MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ritlo | 2026-03-09 21:41:58+00:00
Oh, sure, our fault, but fact remains that modern meat-chicken breeds are so incredibly fucked up that it’s not really possible to humanely farm them. They’re like that because of what we did, yes, but step one toward comprehensive humane-farming for chickens would have to be “let those breeds entirely die out” regardless of who’s at fault (and it ain’t the chickens).
by marysminefnuf | 2026-03-09 21:42:39+00:00
im in elementary and its four hours of computers on average but we have two-three recesses now. my class is a lot different because i try my best to stay away from the tech. in middle school and high school its usually in class all on computers and when they are away from them its all on phones. they are usually 8 hours a day on a device after elementary school. if education is going to improve the tech has to stay outside of schools.
by gspr | 2026-03-09 21:43:00+00:00
> Training on copyleft licensed code is not a license violation. Any more than a person reading it is.

Some might hold that we've granted persons certain exemptions, on account of them being persons. We do not have to grant machines the same.

> In copyright terms, it's such an extreme transformative use that copyright no longer applies.

Has the model really performed an extreme transformation if it is able to produce the training data near-verbatim? Sure, it can also produce extremely transformed versions, but is that really relevant if it holds within it enough information for a (near-)verbatim reproduction?
by Aozora7 | 2026-03-09 21:43:07+00:00
There already are LLMs with open weights that are better at code than state of the art closed source models from a year ago. For now, you most people may have to rent the hardware to run those models, since it's too expensive for most people to own something that can run inference on one trillion parameters, but I wouldn't consider LLMs to be controlled by "evil software corporations" at this point.
by jaredklewis | 2026-03-09 21:44:20+00:00
The Haifa daycare study can’t be used to extrapolate much.

They fined parents (IIRC) ~$3 per late pickup. Rerun the study with a $300 fine and let’s see how it pans out. It’s an interesting finding, but that then people take it to mean that fines don’t work (no matter their size) is insane.
by miggol | 2026-03-09 21:45:36+00:00
Wow, it feels like this argument rewired my brain.

When I first read about the chardet situation, I was conflicted but largely sided on the legal permissibility side of things. Uncomfortably I couldn't really fault the vibers; I guess I'm just liberal at heart.

The argument from the commons has really invoked my belief in the inherent morality of a public good. Something being "impermissible" sounds bad until you realize that otherwise the arrow of public knowledge suddenly points backwards.

Seeing this example play out in real life has had retroactive effects on my previously BSD-aligned brain. Even though the argument itself may have been presented before, I now understand the morals that a GPL license text underpins better.
by observationist | 2026-03-09 21:45:37+00:00
Unpredictable things catch our attention - it's the exceptions that are important to survival, and our brains evolved to cope with the stimuli that this experiment messes with.

Something like this would be anxiety inducing for most people, I bet. That'd be an excellent experiment, track heart rate, EEG, and performance on a range of cognitive tasks with 2 minute long breaks between each tasks, one group exposed to the irregular ticking, another exposed to regular ticking, another with silence, and one last one with pleasant white noise.
by lukev | 2026-03-09 21:45:45+00:00
I agree with the thrust of this article, that norms and what we perceive as good or desirable extend considerably beyond the minimum established by law.

But a point that was not made strongly, which highlights this even more, is that this goes in every direction.

If this kind of reimplementation is legal, then I can take any permissive OSS and rebuild it as proprietary. I can take any proprietary software and rebuild it as permissive. I can take any proprietary software and rebuild it as my own proprietary software.

Either the law needs to catch up and prevent this kind of behavior, or we're going to enter an effectively post-copyright world with respect to software. Which ISN'T GOOD, because that will disincentivize any sort of open license at all, and companies will start protecting/obfuscating their APIs like trade secrets.
by nekitamo | 2026-03-09 21:46:02+00:00
I've participated in some corporate shit-shows in my day, but man I don't think I've ever seen one burn cash this fast.

Another thought: they say the software you ship reflects your org chart ("you ship your org chart"). Given how far Meta has slipped in the last year in the AI race, their org-wide dysfunction is starting to seriously harm them, from Financials to execution to talent. They need to get their act together, starting from the top.

I'm not a fan of Meta, but I'm a big fan of Llama. It was the first notable open weights model, and paved the way for all the others. Just for that I want to say: I'm rooting for you guys. Hope an amazing Llama 5 release comes after all this pain and churn.
by greygoo222 | 2026-03-09 21:46:25+00:00
It's not gymnastics, you just have no background on this topic.

Species are not moral subjects. Individuals are.

Killing an individual animal that could live a worthwhile life for longer is an individually bad act. Insofar as this happens in the process of species going extinct, that's bad. But it's also the default state of nature. Does replacing a forest with a city cause net harm to non-human animals? That's not clear. It might even be net good.

Does that mean we should destroy wilderness on purpose to prevent wild animal suffering? Not yet, we don't have the technology to mitigate knock-on effects, and it should be done a way that does not harm individuals. But I can't get behind viewing biome destruction as some kind of atrocity against the animals within them, at least not as a whole. (Some species have better lives than others).
by lich_king | 2026-03-09 21:46:52+00:00
> Curious, how many people do you need on a social network before you can find someone to talk to or before it is engaging enough for you?

I don't think that's a meaningful parameter to think about? I'd say that on any social network, I have meaningful, ongoing relationship with maybe 20 people. I suspect that's the norm. But that doesn't mean you can join a social network with 20 users and get that. I mean, if it's a mailing list for friends and family, sure. But not if it's 20 randomly-selected strangers from around the world.

So the critical mass to make the "random stranger" type of a social network work is much, much higher than the number of daily interactions you need to keep coming back.
by xboxnolifes | 2026-03-09 21:47:24+00:00
At least with people in my circle of the US, it feels like there's an increasing infantilizing people (frequently themselves), particularly in regards to things like marriage and raising a family. Yet, by 19 you'll have either made decisions for yourself or someone else has for you, that will likely put you on track for your entire future career direction (education, interests, college choice, maybe even enlisted in the military).

You don't need to have given "definitive thought" to your entire future to not be a child anymore.
by XorNot | 2026-03-09 21:47:25+00:00
Presuming that state of affairs will persist though is fraught.

It's quite likely that in about 5 years most military installations will have a mix of weapons to intercept those systems - and depending on a number of factors you could easily end up back at low performance drones being so reliably intercepted as to be a waste of munitions to deploy.

WW1 after all was based on exactly this thinking: surely the volume of an army would overcome the machine gun.
by kemitchell | 2026-03-09 21:47:25+00:00
Not Invented Here's long, slow mutagenic march toward full antibiotic resistance continues apace.

There is a fundamental corpo-cognitive dissonance, to boot. If "AI" is cheap enough and good enough to implement security-relevant software from `git init` repeatedly, why isn't it also cheap enough and good enough to assess and approve the security of third-party software at pace with internal adoption? Is there some basis to believe LLMs' leverage on production differs from its leverage on analysis of existing code?
by robhlt | 2026-03-09 21:47:29+00:00
The legal standard that must be met for this kind of discrimination is called "Bona fide occupational qualification" [1]

Generally customer demand is not enough use this defense. Airlines tried using it to defend hiring only female flight attendants and lost.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualifi...
by joshvm | 2026-03-09 21:47:34+00:00
The few times I've baked there, it's been a pretty good experience. There's a full height proving cabinet, yeast works really well at altitude, the ovens have steam injectors, there are good mixers, a commercial fryer. In many ways much easier than baking at home, but probably not a patch on a good bakery.

We almost ran out of sugar in 2021 and Rothera sent us a bag of Tate and Lyle in break-glass-in-emerhency box on one of the early transit flights the following summer. That's still hanging in the galley. Cream also goes pretty quickly, and forget about eggs. But you only need "egg product" anyway.

The foods that tend to be avoided are pasta and beans, or really anything which has to be boiled. There's a massive pressure cooker but it's a pain to use and clean. It's also hard to brew coffee if you tend to use off-the-boil. The best you'll get is about 93 C. Espresso is fine as its pressurised anyway.
by munk-a | 2026-03-09 21:47:50+00:00
Coal is so deeply irrational. Only when you plug your ears and scream can you block out comprehension of the massive local externalities that make it inefficient compared to other energy options. It is cheap to setup with minimal access to highly skilled professionals so it was a good option to bootstrap economies until recently when solar, wind and NG have become easy to access and cost competitive. It's perfectly reasonable to have a phase out timeline to avoid under utilizing paid-for infrastructure, but it is a dead technology.
Cliniclaw: AI-native HIS attempt with polict-gated clinical agents
by chesterguan | 2026-03-09 21:48:01+00:00
What it does: Runs AI agents (triage, orders, lab review, pharmacy, documentation) through a trust governance layer (VERITAS) for
clinical encounters. Every agent action is policy-gated (OPA Rego), FHIR R4-persisted, and cryptographically audited.

Key design decisions:
- Deny by default — agents cannot act without policy approval
- Human-in-the-loop gates enforced by policy, not UI convention
- FHIR R4 as the native data model (no proprietary schemas)
- Cryptographic audit chain (SHA-256, append-only)
- Pluggable LLM backend (Claude API / Ollama / mock)

Stack: Rust, axum 0.7, tokio, regorus (Rego), sqlx, reqwest, Next.js 15

Not trying to replace Epic — solving problems Epic architecturally can't solve with AI.

Demo:https://screen.studio/share/VjDVsjUG

VERITAS github repo:https://github.com/Chesterguan/veritas
by 47282847 | 2026-03-09 21:48:29+00:00
Your style of arguing makes it very difficult to engage with. Who are “people like me”? You know nothing about me or my opinions. I didn’t state them. You seem to be reading a lot more into what I wrote than what I actually did. And no your claim that you know what freedoms FSF are talking about and at the same time wrongly referring to “free as in free beer” doesn’t demonstrate that you actually reflected on the freedoms they’re arguing for, nor on why copyright exists in the first place and how your idea of “anything that has been published I am totally free to use” may be a political goal, but it’s not how the world works. Oh and I am not sure if you’re aware that you can ASK people what they mean before throwing around insinuations and judgments based on some inner fantasy of the person you’re talking to.
by furryrain | 2026-03-09 21:48:44+00:00
"- buggy Android compatibility and near zero native devs, all jumped ship"

I'm a bit confused by this. Are you saying that the developers who once wrote native Sailfish OS apps are no longer writing those native apps?

Is there any hope for using the responsive libadwaita programs from the Mobile Linux space? I realise this isn't particularly large, but it is active.
by tomburgs | 2026-03-09 21:48:52+00:00
i've been grinding away to make "Plates" the best it can be. i know building a weightlifting app is a massive cliche, but i felt compelled to make it anyway and honestly have zero regrets. i was fully expecting people to roll their eyes at yet another workout tracker, but to my surprise, the feedback has been incredibly positive.

even with everyone and their mother shipping a workout app (accelerated by the vibecoding surge), nothing quite hit the bar i was looking for. everything seemed to be built in react native, flutter, or another cross-platform framework, meaning it never truly felt at home on the device.

beyond just wanting something fully native, i felt there was a real gap in the prosumer market. i wanted to build something for people who already know what they're doing in the gym, have their program, and just want a solid tool they can actually own (it's a one-time purchase of $12.99) that at the same time gives them all the insights they'd reasonably want (muscle heatmap, 1rm breakdowns with different formulas, working volume, best volume, etc.).

the app is called Plates: Weightlifting Log. if you're interested in checking it out: https://useplates.com
by vunderba | 2026-03-09 21:49:20+00:00
I tend to only use LLMs to complete projects that are relatively unique and that haven't been done before. Because if I'm not going to get anything out of the journey, I might as well get something out of the destination.

*Piece Together*

An animated puzzle game that I built with a fairly heavy reliance on agentic coding, especially for scaffolding. I did have to jump in and tweak some things manually (the piece-matching algorithm, responsive design, etc.), but overall I’d estimate that LLMs handled about 80% of the work. It's heavily based on the concept of animated puzzles in the early edutainment game The Island of Dr. Brain.

https://animated-puzzles.specr.net

*Lend Me Your Ears*

Lend Me Your Ears is an interactive web-based game inspired by the classic Simon toy (originally by Milton Bradley). It presents players with a sequence of musical notes and challenges them to reproduce the sequence using either an on-screen piano, MIDI keyboard, or an acoustic instrument such as a guitar.

https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net

*Shâh Kur - Invisible Chess*

A voice controlled blindfold chess game that uses novel types of approaches (last N pieces moved hidden, fade over time, etc). Already been already playing it daily on my walks.

https://shahkur.specr.net

*Word game to find the common word*

It's based off an old word game where one person tries to come up with three words: sign, watch, bus. The other person has to think of a common word that forms compound-style words with each of them: stop.

I was quite surprised to see that this didn't exist online already.

https://common-thread.specr.net

*A Slide Puzzle*

Slide puzzles for qualified MENSA members. I built it for a friend who's basically a real-life equivalent of Dustin Hoffman's character from Rain Man. So you might have to rearrange a slide puzzle from the periodic table of elements, or the U.S. presidents by portrait, etc.

https://slide-puzzles.specr.net

*Glyphshift*

Transforms random words on web pages into different writing systems like Hiragana, Braille, and Morse Code to help you learn and practice reading these alphabets so you can practice the most functionally pointless task, like being able to read braille visually.

https://github.com/scpedicini/glyph-shift

All of these were built with varying levels of assistance from agentic coding. None of them were purely vibe-coded and there was a great deal of manual and unit testing to verify functionality as it was built.
by BeetleB | 2026-03-09 21:49:40+00:00
> It is a zero-sum game in some sense, because you go where your friends or "influencers" are.

Bluesky and Mastodon users can interact with each other (provided both parties opt in). I'm on Mastodon, but I see my friend's messages (he's on BlueSky) and vice versa. My replies show on up on BlueSky and vice versa.
by chupchap | 2026-03-09 21:50:17+00:00
In Australia you will get a fine and demerit points for speeding or for running through a red light. The points don't go away even if you pay the fine. If you go through a year without infractions, one point will be taken off. I think that's a fair system. More details here [https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/demerit...] and here [https://www.primelawyers.com.au/traffic-law/speeding-offence...]

Coming to the part about issuing fines to the registered owner, you can nominate a different driver online here, when replying to the fine. The person nominated need to accept this as well before it is taken off the person to whom the vehicle is registered to.
by sublinear | 2026-03-09 21:50:52+00:00
> I wanted to get a personal "feel" for what the "new developer experience" is actually like across all of the current platforms

I don't really understand what this means. Without explaining that, the rest of this blog post is just rambling notes about developer ergonomics. Of all the things to focus on, that's going to be by far the lowest priority in app dev.

Maybe I'm just too young to have ever experienced the kind of stability expected here. My opinions of tools are based on what they are capable of doing and how well it lines up with what I expect them to do. That's my definition of "feel". I don't care if the interface is stable. I want the capabilities to be stable.

> ... if you don't resort to web tech such as Electron

And that's precisely why everything is now a web app for over a decade, and why W3C standards and big tech bureaucracy won out.
by easterncalculus | 2026-03-09 21:51:01+00:00
> instead, they chose to mock their userbase

It's a CEO's personal account. CEOs do this on Twitter all the time without it becoming a techcrunch article.

Let's just be honest about what happened - the CEO of Bluesky gave a (still not proportionally as) absurd response to an extremely absurd harassment campaign. That's what this and the article intentionally obscure.

Again, this is never how the web was supposed to work, and it (BARELY) holding on to that is the real story.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-09 21:51:02+00:00
> But I sorta imagine that you could later on take the full transcript of that conversation and expect any LLM to implement more or less the same thing based on it

Why would you think this though? There are an infinite number of programs that can satisfy any non-trivial spec.

We have theoretical solutions to LLM non-determinism, we have no theoretical solutions to prompt instability especially when we can’t even measure what correct is.
by isahers | 2026-03-09 21:51:18+00:00
The decision to buy scale and put Wang in charge was a bad one, but I think people are too focused on the $14B (which doesn't matter to Meta in the slightest) instead of the actual logic behind the purchase. Meta didn't need more labeled data, and a data labeling expert is not the person to lead your AI initiatives. I think spending $14B to try and get ahead in the AI race is a great idea, and Meta should be spending more money (there is some level of existential risk if they don't play in this market), but spending it on companies like Scale makes no sense.
Ask HN: Getting a new job as a manager in the AI era (US)
by doitdone | 2026-03-09 21:51:20+00:00
Seasoned engineering manager here. I have big-tech on my resume along with two startups. I resigned in 2023 at a wrong time just when mass layoffs had started. I have been working at a startup but funds are running out. I am trying to get an interview but so far I did not have any luck.

I am fairly good with system design and a bit rusty with code. AI certainly helps but doing leetcode is another battle.

I don't know what's going on but I am seeing mostly auto-rejects from ATS. So far only one recruiter said no because I did not meet the citizenship criteria. Most people from my network are laid off or are not responding. So much for the coworker friendship.

I am considering reaching out to recruiters on LinkedIn. But, I imagine everyone else is reaching out and they are bombarded. It's also very awkward for me to reach out and ask for something like this.

So I have a question for those of you who are managers and landed a job recently. What worked for you?
by webpolis | 2026-03-09 21:51:30+00:00
The macOS sandbox approach is clever, but there's an interesting philosophical split here: sandboxing constrains a local agent, whereas running agents in ephemeral cloud desktops removes the local risk surface entirely.

We built Cyqle (https://cyqle.in) partly around this idea — each session is a full Linux desktop that's cryptographically wiped on close (AES-256 key destroyed, data unrecoverable). Agents can do whatever they want inside, and the blast radius is zero by design. No residual state, no host OS exposure.

The tradeoff is latency and connectivity requirements. For teams already doing cloud-based dev work, it's a natural fit. For local-first workflows where you need offline capability or sub-50ms responsiveness, something like Agent Safehouse makes more sense.

Both approaches are worth having — the threat model differs depending on whether you're more worried about data exfiltration or local system compromise.
by autoexec | 2026-03-09 21:51:40+00:00
You should assume that Google is collecting every scrap of data they can from nest products and that your data will (or could) be handed over to police and the state with or without warrants and with zero notice to you. There were concerns raised with irobot devices selling the floorplans of your home (https://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of...) and now its owned by China (Picea) so who knows what they're doing. Roborock is also a Chinese company who appears to have been under investigation in Korea for data leaks (https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-03-05/busines...).

At this point I'd consider anything not locally hosted (and certainly anything owned by Google, Amazon, or facebook) to be highly suspect.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-03-09 21:51:44+00:00
That's why he is saying it's not equivalent. For it to be the same, the LLM would have to train on/transform Minecraft's source code into its weights, then you prompt the LLM to make a game using the specifications of Minecraft solely through prompts. Of course it's copyright infringement if you just give a tool Minecraft's source code and tell it to copy it, just like it would be copyright infringement if you used a copier to copy Minecraft's source code into a new document and say you recreated Minecraft.
by rvz | 2026-03-09 21:51:56+00:00
These sort of people do not care about any of us.

Meta is building a more powerful version of Llama that is likely not going to be open-weight anymore and will move to being closed up. [0].

You're more likely going to be using Deepseek v4 or Deepseek R2 as an open weight model than Llama 5 at this point.

[0] https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251211PD206/meta-llama-dev...
by carefree-bob | 2026-03-09 21:52:02+00:00
Yes, all you use is 20, but as the number increases the odds of you finding your 20 goes up. I'm saying in 100,000 roughly randomly selected people, I have basically a 100% chance of finding my 20. 50,000 is probably enough.

By the way, if your number is not the same as mine, I am not intimating that this makes you deficient in some way. Everyone has their own number.