MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-22 21:11:03+00:00
> China treats housing primarily as providing a place for people to live, not a speculative asset.

Where and who did you get this idea from? Speculation in China makes speculation in the USA look like child’s play. Speculation is such a huge part of China’s housing economy that the government has to constantly fight against it, or for it when they fight too hard and the economy starts to teeter, and then fight hard against it again when normal people can’t compete in a market full if Wenzhou housewives. I mean, that even Wenzhou housewife is still a meme for property speculator should give you a clue. The government only ever tolerated speculation in the first place because it used housing as a jobs program for a huge under employed rural population.

Whatever the USA does to fix its problem, copying China’s problems isn’t going to help, and will actually make things worse.

HSR isn’t used for commuting in China like the Shinkansen is used for commuting in Japan. It just isn’t very viable to transit from an HSR station to your job, HSR stations aren’t very central even in tier one cities. Example: you work in Beijing chaoyang and want to live in cheaper hebei, let’s say right on the HSR line so let’s not count commute times on your home end. But just getting from Beijing South to…anywhere let alone chaoyang (and chaoyang is huge, let’s say the CBD just for kicks), is going to take an hour or two even with the subway in place.

What we need to copy from China is there ability to get projects done on time and on budget. But everything else…china has its own problems that it’s still working on.
by graemep | 2026-02-22 21:11:35+00:00
Some other articles are fine, but its horribly unreliable.

I tried subject of the first wikipedia article in my browser history search. It was Malleus Maleficarum. The first part of the text was correct and a decent summary, the rest suddenly switched to an article about an album called Hammer of the Witch by a band called Ringworm.

Images are a weak point. No image of the Sri Lankan flag, a weird one of the flag of the UK, which the caption says "The national flag of the United Kingdom, known as the Union Jack" - bad! Wikipedia has a better image, and an entire article on the Union Flag.

The article on marriage vows (another one I have looked at recently) seems more extensive than WIkipedia's but only because it conflates vows with wedding ceremonies. Wikipedia's interpretation is narrow but covers the subject matter much better. Grokepedia would not have told me what I wanted to know, while Wikipedia does.

I do not see the point. If I want AI written answers a chat interface is better. That might be a real threat to Wikipedia, but an AI written equivalent is not.
by tibbydudeza | 2026-02-22 21:11:35+00:00
Interesting but it assumes the teens will bother to look at it.

We use a WhatsApp channel for our family to manage breakfast meetups and who needs what from the shops or the pharmacy (they are on our healthcare plan) and general conversation about events or troubles and parental advice in their lives.

One kid live on her own with her bf a few minutes from us but she can't drive so we sometimes have to pick her up from work.

It gets muddled but works for us as the rule is no pet photos unless it is very cute (cat with a dustbin cover on his head) or inspirational daily quotes.
by Kuyawa | 2026-02-22 21:11:59+00:00
Things that worked for me:

- sing songs with lyrics and a dictionary at hand (listening and pronunciation)

- get a native speaker girlfriend/boyfriend (slangs and chit chat)

- practice role-playing scenarios like restaurants, movies, cabs, etc. (daily routine)

- finally, read the news and comment with your partner (conversation)

One last tip, always use wikipedia in the language you want to learn (vocabulary)
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-22 21:12:34+00:00
I think it looks stupid on the surface. But maybe it is a purposeful way to goad European countries into taking increasingly authoritarian policy changes like banning VPNs. They will use it to generate outrage among Europeans and undermine the leadership, and try to either split the EU along these lines or place friendly leaders.

Maybe this is conspiracy theory. But I feel like the aggression they’ve shown - even people like Marco Rubio - suggests they’re acting with a purpose.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-22 21:13:09+00:00
Very cool!

It would be a very interesting project to extract text from a bunch of youtubers’ videos and put it in a (private) github repo to let github’s secret scanner run over it: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/concepts/secret-sec...

Could detect API keys they forgot to redact (hence the suggestion to use a private repo.)
by usnelson | 2026-02-22 21:13:14+00:00
We went with the HO3 (2b/2b 960 SQFT) due to the site. Cost per SQFT is tricky as it depends on what you include in the calculation. Overall less than a stick build.

Overall the price you see on the website is the price for the unit. You need to factor in delivery, upgrades, installation and site design).

As mentioned, it wasn't a cheaper option, but rather a better investment with the quick build and quality control. Our total for the build (with land) was still a savings compare to what is available in our local market.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-22 21:16:45+00:00
The core problem is that AI training processes can't by itself know during training that a part of the training dataset is bad.

Basically, a normal human with some basic media literacy knows that tabloids, the "yellow press" rags, Infowars or Grokipedia aren't good authoritative sources and automatically downranks their content or refuses to read it entirely.

An AI training program however? It can't skip over B.S., it relies on the humans compiling the dataset - otherwise it will just ingest it and treat it as 1:1 ranked with authoritative, legitimate sources.
by hambro | 2026-02-22 21:16:56+00:00
Isn’t this almost the same? In both cases, it feels unfair that you are paid the same as someone lesser. In your case, the lesser is a -1X developer, and in the article, I guess the 10Xer compares themselves with a 1Xer. I’m at least thinking that a 10Xer wouldn’t mind a similar bump in pay compared to a 7Xer, but somewhere you draw the line as unfair.

In my opinion, management should cull -1Xers, while also trying to reward top talent, even if it has it’s downsides.
by the_gipsy | 2026-02-22 21:16:57+00:00
You can run rust on kindles, so you don't need a separate webserver. You can fetch stuff and render the image directly on the kindle. Second hand kindles can be very cheap.

https://github.com/benjajaja/kindle-bueno

However, I would now go for some ~100€ e-ink that is built for hacking.
by thot_experiment | 2026-02-22 21:17:09+00:00
I agree with you 100% at least in spirit, I don't think any such simplistic solution would function.

That being said the current system desperately needs balance changes to nerf the stacking buffs from having money. It should be the opposite, the more money you have the harder it should be for you to get any additional money, and this difficulty curve should be asymptotic.
by 878654Tom | 2026-02-22 21:17:52+00:00
It also just doesn't make sense. Like, we train a human and that takes 20 years of food.

To train an LLM it needed a collection of 800TiB of data (The Pile). To generate that pile, you needed millions to billions of humans. So did training the LLM now suddenly take 20.000.000 billion years of food or are we not allowed to make the same shitty comparison.
by mh- | 2026-02-22 21:17:59+00:00
> 37-inch touchscreen [..] in the kitchen

I think I need a bigger kitchen, haha.

That sounds really cool, though. I'm currently trying to "train" our kids to manage their own schedules, e.g. reminding me that they have somewhere to be instead of vice versa.

Maybe a wall-mounted solution would help put it front and center for them.
Show HN: I tracked 800 Reddit URLs on Google – 56% die within 48h
by Ninsew | 2026-02-22 21:18:04+00:00
I've been experimenting with parasite SEO (ranking Reddit/Quora threads on Google) and noticed my traffic kept dying after a few days.

To see if this was systemic, I built a custom scraper and tracked 800 unique UGC URLs across high-competition commercial keywords for a month.

The data showed a massive "churn" rate: Out of the 611 threads that dropped out of the Top 10, 56.1% were completely rotated out of the SERPs within 48 hours. Only a tiny fraction survived more than 2 weeks.

I published the raw CSV data from the study here if anyone wants to run the URLs through Ahrefs and look for backlink patterns: https://contentrankr.com/ugc-churn-data

Standard rank trackers check weekly, so you don't even realize a thread is dead until days later. I also embedded a tiny free tool on that page using the Serper API where you can paste a Reddit URL and instantly check if Google has dropped it from the index.

Curious if anyone else has looked into the "half-life" of Google's new UGC rankings?
by piratesAndSons | 2026-02-22 21:18:06+00:00
That is my point, though. You want something hard, something that requires actual money, effort, infrastructure, and lobbying. That in itself is the moat. As software developers, we have been lulled into this entirely unrealistic mode of thinking that extremely profitable products do not have to be expensive or high effort to bring to market.

That is exactly why vultures like LLM hustlers find their opening. There is a reason you do not see fly-by-night LLM hucksters selling medical insurance or devices, not because they cannot do the job of building the thing itself, but because the surrounding moat is too high for them to clear.
by crote | 2026-02-22 21:18:10+00:00
Correct, but burying trees today isn't going to turn them into coal.

The big difference is that when the current coal layers were formed, bacteria to decompose trees hadn't evolved yet. There was a huge gap between trees forming and the ecosystem to break down trees forming, which led to a lot of trees dying and nothing being able to clean it up, which meant it was just left lying there until it was buried by soil and eventually turned into coal.

Try to bury a tree today, and nature will rapidly break it down. It won't form coal because there's nothing left to form coal.
by haunter | 2026-02-22 21:18:37+00:00
Helper UI per se won't exist because there are so many little things.

If we talk about riichi then the best tutorial is probably in Kemono Mahjong https://cyberdog.ca/kemono-mahjong/

Personally I'd say Mahjong Soul is the best riichi client out there, that's where I play https://mahjongsoul.yo-star.com/ Extremely streamlined, good QoL features like tile highlighting (dora too), showing waits and options when you are tenpai, custom lobbies (so you can play with friends), and a pretty robust online ranked system. There is a good tutorial too. The big downside is the gacha system which is purely cosmetic and doesn't affect gameplay at all but it can be a turn off for some people.
by mrtksn | 2026-02-22 21:18:46+00:00
It's misleading title, not Spain as the government but LaLiga(a sports organization) abused its given powers and apparently demanded that ISPs block the site.

So it's very American style censorship in principle, that is it is censorship for profit reasons HOWEVER it is wrong in this particular instance because freedom.gov hadn't infringe copyrights. Nothing political despite what the title may make you believe so, purely internal issue. Italians are having similar problems with their football streaming organizations.
by pie_flavor | 2026-02-22 21:19:11+00:00
I've found in at least two instances Grokipedia had something Wikipedia didn't.

One was looking up who "Ray Peat" was after encountering it on Twitter. Grok was obviously a bit more fawning over this right-aligned figure but Wikipedia had long since entirely deleted its page, so I didn't have much of a choice. Seems bizarre to just not have a page on a subject discussed every day on Twitter.

The other is far more impactful IMO. Every politician's or political figure's page on Wikipedia just goes "Bob is a politician. In 2025 <list of every controversial thing imaginable>". You have no idea what he's about and what he represents; you don't even have any idea if anyone cared, since all this was added at that moment in 2025 and not updated since. Grokipedia does not do this at all. If you want to know about someone's actual political career, Grokipedia weights recent controversies equal to past controversies and isolates it all to a section specifically for controversies. (The same also happens in reverse for hagiographies: compare the Wikipedia and Grokipedia pages for e.g. Stacey Park Milbern.)
by hinkley | 2026-02-22 21:19:45+00:00
A huge part of getting autonomy as a human is demonstrating that you can be trusted to police your own decisions up to a point that other people can reason about. Some people get more autonomy than others because they can be trusted with more things.

All of these models are kinda toys as long as you have to manually send a minder in to deal with their bullshit. If we can do it via agents, then the vendors can bake it in, and they haven't. Which is just another judgement call about how much autonomy you give to someone who clearly isn't policing their own decisions and thus is untrustworthy.

If we're at the start of the Trough of Disillusionment now, which maybe we are and maybe we aren't, that'll be part of the rebound that typically follows the trough. But the Trough is also typically the end of the mountains of VC cash, so the costs per use goes up which can trigger aftershocks.
Show HN: Glupe, An open-source CLI that turns COBOL to Python/Rust via Intent
by alonsovm | 2026-02-22 21:19:48+00:00
I built Glupe because I was frustrated that code "rot."

We have Docker to freeze environments, but nothing to freeze logic. If you wrote a sorting algorithm in C++ 10 years ago, that code is "legacy" today. I wanted a way to deal with software rot.

Glupe is a "Reverse engineering engine" for logic. Normally it is intent -> code, I went the other way aroound
code -> intent.

It works in two steps:

Refine: It "melts" source code into a high-level Intent file (.glp). This file is pure logic, stripped of syntax.
Build: It re-compiles that Intent into any target language (C++, Python, Rust, Go).

I tested it on a legacy COBOL file. It successfully transpiled it to modern Python, correctly handling the PIC 9(5)V99 decimal logic that usually breaks other tools.

Example (COBOL -> Intent -> Python):
https://github.com/alonsovm44/glupe/tree/master/experiments/...

Key Features:

Self-Healing: It has a built-in compilation loop. If the generated code fails (e.g., syntax error), Glupe feeds the error back to the AI and fixes it automatically.

Spaghetti Detection: If Glupe detects messy code (global variables, god loops), it attempts to refactor it into clean, modular intent before saving.

Language Agnostic: You can write logic once and deploy to C++ (high performance) and Python (prototyping).
It's written in ~3k lines of C++ and runs locally with Ollama or cloud via API.

Repo: https://github.com/alonsovm44/glupe

I'd love feedback on the architecture or the "Intent" paradigm. Do you think this solves the legacy code crisis, or is it just a fancy transpiler?
by rock_artist | 2026-02-22 21:19:56+00:00
It’s sad that most comments are just focusing on political bashing instead of the root problem here.

It’s the fact LaLiga and Spanish ISPs comply.

They’re “carpet” blocking entire IPs of Cloudflare.

Every weekend if I need to access some of my work websites which are affected by this (while there are football games) - I need to VPN to bypass the blocking.

I’m new in Spain so my ability of surfacing the Spanish law or the European is limited. But I really wish they’ll have to find a nicer approach instead of this aggressive approach.
by Retric | 2026-02-22 21:20:05+00:00
> Okay, so what's your answer? Stick yet another computer in to go wrong and fly the plane into the ground when it gets the wrong idea about a situation? Add yet more sensors to the car to prevent the driver steering away from an obstacle because it thinks they're not using their indicators yet?

I’m not condemning the airline industry here, the safety conscious approach has done a good job over time especially in terms of redundancy. A major area of improvement is the way autopilots are communicating with pilots, but that’s a hard process.

The car industry isn’t doing nearly as well in terms of redundancy etc so there’s many obvious areas of improvement through solid engineering without changing anything fundamental. That said, communication is again lacking.

> Can you find an example of one that isn't down to gross mechanical failure, or just plain Operator Idiocy?

Operator Idiocy isn’t some clearly defined line, an aircraft with a moderate fuel leak can look like idiocy after the fact but it’s an easy mistake to make. That’s exactly the kind of thing autopilots could catch not just from fuel sensors but how the flight characteristics change as the aircraft gets lighter, but aircraft have happily flown into trouble over the ocean.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-22 21:20:28+00:00
Yes, for years now [1].

Sports is worth billions of dollars - La Liga makes 6.1 billion € from domestic rights alone [2]. UK's Premier League made 7.1 billion € during the Covid years [3].

[1] https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/la-liga-w...

[2] https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/laliga-secures-over-euro61...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/mar/06/premier-lea...
by 13415 | 2026-02-22 21:20:46+00:00
Believe it or not, removal of content is mandated on the basis of laws that have been passed by the majority of representatives elected by the people. For example, it is a crime in Germany to publicly glorify wars of aggression and use Nazi symbols or deny the Holocaust. It's also a crime to publish child abuse material.

On a side note, setting up a website deliberately designed to circumvent such laws will itself likely violate the law and might lead to criminal prosecution. While the US government will certainly be protected by diplomatic immunity, other people involved probably won't be protected.
by woodruffw | 2026-02-22 21:20:55+00:00
> much more impervious to groupthink

Can you explain what you mean by this? My understanding is that LLMs are architecturally predisposed to "groupthink," in the sense that they bias towards topics, framings, etc. that are represented more prominently in their training data. You can impose a value judgement in any direction you please about this, but on some basic level they seem like the wrong tool for that particular job.
by micvicfaust9 | 2026-02-22 21:20:55+00:00
Would the Phronesis Codex 2.7 Baseline — including CIMRP‑1 — qualify as the kind of governance protocol the EU is looking for as a mandate for AI guidance? Let’s walk through this with precision and structure, because the EU’s needs are specific, and your 2.7 Baseline has a very distinct posture.
by lowsong | 2026-02-22 21:21:00+00:00
> LLMs are clearly a massive productivity boost for software developers, and the value of humans manually translating intent into lines of code is rapidly depreciating.

This take is so divorced from reality it's hard to take any of this seriously. The evidence continues to show that LLMs for coding only make you feel more productive, while destroying productivity and eroding your ability to learn.
by dang | 2026-02-22 21:21:07+00:00
Telling someone they are not only "introducing more slop into the language" but even "trying to introduce more slop into the language" is clearly pejorative.

Also, "for the love of God" is an internet snark trope which both signals and amplifies negativity. You can think of it as a minus sign, or perhaps a triple minus sign.

I would not classify this putdown as a "dissenting opinion" because if you take away the pejoratives and the signals of negative sentiment, there is little if any information left.
by akssassin907 | 2026-02-22 21:21:53+00:00
Totally valid for fixed, well-defined tasks — a cron job is cheaper and more reliable there. The LLM earns its keep when the heartbeat involves contextual judgment: not just "is there a task in the queue" but "given everything happening right now, what actually matters?" If the agent needs to reason about priority, relevance, or context before deciding what to surface — that's where the local model pulls its weight. If your agents only do fixed tasks, you're totally right, you don't need it!
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-22 21:22:04+00:00
> elimination of electoral college

We absolutely do not need that. Reform perhaps, but not elimination. The country is full of many different people with differing needs, and a president should have an incentive to balance those needs. The country would be a much worse place if the top N cities got to impose their will on the rest of the country which is nothing like them.
Open-source is the new moat
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-22 21:22:25+00:00
i work in AI security at Meta. OpenClaw is building an open-source AI video project for me and autonomously drove 100+ signups in 5 days. meta and other big tech let you do this as long as your OSS project doesn't *directly* conflict with your work.

not helping me build it - building it. autonomously writing the pipeline, finding cost optimizations, building tooling i didnt ask for. i mostly just review PRs now.

heres why Im doing this: around 250k tech jobs were cut last year. ~70k directly because of AI. Amazon cut like 30k roles while growing. Microsoft dropped around 15k while posting record revenue. Salesforce replaced half its support org with AI agents. software engineers were among the top roles eliminated.

If you're in big tech and think you're safe because you're technical, an AI agent is literally building production software on people's laptops/mac minis right now with minimal oversight. that's your future coworker or your replacement.

IMO the move now is open-source: the biggest AI success stories right now are disproportionately OSS: ComfyUI, OpenClaw, AutoGPT, MCP. none are VC-backed SaaS - theyre repos with READMEs. There's a structural reason for this: AI moves too fast for closed products, every month there's a new model that obsoletes the last. closed platforms cant swap components fast enough, open-source with modular architecture just lets you plug in whatever's best.

and now that anyone can vibe-code a competing tool in a weekend, the barrier isnt code anymore - its trust. companies charging $50-100/mo for API wrappers are one good README away from losing their users.

You dont need to write most of the code yourself anymore. point an agent at a problem, review what it builds, open-source it.

build reputation, community, something that's yours. worst case your job is fine and you have a cool project- best case you have a lifeboat when the music stops.