MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by terminalshort | 2026-03-02 21:32:08+00:00
What does any of that have to do with anything?

> If you want to insist that only greedy corporations could have made portable hand-held network connected computing devices possible, then make that point.

It burns oil and emits CO2. Doesn't matter who makes it or if they are "greedy." Physics doesn't care about human emotions.

> If you want to insist that there could be no automobile or refueling system without a system in which corporate profits primarily are directed towards capital rather than labor, then make that point.

It burns oil and emits CO2. Physics doesn't care about accounting.

> If you find it impossible that powered flight would exist at a price where most people could afford it without specific laws controlling corporate liability and legal fiduciary responsibility, than make that point.

It burns oil and emits CO2. It doesn't matter what the price to the end user is or who liability. Physics does not care about lawyers.

> But "ah, so you use human-created technology while criticizing the organizations that make it" isn't really the winning argument that you appear to think it is.

If your criticism is about global warming, then yes it is a wining argument because the organizations are irrelevant. It burns oil and emits CO2. Physics doesn't care about human organizations.
by mercutio2 | 2026-03-02 21:32:21+00:00
“Scared” to “take risks”?

This is a bizarre way of saying “if they ship it and it has reliability problems, they know they’re skating on thin ice”.

Apple’s brand has taken a beating (I’m as aghast with the latest macOS as the next nerd), but people love that when Apple ships a product, it generally works and the hardware doesn’t break.

Butterfly keyboards are a terrible stain on the hardware team’s reputation. “Scared” is the wrong word for how these things work.
by otterley | 2026-03-02 21:32:26+00:00
Wow, that was a lot of words.

> I think that is incredibly foolish a perspective. Rooted in old ridiculous slipshod biases, with no respect for users & their agency, and makes unsupported weak technical arguments that define away the possibility of APIs being anything but better.

Since this is a technical discussion, let's debate these based on their technological pros and cons, and avoid the characterizations, shall we?

> You don't state efficient at what, so I'll first argue you best case: energy efficient, least amount of computing done.

Yup.

> Both provide mechanistic access. If the user already had the browser open and is going for help, the difference is nearly nothing. It's different wire formats. We are talking the smallest tiniest peanuts of difference.

The difference may be "nearly nothing" at individual scale but not at global scale. The aggregate difference in energy and data transfer required to power a full browser experience vs. APIs is enormous. If it weren't true, Google, Amazon, and Meta wouldn't have spent nearly as much blood and treasure in optimizations, both in hardware and software, as they have over the last 25+ years. You can't just hand-wave this away. If you told Google and Meta that gRPC and Thrift were "peanuts of difference" and "trivial" they'd laugh in your face and show you the door. (You can always tell when someone's not an experienced engineer as soon as bandy about the word "trivial.")

Again, browser-based interfaces are for humans. They change frequently, often at the whim of designers. As they evolve, agents must evolve with them. That sort of instability contributes to the resources needed to mechanize them. Compare against APIs, which often have stability guarantees, or at the very least, are only additive over time.

> Which WebMCP is a direct answer to, by allowing pages to offer a low friction access path that allows mechanistic control. Without the LLM having to "backstop" scrape and parse and puppeteer/playwright/devtools-protocol it's way through.

This I understand. But APIs are even more efficient still.

> If the agent is using an API, they have to craft a de-novo interface at every step of the process, either as text responses or MCP UI or other. The agent has to reinterpret and describe: it can't just show us what is, short of showing us OpenAPI definitions and json payloads.

I think you may be underestimating the extent to which this will need to happen with browser-based MCP connectivity as well.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to dive deep into the rest of your comment, as it's just too verbose and narrative-driven. If you'd like to make concise and concrete technological arguments, though, I'm open to that.
by tim-tday | 2026-03-02 21:32:35+00:00
There’s no such thing as low German. There are instead hundreds of German dialects. “High German” is just an attempt at unification through an agreed upon standard dialect.
For example:
The German an Austrian speaks with his grandmother may be incomprehensible to his friend from Switzerland. But they both understand the form used on the news.
Saying someone doesn’t speak “low German” is nonsensical. Nonsensical statements make the whole argument suspect.
by gizmo686 | 2026-03-02 21:32:37+00:00
LLMs outputting code that doesn't compile is the failure mode you want. Outputting wrong code that compiles is far worse.

Setting aside the problems of wrong but compiling code. Wrong and non-compiling code is also much easier to deal with. For training an LLM, you have an objective fitness function to detect compilation errors.

For using an LLM, you can embed the LLM itself in a larger system that checks it's output and either re-rolls on errors, or invokes something to fix the errors.
by turf_penguin | 2026-03-02 21:32:38+00:00
I'm a DevOps/SRE/Platform engineer. 10 years experience including private equity firms (HFT and prop trading).

Location:

Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dual citizenship with Ireland & UK

Remote:

Any, full remote, hybrid or in office.

Willing to relocate:

Within reason, have mother in hospital so no more than a cheap, regular flight away - unless travel is irregular, then anywhere works.

Technologies:

Script in bash, python and if necessary groovy. Picking up Golang.

Worked with bare metal including data centre creation, hybrid cloud and mainly AWS with Azure and Alibaba exposure.

I prefer ansible for my IaC but I have experience with puppet, saltstack & Terraform for cloud provisioning

DBs I'm no stranger to InfluxDB or even KDB+ but I'm no DBA and main proficiency is with Postgres. Splunk including proper querying to a standard Quants were happy with. Elastic, can use, have experience, less fun to work with.

JIRA and confluence, heavy on the plugin side of things but anyone can design and manage those properly.

Monitoring wise check_mk, zabbix, datadog all experienced with to the point of monitoring HFT applications and hardware like custom NICs/FPGAs due to the race to zero.

Résumé/CV: On request

Email:

farquhar.lloyd@protonmail.com
by yndoendo | 2026-03-02 21:32:51+00:00
Haven't jumped into rust for a while. Had to read up on what .unwrap() does.

x, _ :=

With the topic of .unwrap() _ is referencing an ignored error. Better laid out as:

func ParseStringToBase10i32AndIDoNotCare(s string) {
i, _ := strconv.ParseInt(s, 10, 32)
return i
}

Un-handled errors in Go keeps the application going were rust crashes .unwrap().

Ignoring an output data value or set is just fine. Don't always need the key and value of a map. Nor a y axes in vector<x,y,z> math.
by 1718627440 | 2026-03-02 21:33:11+00:00
If you use an X Server and environment to launch programs inside WSL2, what part produced by Microsoft is still providing some value to that setup? Wouldn't you just exec ELF programs to be run on top of the Linux kernel and Windows would be just some useless abstraction layer between the Linux kernel and the hardware? Or would you still use some actual Windows programs? How would that work with the X Server?
by absqueued | 2026-03-02 21:33:36+00:00
The email I received says "Due to recent changes in how we determine account eligibility, we are no longer able to support accounts for businesses with physical or residential addresses in these countries. As a result, we will be closing the Mercury account1 for xxx xxx, LLC on May 1, 2026."

So is this the end for Non-US founders? This was the only bank that offered accounts/fin service without being physically present.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-02 21:33:59+00:00
That's a myth.

Farmers have to wake up early because their animals wake up at sunrise and some tasks are best performed at that time. So they wake up before sunrise regardless of the clock time.

Human, like farm animals, are better off if they wake up at sunrise and go to sleep in full dark. At the equator that's easy, wake at 6, bed at 10PM. And standard work hours are 7-3 or 8-4.
by NickNaraghi | 2026-03-02 21:34:09+00:00
Pretty exciting breakthrough. This actually mirrors the early days of game engine netcode evolution. Since latency is an orchestration problem (not a model problem) you can beat general-purpose frameworks by co-locating and pipelining aggressively.

Carmack's 2013 "Latency Mitigation Strategies" paper[0] made the same point for VR too: every millisecond hides in a different stage of the pipeline, and you only find them by tracing the full path yourself. Great find with the warm TTS websocket pool saving ~300ms, perfect example of this.

[0]: https://danluu.com/latency-mitigation/
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-02 21:34:16+00:00
That’s false if you consider an idiot to be a person that can’t understand why it’s important. In this context, we can see companies selling the exact service we’re talking about to hr departments. Every bit of data they can get from social media sites to data brokers of all stripes or whatever else and assigns generic employability scores.

I’ll bet most of the people in those companies have considered this problem more than nearly anyone else — because they need to figure out how to get people to buy it anyway, and try to spackle over the parts that give people pause. The reason they don’t care is because it’s what’s in between them and money. There are intelligent criminals out there. They aren’t idiots, they’re just assholes.
by Telaneo | 2026-03-02 21:34:42+00:00
I don't judge them negatively. They're working based on the available information. That line of reasoning is the exact same that I would use if it weren't for the fact that I have better information available and thus can apply the platinum rule. I don't enjoy random conversations, and would consider it rude to engage in them if it weren't for the fact people seem to enjoy them. Since they do, I try to engage in them when people try to strike one up.

If I didn't have that information (and people used the golden rule consistently and weren't just knobheads), then I would be consistently annoyed at people not following the golden rule. As long as my theory of mind doesn't include 'other people generally enjoy random conversations', my perception would be that the golden rule is consistently broken by people striking up random conversations.
by taeric | 2026-03-02 21:34:46+00:00
Sadly, this isn't really right. Humanity settled on solar time. For somewhat obvious reasons.

Alas, I don't see my preferred method of changing the clock by 10 minutes every month taking hold. Basically ever. :D

I also don't think this is nearly as important for places that are not further away from the equator. If you are on the equator, you are almost certainly fine with no change throughout the year.
by alpaca128 | 2026-03-02 21:34:49+00:00
I have large hands but the 13 Mini is roughly the maximum I can use one-handed without doing the weird finger balancing act to shift the phone around. I get why most people like large phones - media consumption - but not everyone is into that.

I don't even mind large phones if they're done right. My favorite phone of all time is the BB Passport which you have to use two-handed, but it was actually designed around that and amazing to use.
by roughly | 2026-03-02 21:35:18+00:00
Neither George Carlin nor I am saying that the average person cannot invest in companies, nor that they should not be able to (well, I'm not, at least).

We are both saying that the rules and conditions under which you and I invest in companies and the market are substantially different than those in which the ultrawealthy invest in the market, and ours carry both higher risks and more onerous terms. You can argue whatever you want about why that is or whether it should be, but we're not all on a level playing field, and that's relevant especially in an era when all of the answers to "how do I make myself secure against the vicissitudes of fate" involve "investing" in the market.
by bethekind | 2026-03-02 21:35:20+00:00
Jane Street had a cool video about how you can address lack of training data in a programming language using llm patching. Video is called "Arjun Guha: How Language Models Model Programming Languages & How Programmers Model Language Models"

The big take away is that you can "patch" llms and steer them to correct answers in less trained programming languages, allowing for superior performance. Might work here. Not a clue how to implement, but stuff to llm-to-doc and the like makes me hopeful
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-02 21:35:40+00:00
The GP made an observation about "greedy corporations".

You sarcastically wrote

> Posted from your iphone while driving to the gas station to fill up? Where did you fly to for your last vacation?

as if using any of those technologies means that you have no standing to criticize "greedy corporations".

I've pointed out the (potential) disconnect between the technologies and the corporations, and you've now wandered off into "fossil fuels do stuff, physics matters" which of course is true but as before, has nothing to do with someone criticizing what they see as/claim are "greedy corporations".
by ljoshua | 2026-03-02 21:36:00+00:00
I've had at least 256GB on my phones for the last couple of generations after having had to deal with storage issues beforehand, and it's been much nicer.

But I picked up a 16e for my son a few months ago, with 128GB, and yes, we're running into issues with storage space when it comes time to do an OS update. Between local music and photos storage, base storage, and the image for the new update, two or three times now we've had to delete stuff temporarily in order to get the update going. So I'm happy the new base is 256GB, at least that will probably last us a couple more generations before ~~640KB~~ 256GB is enough for everyone.
by hbn | 2026-03-02 21:36:10+00:00
You can still get a chronological feed if you tap the Instagram logo at the top and click "Following"

But you can't turn that mode on as a default, and it essentially kicks you from the normal app hierarchy into a separate barebones screen. I find it's all for naught anyway because my friends have long since stopped making regular posts on Instagram, it's more common to use stories.
by tinco | 2026-03-02 21:36:39+00:00
Less than 5% of the population knew what it meant to install an app when the iPhone launched. I believe Steve Ballmer ridiculed the idea when asked about it.

A great many amount of people use Android to this day because of its more open nature, and that's despite Google's involvement. If Motorola could go back to its native roots, shake the idea of Chinese influence, and do open source proper, I bet there's a lot more than 5% of the market ready for it.
by bonjourjoel | 2026-03-02 21:36:50+00:00
Okay thanks for the feedback. I've re-written my readme description and made it shorter. I hope my method is more clear now. I added a 1mn video to explain without all this blah blah blah. :D

Yes there are real differences with copilot/continue/cc: Detailed specifications, AI refinements, AI verifications, and a lot of system instructions yes that's what i mean by instructed, to make the communication with the AI easier.

Yes I have used AI to help me write the README. So i'm an AI user smh ? But the story is true and I have more like this, but I have removed most of the uninteresting text from the description, because yes you're right it was too long.

And I was able to write a 500K LOC app using this methodology and it's maintainable. Can Copilot/Continue/CC do this ? I have tried and they generated crap that's unmaintainable long term. Did you succeed writing a big app with these tools ? I did not but maybe it's possible ?

My app doesn't have downloads any way. So you must be right: It seems useless. Yet it made a difference for me. I don't know...
by gf000 | 2026-03-02 21:36:51+00:00
For many (most) types of objects lifetimes can be a runtime property just fine. For e.g. a list, in rust/c/c++ you would have to do an explicit decision how long should it be "alive", meanwhile a managed language's assumption that when it's reachable that is its lifetime is completely correct and it has the benefit of fluidly adapting to future code changes, lessening maintenance costs.

Of course there are types where this is not true (file handlers, connections, etc), and managed languages usually don't have as good features to deal with these as CPP/Rust (raii).
by hinkley | 2026-03-02 21:37:19+00:00
That does seem to argue for the checkpointing strategy of having the agent explain their plan and then work on it incrementally. When you run out of tokens you either switch projects until your quota recovers or you proceed by hand until the quota recovers.

I also kinda expect that one of the saner parts of agentic development is the skills system, that skills can be completely deterministic, and that after the Trough of Disillusionment people will be using skills a lot more and AI a lot less.
by ezulabs | 2026-03-02 21:37:32+00:00
Location: EU timezone, can overlap US 4 hours

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: AI, MLX, llama.cpp, Kotlin, NextJS, Embedded

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/ezulabs, available upo request

Email: contact@ezulabs.com

You will be hiring an ex-silicon valley engineer for junior engineer level cost. Please no ego and bs companies.
by playa1 | 2026-03-02 21:37:39+00:00
I have children and I’ve never heard any arguments for DLS that make any sense.

Most of the time people conflate longer summer days with DLS.

The situation with dark mornings is winter not standard time.

My children are already waking to school in daylight this time of year prior to the switch to DLS.

As others have said. I would rather permanent standard time but I’ll take permanent DLS. Moving the clocks twice a year is insanity.
by jerf | 2026-03-02 21:37:46+00:00
It sounds like you think govulncheck can analyze your code and detect vulnerabilities that you wrote in your code. That's not what it does. It analyzes the libraries that you use and determines if you are using them in a vulnerable way. For a free tool, govulncheck is somewhat nicer than average in its class because it does call flow analysis and won't claim you're vulnerable just because you used a module, you have to actually have a call that could go over the vulnerable code, but "somewhat nicer than average" is as far as I would take it. But many languages have similar tools, and when you say "static analyzer" this isn't what I have in mind. For that I'd cite golangci-lint, which is a collection of community-built analysis tools, and it's nice to be able to pick them all up in one fell swoop, but they're nothing like Coverity or any real static analysis tool.
by adampunk | 2026-03-02 21:37:53+00:00
>a plan detailed enough to reliably one-shot an implementation across several models.

What. Why should this be an output? Why if I make a project should I be responsible for also making this, an entirely different and much more difficult and potentially impossible project? If I come and show you a project that require required thousands of sessions to make I also have to show you how to one shot it in multiple models? Does that even make sense?
by fuzzfactor | 2026-03-02 21:37:56+00:00
I appreciate effort to make this a better place, I just would rather do it with upvotes more than anything else.

I don't prefer slop at all, plus people already know Microsoft has declined more in one recent year than any other, and this Microslop site is kind of a lame response, but it did draw some worthwhile comments. This is the kind of thing that has been on peoples' minds so that's what comes out.

I don't think it's gostsamo promoting his own work, just something he ran across that emphasizes how bad it could get or maybe how bad it already is in some quarters.

Pure slop really and it's bound to get the strongest reaction, but quite interesting when plenty of 90% slop is passing under the radar quite regularly.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-02 21:37:56+00:00
As I've noted multiple times here on HN, I don't disagree with this.

But the question is not about whether it is a more accurate and honest term. It is about people complying in advance with the illegal/extra-legal renaming of a federal agency by a president who does not have the right or authority to do so.

If we were talking about Congress voting to rename the DoD as the DoW, I'd have nothing to say on the matter that differed from your observation.
by unsupp0rted | 2026-03-02 21:38:12+00:00
You’d think so, but then what’s the HN for those various fields?

Their communities of practice tend to enshitify after just a handful of years, turn into professional flame wars on the same old topics, or otherwise ossify into something that just repeats the talking points of the day.

I've been in a number of these communities: you leave for 5 years and come back and it's the same discussions repeated forever, or news posted that's weeks or months out of date. They don't generate, they regurgitate, and slowly.
by bernardom | 2026-03-02 21:38:12+00:00
git checkout four copies of your repo (repo, repo_2, repo_3, repo_4)
within each one open claude code
Works pretty well! With the $100 subscription I usually don't get limited in a day. A lot of thinking needs to go into giving it the right context (markdown specs in repo works for us)

Obv, work on things that don't affect each other, otherwise you'll be asking them to look across PRs and that's messy.
by preisschild | 2026-03-02 21:38:17+00:00
Personally I'm pretty happy with GrapheneOS (Android AOSP distribution) and also donating to it. It works for me, its licensed under a free software license, there are plenty of cool free software applications available. I'm familiar with Android application development if I need something custom.

Unless Android (itself, not Google Play Services because I don't depend on them) goes closed source I don't see a reason to switch to something (imo) inferior.

I have nothing PmOS, phosh and other free mobile smartphone projects and will probably redirect my resources towards them if Android goes closed source.
by esoltys | 2026-03-02 21:38:20+00:00
Why now? From the Govt of BC press release: "The Interpretation Amendment Act, which is the legal framework that enables the Province to adopt permanent DST, became law in 2019. At the time, government chose not to bring it into force in order to co-ordinate timing with neighbouring U.S. states in the same time zone.

Recent actions from the U.S. have shifted how B.C. approaches decisions that merit alignment, including on time zones. Making this change now reflects the current preferences and needs of British Columbians, and helps ensure the province is well-positioned to thrive, even when circumstances across the border evolve."

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209