Why “Data” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
and what are the savings in this case? the size of the decompressor must be included with the size of the compressed data. and "i lossily compressed a few kilobytes into a coupl…
by vrighter · Oct 26, 2026
you think this isn't gonna ship with some illegal data harvesting ai? oh sweet summer chile
by zapataband1 · Oct 26, 2026
> I wonder what caused that prediction to fail. A lot of media outlets have been fingering the outage of some data centers due to kinetic action for a worldwide decline in divis…
by ninjagoo · Oct 26, 2026
This is purely data with no narrative attached, which is sort of refreshing. The un-answered question is what is now eating up the percentage that was going to wages? What are t…
by BLKNSLVR · Oct 26, 2026
I'm "going so hard" on this because you and the rest of the folks here are spinning so hard you're basically lying. You, at least, cite sorces. But your sources are attacks on t…
by ajross · Oct 26, 2026
These days I wouldn't be surprised if the models are smart enough to get the analysis correct. However sometimes I think that AI use shows a revealed preference around things. I…
by anitil · Oct 26, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "data" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "data" over time.
Data is a collection of discrete or continuous values that conveys information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally. A datum, data value or data point is an individual value in a collection of data. Data is usually organized into structures such as tables that provide additional context and meaning, and may itself be used as data in larger structures. Data may be used as variables in a computational process. Data may represent abstract ideas or concrete measurements. Read more on Wikipedia