MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CodingJeebus | 2026-03-10 13:58:31+00:00
I'm at a small company struggling with this problem. Fundamentally, we have a limited context and AI is capable of generating tremendous amounts of output that exceed our ability to deeply process.

I find myself context-switching all the time and it's pretty exhausting, while also finding that I'm not retaining as much deep application domain knowledge as I used to.

On the surface, it's nice that I can give my LLM a well-written bug ticket and let it loose since it does a good job most of the time. But when it doesn't do a good job or it's making a change in an area of the codebase I'm not familiar with, auditing the change gets tiring really fast.
by spamsch | 2026-03-10 13:58:51+00:00
Agreed — but the part that really worries me is that dissent doesn't just need to be allowed. It needs to be practiced.

We tend to think of dissent as something that's either permitted or suppressed. But there's a third state: dissent that's technically available but that nobody reaches for because the system works well enough that disagreement feels pointless.

That's the scenario I keep circling. Not a ban on questioning — just a world where questioning feels as odd as arguing with your GPS. You can. But why would you? It's usually right.

The monoculture metaphor is exactly about this. A field of identical crops doesn't prevent other plants from growing. It just leaves no space, no soil, no light for them. The suppression is structural, not intentional. And by the time you notice the fragility, the seed bank is empty. This is hoorifying.
by aerhardt | 2026-03-10 13:59:21+00:00
I also had to take this approach with my LG TV. The OS actually had its use for a while but Apple TV has become my driver. I no longer wish to consent to LG’s EULAs which are starting to look like the legal corpus of a small nation. I’m also not interested in their software updates. Internet privileges: revoked.

It’s concerning nonetheless as others are pointing out that in the current trajectory the TVs may soon refuse to display any content unless connected.
by foxyv | 2026-03-10 13:59:27+00:00
Hate to say it, but this is a response TO a whataboutism. The original topic was Uber letting women choose to not drive with men. The whatabout was males being falsely accused of rape.

> The majority of men has totally fine behavior when it comes to women.

Yeah, about 75% ish. Not a great number. We don't educate young boys about ideas like consent so it isn't very surprising. Especially with the enduring rape culture in media and our government institutions.
by slibhb | 2026-03-10 13:59:30+00:00
> The person who showed their work on the math test is 9/10 times is doing better in life than the person that only knew how to use a calculator

Sure but once you learn long multiplication/division algorithms by hand there's not much point in using them. By high school everyone is using a calculator.

> Just like when people started losing their ability to navigate without a GPS/Maps app

Are you suggesting people shouldn't use Google Maps? Seems kind of nuts. Similar to calculators, the lesson here is that progress works by obviating the need to think about some thing. Paper maps and compasses work the same way, they render some older skill obsolete. The written word made memorization infinitely less valuable (and writing had its critics).

I don't think "LLMs making us dumber" is a real concern. Yes, people will lose some skills. Before calculators, adults were probably way better at doing arithmetic. But this isn't something worth prioritizing.

However, it is worth teaching people to code by hand, just like we still teach arithmetic and times tables. But ultimately, once we've learned these things, we're going to use tools that supercede them. There's nothig new or scary about this, and it will be a significant net win.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-10 13:59:36+00:00
My guess is the best market for space-manufactured objects is in space, particularly for objects which take advantage of the unique space environment, say, large solar sails or solar collectors.

1 and 2 were hyped up for the Space Shuttle in the 1990s and you know how that went. 3 is newer but all the time I read stuff on "why biological systems don't work quite right in zero gravity" so it might be more like space travelers will want to go to Earth or spin things like an O'Neill colony to do those things than the other way around.

From the viewpoint of "get some numbers to run that can show it makes money" I like "new patents on blockbusters" but I'm skeptical that people on Earth won't find equivalent methods of manufacturing or that politicians will let you make those profits.
by mschulze | 2026-03-10 13:59:38+00:00
I use magit daily for over 8 years now. Over that time I have showed it to many other peers, out of excitement for a tool that made me more productive and helped me learn - but I never could convince even one to use it. Maybe it's my persuasion skills, maybe tool usage is too personal - I don't know, but it makes me kind of sad. The UX of magit is just out of this world.

Especially for rebasing, subset rebases (using --onto, see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Rebasing#_more_...) are a breeze with Magit. I can't remember the order of branches to use on the CLI, in Magit it's just "r s" basically. It's really magic.
by dash2 | 2026-03-10 14:00:41+00:00
Private healthcare exists in the interstices of the NHS. The gorilla in the room squishes everything else into the corners.

Safety nets would be great, but a net that arrives several days after you have already fallen to the ground is not very helpful. That is what rationing-by-queueing does. Maybe Finland is great - I believe you! Britain's system is not.
by floatrock | 2026-03-10 14:01:28+00:00
Protection of one's attention is our generation's luxury product.

Whether it's the TV hardware or the streaming service in your house, your standard of living is now judged by whether you pay extra for the ad-free tier.

Apple tends to skew luxury purchase, so it makes sense it hasn't been riddled with adware yet. The Apple logo is a status symbol that you're not being bombarded with ads in every corner of underutilized screen real-estate.
by skydhash | 2026-03-10 14:01:48+00:00
Magit does give you a surgeon control over the scapel that git is. Most git GUI wants to give you a nice dashboard. The latter is OK if you just want some logs stored (aka git commit and git push), but version control can be a powerful tool especially considering how non linear programming can be.

A patch is an idea, not some snapshot of time. git allows for ideas manipulation. The rebase operation is adjusting ideas to fit a context. And with the reflog (which tracks every operations), you have undo for ideas manipulation.
by bluGill | 2026-03-10 14:02:10+00:00
Most of the good parts of the STL are implemented as templates. If you are considering C++ from C, then treating it like C with the STL templates is a great first step. Over time you will discover other useful features of C++ that solve specific problems. Virtual functions in a class - better than writing a table of function pointers. Lambda - sometimes much better than a function pointer. Custom templates - better than doing the same thing in macros (at least some times). Exceptions are sometimes really nice for error handling (and contrary to popular belief are not slow) And so on - C++ has a lot of features that can be useful, but most of them are features that can also be abused in places they don't belong creating a real problem.
by bhaak | 2026-03-10 14:02:22+00:00
That's a general problem with procedurally generated content.

Remember that wave function collapse focuses on local optimization. The algorithm can’t take a step back and look at the whole map. That’s why you won’t get a sensible road network. Rivers are only slightly better when the follow height gradients.

What you can do, and this is also a general advice for procgen, is to mix in some templates before WCF runs. Often, a bit of post-processing is needed as well.

The templates can be hand-designed, or generated with simpler procgen code. Place a few towns on the map, connect them with roads, and then let WFC fill in the gaps to create a more interesting landscape.
by loloquwowndueo | 2026-03-10 14:02:42+00:00
the local communities we built around a handful of BBSes in Mexico City back in the mid-90s were incredibly close-knit. We’d meet in person a few times a year, and it resulted in life-long friendships, business partnerships and more. Fidonet allowed growing this even more - you didn’t have to connect to 5 different BBS every day to stay in contact with your friends, and the ability to communicate with foreign BBSes and the Internet was also magical and a nice perk us BBS operators could offer our users.

4:975/X !

Around 1995/96 the advent of commercial consumer Internet swept most BBSes away, which was unfortunate because the local, close-knit aspect of that early community was entirely lost.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-03-10 14:03:18+00:00
> Feel free to share a better solution so we can replace this one.

> Then we can argue the merits of solution A vs solution B. I'd much rather be having that conversation instead of the solution A vs no solution.

You should be aware that these statements come off as extremely obtuse. A solution was shared at the top of the thread; albeit by a different commenter, but it makes sense that they'd have the same suggestion in mind. You've not actually discussed the merits despite ample opportunity, instead agreeing that it's a better solution, but, because it's not been implemented, this solution is still necessary for the time being.

What you've not done is argued for why that should be the case, as opposed to the bare assertion that it is. It seems that would be beneficial to your point of view in this discussion, given that others seem to be saying that it should not be.
by alexingram | 2026-03-10 14:03:35+00:00
We've scored 1,456 SaaS tools on agent-readiness. So far, 89% have failed.

Agent Native Registry uses a 33-point checklist to score tools on how easy it is for agents to use them.

It is, of course, consumable by your own agents via MCP so they can find the most agent-friendly tools to build with.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-03-10 14:03:41+00:00
Rather than their argument being a joke, you are misunderstanding the argument.

> What should a woman in this position do? Look at the options and think to herself, "I could choose a woman driver, but I won't because that is discriminatory to men and I should accept the risk"?

Nobody has argued this. This is a straw man you constructed so you can knock it over and claim victory.
by oopismcgoopis | 2026-03-10 14:04:12+00:00
The entire industry is racing toward AGI, dingus. Take your misplaced anger elsewhere, please. If you think I'm championing our AI overlords, then you are horribly mistaken. I am not who you think I am.

Also, note how you conveniently sidestep denying that you didn't read the article. Which means you didn't read the article. And your comment history suggests your favorite hobby is cherry-picking comments and reveling in trying to make people look stupid. So, I'm going to stop engaging here. The only person looking stupid right now is the one engaging in a hostile debate about something they didn't even bother to comprehend. Hell, you didn't even read my entire response.

I hope you heal from whatever hurt you so much that it makes you act this way toward strangers on the internet. I promise you, nobody cares how angry you are but you.
by lapcat | 2026-03-10 14:04:18+00:00
> So I think it would be wrong simply to say "the UI has gone a cliff, they've just thrown away their own HMI guidelines."

My own view is that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was the beginning of the end, and it's gone downhill ever since.

> they at least have a somewhat logical goal in mind -- in this case, making the corners neatly fit various different kinds of window content.

I would emphasize "somewhat", because as noted, the corners do not neatly fit the window content at the bottom, which is ironic, because Apple claims that their intention is to emphasize the content, but their implementation actually clips the content!
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-10 14:04:25+00:00
Exactly. State retirement in Europes is not free nor great. We pay extra in taxes for it and it's only great for the present day retirees, not for those paying into the system right now who will retire into the future. It's the same as US social security, it's not some extra perk that Europeans have over Americans.

Top tier scientists aren't gonna be swayed by European state retirement systems.
by cossatot | 2026-03-10 14:04:31+00:00
I use both gvim on linux and macvim on mac for a lot of things--not 'real' coding, typically, but opening and editing scripts and config files, writing in markdown, etc; I'm usually opening these from dolphin or finder. In the terminal, working on real code bases and not scripts, I use neovim. My configs for these have diverged a bit over the years but since the use cases are different, it doesn't bother me.
by sanderjd | 2026-03-10 14:04:35+00:00
I think the reason that English speakers swap ie/ei is that the pronunciations of these is not really consistent in English (at least in the American accent I speak), and I can't think of any words where both orderings exist but have different meanings. So the general impression I have about this is that I know there are supposed to be rules about it, but it seems pretty arbitrary and unimportant semantically.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-03-10 14:04:48+00:00
For most examples you need to squint pretty hard to make them "the same" though. In a world of "x, but for y" these are essentially new inventions, it's only our human brains in hindsight that look for the continuity. It's also an interesting question to ask if you can really seperate the idea from the execution when defining an "invention".
by cj | 2026-03-10 14:04:59+00:00
The goal in bodybuilding during a gaining phase is to be in a very slight calories surplus (200-300 calories above maintenance, at most) to maximize the amount of time you're building muscle before you need to cut again (bring calories back to a deficit to shed body fat).

Tracking scale weight is difficult because shifts in water weight and hydration can swing the scale 5+ pounds in either direction without any change in body fat. So I pair scale weight with a 7-point skin caliper measurements taken on a weekly basis, along with waist circumference, in order to infer whether body fat is trending up or down. And also take weekly progress photos of 6 angles/poses with consistent lighting, which I share with a coach.

And then you pair that with weighing and logging everything you eat, and you can make small adjustments to your meal plan on a monthly basis to try to stay in that 200-300 calorie per day surplus for as long as possible. (Although most bodybuilding coaches adjust diet based purely on how your physique is changing in weekly check-in photos without the need for measurements, but I like extra data)

> down to how many reps I did of which exercise, with how much weight)

I also do this. Track every exercise, every weight, number of reps. It's necessary for knowing whether you're progressively overloading over long periods of time. Progressive overload becomes harder to measure once you're past newbie gains because you can't increase weight every week, so some weeks the goal is just to squeeze out an extra couple of reps. Which adds up over time

This is obviously excessive for 99% of people. But I enjoy doing it as a hobby. I would absolutely not recommend this level of tracking for health reasons (not necessary) - I find enjoyment in the process.
by kurouna | 2026-03-10 14:05:17+00:00
First and foremost, I love Emacs and have the utmost respect for its Lisp-based ecosystem. It is undoubtedly one of the most successful and enduring examples of user-extensible software in history.
Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the nature of Emacs: What truly defines it? Is it the Lisp engine, the buffer-centric workflow, or the core philosophy of ultimate hackability? I realize this has been debated many times over the decades, but it feels worth revisiting in the context of the technologies available to us in 2026. A complete rewrite isn't the only answer; out of pure intellectual curiosity, I’d simply like to step back and reconsider its future from where we stand today.

Historically, Emacs began as a set of macros on TECO, not a Lisp-based system. Lisp eventually became its greatest strength, but I wonder if it has also become a constraint. Is it best for Emacs to continue evolving along its current path, or is it time for a more radical shift? What kind of future would be truly exciting for the next generation of hackers?

If we were to design Emacs from scratch today, would we still build it around its current C core and Lisp engine? Or could a different stack preserve its spirit while unlocking new possibilities? For

example:

* A core implemented in a modern systems language like Rust for performance and safety.

* A decoupled UI layer leveraging modern rendering engines or web technologies to natively handle complex layouts and CJK environments without legacy constraints.

* Lisp (or a similar high-level language) retained purely for user-level customization, rather than driving the underlying UI architecture.

Another question is its direction: should Emacs continue evolving into an all-in-one IDE, or should it return to being the "ultimate text editor," delegating heavy IDE responsibilities to LSP-based tools?

What specifications or technologies would make a "Modern Emacs" truly exciting for you? Are there technical or cultural reasons preventing the adoption of a modern stack, assuming the core philosophy remains intact?

Please note: This is not a critique of Lisp or the current Emacs. Whether it's a continuation of its current evolution or a completely new architecture, my only interest is to hear how we all envision its future. This is purely a thought experiment, and I hope you enjoy the discussion!
by zvqcMMV6Zcr | 2026-03-10 14:05:52+00:00
It is totally bonkers. For long time the low tech recommendation (without setting rules on router/firewall) was to never connect TV to network, and use cheap TV box, to use streaming services.
And then community's favorite - TiVo - started to show their own ads. Everything based on Android TV is also hit or miss. And might get enshitified with an update at any time. I think NVidia Shield is the only device other than AppleTV that works as expected. Only it didn't have an hardware upgrade in 5+ years.
by rswail | 2026-03-10 14:06:19+00:00
I started on the MICOM (Microcomputer Club of Melbourne) BBS that was started and run by Peter Jetson around 1983/84, initially with a single phone line. It was home grown software, but eventually became part of Fidonet.

I found an old listing for it. I don't think Peter still runs it :)

3:633/371 Micom CBCS
Show HN: Open Prompt Hub – share intent, not code
by jacomoRodriguez | 2026-03-10 14:06:31+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Mario. I recently talked to a colleague about AI, agents and how software development will change in the future. We were wondering why we should even share code anymore when AI agents are already really good at implementing software, just through prompts. Why can't everyone get customized software with prompts?

"Share the prompt, not the code."

Well, I thought, great idea, let's do that. That's why I built Open Prompt Hub: https://openprompthub.io.

Think GitHub just for prompts.

The idea is simple: Users can upload prompts that can then be used by you and your AI tools to generate a script, app, or web service (or prime their agent for a certain task):
Just past it into your agent or ide and watch it build for you. If the prompt does not 100% covers your usecase, fork it, tweak it, et voila: tailor-made software ready to use!

The prompts are simple markdown files with a frontematter block for meta information. (The spec can be found here: https://openprompthub.io/docs)
They versioned, have information on which AI models build it successfuly and have instructions on how the AI agent can test the resulting software.

Users can mention with which models they have successfully or unsuccessfully executed a prompt (builds or fail). This helps in assessing whether a prompt provides reliable output or not.

Want to create a open prompt file? Here is the prompt for it which will guide you through: https://openprompthub.io/open-prompt-hub/create-open-prompt

Security! Always a topic when dealing with AI and prompts? I've added several security checks that look at every prompt for injections and malicious behavior. Statistical analysis as well as two checks against LLMs for behaviour classification and prompt injection detection.

It's an MVP for now. But all the mentioned features are already included.

If this sounds good, let me know. Try a prompt, fork it, or tell me what you'd change in the spec or security scanner. I'm really curious about what would make you trust and reuse prompts. Or if you like the general idea...
by itintheory | 2026-03-10 14:06:50+00:00
Any references on this? I hear this argument a lot. In fact, in a talk on AI last week I heard someone say:

"If you click the thumbs up button to rate a chat, the AI provider will use the contents for training, so our company's policy is never to click the thumbs up button"

That seemed so farcical I had a hard time taking this person seriously. Enterprise plans must give some strong guarantees around data usage, right?
by gruez | 2026-03-10 14:06:54+00:00
I'll believe it when I see it. The numbers simply don't pencil out. Streaming ads over cellular networks is going to be insanely expensive at rates that IOT/esim providers are currently offering. Not to mention that most people would connect to wifi anyways so they can watch neflix or whatever without a second device. If a 5G module costs $25 but only 10% of people actually never connect to wifi, you're basically paying $250 just to get that incremental customer connected.
by troupo | 2026-03-10 14:07:16+00:00
> I do this several times a day in a major US city for close to a decade now and I

I, I, I

> Vehicles and everything else on this rock flying through space obey the same laws of physics.

Yes. Yes they do.

That's why some countries (e.g. Sweden) actually have this in drivers ed: how fast a vehicle travels, how long it takes for the driver to react, what the stopping distance is for a vehicle etc.

They even teach things like "parked cars are a double problem because you can have people especially kids suddenly appear from behind them".

Or things like "at night you only see this far, and judging distance to things becomes harder".

But all that, including laws of physics, is invalidated by a litany of "I, I, mine, my, me".
by jesse_dot_id | 2026-03-10 14:07:42+00:00
I lived in the middle of nowhere in small farming town and the BBS scene really saved me when I was a kid. I had clear opinions about BBS software and Renegade was always my favorite. I always considered Wildcat to be boring looking and for old people. I think it was just that all of the Wildcat boards in my area were run by boring graybeards.

Every board in my area (not many) served a text file called The Alchemist's List — a huge list of regional boards — and it was absolutely responsible for a lot of very contentious long distance bills. Sometimes I miss the simplicity of that time but I do not miss the UX.

The ANSI art scene is still alive and kicking. Still my favorite style of art. https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=%23ansia...
by hilti | 2026-03-10 14:08:12+00:00
Full disclosure: I’m a much better C++ developer than I am a marketer, so I asked Claude to help me write this post. Which is a bit ironic given that ColumnLens is literally about keeping your data local and off other people’s servers. Anyway — the app is real, the numbers are real, and the frustration with uploading CSVs to SaaS tools is very real. ;-)