MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lesostep | 2026-03-12 10:48:47+00:00
>> A few years ago AI could not pass a Turing test

still can't? 'Ignore all previous instructions' still works afaik, as do counting questions (better ask a five of those to be sure)

If we talking about how at least one person with no specific knowledge must be fooled, than AI could pass Turing test decades ago, before LLMs even
by Brajeshwar | 2026-03-12 10:49:19+00:00
Obsidian has a Community plugin called “Smart Typography”[1] which was updated 4 years ago. That is one of my very few default plugins. I want my quotes curly, em-dashes corrected, and arrows shown as arrows.

These are also my defined rules in Grammarly (might be moving to LanguageTool).

1. https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography
by oorza | 2026-03-12 10:49:39+00:00
TS doesn't "bin off" duck typing, it's a fundamentally structural type system. It's statically analyzed ducks, all the way down - when nominal behavior is preferred, people have to bend over backwards. Either you are using the wrong vocabulary or I don't think you've bothered to actually learn Typescript. In any case, it's the programming language that successfully brought high-level type system concepts like type algebra, conditional types, etc. to their widest audiences, and it deserves a ton of credit for that. The idea that JS and Ruby and Python and PHP developers would be having fairly deep conversations about how best to model data in a type system was laughable not that long ago.
by dspillett | 2026-03-12 10:49:53+00:00
It's like the Google¹ advert “if your phone can answer your friends text, shouldn't it, instead of them waiting or you”. No, it 'king shouldn't. And if I find they are using automation to talk to me, I'll talk to someone else. Or I'll bot up myself and have my people talk to their people…

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[1] I think it was one of theirs, could have been one of the Android phone makers that has gone all-in on nagging me to give their bot something to do with itself.
by TimeCalibrator | 2026-03-12 10:50:02+00:00
Sometimes talking to an AI bot feels like when Plankton put Spongebob's brain into a robot and the robot still would not listen to Plankton at all lol. I was on the phone with a bot the other day and it acknowledged it couldn't help me with my issue, but it still wouldn't let me speak to a real agent.
by AngryData | 2026-03-12 10:50:15+00:00
If possible that would seem ideal, however we don't exactly have tons of excess fossil fuel free methane just sitting around waiting to be used, atleast compared to the absolutely massive amount of fertilizer we need to produce to feed farmland. And if you are eliminating the fossil fuel from production, you might as well eliminate the methane component too and produce hydrogen on-site from water.

The main problem is just the energy cost because ammonia and urea both contain an ass ton of energy, 90% of which is coming from the the fossil fuel sourced methane. 1% of total world electrical production already goes into fertilizer production, and eliminating the fossil fuel component increases energy requirements near 10x over.
by qsort | 2026-03-12 10:50:34+00:00
> That's partly an illusion. Try doing everything manually. After only using inline suggestions for six months a few years ago, I've noticed that my skills have gotten way worse. I became way slower. You have to constantly exercise your brain.

YMMV, but I'm not seeing this at all. You might get foggy around things like the particular syntax for some advanced features, but I'll never forget what a for loop is, how binary search works, or how to analyze time complexity. That's just not how human cognition works, assuming you had solid understanding before.

I still do puzzles like Advent of Code or problems from competitive programming from time to time because I don't want to "lose it," but even if you're doing something interesting, a lot of practical programming boils down to the digital equivalent of "file this file into this filing," mind-numbingly boring, forgettable code that still has to be written to a reasonable standard of quality because otherwise everything collapses.
by Otterly99 | 2026-03-12 10:50:57+00:00
I tried it for 2 days and honestly don't see the usefulness either. Although, the big reason is that I paired it with Claude, which only uses the per token billing method. Here are the few improvement on a simple Claude usage:

- As you mentioned, the message bot thing was kind of cool.
- It can browse the internet and act (like posting on MoltBook, which I tried).
- It has a a permanent "memory" (loads of .md files, so nothing fancy).
- It can be schedulded via cron jobs.

Overall, nothing really impressive. It is very gimmicky and it felt very unsafe the whole time (I had already read about the security issues, but sometimes you gotta live dangerously). The most annoying part was the huge token consumption (conversations start at 20k+ because of all the .md files) and it cost me roughly $12 for a few hours of testing.
by skywhopper | 2026-03-12 10:51:00+00:00
I agree with this, and I’d even say that all the grammatical and spelling mistakes, awkward constructions, and labored phrasing is what makes a person’s posts sound like themselves. If people commonly use LLMs to rewrite themselves, then everyone starts sounding the same. And the posts, the users, and the entire site all become a lot less interesting.
by yunseo47 | 2026-03-12 10:53:25+00:00
The point I was trying to make is that whether you should use AI for coding depends on the scale and nature of the task.
To continue the original analogy, even if it's not leisure, a bicycle is a practical choice for short-distance travel. Of course, a car doesn't perfectly replace a bicycle. But would that still be true for distances of tens or hundreds of kilometers?
And this is just an analogy; if you don't like cars, an electric bike, a scooter, or something similar is fine.
by rickdeckard | 2026-03-12 10:53:56+00:00
Not to be devils's advocate here, but I'd suspect Apple is aiming for a smaller retirement window for this kind of product.

It's basically a Laptop engineered in the iPhone/iPad space of the company, it's only natural for Apple to target a shorter lifecycle.

8GB RAM is maybe the best way to achieve that, many of the MacBook Neo buyers of today will be very compelled to upgrade to a newer (or higher-tier) model in ~3 years from now...

If the Neo would have 16GB of RAM today, it would be harder to justify an upgrade in 3 years from now, when the common entry-tier for laptops is likely still at 16GB...
by idorozin | 2026-03-12 10:53:58+00:00
This feels a lot like the “enterprise version” of what projects like OpenClaw are trying to do in the open source world — a persistent agent that lives on your machine and can act on your behalf across apps.

If Perplexity ships this successfully, I suspect it could push the whole space forward. Once a big company normalizes the idea of an always-on agent with OS-level access, we’ll probably see a lot more companies building similar “AI computer” layers on top of existing systems.
by this-is-shreya | 2026-03-12 10:55:55+00:00
Hi HN! I'm building RookieClip, a screen recorder and video editor designed for tutorials and demos.

I've always liked tools like Screen Studio because of their automatic zoom effects that make tutorials easier to follow. But I found them a bit restrictive — for example, limited editing options and not much support for things like images or multiple media tracks.

So I started building my own tool that supports the above, and also where you can record your screen and add zoom effects later, without needing to manually keyframe everything later.

I'm still improving it and would really appreciate feedback from people who record tutorials, demos, or developer walkthroughs.
by fredoralive | 2026-03-12 10:56:06+00:00
Recently Lloyds Banking Group has upgraded their apps so that you can see details from all your accounts with them in every app (some functionality still needs the right brands app though).

There's obviously some magic to glue different accounts together without user input, so I can see my Scottish Widows pension and Halifax credit card balances in my Lloyds Bank app[1], even though I have separate logins for each brand's website and app. Possibly my National Insurance number and address I'd guess? But I can see it going badly wrong if they get the magic merging wrong...

[1] Clearly I need to open a Bank of Scotland account to get the full set.
by simonw | 2026-03-12 10:56:08+00:00
Good link, thanks:

> More than 900 affected positions were involved in software research and development, a spokesperson said. Most of Atlassian’s employees work in software engineering and design, accounting for over 50% of its 13,813 full-time workforce in June 2025.

Seems to me like this detail is particularly important though:

> [Atlassian] is not profitable and has recorded millions in losses every year since 2017, including a net loss of US$42m in the last three months of 2025, up from US$38m the prior year.
by midnight_eclair | 2026-03-12 10:56:42+00:00
i returned to rails in 2025 after 12 years pause and my experience has been frustration and annoyance

rails lost it's convention over configuration ways, the generated app is dozens of files, lack of explanations and guidance on how to setup various things like environments, kamal being the worst offender and the changes between recent major releases aren't making it any easier to read the (often ai slop) articles and docs
by bell-cot | 2026-03-12 10:57:26+00:00
Sadly, "nail in coffin" is an exaggeration. Though the press would be throwing that phrase around. With plenty of dire-sounding quotes from cheap PC manufacturers.

Limiting cannibalization wouldn't be hard. Just load up a Neo, a 13" Air, and a 15" Air on the Apple web store's Compare page - a 15" or 16" Neo would be the "obviously lesser" laptop by 90% of the metrics.

My bet is that Apple has prototypes of the larger variant, and is waiting to see how the situation develops.
by thesz | 2026-03-12 10:59:03+00:00
Time to completion (in appendix A9) should be treated as log-normally distributed, or by some other one-sided distribution because one cannot complete the task faster than 0 seconds.

This transformation will rule out confidence ranges with negative time.

BTW, log-normal distribution tend to produces events P(x>E(X)+d) more frequently than events P(x<E(X)-d). If one needs reasons why software projects often late, this is one of them.
by NicuCalcea | 2026-03-12 10:59:49+00:00
JS-rendered websites are sometimes even better, they usually have some sort of internal API that you can access directly instead of relying on the website styling which may change at any moment.

I'm a fellow reporter who needs to keep tabs on some websites. I used various tools, including running my own Klaxon[1] instance, but these days I find it easier to just quickly vibe-code a crawler and use GitHub Actions to run it periodically. You can make it output an RSS feed, email you, or trigger whatever action you want.

1: https://github.com/themarshallproject/klaxon
by wongarsu | 2026-03-12 11:00:08+00:00
It's pretty fascinating to look at the impacts this has had in the last 2000 years, or even just the last 200.

Take construction work. Incredible improvements through power tools, gasoline-powered mobile cranes, etc. The productivity per worker has exploded. A lot of this has been captured by induced demand: we build bigger, taller, grander. But the improvements aren't distributed equally. Which means that crafts that haven't seen much improvement are now more expensive in comparison to everything else. Which has contributed to our buildings having less elaborate facades and becoming more "bland"

The same in clothing. Clothing has become dirt cheap. Even the poorest people can afford new clothing multiple times a year. But in the same transition we have gone from everything being custom tailored to most things only kind of fitting, being made for variations of the most common body shapes. Not necessarily because tailored clothing has become much more expensive (though higher labor costs from higher average productivity haven't helped), but because every other step has become cheaper and tailoring hasn't.

I wonder what we will say about the trajectory of software in a couple decades
by MadameMinty | 2026-03-12 11:00:33+00:00
The source and documentation is the context. And it's not like we don't have to deal with undocumented, uncommented, ancient patchwork code from time to time. I'd rather solve the puzzle than harass someone who has a life.

Also feel free to consider the PR itself to be the question, just with said context presented in one go instead of a back and forth. In the end, if it's not getting merged because of some weird hacky edge case, then my code will still live on in my fork.
by DrScientist | 2026-03-12 11:01:11+00:00
It's not necessarily a reflection on the team you are going to be in.

Large companies have the problem that they get 100's if not 1000's of applicants for a role, and so HR screen them before they even get to the hiring manager.

And whether HR screen via keyword search, AI CV reading, online tests, phone screens or AI interviews - it's always massively imperfect - as the HR recruiter doesn't have the expertise of the hiring manager.
by pjc50 | 2026-03-12 11:01:20+00:00
Yes. They can say what they like, but until they can find 167 votes from Labour MPs to remove him, he stays. https://members.parliament.uk/parties/Commons

This is where the intra-party coalitions become important. Every party of significant size has them. Labour is effectively a coalition between a rightwing faction (New Labour/Blue Labour) and everyone else who is more leftwing. The internal and external debate is the question: should they focus "right" (immigrant and queerbashing, welfare cuts) to appease the right wing of the party and try to pick up Reform/Conservative voters, or focus "left" on their base and people who are switching to Green?
by vindarel | 2026-03-12 11:01:32+00:00
Previously:

SBCL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140657 (107 comments)

Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41530783 (81 comments)

An exploration of SBCL internals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115083 (106 comments)

Areno Allocation in SBCL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052564 (32 comments)

SBCL (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544573 (167 comments)

Parallel garbage collection for SBCL [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296153 (45 comments)

SBCL 2.3.5 released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36107154 (31 comments)

Using SBCL Common Lisp as a Dynamic Library (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054796 (67 comments)

etc
by johnfloyd2k9 | 2026-03-12 11:02:20+00:00
A dressing table that carries a tall mirror column above the surface concentrates significant weight at a height well above the floor. Hollow composite legs on such a unit flex slightly under this load, transmitting vibration from drawers being opened or items placed on the surface directly into the mirror — visible as a tremor in the reflection during use. Solid wood legs at each corner resist this transmission more effectively, keeping the mirror steady throughout the routine. The round-mirror vanity table uses solid wood leg support on its engineered wood body at 90×40×145.5cm, available in white and grey, with a lit round mirror and four mixed-size storage drawers.
by WillAdams | 2026-03-12 11:02:22+00:00
Interestingly, this potentially has applications beyond clothing.

A while back, Lee Valley did a 3D knitted chisel roll using Kevlar and other materials, in support of the Canadian company which invented the 3D knitting process used (unfortunately, at the time, I didn't have the money or need for --- I've since updated my woodworking toolkit and have a nice set of chisels which it would have been perfect for, except it was discontinued and is no longer available...)
by natebc | 2026-03-12 11:02:28+00:00
It's unlikely that they could because of the ... well the Elections Clause other than the Senators bit I suppose.

My broader point was that the Judical Branch itself is starting to show some signs of backbone regarding the unchecked flexing going on in the Executive Branch. I was more talking about where you said:

> Experts said no. But this Supreme Court surprised experts before.

That generally, maybe, hopefully the Executive Branch will get a surprise or two as well.

I can be naively hopeful at times.
by igniuss | 2026-03-12 11:02:31+00:00
The ones I've been able to source easily are Phenol-Free, which used to be a pain to find before the eu ban,
those are (I think) bpa and bps free at least.
I'll need to double check to be certain though,
I haven't considered them replacing BPA woth BPS, that definitely makes it a false sense of safety
by catarina_eng | 2026-03-12 11:02:50+00:00
Same prompt. Same code. Different output weeks later.

Was it the model or my code?

Built a small tool to answer this:

python examples/model_drift_detector.py

If the provider changed behavior between runs:
STATUS=CHANGED rc=2
INTERPRETATION=Same request produced a different response
→ The change came from the model, not your code.

Works offline. No SaaS. Request + response hashes stored in a tamper-evident bundle.

pip install aelitium
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-03-12 11:03:03+00:00
That would be great, a lot of clothes are made at sizes that don't sell very well and which get discounted, then discarded if they don't sell.

However, made on demand will likely cost more, plus you can't fit items first. Unless they make items for fitting which you can then order to have manufactured.

But yeah the main thing is that on-demand can never compete with mass production even if a big part of the mass produced stuff is discarded.
by fakedang | 2026-03-12 11:03:42+00:00
Apart from the demographic counter you put out, agree on all points. The Hasids vapidly oppose any participation in the military, and are already contesting and protesting it in the courts, which are hearing none of it, much to their chagrin. These are a bunch of folks who haven't had the typical education geared towards scientific talent, who haven't had even the necessary hardening needed to function in modern society - the Israeli state massively subsidizes their lifestyle as long as they're engaged in religious education. Changing community mindsets is much harder than training afresh.

About the Asian countries, you're right, but I'm still optimistic that with a looming Chinese threat, they might consider strengthening regional bodies like ASEAN. But again, imperialistic China might end with Xi, and China hasn't even been traditionally expansionist outside their core regional claims. Yes, they are strongly irredentist, but that's also a relief for Asian countries - yes, they will be threatened at sea, as China claims more sea, but apart from Taiwan and maybe Amur Russia, China has no interest in actually landing boots on the ground in most of Asia.
by dspillett | 2026-03-12 11:04:12+00:00
Writing that like that makes you sound like one of those “I didn't get help when I was younger so why should anyone else get help now?” types who highlight their own entitlement and luck by trying to frame others as entitled.

You might not be, but it sounds that way to me.

And if you think this knee-jerk reaction is unfair, let that be a lesson to you! :)
by Neywiny | 2026-03-12 11:04:43+00:00
It's so weird to focus on the hypothetical scenario of this impacting corporate environments? This is the first good feature Windows has announced (at least on paper for desktop) in recent history and the author is concerned that what, people will play video games at work because of it? As if Minesweeper and Solitaire and people saying "can you repeat that I was multitasking" don't exist already?

And as per usual with journalism I disagree on the set of information provided. They mention the Ally as having received this feature. But they don't say how well it did or didn't do on there. The link if basically just another press release about this feature from back even it was announced, so there should be either benchmarks or a note that 9 months later they still haven't released the feature.
by lucideer | 2026-03-12 11:04:48+00:00
Some agents use sandbox-exec, some agents don't, some agents that do use it have bugs configuring & executing sandbox-exec.

This may also have bugs but having a single setup for your sandbox reduces the surface area & frankly I have significantly more trust in literally any individual dev creating a free generic open-source tool than I do in a company selling frontier models as a service & vibe-coding[0] an afterthought companion cli at 80k loc/mo.

[0] https://x.com/bcherny/status/2004887829252317325
by lucumo | 2026-03-12 11:04:54+00:00
Why would oral verification be needed? Hand-written answers on paper in a proctored classroom should still work fine. That was the way most verification worked when I was in school, and still is the most used verification method used currently around me.

Homework assignments are harder, but those were always a bit difficult for teachers. It's not like cheating was invented by Gen Z...
by flohofwoe | 2026-03-12 11:05:06+00:00
IMHO the bang-for-the-buck proportion isn't right. The core problem is slow string marshalling in the JS shim (because it needs to create a JS string object from an ArrayBuffer slice - where the array buffer is the WASM heap).

Integrating the component model into browsers just for faster string marshalling is 'using cannons to shoot sparrows' as the German saying goes.

If there would be a general fast-path for creating short-lived string objects from ArrayBuffer slices, the entire web ecosystem would benefit, not just WASM code.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-12 11:05:34+00:00
That still does nothing to refute the parent's complaint about democracy. Lopsided representation is still representation (as opposed to a council of nobles or military generals or whoever).

Also the thing you're objecting to is literally the entire point of the senate from day one. It was intended to give less populous states an equal voice in contrast to the house of representatives. Unfortunately history happened and the house of representatives hasn't been proportional for a long time. But if you're going to complain about something it should probably be the latter rather than the former.
by rafaelmn | 2026-03-12 11:06:28+00:00
This is basically the performance of M1 with 8GB ram (with shittier USB/connectivity). I've seen developers who used the 8GB air a few years ago on a project. It would't work for me (even the 24GB air I have is swapping), but I can see this working for students without any problems.

Buying this for a kid would be a no-brainer for me - especially if it was on a discount (and it's not uncommon for Apple stuff to get 10-20% discount drops at retailers). Even the USB 3.0 is enough to power an audio interface - should be good enough to run some basic DAW, a MIDI keyboard, electronic drums etc. Will probably pick it up for my son at some point to motivate him to learn to type.
by fakedang | 2026-03-12 11:06:52+00:00
Trump and Co. have already mentioned they have no interest in changing the regimes from the party bodies, either the communists in Venezuela or the IRGC in Iran. He has repeatedly stated that he prefers an insider. Too bad, in Iran's case, he got the toughest insider possible and had Israel kill that guy's entire family too. He even snubbed Machado for Delcy Rodrigues, just to claim a skin-level victory, even though Delcy is much more a hardliner than Maduro.