MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tchebb | 2026-03-01 02:58:28+00:00
Note that this menu item was not used to install Android apps, which is what people often mean by "sideloading", especially with all the discourse around Google's new developer verification requirements. This menu item was used to manually install an OS update from a .zip file and already required that file to be signed by Samsung on locked devices.

On unlocked devices, you can install your own recovery that still has the option. So the removal doesn't prevent too much in practice. That ship sailed when Samsung stopped allowing bootloader unlocking on most of their phones.
by clumsysmurf | 2026-03-01 02:58:35+00:00
Try oat groats, this will have the lowest GI. You can cook them like rice, even in a rice cooker, using the same technique ... for a firmer result use less water and cook for less time. You can start off with roughly 1:1 ratio of oat groats to water. I do .75 cups oat groats to 1.25 cups water.
by megamike | 2026-03-01 02:59:04+00:00
This is going to be a longer war. Iran is slowly burning up the Israeli missile defense stockpiles when one Iranian drone receives 10 missiles fired in defense. When the stockpiles are gone, then the Iranian counter-attack will begin in earnest

Only the dumbest people think that a spontaneous uprising occurs during a bombing campaign. And the new leaders will be as hardline as the old
by pear01 | 2026-03-01 02:59:09+00:00
I mean even if we accept the premise the problem is if you start to engage with this game then the next Congress can do it too.

Pretty soon you'll have "Middle Dakota". And on and on.

At a certain point the USA is going to have to address its structural issues - the founders foretold of this necessity. It's why the amendment process exists in the first place.
by bill_waybird | 2026-03-01 02:59:47+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Bill.

I built Sailor.ai after watching my girlfriend (a senior BDR) spend hours prompt-tweaking AI outreach tools.

Workflow is simple:

- account, product, and target context in

- targeted, well-researched emails with sources out

You can generate a personalized sequence, review it, and copy/send fast.

I’d love feedback on:

1) output quality

2) first-run friction

3) what would make this useful weekly

I’ll be here replying and shipping fixes quickly.
by pygar | 2026-03-01 03:00:21+00:00
His daughter, son-in-law, and the defense minister were also killed, as they were all in his residence at the time.

If he decided to stay for ideological reasons, they would not have been there.

My guess is that they might have misinterpreted the US's demands as starting positions while the US considered them to be final. Who would expect a country that can produce ballistic missiles to willingly give it up? It was a non-starter from the beginning.
by ryan_n | 2026-03-01 03:00:28+00:00
>It does not describe the social media r/childfree mindset people I know at all. They have their bubble of friends they keep in touch with only when they feel like it but that's about it.

Do you actually know a lot of those people? I know a lot of people that don't have kids and they all are very normal, well adjusted people. None of them hate kids. Using the word "breeders" as derogatory is weird, bordering on mentally unwell behavior. I've never met anyone that doesn't have kids that's like that. Even for the few people I've met that don't particularly care for children, they just keep it to themselves.

Reddit I think is not representative of real life for the vast majority of people.
by netcraft | 2026-03-01 03:00:34+00:00
I have high cholesterol, have had for more than a decade. Was on a statin, they didnt help. Doubled them, they didnt help. Changed my diet radically, lost 25 lbs (I was a little overweight, but not bad), ate full medeteranian diet and did everything I could, my numbers didnt budge. Changed to a stronger one and within two weeks my numbers were perfect.

I believe for some of us its purely genetic.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-01 03:00:46+00:00
> Can you look at code today and predict what assembly a compiler will output to some high degree of accuracy?

Yeah most of the assembly, most of the time. And when I can’t, I can predict what an unoptimized version of the assembly will look like.

And I know that the optimized assembly has a very very high likelihood of being semantically identical.
by nl | 2026-03-01 03:01:32+00:00
> Speculation is that the frontier models are all below 200B parameters

Some versions of some the models are around that size, which you might hit for example with the ChatGPT auto-router.

But the frontier models are all over 1T parameters. Source: watch interview with people who have left one of the big three labs and now work at the Chinese labs and are talking about how to train 1T+ models.
by layer8 | 2026-03-01 03:02:00+00:00
> pretend that programming is manually sanding wood, while AI-assisted programming is using a belt sander.

That analogy falls flat, because there is little creative difference between these two modes of sanding. In particular, there is approximately zero variation in what the belt sander does as a function of how you control it. It is a reliable, deterministic, very predictable tool. That’s as different from generative AI as a compiler is.
by gpm | 2026-03-01 03:02:31+00:00
I agree the wording is a bit strange, but a quick grep of the repo shows that it doesn't imply that.

The only usages of unsafe are in src/ffi, which is only compiled when the ffi feature is enabled. ffi is fundamentally unsafe ("unsafe" meaning "the compiler can't automatically verify this code won't result in undefined behavior") so using it there is reasonable, and the rest of the crate is properly free of unsafe.
by MengerSponge | 2026-03-01 03:03:32+00:00
Maybe they like Cornell's existing military affiliation?

Meredith: You know, I once dated a couple of guys from Cornell. They were really nice, gave me a ride home.

Andy: I seriously doubt anyone from Cornell dated you.

Creed: It's pronounced "colonel." It's the highest rank in the military.

Andy: It's pronounced Cornell! It's the highest rank in the Ivy league.
I built AI agents that do the grunt work solo founders hate
by Seleci | 2026-03-01 03:03:50+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm a solo founder. Every morning I was spending 2 hours doing the same things: checking competitors, reading AI news, monitoring my Stripe dashboard, looking at Google Trends for content ideas.

So I built Seleci to automate all of it.

What it does: You pick a template (Market Pulse, Revenue Radar, Trend Scout), click deploy, schedule it, and every morning you get a clean markdown report — no code, no Zapier flows, no prompt engineering.

How it works under the hood:

FastAPI backend with an agentic loop (tool-calling LLM with web search, Stripe API, Google Trends)
Per-tool rate limiting to prevent runaway agent loops (web_search capped at 3 calls/run)
React/Vite frontend, Supabase auth, deployed on Koyeb + Vercel
The agent actually executes tools and returns structured results — not a chatbot wrapper
What it's NOT:

Not another ChatGPT skin
Not a no-code workflow builder (no nodes, no drag-and-drop)
Not trying to replace developers — it's for the founder who doesn't have one
Live demo: https://seleci.com

I'm applying to YC with this. Would love brutal feedback from HN via Discord — what's missing, what's broken, what would make you actually use this?
by panick21 | 2026-03-01 03:04:08+00:00
This not actually a good reason. First of all, of course you can't get anything better if you never ask for anything better or consider alternatives or put any money into anything better.

If you never invested in anything else, then the M4 Sherman tank would still be the best tank. And then you could say 'we can't get anything better' and continue to use it while refusing to ever even put 1$ into developing anything else.

And actually there are plenty of ways, even without Starship to do these things differently.

I remember when SLS fans in 2016 told me that SLS is real and Falcon Heavy is fake. Even when Falcon Heavy and now New Gleen can do most things SLS can.

One NASA Administer was almost fired for exploring if Orion could launch on Falcon Heavy.

The thing is NASA is not looking for alternatives, and it doesn't matter if Starship is fully proven and operational. People will still say its not the same, because Starship will need refuel and isn't direct.

You can always find a reason to justify one solution if you only ever consider that solution and refuse to even look at any other possibility.
by SllX | 2026-03-01 03:06:01+00:00
I think y’all are so quick to try and criticize everything around the President that you’re kinda missing my point:

Of course there are people that would love to target the POTUS. The Secret Service detail exists for a reason. That reason being that yeah, it’s an unsafe job, and having them there is how we prevent a foreign adversary from just walking right into the White House and doing what we did to Maduro.
by jjtheblunt | 2026-03-01 03:06:09+00:00
iirc, from older articles, which differ from this nice result, bile acids contain cholesterol(s) and they're generally reabsorbed in the intestines, so the fiber is conjectured to bind with some before reabsorption, expelling the bound fraction of circulating cholesterol in feces.

this result in the paper is very interesting in the conjecture is that the gut microbiome is altered in a beneficial way, and that the effect (with the resulting lowering of cholesterol) persists for weeks after even 2 days of oats.
by nojito | 2026-03-01 03:07:48+00:00
>THe AI won't get the perfect system in one shot, far from it! And especially not from sloppy initial requirements that leave a lot of edge (or not-so-edge) cases unadressed. But if you have a good requirement to start with, you have a chance to correct the AI, keep it on track; you have something to go back to and ask other AI, "is this implementation conforming to the spec or did it miss things?"

This is an antiquated way of thinking. If you ramp up the number of agents you're using the auto-correcting and reviewing behavior kicks in which makes for much less human intervention until the final code review.
by Paddyz | 2026-03-01 03:08:48+00:00
The most interesting thing about this project isn't the GPT itself - it's what it reveals about the gap between "understanding the math" and "understanding the engineering."

I've read the attention paper, watched Karpathy's own YouTube lectures, implemented toy transformers in notebooks. But reading through this C implementation I finally grokked why KV-cache matters at the systems level - because when you see the memory layout spelled out in raw mallocs instead of hidden behind PyTorch abstractions, the O(n^2) vs O(n) tradeoff for cached inference becomes visceral rather than theoretical.

This is the same reason people learn more about operating systems from xv6 than from reading the Linux source. Minimal implementations aren't just educational toys - they're the only way to build intuition about what the abstractions are actually doing. The fact that a full GPT-2 fits in ~1000 lines of C should make every ML engineer uncomfortable about how much complexity their frameworks are hiding from them.
by Paddyz | 2026-03-01 03:09:27+00:00
The benchmark gaming discussion is valid but I think it obscures a more interesting trend: the gap between open and closed models is closing fastest in specific, constrained domains rather than general intelligence.

I run a multi-model setup for production work - routing different tasks to different models based on what actually works, not benchmark scores. What I've found over the past 6 months:

- Structured output (JSON extraction, classification, reformatting): open models at 30B+ are genuinely competitive. Qwen and Gemma both handle this reliably.

- Code completion and inline suggestions: small MoE models are surprisingly good here because the task is inherently constrained by surrounding context.

- Complex multi-step reasoning, long-horizon planning, or tasks requiring deep domain knowledge: frontier closed models still win by a significant margin.

The practical takeaway isn't "open models match Sonnet" or "benchmarks are lies" - it's that the cost-performance frontier has shifted enough that a thoughtful routing strategy (cheap/local model for 70% of tasks, frontier API for the 30% that actually needs it) is now viable in a way it wasn't even 6 months ago. That's the real story here, not whether Qwen exactly matches Sonnet on some leaderboard.
by Paddyz | 2026-03-01 03:10:02+00:00
The 35b-a3b model is misleading in its naming - it's a MoE with only 3B active parameters per forward pass. You're essentially running a 3B-class model for inference quality while paying the memory cost of loading 35B parameters. That's why it feels so much worse than Opus or Gemini, which are likely 10-100x larger in effective compute per token.

For your M3 Max 128G setup, try Qwen3.5-122B-A10B with a 4-bit quantization instead (should fit in ~50-60GB). 10B active params is a massive step up from 3B and you'll actually see the quality difference people are talking about. MLX versions specifically optimized for Apple Silicon will also give you noticeably better tok/s than running through ollama.

The general rule I've settled on: MoE models with <8B active params are great for structured tasks (reformatting, classification, simple completions) but fall apart on anything requiring deep reasoning or domain knowledge. For your research question use case, you want either a dense 27B+ model or a MoE with 10B+ active params.
by noduerme | 2026-03-01 03:10:02+00:00
I personally do not. But I don't work in the software industry. I write custom software in an industry that's as far away from tech as you can imagine. My management tells me what features they want, and doesn't care how it gets done. They only care that it works, and the priority is never to get a feature out fast. The priority is to never break their logistics software that's used 24/7. The deployment cycle is still fast, but bugs can be catastrophic, and it's on me to fix any bugs that crop up whenever something goes into production. Usually, when a bug filters up to me, it's within a few hours, because edge cases arise quickly. I know almost immediately what lines of code in which files are the most likely culprits. Because I wrote them, and I tested them manually, and I thought long and hard before hitting the button. If someone else (or something else) wrote them, I'd have to go hunting at the exact moment when time is critical and there's an open bug in a live deployment, and my phone is ringing and people are yelling.

The term "vibe coding" is new, but I've described what I do as "jazz coding" for a couple decades.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-03-01 03:11:10+00:00
I’m speaking specially about Windows 8/8.1. Obviously 11 and the new Fluent design language it brought don’t suffer the same issue.

Whatever the case, rounded corners on the titlebars and window chrome were common in XP/Vista/7 custom msstyles but were nowhere to be seen for 8/8.1 custom msstyles. It was one of the most frustrating aspects of that era of Windows for me.
by DavidPiper | 2026-03-01 03:11:12+00:00
I've also had a proper Thunderbolt display freak out where the entire desktop just suddenly decides to ultra-saturate/ultra-contrast. Happened twice, across restarts. After the second restart it stopped, but I can't explain it and nothing like it has happened before/since/with other machines I connect to the screen with the same cable.

Not sure about "harder to find" but the sheer number of unexplainable glitches and slowness means I wouldn't otherwise have upgraded had I known. Waiting for a higher 26.X release might be worthwhile.
by garspin | 2026-03-01 03:12:05+00:00
Consciousness & souls are defined by feelings.

Feelings need chemicals - dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin.

Our meat substrate has these, silcon doesn't.

While mirrors, TVs, Tiktoks, LLMs can evoke emotions in us, that's not sufficent to assign feelings, consciousness or souls to that substrate.
by bityard | 2026-03-01 03:12:38+00:00
My step-mother (who didn't come into my life until around the time I got married. She is actually a pretty nice person overall, she is just... shall we say, opinionated, and could be somewhat racist once the conversation turned to politics. I always stopped participating in the conversation when she made racist statements, but she never fully seemed to take the hint.

Then we had a child. Once our kid was old enough to start understanding what people were saying, I put my foot down at one point when we came to visit. To paraphrase: I said, look, you're free to think whatever you want about whoever you want but the racist shit has to end when my daughter is around. Otherwise we need to head back home.

After that, it never happened again and we still keep in touch with her to this day. Some people just need to be told exactly where the boundaries are and then they respect them. (But of course not all will.)
by andrewflnr | 2026-03-01 03:12:41+00:00
Even if Trump doesn't care, Israel is very motivated to make regime change happen. They want to be permanently rid of Iran's nuclear threat, its funding of terrorist groups, all of it. Honestly I think Trump or at least his administration is on a similar page, and if not the Israelis can clearly be pretty persuasive.

No, my worry is whether it will be a regime change that benefits the Iranian people or some kind of sick puppet state. But of course:

> Trump will declare it as a victory regardless of what happens

...This goes without saying.
by lubujackson | 2026-03-01 03:13:44+00:00
My question is always: what are you building? You need to tell the AI what to build. What if it does it in a way that isn't what you want, or makes the buttom blue instead of red, or any number of other decisions?

AI can write the code, but not tell you what code you want it to write. In other words, how long are your specs? Either the LLM decides "whatever" or you have massive amounts of documentation to coordinate.

We still need to decide what to build, and some of the how. That is not automate-able, yet everyone seems to gloss over that bit.
by mlsu | 2026-03-01 03:14:05+00:00
Covid, ahem, could have been designed in a lab to be an "ideal" bioweapon. As far as viruses go it approximated just about the best bioweapon we could have made with current technology.

- very deadly

- asymptomatic spreading for a couple days

- spreads easy

- no tests/vaccine (early on)

It did kill a lot of people, that's for sure, and caused a huge disruption. But was far less disruptive, imo, than e.g. a nuke in multiple big cities would have been, even if the death toll was similar.
by nextaccountic | 2026-03-01 03:15:00+00:00
> Use your own domain to sign up for a paid email service, provided by a company that focuses on email.

Note you don't need to pay. just use zoho mail or any other free email that lets you bring your own domain. Switch email providers as needed without changing your domain

The trouble with paying is that if you forget to pay, you may lose email. (arguably this is also a problem with domains, generally you should pay some years in advance)
by jedberg | 2026-03-01 03:16:11+00:00
If you want a true lesson on design, check out Ask Tog, starting here:

https://asktog.com/atc/principles-of-interaction-design/

Tog was the original design engineer for the Mac, and arguably one of the first true HCI engineers.

Then read the rest of his website. He goes into where Windows tried to copy Mac and got it horribly wrong.

One of my favorite examples is menu placement. The reason the Mac menus are at the top is because the edges of the screen provide an infinite click target in one direction. So you just go to the top to find what you want. With Windows, the menu was at the top of each Window, making a tiny click target. Then when you maximized the window, the menu was at the top, but with a few pixels of unclickable border. So it looked like the Mac but was infinitely worse.

If you're making a UI, you should read all of Tog's writings.
by Paddyz | 2026-03-01 03:16:12+00:00
Man, the RSI point really resonates. I switched jobs last year and the new place forced Office 365 on everyone. After about two weeks my right wrist was noticeably worse, and I couldn't figure out why until I realized I was doing this stupid little dance of clicking Home tab, doing something, clicking Insert tab, doing something, clicking back to Home... dozens of times per document.

With the old toolbars I had everything I actually used pinned to one row. One click. Done. Now it's minimum two clicks for half the things I do and my mouse hand pays for it.

Still running Office 2003 at home btw, no shame. The xlsx compat pack handles everything I need.
by falkensmaize | 2026-03-01 03:16:32+00:00
I’d argue it’s more like driving yourself vs passively being driven everywhere. Remember that scene at the end of E.T.? Where Elliott and his brother steal the van, but they don’t know how to get to their destination because “I don’t know streets mom always drives!”. LLMs are mom always driving - you might recognize some landmarks after a while, but you don’t know the names of the streets to get anywhere.
by Drew-Aetherwave | 2026-03-01 03:16:33+00:00
Claude Code is pull-based — it only acts when tools fire or the user sends CLI input. Built this to enable real-time two-way communication between a phone and a running autonomous session.

*Architecture:*

Inbound: Discord → WebSocket (discord.js v14) → ~/.claude/discord-inbox.jsonl → PostToolUse hook → Claude as hook feedback

Outbound: Stop/Error hooks → Discord webhook → per-session named thread → phone push notification

*Why local file over API polling:*

First version polled the Discord API every 2 minutes via a PostToolUse hook. Worked, but latency was bounded by poll interval and Discord API rate limits. Replacing it with a persistent WebSocket bridge writing to a local file brought latency down to microseconds — bounded only by tool call frequency. JSONL with atomic truncation handles the race condition between bridge writes and hook reads.

*Hook wiring:*

- PreToolUse: auto-starts bridge on first tool call (silent no-op if already running)
- PostToolUse: reads and clears local inbox
- Stop/Notification: fires outbound webhook with STATUS block

One thing worth noting: Discord's webhook execute endpoint returns 204 empty by default. Needed ?wait=true to get the response body containing channel_id for thread routing.

*Honest limitation:*

When Claude is idle at a decision prompt, it's not firing tools — PostToolUse doesn't run, inbox doesn't get read. Works for redirecting mid-active-run, not for answering stopped prompts.

Tested overnight on 27K LOC across two parallel sessions
by Paddyz | 2026-03-01 03:16:57+00:00
This is part of a broader pattern that's been bugging me. Every year Android devices get a little more locked down, and every year the justification is "security." But removing adb sideload for OTA updates doesn't protect users from malware, it protects Samsung from users who want to control their own update timeline.

I had a Galaxy S21 that got stuck in a boot loop after an OTA went bad. The only fix was adb sideload a known-good firmware. Without that option I would've had to mail it to Samsung or buy a new phone. How is that better for anyone?

The cynical read is that this is about pushing people toward Samsung's own update infrastructure so they can better control the rollout cadence and eventually tie it to Samsung accounts or subscriptions. The optimistic read is that they're simplifying recovery mode for less technical users. Either way the people who actually need these tools are losing them.