MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by array_key_first | 2026-02-27 01:57:48+00:00
They might not be lying, they could also be stupid. It's the same way in the US. There's a mass delusion among people that firing workers is hard.

Um... no it isn't. Most states are right to work. No, you don't need to give severance. No, you don't need to announce it. And yes, that's all perfectly legal.

Is there a theoretical risk that an employee can try to sue you and burn a bunch of your money? Yes, but that risk always exists. Someone could try to sue you always, doesn't mean they'll win.

In actuality the risk is so incredibly small it's not worth thinking about.
by svnt | 2026-02-27 01:57:51+00:00
First you take a 50 person org. Then (for scale) you hire highly motivated performers who, because they came up in big orgs, are used to using 50 people for three years to do a project six people can do in three to six months. Then you create incentives that make them compete for standing. And the standing also depends on their personal scope (ie headcount).
by gbbgbbgbb | 2026-02-27 01:58:17+00:00
> I actually am citing

until this moment, you were only claiming.

> the section about computing the efficacy of bus lanes

> Excepting the case of a dedicated bus lane

Not all buses require a bus lane. A bus lane is a deliberate choice that doesn't make sense in all areas and for all bus routes. It is disingenuous to reference the reduction in throughput due to a bus lane as a blanket claim that an individual bus takes away the room of 100+ cars on the road.

> you have almost 20% of the bus taken by the drivers on average

> No. For the bus to be viable, all 3 drivers have to be "virtually present" there.

Your claim is about how much of the bus is taken by drivers, which while having some correlation to cost, really doesn't have anything to do with the cost of operating the bus. An oversimplification of this is to posit a magic bus that runs 24 hours a day with 8 hours shifts by 3 drivers. That means that the drivers take up 24 person-hours of capacity on the bus. If we say they have 15 passengers on average, then the passengers take 360 person-hours of capacity on the bus. Thus of the capacity taken by individuals, drivers take up 24 / 384 or 6.25% of the capacity.

Honestly, I never really cared enough to convince you that transit is a good thing because that feels like a fool's errand. But these weird claims and fallacies bother me. If you want to claim that a bus isn't cost effective, then great. Just cite an actually relevant metric and actually calculate it correctly.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-27 01:58:52+00:00
> Yes. Met those guys in my TechShop days. They also insisted that 3D printers should be made with 3D printers, which resulted in a generation of flimsy, inaccurate machines.

I do believe that this vision is basically correct, but the implementation of these eager 3D printing enthusiasts was deeply flawed:

There exist lots of designs of really good 3D printers on the internet that are at least partly 3D-printed. So at least a relevant subset of the parts of a 3D printer can be 3D-printed. The reason why commercial 3D printers are typically not 3D-printed is rather aesthetics and the fact that for large-scale manufacturing there typically exist much cheaper production techniques.

As people by now have realized (and some of these points were told to these eager 3D printing enthusiasts from beginning on), the correct approach to get towards an exceptional "mostly 3D-printed 3D printer" is rather:

- Improve 3D printers so that even more parts of a 3D printer can be 3D-printed in high quality (e.g. by improving sensors and software to increase precision; make the 3D printer capable of handling engineeering materials; ...)

- Use a 3D printer to produce parts for machines that can be used to produce parts for a 3D printer, such as CNC mill, CNC lathe, pick and place machine (for populating the PCBs) etc.

Both of these aspects are hot topics that people work on.

In other words: Accept for now that many, but not all parts of a 3D printer can currently sensibly be 3D-printed, and invest serious efforts to develop solutions how 3D printing can be used to enable a high-quality production of these remaining parts.
by yassinouhadi | 2026-02-27 01:59:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building QPrompt, an AI-driven layer on top of existing test frameworks like Cypress and Playwright.

The system takes a natural language prompt such as:

“a user logs in with an invalid password”

Then autonomous agents:

- Parse and structure the intent

- Generate framework-compatible test code

- Validate syntax

- Execute the test

- Evaluate assertions

- Produce structured reporting output

The focus is not replacing test frameworks, but reducing manual boilerplate and making test creation intent-driven.

Technically, the architecture is agent-based:

- Prompt interpreter

- Test generator

- Execution agent

- Assertion validator

- Reporting agent

Currently preparing a beta.

Main questions I’m exploring:

- How much should AI-generated tests be trusted in CI?

- Where should human validation remain mandatory?

- Can this realistically reduce flaky test issues?

Would appreciate technical feedback.
Show HN: Rekal – RAG-queryable intent ledger anchored to Git
by guocongwudi | 2026-02-27 01:59:19+00:00
Two problems with AI coding today:

1. Every session starts from zero. The agent sees your code but has no idea why it looks the way it does.
2. Team knowledge stays siloed. What one developer's agent learned yesterday doesn't help another's today.

Rekal captures session context (turns, tool calls, file changes) at every commit into a local DuckDB database. A 2-10 MB session file compresses down to ~300
bytes on the wire via a custom binary codec with zstd and string interning. It shares across your team via git orphan branches — no extra infrastructure.

Search is three-way hybrid (BM25 + LSA + nomic-embed-text), all inside a single binary. No external APIs, no cloud, no setup. The embedding model ships in the
binary.

The agent controls how much context it loads — progressive retrieval keeps token cost minimal.

Other design choices: append-only with content-hash dedup (merge conflicts are structurally impossible), ~200ms search at 14k turns, zero runtime dependencies
beyond git. Written in Go, Apache-2.0.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-27 01:59:21+00:00
I mean yeah, I agree. I’d probably go for an i3-1235U NUC myself. At least before RAM and NVMe shot the price from ~$225 to $500 in just the past 6 months.

N100’s are still cheap, and more directly comparable to the Rockchips, but they really were supposed to be replaced at the same price point by now. Intel will be releasing the 2.5-3rd generation of the N100 tier lineup this year and the N100 tier still stands alone in price due to silicon production shortages and old stock.
by 14 | 2026-02-27 01:59:54+00:00
My biggest tip is so easy and after starting it the difference was immediately noticable. And this applies to pizza or bread dough.

There are many factors that will change how your dough tastes, feels and bakes. Texture is a massive factor on how people rate your bread or other doughs. Two big factors that massively help with that are as follows.

First knowing how long you must knead the dough for. I won't get into too much detail for this just look up dough window pane test on YouTube and there are lots of videos. The TLDR is you knead until you can take a small ball of the dough and gently spreading it with your thumbs should be able to make a thin pain that lets light through easily without ripping. If it rips you need more kneading. Again look at some videos.

The BIGGEST improvement to my doughs was when I started adding powdered milk. I use about half cup to 3/4 cup when making enough pizza dough for about 3 large pizza. For a couple loafs of bread probably half cup is plenty. Again lots of information on why powdered milk helps but will let you research if you want to know more.

All I can say is that my dough was always good before milk powder but the day I saw the suggestion to use it and did I can't go back. I have had friends say my pizza is the best they ever had. Last year my ex asked me if I wanted to come meet her friends and some girls but also would I mind making some pizza dough lol!

Honestly there are lots of tips for good bread and dough but just adding milk powder will up your bread huge. Good luck I hope you give it a go if so also hope you come back and comment how it went. Cheers!
by tootie | 2026-02-27 02:00:53+00:00
I think even going back a few generations, phones are improving at a much slower pace. You can only jam so many cameras onto a phone frame before users lose interest. A few years back there was a mad dash to add AR features to flagship phones so they could wow us with apps that never materialized. My last few upgrades have been almost imperceptible. Buyers just don't have a good reason to buy new phones every two years.
by borroka | 2026-02-27 02:02:28+00:00
Without getting into a she-said/he-said debate, I don't believe traffic is shrinking because of the viability of fewer engineers.

If that were the case, it would also be easy to hire hundreds more. With the confusing mix of X.ai, Grok, and SpaceX, I don't think anyone would notice.

X seems to be much more relevant to social and political debate than any other social media platform, which, despite a declining user base, makes it an extremely valuable tool for Musk and his circle.

It may seem like I'm defending or supporting Musk, but that's not my point. What I can say is that Musk made a huge bet when he substantially, even dramatically, reduced X's workforce, and I think he won that particular bet.
by johnwalkr | 2026-02-27 02:03:19+00:00
The historical reason why is that UK homes were wired early in history for lighting with a ring circuit going throughout the house, and this was also literally set in stone so impractical to phase out for a long time.

So the regulations had to allow one 50A (for example, I don’t know the actual numbers) fuse supplying an unknown number of outlets and devices, rather than requiring one circuit per small area. Such a large fuse will happily let your radio malfunction and start on fire, so local, smaller fuses are necessary.

In other areas a 10A fuse (for example) on a circuit that only goes to one room or one appliance is enough to protect from overloading the circuit as well as most dangerous malfunctions of one device.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-02-27 02:03:22+00:00
I'm in the same camp.

I don't love that my career seems to be evaporating and perhaps no one will have a use for me soon, but, LLMs have made making even easier and more fun than ever. My sense of what I can take on has been amplified so much, it feels like a super power. Reverse engineering things used to be intimidating to take on, but now it feels like a couple afternoons of exploring with Claude. Understanding the scope of ideas is way more accessible, and often more constrained than it used to be.

I learn so much more than I used to, I get more done than I used to. I love it.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-27 02:03:34+00:00
I think it makes sense to give some of the cost to businesses because they also create some of the cost. For example, in the US you have to pay unemployment tax based off of your business' turnover. If you hire and fire a lot of people, you cause more unemployment, so you have to pay more taxes to cover your societal cost. It makes sense.

The key point is that it's just a tax. The government should still be the one doing unemployment, although they're not, but that would be the ideal.

So maybe if you have, say, a dangerous business you pay more healthcare tax or something. That could work instead of letting companies provide health insurance.
by parliament32 | 2026-02-27 02:03:36+00:00
Well of course it'll eventually work, just a random text generator will eventually produce code that passes your tests if you run it hard enough.

The problem is it's devouring your tokens as it does so. While you're on a subsidized plan that seems like a non-issue, but once the providers start charging you actual costs for usage.. yeah, the hallucinations will be a showstopper for you.
by shawmakesmagic | 2026-02-27 02:04:52+00:00
FYI I get about 5 of these a week. It is pervasive. If someone wants to scrape my email that's one thing, but the number of recruiters who are like "I saw your repo <some ancient repo of mine> and I think you'd be a great fit for our new position in AI agents..." so they are both scraping my e-mail and all the metadata to personalize their pitch to me (poorly).
by neya | 2026-02-27 02:05:39+00:00
> today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company:

> i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter.

> i’m sorry to put you through this.

POV: Dude who has effortlessly fired people before deflects blame for over-hiring in the first place.

I swear people should start blacklisting CEOs and refuse to work under them if they're part of the blacklist.

This is just a piss poor excuse for bad management and short-sighted vision and no accountability.
by nixon_why69 | 2026-02-27 02:05:49+00:00
Counter reason in favor is that you can always count on it being there and working the same way. Perl is too out of fashion and python has too many versioning/library complexities.

You have to write the crappy sh script once but then you get simple, easy usage every time. (If you're revising the script frequently enough that sh/bash are the bottleneck, then what you have is a dev project and not a script, use a programming language).
by gnabgib | 2026-02-27 02:05:53+00:00
Um...

> "Hermione, stop juggling those Bertie Bott’s—listen!"

> “…and I’m tellin’ ya, pardner, I never laid eyes on that ornery varmint,”

> “Team, I just heard about the Great Beige Sweater Incident—my new sister-in-law’s gift got dyed!
by nutjob2 | 2026-02-27 02:06:24+00:00
While that rhetoric makes sense in the context of the history and politics of China and Taiwan, they have been independently governed nations for quite a while and have very different political systems, their own armies, etc. They are de-facto separate nations if nothing else.

I also note China's aggressive and violent colonization and expansive claims of the South China Sea.

Taking any nation/land/sea by force is imperialist, by definition.
by ctmnt | 2026-02-27 02:06:29+00:00
It’s always a gamble, but no, lots of it is still good. There are many photographers still working with it. Jean-Andre Antoine [1] is one of the more famous; if you’re ever in NY, go see him in SoHo, he’s a super nice guy and a fantastic photographer. And he uses a Speed Graphic!

1: https://www.jeanandreantoine.com/
by ghm2199 | 2026-02-27 02:06:52+00:00
Ist why I never give it such vague prompts. But it's sad it does not ask the user more. Also interesting and important to know how one would tease out good and correct information from llms in 2026. It's like relearning now to Google like it was 2006 all over again, except now it's much less deterministic.

I wonder how the tail of the distribution of types of requests fares e.g. engineer asking for hypothesis generation for,say, non trivial bugs with complete visibility into the system. A way to poke holes in hypothesis of one LLM is to use a "reverse prompt". You ask it to build you a prompt to feed to another LLM. Didn't used to work quite as well till mid 2025 as it does now.

I always take a research and plan prompt output from opus 4.6 especially if it looks iffy I feed it to codex/chatgpt and ask it to poke holes. It almost always does. The I ask Claude Code: Hey what do you think about the holes? I don't add an thing else in the prompt.

In my experience Claude Opus is less opinionated than ChatGPT or codex. The latter 2 always stick to their guns and in this binary battle they are generally more often correct about hypothesis.

The other day I was running Docker app container from inside a docker devbox container with host's socket for both. Bind mounts pointing to devbox would not write to it because the name space was resolving for underlying host.

Claude was sure it was a bug based to do with Zfs overlays, chatgpt was saying not so, that its just a misconfigurarion, I should use named volumes with full host paths. It was right. This is also how I discovered that using SQLite with litestream will get one really far rather than a full postgres AWS stack in many cases.

This is how you get the correct information out of LLMS in 2026.
by remslave | 2026-02-27 02:07:30+00:00
Yeah, confuse people and get them frustrated they cannot talk to a human for help, so they give up and the ticket auto closes after a week!

Google and other big techs have been doing this forever with website self-help endless loops, no AI necessary.

It is a sad reality when you must be relatively famous online and then proceed to whine on social media to hopefully get in contact with someone who might be able to know someone who possibly can help.
by yesb | 2026-02-27 02:07:32+00:00
Sure, I assumed status quo everyone is talking about is basically the several years before that graph. I still think it's relatively bad compared to that despite the modest improvement.

What's not shown in a graph of job postings is the demand side. With all the layoffs, out of work college grads, people staying put in jobs they are unhappy with, etc., I'd wager that demand per job is still at a historically high level compared to what we have been accustomed to
by array_key_first | 2026-02-27 02:07:36+00:00
You're 100% right and people here cannot handle the truth.

Routinely, the solution to problems is "idk just burn it down lol" and these people say it without an ounce of irony.

If you remove regulations without preventing the reason we built those regulations in the first place, then you'll just get them again.

People do not do things because they're stupid or just for kicks or whatever. No, they have reasons. We have tried alternatives. Turns out they suck major donkey dick and nobody likes them. That's why we don't do them anymore.

We tried the whole no regulation things. That's literally the sole reason we have regulation. Do we not understand basic cause and effect?
by theshackleford | 2026-02-27 02:07:54+00:00
> but I still have never clicked an ad on a page and bought something.

But millions, and millions, and millions of people do. Certainly enough that I provide consulting services for a number of businesses for whom the majority of their revenue comes 95+% from ad-clicks. It's been that way 10-15 years and there have been ups and downs, but at the end of the day, the adspend has always been fruitful.

Whilst I sat around with fellow technical people all patting themselves on the back telling themselves and anyone who will listen "ads dont work" the people I consult too have become multi-millionaires with little more than double digit hosting costs and a few ads accounts.

This seems to be a continual blind spot for a lot of techincal people who really seem to struggle to grasp that not everybody thinks or acts the same way they do.
by nusl | 2026-02-27 02:08:32+00:00
I honestly have no idea. We're stuck either way. I don't know what to do. What do you do if all you know is code and you're helping yourself out of a job whether you like it or not?

If you don't use AI you'll fall behind. If you do, you're accelerating your own redundancy.

I wouldn't consider myself a champion for AI. If you read my comment history you'll see that. I don't preach its wonders or pretend that we're all happy-fluffy in this world of ours. I mostly write my own code, use AI for review and to handle the trivial boring bits. I do use AI to build random tools I'd never want to take time away from "real" work to build, like helper scripts, nice TUIs for manual processes, etc. I do recognise the irony though.
by jijji | 2026-02-27 02:08:38+00:00
the government should not be using any private LLM, they should build their own internal systems using publicly available LLM's, which change frequently anyway. I don't see why they would put their trust in a third party like that. This back and forth about "ethics" is a bunch of nonsense, and can be solved simply by going for a custom solution which would probably be orders of magnitude cheaper in the long run. The most expensive part is the GPU's used for inference, which can be produced in silicon [1].

[1] https://taalas.com/products/
by throw0101c | 2026-02-27 02:08:58+00:00
> It's really not the right thing to be bikeshedding. The people calling the shots call themselves the Department of War. No need to die on hills that don't matter.

From the first chapter of the book On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, an historian of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust:

> Do not obey in advance.

* https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

* https://archive.org/details/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-t...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder
by peteforde | 2026-02-27 02:09:08+00:00
I guess we have to agree to disagree, because I am not particularly interested in chemistry and ChatGPT has been extraordinarily helpful in demystifying electronics. Having 24/7 access to a patient person who can unpack the difference between TTL and CMOS logic or when you'd choose a buffer instead of a Schmitt trigger without belittling you for not already knowing what they know is awesome and not going to get anyone even slightly killed.
by siliconc0w | 2026-02-27 02:09:44+00:00
Good to them standing up to this administration. I doubt they actually want to put Claude in the kill-chain but this gives them a nice opportunity to go after 'woke AI' and maybe internal ammunition to go through the switching costs for xAI - given Elon more reason to line republican campaign coffers.

I'm guessing this is because Anthropic partners with Google Cloud which has the necessary controls for military workloads while xAI runs in hastily constructed datacenter mounted on trucks or whatever to skirt environmental laws.
by pezezin | 2026-02-27 02:09:56+00:00
> The plugs also prevent mixing voltage and amperage. The typical two vertical blades (5-15) are for 15 amp circuits. 20 amp circuits (5-20) have one horizontal + one vertical blade. The receptacle has a T shaped slot to match - that way you can plug a low-amp device into a high-amp circuit but not the reverse.

Alternatively you can just run everything at 230V and then you don't need a million different plugs as any wall socket can provide up to 3.5 kW, enough for any home appliance except for the most power hungry ovens and IH stoves.
by muvlon | 2026-02-27 02:10:58+00:00
Sure, and that's useful but not revolutionary nor exclusive to 3D printers. You can use a milling to mill a bunch of pieces for a milling machine. You can use a PCB printer to print the PCBs for a PCB printer. A 3D printer is much, much closer to this than it is to a self-replicating machine.
by harran | 2026-02-27 02:11:07+00:00
That’s hard with AI, because early efforts are exploratory by nature. You don’t really know the shape of the value until you’ve iterated.
If experimentation immediately becomes a public performance review, the safest move is not to experiment.
I think this is a big part of why so many enterprise initiatives stall. The org says it wants discovery, but the governance model assumes delivery.
Your point about needing space to fail quietly is important.
by borroka | 2026-02-27 02:11:11+00:00
Being rejected every day, thus subjecting myself to the humiliating ritual of modern times, by companies that I believe could make the most of my talent (my last title was Director of AI, before I was a Staff ML Scientist at a FAANG and an award-winning scientist).

They all seem rather disappointed, at least in the automated rejection emails (mailboxes not monitored, of course) they send me, that they have found other candidates more suited to the position. It seems we are both disappointed, after all.

Not all is lost, though. I am in the enviable position of having perfect health and decent savings.