MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-25 05:23:34+00:00
Similar to the shit they're doing on Audible, too. If you want to be part of their subscription service, then you cannot sell your book anywhere else, including your own website, or have it available in libraries. And if you're not part of their subscription service, then part of your sale proceeds gets diverted to authors who are part of the subscription service [0].

[0] https://kindlepreneur.com/audible-royalty-changes/
by lelanthran | 2026-02-25 05:24:08+00:00
>> I can only assume so many people are repeating this as "cope".

> Or perhaps you are the one who is “coping”?

> Ask yourself honestly, is this genie ever going back in the bottle? If not, you’re gonna have to find a way to come to terms with it my dude.

I think you misunderstand the GP: The developers writing this, or similar things, are seemingly unable to understand that they'll be un/under-employed along with everyone who is anti-AI, and this is their coping mechanism.

After all, if you don't need coding knowledge to produce an application, and only need domain knowledge, you are now competing with 10x more people for the same job.
by newan09 | 2026-02-25 05:24:16+00:00
Author is missing a big chunk of what selling retail product requires, which is shipment and delivery costs. For a $5.49 laundry detergent, the cost to ship it your may very well exceed the price of the product if you're small retailer.

At least by paying Amazon I can avoid dealing with all that. While I may pass the price to the consumer for Fulfilled-By-Amazon fees, which tends to be around $5.18 ~ $3.5 (quick google search), it's still a lot cheaper than using something like FedEx where it costs $10-12 per order.

The takeaway here is that Amazon has democratized fast and cheap delivery by building a monopoly. As the scale of things go up, the cost of operations can really go down. Think of meal prepping, when you cook food in bulk vs each meal separately, you're saving costs on power, gas and produce.

The only question is whether we can build a public benefit corporation, just like Amazon.
by siscia | 2026-02-25 05:26:41+00:00
I just made an app that read GitHub issues. If they have a specific tag, the agent in the background creates a plan.

If they have another tag, the agent in the server creates a PR considering the whole issue conversation as context (with the idea that you used the plan above - but technically you don't have to.)

If you comment in the PR the agent start again loading your comment as context and trying to address it.

Everything is already in git and GitHub, so it automatically pick up your CI.

It seems simpler, but I am sure I missed something.
by jsemrau | 2026-02-25 05:26:44+00:00
In that sense, at least for me, it was a third place where we could roam to get inspired and connect. We lost that. I was in Akihabara last weekend. And its the same in a way. While there are still a few, most tech stores are now phone/laptop stores that don't sell parts. Making the hunt for tech really boring.
by gorgoiler | 2026-02-25 05:26:49+00:00
This is sort of related to a revelation I had once I got into Home Assistant.

The usual idea is a that a smart home becomes filled with smart devices and yet what worked really well for me was having dumb devices with a very smart brain in the middle.

Buttons, switches, lamps, and sensors are commodify Zigbee devices and the entirety of the logic and programming is done on the Home Assistant server. The downside is latency.
by BetterToBest | 2026-02-25 05:27:04+00:00
Voluntary declarations are already standard in many cases such as education and research, this makes it easy to display, especially for those who want to see what tools were used for say, a video production.

Then the next phase is a debunking score, where call outs cast doubt on deep fakes framed as real.

The widget can display much more info than the v.1 demo.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-25 05:27:14+00:00
To a close approximation the prices of things are proportional to the "soundness" of the scheme. If Digi-Key can afford to put $20 worth of stuff in a box and send it to me overnight, that's their business, not mine. Someone is putting the fuel into FedEx planes full of Digi-Key boxes and somehow that cost is being amortized over all the boxes in a way that is acceptable to all parties.
by akssassin907 | 2026-02-25 05:27:16+00:00
The part that gets me is 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million API calls. That's not a side project, that's a coordinated operation. At some point "distillation" stops being a technical term and starts being a very polite word for something else.

Hard to see how legislation fixes this though. If the models are good enough to be worth stealing, they're accessible enough to be stolen. That's not a China problem, that's a business model problem.

Maybe that's why Anthropic cut off the Max Plan from API calls. It was a no-no until last week when it became not possible anymore. Needless to say, my API costs or more than $200 a month now. Glad they ramped up sonnet to 4.6 and 1/5 the cost of Opus.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-25 05:27:32+00:00
Every one of your examples are things that I find really enjoyable. As someone who is a terribly scatter brained procrastinator, the 6AM deadline is clarifying. Realizing at 11:30pm that I haven't started the essay is (or was, long ago) a jolt of wakefulness and focus. The time between 11:45pm and 5:45am flies by in a blur. Driving 1000mi in a day--18+hr of focus. Keep the speed high enough above the speed limit to make decent time over ground but avoid the risk of a sneaky traffic cop. Take advantage of the lulls in traffic, long sight lines (or tight, windy sections) to increase your average speed. Eat just enough to not lose energy but not enough to not be hungry--a little hunger sharpens focus. Drink enough water to not be totally dehydrated, but little enough that your bathroom breaks coincide with fuel stops. Pager goes off at 3AM. Critical alert, connection pools full, database CPU 100%, p99 response times equal to the configured timeout, circuit breakers tripping. The urgency gives life some meaning. You were groggy and sleepy 1min ago and now you're blasted wide awake, throttle firewalled. Don't threaten me with a good time ;)
by notpushkin | 2026-02-25 05:27:53+00:00
I’ve poked around – looks like it’s not enough to just declare you’re an accredited investor, but also prove it?

What evidence do I need to provide as a US investor: https://help.angellist.com/hc/en-us/articles/15569926884109-...

As a non-US investor: https://help.angellist.com/hc/en-us/articles/15570114297869-...
by jancsika | 2026-02-25 05:28:21+00:00
This is a kind of inverted-retrograde of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

Gell-Mann: 1) disbelieve a bogus story, then 2) turn the page and blithely believe the next story

You: 1) believe bona fide investigative journalism, then 0) ask what the point of journalism even is.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-25 05:28:34+00:00
> It's the easiest part because the hard parts of the job are everything else -- you're a knowledge worker so people look to you to make decisions and figure it out. You figure it out and make it work for whatever "it" happens to be.

If you thought coding was easy, wait till you see the competition for knowledge workers. You're in a spot now where the part that made you valuable (implementing business rules in software) can now be done by virtually anyone.

Doing all the non-coding parts (or, as you put it, "the hard parts") can now be done by almost any white collar worker.
by safety1st | 2026-02-25 05:28:34+00:00
Indeed. However, there is no universal definition for what offends people, and never will be. People are individuals who form their own opinions and those opinions are diverse.

Ergo if you start to moderate speech which is offensive from one point of view, it will inevitably be inoffensive to others, and you've now established that you're a publisher, not a platform, because you're making opinionated decisions about which content to publish and to whom. At that point the remedy lies in reclassifying said platform as a publisher, and revisiting how we regulate publishers.

They can be publishers. They can censor material they object to. That's fine. But they don't need special exemptions from the rules other publishers follow.

I think it's good to have publishers in the world who are opinionated. There are opinions I don't like and don't want to see very often. Where we get into trouble is when these publishers get classified as platforms by the law, claim to be politically neutral entities, and enjoy the various legal privileges assigned to platforms by Section 230 of the CDA. The purpose of that section was to encourage a nascent tech industry by assigning special privileges to the companies in it. That purpose is now obsolete, those companies are now behaving like publishers, and reform of our laws is necessary.
by sparkco123 | 2026-02-25 05:28:48+00:00
Built three tools while building our AI assistant (OpenClaw) — kept hitting the same walls with agent context.

Relay: splits context into ephemeral (expires, re-fetch on startup) vs durable (stable, load directly). 30–50% fewer tokens, context is always current.

Stitch: async agent messaging with no broker. One agent drops a note, another picks it up on next startup. Flat files, zero infra.

PAG: entity graph with attention weights. Agents stop starting cold.

Full writeup with comparisons to mem0, Zep, LangMem, vector DBs: https://sparkco.ai/blog/agent-context-management-ephemeral-v...
by judahmeek | 2026-02-25 05:28:51+00:00
There are some people participating in the study who will fire & forget instructions to Claude/Codex running in parallel worktrees, but would really struggle if they were required to work on their project without AI assistance.

So while some study participants probably are seeing an actual speedup because of the discipline with which they manage their codebase's structure & documentation, other study participants are actually getting worse at non-AI coding.

...and METR's study can't tell which is which because METR's study isn't using any sort of codebase quality metrics for grounding.
by giantrobot | 2026-02-25 05:29:04+00:00
After Fry's went out of business for a while I thought I missed them. What I really missed was the 2000-2009 era Fry's.

In that era the stores (the ones I visited at least) had surprisingly robust stock. Well into the 00s I found SCSI cables, ADB devices, and even old software from the 90s. If I needed pretty much any random component for a PC, Mac, or electronics I could probably find it at Fry's. No other stores had that sort of selection.

By the 2010s Fry's was far inferior to NewEgg and the like. Trying to shop there became a frustrating experience. Even just browsing the aisles got worse. When they went consignment only there was no reason to step foot in one. It was aisle after aisle of nothing.
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-02-25 05:29:35+00:00
I'm kinda shocked to see MicroCenter surge again. The one on Steven's Creek feels like a mini, less seedy, Fry's (I may be biased from Fry's terminal years).

Nevertheless, it still took me 10 minutes to get the attention of the otherwise omnipresent salespeople to let me pick up a UCG, and I ended up getting the rest of my setup at Central Computers.
by ahofmann | 2026-02-25 05:29:36+00:00
Thank you for your insight and sharing of your perspective. This system leads to some interesting conclusions and observations. One is, that it explains why big brand products made a significant dive in quality. My decades old bose QC25 where of superb quality at 250 € while my somewhat new Bose quiet comfort ultras priced at 350 € are of comparatively very poor quality.

It also opens the market for cheap knockoffs. If some chi-fi headphones for 60 bucks are almost as good as the big brands and the big US brands are forced for high prices despite the bad build quality by Amazon, another big seller website should emerge. Oh wait, this already happened with AliExpress and temu.
by Grazester | 2026-02-25 05:30:04+00:00
My job entails me writing mostly Coldfusion all day long.
I write new code in Coldfusion script. Its syntax heavily inspired by javascript, right down to the optional terminating semicolon.
I still have to support a fair bit of code written in Coldfusion tag syntax. That I dislike especially given the code base was written by amateur developers and just makes me feel like bad php from 2003.
by HappyPanacea | 2026-02-25 05:31:57+00:00
> Now it's suddenly not a problem? I can't imagine Hamas signed the Geneva Conventions.

As I already alluded to earlier, the principles and spirit are more important to me than the literal conventions and if somebody signed it. I will note that you brought up the Geneva Conventions not me.

> German Jews in the 1930s/1940s would probably disagree.

I'm confused to what you refer to and why you brought it up?

> I mean, the IDF killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza, while with their hands up and holding a white flag, because they thought they were infiltrators.

This is not an example to what I asked for, this wouldn't have happened if Hamas wore uniform, IDF wore uniforms, the held hostages civilians didn't but because they were in combat they mistook them for Hamas. What I want is Israeli citizens mistaken for an enemy combatant in Israel in a non-active-combat environment or Palestinians citizens mistaken for an IDF soldier in Palestine in a non-active-combat environment.
by diputsmonro | 2026-02-25 05:32:46+00:00
I loved Fry's in their prime, probably the early 2000s. I think what made them special was largely a product of the time. Personal Computing was booming and new products you'd never seen before were coming out every day, and this one mega store had everything. It was fun just to walk around and survey what was going on in that moment in time.

From my perspective the main things that killed it were online shopping, as the article mentions, and computing just becoming more boring, at least from a hardware perspective. Once the iPhone came out, that became many people's primary computing device or computing peripheral. Everything you needed was just an app or software which you could download online. The great mass of consumers just need a laptop and a few commodity peripherals, and they can get all that at Walmart. Then Newegg came along and really ate the PC hobbyist market.

Eventually Fry's succumbed to the GameStop effect - their primary market is completely eaten out by online competition, so they fill their retail space with cheap garbage to make ends meet. The last few times I visited my local Fry's it was more empty shelves and cheap bargain bins than anything I was interested in buying.

It was a sad end, but not surprising. I just don't think you can justify having large specialty stores anymore when online shopping is so convenient and the options are so much more plentiful.
by bradleybuda | 2026-02-25 05:34:22+00:00
There is excellent recent (last 10y) research on this; summary here: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr...

Unfortunately, the US and many other countries have chosen the other path (sporadic enforcement with severe punishment) largely because it's easier to implement. There's a lot of momentum to change this but it's politically difficult at least in America.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2026-02-25 05:34:34+00:00
> I was still trying to talk some sense into these people barely two days ago. It's hopeless at this point.

I don't think "sense" is the issue.

1) Are you sure you were talking to actual people and not fake personas or even bots?

2) Keep in mind that there is A LOT of money to be made working for Israeli PR. Some people will take that money regardless of what they know is the actual truth. Some examples:

- Certain social media influencers being paid up to $7000 per post [1]

- Israel boosts propaganda funding by $150m to sway global opinion against genocide [2] [3]

- "[...] a firm called Bridges Partners LLC has been hired to manage an influencer network under a project code-named the “Esther Project.” " [4]

[1] https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influencers-netanya...

[2] https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/isr...

[3] https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/israel-has-spent-m...

[4] https://www.jta.org/2025/09/30/united-states/israels-secret-...
by tolerance | 2026-02-25 05:34:57+00:00
The people I have in mind are the rich, poor and those who fantasize becoming wealthy and fear going broke. I’m uncertain how much these demographics account for the US population and empirically speaking I’m unsure of the gravity of the PR stirs you named. I really don’t know if privacy is the foremost concern when the types of people I’m thinking of consider ICE either.

It really seems to boil down to whether these types of people can be effectively sold on the virtue of tearing down the barriers of privacy and government. If they aren’t already implicitly sold to that then all it takes is for the powers that be to do a better job at marketing their initiative.
by jraph | 2026-02-25 05:35:17+00:00
> a human to draw something will require more water.

That human would require the same amount of water whether you ask them to draw or not, and would exist anyway because they are not born for productivity reasons. "Creation" of humans isn't driven by the amount of work to accomplish.

You are not causing more water to be used by asking a human to work on something.

Same for energy consumption.

This argument doesn't work at all.

What you do for humans to use fewer resources is to work on making us produce less garbage, and produce things using techniques that are less resource-intensive.
by agentifysh | 2026-02-25 05:35:22+00:00
So I'm kinda new to this whole parakeet and moonshine stuff, and I'm able to run parakeet on a low end CPU without issues, so I'm curious as to how much that extra savings on parameters is actually gonna translate.

Oh and I type this in handy with just my voice and parakeet version three, which is absolutely crazy.
by nworley | 2026-02-25 05:35:37+00:00
I think that's true but do you see MCP as enough of a discovery primitive on its own, or does it still lack a ranking/trust layer? My intuition is that capability exposure is only half the problem and the harder part is how agents evaluate and choose between multiple similar tools.

Take Supabase for example. It’s disproportionately recommended by LLMs when people ask for backend/database stacks. It can't be just because of it's capability since a lot of tools expose similar primitives. Something in the model’s training data, ecosystem visibility, or reinforcement layer is shaping that ranking.

If agents start choosing tools autonomously, the real leverage point isn’t just “can you describe your capabilities in MCP?” but “how does the agent decide you’re preferred over 5 near identical alternatives?”

Do you think that ranking layer sits inside the model providers, or if it becomes an external reputation network?
by tombert | 2026-02-25 05:36:57+00:00
Oh I am very familiar with Coldfusion. My first job after dropping out of college [1] was doing Flash and Coldfusion work for a Martial Arts management company.

I have very mixed feeling on the language as a whole, both the tag and script language, though they’re mostly negative nowadays. I joined the CFML Slack a few months ago, which I was surprised to find, and the people on there were very nice and I respected their passion for the platform, but I personally still find the language pretty irritating, even with the scripty version.

Granted, I am very removed from web stuff now, and mostly work in data-land.

[1] I have a degree now, but that came considerably later.
by dzink | 2026-02-25 05:38:01+00:00
I’ve been missing the local Fry’s and recently learned that MicroCenter has opened a store in Santa Clara. It felt like heaven! It was pure fun to meet all fellow enthusiasts who would swarm the demo DGX Spark to figure out if a couple of those would be better than a Blackwell. That’s my happy place now and I didn’t even spend a dime on the first visit.
by safety1st | 2026-02-25 05:38:10+00:00
I think there's room for both visions. Big Tech is generating more toxic sludge than ever, and yeah sure this is because they're greedy, but more precisely the root cause is how they lobbied Washington and our elected officials agreed to all kinds of pro-corporate, anti-human legislation. Like destroying our right to repair, like criminalizing "circumvention" measures in devices we own, like insane life-destroying penalties for copyright infringement, like looking the other way when Big Tech broke anti-trust laws, etc.

The Big Tech slop can only be fixed in one way, and actually it's really predictable and will work - we need to fix the laws so that they put the rights and flourishing of human beings first, not the rights and flourishing of Big Tech. We need to fix enforcement because there are so many times that these companies just break the law and they get convicted but they get off with a slap on the wrist. We need to legislate a dismantling of barriers to new entrants in the sectors they dominate. Competition for the consumer dollar is the only thing that can force them to be more honest. They need to see that their customers are leaving for something better, otherwise they'll never improve.

But our elected officials have crafted laws and an enforcement system which make 'something better' impossible (or at least highly uneconomical).

Parallel to this if open source projects can develop software which is easier for the user to change via a PR, they totally should. We can and should have the best of both worlds. We should have the big companies producing better "boxed" software. Plus we should have more flexibility to build, tweak and run whatever we want.
by dangus | 2026-02-25 05:38:15+00:00
I haven't heard of the brand either, they just happened to actually run the experiment. I think you'd just have to pretend that both options are presented in a hardware store next to each other: identical product, company, warranty, support phone number, etc. Are we really buying the more expensive one just because it's made in USA or will we just say that we will do that and act in our own best interests by saving our money?

> and it meant something - like, better parts availability, repairability, documentation, support, etc.

But remember, this bit isn't related to the country that assembled the product, it has much more to do with the company and brand doing the post-sales support, marketing, and the rest of the customer-facing stuff. The Mac mini isn't getting a better post-sale experience just because it's going to be assembled in Houston. The product and company are identical.

Finally, I think it may be worth recognizing that there's a growing perception that Chinese products are the best ones, just like how people felt about many American products built in the post-WW2 era. I would subscribe to this perception that Chinese products are more likely to be good than products made in many other countries. They just have the ecosystem and the most expansive, skilled high volume manufacturing on the planet.
by vessenes | 2026-02-25 05:38:50+00:00
For the thousandth time - they. make. a. profit. Inference margin is over 60%, today.

They are spending that money training ever-larger models, so they are cashflow negative, but under almost any sane GAAP treatment that does not allow one to write down all R&D upfront (capital costs of model training), they are profitable.

Should this matter to you? Only if you're making financial decisions that assume that somehow one day the "jig will be up" - i.e. please don't short these stocks when they float, or at least do so very judiciously.