MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anulum | 2026-03-13 02:47:41+00:00
@soletta — you're right, and I've deferred this three times now, which isn't useful.
Here's the honest answer: that specific benchmark — frontier LLM alone vs frontier + Director-AI on end-to-end hallucination rate in streaming — doesn't exist yet. I'll have it in the repo within the week, open methodology, raw logs included.
But I'll also say clearly: if you're already running Claude Opus 4.6 or GPT-4o, Director-AI probably adds marginal value on self-consistency. Frontier models in 2025/2026 are remarkably coherent within a single response.
Where it matters:

- You're running Llama-3.1-70B or a local vLLM stack and can't afford $15/M tokens for a judge call
- You need a hard stop with audit trail (regulatory, medical, legal) — not a probabilistic nudge - Your facts live in a private KB that can't go in a context window
- You need deterministic, reproducible decisions in prod

I'll run the frontier comparison this week and post results here regardless of how they look. Kind regard Miroslav
by hsuduebc2 | 2026-03-13 02:47:44+00:00
If being anti something is your main point, then it's just sad. I'm not even sure if it is needed, if you are candidate against him then logically you are against him. I'm not really sure how liberal parties can compete with strong man politics, promoting. Making straight forward points as a individual is much easier that promoting something as party in todays main channel which are social media.
by partiallypro | 2026-03-13 02:48:39+00:00
It's 2026 and Germany's rich neighbor is so good at nuclear power, and logistics and storage of said waste, that it sells Germany power from their nuclear power plants.

Why is it, some always repeat the same argument without giving a single thought to the follow-up challenges and costs?

I've lived in Germany, it's always so funny seeing Germans always complaining but never taking action, or a lot of "too late for that" nonsense. Always tons of excuses for bad policy.
by 9rx | 2026-03-13 02:48:54+00:00
> The goal is to do this parsing exactly once, at the system boundary

You are only parsing once at the system boundary, but under the dynamic model every receiver is its own system boundary. Like the earlier comment pointed out, micro services emerged to provide a way to hack the actor model onto languages that don't offer the dynamicism natively. Yes, you are only parsing once in each service, but ultimately you are still parsing many times when you look at the entire program as a whole. "Parse, don't validate" doesn't really change anything.
by array_key_first | 2026-03-13 02:49:44+00:00
Laws can't be enforced 100% of the time because many laws require intent, which is unknowable. You have to make an educated guess behind it. Even if someone tells you their intent, straight up, you still don't know their intent. You just know what they want you to think their intent is, which may or may not be the same thing. It's legitimately unknowable.

Ideally, for a lot of things we want to punish people who knowingly do bad stuff, not people who do bad stuff because they thought it was good.
by zephen | 2026-03-13 02:50:02+00:00
You have to think about the training data, which has much content far outside the context of pure software.

You have all the real life Harvey Weinsteins and Andrew Tates, and you have all the bodice-ripper fiction, and probably lots of other stuff.

Plenty of real-life precedent for the LLM to decide that "no" doesn't really mean "no."
by YZF | 2026-03-13 02:51:24+00:00
So 90% of British wanted were being brutally oppressed on the eve of WW2 and called on the Nazis to bomb the UK so they can overthrow the government? Not only that but weeks before the Nazi attacks the UK government mowed down protestors with machine guns on the streets?

Got it.

I'm not seeing any parallels.

There can be some "rally to the flag" effect but the Iranian population by large is not going to suddenly like their government.

But to turn the story around a little. Do you see Americans rallying around Trump if the Iranians attack some high profile US targets?
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-13 02:51:39+00:00
> Let me state what should be obvious: without AI (as in, the facial recognition systems involved in this case), this woman would not have sat in jail for 5 months, or indeed for any length of time at all.

How do you arrive at that conclusion? Because it happened, and it wasn't an AI overseeing (the lack of) due process. The police identifying suspects is part of their job. So are arrest warrants and all the rest of it. I honestly don't see what AI had to do with anything here. All I see is a gaping systemic issue that could have happened regardless of AI if the wrong person got the wrong idea or had a personal vendetta.

Suppose ICE busts down someone's door, drags them off, holds them in an internment camp for months, and then finally goes "oh, oops, guess you were a citizen all along sorry about that" and releases them. We don't blame the source of their faulty hit list. We blame the systemic practices and legal apparatus that permitted it all to happen in the first place.

You might as well blame the SUV manufacturer because without vehicles the police wouldn't hav been able to drive over to make the arrest, right?
by Fnoord | 2026-03-13 02:52:18+00:00
I made a mistake in my post. I meant to say FC HBA or SAS HBA. I went with a SAS one which I use with a HBA, but the FC ones were cheaper (both FC LTO drives as well as FC HBAs) but would've still required a FC switch). I already got some fiber through my house though, so it'd have worked well. But I went with SAS which was considerably more expensive. 40 dB ain't fun, indeed. I put my LTO drive in the fuse box.
by tombert | 2026-03-13 02:52:20+00:00
At a job interview in 2016, I was given a fairly typical "design Twitter" whiteboard problem, so I started doing a fairly typical thing involving load balancers and Nginx and the like.

The topic of the database came up, and I asked "Do we care more about consistency or availability?".

He responded back with "we want both".

I said "I mean, I would like both too but I'm pretty sure we can only get one"

He disagreed and we went back and forth, and eventually I pull out my phone and pull up the Wikipedia for CAP theorem. He eventually (and begrudgingly) agreed and said "umm, I guess availability", so I used Cassandra and moved on with it, though five minutes were wasted with this pointless argument.

To be fair, they did make me an offer, and it was even a decent enough offer (though I ended up taking a different job), but I remember being kind of flabbergasted that I had to explain CAP theorem to a person who had like a decade more experience than I did. It's not like CAP theorem is this super deep arcane topic; I'm pretty sure it's one of the first things you learn about when getting into distributed systems. It was certainly one of the first thing that I learned about.
by bumby | 2026-03-13 02:52:36+00:00
>If you can get high quality medical advice for effectively nothing

This is an area where a confident, but wrong information is extremely costly. It’s like saying an LLM can give you high quality directions on how to tap into a high voltage transformer. Sure, but when it’s wrong, it’s very very wrong with disastrous consequences. That’s why professions like doctors and Engineers are more regulated than others.
by kulahan | 2026-03-13 02:52:49+00:00
It's completely untrustworthy, so eventually we'll hit an inflection point where we discover that we either cannot use AI anywhere we need trust, or we'll put a human middleman in there. The latter sounds much more realistic. There will be plenty of jobs.

We've spent over 300 years doing the Luddite song and dance. To be clear, I have no problem with Luddites and do not view them negatively, but to imply that this productivity enhancer is magically special in a way no other one was needs some kind of incredibly solid explanation.

edit: as an aside, I do wonder how, if ever, we'll make the transition over to a world where people don't need to work. It seems like every time we think we might be getting closer, the first response is fear.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-13 02:56:15+00:00
But you can in fact argue exactly that. If (arbitrary example) pedestrians are being killed due to poor road engineering practices it isn't reasonable to point at cars and say "see those are the root problem" when in fact it's due to a willful lack of sidewalks or marked crossings or whatever. Being adjacent to something bad doesn't equate to being the root cause.
by JBAnderson5 | 2026-03-13 02:56:40+00:00
Multiple times I’ve rejected an llm’s file changes and asked it to do something different or even just not make the change. It almost always tries to make the same file edit again. I’ve noticed if I make user edits on top of its changes it will often try to revert my changes.

I’ve found the best thing to do is switch back to plan mode to refocus the conversation
by YZF | 2026-03-13 02:56:51+00:00
It's intended as my informed opinion as a response to the parent less informed opinion with questionable sources.

I'm not the one writing a blog and pretending to be an expert. I have some knowledge and I can write what I want.

I know THAAD is against ballistic missiles and not against drones. I know Israeli helicopters have been bringing down drones. So I write that. It's true and I don't need to "source it". This isn't Wikipedia.
by Ajakks | 2026-03-13 02:58:14+00:00
I wish it were satire - we do actually need to have space defenses, asteroids exist 2st off - its just bc we ignore all the craters that we sleep at night.

We feel safe here on earth but it's really a giant graveyard trap - that so effectively exerts control over life on it, that it made all living mammals out of mice - we may actually be safer on almost any other planet.

All life on earth has eventually died out so far, we are the 1st species that could stop the most likely extinction level event - but this DART is the closest we ever got to actually taking up that responsibility - the preservation of our species and whatnot, thats just 1 minor reason.

The most important tho, given how much we have example of people "getting theirs" at all other peoples expense - this is much worse if a non-state actor gets there 1st.

Lastly, I do have to clarify the American position - we run the world, or there will not be one to run. Nobody alive today made that decision - it changes nothing, once that choice was made, we are locked into it. Did you think we are only an economic power? That is the front. We can always pivot to actual power - the kind that can destroy all cities above a certain size - we have never hid this fact, the whole world knows of MAD. That is what power is.

What is American power if someone can destroy the US and we can't destroy them?? That doesn't work for the US - nothing at all changes if the US gets that spaceship first.

You can call this ugly - there were more modern wars before we started running things, from the looks of things - the whole world will go to war the moment we are out of the picture.
by saphalpdyl | 2026-03-13 02:59:30+00:00
I reached out to the maintainer of osvbng, and he was really receptive about it. I may contribute to the project in a few months.

Meanwhile, I also found another project that works with eBPF-accelerated BNGs for k8s edge deployments. https://github.com/codelaboratoryltd/bng (BUSL-1.1 license though)

Thank you for listing me the projects. Really helped me out!!
by alex43578 | 2026-03-13 02:59:42+00:00
Every other carrier hasn't tripled their prices - this one unnamed and unsourced company did. You can get a $10 or $15 cellphone plan right now, so his claim is false, or that PE company has magical powers to completely outprice the otherwise competitive mobile phone market.

However, "Taxes, fees, and government surcharges make up a record-high 27.60 percent of the average wireless services bill... Since 2012, the average charge from wireless providers decreased by 29 percent, from $47.00 per line per month to $33.36 per line. However, during this same time, wireless taxes, fees, and government surcharges increased from 17.18 percent to 27.60 percent of the average bill, resulting in consumer benefits from lower wireless prices being offset by higher taxes and fees".
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-13 03:00:01+00:00
Hey, I typically avoid the use of proprietary maps, but I am very interested in how Apple Maps knew there was a school before the bombing.

I am also interested in seeing verifiable proof that Apple Maps displayed a school there before the attack occured, and I certainly agree all available maps should have been checked, including past satellite imagery, which surely would have betrayed the presence of large amounts of children (from shadow lengths). As I said before, what happened there was inexcusable.

What is known is that Israel and USA divided the targets according to respective materiel proximity, which MUST mean that a common list of targets would have been maintained and then divided by proximity / weapon range. This means that in theory Israel could have selected the target, just like USA may have selected certain more northern targets, and then misplaced trust could have enabled blindly bombing a target selected by the other nation state.

In other words I certainly see it as a possibility that Israel intentionally shared this target pretending not to know about the girls school. They certainly can be suspected of having a motive: revenge for the killings of their children on the music festival. The genocide in Gaza apparently doesn't sufficiently quench their thirst for revenge, especially since everyone knows Hamas is effectively Iran-in-Gaza. From the perspective of Israel it's also an excellent way to ensure sustained conflict between Iran and the USA, and thus force the USA to continue contributing firepower in this escalation.

IF the above were the case, in my opinion the best move for the USA is to acknowledge as quickly as possible that while they bombed the target location, that this target selection was by Israel.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-13 03:00:19+00:00
Not if you don’t have keys on your computer.

In my case, all of my keys are in AWS Secrets Manager. The temporary AWS access keys that are in environment variables in the Claude terminal session are linked to a role without access to Secrets Manager. My other terminal session has temporary keys to a dev account that has Admin access

The AWS CLI and SDK automatically know to look in those environment variables for credentials.
by nubg | 2026-03-13 03:02:36+00:00
> Not because it’s trendy. Because ACID compliance

> The CAP theorem is not a suggestion. It’s a mathematical proof.

> this is not a philosophical inconvenience. It’s a compliance violation.

@dang, i thought we just banned AI written blog posts?

I know I will get downvoted for this everytime I post this comment, but I'm sick and tired of 80% of everything being written/heavily edited by AI.

Can the author not just use his own words? Is he really that bad at writing? But somehow the content is supposed to ne worth my time?

I'd rather read the prompt instead, so I know which parts the author actually meant to say, rather than wondering which parts the AI invented to make it sound flowery and punchy, the Tiktok style of prose.
by ineedasername | 2026-03-13 03:03:30+00:00
I took that to be what it was intended it convey, and what Dimon wanted people to feel about what he said. That maybe they should poke around their own books but he wasn’t telling people “well ‘08 all over again”

My own read of the subtext was something a bit different. Dimon saw something he really didn’t like and my guess would be that more than just a handful of people at JP Morgan were having their next few days or longer personal plans cancelled—- or that it had already settled from something like that— to find whatever they had in the way of cockroaches. And so Dimon’s public statement was a soft nudge to try and get others to do the same, cautiously and slowly without panicking.

It’s tea leaves but the time since then seems to bear that out, with right now’s world economic volatility being a good opportunity for many places to go a little more aggressively in reigning in whatever they have in cockroach’s with some cover from that volatility and distraction to not have to explain too much more or get too much scrutiny that would accelerate things beyond manageable.

Overall, my take was that Dimon is still probably pissed off about SV bank and trying to make sure whatever shape or size this private credit rot may have doesn’t go down quite that haphazardly.
by nine_k | 2026-03-13 03:04:28+00:00
Well, it's truth but not the whole truth.

An IBM AT was capable of consuming nearly 200W [1]. Of course a typical machine would not consume as much, because it did not have its RAM and disk slots maxed out. The CPU indeed consumed around 3W, and normally even lacked a radiator.

A modern PC can consume large amounts of power, mostly determined by the appetites of the GPU. But here is plenty of desktop CPUs with 65W and even 45W TDP, and a typical recent Intel or AMD CPU would consume 3-5W when idle. A quite powerful ARM A7 based system, such as an Orange Pi 5, would draw < 15W under maximum load, likely providing more compute and I/O than that whole room on the photo.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_AT#Power...
by fearedbliss | 2026-03-13 03:04:56+00:00
Hello all, I'm happy to announce my new edition of The Cantonese Scrolls. There have been many foundation updates to this and now all of the encounters in all 30 quests (5 acts) have been completely re-written. You will also find my resurrected "Cantodex" at the back of the game/book. I hope everyone enjoys it. Take care and stay safe!

More detailed information of the release can be found here:

https://themovingcaravan.com/threads/the-cantonese-scrolls-2...
by kykat | 2026-03-13 03:04:56+00:00
Which is made possible only because of the excellent foundations that were built during the past decades.

However, while I say that we should do quality work, the current situation is very demoralizing and has me asking what's the point of it all. For everybody around me the answer appears to really just be money and nothing else. But if getting money is the one and only thing that matters, I can think of many horrible things that could be justified under this framework.
by t-writescode | 2026-03-13 03:06:09+00:00
The kid’s parents want to be able to monitor their kid. The kid’s parents want to be able to drag the machine to a local store and have the people there fix it.

The kid’s parents - and the kid - all have iPhones, so it’s familiar.

The kid’s school requires Windows or Mac for their WiFi and won’t let the kid use Linux because they don’t trust it.

There’s plenty of reasons why Linux isn’t the answer in current climate.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-13 03:06:10+00:00
> If a person had made this facial match, another human would have relentlessly jeered him.

The glaringly obvious problem here is that our justice system should not be constructed in such a way so as to be reliant on someone's coworker shaming him. That is not a sensible check against a systemic failure. We're supposed to have due process. If someone skips or otherwise subverts due process the justifications don't matter. The root issue is that due process was skipped. Why was that even possible to begin with?
by lelandbatey | 2026-03-13 03:06:35+00:00
Don't downvote, it certainly did for me. My first computer was a MBP 13inch from 2009, as I was apple obsessed like the person in the parent article. Time passes and I realized I really didn't like either Windows or Mac, and for the past 10 years Ive been linux only. It really does happen, even if rarely.
by userbinator | 2026-03-13 03:07:32+00:00
It's possible they managed to do some rudimentary multitasking with DESQview (or worse...)

There were even hypervisors available, such as VM/386:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM/386

https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/06/13/re-visiting-vm-386/
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-03-13 03:08:42+00:00
This is mostly dependent on the agent because the agent sets the system prompt. All coding agents include in the system prompt the instruction to write code, so the model will, unless you tell it not to. But to what extent they do this depends on that specific agent's system prompt, your initial prompt, the conversation context, agent files, etc.

If you were just chatting with the same model (not in an agent), it doesn't write code by default, because it's not in the system prompt.
by refurb | 2026-03-13 03:10:25+00:00
I mean, just getting new management, improving efficiency and raising prices of any business is… normal business?

Whether a PE firm decides to buy it and do the same isn’t some nefarious act or special in any way, it’s just new owners.

Let’s say your neighbor has a lawn mowing business but wants to retire, says they’ll sell for $50,000. You think great! You could run the business better, plus the old man hasn’t raised prices since 1990! But you don’t have $50k, only $30k, so you borrow $20k from your brother. Congrats, you just did a leveraged buyout.

And no, it’s not risk free revenue (I think you mean profit?) because it clearly might go under and PE firms need to pony up some of their own cash too plus money raised through LPs.
by necovek | 2026-03-13 03:11:26+00:00
Any law, including a speed limit, has unforeseen consequences. In my part of the world, there is a 4km stretch of the road with good visibility, low pedestrian traffic, and which takes you either 10 minutes to go through if you follow the limits, or 3 minutes if you drive at +5km/h.

Other than lost time (which compounds, but also increases traffic congestion, so those 10 mins might turn into 20-25), the fuel use and pollution are greatly increased.

Interestingly, there are speed cameras there, and enforcement is not done on these slight violations: without this flexibility, I'd need to ask for traffic lights to be adjusted so they work well for driving under speed limits, and that is slow and an annoying process.

But without an option to "try", I wouldn't even know this is the case, and I wouldn't even be able to offer this as a suggestion.

Whether that accounts for consequences being "grave and terrible", probably not, but very suboptimal for sure.
by idiotsecant | 2026-03-13 03:12:27+00:00
You sure seem to know a lot about what people 'deserve' so I'm not sure I can hope to crack the rind of that particular coconut but I will leave you with this: Humans, by virtue of being living, thinking beings deserve lives of fulfillment, dignity, and security. The fact that we have, up until present, been unable (or perhaps unwilling) to achieve this does not mean it's not possible or desirable, only that we have failed in that goal.

Everything else, all the 'isims' and ideologies are abstractions.
by gnabgib | 2026-03-13 03:13:12+00:00
@dang doesn't work

Can you post more substantial comments than?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360241

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355553

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355564

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343706

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337595

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333400

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269468

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258669

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47228776
by TheDong | 2026-03-13 03:13:17+00:00
> The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to.

Or they learn to enable developer mode, unlock the bootloader, and install Linux, or use the officially supported Crostini, or so on. There's like 3 different ways to run Linux desktop apps on a modern Chromebook.

The Macbooks don't let have an officially supported path to unlocking the bootloader (edit: yes, I'm aware of asahi linux, which lives on the edge of what apple allows) and install your own OS. The Chromebooks do. I don't think that comparison plays as favorably as you think.