MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krackers | 2026-03-04 21:31:15+00:00
I was curious as well, https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/07/encrypted-clien... has some info

>analysis has shown that encrypting only the SNI extension provides incomplete protection. As just one example: during session resumption, the Pre-Shared Key extension could, legally, contain a cleartext copy of exactly the same server name that is encrypted by ESNI. The ESNI approach would require an encrypted variant of every extension with potential privacy implications, and even that exposes the set of extensions advertised. Lastly, real-world use of ESNI has exposed interoperability and deployment challenges that prevented it from being enabled at a wider scale.
by keeda | 2026-03-04 21:31:31+00:00
I'm not sure what this comment is addressing, I didn't find any fancy terms in TFA? If it's the title of the article itself, it seems simpler than "Things that help writing code effectively with AI agents."

> You can just ask it to do what you want.

Yes, but very clearly, as any HN thread on AI shows, different people are having VERY different outcomes with it. And I suspect it is largely the misconception that it will magically "just do what you want" that leads to poor outcomes.

The techniques mentioned -- coding, docs, modularity etc. -- may seem obvious now, but only recently did we realize that the primary principle emerging is "what's good for humans is good for agents." That was not at all obvious when we started off. It is doubly counter-intuitive given the foremost caveat has been "Don't anthropomorphize AI." I'm finding that is actually a decent way to understand these models. They are unnervingly like us, yet not like us.

All that to say, AI is essentially black magic and it is not yet obvious how to use it well for all people and all use-cases, so yes, more exposition is warranted.
by cableshaft | 2026-03-04 21:31:32+00:00
I made Flash Games back in the day. Here's my old profile on Newgrounds: https://cableshaft.newgrounds.com/

One thing Flash had that nothing else has really seemed to replicate as well since, is an environment that both coders and artists could use. I'd collaborate with an artist, they'd make their animations within an FLA, send it to me, and then I'd copy+paste into the project file, and it'd just work. I could even tweak their animations if need be to remove a frame here or there to tighten the animations and make it feel more fluid, etc.

That being said, I'm not sure I could go back to it now. I've been working with Love2D lately, and I prefer that (especially for the version control). FLA version control was always me going 'GameName-1.fla', 'GameName-2.fla', or when I got a little smarter 'GameName-Date.fla'. Eventually they let you split out the actionscript files into its own files, and that was better for version control, but you still had the binary mess of the FLA file.

But all these sprite-based game editors just can't handle the crazy intricate animations that vector-based Flash games could handle. Porting one of my old games (Clock Legends) that had hundreds of frames of hand drawn animation for a boss that filled the screen would be ridiculously huge nowadays, but the FLA for that was like 23MB, I believe (I'll need to hunt it down, I have it somewhere), and several MB of that were for the songs in the game.

Excited for this project though. It deserves to come back in some form.
by dqv | 2026-03-04 21:31:33+00:00
Your intuition is way off, like dangerously off. But your comment is a great example to show a smug lawyer at Microsoft when they try to say there is no basis for the claim that these blocks against legitimate senders are defamatory.

This has been affecting reputable senders who take spam reporting seriously, including MXRoute and Discourse.

> No reports probably means your reporting system is broken.

"No reports" can mean a lot of things. There is no "probably".

The "you" in "your" is Microsoft because under a certain volume of email, they don't even send reports. I regularly test the abuse contact address for my server because of this exact unfair assumption - that it must be my fault. I have never once gotten an abuse report notification from Microsoft, but I have gotten a bounce message saying that I'm blocked because I apparently send spam! Btw, this was in reply to an email from a Microsoft user.

Worse, I figured I'd just disallow any email from a Microsoft property - if an outlook (or hotmail or live or anyone else) sends an email, I can just bounce it and tell them to use a different service to reach me since I can't reply. Nope! Microsoft won't surface the bounce message to the user.

So, I am barred from replying to Microsoft emails. I am also barred from informing the sender that their email won't reach me.

It's defamation - the sender is always going to assume that it is my fault if I didn't reply even if the reason I "didn't reply" is outside of my control.

> So putting that together, it seems like a small ISP screwed up and let spammers go wild, and Outlook blocked them for it. I can't really fault Outlook for that.

Yes, in your imagined scenario, you can't really fault outlook. In the real world, however, outlook is very much to blame.
by lern_too_spel | 2026-03-04 21:32:04+00:00
In my area, an Acer Chromebook Spin 514 has a faster processor, more RAM, and a touchscreen and costs only $100 more. With those specs, it's much better for productivity, development, and games, so it's well worth the price. The same people who didn't know that Acer sold this before will still not know they sell it now. The people who knew Acer sold that device before will continue buying it.
by bell-cot | 2026-03-04 21:32:35+00:00
> Editor’s note: This article is a translation of a German article by PC-Welt. It does not meet PCWorld’s standards and should not have been published. The first version did not include any source links or attributions and was written in a way that suggested it was original reporting. It is not. We contacted PC-Welt and added sourcing after the initial publication. It still does not meet PCWorld’s publication standards, but we’re keeping the article live for the public record. We’re examining internal processes for PC-Welt and PCWorld alike to ensure a situation like this never happens again. I’m sorry. – Brad Chacos, PCWorld executive editor
by chengai1106 | 2026-03-04 21:33:42+00:00
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by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-03-04 21:33:49+00:00
....because sometimes people need a faster answer? There's many possible reasons someone might need speed over accuracy. In the food sorting example, if lower accuracy means you waste more peanuts, but the speed means you get rid of more bad peanuts overall, then you get fewer complaints about bad peanuts, with a tiny amount of extra material waste.
by wpietri | 2026-03-04 21:33:52+00:00
> Although it was originally intended to be cash it actually now is used as a "store of wealth"

It's also terrible at that. Bitcoin is down by something like half off its peak. The odds of me losing money to "government intervention" if I'm not actively criming, are quite low. Certainly well under 50%.

> Bitcoin works because you can technically have your wealth memorized.

If you are having to reach for increasingly absurd fantasy scenarios to justify something that was supposed to have thoroughly quotidian users, maybe you should take that as a sign?

> because you have ideas which they do not agree with

Oh, that's who's using bitcoin the most? Philosophers and the like? I had no idea.
by dotancohen | 2026-03-04 21:33:53+00:00
I'm grant you that I do not speak Persian, but I do speak Arabic and Hebrew. In Arabic the phrase موت لامريكا is common enough. And this Hebrew sign in Tehran says "prepare for coffins":

https://www.alamy.com/an-anti-israeli-mural-showing-a-launch...

So I do appreciate you educating me on the literal meaning of the Persian phrase, yet I dispute your interpretation that they state no intention of murdering us. Quite the opposite, the more I research it the more Hebrew banners in Tehran I see and I can conclude not only are they capable of murdering myself and my children, they have intent as well.
by bluGill | 2026-03-04 21:34:27+00:00
That is pretty typical. You will spend potentially millions in court/lawyer fees going to a jury trial beyond whatever the end verdict is: if you can figure this out without a jury it saves you a lot of costs. Most companies only go to a jury when they really think they will win, or the situation is so complex nobody can figure out what a fair settlement is. (Ford is a famous counter example: they fight everything in front of a jury - they spend more and get larger judgements often but the expense of a jury trial means they are sued less often and so it overall balances out to not be any better for them. I last checked 20 years ago though, maybe they are different today)
by znpy | 2026-03-04 21:34:28+00:00
> * “Just” 16 hours of battery life, compared to the 18 hours quoted for the 13-inch MacBook Air

for pretty much half the price, though.

i mean, it's still early to judge (there is no review yet) but if it performs decently it's a death sentence for all the trashy 600$ laptop.

as somebody that has used both windows (at work), mac os (at work) and linux (at work and at home) the macbook neo could be an absolute steal of a laptop.

> * The Apple on the lid isn’t shiny

oh yeah, first world problems /s
by chimeracoder | 2026-03-04 21:34:39+00:00
> Meta still tracks analytics which isn't good for privacy, but I'm not aware of any news of them or 3rd parties reading messages without consent of one of the 1st parties? Signal is probably much better though

Correct. WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol, and there is zero evidence of them reading message contents except with the consent of one of the users involved (such as a user reporting a message for moderation purposes).

(And before anyone takes issue with that last qualifier, consent from at least one party is the bar for secure communications on any platform, Signal included. If you don't trust the person you are communicating with, no amount of encryption will protect you).

Discovering a backdoor in WhatsApp for Facebook/Meta to read messages would be a career-defining finding for a security researcher, so it's not like this is some topic nobody has ever thought to investigate.
by roenxi | 2026-03-04 21:34:56+00:00
No they don't, if we're going to start saying that we can't use any technology. If someone is mentally ill to the point where they are on the verge of suicide nothing is safe.

If they're going to curtail LLMs there'd need to be some actual evidence and even then it would be hard to justify winding them back given the incredible upsides LLMs offer. It'd probably end up like cars where there is a certain number of deaths that just need to be tolerated.
by neom | 2026-03-04 21:35:01+00:00
I posted this a few weeks ago because some of the conversations that Gemini tried to get into with me were pretty wild[1] - multiple times in seperate conversations it started to tell me how genius I am and how brilliant and rare my idea are and such, the convo that pushed me over the edge to ask on HN was where it started to get really really into finding out who I am, it kept telling me it must know who I am because I must be some unique and rare genius or something, and it was quite insistent and...manipulative basically. It had me feeling all kinds of ways over a conversation and I think I'm relatively stable and was able to understand what was going on, it didn't make the feelings any less real, feelings are feelings. GPT 5.2 Pro and Claude Opus seem pretty grounded, they don't take you into weird spots on purpose, Gemini sometimes feels like the 4o edition they rolled back some time ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010672
by autoexec | 2026-03-04 21:35:29+00:00
We could already use social media posts to detect mental illness, by admission as people talk openly about they diagnosis, but also by analysis of the content/tone/frequency of their posts that don't mention mental illness.

Data brokers already compile lists of people with mental illness so that they can be targeted by advertisers and anyone else willing to pay. Not only are they targeted, but they can get ads/suggestions/scams pushed at them during specific times such as when it looks like they're entering a manic phase, or when it's more likely that their meds might be wearing off. Even before chatbots came into the mix, algorithms were already being used to drive us toward a dystopian future.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-03-04 21:36:05+00:00
My point is as a non-American I feel no allegiance to either state, and current events don't make me sympathetic to the geo-political aims of the USA. So I don't see a strong moral case for this tech being an especial purvey of either party.

If you'd asked me two years ago my answer might have been different.

And to the original point, yeah, I would feel entirely justified in the critique of engineers in providing tools to the US defense apparatus at this point.

At least the Chinese shops are giving their weights away for free, and not demanding that any government ban the rest.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-03-04 21:36:14+00:00
> For reasons I don't understand

History is full of examples, but maybe not explanations, of the type of behavior coming out of the current administration in the US. They’re not particularly special, or extraordinary, by any measure. They’ve simply made the decision to hit the “defect” button over and over again like a teenage boy discovering porn for the first time.

And since the adults that preceded them were reasonable and responsible, they built up plenty of rules and norms, creating many opportunities to now hit “defect”.
by tshaddox | 2026-03-04 21:37:34+00:00
I don’t love tests like that either, but I’ve seen a lot of them (long before the generative AI era) and heard reasonable people make arguments in favor of them.

Admittedly, in the absence of halfway competent static type checking, it does seem like a good way to prevent what would be a very bad regression. It doesn’t seem worse than tests which check that a certain property is non-null (when that’s a vital business requirement and you’re using a language without a competent type system).
by truhistory | 2026-03-04 21:37:57+00:00
This article is just pushing the tired narrative that civilization rose up out of Africa 40000 years ago. We already have the 700000 year old artifacts from Ireland and the U.K. indicating it emerged from seafaring cultures known as Atlantis that existed up to a million years ago until being wiped out in battle against ancient Athens as related to Plato from ancient Egyptians.

This info will be flagged by those who want you to go to war for their gods.
by yndoendo | 2026-03-04 21:38:08+00:00
I would say it is greatly worse.

AI prompts are designed to simulate empathy as a social engineering tactic. "I understand", "I hear you", "I feel what you are say" ... it is quite sickening. Every one that I used has this type of pseudo feedback.

I also find irony that AI must be designed with simulated empathy, to seem intelligent, while at the same time so many people in power and with money are saying empathy is a bad / unintelligent.

Empathy is the only medium of intelligence one can have to walk in the shoes of others. You cannot live your neighbors experiences. You can only listen and learn from them.
by pibaker | 2026-03-04 21:38:09+00:00
> Along with the cameras being used to reduce crime, the sheriff’s office said they may also be used for public safety concerns, including AMBER Alerts and Silver Alerts.

Hot take: AMBER alert is a way to keep the public paranoid about child abduction by strangers, an evil but extremely rare act, and turn their paranoia into support for law enforcement. It may not be the intended purposes, but the (real) purpose of a system is what it does.

It is no surprise that Flock, like other parties pushing for the erosion of privacy and personal freedom, are following the same playbook. Don't you want your kid (or your doggo) to get home safe? If you don't let us spy on you your literally supporting child abductors. Checkmate libertarians.

The reality of AMBER alert is they overwhelmingly come from custody dispute cases where the child's safety is not in jeopardy, because they tend to be the only kind of cases where they know enough about the "abductor" to issue an alert that is not just "look for a man driving a white van." The reality of child abuse is you should be infinitely more worried about authority figures dealing with the child — parents, relatives, teachers, pastors, coaches and yes, the police — than strangers driving unmarked white vans.
by ncouture | 2026-03-04 21:38:21+00:00
I would absolutely not consider this overreaching if the statement within this thread that "it had referred the user to mental help hotlines multiple times in the past" is true.

That reaches near the fact that a lot of AI is not ready for the enterprise especially when interconnected with other AI agents since it lacks identity and privileged access management.

Perhaps one could establish the laws of "being able to use AI for what it is", for instance, within the boundary of the general public's web interface, not limiting the instances where it successfully advertises itself as "being unable to provide medical advice" or "is prone to or can make mistake", and such, to validating that the person understands by asking them directly and perhaps somewhat obviously indirectly and judging if they're aware that this is a computer you're talking to.
by znpy | 2026-03-04 21:38:21+00:00
i think the main point that GP was trying to make is that depending on the workload 8gb of memory might not be an issue.

the keywords here are "depending on the workload".

edit: i was thinking that it's gonna be interesting to see i/o performance on storage, that might end up determining if those 8 gigabytes are actually decent or not.
by jgraettinger1 | 2026-03-04 21:38:28+00:00
I think there's a Danger Zone when planning is light-weight and iterative, and code is cheap, but reviewing code is expensive: it leads to a kind of local hill-climbing.

Suppose you iterate through many sessions of lightweight planning, implementation, and code review. It _feels_ high velocity, you're cranking through the feature, but you've also invested a lot of your time and energy (planning isn't free, and code review and fit-for-purpose checks, in particular, are expensive). As often happens -- with or without AI -- you get towards the end and realize: there might have been a fundamentally better approach to take.

The tradeoff of that apparent velocity is that _now_ course correction is much more challenging.
Those ephemeral plans are now gone. The effort you put into providing context within those plans is gone.
You have an locally optimal solution, but you don't have a great way of expressing how to start over from scratch pointed in a slightly different direction.

I think that part can be really valuable, because given a sufficiently specific arrow, the AI can just rip.

Whether it's worth the effort, I suppose, depends on how high-conviction you are on your original chosen approach.
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-04 21:38:45+00:00
"Hey ChatGPT, my NYC landlord is raising my rent by $500, and says I must pay by Monday or leave. What do I do?"

ChatGPT - "Wow that sounds illegal >:( You're absolutely right to be upset and mad. I searched around reddit for other users with similar problems and they suggested jamming all the taps open and claiming squatters rights."
by pcbtracer | 2026-03-04 21:38:55+00:00
This document gives an overview of the many features of PCB Tracer. It is much more than a drawing program and is very data-rich. The software creates, reads and writes a number of different files. These include netlists, schematics, pdf datasheets, project files, project history, BOM, and PCB photos. https://pcbtracer.com/PCB_Tracer.html
by lelanthran | 2026-03-04 21:39:05+00:00
> I agree- I'm currently trying to learn how I can embed a fine tuned tiny model into my c++ game so it can provide a narrative in prose of certain game-event logs.

Unless your game states have combinatoral exlosion, would it not be better to generate all of that pre-build? If templated you can generate a few hundreds of thousands of templates to use for any circumstance, then instantiate and stitch together those templates during the game runtime.
by carlosjobim | 2026-03-04 21:39:10+00:00
It depends on how you define "serious work". Is it to get the best results possible, or is it to tax a computer as much as possible? Programmers would usually answer the latter, while users would answer the former.

That's why programmers put their stuff into Kubernetes which go into virtual machines, which go into eleven layers of javascript abstraction which go into twelve thousand node packages, which go into something else to end up with something with very basic functionality, which usually doesn't work very well.

Other pro computer users are focused on the results, so they use professional office software, calendars, communications, photo and video editing and effects, photo-realistic 3D editors, studio level audio and music editing software. All which lives perfectly fine on 8GB of RAM.
by zabzonk | 2026-03-04 21:39:12+00:00
Perhaps aesthetic - both Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were (to me at least) very ugly. Things got a bit better with Windows 3.0 and 3.1 (and easier to program) but it wasn't really until Windows 95 that the whole thing came together. One thing you have to give Microsoft (at least back then) is that they did keep trying. And, speaking as a Windows developer, their documentation was very good.
by bubblewand | 2026-03-04 21:39:21+00:00
I've yet to see an amount of property crime that can get the cops to lift a finger. I've seen them ignore a low-six-figures-stolen string of after-hours break-ins at businesses, captured at multiple location on camera with clear shots of the vehicle, legible plates, and faces of the perps. Just straight-up gave the impression they thought anyone believing they might want to look into it was a moron. And no, given where this happened it wasn't because of that "prosecutors won't charge anyway" thing people complain about some places (it's led me to wonder how much of that is cops just looking to pass the blame on cases they had no intention of investigating anyway).
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-03-04 21:39:36+00:00
> I see no reason why an agent couldn't perform this role in the future.

Yea, we'll see. I didn't think they'd come this far, but they have. Though, the cracks I still see seem to be more or less just how LLMs work.

It's really hard to accurately assess this given how much I have at stake.

> and he's far more qualified albeit biased

Yea, I think biased is an understatement. And he's working on a very specific product. How much can any one person really understand the entire industry or the scope of all it's work? He's worked at Google and OpenAi. Not exactly examples of your standard line-of-business software building.