MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by miladyincontrol | 2026-03-10 10:42:19+00:00
As someone who only uses hardware passkeys I do find it annoying some how many software vendors want me to trust their software based passkeys. Even if yes some may be backed by some sort of "enclave" or "secure element".

The credential being entirely isolated from a device is the point for me.

The other point this ad piece ignores is too many platforms restrict you to using a single passkey and forcing you through some recovery workflow should you ever lose access to it.
by dakolli | 2026-03-10 10:43:59+00:00
If you rely on llms, you're simply not going to make it. The person who showed their work on the math test is 9/10 times is doing better in life than the person that only knew how to use a calculator. Now how do we think things are going to turn out for the person that doesn't even think they need to learn how to use a calculator.

Just like when people started losing their ability to navigate without a GPS/Maps app, you will lose your ability to write solid code, solve problems, hell maybe even read well.

I want my brain to be strong in old age, and I actually love to write code unlike 99% in software apparently (like why did you people even start doing this career.. makes no sense to me).

I'm going to keep writing the code myself! Stop paying Billionaires for their thinking machines, its not going to work out well for you.
by renhanxue | 2026-03-10 10:45:11+00:00
I mean, you can call it a "mountain" of greenwashing but to me it looks more like a mole hill. Total Swedish electricity production is typically 160 to 165 TWh per year and total consumption is usually between 135 and 145 TWh.

In 2025, the net export was about 33 TWh. Gross import from Germany, Poland and Lithuania, including transit to other countries, was 1 TWh. So, imported power from countries with coal power plants was less than 1% of total consumption, and the amount of fossil free power exported was more than 30 times greater than the amount of (potentially) fossil power imported. 1-2% fossil energy in the mix is to me not really significant, and especially not considering how much fossil free power is exported.

Sources:

Statistics Sweden table of power import and export: https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/ener...

Basic information about Swedish power generation: https://www.energiforetagen.se/energifakta/elsystemet/produk...
by pmarreck | 2026-03-10 10:45:17+00:00
You not realizing how ridiculous this is, is exactly why half of all devs are about to get left behind.

Like, this should be enshrined as the quintessential “they simply, obstinately, perilously, refused to get it” moment.

Shortly, no one is going to care about anyone’s bespoke manual keyboard entry of code if it takes 10 times as long to produce the same functionality with imperceptibly less error.
by mad | 2026-03-10 10:45:39+00:00
> Most of this list is about how to dress for senpai; figuratively speaking. A pretty depressing take on "how to do important research that matters".

How is that the case? The tips seem to aim for impactful research: picking good ideas and executing well on them. There's a tacit assumption that such impactful research will win best paper awards, but that's actually not substantiated and isn't obviously correct, since best paper selection committees can't see the future. For example, many (maybe most?) winners of retrospective awards (test-of-time / influential paper) aren't papers that won a best paper award when originally published.

Most of the author's papers he cites in the post, including the membership inference paper which is one of the papers the author is "most proud of," didn't win best paper awards.
by tpm | 2026-03-10 10:45:55+00:00
> Trying to prevent this is guaranteed to fail.

Most of European countries could have had nukes by now if they weren't stopped by the US/USSR; going by your logic it was inevitable once the UK and France had them the others would follow but they didn't. Of course at the time at least the American leadership was a bit more (forward) thinking than right now.

If you are the only person in the room with a gun, you have a huge advantage. With each additional person getting a gun too the advantage will be less, but it will still make sense to try to stop that process until everyone has a gun, and we are very far from that point. It is actually cheaper to try to stop proliferation than to build your defense with 'everyone has nukes now' in mind.

It's a failure of longterm thinking.
by sofixa | 2026-03-10 10:47:01+00:00
> So I wonder if you just think you will be one of the few who benefit at the expense of others

It's not a zero sum game, IMO. It will benefit some, be neutral for others, negative for others.

For instance, improved productivity could be good (and doesn't have to result in layoffs, Jevon's paradox will come into play, IMO, with increased demand). Easier/better/faster scientific research could be good too. Not everyone would benefit from those, but not everyone has to for it to be generally good.

Autonomous AI-powered drone swarms could be bad, or could result in a Mutually Assured Destruction stalemate.
by VorpalWay | 2026-03-10 10:47:03+00:00
> What if a non-native English speaker uses the help of an AI model in the formulation of some issue/task?

Unfortunately, when I have seen this in the context of the Rust project, the result has still been the typical verbose word salad that is typical of chat style LLMs. It is better to use a dedicated translation tool, and post the original along with the translation.

> What about having a plugin in your IDE that rather gives syntax and small code fragment suggestions ("autocomplete on steroids")?

Very good question, I myself consider this sort of AI usage benign (unlike agent style usage), and is the only style of AI I use myself (since I have RSI it helps having to type less). You could turn the feature off for just this project though.

> Does this policy mean that the programmers are also restricted on the IDE and plugins that they are allowed to have installed if they want to contribute?

I don't think that follows, but what features you have active in the current project would definitely be affected. From what I have seen all IDEs allow turning AI features on and off as needed.
by lpcvoid | 2026-03-10 10:47:10+00:00
Hugely unpopular opinion on HN, but I'd rather use code that is flawed while written by a human, versus code that has been generated by a LLM, even if it fixes bugs.

I'd gladly take a bug report, sure, but then I'd fix the issues myself. I'd never allow LLM code to be merged.
by cardanome | 2026-03-10 10:47:22+00:00
I am wondering why people spam OSS with AI slop pull requests in the first place?

Are they really that delusional to think that their AI slop has any value to the project?

Do they think acting like a complete prick and increasing the burden for the maintainers will get them a job offer?

I guess interacting with a sycophantic LLM for hours truly rots the brain.

To spell it out: No, your AI generated code has zero value. Actually less than that because generating it helped destroy the environment.

If the problem could be solved by using an LLM and the maintainers wanted to, they could prompt it themselves and get much better results than you do because they actually know the code. And no AI will not help you "get into open source". You don't learn shit from spamming open source projects.
by tpm | 2026-03-10 10:49:30+00:00
> Wait until the data is in.

Ah but you yourself didn't, did you:

> They went from using 1.5 billion tons of thermal coal in 2000 to 4.6 Billion tons today and they will reach 4.7 Billion in 2027.

Whatever would 'today' mean and why even mention a very uncertain future estimate. And in any case that 4.7 is lower than the 4.9 from 2024.
by nnwright | 2026-03-10 10:50:01+00:00
This 100%. I _like_ new features and new UX when it enhances things or makes them easier to work with. That used to be a huge selling point when purchasing a Mac vs PC, genuine thought and consideration had been given to every single interaction and user impact.

And then ... Apple lost its way. Now when I get a new Mac I spend the better part of a day turning off as much of the pointless eye candy as I can so that I can focus on the task I'm working on, not the distracting UX conventions.

I want a computer, not an iPad with a keyboard. That already exists, and there is a reason I don't have one.
by irthomasthomas | 2026-03-10 10:50:05+00:00
Opus doubled in speed with version 4.5, leading me to speculate that they had promoted a sonnet size model. The new faster opus was the same speed as Gemini 3 flash running on the same TPUs. I think anthropics margins are probably the highest in the industry, but they have to chop that up with google by renting their TPUs.
by re-thc | 2026-03-10 10:51:01+00:00
> unless China is pumping out domestic chips cheaply enough

They are. Nvidia makes A LOT of profit. Hey, top stock for a reason.

> I wouldn't be surprised if things like DS were trained and now hosted on Nvidia hardware

DS is "old". I wouldn't study them. The new 1s have a mandate to at least run on local hardware. There are data center requirements.

I agree it could still be trained on Nvidia GPUs (black market etc), but not running.
by watwut | 2026-03-10 10:51:25+00:00
Yes, which happened only because a journalist broke a story about how FBI was not investigating Epstein for years and years. It was media who forced that to happen, after decades of abuse FBI was aware of.

Speaking of which, the previous conviction, the super sweet deal Acosta gave to Epstein before is also an example of elite unaccountability.

FBI and friends protected Epstein until it became impossible.
Ask HN: Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why?
by epolanski | 2026-03-10 10:51:25+00:00
I've spent years on this board and I always stayed logged in for years without needed to login again from the same devices.

But since the last week I've been finding myself not logged in when jumping on HN on multiple devices, even multiple times per device.

Has anything changed?
by ralferoo | 2026-03-10 10:51:52+00:00
The problem is that even if the code is clear and easy to understand AND it fixes a problem, it still might not be suitable as a pull request. Perhaps it changes the code in a way that would complicate other work in progress or planned and wouldn't just be a simple merge. Perhaps it creates a vulnerability somewhere else or additional cognitive load to understand the change. Perhaps it adds a feature the project maintainer specifically doesn't want to add. Perhaps it just simply takes up too much of their time to look at.

There are plenty of good reasons why somebody might not want your PR, independent of how good or useful to you your change is.
by amonith | 2026-03-10 10:52:16+00:00
This happens to non-native English speakers a lot (like me). My style of writing is heavily influenced by everything I read. And since I also do research using LLMs, I'll probably sound more and more as an AI as well, just by reading its responses constantly.

I just don't know what's supposed to be natural writing anymore. It's not in the books, disappears from the internet, what's left? Some old blogs for now maybe.
by Karliss | 2026-03-10 10:52:16+00:00
More like the opposite. Point cloud data captured with varying means has existed for a long time with raw data visualized more or less just like this. And SciFi movies/games use the effect of raw visualization as something futuristic/computer tech looking. Just like wireframe on black background, although that one is getting partially downgraded to more retro scifi status since drawing 3d wireframe isn't hard anymore. It started when any 3d computer graphics even basic wireframe was futuristic and not every movie could afford it, with some of them faking it with analog means. Any good scifi author takes inspiration from real world technology and extrapolate based on it, often before widespread recognition of technology by general population. Once something reaches the state of consumer product beyond just researchers and trained professionals, the visuals tend to get more polished and you loose some of the raw, purely functional, engineering style.
by ethbr1 | 2026-03-10 10:52:38+00:00
A prior ill doesn't excuse a subsequent one.

That Sinclair, Nexstar, CC/iHeartMedia were allowed to consolidate in the 90s is bad.

That Google et al. decimated newspaper revenue from the mid-00s onwards without replacing their newsrooms is worse.*

I wouldn't have as big a gripe if Google or Facebook had started their own news bureaus and funded them with their profits. It still would have been a rounding error on their balance sheet.

But instead they destroyed a social good, took their bonuses, and called it a day.

* See 2007, the year Google was allowed to buy DoubleClick https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers...
by subjectsigma | 2026-03-10 10:53:05+00:00
Somewhat off topic, but I can’t believe someone got paid to write that article, what a load of crap. It’s like saying that fallacies don’t exist because sometimes people incorrectly claim the other side is arguing fallaciously.

If you go by the literal definition in the article, it’s very clear what OP meant when he said the AI policy is virtue-signaling, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the culture war.
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-10 10:53:05+00:00
Sounds like a better way to make sure you have to be part of a clique to get your changed reviewed. I’ve been a long-time bug fixer in a few projects over the years without participating in IRC. I like the software and want it you work, but have no interest in conversing about it at that level, especially when I was conversing about software constantly at work.

I always provided well-documented PRs with a narrow scope and an obvious purpose.
by wjakob | 2026-03-10 10:53:54+00:00
I am very worried by feature creep in libc++ and libstdc++ and the harm that this inflicts on the wider C++ ecosystem. Transitive inclusion of large parts of the STL, and entangling of STL with core language features are both extremely bad. This should IMO be topic #1 of the committee but is barely even noticed. The mantra "It's okay, modules will save us" is naive and will not work.
by lpcvoid | 2026-03-10 10:54:11+00:00
>Not sure how they can expect to make a viable full OS without massive use of LLMs, so this makes no sense.

Humans have been doing this for the better parts of 5 decades now. Don't assume others rely on LLMs as much as you do.

>Not to mention that even finding good developers willing to develop without AI (a significant handicap, even more so for coding things like an OS that are well represented in LLM training) seems difficult nowadays, especially if they aren't paying them.

I highly doubt that. In fact, I'd take a significant pay cut to move to a company that doesn't use LLMs, if I were forced to use them in my current job.
by simiones | 2026-03-10 10:56:12+00:00
(oops, I didn't check the usernames properly, sorry about that)

I still don't think this is fully accurate.

The view I'm noticing is that people consider that they have a right to the programs they produce, regardless of whether they are writing them by hand or by prompting an LLM in the right ways to produce that output. And this remains true both for work produced as an employee/company owner, and for code contributed to an OSS project.

Also, as an employee, the relationship is very different. I am hired to produce solutions to problems my company wants resolved. This may imply writing code, finding OSS code, finding commercial code that we can acquire, or generating code. As part of my contract, I relinquish any rights I may have to any of this code to the company, and of course I commit to not use any code without a valid license. However, if some of the code I produce for the company is not copyrightable at all, that is not in any way in breach of my contract - as long as the company is aware of how the code is produced and I'm not trying to deceive them, of course.

In practice, at least in my company, there has been a legal analysis and the company has vetted a certain suite of AI tools for use for code generation. Using any other AI tools is not allowed, and would be a breach of contract, but using the approved ones is 100% allowed. And I can guarantee you that our lawyers would assert copyright to any of the code generated in this way if I was to try to publish it or anything of the kind.
by 2Gkashmiri | 2026-03-10 10:56:47+00:00
Never owned an iPhone after 3GS because it became prohibitively expensive.

I have so many memories of cydia and there was this itools, some Chinese software that let me do more than iTunes.

Those were the days.
I was rocking an html lockdscreen which was pretty cool.

When I got hands on original iPhone back in 2008, I remember my PC having less ram, less storage as that was a handmedown. It was freaking cool to have more compute in hand than what my xp machine did.
by re-thc | 2026-03-10 10:56:50+00:00
> but an 5x efficiency gain in a single generation feels like its too much, especially considering how newer process nodes have been yielding less and less improvements

The efficiency is in other areas too e.g. memory, network, etc. It's TOTAL.

> Here's a synthethic benchmark page listing every GPU in recent memory

We don't have the GPU gains not because of process nodes. Nvidia and later AMD stopped investing in that direction. They started optimizing for AI not graphics.
by uncanny2 | 2026-03-10 10:57:04+00:00
Fascinating. I haven’t seen The Age of Disclosure, though I have talked to the ancient aliens who live at the bottom of the sea and they’re pretty okay. It’s that American government shooting down one of their craft and experimenting on the survivors that should be concerning.

They helped make Abyss and genuinely thought a day would arrive when we could be friends. The global white nationalist power coup has exterminated moralists from the world, long standing family lines with good relations to our Earthly cohabitants have been brutally murdered throughout America and the world. And yes the true great secret is that we are not alone in our own minds, and there is a substantial population of humans who can travel among and manipulate your thoughts through entanglement. Those Greys at the bottom of the ocean speak with a great many and share their stories through our lore, yet sadly Man is treacherous.
by Aerolfos | 2026-03-10 10:59:03+00:00
> Or maybe construction of the physical DCs is behind schedule, so today's Blackwells are sitting around unused, waiting for power and networking tomorrow. Then they're in a bit of trouble.

Other reporting says this is very much the case. Stargate barely has some of the land cleared, but the buildings were supposed to be finished and have GPUs installed over the course of 2026.

There's also the indicator of Nvidia giving out billion-dollar deals to other companies such that they could commit to buying even more Blackwells to keep production going. The chips from those new deals don't have anywhere to go, everyone already spent their cash on getting shipped chips that they're still installing today (apparently some are even in warehouses)
by figassis | 2026-03-10 10:59:30+00:00
I would create a library, make some logic more generic, create a generic table (task id, taskType, workerId, etc), store task metadata as jsonb so it can be pulled and marshalled into typed data by users.

Import it into your projects.

Make the library work standalone. But also build a task manager service that people can deploy if they want to run it outside their code.

Then offer a hosted solution that does the webhooks.

I’m sure someone will want to pay for it.
by WillAdams | 2026-03-10 10:59:33+00:00
The thing which killed me is this is one of the things Windows 10 got _right_ (well, took the path of least resistance) with square corners which made screen grabs look good/work more easily --- I run a utility to get them back in Windows 11 (and have seriously contemplated investigating if removing the glass from my laptop screen and scraping away the paint which obscures the corners is an option to get those pixels back....)

Used to be this sort of thing "just worked" on Mac OS --- you'd think with a diminishing number of UI tool kits/dev tools this sort of thing would get better/more consistent.... always liked "Themes" and this just gives me one more reason to wish that they would come back.
by ralferoo | 2026-03-10 10:59:53+00:00
"I can recompile the entire thing from scratch in ~4.3s. That’s around ~900 TUs, including external dependencies, tests, and examples"

In 30 years of using C++ this is the first time I've ever come across "translation unit" being abbreviated to TU and it took a bit of effort to figure out what the author was trying to say. Not sure why they felt the need to abbreviate this when they explain PCH for instance, which is a far more commonly used term.

Thought I'd add the context here to help anyone else out.
by silexia | 2026-03-10 11:00:41+00:00
I just raised, slaughtered, and butchered five pigs myself.

My pigs took longer to raise because it is winter here and I gave them lots of room to run. The pigs had a good life right up until their kill time.

The reason pork is so cheap is that overseas meat providers can break all of these humane rules we have in the USA. We badly need high tariffs so businesses don't just go around all of our environmental and labor protection laws by importing products from overseas.
by ghoblin | 2026-03-10 11:00:50+00:00
Energy is just one component of cost per unit of work, and in most modern economies it's a very small one.
Industry has always traded energy efficiency for productivity. Excavators burn huge amounts of fuel compared to humans with shovels, data centers consume megawatts compared to the brain's ~20W, and forklifts are nowhere near biologically efficient. They still win because the economic cost per unit of work is lower.

In the case of AI the key difference is how the systems scale.
Human labor scales linearly: if you want 10x more output, you hire 10x more workers, and the cost scales roughly the same. A human brain might run on ~20W, but each worker is still €20–€50+ per hour and can only do one task at a time.
AI systems scale more like software infrastructure. Once the model and servers exist, the marginal cost of additional tasks is mostly compute and electricity. A data center might burn far more energy than a human brain per task, but it can handle thousands or millions of tasks in parallel and run 24/7. The cost per task can end up being cents even if the system is much less energy efficient "per brain".

Labor is expensive because you're not just paying for the task. You're paying for the worker's entire life infrastructure. Wages have to cover housing, food, healthcare, transportation, retirement, taxes, etc.., So the price of labor largely reflects the cost of sustaining a human being in society, not just the marginal cost of performing the work
by bArray | 2026-03-10 11:03:03+00:00
Exactly this. You calm down, take a cup of coffee, marvel at your beautiful design, and then spot something out of place. The actual review has saved me a few times too, for example: "are you sure there are no copper layers in your PCB design?" - Doh! A few times they have raised issues regarding the limitations of their manufacturing capabilities, and this too has saved time and cost.