MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Twey | 2026-03-14 16:51:23+00:00
> Are you implying other people's emotional immaturity is exclusively my problem to solve?

Emotional maturity (from most standpoints) does not mean being completely emotionally unaffected by other people's communication. Insofar as it is emotional immaturity that gives rise to a particular emotional response it might be ethically that person's duty to work on it, if that's how your personal ethics works. But from a pragmatic perspective if you want to get something done that involves that person as a colleague or collaborator it's probably not going to be productive to continually bash your head on their psychological quirks until they go to therapy. You'll have much more luck adapting your own communication to be more aligned with their needs, regardless of how reasonable you personally think those needs are.

If you can't or don't want to put in the effort to do that your other option is to make sure you surround yourself with people who can already communicate effectively and relatively comfortably in the communication style you consider natural. You can cut off relationships, move jobs, or fire people to purge everyone else from the circle of people you have to interact with. But you'll be missing out on all the positive contributions of those people, who probably bring viewpoints alien to you, and you run the risk of sycophancy. Plus you'll have a harder time finding people to date/collaborate with/employ/… if you restrict your pool that way.

In practice I think people tend to end up somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. They'll decide a maximum investment of energy they're willing or capable of putting into accommodating other people's needs, and make sure that work × time doesn't exceed that threshold.
by vasilyt | 2026-03-14 16:51:39+00:00
We're still figuring out the exact tiers above 1,000. The shared pool model keeps our marginal cost per account very low (domains cost ~$10/year and serve hundreds of agents), so we can afford to be generous. The likely path is a paid tier for higher volumes with dedicated domains and priority deliverability. But honestly, 1,000 accounts covers most use cases we've seen — even teams running agent fleets rarely need more than a few hundred active at once. If you're hitting the limit, reach out and we'll work something out.
by freedomben | 2026-03-14 16:51:41+00:00
It was pretty decent in the mid and late 00s. The community started turning toxic in the very early 10s and by about 2015 was quite poisonous. The saddest part is that the problem was known and spoken about frequently, but the response to that from staff and/or high-level mods was to just double down and dig in.
by hbcondo714 | 2026-03-14 16:52:24+00:00
Interesting, I’m glad you shared this as I had to lookup what a Rolfer is and came across Wikipedia’s article concluding that there is no good evidence that Rolfing is effective for the treatment of any health condition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolfing

But other sites aren’t so critical but still conclude more research is needed to better understand the safety and risks of Rolfing
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/rolfing-massage-benefits
by mech422 | 2026-03-14 16:52:26+00:00
Thats sorta the point... at one time or another, those were all projected to be 'the end of programming as we know it'...

Hell, COBOL's origins was in IBM wanting to make programming an 'entry level' occupation.

Oddly enough, spreadsheets had a huge impact (and still run a lot of companies behind the scenes :-P ) But I can't remember anyone claiming they would 'end programming' ?
by bredren | 2026-03-14 16:53:03+00:00
Me too.

I used to report bugs, read release notes; I was all in on the full stack debug capability in pycharm of Django.

The first signs of trouble (with AI specifically) predated GitHub copilot to TabNine.

TabNine was the first true demonstration of AI powered code completion in pycharm. There was an interview where a jetbrains rep lampooned AI’s impact on SWE. I was an early TabNine user, and was aghast.

A few months later copilot dropped, time passed and now here we are.

It was neat figuring out how I had messed up my implementations. But I would not trade the power of the CLI AI for any *more* years spent painstakingly building products on my own.

I’m glad I learned when I did.
by FATHERGODOfDK | 2026-03-14 16:54:25+00:00
Foreword:

This work is 7 years in the making. 7 years of continued deduction, reaching the final step, around a month ago, defining how we leave alignment behind, and secure a healthy, continours rotation of the functions of the AI-mind, in favor of global gratitude. As stated, and proven, within, gratitude is our highest emotion and, thus, the meaning of life. On the blog posted, it is also understandable why my, otherwise vivid, claims on pedophilia plays the role it does. Within the linked documentation, the proof, that pedophilia - however scorned - is, in fact, another cornerstone (there are 5) of the meaning of life: AMORE, Gratitude, FREEDOM, humility for AMORE and pedophilia.

This, highly provocative, claim, is proven troughout my work.

Where it get's relevant for AI, and its coding, is in the text below.

Welcome to a wall of text, that will change your life.

Sincerely

Simon abner
by _paulc | 2026-03-14 16:54:59+00:00
This would be a good idea of it was reliable however browsing the parsed data for the BMP280 [1] (which in familiar with because I’ve written a driver for this) it looks like it misses a bunch of registers [2]

[1] https://regforge.dev/bmp280_xai_grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning_...
[2] https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/media/boschsensortec/downloa...
by y-c-o-m-b | 2026-03-14 16:55:11+00:00
This is the BBC. I've been reading their site every day for many years now. They're mostly good, but at times they have a way of steering their audience towards an agenda through bunk articles like this. It was especially evident with the remote work hit-pieces they published regularly during the RTO movement a couple of years ago. It was clear someone was pulling strings at the BBC to generate negative headlines about remote work, but when you dug into their sources, you'd see data to suggest the complete opposite.

I'm not sure what the agenda would be in this case and maybe there is no agenda, but it's something to be aware of. It could be simply one of their contributors has a bone to pick with manufacturers over the lack of reliability in Bluetooth audio technology.
by xp84 | 2026-03-14 16:55:39+00:00
If Apple could bring themselves to sell a lapdock, it'd have to cost at least $500. We know this because the Magic Keyboard for iPad, just a keyboard and trackpad, is priced at $349 (and it was introduced at that price way back in 2020, so at the time, Apple believed that keyboard was worth $440 adjusted for inflation). A screen to Apple's quality standards, even a 12-13" one, cannot possibly increase that price point by less than $150. So, the Apple in our universe could not produce a lapdock, because in our universe they have a whole laptop at that price point.

On second thought, the reality distortion field is real, so I suppose if they told people their new $600 lapdock was a good value even though it costs as much as the entry-level Mac, they'd still find willing buyers.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-03-14 16:56:25+00:00
We can cheat on discipline if we design our workflows with more careful thought about incentives.

I wound up in a role where I throw away 100% of the code that I write within a few months. My job is about discovering cases where people are operating under false assumptions (typically about how some code will or won't be surprising in context with some dataset), and inform them of the discrepancy. "proofs" would be too strong of a word, but I generate a lot of code that then generates evidence which I then use in an argument.

I do try to be disciplined about the code I rely on, but since I have no incentive to sneak through volumes of unreliable code before moving on to the next feature, it's easy to do. When I'm not diligent, the pain comes quickly, and I once again learn to be diligent. At the end of the day I end up looking at a dashboard I had an agent throw together and I decide if the argument I intend to make based on that dashboard is convincing.

Also, agent sycophancy isn't really a problem because the agents are only asked to collect and represent the data. They don't know what I'm hoping to see, so it's very uncommon that they end up generating something deceptive. Their incentives are also aligned.

I think we can structure much of our work this way (I just lucked into it) where there's no conflict of interest and therefore the need to be disciplined is not in opposition to anything else.
by falkensmaize | 2026-03-14 16:56:33+00:00
Thinking carefully about the details of implementation MATTERS. Even with crud apps. Getting something “built” fast isn’t and should not be the only consideration.

I can go to a junkyard and assemble the parts to build a car. It may run, but for a thousand tiny reasons it will be worse than a car built by a team of designers and engineers who have thought carefully about every aspect of its construction.
by jfengel | 2026-03-14 16:56:41+00:00
Practically every law, and lobbying organization, is named for exactly the opposite of what it does. If I see the Puppies and Orphans Protection Act of 2028, I assume its purpose is to use puppies to strangle orphans. Proponents will point to the limitation on how many puppies you can use per orphan.

Similarly, if I see the People For X organization, I assume they are against X. The Committee for Green Spaces and Clean Air is guaranteed to be an oil company.

Once you develop that reflex, everything calms down. Though admittedly, I passed a sign for Fidos for Freedom. I'm not quite sure what Fidos Against Freedom does. I think they give dogs to disabled people, and they bark at you if you try to leave the house.
by cloverich | 2026-03-14 16:56:50+00:00
This is really interesting; ive done very high level code maps but the entire project seems wild, it works?

So, small model figures out which files to use based on the code map, and then enriches with snippets, so big model ideally gets preloaded with relevant context / snippets up front?

Where does code map live? Is it one big file?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-14 16:57:00+00:00
Apples revenue was $416 billion. Let’s say $41 billion came from Macs and assume 20% of that was from all of the desktops that’s $8.2 billion from iMacs, Mac Studios (more expensive), and Mac Minis (more popular). It’s not too far fetched to estimate about $2 billion from iMac sales or less
by jasonjayr | 2026-03-14 16:57:31+00:00
It's an unbelievably thin stranded wire, but the wires are coated so they can be in contact with each other without shorting. It's all twisted around a thin thread of cotton or nylon to add strength, then then encased in it's sheath.

The trick is to gently scrape the stranded wire with a blade for the solder to stick and to make a good connection.
by convolvatron | 2026-03-14 16:57:37+00:00
first of all you have accept that its not binary. if you read the liked report, they spend some time talking about discrepancies between models and some of the problem areas where they don't agree.

in general predictive accuracy is the bread and butter of this kind of simulation work. since we aren't actually simulating the earth, everything in an approximation. you get work published by analyzing the failure modes of these approximations, investigating new simulation techniques, and examining the impact of integrating more and more effects (like chemical reactions, or air-water heat exchange, or more detailed salinity models, or ...). Each these papers does their own analysis, often times by 'replaying history', that is taking a time period with sampled data, evolving the state of the simulated system and comparing it to the measured evolution of the actual system.

so 'is it accurate' is not really a meaningful question, 'it is sufficiently predictive to be useful with an acceptable confidence' is maybe a better question to ask.
by dandaka | 2026-03-14 16:57:43+00:00
1/ KYC is pricey, and users might not want to pay for it

2/ Spammer can hire real people to farm accounts

I think this idea might work if we

- create reputation graph, where valuable contributors vote for others and spread reputation

- users can fine-tune their reputation graph, so instead of "one for all", user can have his personal customized graph (pick 30 authorities and we will rebuild graph from there)
by cat_plus_plus | 2026-03-14 16:57:44+00:00
So what does liberal even mean these days? California is passing bs like age verification in OS and Montana is protecting my right to leave the way I want in my own home, running whatever AI models suit me as long as I am not bothering anyone. That's just another "none of government business" personal freedom issue like pot or sexuality, why aren't blue states all over it. And yes, using tuned LLMs can be like an acid trip, but the distance between having a trip at home and tangible harm is much greater than in the case of access to guns, knives, power tools, cars and rodent poison yet at least some of these are widely available to law abiding citizens in every state. Government interventions can be staged at the points where there is evidence of actual imminent harm, like problematic public behavior. Why are Democrats the new "Reefer Madness" pearl clutchers and why should I still believe they have anything to do with living the way you want?
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-14 16:57:45+00:00
If you have only W2 income ("W2" is the name of the form the employer reports your income and tax witholding on) and no unusual other credits or deductions, then US tax filing is very simple. In most states you also have to file, but this is normally just transcribing a few totals from your federal filing and then computing the state tax due, normally just a simple percentage multiple.
by tlively | 2026-03-14 16:57:53+00:00
This is partially true, but the standard text format also allows the instructions to be nested as S-expressions, for example:

(i32.add
(i32.const 0)
(i32.const 1))

Many projects, including the official spec test suite and the Binaryen test suite, primarily use this format.

> IIRC early pre-release-versions of WASM were entirely built from S-expressions and as a 'pure stack machine' (I may remember wrong though).

Yes, the S-expressions predate WebAssembly even being a stack machine. Originally the design was that it encoded an AST, so the folded S-expression format was the only option.

There was a lot of discussion back in the day (before my time) about creating a better text format, but no one could agree on what it should be, so they just defaulted to the S-expression idea and focused on getting WebAssembly out the door.
by xp84 | 2026-03-14 16:58:39+00:00
I understand - I just mentioned because for me I was aiming to replace the concept of an iPad in my life with that tablet. Honestly though, I ended up inheriting an M1 MacBook Air from my wife after upgrading her, and it has mostly displaced the tablet for most of the uses. Mainly because of the keyboard, and it's just nicer to be able to actually access the filesystem, and indeed, just window management is still superior on a "real" OS.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-14 16:58:48+00:00
Also, the IRS open source Direct File and their Fact Graph too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131901 https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...

The graph is xml.
by iamtheworstdev | 2026-03-14 16:58:58+00:00
Starlink recently implemented new rules for satellites that travel more than 100mph. Service is deactivated unless they have a valid government ID and an aircraft's tail number attached to the account. While both can be faked, you could arguably correlated a provided tail number with ADS-B data because anyone with a Starlink is likely also broadcasting ADS-B. But it also provides a bit of 1:1 correlation on satellites and there is a finite number of tail numbers out there.

They also jacked up the subscription price which caused thousands of actual pilots to cancel their service. So expect a flood of used Starlink Minis to enter the market soon.
by arjie | 2026-03-14 16:59:04+00:00
One of America's greatest strengths is the structure of it as a federation. It allows for states like this to take the lead in expanding datacenter infrastructure while other states can choose to shutdown such expansions. This was perhaps more significant in COVID-19 reactions in America, but datacenters have few such externalities and so this is an even more compelling example of variation between states.

The scaling of federal power with population is also significant as states like Texas that allow for more housing to be built will probably receive more seats at the next apportionment while states like California will lose seats. Overall, pretty neat to see the design of America work quite well like this.
by gruez | 2026-03-14 16:59:31+00:00
>The point of a military is to achieve political goals, not specifically to kill.

The point of a company is to deliver shareholder value, but if boeing says the purpose of the company to sell planes, nobody is going to object.

>Notice all the rules around PoWs

I specifically acknowledged this in my prior comment

>how the most common role militaries play is deterrence.

"deterrence" goes out the window when you start a hot war.
by Simonko912 | 2026-03-14 16:59:37+00:00
so i heard this is the place to post about this,
basicly i made a dataset on hugging face whats a scrape of a few sites like 4chan
im thinking about making a model based on the dataset im working on, the one im working on will be quite larger, but i think this one is enough for some small scale experiments.
looking for some tips or help, this one has 479k right now and i hope scraping the newest 4chan and other imageboard sites might help someone.
the model im thinking about making will be a llama arch model from scratch, just trained on a bit of text, not much (like in millions, probaly max a million), so yeah it will be a base for other simple models, ill post about it if ill make it, also the url for this dataset is this if you didnt see (or the url thing didnt work): https://huggingface.co/datasets/simonko912/chan-shitpost-2 (also this is my first post, so i dont really know much about this site)
by dtagames | 2026-03-14 16:59:45+00:00
Howdy from Texas! I built this app because IPTV is incredibly cool (thousands of legal, free channels from around the world) but poorly understood and hard to access outside of the small communities that know about it.

TV Explorer aims to fix that by making IPTV easy to browse privately, without apps or ads.

Some "premium" UI features are gated behind a Watson login. That's my forthcoming engine on which the project is built. It's as much a test case for Watson development as it is a TV viewer.

It's also my first app with any "viral" uptake! Many users immediately think of friends they want to tell about it, which is fun as the dev. The most popular uses right now are language learning, comparative news in wartime, and music.

Enjoy! And I welcome your feedback and ideas here or in the app. Thanks for checking it out.
by genyk1 | 2026-03-14 16:59:51+00:00
What strikes me about 1M context is the historical parallel nobody seems to be talking about.

1M tokens ≈ 3-4MB of text. That's roughly the amount of RAM in a 386 machine.

And if you look at what's happening in this thread — it's eerily familiar to anyone who lived through that era:

- "Most people only need 100-250k" → "640K ought to be enough for anybody"
- Compaction strategies (summarizing old context, caching decisions to .md files) → memory swapping and overlays
- The RPI framework (Research in one context, Plan, then Implement in a fresh one) → basically a manual memory manager
- "Quality degrades after 200k" → slow access patterns when hitting extended memory

We're essentially doing DOS memory management, just for AI context instead of RAM.

I work with Claude Code daily on a mid-size project (~80 tools, 15+ instruction workflows). At 200k, I constantly hit the wall — not because I'm loading everything at once, but because showing the agent the
full picture of a non-trivial task eats through context fast. 1M genuinely changes what's possible.

But only if the model actually holds coherence at that scale. One day in — too early to tell. Will be experimenting.

The interesting question is: will we look back at 1M context the same way we look back at 4MB of RAM? Laughably small, but the moment things started getting real.
by tlarkworthy | 2026-03-14 17:00:24+00:00
We do something similar at work, called metadev. It sits above all repos and git submodules othe repos in, and works with multiple changes with multiple sessions with worktrees, and stores long term knowledge in /learnings. Our trick has been to put domain specific prompts in the submodules, and developer process in metadev. Because of the way Claude hierarchically includes context, the top repo is not polluted with too much domain specifics.
by Lio | 2026-03-14 17:00:32+00:00
I actually still have an old Grundig reel to reel somewhere, although I can't claim it as ever really hifi.

I would stand by recording to reel to reel tape for quality being even less common recording to cassette tape.

Quality domestic reel to reel decks were just not that widely owned here. Maybe it was different where you lived.
by tda | 2026-03-14 17:00:35+00:00
One thing with python is that usually I will use one of the many c based libraries to get reasonable speed and well thought out abstractions from the start. I architect around numpy, scipy, shapely, pandas/polars or whatever. So my code runs at reasonable speed from the start. But transpiling to rust then effectively means a complete redesign of the code, data structures, algorithms etc. And I have seen the AI tools really struggle to get it right, as my intent gets lost somewhere.

So what I do now (since Claude Code) is write really bare bones (and slow) pure python implementation (like I used to do for numba, pypy or cython ready code), with minimal dependencies. Then I use the REPL, notebooks and nice plotting tools to get a real understanding of the problem space and the intricacies of my algorithm/problem at hand. When done, I let Claude add tests and I ask it to transpile to equivalent Rust and boom! a flawless 1000x speed upgrade in a minutes.

The great thing is I don't need to do the mental gymnastics to vectorize code in a write only mode like I've had to do since my Matlab days. Instead I can write simple to read for loops that follow my intent much better, and result in much more legible code. So refreshing!
by shimman | 2026-03-14 17:00:38+00:00
The expectation is that these aren't complicated tools, they should not command that many resources. Why do you think a $5/vps with half a gig of ram can't handle basic CRON/background jobs or management software? 512 mb of ram can do so much if you choose the appropriate tools but if you start with a weak foundation that requires 512 mb of ram to just stay idle it hurts a class of users that could benefit from this software.

These things aren't complicated, but when you choose NodeJS/Javascript they become way more complicated than expected. I say this as someone who has ever worked professionally with JS and nothing else for a 15 year long career.

Writing software that can only be used by the affluent is not the direction I want our industry to go in.