-26 20:29:40+00:00
Funny enough, the utility business broadly wants to move away from this model to more of a cap-based prepaid model. Where I live, to get on the standard payment system may require a quite hefty deposit up front, but the prepaid payment option does not. I get the impression that, if not for customer sentiment and inertia, this would be the default option.
by zingar | 2026-02-26 20:30:54+00:00
Could you tell us what makes this different from other agent orchestration software?

Also I’m struggling to understand the significance of the 193 tests. Are these to validate the output of the agents?

If they’re just there to prevent regressions in your code, the size of a test suite is not usually a selling point. In particular, for a product this complicated, 193 is a small number of tests, which either means each test does a lot (probably too much) or you’re lacking coverage. Either way I wouldn’t advertise “193 tests”.
Show HN: Talentpluto, a voice AI agent connecting GTM talent and startups
by pipervw | 2026-02-26 20:31:24+00:00
talentpluto is a voice AI native platform that connects GTM talent with high-growth startups in NYC and SF. Pluto represents candidates proactively and sends opt-in matches based on experience and career goals, while keeping candidates anonymous until they choose to engage.

How it works:

- Call Pluto to capture background and preferences

- Receive matches and opt in to the ones you want

- Stay connected as goals and timing change
by ttul | 2026-02-26 20:31:28+00:00
I have several naloxone kits in my house and my kids carry them in their backpacks. I'm pro harm-reduction.

With that in mind, what I'm "actually trying to say" is that

a) any time we can make a medication less harmful, that's a good thing; and,

b) if this new molecule relieves pain as well as fentanyl does, it will surely be used by people who are addicted to drugs or who are using drugs recreationally.

The bigger question that goes way beyond the scope of Scripps' research contribution is whether our society can begin to accept that people use drugs like fentanyl to treat depression, trauma, anxiety, and pain of all sorts. And that criminalizing their efforts to treat themselves does not lead to any improvement in their wellbeing or the wellbeing of our society.
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-26 20:31:33+00:00
Sure, but it's random and unrelated to the discussion at hand.

I bake pies but I also like mushrooms and grilled cheese sandwiches. Every other individual here has random associations they can make.

In person, this is seen as commandeering a linear discussion to your personal topic and repeated violations get you uninvited from conversations for being selfish.

On the internet we can just ignore a thread, which is what I should have done here but I've typed this far so I'll go ahead and post it.
by observationist | 2026-02-26 20:31:34+00:00
Sorry if I was unclear, this stuff does get tangled, lol. I was talking about setting up a parallel veilid connection - a private route exchange between the two ends that goes straight over the veilid network, outside of tor. It's got comparable privacy and security assurance. There only a few thousand nodes/peers right now, but it's gaining steam.

You could use tor to anchor a common relay, then do key and route exchange to establish veilid, then the realtime app uses that for a very secure private route unique to the two endpoints.

From what I can tell, because of the design, veilid would be excellent, comparable to many commercial voip offerings, with 150-500ms latency . More nodes and users would quickly ramp that up. There are a ton of downstream benefits of something like this; faster file exchange for ipfs, bittorent, etc, that doesn't gum up the tor layer, a kind of implicit defense in depth, but also low latency, efficient peer to peer routing.

It'd almost be zero knowledge by construction; you could build a multi-hop escrow style key exchange.

If Musk integrated tor relays and veilid peers throughout Starlink, you could get near-native latency for wherever you connect in the world, more than enough to add timing attack noise and layer in other security features.
by mghackerlady | 2026-02-26 20:31:37+00:00
I definitely agree, but those are hard to approach for newcomers. GNU shouldn't just be usable by those willing to put in extensive time, it should be easy to grok for newcomers as well (how else would we spread free software?). There is of course an amount of learning that might be required, as with any system, but we should balance that with the power of the software. systems like GNOME balance it by making the software near useless in exchange for the ability to be used without needing to learn or challenge anything, adopting user interface patterns designed to restrict the user as it's easier for people to instantly know how to do something. That's like trying to make a house easier to live in by locking the doors and putting up barred windows to accommodate those previously living in prison
by jimmis | 2026-02-26 20:31:37+00:00
Excited to see AI integrations into more non-text-related applications (coding, spreadsheets, proofreading etc). As someone who only occasionally needs to edit videos for product / feature reels, I'd happily ask an AI to "sync the narration to the video, cut away irrelevant footage, and add transitions". The convenience of being able to automate simple, repeatable tasks in creative software via ai is something that gets overshadowed a lot by the agentic coding discussions. I can only imagine the nightmare it would be for a tool like Premier to integrate effective ai features, so new ai-in-mind tools really feel like a necessity.

Great website and good luck!
by cestith | 2026-02-26 20:32:02+00:00
Every market on some level can be analogized to a common and simple market.

One of the common examples in management books is the signage industry. You can have custom logos custom molded, extruded, embossed, carved, or at least printed onto a large, professional-looking billboard or marquee size sign. You can have a video billboard. You can have a vacuum formed plastic sign rotating on top of a pole. At the end of the day, though, your barrier to entry is a teenager with a piece of posterboard and some felt-tipped markers.

What has happened is that as the coding part has become easier, the barrier to entry has lowered. There are still parts of the market for the bespoke code running in as little memory and as few CPU cycles as possible, with the QA needed for life-critical reliability. There’s business-critical code. There’s code reliable enough for amusement. But the bottom of the market keeps moving lower. As that happens, people with less skill and less dedication can make something temporary or utilitarian, but it’s not going to compete where people have the budget to do it the higher-quality way.

How much an LLM or any other sort of agent helps at the higher ends of the market is the only open question. The bottom of the market will almost certainly be coded with very little skilled human input.
by huntsmans | 2026-02-26 20:32:25+00:00
Actually that's not the case with Infimobile — $75/year is their standard pricing, not an introductory rate. No promo period, no price jump after 3 months. Been on the 10GB plan for several months now and renewed at the exact same price. You're probably thinking of Mint Mobile which does have intro pricing that jumps after the first term. Infimobile is a separate carrier entirely, different pricing model altogether.
by thr0waway001 | 2026-02-26 20:32:39+00:00
Although I love Jimi Hendrix’s performances I’m not sure if not being to reproduce something necessarily makes it great. One could say the same thing about any disorganized person’s process but it doesn’t make it great. It just makes it not reproducible.

One could make a bunch of random noises with a guitar that are hard to reproduce but the music could be shit.