MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rybosworld | 2026-03-06 18:05:42+00:00
Yeah this always get's completely glossed over in these conversations.

People always say: "Things ended up working out in the end"

Things only worked out in the sense that society carried on without all the people who lost their jobs.

The U.S. has recent examples of large scale job destruction.

Michigan: From 2000-2009. Massive job destruction. 330,000 auto workers in 2000. Down to 109,000 in 2009. Estimates are that 1/3-1/2 of all those affected never achieved equal/similar employment. That is, somewhere around ~70k-120k workers never earned as much as they previously did. Since this was msotly contained within one city (Detroit), it's pretty easy for the country to ignore it and go on with their lives.

(Detroit was in decline since the 50's really. 2000-2009 is just a particularly bad snapshot.)

Coal mining towns have experienced the same phenomenon but more gradually. The poverty left behind by the destruction of those jobs has never been addressed.

With AI, we are heading into a situation where potentially a much larger amount of people will be affected. So maybe that changes the calculus on the government stepping in and fixing the problem. But I wouldn't count on it.

Sources for Michigan numbers:

https://lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/workshop/2010/LEDautopres031...

https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205...
by gruez | 2026-03-06 18:06:14+00:00
Why? Up till the end of last year, congressional Democrats were trying to get the ACA expansions extended, triggering a government shutdown in the process. Even after that plan fizzled out, they were promised a vote to reinstate it, so for hospitals or whatever there was still hope that there would still be funding. There's no real reason why you'd expect everyone to get fired the day that OBBA was passed.
by tdb7893 | 2026-03-06 18:06:18+00:00
I remember a couple years ago my family was worried about the Amazon burning and I was like "well, you could eat less beef as that's driving a lot of that in Brazil". Turns out they didn't care that much. With how generally hippie my family is it really made me realize how absolutely screwed we are ecologically.

There's a reason bird populations are down 30% in my parents' lifetimes (https://www.audubon.org/press-room/us-bird-populations-conti...) and I don't think my generation is going to do much better.
by maxglute | 2026-03-06 18:06:29+00:00
Euro intransience about AC is confusing.

As for PRC, they brrrted out enough solar last year to replace about 40 billion barrels of oil over their life time, or about annual global consumption of oil @100m barrels per day. They have enough renewable manufacturing capacity to displace global oil, lng and good chunk of coal.

PRC is basically manufacturing the largest carbon displacement, i.e. emission avoidance system in the world, and if not for them, global fossil consumption would double+.

It's even more retarded accounting that taxes PRC manufacturing renewables as generation emissions while fossils extractors, i.e. US whose massively increased oil/lng exports do not count towards US emissions.

At the end of the day, PRC's balance of emissions vs how much they displace via renewable manufacturing makes their emission contribution net negative, by a large margin. OCED countries reducing their emissions don't even compare in terms of contribution, it's borderline performative. OCED need to be reducing emissions and generating equivalent displacement to be net negative. It doesn't have to be domestic net negative, simply export/fund enough renewables to developing countries whose power consumption and downstream emissions will increase by magnitudes... you know subsidize them like OECD was suppose to do. Reality is rich countries don't want to do shit about the "global" emission problem, at least PRC selling renewables at commodity pricing to displace velocity of fossil consumption increase. Ultimately, 4 billion developing people going to 10/100x their energy consumption, which like AC is net moral good over net emissions. The real battle is how to keep new power use as emission free as possible, and only PRC is doing that in numbers that matter.

Wanking over OCED reducing their emissions is overlooking OCED was suppose to help developing countries minimize (not reduce) as they grow. All OCED has to do is give PRC renewables the 100b they once pledged on to help developing countries transition for PRC to run renewables manufacturing at 100% utilization (or even expand) so significant % of new power generation is renewables. 100b at current PRC prices of $0.1O/watt buys about 1000GW of panels (enough to power all of Africa & India and more). Or OECD can manufacture at sell at/below cost themselves.
by Aachen | 2026-03-06 18:06:34+00:00
Is that still higher entropy when you already (necessarily) have the IP address?

225.12.3.11 sends two requests, both with accept-language nl_BE

226.4.5.244 sends two requests, one with age bracket 13–15 and one with bracket 18+

Which group is easier to track people within a (NAT) household..
Show HN: Autonomous AI platform that builds apps and tools automatically
by BuildWithAI | 2026-03-06 18:06:42+00:00
I built SuperBuilder, an open-source AI platform that lets agents create apps, generate media, run pipelines, and orchestrate multiple AI models.

Features include:
• AI agent orchestration
• plugin system
• media generation pipelines
• Docker setup
• starter templates
• plugin SDK

I'm looking for feedback and contributors.

GitHub: https://github.com/rupac4530-creator/super-builder-platform
by tyjen | 2026-03-06 18:06:48+00:00
My preferred methods at the time, sneaking/breaking into houses, stealing, and ganking/PKing unsuspecting souls (emphasis on graveyards, dungeons, and miners). Stealing items, often the offensive spell reagents, out of someone's bag before a fight made for no shortage of quality interactions.

It was a sad day when UO introduced Trammel.
by intrasight | 2026-03-06 18:06:50+00:00
The Grimm fairy tales (1819) are full of graphical violence, child abuse, anti-semitism, and incest. They are much more harmful than anything that I've encountered on the Internet. So why are we discussing internet harms instead of book harms? Because people are fucking stupid.

And why are we getting concerned about "sharing private information with random web sites" when that's not the solution being discussed. The solution is a simple handshake:

service: Is the person assigned this device old enough to use this service?

idp proxy: yes|no
by traderaegis | 2026-03-06 18:06:51+00:00
I mapped the full AI agent infrastructure market, 6 layers (orchestration, memory, MCP/tool use, evals, deployment, security), 25+ companies, and $600M+ in recent funding rounds.

Key findings: orchestration is commoditizing fast (LangGraph/CrewAI/AutoGen/OpenAI SDK all converging), the real moats are in memory and evals (Mem0, Braintrust, Arize all raised big recently), and Anthropic/OpenAI are moving up the stack aggressively.

Also covers: MCP ecosystem timing, which layers are acquisition targets, valuation multiples vs. DevOps comps, and three whitespace opportunities that haven't been built yet. Free to read, no paywall on this one.

Happy to discuss/debate any of the takes in the thread.
by n8cpdx | 2026-03-06 18:07:02+00:00
There’s no way preschool for all is broadly popular.

It soaks the “rich” with an income threshold that isn’t indexed to inflation and kicks in at an income level where preschool is still a major affordability challenge.

And then you pay PFA and don’t get preschool for your kid because we’re still years away from having enough seats for everyone.

So it is preschool for some (multco paying for seats in existing preschool, aka kicking your kid out of their preschool spot) paid for by the broad middle class.

Even Kotek was ragging on it.

2020’s 125k/200k thresholds should be today’s 150/250 thresholds. They are not.

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/26/kotek-multnomah-count...
by jason_oster | 2026-03-06 18:07:39+00:00
You certainly made the case that the GPL was the only force, or at least ignored the contribution of alternative licenses.

I also wouldn't agree that proprietary software is in decline. There are niches where the OS, mobile apps, and games are almost entirely proprietary (and that is not changing any time soon). But the most damning problem is that all computer hardware now has multiple layers of subsystems with proprietary software components, even if the boot loader and beyond are ostensibly FOSS.

My take on the cause of proprietary software is "the bottom line". Companies want to sell products and they believe that it's easier to sell things that are not open source. Meanwhile, there are several counterexamples of commercial products that are also open source (not necessarily copyleft), including computer games. The cause of whatever decline you're seeing in proprietary software dominance is unlikely to be the GPL.
by mothballed | 2026-03-06 18:07:41+00:00
That depends if it's more practical to steal a billion or earn it legally. I suspect the most practical way to get to a billion is to legally steal it, perhaps with some form of regulatory capture or a government franchise granting a monopoly. Whether you think this is right or wrong is immaterial to what the practical approach is.

It is definitely easier to immigrate illegally for a large portion of the world population, and probably most illegal immigrants. Rational actor then would immigrate illegally.

I think this also very much depends on the country. Only a total idiot would try to "legally" immigrate to Argentina as their constitution essentially grants citizenship just for surviving for two years, and meanwhile there is essentially no immigration enforcement and fairly onerous visa process to do it "legally." On the other hand, you'd have to be an idiot to illegally immigrate to China in anything but the most dire circumstances, as they have an Orwellian surveillance apparatus and getting a legal business visa is fairly straightforward particularly in some special economic zones. On the Argentina<->China scale I would rate America as further towards the Argentina side, albeit with no path to regularization of status for most illegal immigrants.

Having a dogmatic adherance to the law leads to irrational actions. But also having a dogmatic disdain for the law also leads to irrational actions. Everything has to be considered in context. In the context of the USA you mostly have to be an idiot to try and immigrate legally if you are low skilled poor person from a 3rd world country with no connections. In the context of an educated American going to Europe, the rational choice is probably to immigrate legally.

From this lenses I don't really see any logical inconsistency in the fact the same person might pick illegal on one path and legal for another. Although yes if they are leaving the US because they hate immigration controls and dogmatically following immigration controls overseas in someplace like Argentina where it doesn't even make sense to do so, then they are definitely hypocrites.
by BoredPositron | 2026-03-06 18:08:22+00:00
Because disrupting energy exports is the easiest way to pressure their aggressors and most of the states are openly supporting the US. They get bombed to hell anyways because there was no real plan besides hoping for submission after the decapitation strike so they will make it hurt for everyone else. China is open for talks to keep Hormuz open. Russia is flying in whatever because they see a lifeline with higher energy prizes on the global market. The middle eastern states are diverting investments into the us. Look at a map there is no way the US can effectively put boots on the ground the whole country is a natural fortress. It would be a worse disaster than Afghanistan.
by Pannoniae | 2026-03-06 18:08:24+00:00
Actually, it isn't that different. Compilers are trash. They produce hilariously bloated and stupid code, even the C++ compilers, not to speak about your average JIT compiler.

However, in practice we don't care because it's good enough for 99% of the code. Sure, it could be like 5x better at least but who cares, our computers are fast enough.:tm:

AI is the same. Is it as good as the best human output? Definitely not. Does it do the job most of the time? Yes, and that's what people care about.

(But yes, for high-impact work - there's many people who know how to read x64 asm or PTX/SASS and they do insane stuff.)
by palmotea | 2026-03-06 18:08:29+00:00
> If I ever turn uBO off, the ads I get are mostly for funeral plans or incontinence products, with a smattering of "126 year old mom lost 30 lbs of belly fat - click to see how!" (yeah, decomposition's a bitch...)

And, for the record, it's way better to get ads for BS like that than stuff that may actually influence you.
by realityfactchex | 2026-03-06 18:09:01+00:00
> Maybe a wearable ultrasound instead?

If one is concerned about the potentially damaging effects of radiation, and the relative safety of ultrasound technology springs to mind, then one may be also interested in reading more about the apparently forbidden topic of ultrasound safety studies, if such a person can get past the cognitive dissonance from having been told the consensus opinion on how safe ultrasound is, e.g.:

https://www.amazon.com/Studies-Conducted-Indicate-Prenatal-U...

https://www.westonaprice.org/book-reviews/50-human-studies-j...

http://whale.to/c/50_human_studies.html

https://harvoa.substack.com/p/dbr

The jury may still be out?
by blurbleblurble | 2026-03-06 18:09:04+00:00
It really isn't like that though. On top of the rogue paramilitaries with arrest quotas for getting their menial bonuses, there are multiple cases now where _tourists_ have been detained for weeks or more, even those with valid visas, arbitrarily. Multiple governments are cautioning people around travel to the US, and people from many countries are being outright banned from entering. Look at this map: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12631. Travel is already stressful enough without a rogue xenophobic force at the helm.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-travel-detentions-1.7489525
Show HN: AI trading platform with 34% returns (3 months) – seeking acquisition
by fkratzer | 2026-03-06 18:09:12+00:00
I built an autonomous AI portfolio management system that runs on $300/month infrastructure.

Results: 34% returns over 3 months vs 7% S&P 500. Real capital, not backtesting.

Architecture:

Stage 1: LightGBM ranks 1,700+ stocks daily (80+ features)
Stage 2: JAX PPO optimizes portfolio allocation
Walk-forward validation, champion/challenger deployment
Nightly retraining pipeline
Recent additions:

Personal portfolio analysis with ML health scores
Daily digest with Perplexity-summarized news
Market regime detection (bull/bear + volatility)
Stack: FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, LightGBM, JAX/Flax, Claude API

Now seeking acquisition by brokerages, robo-advisors, or fintech platforms. Building this from scratch is 2-3 years of specialized quant work.

Live demo: https://acis-trading.com

Happy to discuss the ML architecture, validation methodology, or acquisition strategy.
by loeg | 2026-03-06 18:10:36+00:00
> Someone said AMD "kinda" lets you do ECC on consumer hardware, not sure what the caveats are besides just being unbuffered.

That was me. It isn't "officially" supported by AMD, but it should work. You can enable EDAC monitoring in Linux and observe detected correction events happening.

> Assuming that's more due to intentional market segmentation than actual cost

That's the argument, yeah.
by jusssi | 2026-03-06 18:10:46+00:00
I mean what I wrote, nothing more.

(a) Quote from TFA is about using internet. GP talks about "didn’t have any freedom or autonomy" which I don't take quite as literally as you do, because they also mention "I saw this a lot in college". So it would have been quite regular level of (over)controlling, instead of locking them in and not letting them leave the house except for school.

(b) I am not advocating anything as a solution. I am pointing out that the simple cause and effect presented by GP might be more complicated.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-06 18:10:52+00:00
> Is the US going to invade all potential nuclear weapons developers like it did with Iran?

Invade? No. Bomb? Probably. Same if for India if e.g. Sri Lanka decides it wants nuclear weapons.

Global warming will unfortunately disproportionately hit poor, equatorial countries. (Also, starving countries can’t afford a nuclear programme. There is no breakout risk in Sudan.)
by joshumax | 2026-03-06 18:11:00+00:00
I think GP was mostly referring to astrophotography when it comes to light-polluted areas. I live in a bortle 9 area (downtown) and unless I bring out my 20" dobsonian I'm mostly visually limited to double stars, planets, bright clusters, and extremely bright emission nebulae such as M42. With modern LED broad-spectrum lighting, skyglow definitely becomes a major issue, especially for broadband targets like Andromeda.

However, I've been able to capture stunning images (and an APOD) even in broadband within my city using dedicated astro cameras and modern gradient processing techniques quite easily, so we're definitely living in the golden age for EAA if you'd consider that as an alternative.
Show HN: AdPipe – Generate 12 Meta ad copy variants from any product URL
by edgar_builds | 2026-03-06 18:11:10+00:00
I built AdPipe after seeing how much time agency owners and DTC founders spend writing Meta ad copy from scratch — often reusing the same angles until ROAS drops.

You paste a product URL, pick a goal (prospecting or retargeting) and a tone, and get 12 variants across 4 persuasion styles (direct response, social proof, FOMO, story) in ~30 seconds. Policy-checked, export-ready as CSV or TXT.

No signup required to try it — just paste a URL on the homepage.

Honest status: launched 4 weeks ago, still figuring out who feels this pain most acutely. Agency owners managing multiple clients? Solo founders running their own ads? Both seem plausible.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone who runs Meta ads on whether this solves a real problem for them.

adpipe.io
by neya | 2026-03-06 18:11:31+00:00
I think a lot of people will not like to hear this but we use AI almost for everything internally. The noob way to go about this is just give it a couple of tasks and just give it complete root access to your life. That's always going to end up in disappointment. Instead, I realised, AI always needs an architect. Opinionated. Strategic. Authoritative.

It is quite good at following most orders. Hence why you must ALWAYS be in the loop. AI can augment, but not replace. Maybe some day it might. But it's not now, even with the latest SOTA models.

I let AI write my emails for me. But never the ability to hit send. I let AI access to my data to make informed decisions, but never let it make the final decision.

You may think I'm being paranoid, but I'm a very cautious person. I don't jump into new technology fresh out of the oven and this has served me well for the last 15 years. (I learned my lesson courtesy of MongoDb).

With AI, I am taking the same approach. Experiment, understand the limits and only then implement. Working really well so far and have managed to automate tons of tedious tasks from emails to sales to even meetings.

I don't use Clawdbot, not any library. I wrote my own wrappers for everything using Elixir. I used Instructor and Ash framework with Phoenix and a bunch of generators to automate tedious tasks. I control the endpoints the models are loaded from (Open router) and use a multi-model flow so no one company has enough data about me. Only bits and pieces of random user IDs.

Privacy is the real challenge with AI.
by kasey_junk | 2026-03-06 18:12:13+00:00
Boomers leaving (and being replaced) shows up in the jobs number, but not the unemployment number.

So job “growth” is overstated because much of that growth is macro demographic replacement.

But them being out of the workforce entirely shows up in the looking for work numbers decreasing. Therefore their leaving is accentuating 1 and dampening the other.

So more non-producers, who require non-productive health care means that lower unemployment doesn’t feel like a good economy. Thus their leaving healthy post covid number but other measures seeming bad.
by Madmallard | 2026-03-06 18:12:13+00:00
"I also wanted to build a LOT of unit tests, integration tests, and static validation. From a bit of prior experience I found that this is where AI tooling really shines, and it can write tests with far more patience that I ever could. This lets it build up a large hoard of regression and correctness tests that help when I want to implement more things later and the codebase grows."

The tests it writes in my experience are extremely terrible, even with verbose descriptions of what they should do. Every single test I've ever written with an LLM I've had to modify manually to adjust it or straight up redo it. This was as recent as a couple months ago for a C# MAUI project, doing playwright-style UI-based functionality testing.

I'm not sure your AST idea would work for my scenario. I'd be wanting to convert XNA game-play code to PhaserJS. It wouldn't even be close to 95% similar. Several things done manually in XNA would just be automated away with PhaserJS built-ins.
by lukeschlather | 2026-03-06 18:12:23+00:00
China has roughly .4 AC units per person while the USA has roughly 1 AC unit per person. You are simultaneously arguing everyone should have an AC, and that China should stop expanding their usage of AC.

I'd argue everyone should have an AC if they need one (probably China needs more than they have.) But we shouldn't build any more fossil fuel extraction, people who need AC should figure out how to do it with batteries and renewable energy. (Nuclear is fine, if it makes sense economically.) We don't need population control, we just need to add sufficiently large taxes on things we want less of. AC isn't a thing we want less of, it's carbon emissions.
by myrmidon | 2026-03-06 18:12:42+00:00
Even for a giant country like India you control <20% of global population, and you are responsible for much less than 20% of the effect (climate change).

So why would India take more expensive and painful steps than say, the US or EU, or Japan? India both indisputably affects and controls climate change less then the US or EU, so why would they put in completely outsized amounts of effort to fight it?
by kristintynski | 2026-03-06 18:12:56+00:00
This document presents a single structural constraint that provides explanatory compression across mathematics, physics, ﬂuid dynamics, computation, biology, and consciousness. This is not a new physical law, but a recognition that all stable
structures share one property:

They can refer to themselves recursively without accumulating distortion across scales.

This is not metaphor. It is the mathematical condition for existence.
by ACCount37 | 2026-03-06 18:13:06+00:00
You know it. The country that was probably the closest to "developing nuclear weapons" is currently in the process of being bombed to shit for it.

Not the only reason, no. But their nuclear ambitions certainly did contribute to their current predicament.

Nuclear weapons take time, expertize, resources and sustained political will to develop and deploy. If you have all of that, you might be able to put all of that towards climate adaptation instead. Or: go for the nukes and bet hard that you aren't going to get bombed to shit for it. Worked out for NK, but doesn't seem to have worked for Iran.

Not to mention that merely having a nuclear bomb doesn't automatically allow one to cause WW3. Nuclear weapons were used in a world war already, and that didn't even destroy a single country - let alone the world. It takes a lot of nukes, and a lot of delivery mechanisms, to actually move the needle on the matter of human civilization existing.