MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryandrake | 2026-02-24 23:22:15+00:00
> Something about having the whole supply chain in one place

I can't find the source but I thought I read somewhere that the major manufacturing cities in China are all geographically laid out like giant assembly lines. The companies that process the raw materials are located mostly inland, then the companies that form those raw materials into metal and plastic stock are next door, and then the companies that take that stock and make components are next door to them, and the companies that input those components and output subassemblies are next door to them, and so on all the way down to the harbor where the companies that produce finished products output directly onto the loading docks where the ships await.

The US can't even zone a residential neighborhood without lawyers and special interests jamming things up for decades through endless impact studies and litigation. How is it going to compete with a country that can lay out entire cities, organizing the value chain geographically towards the ocean?
by tombert | 2026-02-24 23:22:38+00:00
I've been on/off working on a homebrew NES game. Pretty much the go-to environment for that is assembly, which I'm sure I could write if I were motivated, but I find assembly considerably un-fun so I wanted to use a higher-level language.

I had been looking for an excuse to learn Forth, and its use in classic computing meant that it had a shot of being workable on the NES.

I was initially using IceForth but I had trouble getting that working, and so I got Codex to generate something that works, but then I also that building your own Forth is sort of a rite of passage for a software engineer, so I have been building my own Forth from scratch.

My custom hack-job isn't ready yet, but I was extremely impressed at the performance I was able to get on the NES with compiled Forth from the Codex thing on the NES. I'm getting roughly 80% of the speed for equivalent programs written in assembly, with much less code and this is without advanced optimizations. I do plan on finishing my custom one because I think I can build what I want a bit better than Codex, and I'm optimistic I can get the performance reasonable.

Forth is such a fascinating language, because it sort of enables you to work at any level of the program. You can write it super high level, almost like Lisp, but you can also poke around and create mappings to assembly, and you can do all this with decent performance no less! It has quickly become one of my more favorite scripting languages, though that might be because I have always had a soft spot for RPN.
by dlenski | 2026-02-24 23:22:41+00:00
> it's probably a good thing to have domestic advanced manufacturing if only to have real-world testbeds for development of advanced automation technology.

Yes, it's a good thing to have domestic advanced manufacturing, but this probably doesn't qualify.

According to the article, it's a site where they already assemble servers for Apple's own use, and will now start assembling Mac Minis as well. Electronics assembly is, for the most part, a pretty low-value part of the supply chain.

It's not nothing, but it pales in comparison to the scientific and technological sophistication and financial value of wafer fabs and IC test and packaging facilities. (I worked at Intel's flagship fabs in Oregon, and have worked as a consultant with other semi fabs around the world.)
by bamboozled | 2026-02-24 23:22:54+00:00
If we did it today, with F-35s and precision weaponry and drones available to us? Absolutely.

I saw Israel using very precision weapons too. Warning people to leave areas etc. I even saw "live leak" style videos where people in Gaza were filming buildings because they knew precisely when they'd be demolished.

None of that was good enough though, clearly...war sucks, best to avoid starting one in the first place if you care about the welfare of others...people can say the IDF did all the wrong things, and you could also say it was stupidly reckless of Hamas.

For those people who are really unhappy with the IDF, also need to be eqaually unhappy with Hamas, else nothing will improve for the innocent people of the region.
by 63 | 2026-02-24 23:23:19+00:00
For context, lobste.rs has been struggling lately with a high uptick in posts on the front page that were either clearly vibecoded themselves or just about vibecoding something small, while the userbase is polarizing itself into two groups: one that dislikes ai for usually ethics-related reasons and makes anti-ai comments on every post that mentions it, and a smaller but still present pro-ai group that tries to discuss using coding models in good faith. Imo it's something of an identity crisis for lobste.rs.

I realize that this comment comes off as pro-ai, but I mostly agree with the first group that a lot of these posts are low effort and annoying. To me "This weekend I used Claude Code to poorly copy someone else's markdown editor here's Claude's story of how it did it" and similar is about as interesting as "I copied a bunch of code snippets I don't understand from stack overflow, here's all the links to them."

Somehow or another, HN has done a better job of keeping up a greater variety of content on the front page so it's not as much of an issue for me here, though it does still happen on e.g. days with big model releases.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2026-02-24 23:23:34+00:00
I'm deeply skeptical of the "X reimplemented and it was super easy" thing.

The devil is in the detail.

So many edge cases unlikely to be there.

So many details or fine details unlikely to be there.

Years of bug fixes.

If it is literally a drop in replacement and it passes all the tests, and you're replicating something with and extremely thorough test suite, then sure I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Otherwise, I don't believe people "rebuilt X product in a week".
by mongrelion | 2026-02-24 23:24:22+00:00
Pi ships with powerful defaults but skips features like sub-agents and plan mode

Does anyone have an idea as to why this would be a feature? don't you want to have a discussion with your agent to iron out the details before moving onto the implementation (build) phase?

In any case, looks cool :)

EDIT 1: Formatting
EDIT 2: Thanks everyone for your input. I was not aware of the extensibility model that pi had in mind or that you can also iterate your plan on a PLAN.md file. Very interesting approach. I'll have a look and give it a go.
by duxup | 2026-02-24 23:24:22+00:00
I think he's also slinging random business deals too.

The "A letter from Sam & Jony" page is one of the weirdest I've seen in a while: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

Step after step it seems like a CEO throwing everything at the wall in an insecure manner.

I don't pretend to know if Open AI is doomed or just absurdly over valued but still valuable. I pay for and use their product, it works for my use cases, but watching the business deals and weird quotes from a far makes me less confidant.
by vsgherzi | 2026-02-24 23:24:34+00:00
In spite of no totalitarian government and things like environmental regulations the US still is able to be one of the most innovative nations on the planet. I don't think we need those things to be able to have manufacturing in the united states. We had it at one point and we can do it again. It's not going to be easy and it's going to need some real breakthrough ideas before we can actually compete. Apple here is the first step.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-24 23:24:42+00:00
> Basically for the sizable transfers, there is relatively little faith in the user’s computers (including phones). To the extent there is faith, it has total liability on some capitalized party for fraud.

But that is expensive, so my impression is that for non-sizeable transfers, and beyond banking, for basically anything dealing with lots of regular people doing regular-people-sized operations, the default in the industry is to try and outsource as much liability onto end-users. So instead of treating user's computers as untrusted and make system secure on the back end, the trend is to treat them as trusted, and then deal with increased risk by a) legal means that make end-users liable in practice (keeping users uninformed about their rights helps), and b) technical means that make end-user devices less untrusted.

b) is how we end up with developer registries and remote attestation. And the sad thing is, it scales well - if device and OS vendors cooperate (like they do today), they can enable "endpoint security" for everyone who seeks to externalize liability.
by whalesalad | 2026-02-24 23:25:21+00:00
My first job was for a startup created by Henk Rogers (Tetris). He was an avid photographer (our company set out to make photo management easier) and so he had a lot of photos. In the center of the office we had a server closet and it was the first time I ever saw xserve and xserve-raid racked up in person. I believe they were 100% dedicated to storing Henk's photo collection. Really really gorgeous hardware.
by hn_acc1 | 2026-02-24 23:25:43+00:00
Crossfire was an interesting car - looked at them for a bit, but needed a 4-door..

If I was in the apple ecosystem (I prefer PCs with Linux, Android), I would pay $100-200 more for a mac mini made in the USA if there were actual benefits, like most of the additional cost went to paying domestic labor, better parts availability, better repairability, etc.
by jackvalentine | 2026-02-24 23:26:08+00:00
What you've just said is a common refrain, if you haven't already seen it please take a look at these two videos that attempt to address part of what you're saying. I found them very interesting when I came across them years ago and it changed my view of what's possible or even good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGx3HSjKDo "Who else benefits from the Dutch cycling infrastructure" (old people, disabled people)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU "Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)" (frozen Finnish winters)
by bsder | 2026-02-24 23:26:42+00:00
> It’s like the western zeitgeist can’t accept that China is simply out-competing them on pure merit.

With a 400m head start in a 1600m race. It's a whole lot easier to out-compete somebody when you know the government will backstop you even if you misstep.

Solar and battery technology were two of those areas. China absolutely dumped cheap, mostly inferior solar cells on everybody else to wipe out competing manufacturers until they caught up. And China absolutely subsidized local battery consumption until their manufacturers had critical mass and market share. Even now, the RISC-V ecosystem mostly relies on China funding students to do the grunt work of porting everything over.

This is a smart thing. We used to do stuff like this in the US. (See: VHSIC, VLSI project, Sematech, etc.)

And now, BYD appears to be, at this point, simply a superior manufacturer and it doesn't appear to be close. It absolutely grinds my gears that I have to root for BYD to come into the US and bankrupt the automotive companies to finally move their asses, but we have been here before--back in the 1970s with Japan producing better cars.
Show HN: Ctrl and Click on text to jump to its translation key in VSCode
by yusufA207 | 2026-02-24 23:26:58+00:00
I built a small Chrome extension to make working with i18next translation keys easier during development.

In larger projects, I often found myself searching through multiple JSON files to figure out which key was rendering a specific piece of text. Global search works, but it’s slow and sometimes noisy, especially when keys are reused or structured deeply.

The idea was inspired by LocatorJS, which lets you click a component in the browser and jump to its source file. I liked that workflow and wanted something similar, but focused specifically on translation keys.

LocaterJs Link https://www.locatorjs.com/
in case u did not know it
by nkassis | 2026-02-24 23:27:12+00:00
That's argument is a bit rough given manufacturing is one of the areas seeing the most automation progress and success. One of the main reason it's not more successful is labor costs can be lower than automation that wouldn't be true if we wanted to replace the income of white collar workers in the US.

If we end up in a place where AI and automation take over then yeah I think we start looking at alternative income sources and economic system. Just like star trek predicted we would do after WW3.
by dlenski | 2026-02-24 23:27:36+00:00
From their "Features" drop-down:

> Minimal Data Collection

> Identifier Rotation

> Secondary Numbers

> Disappearing Call Logs

> SIM Swap Protection

> Network Lock

> Encrypted Voicemail

> Private Payment

> Last-Mile Encrypted Texting

> Secure Global Roaming

"Identifier (IMSI) Rotation", "Secure Global Roaming" and "Network Lock" do look interesting *IF* they can actually address some of the baseband vulnerabilities that plague all modern devices. That's a Big If.

SIM Swap Protection you already get by using a VoIP number rather than a cell number.

And the other features are irrelevant if you're using over-the-top end-to-end encrypted messaging, like Signal, rather than Plain Old Telephone Service and SMS.
by elzbardico | 2026-02-24 23:28:09+00:00
Sooner or later we would have to face the fact that Sam Altman is a deeply peculiar human being and that his personal values, core motivations, goals and ideas are not exactly healthy pro-social ones.

Indeed, we should REALLY start to try to understand the concrete potential implications of the fact that people like Altman and Thiel may not have our best interests in their minds viz. the incredible power they control.
by rasz | 2026-02-24 23:28:15+00:00
Maintenance is almost free. You can lease Tesla for 3 years and only change tires. Suspension will clap out but older 3s were so harsh to begin with you wouldnt really notice driving with torn/disintegrated bushings.

Its damage repair where the problems start. Labor is expensive in US, skilled labor (electricians, welding aluminum, panel beating) double so.
by yosamino | 2026-02-24 23:28:38+00:00
I find that a good sniff-test in politics is to change the actor in a claim to be Jewish and then consider if that make the claim an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Works surprisingly well.

For example:

> facing an enemy [Hamas] who does everything they can to get their own people killed to make you look bad

Imagine the "enemy" in that sentence was not "Hamas", but "The Jews" - that would be a very antisemitic narrative, and in a similar way that antisemitism has nothing really to do with Jews, but rather with antisemites what you are writing here just shows your hatred.

> does everything to get their own people killed

for the purposed of making the killer look bad, is such a naïve take on this.
Do you think netanyahu and his cronies care about "looking bad" ? To whom ? That ship has sailed since at least the 90ies.
Show HN: VoooAI – natural language to multi-modal AI pipelines
by hkljjkl | 2026-02-24 23:29:40+00:00
Hey HN,Built VoooAI over 4 months. It's a NL2Workflow engine – you describe what you want in plain English, it generates an executable multi-modal pipeline (image + video + audio).The problem:
Midjourney for images, Runway/Pika for videos, Suno for music – each has its own API, interface, and learning curve
ComfyUI gives you control but requires understanding node graphs
n8n connects APIs but doesn't understand creative intent
What we did differently:Instead of having LLMs output JSON directly (hard to validate), we introduced a pseudocode IR layer:
LLM generates pseudocode → deterministic interpreter expands to executable workflow JSON. This gives us:
Syntax validation before interpretation
Automatic engine correction (if skill requires specific engine)
Reliable edge connections
Try it: voooai.com Compare us: voooai.com/workflow-comparison – we're not better at everything, but for "idea → multi-modal output" in one prompt, that's our niche.AMA about the architecture.
by mothballed | 2026-02-24 23:29:42+00:00
I don't think it's something that can be centrally planned well.

If the US changes their environmental regulations to match China, lowered their tax-to-GDP ratio to match China, changed their worker regulations to match China, and then opened up free immigration from Mexico for cheap factory labor then the "free" market would likely take care of opening up quite a bit more manufacturing.
by lillesvin | 2026-02-24 23:29:46+00:00
I obviously don't know your background but out of the linguists that I know and have met while doing my degrees in linguistics, I don't know of anyone who would say that the kiki-bouba effect is not important — anything, in fact, that challenges the notion that sound-meaning relations are completely arbitrary is interesting because it might give us clues about the origins of language, not to mention that it lends support to other, related hypotheses about sound-symbolism.

I'm not sure what you mean by "not necessary parts of language", but I would love to hear what you think the necessary parts of language are. Not to mention, what is "the difficult part of language" then?
by Confiks | 2026-02-24 23:29:48+00:00
> This is the fallback mechanism. You are supposed to use bbs+ signatures that are zero knowledge, are computed on the device and so on.

You're mistaken. SD-JWT with linkable ECDSA signature is the main mechanism. An unlinkable signature scheme is being discussed on the fringes of the EUDI-project (whether it be BBS+ or Longfellow) and very bare-bones support for Longfellow has been added to the reference wallet a month ago. However the Implementing Acts have no support for such a mechanism yet, and most member states will only implement ECDSA based mechanisms (SD-JWT and ISO 18013) for the foreseeable future.

It's therefore very likely the EUDI wallet and/or a age verification solutions will launch with issuer linkable ("easily trackable") signatures.

See also this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45363275
by dvt | 2026-02-24 23:29:54+00:00
This is super cool, any papers I can read on autorouting? I occasionally see inefficiencies[1][2] so I suspect this isn't exactly a free lunch, and I'd like to read something a bit more critical about this approach.

Either way, pretty sweet application of AI.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/pxc0zJ4

[2] https://imgur.com/a/GrxzAw3
by alamortsubite | 2026-02-24 23:30:06+00:00
> People don't like that idea because it's highly exclusionary.

I disagree with you here- you have it backwards. It's cars that are exclusionary. Kids can't be around car traffic unsupervised, because car traffic is very dangerous. Old people become fat and frail only because they're robbed of exercise by a car-centric lifestyle. Blind people can't drive. Kids can't drive. Old people can't drive. By shaping cities around cars we doom the vast majority for the sake of a very small number of people, and many of them would probably be healthier and safer getting a little exercise and enjoying the excellent public transport that results from shifting a massive budget for car infrastructure to public transport.
by 827a | 2026-02-24 23:30:18+00:00
And, to be clear about one thing (which I believe is also raised in the book): Much of this is the direct result of Apple investing literally a quarter trillion dollars and exporting critical western IP toward developing Chinese advanced manufacturing capability (among other American technology companies). The story of startups only being able to manufacture in China is a cute tale that is true for startups. For Apple, investing in the strategic capabilities of America's geopolitical rivals was an active decision Tim Cook and other Apple leaders made.
by janalsncm | 2026-02-24 23:30:36+00:00
Git has poor design because it forces users to learn its model of things rather than meeting users where they are. There’s way too many leaky abstractions that pop out as soon as you stray from the happy path, and you might not even know you’re straying when you do it.

Instead, the complexity of your mental model should scale with the complexity of the thing you’re trying to do. Writing a “hello world” in Java does not require a mental model of all of the powerful things Java can do.

We want CS 101 students to use version control but for a lot of them it will also be their first time using a CLI and a programming and also the underlying CS concept.
by cloverich | 2026-02-24 23:30:58+00:00
I moved from TX to west coast a few years back. Property taxes down, all other taxes and expenses up; total cost of living much higher now. It's also business friendly enough to make deals on taxes as needed, I can't imagine that will be a problem. I get the hate on TX but tbh outside of the heat, it can be a pretty great place to live across many dimensions.
Show HN: Claud-ometer – See your Claude Code usage, costs, and sessions locally
by deshraj | 2026-02-24 23:31:21+00:00
Claude Code stores all your session data in ~/.claude/ but there's no built-in way to visualize it. Claud-ometer is a local-first dashboard that reads those files and gives you full visibility into your usage — costs per project, token breakdowns by model, session replays, activity heatmaps, and more.

No cloud, no telemetry. It's a Next.js app that runs on localhost and parses the JSONL files directly.

https://github.com/deshraj/Claud-ometer

Curious if others have been wanting something like this — open to feature ideas.
by qubex | 2026-02-24 23:31:35+00:00
I still run Excel 2007 because as long as it can read and write .xlsx files that my Mathematica models can ingest and output I’m good with that. Every version of Mathematica has a perennial license, even if a new version comes out every year. I want the cloud service? That’s a monthly extra, and I’m cool with that. Office 365, where they randomly decide to shove Copilot down my throat and I lose all ability to edit documents I created if I don’t pay the monthly tithe? No, I’m not cool with that.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-24 23:31:38+00:00
There's no slight of hand, just a horrifying reality. It's not just Hamas and Hezbollah. Civilians from Gaza participated in October 7 and poll after poll shows broad palestnian support for the destruction of Israel.

Support for Hamas itself is waning in Gaza due to their brutality, but Hamas began the war with broad support for their genocidal aims.
by quotemstr | 2026-02-24 23:31:56+00:00
It's a fancy dream journal. It doesn't record brain activity.

We will one day have the technology to actually record dreams, however. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40876481/, Reconstructing high-resolution visual perceptual images from human intracranial electrocorticography signals (2025)

> Reconstruction of visual perception from brain signals has emerged as a promising research topic. Electrocorticography (ECoG) is a kind of high-quality intracranial signal with good spatiotemporal resolution that offers some new opportunities. However, according to our knowledge, there are no studies to reconstruct the perceived images from human ECoG signals at present.

> We have conducted the pioneering work and developed a novel pipeline that integrates Talairach coordinate alignment masked autoencoders (TA-MAE) with denoising diffusion probabilistic models. Our approach exploits the spatiotemporal dynamics of human ECoG signals, enabling the restoration of details in high-resolution