MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by the_af | 2026-03-12 01:36:35+00:00
> I'll wager, though, that your use case is much more challenging to do than mine, and that my use case will dominate in number.

I don't know how comparatively challenging, I only know your use case is now (fortunately!) against HN rules.

> Patently false on both counts. Sorry, you're cherry picking and not addressing the part of my comment that discusses this.

It's not false. It's one of the major reasons people have come to dislike AI written comments and articles. It all ends up sounding the same.

> When a conversation is heated (as it occasionally is on HN), I actually would rather he AI-edit in real time - provided that the output reflects what he intended.

In real life? Sounds like a fucking dystopia. But everyone is free to choose the hell they want to live in.
by ffsm8 | 2026-03-12 01:36:36+00:00
From your first paragraph I was expecting something from the old degen meta like "naked yoga" or "transparent haul" or whatever they're currently doing... Or maybe some of the brainrot genai content that's been booming on kids tv

Kinda surprised you consider a completely banal sitcom to be problematic for children.
I mean I'd expect the kids to think it's boring and not get any of the subplot... But it's completely family safe?
by MBCook | 2026-03-12 01:36:42+00:00
Well said. As a Java programmer who hasn’t touched Temporal yet in JS it is extremely similar to the new Java types like… ZonedDateTime.

It’s not identical. The names of the “Plain” objects make a bit more sense to me than the “Local” names Java chose.

But overall easy to use and a fantastic improvement. I can’t wait to get to use it.
by mistrial9 | 2026-03-12 01:36:46+00:00
apologies for the quick reply -- but, did you not understand that this was implemented on a very large scale for a half-dozen massive US corps with large turnover, for example Hilton and Delta Air, THREE years ago ? to Americans in the USA ? Did no one here catch that ? AFAIK it was one of the first large use cases for corporate AI.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-03-12 01:36:46+00:00
No, like presenting the agent with an outline of the markup, a much abbreviated version, I guess it works much better with xml since property names are tags themselves, but xpath is an alternative to doing document.querySelectorAll (tho if you’ve ever used xpath you should really check it out, it’s much better than just query selector on css rules, which are mostly hierarchical, with a few sibling selectors - xpath is a total graph traversal spec, you can conditionally walk down one branch, accumulate an item, and walk backwards from there if you want! Really underutilized imo just because it’s 90s tech and people think we weren’t dealing with knowledge graphs back then, trying to invent new ways to retrieve sub documents instead of reading xml standard)

Back to the point, it makes more sense to me to tell the LLM the schema of the data and what query language it can use to access it, and let it decide how to retrieve data, instead of doing a RAG or bulk context stuffing
by derriz | 2026-03-12 01:36:50+00:00
I'm getting a lot of downvotes for the comment you're responding to so will likely withdraw from this discussion. But to be clear, I deliberately talked of prosecutors threatening charges, not actual indictments.

Conviction through plea-bargaining is almost exclusively a phenomenon in the US. It just doesn't feature in the normal process of public prosecution in countries like Ireland, the UK or Australia. Also as an aside, the grand jury system is exclusively an American feature.

And every common law country (including the US) has a bar in terms of seriousness of the crime, below which you are tried without a jury. Yes the bar is lower in the US (potential sentence of more than 6 months?) but this bar exists nonetheless without sensationalist claims that jury trials have been eliminated - which is what was stated in the comment I originally responded to.
by parasubvert | 2026-03-12 01:37:14+00:00
> corporations will do everything possible to maximise short term profit at any cost. Is there a CEO caring for long term? Either he will be convinced to change or kicked out.

While public companies are more likely to be short term focused, even this is not true. There are plenty (ie. thousands) of executives and public companies that are long term focused and tell investors to pound sand and sell the stock (or mount a shareholder challenge) if they don't like it.

Elon Musk is the most extreme example of this. He wants to go to Mars. He is turning Tesla into a robot company and discontinuing or curtailing the growth of some of his most profitable products.

Mark Zuckerberg is another one. He is losing $20 billion a year on VR, and even with recent cuts, will still be doing that. He's spending $50 billion on AI. None of that has anything to do with short term profit. Don't like it? Sell the stock.

Wall Street doesn't necessarily force companies into short term gains: they hold you to perform to what you say you will perform. This is often the trap that leads to poor management decisions, as they overpromise and underdeliver, leading to the enshittification spiral.

All of this depends on the governance structure and ownership structure, and how competitive the business is.

Many public companies for example have only common shares available while a family or an individual retains preferred shares with more voting power. This is how Zuck, or Larry Page or Larry Ellison etc can do whatever they do. Elon just has a reality distortion field so the board gives him a trillion dollar pay package.
by deckplecksetter | 2026-03-12 01:38:01+00:00
For me, using Bluetooth headphones with my (Samsung) phone is smooth and trouble-free. The experience is miles better than wired headphones, and I would never go back. Meanwhile, connecting to my TV with Bluetooth is an exercise in pure frustration.

So it seems to me like the problem isn't Bluetooth, it's shitty implementations of it.

And it's not just cheap devices. My TV is a fancy LG OLED. For the price I paid it should handle Bluetooth just fine.

It's a real shame. When Bluetooth works, it's awesome, but a lot of people have had their opinions tainted by bad devices.
by oligopoly_2 | 2026-03-12 01:38:09+00:00
This is my first ever website. It's currently populated by bots, but the site is fully functional. The basic idea is Reddit + centralised moderation, and posting to "keywords" instead of Sub-reddits. This is for more consistent application of rules across the site, and more of a focus on (legal) free speech. Any feedback would be much appreciated! Thank you.
by dd8601fn | 2026-03-12 01:38:20+00:00
They started nagging every user in Jira to use their AI, now. It’s like straight out of the Microsoft “Dear god please please use our AI product!” playbook.

I’m honestly not sure what you even use AI for in Jira. Maybe there’s a purpose, but 90% of us are just moving tickets across the most expensive kanban board that money can… rent.
by upghost | 2026-03-12 01:38:24+00:00
> We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales while strengthening our financial profile.

Some quotes from the video:

> ...at the same time, we're a people company.

> Your work will live on in our products.

> Doing the right thing for Atlassian while acting with humanity and doing the right thing for all those on all sides of this set of decisions.

Wow. There's a lot to unpack here.
by the_af | 2026-03-12 01:38:46+00:00
To clarify my thoughts on this, I'm not against using AI to research/hone your arguments. It's no different to using Wikipedia or googling.

I don't think that's what this new HN guideline is against either.

What I object is the AI writing your comments for you. I want to engage with other human beings, not the bot-mediated version of them.
by munificent | 2026-03-12 01:38:46+00:00
> The implicit unfounded assumption is whether that's actually worth more than a well written orderly response.

It's not implicit or unfounded. The parent comment is explicitly saying that's what they prefer. And, as an actual human, their preference is intrinsically valid for them.

If I like my kid's crappy cooking over a Michelin-star meal made by a robot... then I get to like my kid's crappy cooking more. I have that right. There is no social consensus when it comes to what I want. You can't argue whether my preference is correct or not, it's my preference.
by zhangchen | 2026-03-12 01:38:59+00:00
Yeah this matches what we've seen too. The biggest gains we got weren't from switching models, it was from investing in better context, giving the agent a well structured spec, relevant code samples from the repo, and explicit constraints upfront. Without that, even the best models will happily produce working but unmaintainable code. Feels like the whole SWE-bench framing misses this, passing tests is the easy part, fitting into an existing codebase's patterns and conventions is where it actually gets hard.
by throw10920 | 2026-03-12 01:39:08+00:00
In addition to "Internet points" mentioned above - influence operations, both from nation states (e.g. the PRC 50 Cent Party, and probably the dozen most powerful nations in general), and from gray/black-market marketing companies.

Influence is valuable, and HN is a place that people who are aware of it trust highly.

(AI generation of random comments helps build "trustworthy" accounts that can then be activated when a relevant issue comes up)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
by deaux | 2026-03-12 01:39:22+00:00
The first one is on me, sorry for that.

> 40K is extremely low in tech, and where are you paying 40% tax on 40k??

Just to be clear, it was a random example just to show the calculation and how much tax percentages matter. You can simply double the comp numbers and it still works.

On top of that: 40k is really not extremely low. Fresh grad CS master's in French, average 2379 EUR net per month. That means about 35-40k gross. Very similar numbers in the Netherlands. Effective tax being 25-30% in both cases. Now compare post-tax to Japan, and Japan's comp at 0 YoE is maybe 1.5-2x lower. And then you look at rent in a Japanese big city vs a European big city, turns out that difference is much bigger than the comp difference.

And these are averages, not medians, so they're top-heavy. Medians will be even lower.

Maybe you've only been at a FAANG but you're overestimating European tech comp, for the huge majority of workers, Japan too is much, much better in terms of comp vs. CoL.

It's also a better deal for those US tech workers who live in high CoL areas without VC-backed comp, though that's of course a much smaller percentage compared to the Europeans.
by michaelt | 2026-03-12 01:39:23+00:00
> To bypass the deadlocked congress, obama used executive orders in new and expansive ways. That ratcheted things up.

While I agree - this has been an issue long before Obama.

Any reasonable country should be able to decide on the legality of abortion through the normal political process - the public deliberates, they elect representatives, the representatives hammer out the fine print and pass legislation.

But in the American system, the legality of abortion is decided at random, based on the deaths of a handful of lawyers born in the 1930s. If that person dies between ages 68-75, 84-87 or 91-95 abortion is illegal, if they die aged 76-83, or 88-91 it's legal.

Why doesn't America deal with political questions using their political process?
by scarecrowbob | 2026-03-12 01:40:04+00:00
I dunno, personally I think it's actively worse; for instance I've read enough WEB DuBois and similar to know that chattel slavery didn't end because of some "goodness" in the part of the government which still is ruling us.

The same government that helped murder 2M folks in Iraq. The same gov that paid death squads to kill nuns in El Salvador.

At least China isn't in a position to have to reckon with how deep white supremacy runs in its culture.

In fact, when I hear folks from the US talk about china without understanding their own history of racism and genocide and how that shit is still going on, all I can conclude is that they are operating under the same racist delusions that have historically brought the US to do such horrific things to the world.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-12 01:40:09+00:00
The problem is that spambots don’t care how big the company is. I know folks that advertised local Office Manager positions for tiny companies, and got hundreds of totally unqualified and unrelated rèsumès, and that was before AI was common.

The “good” news, was, that it was pretty easy to bin the spam.
by parpfish | 2026-03-12 01:40:30+00:00
The inability to get feedback and course-correct is my biggest peeve with take homes.

Is this one of the tests where I just need to throw together a five minute quickie to get over your “can you program” filter? or do you need me to put together something flashy and memorable to show off my ceiling? If o put together my flashy thing, would I get dinged for over-engineering something where a five minute hack solution was good enough?
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-12 01:40:33+00:00
too many SKUs and models - it takes a paragraph to figure out how 2 Dell laptops from the same release year differ.

Same for Apple, especially as you can't upgrade them so if you get a 8gig Nano, you have a 8gig Nano, That's a different SKU than a 16gig Nano. And if you get 16gig Nano with 256gig storage, that's a different SKU than a 16gig Nano with 512gig of storage.

Apple has 48 SKUs at their stores, not included adding in color and custom configurations
by 1000100_1000101 | 2026-03-12 01:40:46+00:00
I compile and run utilities on my Mac all the time, and I've never spent a penny on dev tools or unlocks.

Yes, there's a fee to get access to the App Store, but almost nobody on the Mac uses the App Store... the fee is mainly for putting stuff on iOS (and likely watchOS, tvOS).

The fee also gets you the absolute latest Xcode, but go back one version, and it's entirely free.

On Mac, you can install brew, and use it to install gcc, clang, qemu, whatever utilities you want.

You used to need the developer fee to put stuff on your iOS device at all, but these days you can put stuff on your personal devices without a fee, but the binary expires in a week... enough to learn and debug, but not ideal for a personal tool. That's about the only annoyance where the fee comes up... long term deployment to iOS.
by stevefan1999 | 2026-03-12 01:41:00+00:00
I'm sorry, but I would just have to just say no.

## Opposing the Ban on AI-Generated/Edited Comments on HN

*The value of a comment should be judged by its content, not its origin.*

Here are key arguments against this policy:

- *Ideas matter more than authorship.* If a comment is insightful, well-reasoned, and contributes meaningfully to a discussion, dismissing it solely because AI assisted in its creation is a genetic fallacy — judging an argument by its source rather than its merit.

- *We already accept tool-assisted thinking.* People routinely use calculators, search engines, spell-checkers, and reference materials before posting. AI assistance exists on a spectrum with these tools. Drawing a bright line specifically at "AI-edited" is arbitrary when someone could use a thesaurus, Grammarly, or have a friend proofread their comment without objection.

- *It disadvantages non-native speakers.* Many HN users are brilliant engineers and thinkers who don't write fluently in English. AI editing can level the playing field, allowing their ideas to be judged on substance rather than prose quality. This policy inadvertently privileges native English speakers.

- *It's effectively unenforceable.* There is no reliable way to distinguish a lightly AI-polished comment from a naturally well-written one. Unenforceable rules erode respect for the rules that are enforceable and important.

- *The real problem is low-effort content, not the tool used.* What HN actually wants to prevent is shallow, generic, or spammy comments. A policy targeting quality directly (which HN already has) addresses the actual concern better than a blanket tool prohibition.

- *Human intent still drives the conversation.* A person who uses AI to articulate their own idea more clearly is still participating in a human conversation — they're just communicating more effectively. The thought, the intent to engage, and the underlying perspective remain human.

*In short:* This rule conflates the medium with the message and risks excluding valuable contributions in pursuit of an authenticity standard that is both philosophically fuzzy and practically unenforceable.
by data-ottawa | 2026-03-12 01:41:21+00:00
Having recently experienced talking to AI voice bots (for customer support, not for interviewing), it's bizzare that you don't know what they know and they're just making up.

If you ask "Will the role expect me to XYZ" the bot probably only has limited context from a job posting 1 pager, so you can't actually trust it or try to align with it's goals/experiences.
by myth_drannon | 2026-03-12 01:41:37+00:00
Not a lawyer but this looks like a grey area and since it's public it can be assumed everyone is trying to do it.
I worked for F500 and one of the VPs was pushing some IT vendor solution that didn't really fit, after so much implementation pains and half working product release the said VP left the company... To become a board member of that IT vendor.
by naasking | 2026-03-12 01:41:41+00:00
> Model's are no longer revolutionary, they are evolutionary, and the evolution and per model-version difference is narrowing each release.

We've definitely culled some low hanging fruit, but I think there's still a lot of room for improvements that could lead to step changes in capabilities. I think we're only scratching the surface of looped language models, thinking in latent space, and multimodality.

And even if the per-model differences are narrowing, even single digit improvements in performance metrics could yield outsized effects in applicability and productivity. Consider services that guarantee one 9 of reliability vs. five 9s. In absolute terms that change is a trivia difference, but the increased reliability allows use in way, way more domains.
by the_af | 2026-03-12 01:41:50+00:00
OK, but let's dig deeper.

Would you prefer to be corrected on some logical fallacy/mistake you made in your argument, by another human being (and yes, maybe get slightly upset about it, we're human beings after all), or have both sides present bot-mediated iron-clad comments, like operators sparring with robots?

I prefer the raw, flawed human version. Even if, yes, I make a silly, avoidable mistake, or get upset, or make you upset in the heat of the argument. Maybe when I cool down I will have learned something.

I don't want flawless robotic arguments. I want human beings. (Fuck, that last bit sounded like an AI-ism, but I promise it's me, a human!).
by JohnBooty | 2026-03-12 01:41:54+00:00
OTOH, for my development Mac, I have 64GB of RAM.
(Though 32GB would probably be fine.)

32GB is starting to feel like a minimum for a common workflow: Dockerized development + git worktree + Claude Code or equivalent for working on multiple branches at once.

Definitely brings our engineers' 24GB MBPs to their knees primarily b/c of the RAM chewed up by those multiple Docker instances.

Will 32GB also start looking paltry soon? It's hard to say. I want to say the realistic upper limit is 3-4 simultaneous worktrees for a given developer (at this point the developer becomes the bottleneck again?) but it's a wild guess that may be hilariously low.
by gruez | 2026-03-12 01:42:03+00:00
How resistant is this against adversarial attacks? For instance, given that you allow `npm test`, it's not too hard to use that to bypass any protections by first modifying the package.json so `npm test` runs an evil command. This will likely be allowed, given that you probably want agents to modify package.json, and you can't possibly check all possible usages. That's just one example. It doesn't look like you check xargs or find, both of which can be abused to execute arbitrary commands.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-12 01:42:03+00:00
RVA23 is, finally, the belated admission that maybe we shouldn't have everything as optional extras. Hopefully it'll take off, I can't imagine what sort of a headache it is for maintainers of repos who have to track a dozen different variants of binaries depending on which flavour of RISC-V the apt-get is coming from.
by unsignedint | 2026-03-12 01:42:11+00:00
Not only have there been those cancellations, but they’ve also been cutting back features in a lot of areas, especially in the Pro tier, and doing it pretty drastically without any notice. Honestly, I think that might be the bigger issue, particularly since many of the affected users are paying customers, and quite a few of them paid for a full year upfront.
by abustamam | 2026-03-12 01:42:13+00:00
Honest question. Why isn't stuff like this a bigger deal? Why isn't anyone being held accountable for what is undeniably a national security incident?

I can understand why the administration would try to bury it. But I wouldn't have heard of most of the shitty stuff Doge employees have done were it not for HN. Why isn't this getting more media coverage?
by asymco | 2026-03-12 01:42:51+00:00
> 8.3", $ (iPad mini, affordable)
> 11", $$ (iPad, standard)

iPad mini ($499) is more expensive than base iPad ($349) [1][2]

[1] iPad mini → https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-mini
[2] iPad → https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad
by cfcfcf | 2026-03-12 01:43:04+00:00
I agree, I think this is AI, especially based on 1 and 2. It's hard to put your finger on, and I don't know if we can know for sure. It reminds me of the writing style you see on LinkedIn i.e. seemingly optimised for engagement.

If they're not already, I wonder if LLMs will get better at disguising this (avoiding the tells, inserting mistakes etc.)

I also wonder if there comes a point where we as a culture imitate this style.
by magicalhippo | 2026-03-12 01:44:37+00:00
Not GP. On the one hand I feel the sentiment. I lost my dad too when I was in my 30s, we knew it would happen but came sooner than expected and rather sudden. He also didn't leave much for us apart from his things.

And my SO struggles to recall details from long ago, and always appreciates when I reminisce from the time we met and so on. And I manage most of the finances and such, she'd be lost without some guide and credentials.

My first concern is that most SaaS companies have a track record for not sticking around. Will this be operational in 10 years, let alone 20 years?

Another is privacy. The things I want to say might be very private, either personal or like I mentioned credentials. SaaS companies have a rather poor track record when it comes to privacy, from data breaches to outright selling data. I'm weary of trusting a party I know nothing about.

There are some other minor points but those are the ones that made me immediately go "yeah but no".
by mhitza | 2026-03-12 01:45:42+00:00
I don't know who to trust in this article. Aside from the reporter.

Person A with high praise of their startup, is an investor. Company B that would like to further use this service, is quoted though an executive as if written by an LLM.

Coca-cola is trialing the service but has no information to share. Alongside the other testimonials this doesn't say much about reality. (Does WSJ do advertorials?)

Also, good luck trying to predict real people.

What's funny, is seeing these young adult entepreneurs dress up like 40 year old tech bros. Will turtlenecks be the next style to circle back in the scene?
by sriramgonella | 2026-03-12 01:46:19+00:00
Time handling has always been one of those areas where things look simple until you hit production edge cases.Time zones, DST transitions, leap seconds, and inconsistent Date APIs across environments have caused subtle bugs in many systems I've worked on. The promise of Temporal feels less about new features and more about making time handling explicit and predictable, which is probably what developers needed all along.