MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by monster_truck | 2026-03-09 17:35:11+00:00
It depends on the type of flash being used and the controller managing it. That he did not even identify the chips should inform you of the extent that these results can be trusted.

All I can say for sure is that you should not trust any flash for long term storage, thumb drive or otherwise. In serious enough, high usage, high heat enviornments where everything working without problems or delay is part of what they are paying us to be responsible for, it is standard practice to clone fresh images to nvmes every time, with multiple spares that can be swapped out in minutes when they inevitably fail anyways.
by guerython | 2026-03-09 17:35:14+00:00
the Supply Chain Risk label is literally the release gate we already obey for every DoD customer. once the flag trips our CI writes the manifest, hashes the binary, and timestamps the vendor attestations before anything touches a battlefield network. if the label still says “risk” and we can’t show that signed tuple, the release manager just refuses to import the artifact. good on Anthropic for forcing the clarifications; when the label becomes a replayable, signed artifact it stops being arbitrary leverage against a single vendor.
by re-thc | 2026-03-09 17:35:19+00:00
> What he claimed, and what was interesting, was that Claude didn't look at the code

Who opened the PR? Who co-authored the commits? It's clearly on Github.

> Blanchard was a chardet maintainer for years. Of course he had looked at its code!

So there you have it. If he looked, he co-authored then there's that.
by dathinab | 2026-03-09 17:35:46+00:00
it's more complicated, the ruling was that AI can't be an author and the thing in question is (de-facto) public domain because it has no author in context of the "dev" claim it was fully build by AI

but AI assisted code has an author and claiming it's AI assisted even if it is fully AI build is trivial (if you don't make it public that you didn't do anything)

also some countries have laws which treat it like a tool in the sense that the one who used it is the author by default AFIK
by kccqzy | 2026-03-09 17:36:20+00:00
> When GNU reimplemented the UNIX userspace, the vector ran from proprietary to free. Stallman was using the limits of copyright law to turn proprietary software into free software. […] The vector in the chardet case runs the other way.

That’s just your subjective opinion which many other people would disagree. I bet Armin Ronacher would agree that an MIT licensed library is even freer than an LGPL licensed library. To them, the vector is running from free to freer.
by kakacik | 2026-03-09 17:36:25+00:00
Unemployment office doesn't require you to constantly seek new jobs, prove that and keep going to unemployment office (to prevent exactly this? We have this here in Switzerland. They do give more here but costs are massive compared to Germany, and economy and society is way more nimble than glacial Germany it seems.

If that is lacking, German population mentality is worse that I thought, less efficient, more incompetent social-state-feed-lazy-me model, which is of course unsustainable. Ungood in global times, very ungood.

I have a friend who works quite high in sales for BMW directly in Munich, and even despite his general politeness he... isn't happy where company and Germany overall is heading. Was a big proponent of green deal before when everything was rosy, finally understood what a shoot-your-own-feet idiocy that was. Eastern wing of EU was screaming all this since beginning since this is by far the #1 issue they have with EU, but nobody in Brussels or Bonn gave a nanofraction of a f#ck..
by dadkins | 2026-03-09 17:36:28+00:00
https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/3010

Sadly, this bill has been around since 2007, introduced by the very same Hank Johnson! I would love if Congress would put an end to the forced-arbitration bullshit that so obviously does an end-run around your 7th amendment rights and makes a farce of informed consent, but alas, they couldn't even get it through when Democrats held the presidency, the house, and 60 seats in the senate.
by bjt | 2026-03-09 17:36:38+00:00
> If source code can now be generated from a specification, the specification is where the essential intellectual content of a GPL project resides. Blanchard's own claim—that he worked only from the test suite and API without reading the source—is, paradoxically, an argument for protecting that test suite and API specification under copyleft terms.

This is an interesting reversal in itself. If you make the specification protected under copyright, then the whole practice of clean room implementations is invalid.
by tsunamifury | 2026-03-09 17:37:08+00:00
I spent a great deal of time trying to do this at allofus.ai with a team of ex-googlers with our goal being to help creators eventually 'own' their personas and drive and compete to use them to help end users.

We believed this was coming and that the best way to handle it was give the real person control over their persona to grow/edit/change and train it as they see fit.

I actually own the patent on building an expert persona based on the context of the prompt plus the real persons learned information manifold...
by verdverm | 2026-03-09 17:37:12+00:00
It seems like so many of the AI "solutions" are hallucinating the problems. I either don't have them, because I use better AI frameworks, or I have tools at hand that solve them nicely.

We don't need to rebuild everything just for agents, except that people think they can make money by doing so. YC has disappointed me of late with the lack of diversity in their companies. I suspect the change in leadership is central to this.
by cthalupa | 2026-03-09 17:37:33+00:00
Having a working nuclear weapon is not the same thing as having a viable vehicle to deliver the nuclear weapon somewhere useful, unless we're talking like, suitcase nukes or whatever. It's hard for me to estimate what the timeline would be to retrofit their existing ballistic missile platform to be suitable, but it's not a super easy task - timeline in peace times would be years, most likely. War likely accelerates it... unless the key people you need for the program, the supplies, testing resources, etc., are victims of the war.

'Working nuclear weapons' is a really broad scale so it's tough to extrapolate without knowing if it means "they can send a person with a low yield weapon somewhere and blow it up vs. "they can launch a high yield weapon on a ballistic missile anywhere within 2000km"
by jasonvorhe | 2026-03-09 17:37:50+00:00
I wanted to believe in Matrix as well, but after a few years, I basically agree with all these takes:

https://hanez.org/document/why-matrix-sucks/

https://paper.wf/alexia/matrix-is-cooked

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg...
by hackyhacky | 2026-03-09 17:37:59+00:00
> But Mac has always been a platform for freedom and control.

My impress has always been the opposite: MacOS is "opinionated", and the user can either accept the Apple way of doing UI or can take a hike.

MacOS has offered token customization, such as allowing the user to change the color of menu bar highlights, but any substantive change required 3rd party intervention, which would inevitably cease to function at the next upgrade.

These days the OS is even more locked down, making it all but impossible to modify OS files.
by steviee | 2026-03-09 17:38:18+00:00
> It would be great to see a politician as angry about lobbying as Merz is about work-life balance.

Love it! Merz (and our minister of commerce Reiche) is a desaster for Germany and all of Europe. Tump attacks Iran and Gas prices hit 2,12€ (and even more) per liter and still they think betting on fossil fuels from their dictatorship-friends is a good thing.

Saving Earth is just not cost-effective (at least not for the "right" people).
by jonah | 2026-03-09 17:38:20+00:00
I generally think that as well and so was surprised to read that they're planning to not label CRISPER fruits as such.

"European Union’s Parliament and Council, the bloc’s governing body, reached a provisional deal in December to “simplify” the process for marketing plants bred through new genomic techniques, such as by scrapping the need to label them any differently from conventional ones."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271338
by jacquesm | 2026-03-09 17:38:24+00:00
AI essentially gatekeeps all of open source to companies to pluck from to their hearts content. And individual contributors using these tools and freely mixing it with their own - usual minor - contributions are another step of whitewashing because they're definitely not going to own up to writing only 5% of the stuff they got paid for.

Before we had RedHat and Ubuntu, who at least were contributing back, now we have Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI who are racing to lock the barn door around their new captive sheep. It's just a massive IP laundromat.
by ericmay | 2026-03-09 17:38:28+00:00
> Well, the Kuwaitis seem pretty sharp?

Do they? If they shot down 3 friendly aircraft that would be a catastrophically stupid mistake which would imply they are, in fact, not that sharp (or at least this specific unit and chain of command).

> The F-22 program only has two air to air kills in its whole history

A very poor comparison point given that the F-22 has had limited opportunities for engagement. And just a poor comparison overall.
by bigyabai | 2026-03-09 17:38:43+00:00
I would not buy a 8gb Macbook in 2016, and I won't be buying one in 2026 either. It's not "privilege" to consider how limited these devices will be in the 2030s. People used the same reasoning when the M1 MBA was announced, and up-speced their models to avoid already obsolete 8gb/256gb configurations.

My parents never gifted me a Macbook Air, I was never tempted to look the gift horse in the mouth. I bought the tools that would do my job, which happens to be a $350 used Thinkpad from Ebay.
by monster_truck | 2026-03-09 17:38:48+00:00
Thanks :) The hardest part of making this was not spending all of my time playing.

F1 or ? will show the shortcut keys.

There are little +/- buttons you can click on (bottom of "Paws" button) to do this, right clicking will reset the speed.

There's also a benchmark mode, lots of other flags. This URL will run the game endlessly, spawning 10 lemmings at a time, automatically adjusting the speed to run as fast as it can, reducing speed when frames take too long. I chose a level that ensures they splat so that anyone who clicks on this and forgets about it only crashes the tab and not their browser https://doublemover.github.io/LemmingsJS-MIDI/?version=1&dif...
by dleslie | 2026-03-09 17:38:51+00:00
IMHO, the API and Test Suite, particularly the latter, define the contract of the functional definition of the software. It almost doesn't matter what that definition looks like so long as it conforms to the contract.

There was an issue where Google did something similar with the JVM, and ultimately it came down to whether or not Oracle owned the copyright to the header files containing the API. It went all the way to the US supreme court, and they ruled in Google's favour; finding that the API wasn't the implementation, and that the amount of shared code was so minimal as to be irrelevant.

They didn't anticipate that in less than half a decade we'd have technology that could _rapidly_ reimplement software given a strong functional definition and contract enforcing test suite.
by Ma8ee | 2026-03-09 17:39:02+00:00
I would be in the second to last group if we actually did something when there still was time, and more was done to actually do something now. Yes, there's a lot of energy efficiency measures that could be done, and much more clean energy could be build, and we will be forced to adopt whether we want to or not. (Carbon capture from the atmosphere is a fucking joke though, which should be to everyone when you know that CO2 in the atmosphere is measured in parts per million!)

But we didn't start when we had to, and we are still doing only a fraction of what must be done. So, we are screwing ourselves over majorly. And this is not some fringe hysteria, this is the scientific consensus and has been for a long time. You can almost hear screams of frustration and desperation through the lines if you pick ut the latest IPCC report.
by sofixa | 2026-03-09 17:39:03+00:00
> The EU could have also enforced the JCPOA as one of it's guaranteers but decided to be inward facing instead of treating the 2014 invasion of Ukraine as the wake up call that it should have been.

Is this about JCPOA or the 2014 occupation of Crimea?

JCPOA was being enforced by its EU members, but when the US pulled out, it fell apart. EU based companies couldn't continue to take part of the lessened restrictions because of the fear of direct US sanctions on them, which made Iran mostly uninterested in continuing its participation. It was entirely the fault of the US.
by MontyCarloHall | 2026-03-09 17:39:38+00:00
I ran into a similar issue years ago, where the base infrastructure occupied the lion's share of the container size, very similar to the sizes shown in the article:

Ubuntu base ~29 MB compressed
PyTorch + CUDA 7 – 13 GB
NVIDIA NGC 4.5+ GB compressed

The easy solution that worked for us was to bake all of these into a single base container, and force all production containers built within the company to use that base. We then preloaded this base container onto our cloud VM disk images, so that pulling the model container only needed to download comparatively tiny layers for model code/weights/etc. As a benefit, this forced all production containers to be up-to-date, since we regularly updated the base container which caused automatic rebuilding of all derived containers.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2026-03-09 17:39:40+00:00
It's a shame to see all the pearl-clutching about the use of AI. I've been playing ROMs and fantrans since the early aughts, and we were content back then when some of our desired games just got menu translations. I've watched a ton of projects spring up around the games people wanted to play, only to stall or die out because the majority of the project people were programmers, and the one translator was a college student enrolled in Japanese 102 who flaked out.

Human translation should obviously be the end-goal, particularly in a text-heavy game from the 32-bit era...but that shouldn't undercut the technical achievement of this hack, even if the MTL text becomes little more than placeholder. Put it all up online, make it easy for someone to pick up the script and translate it independently in chunks, and then insert it back in later. That's how a number of fan-trans were done in the past, if memory serves.
by patall | 2026-03-09 17:40:03+00:00
That does not seem to be a long term problem. Wind and solar can be down regulated with ease (and within fractions of a second), a negative prices only happen because producers got a flat-fee per kWh which is pretty much phase-out now. The problem is rather that Germany (plus Luxembourg) is still a single price zone, i.e when wind is blowing in Hamburg, the per-kWh price in Passau is also nill. While this is nice for Bavaria (the main culprit, as usual), there is an enormous cost for this in the form of re-dispatch fees as long as the grid is not strengthened a lot.
by ericmcer | 2026-03-09 17:40:06+00:00
Seriously you can have a very pure experience interacting with media. I did a mushroom trip ~5 years ago and was having a not great time walking around outside. Cars, other people, sun, bugs etc. were all not sitting right. I went home and watched "Life in Colour", an Attenborough documentary about amazing uses of color in animals. It was a top experience and I still remember scenes from it years later.

Anyway don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and all that, there is a reason we developed digital entertainment.
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-09 17:40:08+00:00
If you expect a press-release-sized check, don't hold your breath. Big companies usually prefer to buy leverage instead, by upstreaming engineering time, sponsoring CI runners, donating hardware for NVENC and VideoToolbox tests, or funding maintainers rather than cutting a single headline check.

Concrete things that actually reduce risk are paying for continuous fuzzing with OSS-Fuzz on libavcodec, funding multi-arch CI that covers macOS, Windows, ARM and Nvidia GPU tests, and committing to upstream fixes instead of maintaining an internal fork. If a company does those three things you'll likely see fewer regressions, fewer security surprises, and much lower downstream maintenance cost than from a one-off bank transfer and a press release.
by alexchantavy | 2026-03-09 17:40:15+00:00
I think there are some primitives for agents that need to be built out for better security and being able to reason about them.

Agents run on infra, they have network connectivity, they have ACLs and permissions that let them read+write+execute on resources, they can interact with other agents.

To manage them from both an infra and security perspective, we can use the existing underlying primitives, but it's also useful to build abstractions around them for management, kind of like how microservices encapsulate compute+storage+network together.

I think of agents as basically microservices that can act in non-deterministic ways, and the potential "blast radius" of their actions is very wide. So you need to be able to map what an agent can do, and it's much easier to do that if there are abstractions or automatic groupings instead of doing this all ourselves.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-09 17:40:17+00:00
Yeah I've been thinking about a web site to shame people out of giving gift cards. On one hand there's the whole arguments that gift cards should be eliminated because they are a conduit for fraud, but also the one that they take away from the recipient as much as they give.

There was the time my sister-in-law gave my son a Burger King gift card just after Burger King went out of business in our town which was the beginning of a series of misadventures which could best be situated in the Buddhist framework that desire leads to suffering. Or the time she gave my son 3 $10 AMZN gift cards and I think I still have one with 84 cents of value on it. Just say no.
by mpol | 2026-03-09 17:40:17+00:00
Did GrapheneOS even exist in 2012? There is history at play here, they are still building forward from the Nokia Linux phones.

Also, what's up with all the sour grapes from people who use or develop GrapheneOS? There seems to be a general force dismissing Sailfish as insecure, without ever explaning how. Can't we just be friends in a de-googled world? Are people from Graphene feeling insecure about Sailfish as competition? It feels to me like infighting in small churches. It turns me off from ever considering GrapheneOS before I even looked into it.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-09 17:40:19+00:00
These aircraft are maintained pretty well. They have explicit refresh cycles where they're taken to depots and pretty much torn apart and then rebuilt. The electronics also get refreshed over time with newer components (not just newer versions of old components or refurbished components, but new electronics and computer systems). It's not like they're still frozen in time at whatever version was initially put out 50 years ago.
by umasood | 2026-03-09 17:40:20+00:00
In my opinion it depends on how AI is being used. In many projects it’s hard to avoid it completely for example, while building a game solver I ended up using AI in a few places. More or less half of the development was done through vibe-coding and for screenshot detection I trained a small object detection model by AI. That part is difficult to solve reliably with simple rules and logic alone because screenshots vary a lot between devices.

Here it is:
https://www.aiblockblastsolver.com

At the same time, most of the logic, debugging and problem-solving still came down to regular development work. So using AI with clear limits feels more like using a tool than replacing the work itself.
by bondarchuk | 2026-03-09 17:40:21+00:00
>When aircraft can carry onboard oil refineries and drilling rigs you can more reasonably compare them to birds.

This is a fair point in general, but the whole point in this context is not that human design is more efficient at duplicating an entire organism, but that it can be more efficient at narrowly defined tasks. Evolution has never had the goal 'evolve human consciousness as quickly and efficiently as possible', it just had the goal (and even calling it that is stretching things of course, but let's say an emergent goal) of reproducing organisms.
Ask HN: Free hosting/cloud providers for free non-profit open source apps?
by -thrwwy- | 2026-03-09 17:40:28+00:00
I am working on a free open source non-profit edtech streaming platform. I was wondering, are there organisations(gov/non-gov) across the world that provide unconstrained free web hosting or cloud services to global open source web-apps that are free and non-profit?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-09 17:40:36+00:00
> Good luck with nuclear sovereignty, if that's your concern. How many uranium mines are in the UK?

I can't speak about UK but considering how cheap Uranium is, can UK not do cost analysis. Uranium is abundant material compared to Oil/Coal.

> /me gestures at the last 50 years of historical evidence

> "Why not try nuclear" is like "why not try communism?" for physics nerds. We have tried it.

Maybe, but I think that, I can speak about the problem within US which I can better explain but US had nuclear fearmongering attempts and Senators passed laws which increased regulations on it to the point that some regulations contradict past regulations.

Nuclear power plants being built on loan in such a flimsy regulatory market was what lead to the downfall essentially within US

Nuclear fearmongering and lobbying efforts from Oil Industry as they are one of the most strong opposers of nuclear energy[0]

Once again, how do I explain this but nuclear produces 3.2x less carbon emissions than Solar[1]

We are able to build hydropower plants, we are able to launch spaceships into moon and outer space. It's definitely possible to build nuclear if lobbying effort decreases.

I'd say that its our dependence on Oil and Coal which have been the problem. I have nothing against solar and that is something that I am saying from the start. At some point we should look towards transition towards nuclear as well. To give up on that would simply not be ideal.

[0]: https://climatecoalition.org/who-opposes-nuclear-energy/

[1]: https://solartechonline.com/blog/how-much-co2-does-solar-ene...
by toast0 | 2026-03-09 17:41:21+00:00
> But I have no idea if that means it'll work for you in the US/elsewhere.

Yeah, that's a fun part of the crazy bandplan for lte/5g where it's just a little here and there without global coordination.

But a look here [1], says it has all 5G bands for AT&T, 2/4 bands for TMo, and 4/5 for Verizon. Seems maybe a bit iffy for TMo, one of the missing bands is n71 (600 MHz) which is extended range that helps fill in coverage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_5G_NR_networks
by ericmay | 2026-03-09 17:41:27+00:00
F-15E Strike Eagles have advanced avionics and can and continue to use advanced missiles. They can serve in multiple roles including target identification, aerial combat, and of course air-to-air interception and ground attack roles.

Same thing with the F-18.

Eventually of course all of these weapons platforms will be phased out, but for the time being they are still extremely useful, and even more so after the more advanced aircraft and other attack vectors have taken out or limited air defense capabilities or the ability for enemy aircraft to intercept these aircraft. Not that they can't handle their own, anyway.