MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aspenmayer | 2026-03-14 05:52:22+00:00
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and Accelerando by Charles Stross both have a lot of parallels with current AI and Internet developments, and are great books to boot. Accelerando has free ebook versions available, which I am happy to share, thanks to the author and publisher. I can’t recommend cstross highly enough. Vinge needs no introduction, though the work mentioned is somewhat less well known and later than his more renowned works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
by jedberg | 2026-03-14 05:52:44+00:00
> I don't like Musk politically but that doesn't mean we can't acknowledge that he transformed 2 industries by sheer willpower and stubbornness.

If you talk to anyone who worked there, they will tell you that he had little to do with the innovation at any of his companies. His lieutenants and the people that worked for them had all the innovative ideas, and for the most part tried to either avoid Elon's ideas or convince him that their ideas were his so he would push them.
by registeredcorn | 2026-03-14 05:53:20+00:00
I would like to offer a similar, but somewhat different opinion on one aspect of what you talked about regarding "revshare":

If I notice and issue on my own, and it bothers me enough / I feel that other users would benefit from it, I have no issue providing that information to the source maintainer for free.

If however, I am contacted by the maintainer in anyway requesting feedback, suggestions, or input (i.e. "Rate us on the app store!", "Email us with any problems you have.", etc.) I except any feedback I provide to be worth more than an unprompted message, and in turn, I expect something like a lower bill, a discounted rate on their store front, a credit in their auth page, or some other kind of material gain from it.

Basically, if I am being solicited and prompted to do something, it wasn't my idea in the firsr place, so it ought to be worth my time to do so. They have already gone to the effort of asking, so they (presumably) find value in it. I ought be compensated for that value.

Using Google as an example: one of the few products of theirs I like is Opinion Rewards. They actually pay you (in store credit) for responding to their surveys. It's a fair trade off. They ask me basic habits related to shopping, etc. I get a 25 cents or so every time I respond.
by moezd | 2026-03-14 05:54:47+00:00
No, I never expect AI to one-shot (if I see such a miracle, it's usually because I needed a one-liner or something really simple and well documented, which I can also write on the whiteboard from memory).

Try iterating over well known APIs where the response payloads are already gigantic JSONs, there are multiple ways to get certain data and they are all inconsistent and Claude spits out function after function, laying waste to your codebase. I found no amount of style guideline documents to resolve this issue.

I'd rather read the documentation myself and write the code by hand rather than reviewing for the umpteenth time when Claude splits these new functions between e.g. __init__.py and main.py and god knows where, mixing business logic with plumbing and transport layers as an art form. God it was atrocious during the first few months of FastMCP.
by Klaster_1 | 2026-03-14 05:55:24+00:00
They recently put out a new roadmap item to adapt the compiler to modern tools: https://angular.dev/roadmap#developer-velocity . Given the great track record of recent Angular road map deliverables, I think they'll come up with something at least faster than what we have now. Angular already runs on Vite, and the fact that Vite 8 exposes AST level plugin endpoints are good signs. Not waiting 1 minute for unit test suite or `ng serve` cold start would be very welcome indeed.
by no-name-here | 2026-03-14 05:55:37+00:00
Are the scenarios you laid what you honestly expect the world would turn out to be like if the world changed in the coming years so that speed laws are consistently applied? It seems like you believe that if the law was consistently applied, nothing else would change -- not the laws, speed limits, conservative behavior, etc (whether based on lawmakers' actions nor voters' demands) (other than the enforcement/penalty frequency going up to match how often people break the law)?

Isn't that like saying "What if time travel existed" but assuming that doesn't then prompt any changes in human behavior, laws, other technologies, etc. from what people were doing everyday and what existed before it? When discussing "What if x changed", I think you need to also take into account all the other changes in laws, behaviors, etc. that one expects that to then prompt.

> perfect enforcement

Isn't consistent enforcement of the law far better than the current inconsistent and unequal enforcement, where people already face unequal enforcement for 'driving while black', where if an officer is having a bad day or doesn't like you they can already cite you strictly, and where other people are regularly able to get away with 20 mph over a limit, where every driver and officer guesses/decides for themselves about whether the current limit should be strictly enforced vs allow 5 over, 15 over, etc etc?

> I know how to drive a car. I usually set speed limiter to the posted speed +3km. Measured with GPS, this hits the desired speed accurately.

So instead of aiming for 33 in a 30 km zone, couldn't you aim for a slightly lower number in order to avoid the scenario you expect for yourself where if the law was consistently applied you would be "would be broke and homeless - possibly in prison"?
by Amlal | 2026-03-14 05:56:08+00:00
Hey so I lead this project module and just wanted to share it on HN :-)
Please check out the GitHub link, and give it a star if you like what you see! (https://github.com/ne-foss-org/ne_kernel)
P.S.: I'm the author and implemented the system as a whole! We're also open to contributors, come as you are!
by wk_end | 2026-03-14 05:56:09+00:00
That's the theory, but there's absolutely normative statements in this piece. For example:

> When you spend the first third of your message establishing that you are a nice person who means well, you are not being considerate but you are making the recipient wade through noise to get to signal. You are training them to skim your messages, which means that when you actually need them to read carefully, they might not. You are demonstrating that you do not trust the relationship enough to just say the thing and you are signaling a level of insecurity that undermines the technical credibility you are trying to establish. Nobody reads "hope you had a great weekend" and thinks better of the person who wrote it, they probably just being trained to take you less seriously in the future, or at worse, if they're evil loving of Crocker's like myself, they just think about the couple of seconds of their life they will never get back.

This very much sounds like the author believes that everyone who doesn't abide by these rules - not just him, not just people who've agreed to them, everyone - is deficient in some way. And it's not just a slip - this attitude is pervasive throughout the post.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-03-14 05:57:04+00:00
FWIW, Bluetooth LE Audio [0] solves most of these problems in my experience. Battery life is way better, pairing is almost instant, you can connect to multiple devices simultaneously, the latency is almost imperceptible, etc. The sound quality is still worse than wired, but it's close enough that it doesn't bother me personally.

Very few headphones support BLE Audio, and you need to enable some experimental Bluez flags for it to work on Linux, but both of these should improve with time. But it makes such a huge difference that I'd argue that it's worth the effort, even right now.

[0]: https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/feature-enha...
by kstrauser | 2026-03-14 05:57:23+00:00
This was my first "computer"! I begged my parents for this after getting a taste of a Vic 20 and wanting some of that for myself.

That was a false start, to say the least. There isn't a whole lot you can do with 64 bytes. After that, I begged for a Timex Sinclair 1000. 16KB of RAM isn't a whole lot, either, but it was enough to actually experiment and learn.
by chihuahua | 2026-03-14 05:57:41+00:00
I got a pair of AirPods Pro, paid for by a past employer, and it's the only Apple product I like. I'd even give some of my own money to Apple if I had to buy another pair.

When I'm wearing wired earbuds, the feeling of getting the cord caught on something and having the earbuds violently yanked from my ears is one of the most annoying things, like a slap in the face.

Plus I like being able to put my phone wherever I want, when I'm listening to podcasts while doing yard work. The phone stays in the house, or on a patio table, not in my pocket where pruning shears or dirt will get to it.

There are various other situations where having wires going to my ears is annoying or impossible.
Ask HN: 100k/year individual token usage?
by alecsmart1 | 2026-03-14 05:58:06+00:00
I was watching the all in podcast where they are talking about devs spending $300/day on LLM tokens. I’m only able to do about $2k per month, that too on the high end, if I’m programming for 14 hours a day every day.

Is anyone spending that many tokens? How? What exactly are you’ll doing?

Here is the Instagram clip: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV0Z0qmDa28
by trulyhnh | 2026-03-14 05:58:19+00:00
A fun anecdote: We once received continuous customer complaints that they were being phished, but we could never figure out the attack vector. The request logs for the phished accounts showed suspicious referral URLs in the headers, but when we visited those URLs, they appeared to be normal, legitimate websites that had nothing to do with us.
It was only because one of our coworkers happened to be working from out of state that he was able to spot the discrepancy: the website would look identical to ours only when the requester's IP was not from our office location.
Our investigation later revealed that the attacker had created an identical clone of our website and bought Google Ads to display it above ours. Both the ads and the website were geofenced, ensuring that requests from our office location would only see an innocent-looking page.
by retsibsi | 2026-03-14 05:58:44+00:00
Maybe I'm just being too literal, but I don't know if you're really disagreeing with me. I was disputing "the response they give to this kind of question is completely meaningless". An answer from its weights is out of date, but only completely meaningless if this is a completely new issue with nothing relevant in the training data. And, as you say, the answer could be search-based and up to date.
by necovek | 2026-03-14 06:00:32+00:00
Agreed: the opportunity to be taken to a rocky dirt road through swamp grounds on the outskirts of a small town in Greece is something I'd never get if not for Google Maps :)

(and many similar stories)

I only use Google Maps for their live traffic info, which they so nicely collect out of majority of Android users driving around. I'd love it if OSM apps could leverage that information for navigation too.
by saghm | 2026-03-14 06:00:37+00:00
Fully agreed; this is something that always baffles me when it's misunderstood so often. Regardless of whether it's logical or not, tone and attitude in practice does influence whether people are convinced by something, so if your goal is to actually change how someone else acts, you will not be as effective if you don't care about how you come across. Being right is not always enough, so even if the style of communicating doesn't seem like it "should" matter, in practice it genuinely does if success is measured by whether the change happens or not.

Of course, if the goal is just to be right rather than to convince someone else about what's right, how you're saying something doesn't matter, but at that point you've already reached the goal before you started talking to them, so it's worth reexamining what you're actually looking to get out of a conversation at that point.
by serf | 2026-03-14 06:01:26+00:00
a VM host with a windows guest and a total of 8gb of ram?

Yeah you'll get the OS to run, the magic there is making either environment usable.

Might be great for some web dev that needs to see what their work looks like elsewhere -- but even then imagining a modern Windows install w/ AI add-ins, local search caching and update deltas then running firefox or chrome with 4 gb of memory sort of makes me cringe.

Godspeed, I guess. Some of the best works of art were made with very serious constraints, but I don't have that kind of time anymore.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-03-14 06:01:30+00:00
how many times in the history of computer programming has there been an end to computer programming as we know it, successfully, and how many times predicted?

I can think of one successfully, off hand, although you could probably convince me there was more than one.

the principle phrase being "as we know it", since that implies a large scale change to how it works but it continues afterwards, altered.
by bob1029 | 2026-03-14 06:01:35+00:00
I've been avoiding context beyond 100k tokens in general. The performance is simply terrible. There's no training data for a megabyte of your very particular context.

If you are really interested in playing deep NIAH tasks, external symbolic recursion and self-similar prompts+tools are a much bigger unlock than more context window. Recursion and (most) tools tend to be fairly deterministic processes.

I generally prohibit tool calling in the first stack frame of complex agents in order to preserve context window for the overall task and human interaction. Most of the nasty token consumption happens in brief, nested conversations that pass summaries back up the call stack.
by emporas | 2026-03-14 06:02:03+00:00
In my mind I had the opposite picture than the one the article portrays.

Emacs was lagging behind common IDEs, like IntelliJ and VsCode, cause big companies put thousands of developers to combine many features into one integrated package and everything works together providing a very smooth experience compared to Emacs (and Vim probably).

Now IDEs are useless. I personally haven't felt the need to goto_definition or autocomplete variable names for almost 2 years.

Now programming becomes closer to plain text writing and editing and it levels the playing fields for all editors.

Also Emacs can run Rust plugins, the user is not limited to Elisp. Not very convenient but possible.
by otikik | 2026-03-14 06:03:52+00:00
It’s an expression. You don’t really win them by “exploring”, but by “playing the game”. You end a match? Lootbox. You played 3 days in a row! Lootbox. You opened the options screen? Lootbox.

They usually have a very involved opening animation with music and sounds specifically designed to maximize the feeling of anticipation. Once you see it it feels completely different from what you are describing, because it’s so obviously trying to maximize the gambling aspect of it. It’s like confusing genuine love with prostitution.
by serf | 2026-03-14 06:03:53+00:00
>If you have 32GB Macs, and you had them 7 years ago already, you're not even remotely close to the target market for it.

that market is already saturated with a zillion decent-spec chromebook style machines. The only reason the Neo market is even slightly different is to cater to crowds that want the apple offerings for OS and fashion/reputation.

The market we're talking about has no real reason to care what kind of chip is in the thing. They just want YouTube/Discord/Zoom/EduWebsites to work right.
by chrismorgan | 2026-03-14 06:05:47+00:00
A spherical balloon 20cm in radius is displacing 41g of air. Even ignoring compression (which I don’t know enough to quantify the effects of, except that it will make the numbers more unfavourable), nitrogen’s 3.3%-lighter gives you a budget of only 1.35g for the balloon. I believe balloons hare heavier than this, so the balloon will still sink (a little more slowly than an air-filled one, but I’m not sure how noticeable the difference will be).
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-14 06:05:49+00:00
> South Korea is among the most exposed countries, which, according to the Korea International Trade Association, imported 64.7% of its helium from Qatar in 2025. The country relies heavily on helium imports to cool silicon wafers during fabrication and is understood to have no viable substitute.

I assume the helium is enclosed in a a chip's hermetically sealed package, if it were just for cooling wafers I don't understand why it can't reuse the helium?
by BinRoo | 2026-03-14 06:07:48+00:00
LLMs fall victim to "garbage in, garbage out." Claude can solve open problems if you know what you're doing, but it can also incorrectly convince you it's right if you don't know what you're doing.

A PhD teaches you how to think, how to learn, and how to question the world. That's a vital set of skills no matter what tool exists.
Contribute to an Open-Source Project
by vanashreengo | 2026-03-14 06:07:53+00:00
Hi everyone,

We are Vanashree Gramvikas Pratishthan, a grassroots NGO in India working in tree plantation, environmental protection, and community welfare initiatives.

We are developing an open-source mobile application to make social impact efforts more structured, transparent, and trackable. We are forming a volunteer tech team to build the first working version (MVP).

Phase 1 – MVP Focus:

• Sapling registration and tracking
• GPS-based plantation location mapping
• Growth updates with photos
• Care reminders (watering notifications)
• Basic engagement features
• Contributor recognition system
• “Donate Items” feature to connect people who want to give usable items with those who need them

Future Expansion:

Animal support coordination, donation drives, cleanliness initiatives, emergency assistance modules, and more.

We are looking for volunteers with skills in:

• Flutter / Mobile Development
• Backend & API Development
• Database Design
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The tech stack will be discussed collaboratively.

Important:
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by lucianbr | 2026-03-14 06:08:41+00:00
> Morality is a luxury that only the independently wealthy can afford.

No. At least as I understand the word, "morality" means something different than "do the right thing when it is easy". If only those who can afford it do it, it is not morality. Morality is choosing the right thing even when it costs you, even when it is hard.
by codemac | 2026-03-14 06:09:28+00:00
emacsclient + codex has been a game changer.

I probably add or change a feature in emacs once a day, or every other day. I've been using emacs for some insane amount of time, maybe 20 years? And still I had more customization to go.

Emacs and programs with it's level of programmatic user customization will survive the AI period in my opinion. Anything static will falter.
by ActorNightly | 2026-03-14 06:10:47+00:00
The problem with earbuds is that to have good quality, you need to create a seal, like IEMs do. Most professionals who use IEMs have them custom molded to their ears.

If you are lucky and have a good ear shape, then airpods sound good. Still not as good as IEM because IEMs have more space for better drivers without needing a battery or bluetooth hardware.

But if you are a person like me who has very hard time with any earbud staying in, then its gonna sound like garbage because you are never going to get a perfect seal.
by gregharned | 2026-03-14 06:10:54+00:00
The multi-agent angle is interesting from a cost perspective. At Opus 4.6 pricing ($15/MTok input, $75/MTok output), running several concurrent agents on 1M context sessions gets expensive fast — but the math still works if you're replacing hours of senior engineer time.

The shift I've noticed: 1M context makes "load the whole codebase once, run many agents" viable, whereas before you were constantly re-chunking and losing context. The per-task cost goes up but the time-to-correct-output drops significantly.

The harder problem for most teams is routing — knowing which tasks actually need Opus at 1M vs. Sonnet at 200k. Opus 4.6 at 1M is overkill for 80% of coding tasks. The ROI only works if you're being intentional about when to use it.
by autoexec | 2026-03-14 06:11:23+00:00
I'm sure that there can be situations where it's better to sacrifice sound quality and reliability for the convenience of wireless but I think the ability to replace cables is a huge advantage and not a pain point at all. The only problem I've ever had was with an old pair from Sony where by the time I needed a new cable they'd stopped selling a replacement cable but I knew I was rolling the dice when I got that pair because the cable wasn't standard.

Even in the extreme case where you're replacing them every other year you could buy a handful of spares right away so you have them on hand when you need them and your headphones will outlast the batteries in your airpods
by xingped | 2026-03-14 06:11:25+00:00
Except if you happen to travel for more than 45 days, in which case Google Fi will promptly tell you to get fucked and cut off your service without warning, advanced notice, or spelling out anywhere when you sign up. Not my idea of a carrier I can trust. I deleted my account and service with them to move to a carrier that I can trust and actually respects me as a customer.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-03-14 06:14:46+00:00
Well, evidently you don't need humans to run datacenters, if we're talking about launching them into LEO!

Here's an idea, let's do this instead: we put them in the desert, or on boats or zeppelins or whatever, and we pretend they're in space. If anybody asks, those fuckers are in space, man. Computin' in the cosmos.
by sph | 2026-03-14 06:15:51+00:00
I like how some in this thread are telling their anecdotes about how shitty the company is from when they were in, or interviewing with, xAI. I mean, thanks for your input guys, but how do you go through life without having a moral backbone?

“Here’s my story from that time I had an interview with IG Farben…”
by luzejian | 2026-03-14 06:17:09+00:00
One pattern I've noticed with e-commerce tool stacks: sellers tend to over-invest in the Amazon-side tooling (repricing, PPC optimization, listing tools) and under-invest in the sourcing and cost side. The sourcing side is where most of the actual margin is made or lost, but because it's less quantified and more relational, it gets managed informally. That asymmetry creates real leverage for anyone building structured tooling for that side of the workflow.
by kenhwang | 2026-03-14 06:17:11+00:00
Old yes, but hardly standard.

For phones, I think it's just the Sony and Asus and Chinese brands that support it. Pixels and Samsungs generally don't since they use Tensor/Exynos instead of Qualcomm/Snapdragon SoCs, and definitely not Apple.

Story is even more bleak on the headphones side, Sony prefers their own LDAC codec so they support that instead of AptX Lossless, a pattern shared by many Asian headphones manufactuers. Many western brands only support up to AptX HD and AAC because Apple/Samsung devices have the majority marketshare. Qualcomm's own site only shows 12 headphones that support AptX Lossless.

Now my opinion is LDAC is close enough to lossless that it's probably good enough for Sony and most people (the 1411kbps for uncompressed 16/44.1 CD quality generally compresses to under 900kbps which is below the 990kbps max of LDAC). Bose does have a headphone that supports AptX Lossless. It's just the Airpods that are far behind the competition.