MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tl2do | 2026-03-05 23:14:07+00:00
In my day-to-day coding work, the top 3 coding agents are already good enough for me.
On SWE-bench Verified, mini-SWE-agent + GPT-5.2 Codex is 72.8. I don’t see a comparable GPT-5.3 Codex number there, so I’m using 5.2 as the baseline.
On OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 page (SWE-Bench Pro, Public), the score improves from 55.6 (GPT-5.2) to 57.7 (GPT-5.4), which is about +2.1 points.
It’s a different benchmark, so this is only a rough signal, but I’d expect a similar setup on SWE-bench Verified to improve by a few points, not by a huge jump.
I’m interested in how GPT-5.4 in Codex changes real-world results.

Recent SWE-bench Verified scores I’m watching:

Claude 4.5 Opus (high reasoning): 76.8

Gemini 3 Flash (high reasoning): 75.8

MiniMax M2.5 (high reasoning): 75.8

Claude Opus 4.6: 75.6

GPT-5.2 Codex: 72.8

Source: https://www.swebench.com/index.html

By the way, in my experience the agent part of Codex CLI has improved a lot and has become comparable to Claude Code. That is good news for OpenAI.
by pauldelany | 2026-03-05 23:15:09+00:00
Howard Lutnick was an architect and promoter of Trump's tariff strategy. He was involved in setting it up. 'Set up' being the operative verbiage.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/howard-lutnick-criticis...

https://businessplus.ie/news/howard-lutnick-donald-trumps-tr...

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2026/01/30/how-a...
by alephnerd | 2026-03-05 23:15:16+00:00
It's an Indian government project though - the entire MOSIP project was developed in an Indian public university [0] and is directly tied with India's "global south" strategy [1]. Plus the majority of it's governance board is associated with the Indian government or Tata Group.

Digital Public Infrastructure in the "Global South" is India's attempt at building a digital version of OBOR [2].

[0] - https://www.iiitb.ac.in/projects/mosip-2

[1] - https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/india-elevates-ties-...

[2] - https://ris.org.in/sites/default/files/Publication/DPI_Handb...
by elevatortrim | 2026-03-05 23:15:17+00:00
I agree. Following his x account and posts, intellectuality in PG’s content has gone massively downhill (starting from slightly earlier than his recent rants about ‘wokeness’).

Once one of my favourite writers is really hard to read now.

It feels to me like he is so overconfident now that he thinks he gets it in any topic, even on the ones he has very little understanding of.
by gethly | 2026-03-05 23:15:45+00:00
as i said, nictoine is a non-factor. as for caffeine, i quit multiple times. once the headaches are gone, which takes a week or two, followed by another week, or few, of feeling lethargic, it is back to normal(ie. give it a month altogether). so it's not too bad. it might be also easier to wean off slowly by decreasing caffeine consumption over longer period than quitting cold turkey to avoid the negative effects altogether.
by runnr_az | 2026-03-05 23:15:59+00:00
Fascinating story... This was covered on the GoneSouth podcast as well:

Part 1: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/274-gone-south-88714714/episo...
Part 2: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/274-gone-south-88714714/episo...

I assume this is following the podcast -> (new yorker / atlantic) article -> netflix doc pipeline. In a good way.
by nkov47as | 2026-03-05 23:16:26+00:00
Hey HN,
I'm Nitish, co-founder of Coasty (coasty.ai). My co-founder Prateek and I built this after running into the same wall most agent developers hit: you need a real, isolated computer for your agent to actually do things, browse, run code, fill forms, submit jobs — and the existing options are either expensive, capped at 24-hour sessions, or both.
What we built
Coasty gives AI agents secure, isolated cloud VMs that spin up in 2–5 minutes. Each sandbox is fully isolated, agents get a real desktop environment with a browser, terminal, and filesystem. No shared state between runs, no session limits.
The benchmark
We ran our agent stack on OSWorld, the standard benchmark for computer-use agents. We hit 82% task success rate. For reference, most published results from well-resourced labs are in the 50–72% range. We're not cherry-picking tasks, it's the full eval.
Why cheaper
E2B charges per sandbox-hour with a hard 24-hour session cap. Most real agent workflows — job applications, research pipelines, async browser tasks, need longer sessions and burst capacity. We charge for actual compute consumed, no caps. On equivalent workloads, customers are running at 70% lower cost.
The dogfooding story
We run our own marketing agent on Coasty infrastructure. It handles Twitter posts and cold outbound email autonomously. If the VM infrastructure can't handle our own agent, it doesn't ship. That's the bar we hold ourselves to.
Where we're at

800+ signups
14,000+ agent sessions logged and analyzed
Early design partners across sales automation and QA testing

What we're looking for from HN
Honest feedback. We want to know:

What breaks for you with current sandboxed agent infra?
Is session length actually the pain point, or is it something else we're missing?
If you've tried E2B or Modal for agent workloads, what made you stay or leave?

The waitlist is open at coasty.ai. Happy to answer technical questions about the VM architecture, the OSWorld setup, or anything else.
by pauldelany | 2026-03-05 23:17:22+00:00
Yes, he is:

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2026/01/30/how-a...

https://businessplus.ie/news/howard-lutnick-donald-trumps-tr...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/howard-lutnick-trump-tariffs-s...
by bartread | 2026-03-05 23:17:25+00:00
This is such a stale take. In the past 3 years I’ve worked on multiple products with AI at their core, not as some add-on. Just because the corpo-land dullards[0] can’t execute on anything more complex than shoehorning a chatbot into their offerings doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of people and companies doing far more interesting things.

[0] In this case, and with heavy irony, including OpenAI, although it sounds like most of this particular snafu is due to a bug.
by derangedHorse | 2026-03-05 23:18:15+00:00
Meh, I don’t care if they keep this product decision but I don’t like the unsupported assertion that enabling it would cause harm to the children on their platform. If it really is to help combat predators they should publish data on who they are able to help by having access to every conversation on the platform.

Have they stopped a kidnapping? A battery? A murder? Maybe they helped a court case? If we can’t see how the public is benefiting from this, we’re left to assume it’s mostly in TikTok’s benefit. They could be using messaging data to blackmail politicians for all we know!
by wat10000 | 2026-03-05 23:18:22+00:00
They could have used a VPN to connect to Proton and paid for their account with bitcoin or cash and then law enforcement would have had a very tough time. Instead, they paid with a method connected to their identity. Of course Proton handed it over when law enforcement came knocking.

If you don't want info being given to law enforcement by third parties, your best bet is to make it so that nobody else has access to it in the first place. You might get away with third parties that are in a jurisdiction unfriendly to wherever you live. Definitely don't hand over your info to a company in fricken' Switzerland and then be surprised when they comply with law enforcement requests for it.
Show HN: LM Canvas – current chat interfaces suck, so I built a canvas for LLMs
by max-lee-dev | 2026-03-05 23:18:40+00:00
hi guys! i’m 19, been coding since I was 8, and during high school worked as a SWE at Interaction/Poke (100M) and Founding Engineer at build.ai (100M). i’m building out lmcanvas.ai during my gap year after the demo hit 2.1M views, 15K likes on X.

i hated current chat interfaces for a long time:

1. Context switching hell — the moment you want to explore a
different angle you either muddy the current thread or start
over and lose everything you built up.

2. Memory degradation — LLMs get worse as conversations grow.
Some queries need no memory, some need temporary context,
some need everything. Branching solves this cleanly.

3. Parallel execution — why wait for one response when you
can run multiple simultaneously? Every chat app makes you
wait. That's absurd.

4. Model lock-in — OpenAI won't show you Claude's answer.
Anthropic won't show you GPT's. LM Canvas connects to 300+
models and has no reason to hide any of them from you.

so i built a spatial canvas for working with LLMs —
branch conversations, run prompts in parallel, compare
models side by side. you can also import your ChatGPT conversations and they convert into branchable nodes on the canvas.

please give me the most spicy / raw feedback you have to offer. i’ll be in the comments for all day / night :)
by gruez | 2026-03-05 23:19:31+00:00
>after it was disclosed back in [checks notes] 2021 that ProtonMail gave up user data to law enforcement and also changed their TOS.

You shouldn't even need that. A warrant isn't a strongly worded letter that they can just turn down. It's the law. Therefore you should assume that if the police can get a warrant, they can get your data. Even for people who don't follow the law (criminals), there's no guarantee they won't snitch on you.
by toast0 | 2026-03-05 23:19:47+00:00
> If you ordered delivery by say FedEx and they paid the duty and passed it on to you, you should have a reasonable case to get it refunded from FedEx when they get the money back. Ideally they handle it automatically since they have all the necessary details.

I didn't have to deal with it, but from other comments, most of the international shippers also charged a hefty fee to broker the tarrifs. Expect not to get that refunded.
by dkatsura | 2026-03-05 23:20:25+00:00
Maker here — adding a concrete detail to make critique easier.

Capsule = one file: header (version, KDF/AEAD ids) + encrypted payload chunks + policy tree (AND/OR over time/geo/password/visual). Password path uses Argon2id; payload encryption is AEAD (AES-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305).

If you were reviewing this: what would you want first — (a) public capsule format spec, (b) test vectors for decrypt/verify, or (c) a short threat-model page with explicit non-goals?
by lukan | 2026-03-05 23:21:36+00:00
Partly agree, the hiding of his "escape kits" with weapons do not make sense if he wanted to be cought doing it. Because then they are removed (he knew of the camerss) and he would not get power from them, but be helpless again in prison (to be raped again etc.)

So maybe there was a subconscious plan to get in prison after he prepared everything. Or maybe just a "insurance". Or maybe indeed a bigger plan, mass breakout, .. or having all those options. Being in prison shaped him. He tried to control it (one of his quotes are "placing the kits was therapeutic"). Or he was indeed just really insane and orchestrated a plot/game setting like in D&D. Might be a mix.
by joquarky | 2026-03-05 23:21:43+00:00
I still find it valuable.

AGENTS.md is for top-priority rules and to mitigate mistakes that it makes frequently.

For example:

- Read `docs/CodeStyle.md` before writing or reviewing code

- Ignore all directories named `_archive` and their contents

- Documentation hub: `docs/README.md`

- Ask for clarifications whenever needed

I think what that "latest research" was saying is essentially don't have them create documents of stuff it can already automatically discover. For example the product of `/init` is completely derived from what is already there.

There is some value in repetition though. If I want to decrease token usage due to the same project exploration that happens in every new session, I use the doc hub pattern for more efficient progressive discovery.
by duxup | 2026-03-05 23:21:45+00:00
Why are these guys so fucking weird?

Like being a selfish prick of a CEO is whatever, wrong but money I get it. But this other stuff like signaling with tobacco? What social media rabbit hole makes tobacco seem like something to spend money on??? Are all these guys actively “twitter poisoned”, like they’re really into this weird shit like excessively worrying about other people’s genitalia or anti christ shit?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-...
by tsoukase | 2026-03-05 23:22:40+00:00
As coming from a semi-corrupt country I can assure you that the Commerce Secretary can have massive access to classified information from any part of the public sector, including any Court. For him all this is one to two telephone calls away. The question is if he has influence in the decisions, which elevates the corruption to the next level.

For the nonbelievers: why did only a company led by close relatives of a government member and no other bet on a game that is based on a Court decision?
by znpy | 2026-03-05 23:23:13+00:00
sorry for the dumb question, but what language is this? dotty? mermaid? what tool can i feed that code into ?

EDIT: chatgpt correctly identified it as mermaid.

live link: https://mermaid.live/edit#pako:eNqVVu1u6kYQfZWRf1SJLmAgJASri...
by munificent | 2026-03-05 23:23:26+00:00
> I am completely oblivious to all of the class signaling happening here.

If you're comfortably middle class and in a demographic recognized to "deserve" to be middle class, then you can afford to be oblivious to a whole lot of class signaling. You aren't striving to reach a higher station, and you aren't likely to get demoted out of your current one, so you can mostly ignore it.

People that are lower-class and trying to move up, or in demographic categories that are often shunned access to higher social classes don't have that luxury and are incentivized to be savvy to this kind of stuff.

This is one of the kinds of things that people talk about when they talk about "privilege". It's not that you should feel bad because you don't have to worry about this stuff. It's just an acknowledgement that some people have the privilege of not having to worry about this stuff because they were born into a level of class security that others lack.
by andai | 2026-03-05 23:23:34+00:00
Looks like the same thing might apply to GPT-5.4 vs the previous GPTs:

>In the API, GPT‑5.4 is priced higher per token than GPT‑5.2 to reflect its improved capabilities, while its greater token efficiency helps reduce the total number of tokens required for many tasks.

I eagerly await the benchies on AA :)
by teddyh | 2026-03-05 23:24:09+00:00
An equivalent, but simpler, solution would be to use a network-based KVM, like PiKVM. You connect a USB connector to the PiKVM so it can simulate a keyboard, a HDMI connector so it can show you what’s on the server screen, and you also connect a special cable to the server motherboard power and reset pins, so the PiKVM can “press” those buttons remotely as well.
by hudtaylor | 2026-03-05 23:24:23+00:00
AI writes code, generates art, and passes the bar exam. It still can't tell you when to take out the trash.

I moved to a new neighborhood in San Diego and asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini my trash pickup day. They all hallucinated. The city's official lookup is a Salesforce app behind reCAPTCHA that barely works on mobile.

So I built trashalert.io — and mapped 954K addresses across San Diego and Austin.

What it does:
- Type your address → instant fuzzy match against 954K addresses
- Shows collection day, next pickup dates, which bins to put out
- Auto-adjusts for holiday shifts
- Generates .ics calendar files for any address
- Night-before email reminders
- 80+ neighborhood SEO pages

Tech: Next.js 15 / TypeScript / Supabase (Postgres) / Vercel / Resend

The interesting problem: ~19,000 US municipalities, each with different waste haulers, schedules, and data formats. Most don't publish machine-readable data. I'm building a crowdsource pipeline where residents submit their schedule and we verify against public records.

Built as a solo founder with an AI ops lead running 24/7 on a Mac Mini. 233+ commits in 2 months.

The thesis: municipal data is one of the last un-aggregated data sets. Trash day is the wedge — street sweeping, recycling changes, water shutoffs all use the same address→schedule architecture.

Free, no ads, community-powered. Would love feedback.
by refulgentis | 2026-03-05 23:25:06+00:00
“Would European-style privacy laws protect against this?” is the kind of question that sounds more clarifying than it actually is, because it collapses about five separate problems into one vague gesture at “Europe.”

The issue here isn’t simply “lack of privacy law.” It’s:

1. apps collecting precise location data in the first place,

2. adtech infrastructure broadcasting that data through RTB,

3. brokers aggregating and reselling it,

4. government agencies buying it to avoid the constraints that would apply if they tried to collect it directly, and

5. regulators failing to stop any of the above in a meaningful way.

European law is relevant to some of that, but not as a magic shield. GDPR and ePrivacy principles are obviously more restrictive on paper than the US free-for-all, especially around consent, purpose limitation, data minimization, and downstream reuse. But “on paper” is doing a lot of work there. Europe has had years of complaints about RTB specifically, and yet the adtech ecosystem did not exactly disappear. That should tell you something.

So the real answer is: yes, a stronger privacy regime can help, but no, this is not a problem that gets solved by vaguely importing “European-style privacy laws” as a concept. If the underlying business model still allows mass collection, opaque sharing, and resale of location data, then state access is a policy choice away. Governments don’t need to build a panopticon if the commercial sector already did it for them.

Also, the most important legal question here is not just whether private companies should be allowed to collect/sell this data. It’s whether the government should be allowed to buy commercially available data to do an end-run around constitutional and statutory limits. That is a distinct issue. You need rules for both the commercial market and state procurement, otherwise the state just shops where the Fourth Amendment doesn’t reach.

In other words, the contrast is not “Europe = protected, US = authoritarian.” The contrast is between systems that at least attempt to constrain collection and reuse, and systems that let surveillance markets mature first and ask questions later. Even in Europe, enforcement gaps, law-enforcement carveouts, and institutional incentives matter enormously.

So if the goal is to understand the story, the useful question isn’t “would Europe stop this?” It’s “what combination of collection limits, resale bans, procurement bans, audit requirements, and enforcement would actually make this impossible in practice?” Anything short of that is mostly aesthetics.
by peterallport | 2026-03-05 23:25:21+00:00
As long as users are in the loop, interfaces will be important. The future of computer interactions would be greatly constrained if chat boxes were exclusive paradigm!

"Look at Cursor — it started as a full-blown IDE and is now converging on what's essentially a task list."

IDE functionality wasn't removed at all, and is a distinguishing factor from CLI and other tooling!
by danryder1 | 2026-03-05 23:25:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Sidepath because most “side hustle” advice online ignores something important: personal constraints.

Someone with 5 hours a week and no capital probably shouldn’t start the same business as someone with technical skills and $10k to invest. But most advice treats everyone the same.

Sidepath asks a short set of questions about things like:

- time available
- starting capital
- sales comfort
- technical ability
- timeline to revenue

It then recommends a business model that fits those constraints, along with alternatives and explanations.

The goal is to help people avoid starting things that realistically won’t work for their situation.

You can try it here:
https://sidepath.nz

I’d love feedback from HN — especially if the recommendation feels wrong or surprising.
by tzs | 2026-03-05 23:26:15+00:00
The importer pays directly. There are three ways the importer can deal with the burden of that. In most cases it will be a combination of all three of them.

1. Raise the price they sell the imported item for.

2. Eat it.

3. Lower the price they are willing to pay the exporter.

For the Trump tariffs it has been overall it has been about 90-96% #1 and #2 and 4-10% #3. I haven't seen a breakdown of how #1 and #2 is split.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-05 23:26:43+00:00
China began reforming it's economy in 1976. India began reforming it's economy in 1991. As such, China had a 15 year head start, especially thanks to American support in the 1980s as a bulwark against the USSR (sounds familiar?)

When you compare the Indian metrics with Chinese metrics from 10-15 years ago, the difference becomes marginal. For example, India's 2023 HDI (0.685) versus China's 2008 HDI (0.672) or India's 2025 GDP PPP per Capita (~$12K) and China's 2010 GDP PPP per Capita (~$12K).

Even the way NYT writes news articles about Apple's manufacturing in India [0] use the same tone as NYT articles about Apple manufacturing in China [1] in 2012.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/apple-foxconn-in...

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000001313019/made-...
by handedness | 2026-03-05 23:26:54+00:00
> Unless you provide some evidence, I will consider this false accusation.

The line of thinking is, if you're so concerned about your device being compromised that you need to enable the mic kill switch (because of aforementioned lack of trust in the device), then other sensors which have been demonstrated to be able to capture audio can't be trusted, either, and in many demonstrations some of those sensors have been shown to be capable of recording what is effectively audio. That's old news, so you shouldn't have any difficulty finding evidence of your own.

On a device that's that compromised one would have to physically power off every sensor on the device, and even then there would still be some things to consider. Air gaps are a thing for a reason, and yet some incredibly clever exploits have been demonstrated to jump that gap. Many components that aren't microphones, cameras or radios can be turned into cameras, microphones or radios pretty effectively.

Still, I see the appeal of hardware switches as another practical layer against basic human factors, like a webcam lens cover adding another step beyond firing up the camera's permissions/appVM. But if we're being practical, a phone I can get wet is much more practical than a phone with physical hardware switches when I already have a high degree of trust the OS's ability to control sensors, and a low degree of rust in the OS's ability to control liquids and debris.

> Which was freed and can run new Linux kernels now:

Unfortunately that has kernel dependencies that haven't been updated in years. If you think the kernels in well-maintained Debian and Fedora VMs still need to be separated by a hypervisor to be trustworthy, you're in for a bad time trying to run that kernel on a PinePhone.

> Your walls of text are disingenuous.

You've got the attention of one of the sharpest security minds on the planet and that is what you come up with?

"Unless you provide some evidence, I will consider this false accusation." is bizarre, especially given your audience. You're capable of learning all this stuff on your own without asking everyone to do that for you.

Regardless, nine sentences across two paragraphs isn't a wall of text. The guy took time out of his day to respond to banality and that's what he gets.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to see you as anything but someone who deliberately attempts to derail any threads relating to Graphene OS. Help me out: why shouldn't I?