MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcyb5st | 2026-03-06 16:09:24+00:00
I agree. Also, we already tried to rely on the goodwill of the people and here we are with warming speeding up.

We need some mechanism that penalizes polluters, benefits low emitters, and stops/limits/taxes/... worldwide shipping when local alternatives are available to avoid these [1] abominations.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1e4zl...
by like_any_other | 2026-03-06 16:09:26+00:00
> plus, if your site has a commercial character - which according to german courts is every single one in existence - you would need to hire a someone responsible for protecting teenagers and children (Jugenschutzbeauftragten).

That is pretty much what the UK Online Safety Act requires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023

Many small forums had to simply shut down, as was widely reported on HN at the time.
by cess11 | 2026-03-06 16:09:40+00:00
Why would something "change" because "developed rich countries" hurt? Why wouldn't those leaders just roll with it and see it as inevitable, or a purification of their degenerate populations, or just another day in the end times, or whatever?

I expect "change" when people form unions or union like organisations and withhold or redistribute their labour, both waged and in more subtle forms, such as attention, and unwaged but socially important labour (e.g. women refusing to be servile homemakers and instead get guns and start soup kitchens).
by jmcgough | 2026-03-06 16:09:48+00:00
The top three emissions sources are industry, electricity, and transportation. There have been important federal and state-wide attempts to address these, but Trump guts regulation every time he's in office. Chevron is dead, SCOTUS repeatedly rules to let big business do whatever they want, and we're now burning even more coal to meet AI energy demand.

Compare this to China, where the government is aggressively promoting green energy and electric car tech.
by jcfrei | 2026-03-06 16:09:50+00:00
I have a different take: Things will change once a big part of the electorate no longer feels like climate change policies will hurt their pocket. A lot of the opposition to the policies are from people who aren't in the richer percentiles and probably work in a field that's related to fossil fuels (like heating engineers, car mechanics, etc.). They fear job losses and that their commute and heating bills go up.
by sn0wflak3s | 2026-03-06 16:09:52+00:00
This is a fair point. The cognitive load is real. Reviewing AI output is a different kind of exhausting than writing code yourself.

Even when the output is "guided," I don't trust it. I still review every single line. Every statement. I need to understand what the hell is going on before it goes anywhere. That's non-negotiable. I think it gets better as you build tighter feedback loops and better testing around it, but I won't pretend it's effortless.
by ryandrake | 2026-03-06 16:10:09+00:00
Yet, if we re-did the election today, we'd have the same outcome. People might not support what is happening but they will never "vote for the other guy." I personally know people who disagree with everything that's going on, but they'll still vote (R) next time "because I'm a (R)," as if it's their intrinsic physical trait like hair color.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-06 16:10:39+00:00
There is a Nobel memorial prize winning plan to do something like this in a more elegant, voluntary fashion. Nordhaus' Climate Club.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.15000001

It's essentially a carbon tax on local production and a corresponding carbon tariff on imports. Countries that already have a carbon tax or equivalent don't get tariffed. IOW, they're part of the club.

Usually a carbon rebate is also included in the plan, although that's not strictly necessary.

Germany was spear-heading an effort to create a carbon club, but it fell apart, unfortunately. At the time a club that didn't include the US seemed infeasible.

In 2026 a club that doesn't include Trump's America is a good thing, not a bad thing IMO.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-06 16:10:39+00:00
> Steven was the enterprising developer who actually discovered how to give emoji to any iPhone, all the way back in 2008.

I love how this person gets the credit, deservedly so, and the irony of the unsung people who did all the hard work of actually creating the support but with its potential nerfed.

Perhaps a rehabilitation committee can track those people down and we can give their stories and their soulless managers some well earned justice!
by myrmidon | 2026-03-06 16:10:46+00:00
There is literally no charitable interpretation of this point.

How much of a problem any individuals CO2 emissions are is completely decoupled from what nation they live in, or how many people live in that nation specifically.

If you hypothetically split up Asia or the US into 100 smaller countries then local emissions are not suddenly more (or less) of a problem than the are now (duh).

And of course more people have more of an influence on global outcomes.

This whole argument makes about as much sense as demanding that black people in Europe should not pay any income tax, because the total tax income from black people in Europe is very low, and "national budget does not care about per capita".
by nlh | 2026-03-06 16:10:55+00:00
A close friend who was born with way more candor than I has made fighting this scourge his life's mission and I love him for it.

He has no shame about calling people out. He will walk up to a person - rich, poor, old, young - in a bar, restaurant, on an airplane, or wherever and just let them have it. He'll start politely ("Hello sir would you please either turn the volume off or put headphones on") and if they don't, he will escalate until either there's a shouting match or they relent.

His record is nearly flawless in accomplishing the mission.
by latexr | 2026-03-06 16:11:16+00:00
There’s no explanation possible for those people. They can’t even come up with their own comebacks and justifications, let alone understand nuance. But you can have a bit of fun at their expense while entertaining and educating bystanders:

“Imagine I place an ice cube on the top of your big round head. Now imagine we place a heat lamp aimed directly at your bald stop. What’s going to happen? The cube will melt. Fast. It will drip chilly water all over your asymmetric noggin and excessively large nose. Eventually that too will dry (evaporate, if you can handle big words) and the lamp will give you a burn. You are currently in the phase where your face is wetter and shinier than the muscles of the stranger you met yesterday on Grindr, but soon it’ll become dryer than your wife’s pussy. By then it will be too late for you, like it is too late for your kids to love you.”

Now, I’m not suggesting any of us goes around insulting strangers, I think the world is too divided as it is. But when you finally lose it at that bigot relative you’ve put up with for far too long and are finally ready to cut ties, it’s worth considering doing it in a way your family will remember. Shame you may never be able to share your takedown with your great grandkids, because thanks to said relative, they may never be born.
by wcarss | 2026-03-06 16:11:39+00:00
This is not true.

When you spend Canadian dollars at a business owned by a Canadian, you're sending that owner and the Canadian government your money, in exchange for their goods or services, normally at a surplus of value for them. You are 'helping' them; you are 'investing' in the Canadian economy. You are justifying the existence of their business and the jobs of the people who work there.

Especially insofar as you're making this choice versus American options, you are putting money into the hands of Canadians rather than Americans. This is the underlying concept behind boycotts and voting with your dollars or feet.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-06 16:11:56+00:00
I understand this but maybe its my personal preference but I prefer working with services which don't charge money for egress/charge very little. So think OVH,netcup,Scaleway,BuyVM,Upcloud and Hetzner and so many others.

So to me, its an non issue. But I definitely understand your point yea if someone's locked in AWS then egress can be brutal, but to me that's even more the reason to not use AWS (Also that usually these services that I have listed are more price effective/better too and most of these companies have decent human support and some/most provide decent SLA guarantees as well and most importantly, with all of this, I would love to support non AWS/GCP/Azure clouds and wish for a less centralized internet anyway)

So its actually a win-win for me to not have to worry about egress costs.
Show HN: ChronosBench – Terminal CPU/Metal GPU stress tester with live load bars
by nish068 | 2026-03-06 16:11:57+00:00
Wanted a stress tester I could throw into scripts and CI without spinning up a GUI.
Most open source options skip the GPU entirely, so I wired in Metal for the GPU side.

It runs matrix ops, FFTs, and particle sims concurrently and draws live utilization
bars in the terminal — one for CPU, one for GPU.

Curious if the workload mix is actually representative or if I'm missing something obvious.
Also open to feedback on the Metal implementation if anyone's gone down that path.
by NickC25 | 2026-03-06 16:12:17+00:00
I don't think they killed the goose at all.

The tech companies killed the golden goose that was handed to them. They got too greedy. Amazon basically got carte blanche to build in Seattle, and plenty of tax credits to do so.

Amazon and their founder then told WA gov that they were going to relocate to Florida. WA gov said "well, we paid billions for your infrastructure, so if you're going to leave, please partially refund us" and Bezos whined and whined and whined. Imagine, a guy worth (at the time) nearly half a trillion dollars being told that he should have to pay a few hundred million dollars for his broken promises.

Imagine being given incredibly generous tax incentives for decades that allowed you to build a multi trillion dollar company, and then whining when the giver of those incentives asks for a tiny portion of that to be paid back when you tell them you're leaving.
by reg_dunlop | 2026-03-06 16:12:22+00:00
Isn't that the purpose of red/green refactoring though? To establish working software that expresses regression, and builds trust (in the software)?

If your premise is that people would shift to using AI to write tests they don't understand, then that's not necessarily a failing of the contributor.

The contributor might not understand the output, but the maintainer would be able to critique a spec file and determine pretty quickly if implementation would be worthwhile.

This would necessitate a need for small tickets, thereby creating small spec files, and easier review by maintainers.

Also, any PR that included a non spec file could be dismissed patently.

It is possible for users of AI to learn from reading specs.

But if agents are doing the entire thing (reading the ticket, generating the PR, submitting the PR)...then the point of people not understanding is moot.
by foxyv | 2026-03-06 16:12:37+00:00
> Medicare decertified a Skyline facility in Tennessee from collecting reimbursements after a resident was discovered lying in feces with maggot-infested open wounds. The resident died days later.

> The attorneys general in Arkansas, Massachusetts and Nebraska brought lawsuits or levied fines against Skyline, including for Medicaid fraud, wage theft and tax violations.

Kill a man with a gun, go to jail for life. Kill and maim hundreds or even thousands with a business policy, 3 months and a pardon if that followed by a golden parachute. The medical industry in this country is a despicable failure. Criminals like this should be crushed to death by gold bricks.
by niam | 2026-03-06 16:12:42+00:00
I was sympathetic to this line of reasoning but I feel it's repeatedly shown to be self-defeating.

What chance have the proverbial good-guys got if, even after _proving_ some modicum of good will, people will nonetheless condescend any attempt to influence bad/wildcard actors? It feels great to tell someone they 'should've known better' but I'm convinced that that's basically void of cautionary utility.
by spwa4 | 2026-03-06 16:12:44+00:00
"The intention of the United States and the world is divided."

What do you mean?

The intention of the United States is maximizing oil use.

The intention of the World is maximizing oil use. Even EU countries are panicking over maybe being forced to use just a little less oil.

So where do you see this difference? Clearly, the entire world agrees: global warming is less serious than higher prices on oil. Much less important.
by kergonath | 2026-03-06 16:12:57+00:00
How so? I am not paying anything and I don’t have any problem getting full texts when the authors uploaded them. In fact, I just logged in and don’t see even the possibility to pay for anything there. I assume they monetise their database, but everything there is supposed to be publicly accessible anyway.

If I am not mistaken we can get documents without an account as well, unlike others.
by squidleon | 2026-03-06 16:13:17+00:00
Thanks! I've been developing in .NET for 20 years and it's come a long way , from the Windows-only Framework days to what it is now. NativeAOT, cross-platform, incredible performance. And if you've never tried it on Apple Silicon the M4 chips are absolutely insane. The server compiles to a single native binary and runs like a dream on ARM.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-06 16:13:18+00:00
> If "code smells" are bad, then "AI" is a rotting corpse.

This is what's so frustrating about the hype bros for me. In most cases, everything AI spits out are code smells.

We're all just supposed to toss out every engineering principle we've learned all so the owner class can hire less developers and suppress wages?

I'm sure it's working great for everyone working on SaaS CRUD or web apps, but it's still not anywhere close to solving problems outside that sphere. Native? It's very hit and miss. It has very little design sense (because, why would it? It's a language model) so it chokes on SwiftUI, it also can't stop using deprecated stuff.

And that's not even that specialized. It still hallucinates cmdlets if you try to do anything with PowerShell, and has near zero knowledge about the industry I work in, a historically not tech-forward industry where things are still shared in handcrafted PDF reports emailed out to subscribers.

I'm going to leave this field entirely if the answer just becomes "just make everything in React/React Native because it's what the AI does best."
by xhkkffbf | 2026-03-06 16:13:20+00:00
It's not so easy to do. You can't just daydream about it. A friend of mine spent 18 months just with the paperwork. He's now making half of what he might make at home, but he's happy. The people are definitely friendly and welcoming, but the legal system makes it hard. And the businesses know this so they underpay because they can.
by irishcoffee | 2026-03-06 16:13:21+00:00
> I’m not saying tourism is not a factor or denying anecdotes about people not visiting the US, but I don’t think it’s the explanation for the February 2026 job losses.

This is accurate. This thread is people emoting. I get it, might as well let it out. Tourism being major part of the US GDP feels like countries whose GDP depends on tourism, projecting. I get that too, if that is the paradigm you live in every day, that is the lens you view things through.

Tourism is probably affecting local economies at the margins, and there is a real loss there for those communities. The US GDP as a whole? Not even a rounding error.
by Bewelge | 2026-03-06 16:13:37+00:00
Just a guess, but to me it sounds like you're trying to do too much at once. When trying something like this:

> lots of careful code of registering and unregistering callbacks, some careful thread synchronisation (callbacks get called in another thread), thinking about sane exception handling in async code. Fiddly but not rocket science.

I'd expect CC to fail this when just given requirements. The way I use it is to explicitly tell it things like: "Make sure to do Y when callback X gets fired" and not "you have to be careful about thread synchronisation". "Do X, so that Exceptions are always thrown when Y happens" instead of "Make sure to implement sane Exception handling". I think you have to get a feeling for how explicit you have to get because it definitely can figure out some complexity by itself.

But honestly it's also requires a different way of thinking and working. It reminds me of my dad reminiscing that the skill of dictating isn't used at all anymore nowadays. Since computers, typing, or more specifically correcting what has been typed has become cheap. And the skill of being able to formulate a sentence "on the first try" is less valuable. I see some (inverse) parallel to working with AI vs writing the code yourself. When coding yourself you don't have to explicitly formulate everything you are doing. Even if you are writing code with great documentation, there's no way that it could contain all of the tacit knowledge you as the author have. At least that's how I feel working with it. I just got really started with Claude Code 2 months ago and for a greenfield project I am amazed how much I could get done. For existing, sometimes messy side projects it works a lot worse. But that's also because it's more difficult to describe explicitly what you want.
by zjsisba | 2026-03-06 16:13:41+00:00
This is actually why Trump won’t do them, by the way. He’s already changed his rhetoric to “criminals only”.

Trump is completely captured by business interests and is not America First. Mass immigration is the billionaire first position.

Younger generations understand this, so we likely won’t see some change for a bit, but it is coming. And it makes sense - they’re the ones suffering most from unfettered immigration. Their birthright is being handed out to cheap labor, because the billionaires running our society see us as cattle.
by jfengel | 2026-03-06 16:13:49+00:00
I'd have expected mass deportations to decrease the unemployment rate, since there are now a bunch of job openings.

Some of those jobs will just disappear (resulting in job losses, which is what the headline is about), but unemployment (people looking for jobs and not finding them) is up.

It does mean economic contraction, but that's yet another number. That would show up in GDP, but that number is really slow to collect. Data so far is actually pretty smooth, but that's to be expected.
by wnmurphy | 2026-03-06 16:13:56+00:00
I agree with your categories. The majority of the usage for me is (1) and (3).

(1) LLMs are basically Stack Overflow on steroids. No need to go look up examples or read the documentation in most cases, spit out a mostly working starting point.

(3) Learning. Ramping up on an unfamiliar project by asking Antigravity questions is really useful.

I do think it makes devs faster, in that it takes less time to do these two things. But you're running into the 80% of the job that does not involve writing code, especially at a larger company.

In theory, this should allow a company to do more with fewer devs, but in reality it just means that these two activities become easier, and the 80% is still the bottleneck.
by mannanj | 2026-03-06 16:14:13+00:00
I think at the core this is a problem of abuse of the commons and parasitic and extractive behavior being tolerated as a norm.

How would I defend myself against hostile entities and societal norms that make it OK to steal from me and my effort without compensation? I will close my doors, put up walls, and distrust more often.

That's clearly the trend the world is going towards and I don't see that changing until we find some a way to make it cheaper to detect deception and parasitic behavior along with holding said entities accountable. Since our world leaders have had a history of unaccountable leadership and they are whom model this behavior, I have difficulty seeing the norms change without drastic worldwide leadership change.
by haizhung | 2026-03-06 16:14:13+00:00
Don’t get cynic. The good news is: the worse it gets, the more impact every single .1 degree of prevented climate change has.

I’m with you in the billionaires. Research has shown again and again that people do care about climate change and want it to be stopped - but only if they have the socioeconomic status to actually care.

If, as so many people on this planet, you are living paycheck to paycheck, and the social security nets are being dismantled by the uber rich, you instead switch into a „protect what’s mine“ mindset. This further exacerbates the tragedy of the commons.

So I am of the following opinion: fix wealth inequality; which will give people their actual lives back; and will reduce the political power of the sociopathic billionaire class.

Then, the rest almost takes care of itself.
by Ostrogoth | 2026-03-06 16:14:39+00:00
To add to your comment, ~20%-25% of global oil production passes through the AG (Iran is only ~4% of current global production) @ ~21mbpd. The longer that oil can’t get out (Saudi’s have a 5mbpd pipeline to red sea, but only 2mbpd loading capacity), the quicker it will erase the current oil glut and eat into inventories. Most of the discounted oil China has been buying from Iran/Russia has actually been going into inventory. The strait itself is a narrow channel, and the main risk is mines and underwater drones. Sinking a few tankers in the strait would cause a lot of headaches.
by alberto467 | 2026-03-06 16:14:42+00:00
> that a collecive decision was made which increased general prices for everyone

I think you're referring to inflation with that? I wouldn't necessarily say that inflation is the result of a "decision", certainly not a direct decision of any single person nor any collective group. Economies can move around in weird and unpredictable ways, and they are also quite intertwined at the global level making policy decisions even more complicated and unpredictable.

The "money printing" decision wasn't made by asking the public: "would you like to help our economy and businesses and our essential public services in this tragic event? Oh btw you'll be paying for all of this with inflation, are you still sure?". Politicians tend to conveniently leave the second part out, and also, this questions wasn't asked to the public at all. I believe a sizeable amount of the public would've responded "no, let the people die, let the businesses die, i'm not paying for them".

Which is why for example, in many democracies with tools of direct democracy, such tools cannot affect fiscal policy, because people are dumb and they would just say "i want all of the welfare and zero of the taxes", bringing the country to ruin.
by utopiah | 2026-03-06 16:14:48+00:00
> until developed rich countries are starting to hurt.

Well Spain, 12th largest by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest in Europe, isn't exactly poor and yet seems to hurt quite a bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Spain#Impact... ... but I bet the wealthiest Spaniards have air conditioning, heating, bottled water delivered at home by staff, etc to isolate themselves. That does include politicians.

So... IMHO until the richest of the rich countries hurt, then nothing will change. They (we?) are very sheltered precisely by leveraging their wealth to abstract away from the lowly difficulties of life, like the weather.

TL;DR : yes, but the more insulated feel it less and consequently, rationally, think they have more time thus postponing the process.
by stopbulying | 2026-03-06 16:14:54+00:00
And for a larger town in TN, this on GSA-granted land that was deeded/zoned airport-only:

oklo spent fuel reprocessing oak ridge
https://www.google.com/search?q=oklo+spent+fuel+reprocessing...

Oak Ridge council votes to free up 'airport land' for nuclear company https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/local/2025/10/27/oak-ri...