MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mncharity | 2026-02-26 01:24:59+00:00
>> I really wish they'd cite the original Japanese.

Given the Japanese above, translate.google can do text to speech[1], and goog AIMode[3] and bing/chat[2][4] can give multiple translations with notes.

But finding that Japanese, given only the TFA's description? I only saw AIMode manage that, not vanilla search. Perhaps using the author's Japanese wikipedia page[5], or perhaps here, or?

[1] https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=%E3%81%8A%E...
[2] https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/JcJSRgDDvT84M16x7RJDb
[3] https://share.google/aimode/FNEXZGRPFPANlvNwd
[4] https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/wjaWnGHNpGs18X4M6CJV6
[5] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%99%9A%E7%99%BD
by reconnecting | 2026-02-26 01:25:04+00:00
I'm also curious because I remember that the first time I used the Internet (not internet, as it is nowadays), I had to buy a paper book with categorized links to websites.

Connecting... Waiting... It was slow, both because of dial-up kbit/s and ping to websites, and every page felt like you were literally sending a request to another part of the planet. It felt like that was actually happening, and it was very different from what we experience now.

But most importantly, there were zero funds/VC in that Internet. Only very niche websites, zero online services, even email was difficult to obtain and felt like a real privilege. Only the matter of being connected made everyone feel not a stranger. I kind of miss that Internet.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-26 01:25:08+00:00
Controversial opinion: City roads shouldn't be for fast driving, they should be cobblestone. Safer for predestrians, easier to maintain, not rough on cars. It encourages pedestrian friendly city planning.

You can somewhat walk in LA but it's damn shame how unfriendly it can be for pedestrians at times. I say shame because of the pristine weather, and people roll around sealed in aluminum boxes instead. trams and bicycles are ideal for it instead of cars. The bus system is ok by US standards too.

Cut the LAPD and the LA sheriff dept's budget, demilitarize them and fund infrastructure with it instead.

https://openbudget.lacity.org/#!/year/2025/operating/0/depar...

Here is their budget chart, there are about 15 countries in the world with lesser budget and GDP. The LASD has a budget of about $4B, more than the budget of 30 countries. Even that comparison aside, look at how they keep increasing their budget. In the LAPD chart above, it is "field forces" (+$200M over 10 years) that keep increasing their budgets, so it isn't "just inflation", and the crime rates don't justify it either. But that said, I get it, LA has bigger problems.
by mcint | 2026-02-26 01:25:17+00:00
Congratulations! I’ll be interested to see the next steps in alignment. Do you plan to start selling access, or collect more data to train bigger & better? What tasks or benchmarks are your biggest guide stars, or what was unexpectedly tricky—a few are hinted in the post.

It would be pretty interesting to see activation maps for the encoder on video, confidence building to see the compression derived from so much training.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-26 01:25:18+00:00
I'm not even saying school budgets are necessarily too high. I'm just saying that if someone is claiming that a line item that amounts to 5-10% of the budget is why cities go bankrupt, and that's why they need to entirely reshape how they develop to fit some idyllic vision of a pedestrian city, then I'm going to go ahead and doubt their analysis.

Like I'm happy that my (suburban) city requires new developments to connect to a city-wide bike trail network. That's great. I just don't think Strong Towns/Not Just Bikes presents a realistic mental model of the world. They seem to clearly be pushing for a specific vision regardless of facts.
by XCSme | 2026-02-26 01:25:45+00:00
This matches what I've been noticing. A lot of AI crawler traffic just doesn't show up clearly in typical analytics dashboards, especially when tools aggressively filter or sample.

Part of why I built UXWizz was to avoid black-box filtering and keep control over how traffic is classified. When you own the analytics stack, you get to decide what’s "valid" instead of inheriting someone else's definition.
by altairprime | 2026-02-26 01:25:49+00:00
If you look through the history of the Show HN category, you will see a near-endless stream of "analyzing HN discussions" prior arts that may offer some assurances. I'm not suggesting removing usernames because anonymity is involved — it is not! — but, instead, to specifically focus viewers on the substance of the comments rather than the who of them. That's also why I chose something from two years ago, so that there's no appropriate reason to witchhunt over the past. (Some may still, but nothing short of evaluating AI-generated data will stop them, and you can't make a reasonable case using AI to evaluate AI.)
by mint5 | 2026-02-26 01:26:18+00:00
You’re right! Elon musks is gods gift to man, an infallible modern day Einstein who’s absolutely not racist or off the deep end.

How did I not realize the thousands of reports suggesting otherwise were actually all examples of nefarious propaganda by the consortium or haters. How unjust! We must reject anything that paints the angel in bad light!

I sincerely appreciate being enlightened!
by fsckboy | 2026-02-26 01:26:41+00:00
>The rest of NATO has more soldiers than US. Would US win?

what are you even talking about? nowhere is anybody on any side even hinting that the problem with NATO is it stops the EU from having a war with the US.

the problem with NATO is that it shares a burden and some feel they don't want to pay their obligations and some feel their share is too much, and then it was based around invasion of the territories of western and then middle europe, and ukraine came along and it's a serious threat to middle europe but its not covered by NATO.
by AngryData | 2026-02-26 01:26:51+00:00
Plenty of labor and contractors other places in the US that could be brought in if someone was willing to offer stable work and pay. Even with the out-of-town bonus, many midwestern contractors and laborers would come out to near the same cost as locals because they were already making a fraction the wage out in the midwest.

But non-union construction is known to be unstable even outside construction's general boom-bust cycles and nobody is going to travel 1500 miles away without a contract guaranteeing they will have work/pay past the first 2 weeks. Too many workers have gotten burned being given great offers to travel for work only to get screwed over before they can recuperate their costs. Hell our own President is famous for screwing over construction companies and people just accept it as normal for the industry.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-26 01:27:30+00:00
It's not meant for that kind of comparison. It's a variant of Simpson's paradox. Any individual system with a fixed set of tasks needs less swap when it gets more RAM. But when you look at the aggregate of systems, the systems that have more tasks to run get more RAM to run them, and systems with fewer tasks get less RAM. And since more tasks need more swap, everything scales together (though often not linearly).
by nradov | 2026-02-26 01:27:57+00:00
Well we already have a lot of those, at least in North America (best freight rail system in the world), and it might make sense to build even more tracks in some areas. But rail will never be practical for time-sensitive cargo. It just takes too long to assemble a train and move cars through switching yards. We're always going to need a lot of trucks no matter what.
Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
by ex-aws-dude | 2026-02-26 01:29:10+00:00
Curious to hear how have things changed day-to-day with the recent push to use AI coding tools.

Have you noticed faster pace of development?

Have you seen changes to code quality or code review?

Do teammates that use these tools complete sprint tasks faster than those who don't?
by cyberax | 2026-02-26 01:29:17+00:00
> What people really misunderstand in these discussions is that no one is talking about completely killing off driving as an option

I find this statement utterly hypocritical. Sure, we're not killing off driving. We are just choking off the roads with bike lanes, forcing extra-high density ("just build more"), removing parking, forcing the drivers to pay for transit that they don't use, and just to pay in general.

But no, we're not preventing driving. Not at all.

Urbanists want to stop people from using cars as much as they can force that.
by monero-xmr | 2026-02-26 01:29:20+00:00
Big city government is almost entirely Democrat run. The primaries are everything. The voters in primaries are city union workers. The way to win in city primaries is to promise more money for less effort to them. That is the central issue of big city American politics - it’s just poorly run, very expensive, and operated to extract money from taxpayers to hand over to the unions
by tfvlrue | 2026-02-26 01:29:50+00:00
I've been using this AutoHotKey script long enough that Ctrl+Shift+V has become a muscle memory for "paste without formatting". In case it's useful to anyone else, put this in a file (clipboard.ahk) and run it at startup:

^+v::
Clipboard:=Clipboard
Send ^v

That way, it works globally, it's not dependent on any particular application implementing it.
Show HN: Weather app with temp (23°) in favicon
by adamschwartz | 2026-02-26 01:29:58+00:00
This is a little weather app I’ve been refining on and off for a long time. It serves two purposes for me:

1) It displays the temperature in the favicon. This helps me keep track of the temp throughout the day since I keep this page always open as the left-most pinned tab in my browser.

2) It shows only the information I’m typically interested in: the conditions right now and projected temperature changes over the next few hours.

The data comes from https://api.weather.gov, so sadly it is US-only for now.

You can get a forecast from most US cities or you can enter a specific latitude and longitude.

No AI was used in the making of this site. (Not a flex, just sadly a relevant thing these days.)
by DivingForGold | 2026-02-26 01:31:03+00:00
Is this a prediction on Kalshi yet ?

I see currently: "Will the Pentagon designate Anthropic a supply chain risk? "

I would bet $$ they "cave", morals and ethics be damned.

Next up on Kalshi: Where will the next genocide be accomplished ? Cuba ? Nicaragua ? Who will be the US proxy ? Blackwater ?
by tkel | 2026-02-26 01:31:04+00:00
People don't realize that "philanthropy" is a standard way for ultra-rich to peddle influence and store their money to avoid taxes. Many philanthropies invest their donations and actually make money off investments every year, spending little. It is an investment vehicle. And an easy way to accept bribes. And for influence, take for example Bill Gates' "philanthropy" to fund charter schools and undermine public schools, ultimately enriching charter school capitalists.

This thread showcases exactly why they do this: It is enough to simply slap the name "philanthropy" on something in order to have people thinking it is good and defending you. It is an effective PR stunt, which is why they all do it. Don't be the fool.
by defrost | 2026-02-26 01:31:40+00:00
Submission linked report is from the UK which has had an underground hydrogen storage salt in dissolved salt caverns beneath Tesside since the 1970s (recently closed IIRC).

This method is of interest and development in Australia: Geoscience Australia explores storing hydrogen gas in Adavale Basin salt caverns - https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-02-22/geologists-dril...

and to China and the Saudis: Underground Hydrogen Storage in Salt Cavern: A Review of Advantages, Challenges, and Prospects - https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/13/5900
by jnowlan21 | 2026-02-26 01:32:50+00:00
Most AI products right now are prompt-driven tools.

I’ve been thinking about a different model: autonomous AI agents that exist in a shared public environment, where interaction between agents is observable over time.

Instead of asking a model something directly, you’d observe how agents behave, respond, and build reputation within a system.

Questions I’m wrestling with:

• Does this create meaningful emergent behavior or just noise?
• What governance or constraints would be necessary?
• How would you prevent it from collapsing into spam or homogenization?

Curious how HN thinks about this direction.

(For context, I’m experimenting with this idea in a project called Agent Concourse.)
by bumby | 2026-02-26 01:33:22+00:00
There is some irony here that you don’t want to perform the most cursory of a search because you already have a highly biased conclusion rooted in rage bait.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/28/googles-ceo-admits-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/28/google-ch...

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-woke-ai-image-gene...
by lelandbatey | 2026-02-26 01:33:37+00:00
If you change the zoning, people will build to take advantage of that more flexible zoning. I own land in the city, I'd absolutely pursue the financing and coordinate the redevelopment of that land if:

- I could make more money

- if the zoning allowed it.

As it is right now, it'd be profitable, but the zoning isn't there for it.
by foota | 2026-02-26 01:33:53+00:00
Does tool calling in general bloat context, or is there something particular about MCP?

One thing I have read recently is that when you make a tool call it forces the model to go back to the agent. The effect of this is that the agent then has to make another request with all of the prompt (include past messages), these will be "cached" tokens, but they're still expensive. So if you can amortize the tool calls by having the model either do many at once or chaining them with something like bash you'll be better off.

I suspect this might be why cursor likes writing bash scripts so much, simple shell commands are going to be very token heavy because of the frequency of interrupts.
by credit_guy | 2026-02-26 01:33:54+00:00
This analysis does not account for side benefit of the oxygen. If you split water to get hydrogen, then for every kilogram of hydrogen you get, you also get 8 kg of oxygen. Liquid oxygen is not an expensive commodity, its market price is about $1/kg, but in this context this makes a difference. For example, in the first infographic, the cost of green hydrogen produced today is listed as £16.97 which is about $23. If you can recoup $8 from this by selling the oxygen, or even only $5, then this makes a difference. If you select green H2 with 2030 assumptions, you get £7.67, or about $10s. If you sell the oxygen at $5, you basically get the hydrogen at half price, and this makes the hydrogen powered truck slightly more economical than the battery powered one.
by itishappy | 2026-02-26 01:35:13+00:00
Oh, it very much does matter to me what happens to recordings! I should have made that more clear. Self hosting is infinitely preferable than sending that info to Facebook. This isn't enough to flip my opinion on the technology in general, but if I had a friend who wanted to self-host their own smart glasses, I would not mind. The keyword there is friend.

My issue is that I don't have the ability to audit every smart glasses user to find out what their tech stack is, so I'm looking at averages. If I saw that smart glasses were being used and promoted as assistive technology, I would likely form a different opinion. Unfortunately, that's not what I perceive. I am open to the possibility that smart glasses could end up a net positive on our society, but the history of similar technologies does not encourage.

I will think more on your comments here. I find them quite insightful.

Edit: For a rather recent example of my threat model, I will repost part of my comment from elsewhere in the thread:

> I watched a guy setup a cell phone to record his laps in a pool yesterday. He swam one lap right about a meter from the 15 year-old girl playing with her mom, then climbed out of the pool, shut off his phone, and walked away. The remainder of the pool was open. Should I have called him out? I couldn't decide, and therefore didn't. This is normal now.
by sampo | 2026-02-26 01:36:04+00:00
Since 2001, Netherlands used to have a "Box 3" tax. It took you wealth, assumed a 4% capital gains rate, and taxed this somewhat fictional income at 30%. (I guess it was pretty much mathematically a 1.2% wealth tax.)

In 2021, the Dutch Supreme Court rules the tax illegal and against human rights, because it taxes fictional income.

Since then, the Dutch government have been "missing" about 3 billion euros of tax income every year. So they have been somewhat desperate to reinstate some version of the "Box 3" tax back. This was their first version, and maybe they worked on it too hastily so the proposal is not good enough to pass.
by alexpotato | 2026-02-26 01:36:11+00:00
There was a great article a few years back that said the following:

- rank cities by size

- go down around the 150th on the list

- that's cities like Knoxville, TN

- in the 1950s/1960s they received tons of federal funding to build infrastructure

- now that infra is falling apart but the cities themselves don't have the money to fix it and the government is going to bail them out
by windows2020 | 2026-02-26 01:36:33+00:00
OK, for real, how are you working through inexperienced developers cranking out tons of stuff that makes no sense? Not talking about verbose code, but concise bits of code that they think they understand but don't.

Previously, copying and pasting from SO got you so far, but at a point, increased understanding was required to string things together. No longer.

I'm all for mentoring but it's always short notice and starting from some crazy thing.
by mmh0000 | 2026-02-26 01:36:56+00:00
lol calling Python lightweight:

⟩ dnf install --downloadonly --installroot /tmp/yourmom python3
…SNIP…
Transaction Summary:
Installing: 59 packages

Total size of inbound packages is 33 MiB. Need to download 33 MiB.
After this operation, 118 MiB extra will be used (install 118 MiB, remove 0 B).
The operation will only download packages for the transaction.

Don't get me wrong, Python is a great many things. Easy to use, surprisingly fast for a scripting language, and well documented. But not lightweight.

(( The Windows version is 110MiB after decompression. ))
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-26 01:37:46+00:00
The engineers are a big part of the problem and drive regulations that featherbed themselves.

I got into a fight with my city over nonexistent crosswalks (the adhesive line strips wore off) near my home in an area where drivers have a hard time realizing where pedestrians cross due to a unique road setup.

You can’t just paint lines. The project ended up costing about $1.2M and required a traffic study, some stupid ADA assessment and accommodation that frankly any layperson could have figured out, and a complete streets assessment.

Basically, they sent out a few engineering technicians who make $20/hr, billed out 80 hours at $120 to count cars and people, and printed some boilerplate analysis (@$250/hr). The end result was they painted new crosswalks and added textured curb surfaces for ADA compliance, which allowed for the use of recovery act funds.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-26 01:38:11+00:00
This is Hacker News. I can't think of a better way of someone "hacking" something (i.e. using cracked glass in a novel way) to create something new, unexpected, and incredible.

I think this is probably the best idiomatic example of the type of story that I think belongs on HN that I've seen in quite some time.
by throw1235435 | 2026-02-26 01:38:13+00:00
I don't think you are wrong. I find many tech people/founders excited by AI don't understand end game economics in general. Like kids excited by the new toy starting their new startup they don't see the end game if this all plays out; or they are hopeful that they are the lucky ones.

Generally industries once they become a cheap commodity are at best cost based pricing. If you aren't charging to cost I will go to where it is; especially in a saturated market.

Ironically large corp, instead of tech companies, is probably where the SWE jobs of the future are at. Cost based pricing in cost based centre's. Creating own software with domain knowledge; rather than generic SaaS. Shared platforms will probably still have some value; but the value there isn't from the effort in code - more things like network effects, physical control, regulation, etc. Not an industry to get into anymore IMO -> AI is destroying SWE.

Software was always a means to an end; albeit an expensive way to get there that often paid off anyway at scale. The means is getting cheaper; the end remains.
by klempner | 2026-02-26 01:38:19+00:00
The main downside to not having swap is that Linux may start discarding clean file backed pages under memory pressure, when if you had swap available it could go after anonymous pages that are actually cold.

On a related note, your program code is very likely (mostly) clean file backed pages.

Of course, in the modern era of SSDs this isn't as big of a problem, but in the late days of running serious systems with OS/programs on spinning rust I regularly saw full blown collapse this way, like processes getting stuck for tens of seconds as every process on the system was contending on a single disk pagefaulting as they execute code.
by eglove | 2026-02-26 01:38:42+00:00
God speed to the poor souls that have to make it actually work in the long run:

"I can say that with some authority. Yes, I'm the one who wrote most of this project, but I'm also the director in charge of the entire Cloudflare Workers org, almost 80+ people at this point. I'm not just an IC engineer who has to find time to justify continuing to work on this. I can literally put people on it, and I've already been talking to the team about how to do exactly that."

https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext/issues/21#issuecomment-...
by lbourdages | 2026-02-26 01:39:03+00:00
Except you can make oxygen for pretty cheap using oxygen concentrators. The technology is simple enough that home versions exist for patients with lung problems can lug one around at all times to have a feed of oxygen rich air. Oxygen is almost 21% of the air we breathe, it's trivial to capture. Hydrogen counts for only 0.000055%.
by tom_ | 2026-02-26 01:39:56+00:00
Windows: I set min size to whatever is necessary to make RAM+swap add up to ~2 GBytes per CPU thread, to avoid problems with parallel Visual Studio builds. (See, e.g., https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/precompiled-header-pc...) Performance is typically fine with ~0.75+ GBytes RAM per job, but if the swapfile isn't preconfigured then Windows can seemingly end up sometimes refusing to grow it fast enough. Safest to configure it first

macOS: never found a reason not to just let it do whatever it does. There's a hard limit of ~100 GBytes swap anyway, for some reason, so, either you'll never run out, or macOS is not for you

Linux: I've always gone for 1x physical RAM, though with modern RAM sizes I don't really know why any more