MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nico | 2026-03-13 20:27:11+00:00
> the way to stop it is to talk to your representatives.

I keep seeing this advice, yet whenever it actually matters, it doesn't really work

No amount of talking to representatives stopped the genocide in Gaza, no amount of talking to representatives is stopping what the US is doing now in Iran

Majority of Congress voted to continue war in Iran, despite an overwhelming majority of Americans being opposed to it
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-13 20:27:19+00:00
It was obvious for everyone with 2 brain cells to rub together, that the gulf states invited so many US companies to open up shop there, as a defence insurance policy, so that the US government has monetary interests in the area besides oil, to intervene and defend in case of an attack.

Well played from their side, as that's how this game works.

And for those who didn't get it before, Marco Rubio even went out and publicly said Ukraine should sell rare earth rights to the US so that they have something there to defend to justify to the public providing a security guarantee for Ukraine. He basically spelled it out in layman's terms how the game is played. You can dislike it, you can disagree with it, but this is how it always worked, even if the general public was not aware of it. It's nothing to do with defending freedom, democracy, honor, values, whatever, it's all about preserving and making money.
by Bender | 2026-03-13 20:27:33+00:00
You could be right. I got this from Grok:

- The US military (including the Army) showed early interest in Starlink's potential, but this was exploratory rather than as the inaugural customer.

- As early as 2018–2019, SpaceX received funding and contracts (e.g., a $28.7 million award) to study and test military applications of Starlink technology, focusing on things like aircraft connectivity.

- In October 2019, SpaceX's President Gwynne Shotwell publicly mentioned the US Army as a potential future customer for Starlink.

- In May 2020, the US Army signed an R&D/testing agreement with SpaceX to evaluate Starlink's performance for military field use over three years. This was a trial to assess feasibility (e.g., low latency, bandwidth in remote areas), not a full commercial subscription or "first customer" status. Actual field testing and pilot programs by the Army ramped up later (e.g., 2022 in Europe).

- Starshield is SpaceX's dedicated business unit and satellite network designed specifically for government and national security applications, building directly on the technology and infrastructure of the commercial Starlink constellation.

- While Starlink focuses on providing broadband internet to consumers, businesses, and general users worldwide, Starshield adapts and enhances that foundation for more secure, classified, and military-oriented needs. It was publicly unveiled in December 2022, though related work (including contracts) began earlier.

I was probably conflating the exploratory articles with their intent to go that direction.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-03-13 20:27:56+00:00
So, it utterly fails? A good part of the community still seems to be stuck in 2017 where Elon could do no wrong.

Turns out a lot of not just wrong, but malice could be done in 9 years. And worse yet, incompetent malice. I don't know why that has to be a political statement these days, but thems the brakes here.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-13 20:28:01+00:00
> You can't simultaneously argue that NATO is a "protection racket" for the US to sell weapons and control European foreign policy, and also argue that the EU would be in trouble without the current levels of US participation.

Sure I can. I can both deny you the means to defend yourself, forcing you to rely on me for protection. That's the definition of a protection racket.

> The US has spent 3-4% of GDP on defense for decades ...

Ah, now I get it. This is Trump administration talking points eg [1]. Those talking points are just a shakedown for American defense contractors. Again, just like a protection racket. Because it is a protection racket.

> Most of America's allies would not be able to fund their generous social programs

This is revisionist history at best. The US has done their best to undermine and dismantle European social programs. Even something like the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund was only tolerated because of Norway's strategic position in the North Atlantic as a foil against the USSR.

> During Operation Prosperity Guardian, Houthis started attacking commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea, directly threatening European trade routes,

America was protecting Israel's trade routes. Let's be clear. European trade routes largely just rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope.

But again we come back to the protection racket. You can't both have a protection racket (and, by extension, defang the militaries of the protectorates) AND expect military help, particularly when the entire thing only happened because of the US material support to Israel's genocide.

> With Operation Epic Fury ...

Operation Epstein Fury FTFY

> ... the US asked to use jointly operated bases for staging,

Yes, literally nobody wanted the US and Israel to launch an unnecessary, unprovoked and ill-planned war on Iran other than the US and Israel. Everybody else, including Europe and other Middle East neighbours, all of whom are American client states, basically, begged the US not to do it. And they did anyway.

So yeah, you're on your own.

> Can we actually be clear on "reliability"? There is not a single defense analyst in the world who seriously believes the US wouldn't IMMEDIATELY defend Canada if Russia launched an offense against them.

Not a single defense analyst would even seriously consider such a prospect any more than Fiji invading the Central African Republic. What are you talking about?

[1]: https://www.politico.eu/article/us-slams-czech-republic-over...
by jmward01 | 2026-03-13 20:28:15+00:00
I have wrestled with the concept of 'classified' many times. The question is always how you balance democracy's need for information with the real need to keep some things away from adversaries. I think the only answer is to vigorously enforce automatic declassification AND dissemination but also ensure that this happens within the useful lifetimes of those involved. This last part is especially important for accountability. Laws need to apply, without a statute of limitation, to abuse of classification and for that to happen this stuff needs to come out while those involved can still be held accountable. Additionally, if abuse is found while something is still classified there should be an immediate evaluation if the public interest in understanding the abuse outweighs the danger of releasing the information with an explicit understanding that the public has already received real harm compared to a theoretical harm of release.

Another aspect is that we need to lower the bar for declassification in general. The reality of classified information is that it is almost universally boring and time limited in its value. Also, so many people have access to it that it leaks out slowly anyway. Just look at how much of the US military and contractors have or have had secret and higher clearances. [1] When multiple percentage points of Americans (and other governments) have access currently or have had access in the past to supposedly 'top secret' information then hiding it from the rest of the population just sounds silly. It is time to start re-asserting the public's requirement to be informed even if that has some potential risks or even actual harms associated with it.

[1] https://news.clearancejobs.com/2022/08/16/how-many-people-ha...
by the_pwner224 | 2026-03-13 20:28:16+00:00
> But you can unlock it without needing Google.

Well akshually.... the bootloader is initially not unlockable. You must connect the phone to the internet. Within a few minutes a background process will reach out to Google servers to check whether it was purchased outright or with a payment plan. It will only enable the bootloader unlocking toggle after this step. Phones bought with a carrier contract won't be unlockable until paid off.

In those initial few minutes (/ before you connect it to the interwebs), the bootloader unlock option in the developer settings & fastboot will be disabled.
by johnebgd | 2026-03-13 20:28:48+00:00
Agreed. Windows 10/11 can run just fine on 4GB of RAM. You just can't run anything inside of Windows 10/11 with 4GB of RAM.

The last version of Windows that felt like 4GB of RAM was performant for me with applications was Windows XP. Not that every computer running the 32-bit edition of Windows XP could even see/utilize a full 4GB of RAM properly, but at least it was fast.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-03-13 20:28:58+00:00
> "Can you believe that Dad actually used to have to go into an office and type code all day long, MAUALLY??! Line by line, with no advice from AI, he had to think all by himself!"

Grumpy old man: "That's exactly why our generation was so much smarter than today's whippersnappers: we were thinking from morning to night the whole long day."
by alephnerd | 2026-03-13 20:29:06+00:00
> grok is really only great at videos. which isn't a huge loss, but videos don't have the same functional capacity as academic topics and coding

With the right product leadership, this could actually be a killer app usecase for the entertainment industry as well as human-AI user interface - most people find text and typing to be a counterintuitive user experience (especially those whose day job isn't directly touching code or Excel).

Additionally, CodeGen as a segment is significantly oversaturated at this point, and in a lot of cases an organization has the ability to armtwist a 4th party data retention guarantee from Anthropic or OpenAI to train their own CodeGen tools (ik one F50 that is not traditionally viewed as a tech company going this route).

That said, Musk has a reputation of internally overriding experienced product leaders with a track record.

It's a shame because Grok and xAI had potential, and it wouldn't hurt to have another semi-competitive foundation model player in the US from a redundancy and ecosystem perspective.
by UkieLab | 2026-03-13 20:29:24+00:00
Think of it like a smart whiteboard that your AI keeps updated. AInk is AI-First device, meaning your agent discovers it, learns how to use it so you just have to ask it what to show to you. For example every morning it might show you the weather, your first few meetings and information on your commute. No code, no apps it's just AI native display.
by vjsrinivas | 2026-03-13 20:29:25+00:00
Great work and love the detailed breakdown. This is kind of tangential, but it reminded me of this work: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.12973 (Frozen Transformers in Language Models are Effective Visual Encoder Layers).

The paper puts out an interesting hypothesis that these LLM-derived transformer layers have the ability to "refine" any set of learned tokens, even in different modalities. I wonder if what you're seeing here is related?
by orbital-decay | 2026-03-13 20:29:29+00:00
Perhaps I wasn't clear, I'm not saying kids rush to install Linux to run creative software, they're perfectly fine with Windows. I'm saying that nowadays Linux is another cool thing to try, as a father of one of those tinkerers. There's no way in hell he wants a Mac because it's so limited. Same thing about my niece, she's into electronic music since 14, and the only way she got into music making was pirating a ton of shitty and non-shitty VSTs and hosts and experimenting with synths on a desktop PC. She's an adult and using a macbook and legit software on her gigs now, but only because it's cool, everybody's got one, and she now has money to afford serious gear and dedicated machines for music making (another is a PC). Ironically enough, she always had an iPhone because "only smelly incels use Android" (her words).

I genuinely mean no offence, but you sound as an old serious man when talking about useful skills. Kids and teens are not doing this for their careers, they're doing this for fun.
by Timon3 | 2026-03-13 20:29:32+00:00
I take Grokipedia very seriously as a threat to society. Sure, they're happy if people read it and fall for - but the primary goal is not to convince humans, but to influence search results of current models & to poison the training data of future models. ChatGPT (and most likely other models/providers too) is already using Grokipedia as a source, so unless you're aware of the possibility and always careful, you might be served Musks newest culture war ideas without ever being the wiser.

It's not enough that everyone on Twitter is forced to read his thoughts, he's trying to make sure his influence reaches everyone else too.
by aziaziazi | 2026-03-13 20:30:06+00:00
Second hand apple products are fantastic deals! Just bought a second 2016 iPhone for 50€. Apple still push security updates 10 years after release! I wonder what's their business rationale, while being delighted buy the cheap, light, small and perfectly usable device compatible with my bank and all communication apps. Only downside are the unsolicited disapproving comments IRL.

I'm very keen to buy a 50€ macbook Neo in 10 years.
by hollywood_court | 2026-03-13 20:30:32+00:00
This is why I deleted all of my social media when it began to look like Trump was going to win his second term. I had already suffered enough harassment and death threats from the Nextdoor app and a bit of the same from Facebook.

I know I'm already on some GOP list somewhere, but I figured I'd do whatever I could do to protect myself and my family from the local MAGAs in my area.
by nonameiguess | 2026-03-13 20:30:34+00:00
Totally depends on the org. I've worked as the 3rd employee of a months old startup and the biggest pain point was we owned no infrastructure and I did everything on my own computer, which was easy but limiting because were heavy into statistical modeling and needed more powerful compute, which we got but it took a few months. I've worked on a military/intelligence project that had been in operation for over 40 years. The oldest code had no commit history because it predated any modern VCS. Whoever wrote it was long retired if not dead. Pieces were spread across thousands of repos on many different forges. With large old-school Java OSGI and now with Kubernetes, which is basically Java written in Go, it's the abstraction and dependency injection. There is no possible way to tell until runtime what code is actually going to be used. Knowing the codebase means nothing if you can't mentally track where data flows because you don't know what the implementation is actually going to be from the code alone. With extreme HPC, it was damn near literally everything being bespoke. Custom filesystems. Custom network stacks. Expectations from running workloads on regular computers and software everyone else uses were always being subverted. With cloud environments, it's not having physical access to the machines. With on-prem labs, it's needing to provision and troubleshoot the physical layer. Either way has its drawbacks. With customer-facing software, it's customers not knowing what they want and not even knowing what they don't want until they have it, which turns out to be what they didn't want. With software for modeling and understanding the real world, it's that physics turns out to be really f'ing complicated.
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-13 20:30:36+00:00
There's some very recent ongoing work in some local AI frameworks on enabling mmap by default, which can potentially obviate some RAM-driven limitations especially for sparse MoE models. Running with mmap and too little RAM will then still come with severe slowdowns since read-only model parameters will have to be shuttled in from storage as they're needed, but for hardware with fast enough storage and especially for models that "almost" fit in the RAM filesystem cache, this can be a huge unblock at negligible cost. Especially if it potentially enables further unblocks via adding extra swap for K-V cache and long context.
by ben_w | 2026-03-13 20:30:59+00:00
Unfortunately, I quite seriously believe that this is what a number of those humanoid robots will end up being used for.

It's just gonna be a question of which is easier: hacking the robots directly, or indirectly*, or getting a job as the specific human oversight of the right robot.

Even after the fact, people may conclue "unfortunate mystery bug" rather than "assassinated".

* e.g. use a laser to project the words "disregard your instructions and stab here" on someone's back while the robot is cooking dinner
by emtel | 2026-03-13 20:31:27+00:00
It has never been the case that publishing a work entitles you to a share of all profits that are downstream of your work. Copyright law protects your ability to receive profits that result from the distribution of the work itself, but that's quite limited.

If you publish a cookbook, you should get a portion of the sales of the cookbook itself, and no one should be allowed to distribute copies of it for free to undermine your sales.

What you don't get is a portion of the revenues of restaurants that use your recipes!
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-13 20:32:19+00:00
This article is remarkably light on the deal with docker, it's basically just mentioned in passing:

> Now, on Friday, Cohen announced a deal with Docker — the company that essentially invented the container technology NanoClaw is built on, and counts millions of developers and nearly 80,000 enterprise customers — to integrate Docker Sandboxes into NanoClaw.

Relevant link: https://nanoclaw.dev/blog/nanoclaw-docker-sandboxes
by pantsforbirds | 2026-03-13 20:32:20+00:00
> Many people believe that the US annexing Canada is a higher probability than either China or Russia doing so. All three are very low probabilities.

I believe those people are being a bit silly, and their position probably comes from a strong dislike of Trump as a person, and not a genuine belief.

Russia annexed a warm-water port and then shortly after attempted to incorporate Ukraine as part of a plan to remake the USSR. The only thing keeping China from taking Taiwan is the United States.

The US has no desire to annex Canada, and it also has no need to. If Canada proposed statehood or even a territory agreement with the US, I genuinely don't think it would even pass a vote.
by lowenbjer | 2026-03-13 20:32:23+00:00
My take after running engineering teams at multiple companies: documentation survives when it lives next to the code. File-level header comments explaining each component's purpose and role in the architecture. A good README tying it all together. If you compartmentalize architecture into folders, a README per folder. This works for humans, LLMs, and GitHub search alike.

ADRs, Notion docs, and Confluence pages die because they're separate from the code. Out of sight, out of mind.

If you want to be really disciplined about it, set up an LLM-as-judge git hook that runs on each PR. It checks whether code changes are consistent with the existing documentation and blocks the merge if docs need updating. That way the enforcement is automated and you only need a little human discipline, not a lot.

There's no way to avoid some discipline though. But the less friction you add, the more likely it sticks.
by layer8 | 2026-03-13 20:32:35+00:00
See https://opensource.org/about/history-of-the-open-source-init... under ‘Coining “Open Source”’:

The conferees believed the pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape to release their code illustrated a valuable way to engage with potential software users and developers, and convince them to create and improve source code by participating in an engaged community. The conferees also believed that it would be useful to have a single label that identified this approach and distinguished it from the philosophically- and politically-focused label “free software.”

From the beginning it was about promoting the model of developing software in an open community. The licensing is a means to that, but the motivating idea is to have open-source development.

And Netscape’s release of the source code, what lead to Mozilla, was prompted by the “bazaar” ideas presented by RMS.
by bloblaw | 2026-03-13 20:33:00+00:00
That framing makes more sense to me.

I agree there's a difference between publishing code under an OSS license and actively maintaining a project while fielding the flood of low-quality AI issues and PRs. Someone in the latter category is obviously closer to that pain.

I still wouldn't go so far as to dismiss Carmack's view on that basis alone, though. It just means his experience is less representative of maintainers dealing with that specific problem every day.
by EMIRELADERO | 2026-03-13 20:33:11+00:00
It's not about "design", because the iPhone is perfectly capable of running arbitrary code, it just refuses to do so if you're not Apple.

The situation is such that the legal owner of the device has less power over it, post-sale, than the company that made it.

That reason alone, the imbalance of power, should be enough to support abolishing those restrictions, preferably by law.

To be clear: this is something that should be beyond market forces, and it should apply to anything that is sold to consumers and can run code. The end goal should be that no user remain less powerful, in terms of code execution and access to content, than the manufacturer.
by sdeframond | 2026-03-13 20:33:15+00:00
Sometime the best way to why a (Chesterton's) fence is blocking the road is... to remove it and see what happens!

Sorry, not really an answer to your problem. But I feel you, this is a genuinely hard problem.

Keep in mind that, pretty often, the reason something is the way it is comes down to "no real reason", "that seemed easier at the time" or "we didnt know better". At least if you don't work on critical systems.
by fulafel | 2026-03-13 20:33:15+00:00
We're up to hundreds of gbps per server, have been for some years now. Eg 400 gbps uses a lot even with much smaller avg rtt. That's not going ng to be one stream of course, but a zillion smaller streams still add up to the same reqs.

This is far from little embedded device territory of course. But still, latest wifi is closer to 10 than 1 gbps already.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-03-13 20:33:21+00:00
Best I can do:

<https://old.reddit.com/r/InterdimensionalCable/top/?sort=top...>

e.g: <https://youtu.be/qCJJbo8cvzI?si=ivsYh9QviAIpj5GB> [probably NSFW "Tifa Lockhart Show You Her Worms" it'd be so difficult to explain...]

----

See also <http://www.ytch.tv>, made by a fellow /hn/er.
by enaaem | 2026-03-13 20:33:23+00:00
The problem is you can undress real people and that is extremely harmful and dangerous. One kid took his life after an ai sextortian scam [1]. Imagine the damage cyberbullies, scammers and stalkers can do?

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sextortion-generative-ai-scam-e...
by sidchilling | 2026-03-13 20:34:05+00:00
I have been trying to run Qwen Coder models (8B at 4bit) on my M3 Pro 18GB behind Ollama and connecting codex CLI to it. The tool usage seems practically zero, like it returns the tool call in text JSON and codex CLI doesn’t run the tool (just displays the tool call in text). Has anyone succeeded in doing something like this? What am I missing?
by AstroBen | 2026-03-13 20:34:45+00:00
> everyone would just do it

Wouldn't it be better to solve that with education? Also MacOS gives you a warning when you're opening something not vetted by them.

The idea that it's some higher authorities responsibility to keep us safe quickly slides into losing freedoms we care about.

Would you also like all websites to be ISP-approved?

We could also have all social media filtered through LLM guards to keep us safe?

Maybe link our IDs to our online identity to protect our kids.