MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2026-02-20 19:47:27+00:00
> the consumers paid the price of the tariffs. These refunds are going to businesses who just passed the price along

This story is often repeated, especially by businesses advocating against taxes, but transparently false if you think about it: Taxes and tariffs are costs for a business, no different than an increase in the cost of hops for Budweizer, or an increase wholesale cost of M&M's for the corner store.

When hops' cost increases, Budweizer doesn't just pass it along to consumers; the corner store also doesn't just raise the price of M&Ms. Everyone knows that if you raise the price, fewer people buy your beer/candy and your profits may drop overall, while your scarce assets (money) will be sunk in products sitting on the shelves when you need those assets elsewhere. They can't just raise prices arbitrarily: if Budweizer charged $20/can they'd have zero profit.

As we know well, some companies even sell products at a loss because that is the best outcome for their profits - e.g., car manufacturers, rather than have a hundred million in assets 'lost' indefinitely to unsold cars, and having no pricing that is more profitable, will sell at a loss to get what they can out of it. The clothing store puts last season's unsold clothes on sale around now.

In economics the tradeoff between price and quantity sold is called the demand curve. There's a theoretical point on the curve, hard to identify precisely in reality, which maximizes your profit.

So when costs increase, businesses still want to maximize profits: They decide how much of extra cost to pay directly out of their profits, and how much to raise the price and have consumers 'pay' for it. The consumers don't always go along with the plan: For products that are easy to forgo, such as M&Ms, consumers won't pay much more and businesses tend to eat cost increases. For products that are more unavoidable, such as gas for your car, consumers are compelled to pay more (until they buy more fuel efficient cars, or take a bus or ride a bicycle).
by conductr | 2026-02-20 19:47:55+00:00
I believe as a US citizen I have no say in how they make these decisions so this thought exercise is pointless. We all structure our governments differently and so compete globally with differing rules, I only care about how we do it here in the US. At times, what we do may be in reaction to others, but how we do it needs to be agreed upon here at home and for that we have a Constitution that gives this power to congress not the executive. I'm glad the court got it right, it's a glimmer of hope that the constitution still has some meaning.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-20 19:48:12+00:00
Has it ever been any different? In school, the majority of kids just wanted to have fun. As one example, in 9th grade I took "yearbook class". This was a long time ago, no idea if they do yearbooks still but I'm old and so this was before desktop publishing, it was 1979. In any case, of 30 kids in the class ~3 of them did all the work. The others couldn't or wouldn't follow the print company's instructions for layout.

Maybe it will be worse now but I kind of feel like the 90% is just more visible than it used to be.
by moron4hire | 2026-02-20 19:48:16+00:00
My moral justification is that my right to do with the physical property I have in my physical hand is more important than any noncorporeal corporation's right to do anything with their noncorporeal intellectual property.

The truth is, I gave party C money for a product. Party B does not get to say anything about what party C gave me. And they absolutely do owe me something, and that is the use of the product they gave me for my money. Whatever their terms of service say about licensing versus owning should not trump the fact that I made a one-time purchase and I have physical ownership that they cannot revoke. This is not a car lease where I have a contract with the dealership and they can reposses the car if I don't make the payments.
by poisonfountain | 2026-02-20 19:48:31+00:00
We should be fighting back. So far I have been using Poison Fountain[1] on many of my websites to feed LLM scrapers with gibberish. The effectiveness is backed by a study from Anthropic that showed that a small batch of bad samples can corrupt whole models[2].

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Poison Fountain or its creators, just found it useful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926485

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
by rzerowan | 2026-02-20 19:48:48+00:00
Maybe a shift to Huaweis HarmonyOS with its android compatibility layer or SailfishOS if they play their cards right.

As far as HarmonyOS i dont see many uptakes outside strict US free requirements as the other OEMs are lazy and also dont want to be locked into a competitor.

SailfishOS looks like its your time to faceplant once more , by not having a proper stratergy on monetizing on the many missteps from the current monopoly.I thonk at this point they need a leadership/biz stratergy overhaul - the tech is nice and polished, user demand is off the charts for an alternative . And they are just .. missing. Not even in th e conversation.
by boznz | 2026-02-20 19:49:01+00:00
Totally logical, especially with some sort of thermal mass, as you can throttle down the clock when quiet to cool down after, I used this concept in my first sci-fi novel where the AI was aware of its temperature for these reasons. I run my Pico2 board in my MP3 jukebox at 250Mhz, it has been on for several weeks without missing a beat (pun intended)
by bubblewand | 2026-02-20 19:49:03+00:00
A hallmark of the Roberts court is leaving something technically intact, but practically gutted and dead.

You can still technically bring charges against the president for things they do while in office.

Practically speaking, after that ruling, you cannot, short of hypothetical scenarios so incredibly unlikely and egregious that even the incredibly unlikely and egregious acts of this administration don't meet that bar.
by grey-area | 2026-02-20 19:49:21+00:00
Well I think the ambition was to have as much as possible in natural language, with macros calling out to ‘hidden’ code intended for machines. So I do think there is a good link with later attempts to write using natural language and make computer languages more human-friendly and he was one of the first to have this idea.

Neither strategy has had much success IMO.
by cursuve | 2026-02-20 19:49:22+00:00
This is so logically full of holes I don't even know where to start...

Having children is hard. Life is hard. Avoiding having children is shirking your duty to have a hard life. Dogs shouldn't make you happy because that is coping with life's hardships. Having children, which is hard, is the path one should take to wantonly endure hardship. If you choose not to, you are pathetic...

What if I didn't have a dog or cat, and still chose not to have children? Still pathetic? What if I had children, and hated every minute of it, but fulfilled my duty to endure the hardship... AND still had a dog I love? What if I really really enjoy lemonade - should I avoid that because it brings me joy, but life is inherently supposed to be hard, therefore I am coping and pathetic?

This is such a mind-boggling judgmental stance on what life is and should be and what others should do with their agency over their own lives.

As I said to the wantonly miserable OP who started this bizarre comment thread - godspeed to you! I'd wish you a nice life, but I don't want to go against your philosophy that one should invite hardship into one's life, so... Have a miserable life?
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-20 19:49:30+00:00
> If multiple appeals courts thought this case was a winner for the administration, we have an even bigger problem.

Do we? The law here was a mess. Prediction markets didn't have the outcome at anything like a certainty and the relevant stocks are up on the decision, implying it wasn't already priced in -- and both of those are with the benefit of the transcripts once the case was already at the Supreme Court to feel out how the Justices were leaning, which the intermediary appellate court wouldn't have had at the time.

> Sure. But some of them look clearly destined for it.

It's not a thing anyone should be banking on in any case. And if that was actually their expectation then they could just as easily have not stayed the injunction and just let the Supreme Court do it if they were inclined to.
by tux1968 | 2026-02-20 19:49:36+00:00
Yes, that is a real problem. But it doesn't justify arguing uncritically or unrealistically in other areas. I think people should be free to do anything they want with their own devices. They should be able to install any software they want. That's very different than demanding someone make their software exactly how you desire. ie. You should be able to install your own operating system, you don't get to tell them how theirs should operate.

There are legitimate concerns being addressed by these feature restrictions.
by hsuduebc2 | 2026-02-20 19:49:40+00:00
It's garbage now it's main purpose is to confuse older people with ai slop or ragebait them with politics.

It's really unfortunate that these people don't know, don't understand or even don't believe that this is algoritmic feed tailored specifically for you.

I have people in my family which basically believe that there is a pride march every Tuesday in cities around or country.
by AntiDyatlov | 2026-02-20 19:49:41+00:00
It's possible we actually never had good metrics on software productivity. That seems very difficult to measure. I definitely use AI at my job to work less, not to produce more, and Claude Code is the only thing that has enabled me to have side-projects (had never tried it before, I have no idea how there are people with a coding full time job that also have a coding side project(s)).
by hn_acc1 | 2026-02-20 19:49:42+00:00
The older I get and the more I learn, the crazier it is that evangelicals abandoned / were conned into supporting Reagan over Carter, all the while claiming that Reagan was sent from God or something.

But then, I have seen the same thing played out recently: Biden, a devout catholic is considered borderline evil by my fundagelical parents (mostly due to religious channels from the US, even though they're in Canada), while Trump is approaching sainthood.
by atlgator | 2026-02-20 19:49:44+00:00
I think what people are actually tired of isn't "tech" — it's the gap between what they thought the job would be and what it's become.

When most of us got into this field, the implicit promise was: learn hard things, solve interesting problems, build stuff that works. And for a while, that's what it was. The disillusionment isn't really about AI or crypto or whatever the current hype cycle is. It's that the job has slowly drifted from "engineer solving problems" to "employee managing process." You spend your morning in standups, your afternoon fighting with CI pipelines someone else configured, and your evening wondering what you actually built.

The people in this thread who say "just get perspective, you could be loading trucks" aren't wrong exactly, but they're answering a different question. Nobody here is saying the pay is bad or the chairs are uncomfortable. They're saying the work feels hollow. Those are different problems, and "be grateful" has never been a lasting fix for the second one.

What I've noticed — both in myself and in people around me — is that the ones who stay engaged tend to have found a way to shrink their world back down. Fewer layers between them and the user. Fewer abstractions between them and the machine. Whether that means a tiny company, freelancing, or just a side project you actually care about, the pattern is the same: make the feedback loop short and real again.
by numbers | 2026-02-20 19:49:52+00:00
Yeah, I have a Facebook that's about 2-3 years old now, and I use it mainly from Marketplace. But man, if I just accidentally go to the feed, it's just a bunch of spam and some sort of bait, whether it's rage bait or thirst traps or anything like that. Facebook is maybe trying to see if I'll engage with it, but mainly because I use the app for Marketplace, it just continues to recommend garbage.
by ouhamouch | 2026-02-20 19:49:52+00:00
That was private negotiations, btw, not public statements.

In response to J.P's blog already framed AT as project grown from a carding forum + pushed his speculations onto ArsTechnica, whose parent company just destroyed 12ft and is on to a new victim. The story is full of conflict of interests covered with soap opera around DDoS.
by m3kw9 | 2026-02-20 19:50:02+00:00
Taste in the public, means how others perceive it, not totally yourself only. Have good taste for yourself isn't what is being talked about here. It is subjective but the public component and meeting the trend then leading it without too much shock is tough. Copying can be tasteful, you need to know what's good to copy, but there is no wow factor.
by TSiege | 2026-02-20 19:50:18+00:00
I see your point, but I don't think he's being sarcastic in this paragraph. To me this paragraph isn't sarcasm rather he's presently a serious factual recounting of the logic driving AI evangelists that he then undermines by contrasting it with the callousness, messiness, and illogic of the people pushing this narrative. (I too had a good chuckle at the termite description)

But this is veering into lit crit territory, so agree to disagree
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-20 19:50:20+00:00
The basic fact that needs to be contended with is that the Constitution, however brilliantly it may be crafted or repaired, is a piece of paper. It has no agency to enforce or do anything else. It's always people who have to decide to do things, maybe under inspiration from this paper or another. So whether the Constitution say "Congress must impeach a President who is doing this or that" vs "may impeach", that would have 0 practical impact.

Consider that most totalitarian states have constitutions that explicitly forbid torture, discrimination, and many other forms of government suppression of people. This does little in the face of a police state bent on suppressing the people.
Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to predict sun vs. shade for stadium seats
by evankaye | 2026-02-20 19:50:33+00:00
I built Sunscreen, a Chrome extension that overlays sun vs. shade directly onto stadium seating charts while you’re shopping for tickets.

Motivation: I’ve been burned (literally) too many times buying “great seats” that turned into a full-sun blast furnace for a 1pm game. I wanted a quick, visual answer before checkout.
by zephen | 2026-02-20 19:50:52+00:00
Stopping the anthropomorphization of AIs is kind of like fighting a trademark battle. Every time a perceived misuse is noticed, action must be taken!

The difference is that the action is taken, for free, by a concerned citizen, rather than by a corporate lawyer.

The outcome will be the same. Xerox and kleenex are practically public domain, and AIs will be anthropomorphized.

Given that humans have been ascribing intention to inanimate objects and systems since time immemorial, this outcome is preordained.

The only thing you can infer from the struggle is that AIs are deep in the uncanny valley for some people.
by ErezShahaf | 2026-02-20 19:51:31+00:00
Lately I’ve noticed coding agents getting significantly better especially at handling well-scoped, predictable tasks.

It made me wonder:

For a lot of Jira tickets especially small bug fixes or straightforward changes most senior developers would end up writing roughly the same implementation anyway.

So I started experimenting with this idea:

When a new Jira ticket opens:

-It runs a coding agents (Claude/cursor)

-The agent evaluates the complexity. If it’s below a configurable confidence it generates the implementation.

-It opens a GitHub PR automatically.

From there, you review it like any normal PR.

If you request changes in GitHub, the agent responds and updates the branch automatically.

So instead of “coding with an agent in your IDE”, it’s more like coding with an async teammate that handles predictable tasks.

You can configure:

-The confidence threshold required before it acts.

-The size/complexity of tasks it’s allowed to attempt.

-Whether it should only handle “safe” tickets or also try harder ones.

It already works end-to-end (Jira → implementation → PR → review loop).

Still experimental and definitely not production-polished yet.

I’d really appreciate feedback from engineers who are curious about autonomous workflows:

-Does this feel useful?

-What would make you trust something like this?

-Is there a self made solution for the same thing already created at your workplace?

GitHub link here: https://github.com/ErezShahaf/Anabranch

Would love to keep improving it based on real developer feedback.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-20 19:51:59+00:00
Interesting that the pledge is about fast growing vs normal growing chicken. Does the UK not have the overcrowded cage conditions we have here in the US?

The complaint is about these companies not wanting to reduce their profit margins, but how slowly do the other chickens grow? Are we doubling maturity time or increasing it by 10%? Doubling would probably impact consumer prices beyond what could be absorbed by eliminating the margin.

Most lay opinions I can find online claim the fast growing birds to have inferior meat quality. I wonder if I could distinguish in a blind taste test.
by mothballed | 2026-02-20 19:52:18+00:00
There's a bit of truth to what you say, but also truth in the fact ultimately the consumer pays for everything. You're right that in effect the business might absorb the loss to profit, but ultimately ~100% of the revenue is from receipts from customers in the business model you proposes of things like selling a simple business of merely producing and selling M&Ms.

Thus both of you are really right. The tariff is paid 100% by consumer receipts if you track the flow of money, but this might also still be reflected in reduced profits. The actual flow of money might be $X revenue from customers, out of the $X paid from customers $Y is taken out for tariffs. $Y comes from the dollars received from customers but still reflects lowered potential profit if $X rose by less than $Y after tariffs started.
by Groxx | 2026-02-20 19:52:21+00:00
that'd give you 2.5mg, which is still almost 10x more than what I linked.

it's possible to split and separate them enough of course, but beyond "roughly half" it gets rather difficult. I've considered getting the liquid ones and a micro-dropper for smaller doses (if they'd even be small enough, many combinations are not), but 0.3mg pills are rather convenient and worth the small amount of money for me.
by palmotea | 2026-02-20 19:52:38+00:00
> I can't speak for Tesla's FSD specifically, but Waymo did a study on the collision rate of their autonomous cars compared to human drivers: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/. They found that Waymos get into about 81% fewer crashes per mile.

I think that's true. Though I recall that Waymo limits their cars to safer and more easily handled conditions, which is totally the right thing to do, but it probably means that statistic needs an asterisk.

> Not sure if that generalizes to Tesla FSD, though.

I don't think it does. They're two totally different systems.
by MiiMe19 | 2026-02-20 19:53:02+00:00
If the government ignored who people voted to president, it sure wouldn't be a free country would it? The eu "balancing" the right to freedom of speech is the same thing every authoritarian regime says. "We need to balance your right to speak to make sure you don't cause any disruption to the status quo (and knock us out of power)." Modern Europe is simply following the same line of thinking that every authoritarian regime has since forever. Just keep letting your rights get eroded.
by r618 | 2026-02-20 19:53:20+00:00
i put this discussion into NotebookML (its previous 'two hosts generated podcast' main feature is now 'Audio Overview')

it opened with: "We probably wouldn't have had LLMs if it wasn't for AA". 11/10 lol

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/f013bf7d-a4c2-4795-9a...
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-20 19:53:33+00:00
I want to like FreeCad, or FOSS CAD. For example: KiCAD and Blender are exquisite Free/OSS software I'm proud to use. For [non-EDA] CAD, I use SolidWorks, as I find FreeCAD (and OpenSCAD) is not in the same quality and user-experience tier.
by palmotea | 2026-02-20 19:53:35+00:00
> If you accidentally kill someone with your car, do you think you should have to pay $243m?

If you have billions of dollars, and somehow can't go to prison, yes you should. If not in compensation to the victim, then in some kind of fine scaled to wealth. The amount paid needs to be high enough to be a deterrent to the individual who did wrong.
by xvxvx | 2026-02-20 19:53:51+00:00
I’ve worked in I.T. For nearly 3 decades, and I’m still astounded by the disconnect between security best practices, often with serious legal muscle behind them, and the reality of how companies operate.

I came across a pretty serious security concern at my company this week. The ramifications are alarming. My education, training and experience tells me one thing: identify, notify, fix. Then when I bring it to leadership, their agenda is to take these conversations offline, with no paper trail, and kill the conversation.

Anytime I see an article about a data breach, I wonder how long these vulnerabilities were known and ignored. Is that just how business is conducted? It appears so, for many companies. Then why such a focus on security in education, if it has very little real-world application?

By even flagging the issue and the potential fallout, I’ve put my career at risk. These are the sort of things that are supposed to lead to commendations and promotions. Maybe I live in fantasyland.
by kjellsbells | 2026-02-20 19:54:07+00:00
My point is that even if H-1B were eliminated and all the people that hold them today returned to their home countries, employers' response is less likely to be "we need to hire and train more Americans, asap" but more like "let's expand our overseas operations, so we can get work done without paying Americans".

In other words eliminating immigration like this is only half the solution of you don't also have a way to stop offshoring.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-20 19:54:19+00:00
> sky-high expectations of AI have come down quite a lot.

they hype for AGI has certainly deflated, i haven't heard anything about that being right around the corner and the implications in a while now. The hype and doom now seems to be coming from software devs only, the front page news articles about AGI have pretty much stopped for me.

/"front page news" to me is the google news, US, Business, and Technology tabs
by anthonypasq | 2026-02-20 19:54:20+00:00
why would you muck with one of the most complicated systems humans have ever created on the off chance you fuck everything up when the current system has made you the most successful civilization in human history and has done so for 250 years.

i mean is it really hard to imagine why Americans might be wary to change things? maintaining a stable civilization is a pretty precarious undertaking.
by cj | 2026-02-20 19:54:27+00:00
I thought companies can't profit off of unclaimed/abandoned money.

Was under the impression that funds like that eventually get handed over to whatever state agency is responsible for dealing with unclaimed property.

(If so, the cause might just be incompetence rather than greed or malice - not that incompetence is any better than malice when it comes to handling people's money)
by refulgentis | 2026-02-20 19:54:47+00:00
Wish they named them. Usually I don't recommend it. But the combination of:

A) in EU; GDPR will trump whatever BS they want to try
B) no confirmation affected users were notified
C) aggro threats
D) nonsensical threats, sourced to Data Privacy Officer w/seemingly 0 scruples and little experience

Due to B), there's a strong responsibility rationale.

Due to rest, there's a strong name and shame rationale. Sort of equivalent to a bad Yelp review for a restaurant, but for SaaS.