MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
I built an app that aligns GNSS clock residuals to 99.9999% geometric linearity
by CitizenKorea | 2026-03-12 06:17:45+00:00
Hi HN,

For years, the residual nano-second drift in GNSS satellites and NASA's Earth Flyby Anomalies have been treated as stochastic environmental noise or unknown hardware limitations.

I've been analyzing raw IGS data (SP3, CLK, SNX) and noticed something strange. If you stop assuming the Euclidean spatial metric is perfectly rigid and instead apply a local distortion factor based on altitude gravity (S_loc = pi^2 / g_loc), the "noise" disappears.

I built an open-source Python engine and a Streamlit app to visualize this. When you run global terrestrial station data through this calibration, the spatial/temporal residuals align into a deterministic geometric line with a 99.99997% Pearson correlation. Furthermore, applying this exact same baseline constant perfectly resolves the velocity changes of historical NASA flybys (NEAR, Galileo I, Rosetta I) without any retro-fitting.

The core thesis is that we are measuring the universe using a "curved ruler" (the Earth-calibrated SI meter).

You can test your own geodetic data on the app here:
https://k-protocol.streamlit.app/

Or review the 250-line Python logic in the GitHub repo (linked inside the app). I'd love for the data scientists and physicists here to tear into the code, run some data, and tell me if I've stumbled onto a fundamental geometric truth, or if there's a flaw in my data processing.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-03-12 06:17:54+00:00
Iran is currently able to make it impossible to insure vessels that don't benefit them because they have the weapons and intelligence to fire upon any vessel they don't approve of. And the US lacks the numbers and types of ships to do any meaningful escort as was promised because it doesn't have the 600 ship navy it once had. Therefore, the SoH is effectively closed indefinitely (months? years?) because of a failure to plan.
by Arn_Thor | 2026-03-12 06:18:27+00:00
Understand this is both an individual and systemic critique. We have the internet. Much of the travel you describe can and should be done remotely. The top 1% of flyers account for 50% of emissions. I would argue most of that probably is unnecessary technically, but there is both a push and pull factor from people expecting some things to take place face to face.

We're adults, we can keep many things in our minds at one time: We should all reduce flying. Regular working people should not be shamed for taking a holiday and flying there. The most frequent fliers for work should make a personal effort to reduce their flying. And companies, conferences, etc. should work much harder to facilitate remote participation and reduce stigma around it, as well as encouraging other modes of travel. Governments should improve alternative solutions such as rail and high-speed rail.
by frm88 | 2026-03-12 06:18:55+00:00
Thought and creativity won't be averaged away because human beings have a drive for these things.

That may or may not be true, but the expression of thought and creativity matters to transfer meaning. If you average that out, it loses momentum. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346935. Compare the posters first and second, LLM assisted, paragraph. The second one is just bleak. If I had to read several pages like that, my eyes would glaze over. It cannot hold attention.
by crashbunny | 2026-03-12 06:20:15+00:00
The neo might be the start of the end of traditional home PCs. You buy a thin client and a monthly subscription and all of your files and compute is in the cloud.

Want to edit some raw video into a polished 20 minute video suitable for youtube? You don't open final cut pro, you tell your thin client to edit the raw video into a polished 20 minute video. Your monthly subscription includes AI and out pops an edited video.
by dang | 2026-03-12 06:20:50+00:00
Could you please stop posting comments that are fulminating and/or flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by b112 | 2026-03-12 06:21:26+00:00
Common people go to such sites for updates from friends, or to follow celebrities.

Their friends will start using more and more AI, ans celebrities will become all AI.

Why read a friend's page, if it's just AI drivel. Same for a celebrity.

It doesn't even need tp be true. Burned once, people will never trust again. The humiliation of writing messages that your friend only has a bot summarize, will kill it.

SPAM doesn't act like your friend. A bot does.
by Skyy93 | 2026-03-12 06:22:22+00:00
A few months ago, I was also skeptical about all of this. However, what we are currently seeing with Claude Code, or Codex, is astonishing: they're building stuff that works and actually improves upon human-coded apps, optimizations, and research. I work in research, and my colleagues are building apps themselves for data acquisition, which usually takes months. They build them in two days. Several companies say their developers aren't coding anymore; they're asking Claude to do it. It feels like an evolution of programming, like the invention of the automatic sewing machine in 19th-century England.

There are many problems and unresolved issues right now. However, we are getting closer. In my opinion, we do not know what we have unleashed.
by itake | 2026-03-12 06:22:34+00:00
If the US decided that stopping oil production in Iran was important (restricting global oil supply), what other options does the US have ease the impact on oil prices other than Russian sanction easement?

Yeah, it looks bad, but there just isn't really any other ways for the US to magically pump more oil out of the ground instantaneously to compensate for the war.
by afiori | 2026-03-12 06:22:35+00:00
The web part is the security model and the tradeoffs between security and performance. PNaCL was in browsers but not "web" for this reason.

Like the assembly part means low-level and meant as a compilation target, not CPU instructions.

So websssembly is an assembly language for the web, like webgl is opengl for the web and webgpu are gpu APIs for the web. And behold none of those can access DOM APIs
by ffsm8 | 2026-03-12 06:22:47+00:00
The linked rule does not make such a distinction, and I don't see how this rule could be enforced with such a caveat, either.

Hence no, none of these examples should be okay. Even if pure translation and grammar check is gonna be effectively impossible to detect too, so likely pointless to talk about

And the last one is often detectable and very clearly against it - I'm not sure how you can come to any other conclusion
by vladdoster | 2026-03-12 06:23:30+00:00
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by Barbing | 2026-03-12 06:23:40+00:00
Shocking to watch this human imitate us, no shade to anyone neurodivergent either, but obviously it could track he would allegedly[1] OK with his bots sexting literal children—he’s obviously only making an effort to be like us (but he isn’t)

[1]not by me; Mark, you can sue Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Oct ‘25)
by roenxi | 2026-03-12 06:24:54+00:00
That is quite hard to marry up with

> Not being afford something is a 'pretend' state that only exists because everyone agrees to go along with it.

though. If there are n people who want things and (n-1) things, then someone being unable to afford something isn't some pretend state. There is certainly an element of social construct in that the word we use is "afford", if we all agreed to use a different word that'd be possible. But the thing/people ratio being below one is not a social construct; and whatever you want to call it and whatever allocation scheme you want to use there will still be people who can't have one. Someone can't afford the thing.

> You being unable to afford something isn't some fundamental property of the universe.

In many cases it is. Eg, topically, how much economically extractable oil is available on earth is actually a fundamental property of the universe. Ditto most energy emasures like watts of solar energy or power from nuclear decay.

> So given that you see humans as being beyond terrible at allocating resources, why do you think, if they were relieved of having to handle resource allocation, that they would suddenly become not terrible at everything else in order to see all of those other problems magically disappear, per the contextual parent comment?

Well I suppose I don't. Although I'll admit the question is too convoluted for me to be sure of that.
by ChrisGreenHeur | 2026-03-12 06:25:35+00:00
Well. There is a laser, the first time you write a DVD-RW the laser burns holes into the disc, those are your ones and zeroes. Then if you want to rewrite it you have to fill in the holes so the drive uses an epoxy covered brush to make sure the disc has a smooth layer, then it makes new holes.

It's really the one physically possible way to implement it if you think about it.
by win311fwg | 2026-03-12 06:25:36+00:00
> pretty much everyone at this point has discovered that laws and capitalism with some welfare trimmings on the edge is a much better approach than any alternative that got tried.

Have they? Aside from maybe Revolutionary Catalonia, which only stood up for a few years*, we haven't actually tried anything else since the emergence of capital. Obviously pre-neolithic humans lived under a different model, but that is because capital didn't exist yet.

The closest thing to an aberration was the USSR. Despite all the lip service paid to trying to suggest otherwise, in the end it remained capitalist, standing out only because a small group of capitalists managed to seize control of all the capital.

* Which ironically, given what the USSR stood for on paper, fell down to war pressure from the USSR. Less ironic when you remember that the USSR was, in practice, actually most interested in capitalism for the benefit of the "elite", of course.
by vkou | 2026-03-12 06:26:35+00:00
I'm sure that if Iran had the backing of the Western world, and had their surplus of armaments funneled it's way, it would be bombing army bases and refineries and airfields and factories and port facilities in the US.

Unlike Ukraine, it does not, so it seems to be focusing on cyber vandalism and blowing up oil infrastructure in US vassal states, and other low-cost, high-ROI activities.
by ornornor | 2026-03-12 06:26:39+00:00
While it might sound like the ultimate hack, it’s not.

I’ve been in that situation and died a little inside everyday. It’s not like being a rentier, because you still have to lose most of your day at the office and pretend to work, and be available in case some higher up needs something so you don’t get caught.

It might sound sweet but it’s hell.
by gbro3n | 2026-03-12 06:27:58+00:00
I saw that the Hetzner matrix like has GPU servers < £300 per month (plus set up fee). I haven't tried it but I think if I was getting up to that sort of spend I'd be setting up Ollama on one of those with a larger Qwen3 max model (which I hear is on par with Opus 4.5?? - I haven't been able to try Qwen yet though so that could be b*****ks).
by ajam1507 | 2026-03-12 06:28:34+00:00
This post's title is hyperbolic at best. At best the author is noticing what most people have known for a long time, there are bots on the internet. Most interactions I have online are with real people. Maybe we will end up with a dead internet, but moderation is still possible currently.

The elephant in the room is that a lot of social media companies have a conflict of interest. They can juice their user metrics by not moderating bots as well as they could be.
by Teever | 2026-03-12 06:28:59+00:00
That’s not the motivation for these attacks at all. They’re waging asymmetric warfare against a much larger and more exposed opponent.

Their goal is to make it too troublesome for the US/Israel to continue attacking them, like a swarm of bees attacking a bear to keep it away from their honey.

Iran is in it to win it and the US is so very obviously not.

The question is if the pressure that Israel can put on the current administration greater than the pressure that Iran can put on America as a whole.

Time will tell.
by renewiltord | 2026-03-12 06:29:15+00:00
They’ve been around for a while. Threat actors are something that I want our governments to be working on stopping. If they were capable, I would say we should run a government Project Zero but I doubt anyone would do long term service for $70k/yr when they could be making 10x-100x that.

Anyway, the bombings will have to continue till we rubble our enemies.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-12 06:30:23+00:00
I've seen AI-generated comments be used quite a lot, even by real people. When asked why they did so, they could not explain it, or claimed "to reduce spelling mistakes". Which makes no sense; real people make spelling mistakes and typos all the time. Why would that warrant the use of AI? To me it seems as if some people are just mega-lazy, so they use AI; and for testing, too. When they do so, though, they waste the time of other humans, as these other humans suddenly have to "interact" with AI, without this being announced. It is a form of cheating, IMO. On youtube you now find many fake-videos created by AI, without announcement - I don't watch these as I consider it cheating too, when not labeled as such. Admittedly it is getting very hard to distinguish what is real and what is fake. There are some ways to find out, but it is getting really hard to distinguish accurately. Sometimes you see e. g. 10 funny animal videos and only 2 are fake-AI, so these people combine cheating with non-cheating. Very annoying - it degrades youtube, which isn't so bad actually since that is owned by evil Google.
by vunderba | 2026-03-12 06:30:26+00:00
Nice article - I hadn't heard of Sugoroku before.

A favorite with my younger students back when I taught ESL in Asia was the “Hammer Game.” It involved dividing the whiteboard into categories (for example, Fruit on the left, Vegetables on the right).

Then the students were divided into two lines. The first two kids came up and were given squeaky rubber mallets. I would hold up a word (sometimes with an accompanying picture, depending on the difficulty level), and the first kid to run up and hammer the correct section of the whiteboard won the round.

Very fun for the group and you get a bonus case of tinnitus at the end of the class period!
by ryandrake | 2026-03-12 06:30:30+00:00
Yea, there's really no way to do an "interview assignment" well.

If you give unlimited amount of time, you're giving an advantage to people with no life who can just focus on your assignment and polish it as if it were a full time job.

If you give a limited amount of time, then you're making the interview a pressure cooker with a countdown clock, giving a disadvantage to people who are just not great at working under minute-to-minute time pressure.
by Arn_Thor | 2026-03-12 06:30:57+00:00
For this particular person, the inordinate factor is not the frequency of flights, but the distance: 40 flights in 2019, mostly from the US to Austria via Frankfurt. Now, there are some jobs that really do require such travel (though the business should probably consider hiring locally even though it might be more expensive?), but probably fairly few. The individual doesn't show flying stats after 2021, but presumably the work did get done even in the pandemic years when they couldn't fly as often.
by rihabz | 2026-03-12 06:31:06+00:00
We’re building Brunelly, a platform that helps developers and product teams manage the full software development workflow with AI.

Instead of just generating code, Brunelly helps structure the whole process from idea → specs → backlog → code → testing → release by coordinating multiple AI agents while keeping developers in control.

The goal is to reduce the chaos of juggling tools and help teams ship software faster.

Would love feedback from the HN community if you’re experimenting with AI development workflows.
by duskwuff | 2026-03-12 06:31:29+00:00
In the year 2000, a M1 MacBook Air would have been the world's fastest supercomputer (or second fastest if you had the base model with the 7-core GPU).

https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2000/06/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M1-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Sp...
by janalsncm | 2026-03-12 06:31:29+00:00
LLMs have significantly reduced the time I’ve spent chasing down cryptic errors on stack overflow, old github issues, or asking in random slack channels about it. Even if that’s all they did, they would be very valuable.

If that means I’m actually coding instead of figuring out why xyz random plugin isn’t doing its job right now, some subsystem that I need but don’t care to learn the internals of, then I am happy.
by P-MATRIX | 2026-03-12 06:31:37+00:00
This is exactly the kind of problem that led me to build a runtime governance layer for coding agents.

Hooks alone aren't a security boundary — Anthropic and Trail of Bits both say "guardrails, not walls." The missing piece is continuous behavioral measurement: tracking tool failures, subagent spawns, and risk drift in real time, then blocking dangerous calls before execution based on a live risk score — not just pattern matching.

I've been working on this at P-MATRIX (open source, Apache-2.0). The core idea: a 4-axis trust model that produces a real-time risk score R(t), and a Safety Gate that intercepts tool calls based on that score. Kill switch activates automatically when risk crosses a threshold.

npm: @pmatrix/claude-code-monitor | GitHub: github.com/p-matrix/claude-code-monitor
Show HN: JetSet AI – flight search where follow-up questions work
by ptak_dev | 2026-03-12 06:32:18+00:00
Hi HN,

The problem that led to this: I'd ask an AI to find flights London → Tokyo in April under £800, get good results, then ask "what if I fly a week later?" — and it would lose everything. Dates, budget, origin, all of it. Back to re-entering the whole query.

That's not a prompt engineering problem. It's a stateless architecture problem. Every follow-up reconstructs context from scratch.

JetSet AI runs each session on a persistent VM via SuperNinja rather than a stateless serverless function. The full runtime state stays in memory — "show me the cheapest of those on a Tuesday" or "what if I fly into Osaka instead?" resolves to exactly the results from 3 turns ago, not a semantic approximation.

What it does:
— Real-time flight pricing (live API, not cached)
— Natural language queries ("something direct, not too early, under £600, flexible by a few days")
— Full conversation memory within a session
— Direct booking deep-links to Skyscanner/Kayak with your search pre-filled

What it doesn't do yet:
— Cross-session memory (each conversation starts fresh)
— Hotel/car search
— Automatic booking (links out to booking platforms)

Try it (free, no login): https://bit.ly/4besn7l

The trade-off: persistent VMs cost more per session than serverless. For single-turn lookups it wouldn't be worth it. For multi-turn transactional flows where follow-up accuracy matters, it is.

Curious whether anyone else has hit this problem building conversational agents — and whether persistent VMs vs stateless + RAG is the right trade-off for your use case.
by scuff3d | 2026-03-12 06:32:56+00:00
Had the same problem with a Python project. Just for the hell of it I tried to have it implement a simple version of a proxy I've made in the past. What was finally produced "technically" worked, but it was a mess. It suppressed exceptions all over the place, it did weird shit with imports it couldn't get to work, and the way it managed connection state was bizarre.

It has a third year college students approach to "make it work". It can't take a step back and reevaluate a situation, or determine a new path forward, it just hammers away endlessly with whatever it's trying until it can technically be called "correct".
by hunterpayne | 2026-03-12 06:32:57+00:00
Just checking, but you do realize that this kind of unhinged, populist takes are exactly the kind of propaganda you use to destroy a democratic system. You know that right?

Only a couple of states are like you describe and none of them are red. The governor of KY (the reddest state) for example is a Dem. One of the Senators for Montana is a Dem, etc. In fact, if you want the Dems to win the presidency
in 2028, one of those folks is your best bet. The other thing we can do it get rid of gerrymandering but that's unlikely and the most recent gerrymandering attempts are likely to end up blowing up in the face of the party drawing the lines. Politics is nothing if not ironic.

PS Look at who is running for governor of CA right now and ask yourself if any of those folks actually represents CA in any real way. Also, ask yourself why there is only 1 Dem in that race?
by pfannkuchen | 2026-03-12 06:33:22+00:00
> but there’s a reason it swept the world.

Monotheism didn’t really sweep the world, though. Christianity and its sequel did.

Is it critical that these are monotheistic religions, anyway, or is there something in common within the meme complex of these two religions that enabled their spread? Like we actually don’t know if the monotheism part matters at all right?
by shiroiuma | 2026-03-12 06:33:26+00:00
>why would they launch drones to California rather than some place like DC or NY. It's a long distance.

Because they allegedly have a ship already in the Pacific loaded with drones.

DC and NY are way too far from Iran to launch any kind of attack; the only attack they can possibly do is from a ship, and ships can be anyplace where there's deep enough water.