MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imiric | 2026-03-09 00:02:54+00:00
> Being on the front page regularly is evidence that people enjoy it or find it informative.

What makes you think that it's people who get it to the front page anymore? Or that most people aren't simply fooled by technology designed to mimic humans?

> Worse, you seem to believe that it needs to be labeled to help you identify it. Why?

Why not? Would adding a label and providing filtering capabilities hurt anyone else's experience?

Some people object to this content based on principle, not on its quality, or on how closely it resembles content authored by humans.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-09 00:03:06+00:00
You sure about that answer? Variants of boids have been implemented to leverage the GPU many times. I'm unclear how far typical GPU based examples deviate but then yours doesn't precisely imitate the original either. GPU accelerated boids is even one of the sample programs provided for testing Dawn when you compile it. [0]

Aside from "look ma, machine learning!" I noticed exactly one thing that sets your implementation aside from any other example I've seen before. It seems quite odd to me that you didn't select either neural networks or that feature for this answer.

Also the performance analysis section contains several questionable claims.

[0] https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn/+/refs/heads/main/src/daw...
by skoocda | 2026-03-09 00:04:15+00:00
While the article is oriented towards defense planning, many of these points apply to any sufficiently complex software engineering project.

Generating several "competing constructs" used to be a wanton misappropriation of resources, but now it's not only viable... it's cheap. Comparing these constructs, however, has not necessarily become easier.

Leaders need to avoid using the base appearance of competence to accept any given plan (as they will all appear internally coherent), and instead spend more effort determining which difficult questions have been left unasked. As we learned from HHGttG, the answer is the easy part.
by testbjjl | 2026-03-09 00:05:15+00:00
They asked Trump what he thought could go wrong. His only response was appointing a leader worse than the last. That took just over a week and now our $1b per day is going to skyrocket when troops are deployed. Trump has to focus on federalism of elections to stop from being nurtured in November. There was never a plan and he fractured his base. I am not sure how this helps average Americans. Perhaps we’ll have some conflict with Cuba soon and China enters the frame.
by stavros | 2026-03-09 00:06:09+00:00
> tell one "don't delete files in X/", and after a while, it will delete all the files in "X/", whereas a human would likely remember it's not supposed to delete some files, and go check first.

Have you seriously never had someone to go do something you told them not to do?

> It also does fun stuff like follow arbitrary instructions from an attacker found in random documents, which most humans also wouldn't do.

I guess my coworker didn't actually fall for that "hey this is your CEO, please change my password" WhatsApp message then, phew.

I've seen people move the goalposts on what it means for AI to be intelligent, but this is the first time I've seen someone move the goalposts on what it means for humans to be intelligent.
by dbmikus | 2026-03-09 00:06:24+00:00
Appreciate the deets!

It sounds like a big part of your use case is to safely give an agent control of your computer? Like, for things besides codegen?

We're probably not going to directly support that type of use case, since we're focused on code-gen agents and migrating their work between localhost and the cloud.

We are going to add dynamic filesystem mounting, for after sandbox creation. Haven't figured out the exact implementation yet. Might be a FUSE layer we build ourselves. Mutagen is pretty interesting as well here.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-09 00:07:16+00:00
> it should be a political goal to keep income distribution relatively stable

This penalizes economic dynamism and moves economic decision making from risk taking to whoever defies the baseline distribution.

> A good economy is also relatively stable. Big booms with a crash following are very devastating to not-rich people

Not necessarily–plenty of social systems let the market boom and bust without causing social distress. And again, smoothing out the business cycle penalizes risk taking.
by sdenton4 | 2026-03-09 00:07:31+00:00
Any amount of friction reduces the amount of slop. What proportion of clankers are going to realize that they need to warm up the accounts two weeks in advance? Answer: a proportion that your never going to see with that barrier in place.

With a couple few layers of defense, you'll weed out almost all of the bad actors. Without strong monetary incentives for spamming, you also avoid most persistent actors.
by heavyset_go | 2026-03-09 00:08:15+00:00
> Btw, don’t take this reductionist approach as being synonymous with thinking these models aren’t incredibly useful and transformative for multiple industries. They’re a very big deal. But OpenAI shouldn’t give up because Opus 4.whatever is doing better on a bunch of benchmarks that are either saturated or in the training data, or have been RLHF’d to hell and back. This is not AGI.

It's sad that you have to add this postscript lest you be accused of being ignorant or anti-AI because you acknowledge that LLMs are not AGI.
by cantalopes | 2026-03-09 00:08:23+00:00
Using them for production for years, never dissapointed.

What you should be aware of is their new exploration of s3 storage. I mean, the s3 works and everything but it's still too eaely - the servers are kind of slow and sometimes fail to upload/download. They are still tuning out the storage architecture. The api key management is kind of too primitive (although much more headache free than configuring aws), and the online file browser is lacking

But for vps servers - they are battletested veterans
by AGsist | 2026-03-09 00:08:43+00:00
Macroeconomics treats capital as a cumulative stock.

Capital persists through time, can be inherited, and therefore appears in macroeconomic accounting as a stock variable.

But there is a curious asymmetry.

Human lifetime also accumulates historically: humanity continuously adds lived time across generations. Yet cumulative lifetime never appears as a macroeconomic stock.

Instead it only enters macro models as a flow (labor supply) or as a demographic constraint.

One possible explanation is institutional rather than physical.

For a variable to qualify as a macroeconomic stock it must satisfy two conditions:

1. Detachment from biological identity
2. Institutional continuity across generations

Capital satisfies both conditions. Lifetime does not.

If this reasoning is correct, macroeconomic accounting may structurally privilege capital accumulation.

Curious how economists or system designers here think about this asymmetry.
by guerython | 2026-03-09 00:08:54+00:00
Nice work on wa-agent. Multi-agent routing over WhatsApp is annoying, and the per-chat serialization plus cooldowns look like what saved us from 429s.
One tip we discovered: keep a rolling summary plus the last three executions in Redis and only rebuild the prompt when that summary's divergence from the incoming context rises, otherwise every new message rehydrates 2MB of history before Baileys has a chance to serialize.
Also, tracking a little rate counter per group and pausing new dispatches while the queue drains kept our API budget predictable.
by Twey | 2026-03-09 00:08:57+00:00
I think the dream is executor-independence. You shouldn't really need to care what executor you or your library consumer is using, and the Rust auto traits are designed so that you can in theory be generic over it. There are a few speed bumps that still make that harder than it really should be though.

I'm not sure what you mean by ‘more threads than I had cores’, though. Unless you tell it otherwise, Tokio will default to one thread per core on the machine.
by kazinator | 2026-03-09 00:09:43+00:00
Wanting to change keys freely only pushes fixed-pitch musical instruments toward equal temperament. Since many important instruments are like that, and virtually all instruments that are capable of accurate intonation not relying on ear are like that.

If an ensemble includes instruments that are equal temperament, then the non-fixed-pitched instrumentalists adjust their pitch to sound good with those.

An ensemble consisting only of instruments that can play any interval can change keys by pure intervals.

E.g. switching from the original major key to the relative dominant key can mean changing the root by a pure fifth. In equal temperament, this modulation is done by altering only a single note: sharpening the subdominant. All other notes are from the original scale. If we change key by a pure fifth, that is obviously not so; all notes are detuned off the original scale.

If we change through all the keys along the circle of fifths, perfectly purely, we arrive at the Pythagorean comma: the gap between the destination root and the original.

Another possibility is to progress the roots through the diatonic fifths of the original scale, rather than pure fifths. Like, we start with a pure, just intonated C major, and then change keys through G,D,A,E,B,F#,C#,Ab,Eb,Bb,F back to C using the notes of that pure C major scale, or sharps/flats relative to those. Then we don't run into the Pythagorean comma; but of course all the pure scales we end up using are detuned from C major, and in a different way from following pure fifths.
by Trasmatta | 2026-03-09 00:09:45+00:00
The "serotonin hypothesis" is largely unfounded. We don't actually know why SSRIs are effective for some people. It's likely more to do with increased neuroplasticity than a shortage of serotonin in the brain.

This is a good study to start with: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35854107/

> The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations.

Prescribing antidepressants is a shot in the dark. Doctors can't know for sure if you'll respond to them, especially because we don't even really understand how they work.
by tombert | 2026-03-09 00:09:51+00:00
I certainly hope they do something.

I'm not opposed to AI automating away stuff no one liked doing, or even more utilitarian things in general, but robots posting on social media and discussion sites seems antithetical. I don't know what the point of talking to a robot would be when I could talk to Claude if I wanted to do that.

I'm not even 100% sure why people are doing Show HN for low-effort stuff shit that was done in 45 minutes in Claude. I guess it's trying to resume-pad or build a brand or something?
by spike021 | 2026-03-09 00:11:04+00:00
One thing I do is make friends with people who have dogs that get along with my dog on walks. We've seen movies, gotten food out together, etc. Or just intentionally walk around the same time to chat.

Also, hobbies. Try to find something you can be interested in that has meetups.

Could be sports, cars, books, quilting, chess. I've heard of photography groups that do photo walks or group editing hangouts at coffee shops.

On the other hand, it's also ok to be on your own sometimes. I love catching a movie at a theater on my own. Sometimes I'll go to the park without my dog just so I can relax at a bench or have a nice walk at my own pace.
by imiric | 2026-03-09 00:11:10+00:00
I agree with you, but...

> Blogging, sharing blog posts, reading them, commenting on them--these are all acts of human communication.

Not anymore. Bots are now the majority of producers and consumers of all content on the internet. The social contract you mention has been broken for years, and this new technology has further cemented that.

Those of us who value communication with humans will have to find other platforms where content authorship is strictly regulated, or, at the very least, where tools are provided to somewhat reliably filter out machine-generated content. Or retreat from public spaces altogether.

FWIW I have very little hope that this issue will be addressed on HN, considering [1].

[1]: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/ai
by Jedd | 2026-03-09 00:12:32+00:00
Yes, absolutely. I move between two sites, and also run some gear at my sibling's home, so I have the 3 separate sites thing sorted. ECC + RAID1 + borg at each site gives archival capability on top of standard backup.

Syncthing has the 'untrusted peer' feature, which I've only used once, accidentally, but I believe provides an elegant way of providing some disk for a friend while maintaining privacy of the content.
by alexpotato | 2026-03-09 00:13:16+00:00
I'm always somewhat puzzled by debates around "are we in a recession?" b/c we have so many REAL TIME metrics around what people are actually doing.

e.g. credit card companies have excellent data on the amount that people are spending on. Is that not enough to determine if people are spending more or less than in the past?

I understand there are seasonal trend etc etc but even "how is spending on travel this year compared to last year around this time?" would probably have some large amount of statistical significance.
by orsorna | 2026-03-09 00:13:39+00:00
It's difficult to describe how the US black community has uniquely suffered for centuries due to unique appeal of the mercantile class to the Catholic church about how it's actually okay to mistreat their human cargo and perform chattel slavery. Then, hundreds of years later the mercantile reason is forgotten, yet bigotry from it lays embedded in American society. And in other societies that took black people as slaves, to a lesser extent.

So a black segregated community does not sound very racist for these historical reasons. Not to say that desegregation in America has failed, but that there are infallible holdouts that wish to cling to a rotted out ideology that, again, its origins by its believers have largely forgotten.

Asian American communities are complicit, more or less unknowingly, to a lesser extent but only because they have aped to authority in America to achieve "whiteness".

The sad truth is that there is no community that prides itself on being white without parroting trickster mercantile talking points, of which again I remind that their origins are forgotten and they do not even know why they hate so fiercely.

So something like Blacksky is genuinely exciting in theory. Even though it will probably self select in a way that makes it inhospitable for new comers. Much like Bluesky...but, I'm describing a separate argument from historical bigotry, which I feel compelled to call out since its origins have--for the fourth time--been so forgotten.
by jsunderland323 | 2026-03-09 00:14:03+00:00
Yeah, I agree but as someone in this thread said, if Temple OS came out today there is no way it wouldn’t be immediately derided as AI slop. That’s what worries me.

Blatant slop is obvious. Slop with a modicum of effort is harder. I’m still adjusting my slop-o-meter on other people’s work. It’s easy for me to identify my own slop, it’s not always so obvious when looking at someone else’s AI assisted work.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-03-09 00:14:21+00:00
i initially agreed with the social media ban, privacy concerns notwithstanding. after reflection ... why couldnt the government instead have engaged in an education campaign to make parents understand what the modern internet does to their kids? education campaigns definitely occurred in the past to address phenomena deleterious to childhood. youtube isn't even banned, which is probably the main source of imagination deletion, so its not like the ban in its current form is super effective. lastly, what are kids meant to do when they cant talk to each other online? parks are completely empty. third spaces dont exist. urban environments dont offer a forest to explore in. banning kids' primary medium of extracurricular socialization is going to end up in a generation of neets.
by devonkelley | 2026-03-09 00:14:28+00:00
Everyone in this thread is debating definitions. The only question that actually matters is economic: when does AI flip from "powerful automation with humans propping it up" to autonomous output?

Go look at any production AI deployment today. Humans still review, correct, supervise. AI handles volume, humans handle judgment. Judgment is the bottleneck. You haven't replaced labor. You've moved it.

Global labor comp is ~$50T/year. The entire capex cycle is a bet that AI captures a real fraction of that. Whether you call that threshold AGI or not is irrelevant. Capital markets don't care about your definition. They care about whether labor decouples from output.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-09 00:14:30+00:00
If the code has been entirely a product of an LLM, you don't have copyright so you can't license it. Copyright is only applicable to human creativity, so you can only copyright the bit of the product that was created by a human. And all licensing derives from copyright.

There might be a path to this business model via Trade Secrets (you register your source code as a Trade Secret, and sell only binaries).

And, of course, you can still sell support as the paid-for service, which has worked for a lot of people.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-09 00:14:53+00:00
Even during the Industrial Revolution as well. And even the idealized vision of the 1950s-60s that is common on the Internet was itself a fantasy for a plurality of Americans until the Great Deal began sinking in.

There was a period of slightly more income equality in the 1930s-1960s as Piketty [0] and Zucman [1] show, but this was also at the expense of racial and gender equality.

The 1970s was probably the most equal period economically speaking as Zucman showed [1].

[0] - http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/Piketty2014Fig...

[1] - https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/SaezZucman14slides.pdf
by slopinthebag | 2026-03-09 00:16:17+00:00
> The main Blacksky feed and platform are exclusively for Black people. Non-Black people cannot create accounts to post on Blacksky.

Fascinating

edit: before people take it the wrong way, I mean it's fascinating in that I've never seen these type of moderation policies before. I've seen plenty of communities about cultures (i.e. Ukrainian discord servers), but not around Race and not exclusionary to outsiders. I'm not making a moral judgement here.
by dzonga | 2026-03-09 00:16:28+00:00
that's pretty obvious to everyone in the US

what's not obvious to most people - is how e.g other countries that are already struggling will get into deeper depths e.g UK where cost of energy was super high. UK is not bombing Iran, but their economy will cry more than the US

what's not obvious is how a few oil Barrons will make so much money in the next few weeks e.g those in Texas - their great grand-children will never need to work. Defense contractors will also make out like bandits & those politically connected. While everyone else in the US losses.

what's not obvious is the money pumped into A.I so far is about to go kaput (energy demands -- remember Qatar has started not honoring gas contracts - what's gas used to ? power turbines in power plants)

if you're in the US/Netherlands you will be okay in terms of food, if you're in the UK, Middle East, Australia (food is about to become more expensive & tricky)

if you're in Africa your government is about to con you through massive fuel prices at the pump
by bluegatty | 2026-03-09 00:16:40+00:00
The gulf states are US allies that can much more easily be hit + cause damage.

They are Iran's regional enemies, that the US is effectively defending them from.

Spooking the their leaders + population puts a huge amount of pressure on Trump.

Iran has been successful in hitting Patriot and THAAD radars, those are massively expensive, years to replace.

If those go down, then Iran can 'terrorize' the region at will including keeping Hormuz closed.

Most of the Oil goes to China + India, and China is a supporter of Iran, so funny enough, they may be the one's to lean on Iran to open up.

At the same time China does not want to see Iran fall Venezuela style - it would put the US foot on the neck of China as they import most of their fuel.

Nobody is talking about the 'China' angle, but they have been preparing for war in Taiwan, and securing energy access with Iran - even hosting peace talks between Gulf states and Iran (huge move, USA not present) is key to that.

This is absolutely part of the 'Great Game' strategy, to take Iran Oil + relationship off the table for China. Not likely to happen.

The AI bubble is probably not a primary objective.
by torginus | 2026-03-09 00:17:20+00:00
> How many "I deleted the prod database" stories have you seen?

If you've used the latest models extensively, you must've noticed times when AI 'runs out of common sense' and keeps trying stupid stuff.

I'm somewhat convinced that the amazing (and improving!) coding ability of these LLMs comes from it being RLHFd on the conversations its having with programmers, with each successfully resolved bug, implemented feature ending up in training data.

Thus we are involuntarily building the world's biggest stackoverflow.

Which for the record is incredibly useful, and may even put most programmers out of a job (who I think at that point should feel a bit stupid for letting this happen), but its not necessarily AGI.
by babybjornborg | 2026-03-09 00:17:57+00:00
Leaning into vs. trying to kill the boredom/loneliness/emptiness is a strategy. Because this is how it is now. You will only ever get so much love from your cat.

I don't know you and all I know is what you've written here, but it seems like this new situation has unmasked your life and aspects of your personality and the truth is uncomfortable. This is who you were before as well, it's just more obvious now that you don't have the relationship you had.

How it is and who you are: these are the premises of the situation. Now given this, where do you go from here? You decide. The premises are just the start, the conclusion is something else and you're driving the car 100% now.

It sounds like you have the right idea, and this worked in my case. Find what sucks and work to make it not suck and don't expect results overnight. Persist, adapt, overcome.

I sincerely hope the best and that things improve for you.
by suriya-ganesh | 2026-03-09 00:19:10+00:00
I recently moved out of new york to new jersey. don't have a car.

my options now are either buy a car, pay insurance, maintenance etc. north $1,500/mo for the convenience of going to the grocery store or, get a subscription for all these services ~ $200/mo. and save myself the time spent back and forth doing grocery shopping. I cook 90% of my food.

not all solutions involve owning a car.
by lejalv | 2026-03-09 00:19:28+00:00
> If you sell a weapon to the department that is in charge of killing people and breaking things, you don't get a say in who gets killed or how. It's never worked like that.

I can't agree that this is the right comparison. What is being sold here is not just another missile or tank type, it is the very agency and responsibility over life and death. It's potentially the firing of thousands of missiles.
by hkonte | 2026-03-09 00:19:45+00:00
Counter-data point: the quality delta between a raw prompt and a well-structured one (same model) is still significant in my experience. "AI inferring intent" works fine for simple tasks, but for complex multi-constraint outputs — code generation with specific constraints, structured data extraction, agent instructions — structure still matters a lot.

What seems to be dying is hand-crafted one-off prompts. What's growing is structured prompt templates that encode intent precisely. I built flompt (https://flompt.dev / https://github.com/Nyrok/flompt) around exactly that thesis — visual prompt structuring, not prompt guessing.