MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andrewflnr | 2026-03-12 19:25:10+00:00
It's probably something like, here are the environments where we've done comprehensive surveys, here are the kind of different situations where we expect to find different species (decomposers of various types, mycorrhizal, within plants, within animals, on surfaces, specialists, generalists, climates, etc). Multiply the species from places where we've probably found most of them by the number of places where we've only found the most obvious fungi. However it works it's going to have big error bars, reflected in the fact that 12M species is the upper end of a range starting at 2.2M.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-03-12 19:25:11+00:00
I think you may be missing that $4 trillion evaporated in 2008, and the scale of the catastrophe that would have caused if the Fed did nothing. What the Fed did then was, essentially, restore the amount of money to what it was in 2007. They were trying to turn 2008 into as much of a "nothing changed" as they could, and they did it quite well.

I think the economy can adjust to any amount of money; it's the abrupt change in the amount that causes problems (because it causes an abrupt change in the value of money).

I think you may be missing that I'm not saying the same thing about the pandemic response. I think that too much money got poured in during the pandemic years, and that has caused inflation, and we've been seeing that inflation since. I wonder if you are taking how you feel about the last five or six years, and mapping that onto the last 18 years.

Now, from 2008 to 2020 was not all roses. Things were kind of stagnant. The rich were probably doing better than you were, because assets like stocks and land went up in value as interest rates went down, but your wages didn't go up. So, it was reasonable for you to feel "there's too much money sloshing around" in things like stocks during those years.

But I think it got worse after Covid. The government air-dropped too much money in, and there has definitely been too much money sloshing around since then.

In all of this, I'm not really saying that you're wrong in feeling that there's too much money sloshing around, or that the economy is frustrating.
by miki123211 | 2026-03-12 19:25:23+00:00
Corruption is eliminated by properly aligning incentives. Capitalism is also all about properly aligning incentives. Moving to a more capitalism-heavy system usually causes countries to get much richer.

Eastern Europe went through a similar transition. Before the iron curtain fell, the eastern bloc operated on favors more than it operated on money. This definitely isn't the case any more.
by Arcanum-XIII | 2026-03-12 19:25:30+00:00
Sadly no — you have toys (none open source and reliability is... well, let's say that the repair are regular and out of support) or you can try to create yourself a waterproof solution (that's complex). Most connector cost a lot, 3D printing is not really an option (especially at depth), pressure is not joke to deal with... And then you'll have to fight with the environment (algae, plants), water salinity, acidity and so on.
Other system at the same level costs more — I think the next one is at 25k without option.
Don't forget that if for any reason you need to reach it at depth, you'll have to dive. Please don't do that alone...

It's a high cost hobby :(
by xpe | 2026-03-12 19:25:38+00:00
> but proving correctness is one of those basically impossible tasks.

To aim for a meeting of the minds... Would you help me out and unpack what you mean so there is less ambiguity? This might be minor terminological confusion. It is possible we have different takes, though -- that's what I'm trying to figure out.

There are at least two senses of 'correctness' that people sometimes mean: (a) correctness relative to a formal spec: this is expensive but doable*; (b) confidence that a spec matches human intent: IMO, usually a messy decision involving governance, organizational priorities, and resource constraints.

Sometimes people refer to software correctness problems in a very general sense, but I find it hard to parse those. I'm familiar with particular theoretical results such as Rice's theorem and the halting problem that pertain to arbitrary programs.

* With tools like {Lean, Dafny, Verus, Coq} and in projects like {CompCert, sel4}.
by chrisBob | 2026-03-12 19:25:55+00:00
Tailored Industries (the factory) says they have over 300 products that are available immediately as white-labeled items at your custom online boutique. I don't know if any of these designs were customized or not, but it is a surprisingly low startup cost to put together a shopify store and have Tailored Industries make your clothes on demand. You need some photos, and a cool looking brand, and they do all of the hard work. I wonder if I should open up my own shop...
by tpmoney | 2026-03-12 19:26:00+00:00
> This has been ridiculous for a very, very long time. Being less ridiculous isn't worth celebrating.

So what I'm hearing is you don't want Apple to make their computers more repairable? Think of this like training a dog. My dog can open the cabinet in the kitchen on their own, pull out a specific requested item, close the door again and bring the item to me from anywhere in my house. Opening a door is just tugging on something, bringing something to me is just fetch, closing a door is just pushing with its nose. If I went into the training of this with the attitude of "oh wow, you pulled the door open" or "oh wow, you fetched the thing" and didn't reward my dog for doing those simple pieces because "any good dog can tug on a rope or fetch a ball", then my dog would never have gotten to the point of doing all of those things in a repeatable complex sequence that serves a useful purpose. Instead every part of it that my dog got right, they got all sorts of praise and rewards. And so once I started asking more, my dog eagerly tried to do those things because they knew if they did what I wanted, they could get the things they wanted.

Train your companies the same way. Give them the positive PR and praise they're looking for when they do the things you want them to do. You'll get them to do what you want a lot faster if they have an actual incentive to do it.
by ralferoo | 2026-03-12 19:26:00+00:00
Correct. It does not apply to US citizens residing anywhere in the world. It does, however, as I said, apply to EU citizens regardless of where in the world they reside.

If a company holds data about EU citizens, the GDPR applies to them, regardless of where that company is based. Including the US. Hence the statement "It (GDPR) does apply in the US" is completely correct.
by LeFantome | 2026-03-12 19:26:04+00:00
You think Meta bought Rivos to work on embedded?

You think the Alibaba C930 CPU is for embedded? 15 SPECint2006 / GHz

Or that the Tenstorrent Ascaclon will be? 18 SPECint2006 / GHz

Even the SpacemiT K3 has better AI performance than an Apple Silicon M4.

And RISC-V chips released this year are 2-4 times faster than last year. RISC-V is not the fastest ISA but it is improving the fastest.

With so many companies backing RISC-V, why would I bet against it?
by brailsafe | 2026-03-12 19:26:06+00:00
> If it helps, my friends and family tend to have at least a master's, and the majority have PhDs.

Those aren't super rare these days, I don't know why arbitrary credentials would matter for this purpose, but incidentally, the notion that they would matter in conversation at all kind of speaks to the type of engagement you might be having with them, which may indeed be different than what I care about.

Personally I don't find people all that engaging the more inclined they are to go looking up answers, to me it represents a certain amount of discomfort with uncertainty, ego, that are necessary for a fun conversation. If someone has an answer because of their experience, great, otherwise it's ok to not know in the moment and continue on.

In one case, I had a friendship kind of fizzle out because we'd be hanging and I'd express some curiosity that I'd hope he'd build on with his own experience or his own sense of wonder, but because he only cared about authoritative facts, he'd google the answer and get frustrated that I only cared about his opinion on what the answer might be. The actual fact was incidental, and this conflict regularly led to impasse where I'd clarify I don't care what the internet says etc.. and I'm fine with that because he wasn't really interested in thought exercises.

A concrete hypothetical mundane example might be posing "How do you think the Iran war might impact gas prices here?" and they'd just look up the history and trends, and then kind of stop there. Dull, I want a human response, speculate and build on it, let yourself be wrong.
by hitekker | 2026-03-12 19:26:38+00:00
This comment from 6 years ago predicts Kotlin's fate, I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197817 I consider it prophetic.

My gut says Kotlin is great for individual developer experience. But I never heard or saw credible reports on the Total Cost of Ownership, e.g., Kotlin engineers hiring, swapping out on a team.
by Thrymr | 2026-03-12 19:26:47+00:00
You'll find all the answers if you read more carefully:

> Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize software copyright

> If any of our liberated code is found to infringe on the original license, we'll provide a full refund and relocate our corporate headquarters to international waters.

> "Our lawyers estimated $4M in compliance costs. MalusCorp's Total Liberation package was $50K. The board was thrilled. The open source maintainers were not, but who cares?" - Patricia Bottomline, VP of Legal, MegaSoft Industries
by dg08 | 2026-03-12 19:27:48+00:00
You're getting a lot of replies from other ICs that do well in a WFH setting, but I can say from a manager perspective, it's not always the manager or process. I've been managing remote teams for years since before covid and some people just don't do well without the in-person structure.

It's possible to build a high performing remote team, but it's not easy.
by ptak_dev | 2026-03-12 19:27:56+00:00
Used Claude Code to build CareerCraft AI - a conversational career consultant that generates tailored resumes. The session analytics angle is interesting because my experience lines up with the "explain the why" pattern.

The sessions where I gave Claude Code context about the problem space (job seekers rewriting resumes 20x) produced dramatically better results than sessions where I just said "build a resume generator." The AI designed a conversational intake flow, live resume preview with real-time updates, and PDF export - things I hadn't explicitly asked for but that emerged from understanding the problem.

Would love to see Rudel break down sessions by "context richness" vs output quality. My gut says the first 60 seconds of context-setting predicts the entire session's productivity.

Built on SuperNinja (no-code AI app platform): https://super.myninja.ai/apps/6de082c7-a05f-4fc5-a7d3-ab56cc...
by asdff | 2026-03-12 19:28:02+00:00
Labor laws in the US are designed for companies to skirt around the spirit of the law to satisfy the letter of the law. Probably to prevent rioting in the street from making people realize they haven't won the change they thought. Case in point, certain benefits that kick in at 40 hours to you know help people out.

Companies responded by saying awe shucks, guess we will only schedule you 39 hours and if you want more you have to work another job. Oh and the law only cares about hours done at one job so doesn't matter if you are working 120 hour weeks you only get part time benefits.
by jaredchung | 2026-03-12 19:28:02+00:00
Edit: I did it. Paid them $0.51 to clean room `copyleft`, just to see what would happen. A clean package is now sitting on my desktop, custom-built (I presume) and fully documented. Deleting it now, for obvious reasons. But is it still satire if they actually provide the literal service they're satirizing?

How far do they take the satire? If you pay them do they actually generate output?
by MisterTea | 2026-03-12 19:28:15+00:00
From my understanding, memory training is/was a closely held secret of memory makers and EDA IP houses who sold memory controller IP to all the chip vendors. This in turn makes fully open motherboard firmware almost impossible as no one can write code for memory training to bring up the chip. That piece of code has to be loaded as a blob - if you can get the blob.
by vidimitrov | 2026-03-12 19:28:18+00:00
The problem is that usually we don't write the WHY in the commits... We tend to always capture the WHAT in the form of prose. And for agents, this is just more noise, since all they need is just the diff to reconstruct the WHAT.

I've never seen someone write decisions or the intent they started with in commit messages. Even the solutions today that auto-generate commit messages just summarise the diff.

This was helpful when humans were the only ones reading the history. But for agents its useless.
by phil21 | 2026-03-12 19:28:58+00:00
US shipbuilding basically doesn't exist as it is. Jones Act was the only thing (other than Navy contracts) keeping it on pathetic life support. The only possible (poor) case you could make is that it kept enough facilities and workers barely functional enough so you could mothball excess production and surge it if needed. I would eat my hat if we could surge production to anything meaningful today even if it meant survival of the nation.

Not that it did a great job, so I don't think it's going to be a huge loss on the shipbuilding front either way. The defense budget will simply pick up the subsidization slack, or we're be even more unable to field a Navy in the future. Likely both.

What will be interesting is how folks think they are going to be able to keep a merchant marine floating on the water? Are a bunch of US shipping companies going to start up, buy boats from Asia, and start employing American crews with American flagged vessels? Doubtful.

But again - Jones Act didn't really keep those goals going either way. I just hope it's replaced with something other than thoughts and prayers. There is absolutely a strong case to be made that shipping prices can justifiably be higher and paid for by the American consumer so that we can have a robust and independent merchant marine fleet only the US can control. I don't know how we get there, but I do know without it there is no such thing as sovereignty.
by Barrin92 | 2026-03-12 19:29:06+00:00
because that would mean virtually every place in the country would look like Singapore, it would be significantly richer ,per capita, than Taiwan, millions of economic migrants would have left the country for no reason, and I suppose also be conjured out of thin air given that the Chinese diaspora is about 40 million people large. Which is shockingly enough comparable to Indians abroad, not Americans
by pear01 | 2026-03-12 19:29:09+00:00
I would think people killed by the machinery of needless wars would appreciate the same fate not falling on others.

You omitted that part out of your quote to do what, imply I don't care about dead drone victims? Because I believe we shouldn't launch wars needlessly?

What point are you trying to make? Should we bomb Toyota dealerships because of all the automobile fatalities? If you disagree should I imply you don't care about dead car crash victims?
by lormayna | 2026-03-12 19:29:47+00:00
> The government is pushing for a constitutional amendment to help "fix" this feature. There is going to be a referendum on the change very soon.

Italian here.
It's not like that: the referendum is about definitely enforcing the career separation about public persecutor and judges.
Actually they are under the same authority and the member of this authority are elected according to a sort of political parties (unique case in the whole EU) and this creates some distortions in career growths and nominations.
The new schema will create two different authorities and the members will be selected according to a ballot.

A similar proposal was made by the left wing parties few years ago, when they were at the government
by iso1631 | 2026-03-12 19:29:49+00:00
Having both a real address, a link-local address, and a unique local address, and the requirement to use the right one in each circumstance

The removal of arp and removal of broadcast, the enforcement of multicast

The almost-required removal of NAT and the quasi-relgious dislike from many network people. Instead of simply src-natting your traffic behind ISP1 or ISP2, you are supposed to have multiple public IPs and somehow make your end devices choose the best routing rather than your router.

All of these were choices made in addition to simply expanding the address scope.
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2026-03-12 19:30:15+00:00
“ MCP support. Axe can connect any MCP server to your agents”

I just don't see this in the readme… It is not in the Features section at least.

Anyway, i have MCP server that can post inline comments into Gitlab MR. Would like to try to hook it up to the code reviewer.
by dzhiurgis | 2026-03-12 19:30:20+00:00
Because some places didn’t get immigration or even access to imported products. Being small town in Lithuania I didn’t even tried pizza until late 90s, chinese 2000s and indian probaly 2010s. There’s still like less than 5 Indian restaurants in country and probably none korean, etc.

Also things like asian fusion can evolve independently.
by graemep | 2026-03-12 19:30:44+00:00
I disagree with that. There is nothing in South Asian cuisine similar to sashimi or to soy heavy stir fries.

Very few east Asian dishes use the spices most popular in South Asia.

Spaghetti is far more similar to noodles than it is to any South Asia equivalent I can think of.

Yes, a filled pasta is a very different thing from dumpling, but a lot of European cuisines have dumplings.
by The-Pebble | 2026-03-12 19:30:45+00:00
What stood out to me here is the idea of orchestrating multiple coding agents across machines rather than treating AI coding as a single-agent workflow. Most discussions about AI-assisted development still assume one tool running locally, but the approach described here (task decomposition + parallel execution across machines) feels closer to how distributed build systems evolved.

The dependency-graph model is particularly interesting. If AI agents can operate on isolated git worktrees and resolve tasks in parallel, the bottleneck shifts from raw coding to how well the system can plan and coordinate tasks. In practice that probably means developers spend more time defining boundaries between tasks rather than writing every line themselves.

Another challenge I’ve noticed when experimenting with these tools is deciding which agent to use for which task. Different coding agents behave very differently depending on the type of work (refactoring, feature building, test generation, etc.). Having a runner that can dispatch tasks to different agents and machines could make that experimentation much easier.

For anyone exploring the broader ecosystem of agentic coding tools, this overview was useful as well:
https://prommer.net/en/tech/guides/best-ai-agentic-coding-to...

It compares several of the current tools and workflows that are emerging around multi-agent development.

Curious how people think this model scales once teams start coordinating dozens of agents simultaneously.
by kristopolous | 2026-03-12 19:30:47+00:00
Jason certainly does [1]. The commercial bots seamlessly traverse between AI, auto-respond and human.

It's very much an ensemble method. That's why people pay for it over just downloading an abliterated model from hf with system prompt hacking. Go and try it, the SOTA of role-playing models still have a lot to be desired

[1] https://computerhistory.org/profile/jason-koebler/
by unreal37 | 2026-03-12 19:31:02+00:00
I think of this in reverse. It's legal for the government to track mail - who sent a message, and who it's going to. They have access to the "outside of the envelope". But it's not legal for them to read the message inside.

And this same principle allows them to build massive friend/connection networks of everyone electronically. The government knows every single person you've communicated with and how often you communicate with them.

It was never designed for this originally.
by adamweld | 2026-03-12 19:31:23+00:00
No, that's not the reason why people speed. True emergencies are a rounding error.

The real reason is that speed limits are generally lower than the safe speed of traffic, and enforcement begins at about 10mph over the stated limits.

People know they can get away with it.

If limits were raised 15% and strictly enforced, it would probably be better for society. Getting a ticket for a valid emergency would be easy to have reversed.
by arrsingh | 2026-03-12 19:31:56+00:00
It took me a minute to recognize this as satire (thank you HN comments). However it does actually make sense - maybe this could be a way for OSS devs to get paid.

What if we did build a clean room as a service but the proceeds from that didn't go to the "Malus.sh" corporation, but to the owners / maintainers of the OSS being implemented. Maybe all OSS repos should switch to AGPL or some viral license with link to pay-me-to-implement.com. Companies that want to use that package go get their own custom implementation that is under a license strictly for that company and the OSS maintainer gets paid.

I wonder what the MVP for such a thing would look like.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-03-12 19:32:15+00:00
I'm not sure how you arrive at that opinion. Take the example of Punjabi food. It's heavily based around ghee and dairy. Does anything in Thai cuisine use butter except European style pastries?

The only major similarities I see uniting the national cuisines you listed (not regional ones) are things like curries and rice. The former arrived in Japan with European influence (where it's also common in colonial countries) and the latter isn't a feature common to all Asian cuisines (e.g. Mongolian).
by Arch-TK | 2026-03-12 19:32:23+00:00
You are either talking about a license nobody is using (at least I've never heard of it) or misconstruing what the AGPL obligates you to do.

I am going to assume it's the latter.

If you in your house take an AGPL program, host it for yourself, and use it yourself, nothing in the AGPL obligates you to publish the source changes.

In fact, even if you take AGPL software and put it behind a paywall and modify it, the only people who the license mandates you to provide the source code for are the people paying.

The AGPL is basically the GPL with the definition of "user" broadened to include people interacting with the software over the network.

And the GPL, again, only requires you to provide the source code, upon request, to users. If you only distribute GPL software behind a paywall, you personally only need to give the source to people paying.

Although in both these cases, nothing stops the person receiving that source code from publishing it under its own terms.
by GodelNumbering | 2026-03-12 19:32:24+00:00
As an inference hungry human, I am obviously hooked. Quick feedback:

1. The models/pricing page should be linked from the top perhaps as that is the most interesting part to most users. You have mentioned some impressive numbers (e.g. GLM5~220 tok/s $1.20 in · $3.50 out) but those are way down in the page and many would miss it

2. When looking for inference, I always look at 3 things: which models are supported, at which quantization and what is the cached input pricing (this is way more important than headline pricing for agentic loops). You have the info about the first on the site but not 2 and 3. Would definitely like to know!
by deepsun | 2026-03-12 19:32:33+00:00
Premature generalization is also a sickness.

I'd say people more often try to extract a generic component "Group 0" way too early, when no all the differences are obvious. And de-generalizing it (aka introducing copypasta) actually makes everything clearer, simpler, easier to change and reason about.

So as in every such blog post -- "it depends".