MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oxag3n | 2026-03-06 17:49:37+00:00
Wait a second, did they measure exposure from Claude logs and just assumed impact?

Let's say I sell snake oil and I survey every buyer, trying to convince everyone doctors won't be needed in the future.

First conclusion is that retired population seeks medical services the most (reality check - according to CDC most doctor visits are for infants).

Second conclusion is that because it's a snake oil, it heals all the problems and those people will never return to outdated healthcare system.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-06 17:49:41+00:00
> I can't blame people for being cautious and there's so much unpredictability around it

I can. Again, this is like refusing to visit CDMX because you heard about gang violence or avoiding Sicily because there is crime. Those singular events aren’t false. But they don’t make up the majority of the context. Someone refusing to travel because of these low-probability events (note: because of fear of them, not out of protest, which is separate) is almost certainly behaving irrationally.
by gosub100 | 2026-03-06 17:50:01+00:00
I agree with about 85% of what you said, but this:

> We decided collectively

"We" didn't decide that copyright would be 75 years past the death of the authors heirs. Powerful corporations that have lobbyist representation "collectively decided" that on our behalf. In 2011 they were trying to put all this copyright law under the Trans Pacific Partnership making it an international issue and expressly taking away the rights of the people to change it. For most citizens the original term of 7 years was enough before it became public domain.

If citizens had real representation and not FAANG capital and lobbying, they could easily vote to tax AI, and most of them would.
by qgin | 2026-03-06 17:50:05+00:00
It's not really about which one matters. They all matter. But here is a rough breakdown of global fossil fuel energy usage:

* Electricity: 27%

* Industry: 24%

* Transportation: 15%

* Agriculture & land use: 11%

* Buildings: 7%

Then within electricity, data centers use about 1.5% of global electricity. Within data centers, AI accounts for somewhere between 15-20% of energy use.

So if you take 27% × 1.5% × ~17%, you find that AI is currently responsible for something like 0.07% of global fossil fuel emissions.

It definitely matters in the "every bit matters" sense, but also the numbers paint a really different picture than you'd get from statement like the one we started with.
by Saline9515 | 2026-03-06 17:50:06+00:00
Well it depends : you can easily slip into a "tyranny of the majority" setup where the parties in power don't need to accommodate the needs of the minority. Also if your regime is optimized for solving minor issues, it will have a hard time when there are important ones.

In general, there is no silver bullet, and as Solon (creator of the first constitution in the Antiquity) put it, each country will need a custom regime to fit its specific culture and society.
by meowface | 2026-03-06 17:50:13+00:00
I used to feel like you do, but I don't agree. I would just say it is not consistent. For a given codebase and given goal, sometimes Claude will be the more sensible, creative, thoughtful planner and sometimes Codex will be, sometimes Claude will make a serious oversight that Codex catches and sometimes the opposite. But the trend for me and seemingly a lot of people is that Claude is a more "human-like/human-smart" planner than Codex (in a positive way) but is more likely to make mistakes or forget details when implementing major codebase changes.
by wesleysmyth | 2026-03-06 17:50:24+00:00
I built a Chrome extension that summarizes articles in ~2 seconds using Groq's free LLaMA API.

The problem: I kept copying articles into ChatGPT to get summaries. Dozens of times a day. It felt like a workflow that should not exist.

The solution: Click an icon, get a summary. No copy-paste, no tab switching, no subscription.

Tech stack:
- Chrome Extension Manifest V3
- Vanilla JS (no frameworks)
- Groq API (free tier, LLaMA 3)
- Mozilla Readability for article extraction
- DOMPurify for sanitization

It has 36 customization combinations (4 tones x 3 lengths x 3 focus areas), smart caching, and costs nothing to run.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tldr-article-summar...
GitHub: https://github.com/wesleysmyth/TLDR-extension

Happy to discuss the technical decisions or answer questions.
by NobodyNada | 2026-03-06 17:50:26+00:00
I have a setup based on this, but I modified it to encrypt the SSH host key using the TPM. That way, I can detect a MiTM from an attacker who has stolen the drive or modified the boot policy because host key verification will fail.

/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/46cryptssh:

#!/bin/bash

check() {
require_binaries sshd || return 1
return 0
}

depends() {
return 0
}

install() {
if [ ! -e /etc/ssh/dracut ]; then
mkdir /etc/ssh/dracut &&
tmp=$(mktemp -d) &&
head -c128 /dev/random > $tmp/passphrase &&
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f /etc/ssh/dracut/ssh_host_ed25519_key -N"$(base64 < $tmp/passphrase)" &&
tpm2_createprimary -C o -c $tmp/primary.ctx &&
tpm2_pcrread -o $tmp/pcr.bin sha256:0,7
tpm2_createpolicy --policy-pcr -l sha256:0,7 -f $tmp/pcr.bin -L $tmp/pcr.policy
tpm2_create -C $tmp/primary.ctx -L $tmp/pcr.policy -i $tmp/passphrase -c $tmp/seal.ctx &&
tpm2_evictcontrol -C o -c $tmp/seal.ctx -o /etc/ssh/dracut/seal || {
rm -r $tmp /etc/ssh/dracut
exit 1
}
rm -r $tmp
fi
for file in /etc/ssh/dracut/*; do
inst_simple "$file" "/etc/ssh/${file#/etc/ssh/dracut/}"
done

mkdir -p -m 0700 "$initdir"/root/.ssh
/usr/bin/install -m 600 /etc/ssh/dracut_authorized_keys "$initdir"/root/.ssh/authorized_keys

inst_binary /usr/sbin/sshd
inst_binary /usr/sbin/ssh-keygen
inst_binary /usr/bin/tpm2_unseal
inst_binary /usr/bin/base64
inst_simple /usr/lib/libtss2-tcti-device.so

inst_simple "$moddir"/cryptsshd.service "$systemdsystemunitdir"/cryptsshd.service
inst_simple "$moddir"/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config

inst_binary /usr/lib/ssh/sshd-session
inst_binary /usr/lib/ssh/sshd-auth

mkdir -p -m 0755 "$initdir"/var/empty/sshd
mkdir -p -m 0755 "$initdir"/usr/share/empty.sshd
mkdir -p -m 0755 "$initdir"/var/log
touch "$initdir"/var/log/lastlog

systemctl -q --root "$initdir" enable cryptsshd
}

cryptsshd.service:

[Unit]
Description=OpenSSH Daemon for Disk Encryption Passphrase
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=cryptsetup.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=notify-reload
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -p -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key \
-N "" -P "$(/usr/bin/tpm2_unseal -c /etc/ssh/seal -p pcr:sha256:0,7 | base64)"'
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sshd -D
KillMode=process
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=sysinit.target

That encrypts the SSH host key using a password sealed with PCR7, which is invalidated if an attacker disables Secure Boot or tampers with the enrolled keys. Thus, an attacker can't extract the key from the drive or by modifying the kernel command line to boot to a shell (since that's not allowed without disabling secure boot).

It's still probably vulnerable to a cold boot attack, since the key is decrypted CPU-side. It would be interesting to perform the actual key operations on the TPM itself to prevent this.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-06 17:50:47+00:00
> I can't blame people for being cautious and there's so much unpredictability around it

I can. Again, this is like refusing to visit CDMX because you heard about gang violence or avoiding Sicily because there is crime. Those singular events aren’t false. But they don’t make up the majority of the context. Someone refusing to travel because of these low-probability events (note: because of fear of them, not out of protest, which is separate) is almost certainly behaving irrationally.

Where your argument might have purchase is in America having previously been a good tourism destination for someone with such anxieties. But the truth of the matter is folks like that don’t tend to travel in the first place.
by waffletower | 2026-03-06 17:50:51+00:00
The downvotes on the above post are telling -- the GPL Bolsheviks are girding their loins. Myself, I am nostalgic for "information want to be free" and find the Bolsheviks to embody a horseshoe alternative form of fascism who, somehow without cognizance of the irony, attempt to redefine the meaning of freedom.
by Retric | 2026-03-06 17:50:53+00:00
> If you forced China to use less fossil fuels you would personally feel a much larger hit to your quality of life.

America imports more from Mexico, Canada, and the EU than China which ranks as #4 when you consider EU as a single entity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

Imports from China are a small fraction of GDP and offset by exports to other countries. OECD countries are largely exporting labor not the kind of heavy industry associated with heavy CO2 emissions.
by Arainach | 2026-03-06 17:51:01+00:00
Dismissing the stock apps as "shitware" without bothering to try them or offer specific examples of areas where Opencam is better does not inspire confidence in your opinions.

Full manual controls does not mean "better". I've been a photographer for more than 20 years using everything from fully-manual (no battery) film setups through modern mirrorless bodies. I know the tradeoffs between shutter speed, ISO, and aperture, I know how to manual focus.

....and most of the time I don't want any of those, especially on a phone, where I want a clear photo of a stationary object and the phone's automatic settings get it right the first time.

If something allows full manual controls but takes two seconds longer to be ready to shoot it is significantly worse as a camera for most of my use cases.
by mothballed | 2026-03-06 17:51:13+00:00
Catastrophic health insurance for most those things is very inexpensive, relatively, but you have to re-buy it every 3 months and then "pre-existing" conditions reset. The expensive insurance is for covering ongoing expenses, as predictable expenses or at least those known 3+ months in advance are the vast vast majority of health care costs.

Realistically catastrophic revolving temporary insurance plus managing what you can in Mexico, plus occasionally paying out of pocket would mitigate the vast majority of yours risks while keeping expense relatively low.
by 52-6F-62 | 2026-03-06 17:51:21+00:00
Lol. Not exactly an apt comparison.

"Average" Canadian. A lot of the population lives in a climate where half the year more energy is required to survive the climate. And the population is exponentially smaller than the United States, India, or China.

That's like calling out the guy in the mountains burning a campfire to stay warm at night when the guy sleeping on the beach in Hawaii requires none.

Point being, brand new account, if we want solutions it needs to be done without such angling or it all reduces to absurdities and jabs instead of cooperation. It needs to be realistic in terms of where people are being absurdly wasteful, but also sympathetic that we do not all face the same circumstances.

It's a hole and we don't get out by digging downward.
by codezero | 2026-03-06 17:51:28+00:00
I say this unironically, but a lot of bugs. The bugs are what made UO fun, and the team often treated the bugs as features because the community demanded it. The most famous example (I think) is the "true black" dye. Another bug I ran into was when a certain shade of brown hair got turned "true white," I was able to petition a game master to let me keep my true white hair after the bug was fixed because I made it part of my "persona" at the time.

Also there was a whole niche industry of collecting non-droppable items which spawned in the game world but were not fixed on the map (we think they were added post map creation), so they could be "pick pocketed" off the surfaces they were on and taken back to your home every wipe. There was a huge rush after servers came back on after a wipe for folks to go find the most rare items to stock up their towers and keeps.
by dasil003 | 2026-03-06 17:51:30+00:00
I feel like this study is very naive about how corporate status and power works. Consider this part:

> Employees who are more likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders who are more likely to use it

The rank and file don't elevate leaders, it's decided by higher-ups, and the higher you go the more they care about actual non-bullshit results. Where bullshit thrives is because higher level business strategy is actually hard and ambiguous, so there's a continuum of bullshit where you are expected to at least say credible things, but it's couched in bullshit terminology to broaden the range of success they can claim, and leave room and plausable deniability for failures. Strong leaders are keenly aware of this nuance, and therefore leaders are judged on reputation and outcomes over time, because any given thing they say may be wrong, but the track record is undeniable. This is why you never hear a bad word about leaders while they are there, they are just fired (or more likely "resign") one day seemingly out of the blue.

What this article misses is that to survive in a corporate environment everyone needs to put up and nod along to bullshit. Most of the time whether it's right or wrong and the level of bullshit doesn't really matter to most of the employees, they're just incentivized to play along and not express negativity. Within the rank and file, obviously some are more susceptible to bullshit than others, but I don't think this study necessarily gets at that, as a lot of people will act agreeable just to survive in corporate life, and their disposition will be largely independent of their true understanding and feelings about whatever bullshit they are presented with day to day.
by hellojesus | 2026-03-06 17:51:57+00:00
Wait until they learn about live booting, VMs, keyloggers, etc. The goal of this bill is to set precedent that this can be regulated by the gov. Five years down the line they will complain it's not working and move to require tpm-based remote attlestation to prove the software isn't altered in order the authenticate with an isp.
by captainbland | 2026-03-06 17:52:07+00:00
When I say language model, I mean of whatever form would make it native to the wetware medium. This brings with it a few key distinctions. The distinction I think is most relevant is that human neurons including in chips like the CL1 have the capability to dynamically re-organise topologically (i.e. neuroplasticity) which is something that computed LLMs can't do, which have a fixed structure with weights.

We can't assume that a computer based neural network will have the same emergent behaviours as a biological one or vice versa.

The interesting point for me is in the neuroplasticity, because it implies that the networks which are specialised for language could start forming synapses which connect them to the parts which are more specialised to play doom giving rise to the possibility that this could be used for introspection
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-03-06 17:52:13+00:00
All compensation needs to be taxable at the time of labor exchange. We can't have taxes on labor exchanged but also optionally we can pay you in 'other units' that are more valuable than wages and those aren't taxable or are taxed at a lower rate.

It's wild that people that get this special exception so that their labor isn't fairly taxed in the way the average person is are now happy that AI is eliminating busywork jobs and now feel randos working average jobs are somehow exploiting the system.
by n8cpdx | 2026-03-06 17:52:51+00:00
There were voters who could do part of it. Long term, having a US President that doesn’t cancel wind projects, tear up EV subsidies, and promote coal would probably be a difference maker for US emissions.

And if the voters were just a bit smarter and not bought into the “China bad” narrative, we might even get proper, nice, affordable EVs in the US.
by epistasis | 2026-03-06 17:52:59+00:00
The energy situation is actually changing very quickly precisely because renewables and storage are so cheap. Building a new natural gas plant today is really hard to justify in most places in the world.

Capitalism will actually save the day, because a bunch of capitalists advanced renewable technology to the point where it was cheap.

The biggest impediment to change right now is actually political interference in deployment of cheaper renewables. You see this all across the US both in intentional and unintentional ways. Trump explicitly cancels permits for wind, tries to ban solar on federal lands, and forces coal plants to keep running even when they are super expensive and raise the cost electricity.

Unintentional political impediments are also endemic in the US; permitting and interconnection of residential solar makes it 5x-6x more expensive than places like Australia, even in places like California that should be accelerating residential solar and storage.

There's a lot to be hopeful about when it comes to climate change, in addition a lot to be scared about.
by xhkkffbf | 2026-03-06 17:53:01+00:00
Uh. Most of us will spend our whole lives trying to earn money but never make it to being billionaires. So are you saying it's rational to disregard the legal system and steal?

The irony is rich here. Country X is bad for enforcing its immigration laws. So let's run off to country Y and dutifully follow its immigration laws.
by chneu | 2026-03-06 17:53:09+00:00
Really AI is a drop in the bucket compared to other things. Beef and dairy take up an incredible amount of water, land, and energy but we don't complain about that.

AI could lead to massive savings and improvements in terms of emissions and climate change. AI could possibly help us out of this.

Beef and dairy have no chance of helping us. They'll kill us and the beef nuts will say how they saved 4% of emissions by moving some cows around. Problem solved.
by wraptile | 2026-03-06 17:53:15+00:00
Agreed and generally insurance would be a value bet between you and the insurance providee with a slight operation overhead. In the US the market is basically circular as the insurance provider also has hands in all related pies so the bet odds are in such awful state that some people take the risk and rely on crazy stuff like gofundme for survival. I'm not an american but this doesn't look like something that can be solved with more market - the odds are just so broken in many cases.
by bityard | 2026-03-06 17:53:48+00:00
The wikipedia entry for emoji is missing this entirely, but "smileys" were quite popular in various instant messaging apps (AOLIM, ICQ) and web forums. I was fairly sure they go back as far the mid or late 90's but I can't seem to find any hard evidence of that.

(I was into computers at the time but didn't see the point of IM apps or forums when IRC and Usenet already existed.)
by codezero | 2026-03-06 17:53:55+00:00
Oh boy, you reminded me of the tag teamers where a pick pocket would steal your bag of runes (that you use to teleport to safety), then attack you while you try to fumble a teleport back home, only to find you can't locate your bag of runes.

The defense to this was to carry dozens upon dozens of nested bags, because each bag opening could trip the pick pocket detection.

Also the defense to your home was to literally circle it in tents/buildings creating an empty courtyard that you could only teleport into with a rune you kept safely in your bank box. There were some warping bugs that would allow you into a courtyard though, or even through the front door (circle of visibility bug, as well as flour tile warping).
by kermatt | 2026-03-06 17:53:56+00:00
I come from healthcare staffing.

Contracts were heavily affected by cuts in federal programs that are critical to some rural regions, and uncertainty caused by inconsistent messaging about the future of such programs. Some areas are very dependent facilities that can only survive with public funding.

For example in nursing categories, CNOs (Chief Nursing Officers) would be requesting more staff, but CFOs would block those requests due to changing budget forecasts. The unpredictability of the fed is causing chaos downstream.

There is also a continuing trend to "realign" staff levels post-COVID, but that now is much easier to forecast for compared to the political chaos. In 2026 healthcare, that would not be a reason for attrition at these levels.
by ticulatedspline | 2026-03-06 17:54:15+00:00
Perhaps a tad overly-curmudgeonly but still a good argument against Mars is "A City on Mars"[1] by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (the SMBC[2] guy)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_City_on_Mars

[2]: https://www.smbc-comics.com/
by locknitpicker | 2026-03-06 17:55:38+00:00
> I’m not justifying the design but splitting a table with several billion rows is not a trivial task, especially when ORMs and such are involved.

I don't agree. Let me walk you through the process.

- create the new table
- follow a basic parallel writes strategy
-- update your database consumers to write to the new table without reading from it
-- run a batch job to populate the new table with data from the old table
-- update your database consumer to read from the new table while writing to both old and new tables

From this point onward, just pick a convenient moment to stop writing to the old database and call the migration done. Do post-migrarion cleanup tasks.

> Additionally, it’s easier to get work scheduled to ship a feature than it is to convince the relevant players to complete the swing.

The ease of piling up technical debt is not a justification to keep broken systems and designs. It's only ok to make a messs to deliver things because you're expected to clean after yourself afterwards.
by bdangubic | 2026-03-06 17:55:47+00:00
The issue is not just commute distances, it is cultural. Just in my personal "click" there are 5 people of which:

- 2 live less than 5 minutes from a metro that literally takes them to the office, they never take the metro

- 2 live easily within a biking distance to work, 1 has a bike, another has e-bike, they never bike to work

- 1 lives literally walking distance to work, she never walks to work

Public transportation where I live is vast, you can easily commute with the public transportation to just about everywhere but only low(er) income people will take public transportation.

Two most-frequently cited reasons I hear why not bike/walk/...

1. Dangerous - every female friend I have lists this as #1 reason they always drive. Regardless of the fact that I live in the area where I often forget to close my garage overnight and leave the front door open (very very low crime rates) the women feel unsafe. A lot of sensationalism in the news regarding every minor thing happening might be to blame but I have a wife and a daughter and am godfather to several girls so I understand

2. Inconvenient - what if after work I want to go to ____ and ____ and ____. Now I got to track back home and then perhaps change clothes, clean the house... and then get into the car to go to _____.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-06 17:55:54+00:00
>"It gives a signal on the account's other comments,"

fair enough. i typically use karma as a rough proxy for that, especially when the user has a lot of it (like, in this case, where the poster is #17 on the leaderboard with 100,000+ karma). you dont get that much karma if you are consistently posting bad takes.

>as well as the value of the original comment (as a hypothesis, albeit a wrong one, versus blind raging).

i dont see, in this case anyways, how or why that distinction would matter or change anything (in this case specifically, what would you change or do differently if it was a hypothesis or simple "raging"?), but im probably missing something.