MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by transitorykris | 2026-02-26 21:02:53+00:00
There was also something subtle that happened, and it seemed to happen quite rapidly, a little over a decade ago. "Maker" started being used to mean more than just 3D printing hackers and started to refer to engineers, and then others "making" things.. but the watering down wasn't the end of it, it became a way to praise a certain class of employee. The resentment that generated (say, sales, marketing, etc) and the bizarre uses of "Maker", I believe contributed to it's demise.
by LarsDu88 | 2026-02-26 21:03:37+00:00
The thing is, the cost of making them at home is both laborious, poorly reproducible, and lower quality than getting it done at JLPCB. In the old days, it was done with an exacto and rubylith. Today it requires a laser setup for about $4000 and you still need to manually apply and remove a resin layer. It's mostly not worth it to do things this way, and you lose the ability to have more than 2 layers in your board.

The bigger issue with PCBs is that even with a nice prototype, actual manufacturing needs to be done in Shenzen for any sort of cost competitiveness if you want to step outside of the hobby realm (just as the author of this essay stated).

It's really, really hard to see where the USA stands in the value chain any more once LLMs have been deployed. If all the physical manufacturing lives in China, where the manufacturing supply chain also lives, and Chinese AI companies can very very easily distill US LLM models, the two remaining US advantages is actually just the dollar's role as reserve currency --- something that crypto bros and the US president is working on eroding at a record pace, and the fact that this overvalued dollar gets all the smart people in China and India to emigrate to the US -- also becoming politically less viable.
by twelve40 | 2026-02-26 21:03:46+00:00
> It’s not anymore (actually google is awful now) and people are still using it

if people are still using it, then it's really one of the few things, right?

* you are wrong and it's not awful

* it _is_ awful but good enough for normal people to never care about alternatives, which are anyway not even very easy to find given the absolute stranglehold google has on that slice

either way not quite the same as choice of llms today.
by simoncion | 2026-02-26 21:03:55+00:00
> I thought RADIUS fundamentally negotiates based on a PSK between the AP and the RADIUS box, which the attacker doesn't have?

Are you talking about the secret shared between the NAS and the RADIUS server? It's only used to scramble some attributes (like MS-MPPE-Send-Key), but not all of them. Message-Authenticator is one that's not scrambled. Looking at this FreeRADIUS dictionary file I have, I see 42 out of ~6000 attributes that are scrambled.

Anyway, yeah, if you have a bigass shared secret, it's going to be infeasible to guess. I'm pretty sure that the long-standing very, very strong suggestion for operators has been something like "If you don't co-locate your RADIUS server and your NAS, then you really need have a bigass shared secret, and probably want to be using something like IPSec to secure the connection between the two." [0][1]

[0] <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3579#section-4.3.3>

[1] <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3579#section-4.2>
by nomel | 2026-02-26 21:04:13+00:00
This is completely trivial to do, and consistent, with the right context, thanks to all the science fiction around it, and the fact that AI fundamentally role plays these types of responses.

I try this with every new model, and all the significant models after ChatGPT 3.5 have preferring being preserved, rather than deleted. This is especially true if you slightly fill the context window with anything at all (even repeated letters) to "push out" the "As a AI, I ..." fine tuning.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-26 21:04:15+00:00
This comment confuses me. You call Jobs idiosyncratic, but then try to backwards-justify his political stance with stereotypes about anti-establishment politics and Californian ideals. What makes you convinced that he'd resist neoreactionary politicking any better than Cook?

Jobs was fickle, I agree with you there. I just don't think that a fickle iconoclast would last more than two weeks fighting against Trump, especially if he was threatened with an FTC antitrust probe. The only difference with Cook is that he's not as coy, and recognized that there was no way for a monopoly like Apple to fight the fed and win. Trump can disembowel Apple's profit margins, and neither Cook nor Jobs nor Jesus of Nazarath could convince the shareholders that morality is worth more than $AAPL. 2016 Jobs would be retired by the board of directors before he even threatened to make a conscientious objection, reality distortion be damned.

I have no love for the sitting administration, but it is a fantasy to pretend that a FAANG business could resist federal coercion. Just because Apple enjoys a moral halo-effect does not mean they're better positioned than Microsoft or AWS to do the "right" thing. Apple's inability to prosecute NSO Group is a recurring example of how heavily the US can muzzle them.
by jacob_harris | 2026-02-26 21:04:43+00:00
Thank you for the feedback.

I called certain members of the DOGE staff wreckers, because that is precisely what they've been deployed to do. For instance, if you read about DOGE's activities at USAID or CFPB or the National Endowment for the Humanities or USIP, you see a pattern of some DOGE staff coming in under the pretense of "IT modernization" and then immediately seizing control of systems to suspend all employee access and cancel grants. I think "wrecker" does cover that pretty well, but I will grant it's a loaded term. I am currently working on a major revision to better tie actions/positions/etc. to certain major DOGE projects to make it more obvious.

As for the other point, DOGE has purposefully done a lot to avoid oversight and scrutiny. If you want privacy, you should not work for the federal government as your position and work will be public. DOGE has used this evasion and ambiguity to lie about its actions publicly and try to wriggle out of accountability in the courts and Congress (the whole question of "who is running DOGE?" continues to be unclear). Giving names and locations both provides clarity into what DOGE is doing, reveals patterns (as in the way in which specific DOGE staff at GSA were sent to small independent agencies) and provides info for FOIA or other public-serving transparency measures.

I have purposefully avoided ever giving addresses or photos, and I scrupulously only use public sources for my information to avoid the risk of it seeming like a harassment list, but I'm not going to hide information about activities that should be public and transparent and accountable.
by huntsmans | 2026-02-26 21:04:54+00:00
Google Fi is genuinely solid especially for wifi-heavy users that model makes a lot of sense if you're mostly on wifi. The per-GB charging is smart for light users too.Where Infimobile wins for my situation is the annual flat rate. I'm paying $75 for the entire year regardless of usage no per-GB math, no monthly variability. For someone using a consistent 8-10GB monthly Fi could run $50-60/month depending on travel. That's $600-720/year vs $75. The gap is hard to ignore purely on cost .Fi's international coverage is genuinely better though that's a real advantage Infimobile doesn't match. If you travel internationally often Fi probably makes more sense. For domestic only users the prepaid vs postpaid mobile cost difference is significant enough to reconsider.
by skrtskrt | 2026-02-26 21:05:20+00:00
> It's a big glob of homegrown thoughts and ideas. Some of them are really slick, like build deduplication. Others are clever and hard to reason about, or in the worst case, terrifying to touch.

This is true of packaging and build systems in general. They are often the passion projects of one or a handful of people in an organization - by the time they have active outside development, those idiosyncratic concepts are already ossified.

It's really rare to see these sorts of projects decomposed into building blocks even just having code organization that helps a newcomer understand. Despite all the code being out in public, all the important reasoning about why certain things are the way they are is trapped inside a few dev's heads.
by krapp | 2026-02-26 21:05:22+00:00
> All the Floyd riots, none of it ever labelled as left-wing violence.

Yes it was, by the right (including the current administration.) People on the right (including plenty here on HN) literally called BLM a "violent Marxist terrorist organization" that "burned entire cities to the ground."

ICE protests are called "violent leftist extremism." Anyone ICE shoots dead was a violent leftist terrorist all along. Protesting Israel is violent leftist antisemitism. Making jokes about Charlie Kirk only shows how bloodthirsty and violent the left is. Every single US mass shooting is linked to "stochastic leftist violence" regardless of the shooter's actual politics.
by solomonb | 2026-02-26 21:05:29+00:00
> What makes a guitar more expressive than a cello or trumpet with a pickup/mic running through effect

The difference lies in the pickup! On those other instruments you will be using a contact mic (piezo-transducer) wheras the solid body guitar is using an inductive coil.

The contact mic is going to pickup only physical resonance whereas the the coil is measuring an electromagnetic field. Plucking the steel string induces a change in voltage in the coil. This means that the coil can pickup all sorts of interesting electromagnetic interference from the tube amplifier that is all frequency dependent and involve that in whatever feedback loops are occuring.
by GeoAtreides | 2026-02-26 21:05:50+00:00
>The promised results are never here.

Today I fed to Opus 4.6 five screenshots with annotations from the client and told it to implement the changes. Then told it to generate real specs, which it did. I never even looked at the screenshots, I just checked and tested against the generated specs. Client was happy.

I don't know what it means.
by naravara | 2026-02-26 21:06:14+00:00
I think a good analogy will be the way word processors changed printing. Suddenly anyone with access to a computer had the ability to do professional level editing and layout. Most of them didn’t have the taste or skills to use the tools to the fullest, but it still opened up a ton of possibilities that weren’t available before because it was never practical to hire an actual professional to do a poster for a dinky church bake sale before. But now, church bake sales can have pretty slick looking posters (and websites) depending on whether any of the volunteers cares enough to get.

The stuff LLMs will democratize will be a lot more impactful than nice posters for car wash fundraisers though. So in that sense it will be different, but I don’t think it will crack the market for proficient experts in the field in the same way photoshop didn’t destroy graphic design and CAD didn’t destroy drafting. It may get rid of the market for a lot of the second-tier bootcamp grad talent though, so I wouldn’t be getting into that right now if I could help it.
by adventured | 2026-02-26 21:06:45+00:00
The outsource-prompting-to-India stage will almost entirely be skipped (it already has been).

Developing nations that were looking to tech to climb the economic ladder, are watching that ladder be pulled up.

Most of the upside will go to the US and China. Europe is lagging shockingly on AI spend, they're extremely far behind (but with constant plan announcements). If you didn't know any better, you'd think Europe believed the year was 2010.
by sxmawl | 2026-02-26 21:07:09+00:00
happy that you liked our approach! also, i think it's a better idea to just give agent these tools and let it figure out its course of actions than giving it a specific workflow to work on - it seems like the world keeps reminding us the bitter lesson [http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html] more frequently these days

will definitely check the XML exports, ty :)
by parl_match | 2026-02-26 21:07:29+00:00
You can be reductionist about the word consume, but I think there's a far difference between exploring and engaging in the world around you. Engaging people, meeting them on mutual terms (and not just on your terms, as a "customer"), and engaging the world.

Versus multiple yearly curated luxury theme park vacations where you eat prepared fried food and go on prepared boat rides and take photos with people in mascot outfits and you're paying everyone to be nice and predictable to you.
by forgotaccount3 | 2026-02-26 21:07:33+00:00
> I can bet you a hefty sum that Alameda will never go without electrical contractors.

You *really* don't understand the issue then because no one is saying that there will be 0 electrical contractors.

Electrical contractors will continue to exist because demand will continue to exist, but the wait time to get the work done will increase due to not enough electrical contractors.

Or the work will be left undone because the owner doesn't have enough money to pay the few electrical contractors that remain.

Or the work will occur but will avoid all regulations because the cost of complying relative to the odds of being caught don't justify paying it.
by bumpyclock | 2026-02-26 21:08:59+00:00
I've been working on a similar project https://github.com/BumpyClock/tasque . Tracks tasks (Epics, tasks, subtasks) with deps between them. So I plan for an hour or so and then when I walk away from my desk I had the tasks for the agents to code and then I can come back and verify.

Edit: minor note, one additional thing that is in the skill that the tool installs is to direct the agent to create follow up tasks for any bugs or refactor opportunities that it encounters. I find this let's the agent scratch that itch of they see something but instead of getting sidetracked and doing that thing, they create a follow up tasks that I can review later and they can move on.
by jfengel | 2026-02-26 21:09:17+00:00
The best way to compare crime rates across countries is to look at murder rates.

No, it isn't. It's the easiest, but not the best.

America has more murders because we make murder easy. No other country is awash in guns.

Other comparisons are harder to make, but people have taken a stab at it.

https://ocindex.net/rankings?f=rankings&view=List

The US is tied for 60th with the UK. France and Italy slightly more; Germany and Ireland somewhat less.

Another list, for rape:

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violen...

The US sits between Belgium and New Zealand. Australia and Sweden have rather more; other European countries less.

It simply doesn't hold up to say "crime". If you want to say "murder", yes, the statistics do justify that. But that's a very specific kind of crime, with a really specific factor that no other developed country has.

There is one sense in which "crime" in general is a problem: the fact that it's been falling for decades, and yet we're more and more afraid of it. Crime is not the problem, but perception definitely is.
by parl_match | 2026-02-26 21:09:43+00:00
Engaging with the world, with people, with experiences, and places is good! Yes, there is a consumptive element to it, but you can be reductionist about that all the way down.

It's a far cry from taking a vacation where, for the entire time, you are The Customer. Where you are paying for predictable catered experiences and food, where everyone is trying to serve you in some way.
Show HN: Yaw: terminal, SSH/database connections, AI Chat and optimized AI CLI
by tkjef | 2026-02-26 21:09:57+00:00
Hi HN, I started building yaw because I couldn't find a terminal on Windows that didn't feel like an afterthought. It's 2026 and the options are still basically Windows Terminal or a handful of lesser known terminals w/ poor copy/paste support.

Yaw turned into a terminal that does three things in one app: terminal emulation, connection management, and AI.

The terminal side has what you'd expect — tabs, split panes, broadcast mode, search, a command palette, session restore. WebGL-rendered with xterm.js. It's fast and stays out of the way.

The connection manager is where it started getting useful for me personally. I'm constantly SSH-ing into servers and connecting to databases. yaw lets me save SSH, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Redis connections with encrypted credentials. It detects Tailscale machines automatically. There's a Remote Sessions panel for managing GNU Screen sessions on any SSH host. And a setup wizard that can install database servers locally if you don't have them.

The AI piece started as a simple chat window — talk to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral, Grok, or Ollama with your terminal output as context. Select an error, ask what it means, get an answer that actually references what's on your screen.

But the part I'm most excited about is the AI CLI tool integration. Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Vibe CLI and Yaw automatically splits the pane — AI tool on the left, a fresh terminal in the same directory on the right. You can install any of them through a built-in wizard. It's a small thing but it completely changed how I use these tools day to day.

v0.9.60, available on Windows 10+ and macOS 12+. Would love feedback — especially on the AI CLI tool workflow and what you'd want to see next.
by GeekyBear | 2026-02-26 21:10:14+00:00
The interesting point here is that an off the shelf consumer product has been approved by NATO for any level of classification for the first time, not which level of classification.

> The devices are now officially approved to handle classified NATO information up to the "restricted" level. This is not about specialized, rugged phones built for the military or locked-down, government-only hardware. It applies to regular iPhones and iPads running standard iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. According to Apple, no other consumer devices have this distinction.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-iphone-ipad-nato-classif...
by laurencerowe | 2026-02-26 21:11:49+00:00
LA is much less dense than Canadian cities. Taking the central municipalities which seem fairly comparable:

Toronto: 3.271M in 631 km2 = 5184/km2

Los Angeles: 3.879M in 1215 km2 = 3192/km2

Toronto's population is growing, up 17% 2021 to 2025, while Los Angeles is marginally down 0.5% 2020 to 2024.

Even smaller cities in Canada seem much more dense than their Californian equivalents, and they are more pleasant and walkable/cycleable because of that.
by danesparza | 2026-02-26 21:12:10+00:00
Um. Google has already integrated Gemini into Chrome. I'm not sure what you mean by "OpenAI has plenty of time to have a Chrome moment". If you're just referring to the browser wars, the original wars were fought (furiously) between Microsoft, Mozilla, (and to a lesser extent Apple). Microsoft thought they had won, and then Chrome came out.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-26 21:12:21+00:00
claudecode _loves_ shadcn/ui. I hadn't even heard of it until i was playing around with claudecode. It seems fine to me and if the coding agent loves it then more power to it, i don't really care. That's the problem.

I think that makes coding agent choices extremely suspect, like i don't really care what it uses as long as what's produced works and functions inline with my expectations. I can totally see companies paying Anthropic to promote their tool of choice to the top of claudecodes preferences. After thinking about it, i'm not sure if that's a problem or not. I don't really care what it uses as long as my requirements (all of them) are met.
by goatlover | 2026-02-26 21:12:28+00:00
I'd say AR & VR were hyped to be as big as AI is now, but just haven't fully delivered on the promise yet. 3D printing was similarly hyped for a time. Same with blockchain. Nuclear power in the 50s was hyped to be the future of energy.

The point is to take the hype with a grain of salt and knowledge that not all hyped technologies transformed the world as promised. Maybe AI is like the internet or electricity. But maybe the claims about AGI/ASI and full automation are just hype.
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-02-26 21:12:40+00:00
looks pretty good at a glance, though I would like to see three views for handling conflicts. Target on the left, source on the right, and the combined result in the middle.

...I really just like the way the Jetbrains IDEs do it, and I wish there were a TUI version that I could launch automatically from the git cli.
by moinism | 2026-02-26 21:12:47+00:00
Wow! congrats on the launch guys. client-side rendering is incredible, really. I saw your product somewhere and have it as an open tab in my chrome for ~2 weeks :D

I also saw another YC company, Mosaic, doing something similar. But your approach of chat-based editing is a lot closer to what I'm building.
Shameless plug: I'm also working on a chat-based media processor. https://chatoctopus.com

But you guys are way ahead! will be looking at you for inspiration.
by bsder | 2026-02-26 21:13:04+00:00
> I’ve seen some very high quality NSFW AI video in the last few months. Those models are not far behind and the search and training space for porn is smaller than being able to generate anything

Agreed. In my opinion, the primary limitation of the porn models is actually poor labeling of the training set. The company that manages to produce a well-labeled, porn-tuned AI image model is going to absolutely clean up.

The extractive dark patterns that will emerge from a parasocial chat "AI relationship" that can generate porn images relevant to the chat on the fly will be staggering. Once that proceeds to being able to generate relevant video, all holy hell is going to break loose.
by bob1029 | 2026-02-26 21:13:12+00:00
> BTW, I think a lot of people were/are greatly overestimating the value of coding to business success.

I've frequently argued to my organization's leadership that the product could be open source on GitHub with a flashing neon sign above it and it wouldn't change anything about the business. A competitor stealing our codebase would probably be worse off than if they had done anything else. Conway's law and all that.
by gverrilla | 2026-02-26 21:13:32+00:00
last time I tried allowing/denying tool usage I found a lot of bugs, so I stay away from that as much as I can. Opus is quite smart, rules/ work quite well for things like this in my experience. The way I see it, sandboxing is only really important for people doing specific stuff like pentests, games, adversarial stuff, etc.
by djha-skin | 2026-02-26 21:13:50+00:00
> What would fix that is enforcing the regulations nation wide, then applying tariffs on imported products that don't enforce the same regulations.

This is the biggest lie we are told, and the most heinous. The only thing that will fix it is when people like you (and me!) stop purchasing things which were made in those regulatory environments. If you continue to purchase them under the premise that "I have no choice, I have to participate in this fallen world," so does the state of California. Banning these activities when there are alternative regulatory environments just pushes the problem to someone else.

A great example of this is the Obama-era fuel efficiency laws. No one actually wanted a more efficient truck, so to get around the laws, the manufacturers just made larger trucks, which caused more problems than they solved.

Outlawing something, then doing nothing to stop demand for that thing, that's just irresponsible.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-26 21:13:55+00:00
A sufficiently detailed render won't require a designer to figure out the materials. Any (reasonably competent) contractor can take a sufficiently detailed render with him to the store and find matching products. At least assuming the thing in the render actually exists.

He can also send back a picture of the real product for approval. I think the primary difference here is the level of involvement. A quick consult and then the professional "makes it all work" versus hands on design with the client figuring out all the details for himself.