MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lambdaphagy | 2026-02-27 02:24:32+00:00
The guy who authorized the Manhattan project:

- had four [!] terms, a move so anomalous it was subsequently patched by constitutional amendment

- threatened court-packing until SCOTUS backed down and stated rubber-stamping his agenda

- ruled entire industries by emergency decree in a way that contemporaries on the left and right compared to Mussolini

- interned 120k people without due process, on the basis of ethnicity

- turned a national party into a personal patronage system

- threatened to override the legislature if it didn’t start passing laws he liked

Not even saying any of this is even good or bad, clearly in the official history it was retroactively justified by victory in WWII. But it’s a bit rich to say that the bomb wasn’t developed under authoritarian conditions.
by Slow_Hand | 2026-02-27 02:26:05+00:00
I like the thought, but trumpets require a lot of energy to excite them (i.e. you have to blow a LOT of air into a horn just to get a note. Getting an instrument like that to feedback would require a pretty radical system.

The difference with electric guitars is that guitar pickups are relatively sensitive and then go through multiple stages of amplification, which makes the system ripe for feedback loops.

Some saxophone players have been known to generate feedback through on-board microphones. Strictly speaking, this isn't exciting the horn, but it does introduce feedback that's excited BY the instrument.
by keeda | 2026-02-27 02:26:49+00:00
> I swear people should start blacklisting CEOs and refuse to work under them if they're part of the blacklist.

Look at the job market. They know they can get away with it and so they don't care.

My current theory is that this is partly why executives are desperate to get AI to work, and why investors are ploughing billions into AI. They know they've burnt too many bridges, and they need AI to work so they never have to turn to us again. Otherwise the pendulum will swing even farther in the opposite direction, putting even more bargaining power in the hands of employees than the post-COVID job market.

Unfortunately, AI does seem to be working very well, and I don't see great outcomes for us on the current trajectory. I expect turmoil before a new social contract is established.
by geraneum | 2026-02-27 02:29:05+00:00
I can sympathize. If you feel you’re in limbo, emotionally, and feel helpless, it’s natural. I’m in the same profession and what you’re experiencing is not unthinkable but sometimes depending on one’s life conditions, everything might seem more daunting than it should. I believe talking to a professional about this may help. I’d do the same.

One thing I can say is that if we, as a collective of white collar workers gonna lose our jobs fast, then I wouldn’t fret much because it won’t be on me alone to fix it, it’ll be a large chunk of humanity’s problem. Revolutions and uprisings have ensued far less dire situations.
by Ariarule | 2026-02-27 02:29:28+00:00
They did not, you get the same date range and the same graph shape going to FRED and pressing the "1Y" option, and the series includes the first two months of 2026 so it's 12 months: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1SGzm

However, the chart settings were actually modified to hide/deemphasize the earlier decline: the the index date was changed. 2025-02-20=100 in their graph, default of 2020-02-01=100 would have the chart start at 64 and rise to 71.44.
by kellkell | 2026-02-27 02:29:55+00:00
I am a scholar of the work....!!! CRIPIX exists and is based on the e-book --> CRIPIX 1: THE INFORMATION SOVEREIGN ANOMALY: (The challenge that made a superintelligent AI surrender)..... This is real and I am reading and studying the subject....!!! I am a computer programmer and systems analyst....!!! CRIPIX is fascinating....
by danpalmer | 2026-02-27 02:30:00+00:00
It's a nuanced trade-off. It's worse for the company as you said, it may be worse for the employees because some will leave from burnout without severance, those remaining will have more work to do typically.

But my point was that what was presented was a false dichotomy and that framing it as such is disingenuous to employees receiving those comms.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-27 02:30:12+00:00
If you exist within a society you must play by the societies rules, to an extent. There's no free pass from consumption, everybody must consume.

Even the act of not consuming can become consumption. Minimalism, the almost anithesis of consumption, itself became a new avenue of consumption.

You can, of course, genuinely live modestly with minimal consumption. Keyword minimal. You just always consume to an extent.
by messe | 2026-02-27 02:30:23+00:00
I mean I can equally throw out the anecdotal evidence that I've found Californian wines in general intolerably sweet compared to their high ABV.

Without some more to back it up though we're both just being opinionated. The difference is that I'm admitting it.

It might also come down to to where you're based. If you're in the US, you might be getting worse German wines, in the same way that I'm probably getting worse California wines because I'm in the EU.
by SigmundA | 2026-02-27 02:31:11+00:00
> An electric drivetrain achieves around 90%, so you only need roughly 1,600 kWh of battery capacity for equivalent range. At 0.25 kWh/kg, that’s still about 6.4 tonnes of battery — roughly 18 times heavier than the 350 kg diesel tank and fuel it replaces

This misses the fact that the motor and transmission on an electric truck is lighter than the diesel. This doesn't completely negate the issue but it does help and is not mentioned.

The 15 liter diesel engine is about 3500 lbs and the transmission with many gears is another 700 lbs.

The Tesla Semi has 3 model S motors with single speed transmissions each one is about 300 lbs with inverter so there are at least 2-3000 lbs weight savings in the drivetrain to consider.

In the US Electric semis get an extra 2000 lbs payload allowance too too so they can be 82k lbs total rather than 80.
by mylifeandtimes | 2026-02-27 02:31:21+00:00
it was before your time.

In WWII, we saved the world from what is now seen as some really evil stuff. Not alone of course, Europe and Russia made huge sacrifices and that's where much of the war was fought. But US arms and blood were the decisive factor, Germany was winning, Japan was winning.

After WWII, the US decided to rebuild the world. We turned our enemies (Germany, Japan) into our close allies.

And the people who did it were really and seriously morally committed to doing what they thought was right. It was about building a country, working together. Not the insane politics of today.

Look, it wasn't all rose-tinted glasses. Bad stuff happened, and McCarthy was worse that what we currently have. And the civil rights movement and all of that. And the stupid wars, Korea, Vietnam, all the smaller police actions. Bad shit was done.

But on balance, the US was seen as the force of good, and the guaranteeor of world peace and the prosperity that allows.
by sargstuff | 2026-02-27 02:32:09+00:00
Project time/resource constraints not withstanding, wonder how this compares to other c-64 os alternatives.[0]

?? future options ?? : Unix bootable from a cassette tape drive? :-)

?? c-64 unix server with ports to hook up one or more c-64's via CaTer (Cartridge Terminal) -- perhaps best done via tcp-ip 'ports'.

?? fuse[1] for c-64 to be able to 'read' other floppies / c-64 unix swap space over tcp-ip.??

?? "modern" 5.25" for c-64 via c-64 variant of greaseweazle[2] ??

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[0] "The Many Operating Systems of the Commodore 64" : https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-many-operating-systems-of...

[1] c64-fuse (perhaps over c-64 tcp-ip) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace

[2] greaseweazle : https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
by hellojesus | 2026-02-27 02:33:01+00:00
I think part of my anxiety is this. I went to IBM, stayed until my subsidiary went under, and then started job 2 in 2019, and I've been there sense. I'm a bit terrified of my market competitiveness.

But the good news is the mentality helps me keep costs under control. I'm nowhere near real earners in tech at only 200k, but I have two littles so haven't considered moving until they get a bit older because I'm fully remote and the flexibility with daycare sickness is helpful.
by khazhoux | 2026-02-27 02:33:13+00:00
> 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.

it's interesting how he casts this as:

a) a drawn-out downsizing that might not meet its numbers for years, which is clearly "bad" because no one likes uncertainty.

b) ripping the band-aid decisively, with the nobility of being an honest decision. and who doesn't appreciate honesty?

but certainly most employees would prefer to be laid off in months (or even, as he says, years) "as this shift plays out." they would probably prefer that to having jack's "honesty."
by csallen | 2026-02-27 02:34:02+00:00
If you make bad enough decisions, your customers leave, your company dies, and/or you are fired by the board.

CEOs get fired all the time, and companies die all the time. It's part of life, and so are layoffs.

There's no need for some sort of additional punitive actions to be taken. If you control a company, you have the right to do layoffs, and if you're an employee, you take that risk of being laid off because you prefer it to going out and trying to grow your own company from scratch.
by prescriptivist | 2026-02-27 02:34:13+00:00
This is a funny point that you're making (for me, anyway), because prior to early December, probably 5% of the lines of code I wrote in a week were AI-generated by cursor. Then I started using Claude Code. Fast forward to today, I would say 98% of the code that I've shipped in the last three weeks has been written completely by Claude Code.

Prior to three weeks ago, I had used speech-to-text to do accomplish approximately 0% of the work I've done in my 20 years of coding. In the last three weeks, well over half of the direction that I've given to Claude Code has been done with speech-to-text.
by scottLobster | 2026-02-27 02:34:21+00:00
"The End of History and the Last Man" was a book written in 1992 about the end of the Cold War and how previous historical patterns no longer applied, and Western liberal democracy would sweep the world and usher in a world of peace.

The "return of history" is snarkily pointing out how historical trends have been reasserting themselves, and Fukuyama (the author) was, at best, overly optimistic
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-02-27 02:34:32+00:00
I mean, I've expanded what I use my programming skills for dramatically in the last year. I've suddenly got several personal macOS apps I'm building and maintaining for myself, for my small business, or for fun. That never happened before (I've generally been full stack on the web). I've built far more useful and complex firmware and finally begun designing and building custom circuits. I rarely had the time for that before.

I'm able to take on way more interesting and challenging projects in my business because the logistics and legwork required for implementing them are greatly simplified by being able to actually implement the specs for the software I've had in my head for years.

This is a stark contrast to pre-2024 or so. I've always been an explorer, a fairly prolific software developer I guess, but now it's so much more than that. And it's leaking into hardware and other physical ventures. I'm typically limited by funds more than anything.

Are some of my projects lower quality than if they were done by someone more qualified? Yeah, totally. Though I think I still do a solid job. I don't care though; these things have opened my eyes and mind so much and made creating so much more inviting and exciting.

It still burns with the 'career careening into the dirt' vibes I get most days, but what the hell, it was good while it lasted. If I was smart enough to make the computer do the thing, maybe I'll be smart enough to do something else that's useful. And I've got some years left before it's truly end of the line, I think.
by treetalker | 2026-02-27 02:34:44+00:00
The following is my take on what's happening — outside the software-development domain, which is special vis-à-vis LLMs for obvious reasons.

Given worker access to generative LLMs, plus training and motivation to use them, LLMs are effective for certain workflows. Those workflows tend to be personal, one-offs, or summarization in nature: write a bash script for this headache I have every day; tell me what colleague X is trying to say in his 1200-word email, since his writing is garbage and he can't get to the point; "what's the Excel formula syntax for this other thing that I keep forgetting?"; etc.

So the time and mental-energy savings inures to the workers, mostly from coordination tasks that don't directly create core value. And then those savings aren't "reinvested" into value-producing activities whose benefits would inure to the firm because the workers have no incentive to do so; don't know how to create core value; don't have the skills to create core value; or aren't permitted to do those activities by higher-ups.

Bottom line: LLMs are eating busywork coordination activities — hence no impact on most firms' bottom lines.
by hibikir | 2026-02-27 02:34:46+00:00
Just one correction though: Your definition of middle class has to be super wide to call many tech jobs "solid middle class". It's not as if everyone ends up in the billionaire column, most definitions of middle class end with household income at $165k. Many in tech go over with one job. Once a family has two jobs and one is in tech, basically everyone counts as upper middle or above. With two tech jobs in a household, claiming middle class is often denying one's actual status.
by pear01 | 2026-02-27 02:35:52+00:00
Congress is the problem, but not in the way most describe.

Congress has abdicated its powers because as an institution it is broken. Several inland states with total state wide populations less than that of major metro areas on the coasts have the same amount of senators as every other state has - two. This means voters in a lot of states are over represented. Meanwhile, they say land doesn't vote, but in the United States Senate the cities and localities with the most people that drive much of our growth and dynamism are severely underrepresented. The upper and most important chamber of the Congress is thus undemocratic. Given it's an institution deeply susceptible to minority gridlock that depends on wide margins to do anything, well now more often than not it simply does nothing. An imperial presidency thus frankly becomes the only way the country can actually get most things done.

This two senators for every state arrangement was a compromise agreed to when constitutional ratification was in doubt, when the USA was a weak, newborn country of about 3 million people confined to the Eastern seaboard at a time in our history where our most pressing concern was being recolonized by European powers. The British burned down the White House in 1812 imagine what more they could have accomplished if the constitutional compromises that strengthened the union had not been agreed to.

This compromise has outlived its usefulness. No American today fears a Spanish armada or British regulars bearing torches. These difficult compromises at the heart of America already led to one civil war.

The best we can do is create a broad political movement that entertains as many incriminations as possible (probably around corruption/Epstein, which must make pains to avoid any distinction between say a Bill Clinton or a Donald Trump) so we can get past partisan bickering to get enough of mass movement to try to usher in a new age of constitutional amendment and reform.

If it doesn't happen this cycle of Obama Trump Biden Trump will continue until this country elects someone who makes Trump look like a saint. It can happen. Think of how Trump rehabilitated Bush. We already see the trend getting worse. And if it does, then the post WWII Germany style reset being mentioned here will then become inevitable.
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-27 02:35:57+00:00
Why do we need to allow prediction markets like this at all? It's just gambling dressed up as though it was a stock market. It's just horse racing at a massive scale... except for the hyperstition factor of it actually influencing world events. At least one can pretend, with the regular stock market, that one is investing in the success of a company; though we all know we're a long way from that.

There seems to be no prosocial reason for this whatsoever.
by vkou | 2026-02-27 02:36:25+00:00
The answer is that responsibility is diffused. Very few people are actively building the 'Genocide Palestine' or the 'Illegally detain and torture immigrants' system, but a lot of people have submitted CLs to microservices that the 'Genocide Palestine' system (as well as a thousand others) calls.

Modern America is the complete antithesis of 'The Buck Stops Here.' It's more of an 'I have absolute power, and none of the accountability' sort of place.

If the president, or one of his armed, masked thugs with a license to kill can't ever be held accountable for the evil, vile shit they do, why should some low-level SWE feel any remorse or responsibility for those CLs?

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The solution? Don't tolerate it. Don't settle for no accountability. Don't think this is no big deal, or business as usual. The only way out of this, if power is ever taken back, is disproportionate punishment for the guilty. The country can move on and heal after justice is fairly apportioned.

Incidentally, both war crimes, and deprivation of rights under color of law are capital crimes in the United States.
by johnfn | 2026-02-27 02:36:28+00:00
If you can point me to any "random text generator" that scores a 76.8 on SWEBench, after any number of iterations, or in fact is competitive on any benchmark at all, I'll happily switch to it. Until then, I don't think that analogy will lead to particularly productive conversation. There are many engineers using a similar harness on LLMs today. No one uses a random text generator to generate code because you are not making a real suggestion.

> 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.

The discussion, and your original post, was about whether hallucinations are a meaningful issue today - not in some hypothetical future.
by ahepp | 2026-02-27 02:36:59+00:00
I don't think it makes a lot of sense to put those responsibilities on individual firms. In the USA, achieving maximum employment has been a mandate for the Federal Reserve to achieve through monetary policy. There are many advantages to allowing individual firms to optimize for productivity. There are also a lot of harms caused by forcing firms to adopt unproductive methods. Even Keynes' joking solution for unemployment was that the treasury might bury bottles of money for private industry to dig up.
by raincole | 2026-02-27 02:37:26+00:00
The comments on stackoverflow say the words out of my mouth so I'll just copy & paste here:

> but then shouldn't it rather be &2>&1?

> & is only interpreted to mean "file descriptor" in the context of redirections. Writing command &2>& is parsed as command & and 2>&1

That's where all the confusion comes from. I believe most people can intuitively understand > is redirection, but the asymmetrical use of & throws them off.

Interestingly, Powershell also uses 2>&1. Given an once-a-lifetime chance to redesign shell, out of all the Unix relics, they chose to keep (borrow) this.
by nusl | 2026-02-27 02:38:00+00:00
I wouldn’t call it limbo, and I don’t think I need therapy for this. It’s more like, the future is so uncertain but all signals are pointing in one direction.

Sure, you can say that you won’t fret much but if you’re in a place without much social security, you’re not going to have a safety net. The revolution might not be in your benefit either, if there is one, which would only come when more people have their AI bubble popped.
Show HN: Lar-JEPA – A Testbed for Orchestrating Predictive World Models
by axdithya | 2026-02-27 02:38:04+00:00
Hey HN,

The current paradigm of agentic frameworks (LangChain, AutoGPT) relies on prompting LLMs and parsing conversational text strings to decide the next action. This works for simple tasks but breaks down for complex reasoning because it treats the agent's mind like a scrolling text document.

As research shifts toward Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) and World Models, we hit an orchestration bottleneck. JEPAs don't output text; they output abstract mathematical tensors representing a predicted environmental state. Traditional text-based frameworks crash if you try to route a NumPy array.

We built Lar-JEPA as a conceptual testbed to solve this. It uses the Lár Engine,a deterministic, topological DAG ("PyTorch for Agents") to act as the execution spine.
Key Features for Researchers:
Mathematical Routing (No Prompting): You write deterministic Python RouterNodes that evaluate the latent tensors directly (e.g., if collision_probability > 0.85: return "REPLAN").
Native Tensor Logging: We custom-patched our
AuditLogger with a
TensorSafeEncoder. You can pass massive PyTorch/NumPy tensors natively through the execution graph, and it gracefully serializes them into metadata ({ "__type__": "Tensor", "shape": [1, 768] }) without crashing JSON stringifiers.
System 1 / System 2 Testing: Formally measure fast-reflex execution vs. deep-simulation planning.
Continuous Learning: Includes a Default Mode Network (DMN) architecture for "Sleep Cycle" memory consolidation.

We've included a standalone simulation where a Lár System 2 Router analyzes a mock JEPA's numerical state prediction, mathematically detects an impending collision, vetoes the action, and replans—all without generating a single word of English text.
Repo: https://github.com/snath-ai/Lar-JEPA
Would love to hear your thoughts on orchestration for non-autoregressive models.
by ehnto | 2026-02-27 02:38:18+00:00
I am very torn on this, because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking.

On the other hand, such pervasive and ever present law enforcement is oppressive. If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary. We give road laws a pass because safety is quite provable through studies and we listen to our researchers, but if we scaled this out to all crimes (like jaywalking) I think you would see just about everyone is a criminal eventually.
by quesera | 2026-02-27 02:38:26+00:00
Which claim? That Jobs was not a monster or pedophile? I'm on absolutely solid ground there.

Assuming you mean whether Jobs would intensely dislike Trump, then -- what can I say? You clearly don't know anything about the guy and that's fine. But if you doubt it, you're wrong.

We were far from personal confidantes, but I had several candid conversations with him over the decades. His personal politics were never in doubt, and he held a special revulsion for the authoritarian and warmongering instincts that he saw in Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II. He was also a bit hesitant on the Clintons, but only for personality reasons; they were reasonable people who could be worked with. He liked Obama well enough, as I understand it. That information is second-hand, but it tracks.

He was never not at least a bit frustrated with US economic policy. He would abhor Trump on every one of those levels and more.