MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exceptione | 2026-03-02 20:44:29+00:00
Trump is an actor, he isn't the scenario writer, and as such you never should focus on Trump.

This isn't a surprise when religious conservatism enters a traditional marriage with oligarchic conservatism¹. This is more a classical case of "you keep them stupid, while we keep them poor".
If even the Enlightenment is a heresy (Burke e.a), you will have to spin the clock back.

But you can't have your cake and eat it too, so the US will become closer to an Afghanistan, led by increasingly unruly lunatics and warlords. Women's rights, scientific progress, educated people with agency; it's all a threat. The conservative rage becomes violent because what it wants and believes conflicts with reality, so they have to smash that all down, including the progress.

Yes, they rather burn society down than to lose control. That is hard to grasp for decent people, so you see an endless stream of opinions trying and failing to come up with a constructive rationale, but when you can understand that there is a class of people with a non-constructive default mode like the rest of us, things will be much easier to understand.

The book banning has been going on for several years, and now we are in the escalation phase. The resent about women's rights, persecution² of transgenders, harassment of universities and scientists, in short: the Gleichschaltung³, should not be a surprise and has little to do with show- and stuntman Trump. It is unruly conservatism coming to its ultimate conclusion, confronted with shrinking religious control, with results of zero sum economics, with a shrinking voter base, with all gerry-mandering options exploited, and ultimately with having thrown away democracy. The clock is being turned back.

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1. This is the original definition of conservatism, to "conserve" the status quo of a very small class of owners versus large masses of poor people.

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170928

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
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by derriz | 2026-03-02 20:44:56+00:00
No equity holders got anything out of the liquidation - whether big or small [1]. Preference shares are just as worthless as common stock if there isn’t enough money to cover debt, tax bills, employee statuary entitlements/outstanding pay, bank loans, etc.

[1] https://littlelaw.co.uk/p/the-1-billion-brewdog-deal-that-le...
by rsfern | 2026-03-02 20:45:00+00:00
Not a lot, but what is your point exactly? There are a lot of really Chinese scientists working in the US, and the ones who are postdocs and research scientists at NIST are apparently being pushed out at the end of this month. They’ve already been vetted for security concerns, so that justification is kind of thin.

How many Taiwanese, German, Indian, French, South Korean, etc scientists are working in the US? The ones working at NIST are facing being pushed out at the end of September.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-02 20:45:02+00:00
A decade ago this didn't require LLMs and cutting edge hardware and a trillion dollars of GPUs. This was a Facebook feature in like 2012.

>What I really want is my phone to transcribe all of my phone calls to a Notes document

This has been doable for decades. Why haven't you done it? My Pixel phones did this with voicemail before LLMs.

Windows Vista shipped with full featured dictation functionality, and it works better than you would expect, all local, all using classical algorithms, all evaluated cheaply. If it wasn't accurate enough, Dragon speech to text tools were gold standard for most of modern computing history, and greatly surpassed the accuracy of that built in system.

BTW, you can, on any Windows machine right now, access that built in voice recognition, and with a "Constrained vocabulary", say if you only want a few specific voice commands, it gets near perfect accuracy constantly. You have to search for old documentation now because Microsoft wants to hide that you don't need an internet connection or an Azure account and monthly bill to ship accurate voice recognition with your app. It's trivial to use, from both C++ and C#, and anything else that allows you to invoke native code, and the workflow is easy enough to understand. I built an app to utilize it instead of buying one of those $10 "Voice control your game" apps to add voice control to ARMA, and it was easier to implement the voice recognition than it was to copy and paste native code invocations for the Win32 api to inject keystrokes. I don't even write C# code in general.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...

There's tons of documentation about "Grammar" and configuration but the default configuration IIRC is to just turn speech input into text, and do so with at least 85% accuracy, even without the user actually training the recognizer to their voice. If you build context specific grammars or a hierarchical grammar to support a real UX that isn't just hoping some code knows how to interpret raw speech you will get dramatically better recognition performance.

This is IMO a frequent pattern. Time and time again the people who keep saying "I want LLMs to do X" don't seem to be aware that "X" was a robust and mature area of research decades ago! They don't seem to be aware that you could already do X and even buy ready to go software for that purpose! Often enough the LLM version is an outright regression in functionality, as things that were doable with a single microchip in 1960 now require an internet connection.

>Since it isn't recording an audio conversation,

So to be clear, you want this functionality explicitly to bypass law? Federally and in 39ish states, you only need your own consent anyway.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-03-02 20:45:13+00:00
> Language constrains your perception of reality to only the set of concepts conceivable within that language.

It's the opposite. People make up new concepts all the time for which they have no words, to then give it a name. Language is composable, words and names are just a mean to improve communication, make it faster, more efficient.

> Agents who only speak Rust have no conception of what runtime errors are, for instance.

Agents don't really learn. They have a fixed set of data and everything new has to be pressed into the prompt. This is unrelated to language.
Show HN: Llmdoc – annotate codebase with LLM summaries only re-scan what changed
by tristanMatthias | 2026-03-02 20:45:20+00:00
Hey HN!

I found myself constantly needing to pass complex codebases to LLMs for things like PRD generation, etc. Every time I paste a codebase into Claude I pay tokens for files the model doesn't care about. But if I only paste the relevant files, the model loses context about how everything fits together. It's an annoying tradeoff.

llmdoc is a small CLI that adds short LLM summaries for each file and intelligently updates them when the hash changes.

llmdoc annotate # Adds summaries for each file (respects .gitignore and you can configure it to ignore more)

llmdoc dump # Generates a handy "at a glance" summary to give to an LLM for complete context of your codebase.

There's also llmdoc check for CI — exits 1 if any annotation is stale or missing, no API key needed.

It supports Anthropic and OpenAI, works with 50+ languages, respects .gitignore, and has a --dry-run flag that estimates cost before touching anything.

A known issue is rate limiting for LLM providers, but because it all works with hashes, you can just rerun a few times to get it working.

Let me know what you think!
by frereubu | 2026-03-02 20:45:25+00:00
The thing I've come to like about FaceID on my 13 mini is that I can require it for certain apps to open that don't require it - e.g. messaging as opposed to banking which generally require some kind of auth by default - which is much better security in case someone snatches it out of my hand while it's unlocked. It's pretty seamless because I'm generally looking at the device anyway, and it's much less faff than it would be with TouchID.
by bubblewand | 2026-03-02 20:45:34+00:00
Oh yeah one of those “memento mori” things for me is browsing shelves in flea markets with tons of 1890s-1930s popular fiction and appreciating how very many of the authors are now totally unknown. You can do something similar with bestseller lists by year on Wikipedia, go back far enough and even for someone with pretty deep recognition of historical authors it soon becomes a lot of “who? Who? Who?”

> I imagine there are probably also films that everyone saw back then but are unheard of today.

Even sticking to relatively critically-acclaimed stuff it’s pretty easy to land on films that probably fewer than 1% of people in the Anglosphere (assuming initial popularity in that market) have seen, in the silent era, without going far off the beaten path. Go slightly farther and it’s likely just you and a very small number of other extreme film nerds among the living who’ve ever watched it.

Take DW Griffith, a giant of a director. Got what, 20+ surviving feature films of 40ish made? How many people alive have seen more than three of them? It’s a small number. Hell, it’s not a large number that have watched even one.
by ashwch | 2026-03-02 20:45:37+00:00
Author here. Every engineering team I have talked to has some version of the same problem: a pile of "we should really fix that" work that never gets prioritized because each item feels too small on its own. A 16-minute CI wait, a snapshot process living in someone's Slack history, a flaky test. None of them ever beat "ship the dashboard redesign" in a planning meeting. But they compound - for our 5-person team, it added up to over 26 hours of dead time per week.

We changed one rule late last year: if something keeps burning team time, it is roadmap work. What made that rule practical was agentic coding - when a CI rewrite takes 20 minutes instead of a day, you can try three approaches and pick the best one. Work that used to sit in the "someday" pile became "this week" work.

Over 90 days we cleared 57 major changesets across 7 workstreams (CI, testing, worktree isolation, ops safety, security, debt, open-source skills) while product delivery continued in parallel. The post covers what worked, what surprised us, and what we got wrong along the way - including an intermediate phase where we made CI faster but the compute bill actually went up.

The thing I would want other teams to take away: the bottleneck right now is not model capability. It is deciding what work is worth attempting. If your team has a hidden queue, the cost of clearing it just dropped by an order of magnitude.

We open-sourced the reusable agent skills that made the gains stick across the team: https://github.com/DiversioTeam/agent-skills-marketplace

Happy to dig into any of the specifics.
by cromka | 2026-03-02 20:46:37+00:00
Eh, wildcard statements like this. Checked your history and you sure like one-liner hit-and-runs like this one. No substance, just vague opinions.

But to actually answer you properly: Heard of OnePlus? They were niche manufacturers curating to geeks like ourselves at the very beginning and THEY USED CyanogenMod ROM! When it was way, WAY more amateurish than GrapheneOS!

When a market is super saturated, the only way to stand out is to experiment and see if something sticks.

This is going to be a very good experiment and can absolutely sell like hot cakes, especially in Europe if they market it well. We absolutely need an – even semi – independent Android hardware here.

Not that I am expecting any meaningful response from you.
by rekabis | 2026-03-02 20:47:16+00:00
The need to support apps - when you are constantly internet-connected anyhow - is becoming less and less important. You can now pin many websites to your phone’s “desktop” and have them run identically to native apps, and sometimes with even better start-up performance.

So long as a service is being provided identically on a mobile website as it is in a native app, you can pin that website and get just the same experience without needing a native app.
by RansomStark | 2026-03-02 20:47:38+00:00
That's the position I came to based on these rulings, or lack thereof.
I think of all the reasons open source shouldn't accept AI created code is that it can't be protected, and that has the potential to threaten the whole project.

OpenClaw, for instance has an MIT license [0], but, per the creators own words, they didn't even review the code. OpenClaw isn't MIT licensed, the MIT license relies on copyright, and because there was not even human review of the majority of the code, no substantial human input, that code base can't be copyrighted.

No need to steal AI code, it doesn't belong to anyone.

[0] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readm...
Why are Agents better at searching with grep than embeddings?
by CShorten | 2026-03-02 20:47:45+00:00
In this clip from the latest Weaviate Podcast, Doug Turnbull explains why simple lexical tools like grep work so well for agents: The transparent input-output relationship lets the agent reason about why results matched, adjust its strategy, and plan its next query.

https://x.com/weaviatepodcast/status/2028570908978262458
by andrewflnr | 2026-03-02 20:48:17+00:00
Assuming that happened, I guarantee it was a targeting error. The US and Israel have no actual reason to target children, seeing how they have plenty of useful military targets and want (or at least need) the Iranian people's support for regime change.

For what it's worth, Iran has claimed their strikes on Oman were mistake, and I believe that too, since Oman seems to have genuinely been trying to help them. Just Oman though. They apparently feel fine about all the other strikes on bystander nations.
by tocs3 | 2026-03-02 20:48:25+00:00
I do not like the idea of throwing up road blocks solely to make life harder for any group of people. It seams many times laws and regulations are made for purposes other than the ones stated by supporters. So, the following is more of a general observation. I like that the US does not have an official language.

It might be worth noting that someone driving on US roads is going to see mostly English on signs and in the event that they need to speak to someone (road blocks, traffic stops, weigh stations, etc.) it will likely be spoken English. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English. It might be worth making English something to have to know to be a commercial driver.
by kvinogradov | 2026-03-02 20:48:39+00:00
We don't require a membership to participate in GitHub discussions, but it is required to be invited to closed events and to be part of the OSE governance.

The global average salary of a software engineer is $5,906/month, and the OSE membership is $83/month ($1,000/year), so it would require donating ~1.4% of gross income. This aligns fully with the 1-2% of income that an average U.S. individual donates every year, and we are targeting more senior engineers, not the average ones.

So it is affordable for our target audience, but requires some personal commitment. To be efficient in the long term, an endowment must be managed by people who have skin in the game.

It would also be irresponsible to have people who can't or don't want to personally donate $1,000 to our cause, or people outside of the tech industry, managing a multi-million-dollar community fund focused on solving a pretty niche industry problem. Otherwise, the endowment ends up being as efficient as a typical government!
by collingreen | 2026-03-02 20:48:58+00:00
You keep claiming the things you're saying are unarguable and as obvious as water being wet, in a thread of folks repeatedly talking about the nuances and differences.

Birth rates going down seems to be a thing. That's about all I agree are facts here. I struggle to even meet you at "traditional gender roles" like that's some universal constant - is that Protestant America? Catholic Ireland? Is that one of the Chinese dynasties? Sub-saharan African tribal society?

I think, like most things, it's unlikely you've found the "as obvious as water being wet" single smoking gun to a broader solution.

Social pressure to marry young and breed will clearly have an effect on birth rates. I'd be surprised if anyone would disagree there, all other things being equal. It feels ridiculous to assert that is the only possible influence and even more ridiculous to assert one particular set of social norms is the only way back. I know so many people that don't fit this incredibly narrow view, including everything from "traditional" couples not wanting kids (for lots of different reasons from money to global stability to being jaded to genuinely not caring) to very very not "traditional" people who ARE having kids.

If this is worth talking about I think it's worth taking in more info than just blaming resentment over women being more empowered over their own lives (or more slutty or more undesirable or however you want to frame it).
by MichaelRo | 2026-03-02 20:49:05+00:00
Also I'm getting downvoted and don't really understand unless I fall back to experience from 30 years ago, after the Romanian revolution and fall of =~ 50 years of dictatorial regime (not that before that was much better, with small interruptions).

At that time (1990), when everything seemed possible and a quick path to democracy and all that it brings (in the imaginary of the poor, oppressed people that we were) along with it, this guy came along: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Ra%C8%9Biu

He ran for president in the first free elections and made some 0.5% or something. I remember him for his words which go along the "it will take 20 years at least, for democracy to settle in Romania". He was right on. Now, 30 years after, we have a strong, frile democracy. Everyone can run for president but not everyone can win, even if they could: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4x2epppego

All things considered, I live a much, much better life now than 30 years ago during the communist dictatorship. Perfect? Far from it and perfection is a moving target. But we're definitely a solid democracy, and also definitely, it's a miracle the first 5-10 years didn't erupt in a full scale civil war. And the despised "revolutionary guards" had some involvement in making sure it didn't happen, so as much as you hate them, you need them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_clashes_of_T%C3%A2rgu_M...
by locusofself | 2026-03-02 20:49:06+00:00
It is, although considering my age (41), I would hope the college thing is not very important anymore. The only time in recent history that I've been ghosted after mentioning no degree (when asked) is ByteDance a few years back, and I don't think I'd want to work there anyways.

Google has offices in Kirkland. Amazon and Meta are big employers here, with Meta paying the best, but both of those companies have their own issues which are probably worse than just being made fun of ..
by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 20:49:10+00:00
Infinite regress is avoided by co-constraints, such as consistency and conservation. Unlike many axioms, both are grounded in a zero-information requirement. Specifics are fully determined, non-specifics are fully covered.

Obviously that is just a principle, not a fleshed out theory.

But it is an important principle. If there is only one universal consistent, conserving, complete coverage form, then it is the one zero information form.

The resulting universal structure, unique by definition (enclosing all consistent conserving forms), would be a coherent and credible theory of reality.

Intersection of all consistent independents and union of all undetermined disjoints. Exhaustive superpositions over alternate entanglements are an obvious and serious "local physics" manifestation of this consistency/completeness of coverage principle.
by golddust-gecko | 2026-03-02 20:49:14+00:00
This is 100% true.

You might wonder why, if businesses are the target, why not just make Windows a no-frills, solid base for the other offerings? Why slop it up?

The answer there is cultural. Windows needs a large team just to keep supporting it at scale. All those engineers and PMs need career paths, and shiny things with which to sway their managers into promoting them. The strong, experienced, leaders have largely left because they know this isn't a company priority. So you end up with B players promoting C players for slop.

Time goes on and the Bs become Cs, and so on.

So the dynamic is that something that isn't a priority doesn't merely slop evolving, it devolves. We're now several iterations into this process, which will accelerate due to AI.
by eloisant | 2026-03-02 20:49:16+00:00
It's not a moral argument, it's about having a short term vision or a long term vision. Most US companies typically just have a short term vision, but that's not the case of all companies.

Japanese companies for example usually care more about long term. This is why US car makers like GM fire workers when business goes down, then need to rehire and potentially re-train workers. Toyota on the other hand doesn't fire workers, instead use their time for training when the business goes down. Guess which company is struggling and which one is the world leader?

So to get back to your leadership: if they only care about the next quarter, then sure no number will convince them. The company might be dead in a few years but they don't care.
by devmor | 2026-03-02 20:49:26+00:00
I don’t think this is even limited to this part of academia - or academia at all, but I do think it’s a bit irresponsible of them to assume prior rigor in those personality tests.

On top of that, a confounding issue is that human nature is to anthropomorphize things. What is more likely to be anthropomorphized than a construct of written language - the now primary method of knowledge transfer between humans? I can’t help but feel that this wishful bias contributes to missing the due diligence of choosing an appropriate metric with which to measure.
by or_am_i | 2026-03-02 20:49:50+00:00
Have owned a couple iPads starting ~2010 -- mainly for reading pdfs, and comics in electronic form. Occasionally drawing / jamming some tunes - almost all via 3rd party apps. There are still plenty of decent apps in the ecosystem, even though their eventual obsolescence is as good as built in, and a lot of stuff I previously loved the platform for has now been gone for years with no replacement. Native apps have never been great at pretty much anything, with a notable exception of Garage Band which is an absolute banger for its money. Books is... passable I guess?

But the reading pdfs part is important -- and really hard to beat for me, the iOS drag/scroll/pinch/zoom UX perceived responsiveness is still unmatched IMO. It would take some real creativity beyond liquid glass to enshittify this aspect out.