MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wictorwilen | 2026-03-03 12:07:52+00:00
I built MRSF because Markdown review workflows don’t persist well across edits.

Inline comments clutter documents. GitHub PR comments disappear once merged. And AI agents don’t have a structured way to attach feedback to Markdown that survives refactors.

MRSF is a JSON/YAML sidecar format for Markdown reviews. It includes:

- Anchored comments (line + span + selected text)
- Deterministic re-anchoring after edits
- A JSON Schema for validation
- A CLI (validate, reanchor, status)
- An MCP server so LLM agents can read/write review comments programmatically

The core idea is simple: keep review metadata outside the Markdown file, but robust enough that comments survive document evolution.

I’d especially appreciate feedback on:

- The re-anchoring strategy
- Whether this overlaps too much with LSP diagnostics
- Whether this would be useful outside AI/agent workflows
- Any obvious flaws in the schema design

Repo: https://github.com/wictorwilen/MRSF/
by my123 | 2026-03-03 12:07:54+00:00
> While the parent article shows AMD Zen 5 having significantly better results in floating-point SPEC CPU2017, these benchmark results are still misleading, because in properly optimized for AVX-512 applications the difference between Zen 5 and Cortex-X925 would be much greater. I have no idea how SPEC has been compiled by the author of the article, but the floating-point results are not consistent with programs optimized for Zen 5.

The arithmetic intensity of most SPECfp subtests is quite low. You see this wall because it ends up reaching bandwidth limitations long before running out of compute on cores with beefy SIMD.
by rob_c | 2026-03-03 12:08:39+00:00
> It’s sad to see Ars Technica at this level.

This was from a journalist _who_is_hired_as_expert_ at knowing of/about tooling that hallucinates (LLM ((AI)) chatbots). Decides to implicitly trust said technology to write a "hit piece" (lets be honest it was).

In several territories that would fall under slander and if is untrue is a major journalistic mis-step and career ending faux-pas.

Why in any situation would their position now be defendable?

This is akin to being a journalist of iron-mongering writing a "truth" piece on how "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" (if you don't get my reference here, lucky you). It's outright un-professional.

Blaming it on illness allows everyone to save face, but they were compos mentis enough to hit publish at the time. That itself carries a certain "I'm well enough to agree this is a good article" from said author.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-03-03 12:09:06+00:00
Which is... an odd thing to say because Apple's support is ~7 years nowadays, which is more than most of their competition, and their devices are not EOL by then. And yet they're one of the biggest / wealthiest companies in the world.

I think your comment is incorrect. some companies / shareholders push for planned obsolescence, but I can't accuse Apple of that.
by smeej | 2026-03-03 12:09:45+00:00
I wouldn't say I feel guilt about all of these necessarily, but I do have a list of things I don't like that I would expect "someone like me" to like:

- The Lord of the Rings (try being a geeky Catholic who finds LotR tedious)

- Fantasy stories generally (though I love sci-fi)

- Chess

- Scrabble

- Rubik's cubes

- Video games

- Listening to music (I sing in a choir, but I don't like listening to music--any of it--even the kinds of music I like to sing)
by sinnsro | 2026-03-03 12:10:37+00:00
> we wanted Delphi and got Haskell instead

Please elaborate.

> However note the same phenomen happening with other languages, as soon as you have a team being paid to develop a language, their job depends on adding features in every single release.

Users also request those features. You said yourself that programming languages are products. In that sense, people are always evaluating them through the lenses of utility (the economics concept), and if they have to pick between two languages, with similar capabilities, they will pick up the one that maximises that utility.

This to weird design decisions getting inserted into the fabric as a consequence (the current state of C++ comes to mind). And given developers are too opinionated about everything, we get politics as a side effect.
by mystifyingpoi | 2026-03-03 12:11:35+00:00
There are people like this, although very small minority. I've met one at university - he was probably the first person to have Windows 8 laptop with a touchscreen, showing off to everyone how cool is was (at that time).

He was also really good at Microsoft Word, unironically - he made extensive use of custom styling and could format an assignment paper in like 30 seconds. He was super useful in group projects.
by fifticon | 2026-03-03 12:11:40+00:00
file sizes in explorer is my pet peeve, it should be a builtin.
When I am coding and making small projects, I want to see the bytes.
I hate that everything is shown as "1 or 2 k".
and it is a hazzle to get access to and install of the mods that show bytes column.
It should just be an extra column available by default 'Byte Size'.
by bionaut | 2026-03-03 12:12:21+00:00
Think about how openclaw can automatically send email to book guests on your podcast that no one watches.

It is a game changer. It can even automatically send email to other people who have podcasts and youtube channels no one watches to come on your podcast no one watches and you can both discuss what a game changer openclaw is.

It can even then watch the podcasts for both of you so now you both have viewers!
by lyu07282 | 2026-03-03 12:12:28+00:00
> All these attempts to justify Iranian terror

At the end of the day you have to understand the reality that Iran is a sovereign nation that is going to defend itself. And yes they are hitting residential buildings and hotels with US military personnel present. None of this is terrorism, this is a nation state retaliating after an attack on their nation, you have to understand this basic concept, actions have consequences.

This is not propaganda, you are just willfully ignorant. If you want to destroy Iran you have to take retaliation into account, everything else is just propaganda, what do you expect them to do instead? Just lie down and take it?

You can't use retaliation of the nation you attacked as justification of why the attack was justified, its circular logic, this is textbook propaganda you are repeating.
by roysting | 2026-03-03 12:12:35+00:00
I would prefer you simply adjust your personal schedule (yes, it’s far more likely the shorter daylight and probably insufficient Vitamin D) than that we permanently turn the one hour offset from high noon of the sun…the very basis for time itself coupled to the natural phenomenon of earth’s rotation … into the standard now.

“Daddy, why is the sun at its highest point at 1300 and not noon like since the beginning of time?” … “because right before humans destroyed themselves they became idiots and lost their mind and started being confused about their genitals, time itself, whether they should be alive or not, and even tried convincing themselves that the Big Arch burger was not disgusting food-product slop; that’s why, my AI robot son, that’s why!”
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-03-03 12:12:55+00:00
Can you explain? Good rules on long term maintenance and repairability (which are in effect, see [0]) allow for cheaper, secondhand devices to remain viable for said poorer people. Market forces also exist so you can get a tablet or smartphone for less than €100 - and they also fall under said laws so they should work and be supported for a reasonable amount of time.

[0] https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules...
by orwin | 2026-03-03 12:14:22+00:00
They can make it very expensive though. And they can't negotiate, given it's the second time they are attacked during negotiations, so really, what can they do? Cause the most chaos possible around them, strain the relationships between the US and other ME countries, force the US to make a choice about which ally to protect (it will be Saudi Arabia), make the oil price go up and deplete US weapon stocks. If the force the US and Israel to put boots on the ground, they will have won.
by latexr | 2026-03-03 12:14:34+00:00
> He's is careful not to opine on Musk's other dealings, which is fair. As someone who wants to know more about SpaceX, I don't want to read yet more about Tesla, or Twitter, or Trump, or Epstein.

But all of those matter, and are not isolated. When the leader of an organisation is distracted by the other organisations they control, it matters. It also matters when they are repeatedly wrong about their predictions, even if on another organisation, because it helps you calibrate expectations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-03 12:16:02+00:00
> Windhawk makes me think about the future of Windows, too. Microsoft is talking about a “Windows Baseline Security Mode” that PCs will be in by default, only letting properly signed software run and forcing apps to ask for your permission when they access your files, webcam, microphone, and other resources. According to Microsoft, this will only be a default — you can choose to opt out.

Yeah, just as I can "choose" to root my Android phone. I can do that, yes, but the result will be that Netflix, banking apps and most games refuse to even start.
by michaeloblak | 2026-03-03 12:16:10+00:00
Hey HN, I built this because my AI agent was spending 8 seconds and 300MB of RAM just to search X. That felt wrong — the data is right there behind one HTTP request, but the "standard" approach is to launch a full browser, render the page, and scrape the DOM.

web2cli makes direct HTTP requests using your browser cookies. No Chromium, no Selenium, no headless anything. The tricky part was TLS fingerprinting - Cloudflare blocks Python's default TLS stack (JA3 fingerprint mismatch), so web2cli uses curl_cffi with BoringSSL to impersonate Chrome at the TLS level. X.com was even harder - their search requires a cryptographic nonce
generated by obfuscated browser JS, which the community reverse-engineered.

Six adapters today: HN, X, Discord, Slack, Stack Overflow, Reddit. Each adapter is a YAML file - writing a new one takes ~30 minutes (or ~3 minutes for your coding agent) and doesn't require Python code for most sites (although it's possible to add a custom python provider, like I did with X).

I'm working on web2cli Cloud - think "OAuth for sites that don't have OAuth." Your users log in via a sandboxed browser, your agent gets an opaque session token, cookies never touch your server.

Happy to go deep on the adapter architecture, anti-bot bypasses, or the economics of browser automation vs direct HTTP.
by 2Gkashmiri | 2026-03-03 12:17:00+00:00
I remember reading in tech magazines about the "foss" acheivement which went on to become Aadhar. Remember this was prior to 2007 I think.

The idea was your id would be an autehnticator of sorts. You need to verify yourself, the website asks Aadhar if the person is genuine, the website returns binary yes no. Same for you, is gender male? Or ages above 18?

They would not return any other data.

In the end, it became just another "formality" and tool for politicians and to flex muscles.

People ended up taking photocopies of your card "just in case" and "that's the norm" even when it was said that's a bad idea.

People still do Aadhar kyc but it is in hands of politicians now and the bureaucracy.
by Hard_Space | 2026-03-03 12:17:18+00:00
I moved all my LAN machines to IoT LTSC 2021 a year ago. Though I don’t regret it, be aware that update delay limits are the same as other Windows OS versions; that useful things like WSL2 will need installing from the app store to get the systemd version, and you’ll need to install the Windows app store from an enthusiast repo on Github; that Windows major version number is a fair way behind, affecting max Docker dated releases and same for many other frameworks; etc. It’s not that I meet a new limit every day, but certainly every few weeks.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-03-03 12:17:41+00:00
> But the iPad is not a console

This is a very naive take - the iPad and iPhone are both multibillion gaming devices, and to dismiss it is short-sighted.

I'd even claim (but can't look up statistics due to a restrictive company network) that singular mobile games like Honor of Kings generate more revenue than 95% of Steam games. Yet a lot of people that style themselves gamers (like myself) never even heard of it.
by jleyank | 2026-03-03 12:18:49+00:00
Hmmm. We’ve seen the fun that comes from cutting data cables and pipelines. Think that’s been factored in with the asymmetric warfare coming from the Middle East? Perhaps some network assaults as well?

Krugman has pointed out that modern war is bloody expensive. Perhaps resistance will just be helping burn money? Lots of motivated people on one side. And I hope countries are being careful, as a Thirty Years War in the Middle East would suck.
by swyx | 2026-03-03 12:19:17+00:00
just got pinged by f5bot - hi editor here! Personal take: at this point multiple people are already weighing how to remove the human code review bottleneck from agents becoming fully productive. Ankit was brave enough to map out how he sees SDLC being turned on its head and wrote this.

i'm not personally there yet, but I tend to be 3-6 months behind these people and yeah its definitely coming.
by andrewstuart | 2026-03-03 12:19:37+00:00
I did all that. It was hard. I’m not an expert but fought my way though to make all that work. I didn’t get it perfect but I got it pretty good. There’s some weird challenges when you get that deep.

Just as I got it working AI came along which made it pointless then I realised when I got to the bottom that you cannot do it perfectly because it’s not a deterministic renderer. So I called the project to an end.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-03-03 12:19:47+00:00
Exactly. They read headlines like "Game X did 100 MILLION revenue in 2025!" and think that's a lot, meanwhile mobile games nobody's even heard of do 20x that.

But I'd argue that the demographics for "people that read gaming news websites" and "people that play and pay for lucrative mobile games" hardly overlap.
by bionaut | 2026-03-03 12:19:47+00:00
It is not lack of imagination, it is the lack of the social need for the performative aspect of an assistant.

There are all these douchebags that use to have to hire a human assistant in order to tell other douchebags that they have an assistant.

Now every wanna be douchebag can just get a mac mini. Of course, that is going to be super popular.
by tzahifadida | 2026-03-03 12:21:01+00:00
In WW-II, the US bombed the hell out of German forces for months on end. That is what people do not understand. The US have the capability to generate bombs indefinitely. There will be no boots on the ground for soldiers (they wish). They will just get pulverised as time goes by. If the US and Israel will think they cannot get to their thick skull they'll simply bomb the oil refineries and let the Iranian regime deal with paychecks from their street goons and fanatics who will eat them alive.
by cykros | 2026-03-03 12:21:15+00:00
Medicare for all doesn't seem to be a winning strategy, judging by the way it gets turned into euthanasia for all by our neighbors to the north.

Lowering the cost of necessary education is important, though in many cases the methods attempted just serve to make matters worse (much like how corporate average fleet economy regulations, in attempting to improve fuel efficiency, just made vehicles bigger). The structure of college itself (and schooling up until that point) is something I think we could stand to seriously reconsider, given how much of it really formed amid the industrial revolution and was modeled off of the ubiquitous factory models. I don't have some ready made model to address this, but do think there's room for an open conversation.

I don't care THAT much about abortion so much as the system that incentivizes it -- that is, the one that makes it particularly unaffordable to have children, and drives debaucherous, nihilistic behavior. In other words, the monetary system. Fix that, and see if a lot of this other stuff even needs to be fixed or resolves on its own.

Background checks, not licensing, I don't see a strong reason to oppose. I don't have a strong reason to back it, but not a total non-starter.

America first doesn't just mean cutting Israel's influence -- more importantly, it means cutting the influence of international bankers who bought our nation out from under us by printing OUR currency through the Eurodollar system. We've started to address this by leaving LIBOR for SOFR, but it's not a done deal, and there are decades of damage to undo.

Strong on crime needs to come with it sanity of enforcement. Another area I suspect fixing money can help, because I'm not convinced there isn't a fair bit of funded agitation to disrupt the social fabric that has law enforcement at its wit's end. That said, police killing people in the street is not a good look.

As for DEI, no argument.
by dijit | 2026-03-03 12:21:23+00:00
I agree, Apple gets hit from all directions.

It's expensive (though largely comparable to business machines) so people dunk on it being low value for money,

People dunk on them for not taking risks, but when there's a reliability problem that would be sort-of acceptable for another product it becomes international news.

When they do take "risks" (like USB-C only) people dunk on them for taking away choice.

Now, I'll be the first to admit, I'm one of the people dunking on them a lot, I was not a fan of the headphone jack removal, butterfly keyboards, discoverability of 3D touch, change of UI paradigm away from Skeumorphism etc;etc;etc -- but I feel like a lot of the other manufacturers seem to get a comparative free pass, which feels unfair.
by skrebbel | 2026-03-03 12:21:47+00:00
Wow it sounds like you're describing exactly me. All the way until the touchscreen laptop with Windows 8. Scary shit!

I used to laugh at the LaTeX masochists in college spending 15 minutes just to put a picture where they wanted the picture to be. They had to add like four 1-character modifiers to the "insert image" command, each of which meant "yes, really here", "no, don't move it to the next page" and "nono, really really here".

MS Word is properly great if you only use the custom style rules (basically CSS classes) at the paragraph level, and never directly apply styling (basically inline styles) except for super basic stuff like making a word italic. Has great referencing tools etc, fantastic formula editor and so on. And, well, you can use ultra modern human-machine interaction technology such as a mouse to choose where a picture goes and how big it is.

(They might've enshittified it since; the last paper I wrote was in 2010 and Word was pretty damn decent back then)
by scannyai | 2026-03-03 12:23:09+00:00
Your finance team is drowning in invoices. Every day, hundreds of PDF attachments flood inboxes, each requiring manual data entry into your ERP. Invoice numbers, vendor details, line items, tax amounts—all typed by hand. A single typo can delay payment by weeks. A duplicate invoice can cost thousands.

You've heard about AP automation. You've seen the promises: "90% faster processing!" and "Eliminate manual entry!" But here's the reality: most AP automation tools are just glorified OCR scanners that dump messy data into spreadsheets. You still need humans to clean it up, validate it, and manually enter it into QuickBooks or NetSuite.

There's a better way. A real AP workflow that actually works—from email inbox to ERP payment, with zero manual intervention.
by klntsky | 2026-03-03 12:23:17+00:00
Location: Tbilisi/Georgia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: LLMs, TypeScript, Rust, Haskell, PureScript, EVM tooling
Résumé/CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf
Email: my username at google's mail service

I'm mainly interested in solving problems around LLM/AI automation, FP, and DeFi.
by AlienRobot | 2026-03-03 12:23:30+00:00
It's not a legal problem but a cultural one. Piracy, for example, is already illegal, but everyone does it.

Smartphones and social media apps made it frictionless to post public videos on the Internet. The only legislation that could be effective would be to forbid social media from hosting videos of public places somehow, and I'm not sure how effective or practical would that even be.

We live in a world where people have a literal phone in their hands and they would rather make a video call than a simple phone call. Something needs to happen to fundamentally change people's habits or it will only get worse in the future.
by ewgoforth | 2026-03-03 12:23:30+00:00
You sometimes hear that farmers are behind Daylight Savings Time, but that's not true. Farmers are self-employed and can set their hours to be whenever they want. If they need to work longer hours at harvest time, they can just do it. They don't need to monkey around with clocks to do this.

"Big Golf" has been super active in lobbying for DST. https://businessjournalism.org/2020/10/the-stakeholders-of-d... I'd personally prefer Standard Time year round, so I can have daylight to do activities early in the morning.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-03-03 12:23:37+00:00
> AI has normalized single 9's of availability, ...

FWIW I use AI daily to help me code...

And apparently the output of LLMs are normalizing single 9's too: which may or may not be sufficient.

From all the security SNAFUs, performance issues, gigantic amount of kitchen-skinky boilerplate generated (which shall require maintenance and this has always been the killer) and now uptime issues this makes me realize we all need to use more of our brains, not less, to use these AI tools. And that's not even counting the times when the generated code simply doesn't do what it should.

For a start if you don't know jack shit about infra, it looks like you're already in for a whole world of hurt: when that agent is going to rm -rf your entire Git repo and FUBAR your OS because you had no idea how to compartmentalize it, you'll feel bad. Same once all your secrets are going to publicly exposed.

It looks like now you won't just be needing strong basis about coding: you'll also be needing to be at ease with the entire stack. Learning to be a "prompt engineer" definitely sounds like it's the very easy part. Trivial even.
by metalman | 2026-03-03 12:23:57+00:00
somewhere, are videos of TTD testing of wings on passenger aircraft, and other video of the two guys doing final assembly of the wing fasteners on an airbus, nasa has nothing on them.
and even humble cessena trainers, where "nobody has pulled the wings off one yet"
all that, and there are still many many ways for things to go horribly wrong...iceing, mega down drafts, mega UP drafts, that just grab an aircraft and take it on a 5000'+ min elevator ride, or side drafts, put you up, strait up on one wing, ask me how I know.
more, but for sure what we get next is just that, more weather
by chrisjj | 2026-03-03 12:24:10+00:00
> There is a human, they've done interviews talking about how

Sounds like those are more likely done (badly) by an "AI".

> the business runs itself..

Then your "That doesn't seem right if I don't know the AI actually gets it in front of a human." is answered: Yes it is right.

Or... report "the product is thoroughly pizzled" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac :)