MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalcrow | 2026-03-10 02:25:22+00:00
Honestly the reason seems quite obvious to me. Most people are getting seriously concerned about how the internet affects children. It's as simple as that. Children are getting cyberbullied and predated on while on platforms like Roblox. They're committing suicide after talking to ChatGPT. They're getting all sorts of mental disorders from tiktok and twitter. When you hear day after day the sorts of traumas that kids are going through (ones that are quite real!), it's hard to just say "well, the cure it worse then the disease, suck it up". A lot of people assume politicians are just greedy for power and are conspiring to give the government more surveillance power, but the simplest explanation here is that politicians are being screamed at to do something, and this is something.
by ohthehugemanate | 2026-03-10 02:26:41+00:00
Depends on what you're using it for I suppose. A common tactic with Openclaw itself is to have a cheap or local model as the default, with rules to "escalate" to other models based on task complexity/type. But if every cron job comes with complete access to your personal machine and browser profile... Yeah, better go for the most predictable model you can find.
by skydhash | 2026-03-10 02:27:15+00:00
> There's also no reason why you have to literally write everything yourself either.

> It's roughly equivalent to trying to discover all of our scientific knowledge yourself from scratch vs taking "for granted" the knowledge discovered by your forebears.

The author do have another config with all the bells and whistles. But Emacs does come with a lot of packages and tweaking them isn't that much work compared to building a full suite like Helm, especially with the awesome documentation system. Getting a v0.x of anything can be a matter of minutes. And then you wake up one day and you've built a whole OS for your workflows.
by unselect5917 | 2026-03-10 02:27:18+00:00
>Who needs censorship when you have an algorithm to feed people what you want them to see and you've self-selected for only people who aren't morally opposed to the new site?

It feeds you what you engage with, and it changes surprisingly quickly. It caught onto my ARC raiders interest almost instantly. I engaged with a Portuguese post once, and now I get wonderful translated posts in Spanish, French, and Arabic too.

>Don't be fooled into thinking you're getting a dose of unfiltered reality on X.

What evidence could you possibly have that I'm not? There's lots of "politically incorrect" things which is a symptom of low filtration. Besides, you can't have seen my feed. Completely baseless allegation. So what's the real reason for taking the anti-X stance?
by emptysea | 2026-03-10 02:27:21+00:00
In Postgres you can define custom operators via `create operator`[0]

-- infix
select a <!!!> b;

-- prefix
select <||> a;

A lot of custom types end up using this [1].

select @-@ '[(0,0),(1,0),(1,1)]'::path;
-- 2

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createoperator.h...
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-geometry.h...
by radio879 | 2026-03-10 02:27:24+00:00
With all of the talk about "LLMs are non deterministic" I am trying to build my own tool (at this exact moment, since I seem to have gotten really good at this) which does some of what these OpenClaw/Clawdbots do for people, but instead of having these LLMs/agents handle everything I am trying to do as much of it as pure deterministic code as possible. I test things once, like daily automations, and they will repeat that way the next scheduled date/time. Also, anytime AI models are used, at first I am approving/analyzing a docker/podman/microVM container to make sure it is only EXACTLY what it needs for a job, and then that is saved for future. I approve it once, and then it is there for future use.

Also I happen to know a few useful things, from a year + of working with all of these models, tools, daily for usually at least 8..12... 15 hours a day (I cannot stop, I love it, and I am good at it). I just noticed someone finally posted what I figured out a year ago - when you do need the help of a LLM, and you need it/want it to be as safe and as deterministic as it can be - Use the biggest, best, smartest models for the "brains" but for ALL the agentic stuff, the tool use, the MCP servers, etc, use a smaller model. Current best models for that - MinimaxM2.5, Gemini 3.1 Flash (use pro for planning, fixing, problem solving, all the difficult stuff, but definitely use the smaller Flash for the agentic tool use) Its weird that I have known this for so long and it has barely caught on yet.. I did have some AI guides that went viral on HN months back wuu73. org/aiguide or /aicp (free tool, well loved) I should write more about all this stuff i've figured out so I am not dumping paragraphs on so many posts over and over like this.. if my tool ends up useful I put it on my site somewhere in the AI tools sections if you want to put your email in the RSS thing, I will try to put anything useful on there/update RSS
by Swizec | 2026-03-10 02:27:49+00:00
> In the meanwhile VSCode has become the most used editor by developers and it's not even close

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t VSCode an Electron app? ie a webapp shipped together with a stripped down browser

I know that GitHub Codespaces open as a full VSCode editor in my browser so I always assumed it was the same code.
by pron | 2026-03-10 02:27:57+00:00
While still in business, X is shrinking fast (https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-user-decline-in-uk-...) and sliding in the rankings, where it is well behind Reddit and LinkedIn, and even behind Pinterest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_social_pl...).

I'm not saying it's "fully dead", but it clearly lost the cultural relevance and impact it once had.
by nickpsecurity | 2026-03-10 02:28:32+00:00
It was a great video. You're doing interesting work.

I've also seen implementations of realistic neurons, spiking models, etc. In software implementations, what combo of libraries and hardware would equal your 200,000 biological neurons in performance (esp training)? How many GPU's are we talking about?

(Note: If you haven't already, it might be helpful to publish a stack like that so people can experiment with encodings or reinforcement methods at no cost to you.)
by porcoda | 2026-03-10 02:28:42+00:00
> Absolutely not. Reading a language is crucial.

I don't think the post implied that this package writing activity was a write-only activity where reading and learning is strictly forbidden.

> You can find open source licensed packages, read them to understand them, and then copy them into your config. Doing everything from scratch is a waste of time unless you enjoy the process (in which case go nuts).

The post clearly indicates the relatively large set of open source packages they looked at and understood before doing their own packages. The author graciously acknowledges them and their influence on the work:

"Emacs Solo doesn't install external packages, it is deeply influenced by them. diff-hl, ace-window, olivetti, doom-modeline, exec-path-from-shell, eldoc-box, rainbow-delimiters, sudo-edit, and many others showed me what was possible and set the bar for what a good Emacs experience looks like. Where specific credit is due, it's noted in the source code itself."
by saint-evan | 2026-03-10 02:28:46+00:00
>If all that mattered was the code and the systems, and people were cogs that produced code that businesses wanted to optimise, then none of these actions make sense.

No, No... Of course all that matters isn't just the code. My framing was about how organizations model the work SWE do economically.

>Visual programming was going to destroy the industry, where any idiot could drag and drop a few boxes and put together software. Turns out that didn't work out and now visual programming is all but dead. Then we had consultants and software consultancies. Why keep engineers on staff and have to deal with benefits and HR functions when you can hire consultants for just long enough to get the job done and end their contracts. Then we had offshoring. Why hire expensive developers in markets like California when you can hire far cheaper engineers abroad in a country with lower wages and laxer employment law. (It's not a quality thing either, many of these engineers are unquestionably excellent.)

It seems like we're agreeing along the same tangent. With this argument, you're admitting that businesses do see SWE as cogs in a wheel and seasonally try to replace them... The seasonality of 'make the engineer replaceable' fads really does point to businesses trying to simplify what devs actually do since most of what they measure is working code output because it’s a tangible artifact (this is waht the OP meant by implying being a working code producer at work). Knowledge, judgment, architectural intuition, and domain understanding are harder to quantify, so they disappear from the model even though they ARE the real constraint. So for the record, I do agree with you that code isn't everything but I maintain that SWEs are modelled based on working codes produced even in more successful companies that invest in domain knowledge and long-term system understanding.

Metrics, performance reviews, sprint velocity, delivery timelines, all orbit around observable artifacts because those are what management systems can actually track objectively and equitably. It's a handy abstraction just like looking only at the ins/outs of a logic gate as opposed to looking at the implementation and wiring. Of course, a NOT gate would get upset over being called a 'bit flipper', it's not all thar physically exists but from our POV, it doesn't exactly matter. This applies to human labor even if a leaky abstraction w
by derangedHorse | 2026-03-10 02:29:14+00:00
> Blanchard's own claim—that he worked only from the test suite and API without reading the source—is, paradoxically, an argument for protecting that test suite and API specification under copyleft terms.

Ridiculous. I don't want specifications for proprietary APIs to be protected, and I don't want the free ones to be either. The software community seemed pretty certain as a whole that this would be very bad for competition [1].

Morally, I don't think there's anything wrong with re-implementing a technology with the same API as another, or running a test suite from a GPL licensed codebase. The code wasn't stolen, it was capitalized on. Like a business using a GPL code editor to write a new one.

> This is not a restriction on sharing. It is a condition placed on sharing

Also this doesn't make any logical sense. A condition on sharing cannot exist without corresponding restrictions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/mklieg/supreme_cou...
by nolanl | 2026-03-10 02:29:42+00:00
The concept of "AI will review AI-authored PRs" seems completely wrong to me. Why didn't the AI write the correct code in the first place?

If it takes 17 rounds of review from 5 different models/harnesses – I don't care. Just spit out the right code the first time. Otherwise I'm wasting my time clicking "review this" over and over until the PR is worth actually having a human look at.
by AnonC | 2026-03-10 02:29:51+00:00
I don’t know why this comment is downvoted, but I don’t agree with this either because the OS (historical) conventions are different, and there may be unintuitive shortcuts on all OSes. What matters is consistency across applications on the same OS.

One point on macOS is that it’s very weak on keyboard based navigation and shortcuts for apps by default (compared to Windows). Even Apple doesn’t bother with keyboard based navigation in its own apps. One look at any app “ported” from iOS is enough. Apple hasn’t even spent time to check what the Tab key does in these apps. It’s a shame.
by brianwmunz | 2026-03-10 02:30:11+00:00
The token savings bit is interesting but seems incomplete without showing that tool call accuracy holds up.
I like the CLI-as-interface idea...the model already knows how to use CLIs, and on-demand discovery is genuinely smarter than front-loading every schema.
How are you handling cases where a tool's schema changes between discovery and invocation? is there a cache invalidation story there or does it just re-fetch?
by DonHopkins | 2026-03-10 02:30:50+00:00
>It's one of the best companies when it comes to open source.

If you, for some inexplicable reason, judge companies "the best" only based on their open source software and totally ignore everything else they do to society, while totally ignoring all the other companies who support open source software so much better, without doing all the evil shit that Facebook does (like React).

The rest of us don't bend over backwards so far and blindfold ourselves to harsh reality just to lick Zuckerberg's boots.
by ogou | 2026-03-10 02:31:09+00:00
Manually. I went to my profile and saved 4 key pages as html. Then Claude converted those to markdown. Took less than 5 minutes. Automating that would have been more trouble than it's worth. The LinkedIn API is fairly useless unless you're in their partner program. Scraping could have gotten my account blocked because ToS violation. That core information rarely changes so it doesn't need to be dynamically imported anyway.
by maxglute | 2026-03-10 02:31:29+00:00
Tone has nothing to do with validity, policing tone is deflection for claim simply being wrong. TW constitutionally claims over mainland territory. There is no alternative legal reading despite how hard pro-independence tried (and failed) to create ambiguity at constitutional level. Hence reply more PSA for others against confidence passport bro "I read the constitution" but clearly do not understand it tier misinformation.
by trinsic2 | 2026-03-10 02:31:49+00:00
I agree. But IMHO that ship has sailed. This should have been stop it when OpenAI went for-profit.

If you want to build a new world with out this, we can't do it while we are supporting the very companies that are creating the problem. The more power you give them, the strong they get and the weaker we become.

I think focus needs to shift completely off of for-profit companies. Although, not sure how that is going to happen..lol
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by vetrom | 2026-03-10 02:33:05+00:00
People that repeat this line evince a basic lack of U.S. civics understanding -- the Executive branch simply does not have the authority to cancel or postpone elections.

If somehow an election still has not completed, there is no legal action short of an amendment which would provide authority for the terms of the Executive or of Congress to extend beyond their end date as well, as mandated by the 20th Amendment.

If the above somehow happened, the next holder of the office would follow the Presidential Succession acts, as defined and amended by Congress.

That said, the U.S. has not cancelled its elections, even in the face of significant unrest, the Civil War, or two World Wars. That sort of suspension doesn't even fit possible hypothetical situations.

If you think they're going to just outright coup and push that past the whole of the other branches of government, say so. Something such as 'suspending elections', in the U.S. is simple fearmongering. If we call that out for engineering, it should also be called out in other fields.
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-10 02:34:12+00:00
> With the files API, apps could actually replicate the microsoft word experience of drafting a file and saving it to your desktop and praying that your hard drive doesn't fail,

Even withou the files API, with local storage, web apps can (and some—mostly extremely casual games that are free—do!) duplicate that experience with the extra risk of your data being lost because your disk became too full or some other event causing the local storage to be cleared.
by radio879 | 2026-03-10 02:34:21+00:00
... also, instead of just using all this stuff out there, like all the OpenClaw stuff, memory systems, what I am doing so that I understand it is just create my own from scratch I have not even read about how that one works, I spin up 10x copilot -p "idea", in the new automate mode they just added, in Docker container, 5x gemini cli in pro 3.1 then 5x flash 3.1, gpt 5.4 in there somewhere along with 5.3 codex, o3, 04-mini (crappy agentic models, BUT, that is okay because often that means they have some more intelligence that the more agentic models lack) scan those with my brain then run all the passing ones into a Best Of N scenario to compile a best/better etc. I have a whole system that works well - certain things will cause all these models to respond differntly, while other things will get them to mostly respond the same - which means something useful.
by lich_king | 2026-03-10 02:34:54+00:00
> A high ratio of upvotes to comments is generally a sign of a high quality HN submission.

I think that the parent is trolling, but I don't think what you're saying is true. Low number of comments usually means that no one understands the topic, but they still want to upvote because it sounds interesting or geeky. High number of comments usually means a topic where everyone feels like they can chime in without reading the article, just reacting to the title.

We're not that sophisticated. And you have evidence of this on the front page right now. A story about AI copyright with 388 comments, versus Scott Aaronson's short rant about quantum algorithms with 12 comments.
by tcbrah | 2026-03-10 02:35:35+00:00
The WordPress analogy is actually pretty apt here given Toni's background. Automattic went through exactly this - Matt stayed as the visionary/product guy while bringing in operators to handle the scaling side. And WordPress is arguably one of the most successful open source projects in terms of actual mainstream adoption.

The tricky part with Bluesky is figuring out which phase they're even in. 40M signups sounds like growth phase, but the retention numbers tell a different story. They might need a sustaining CEO before they've actually finished growing, which is an awkward spot to be in.
by johng | 2026-03-10 02:35:55+00:00
Check out this TAP+ protocol they've made to work with old door games to give them graphics and music.... tilesets, etc. It's pretty cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6RPdD2DyJs

and here at 2:52....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdms0rIL7TY
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-10 02:36:01+00:00
> Where does your confidence come from?

From the fact that copyright infringement is trivial and done at massive scales by pretty much everyone on a daily basis without people even realizing it. You infringe copyright every time you download a picture off of a website. You infringe copyright every time you share it with a friend. Everybody does stuff like this every single day. Nobody cares. It is natural.

> GPL itself was precisely the "intellectual property nonsense"

Yes. In response to copyright protection being extended towards software. It's a legal hack, nothing more. The ideal situation would have been to have no copyright to begin with. The corporation can copy your code but you can copy theirs too. Fair.

> Pray tell how you would do that without some "intellectual property nonsense".

Intellectual property is irrelevant to AI companies.

Intellectual property is built on top of a fundamental delusion: the idea that you can publish information and simultaneously control what people do with it. It's quite simply delusional to believe you can control what people do with information once it's out there and circulating. The tyranny required to implement this amounts to totalitarian dictatorships.

If you want to control information, then your only hope is to not publish it. Like cryptographic keys, the ideal situation is the one where only a single copy of the information exists in the entire universe.

AI companies are not publishing any information. They are keeping their models secret, under lock and key. They need exactly zero intellectual property protection. In fact such protections have negative value to them since it restricts the training of their models.

> We don't exactly get to hold Sam Altman at gunpoint to dictate our terms.

Sure you do. The whole point of government is to do just that. Literally pass some kind of law that forces the corporations to publish the model weights. And if the government refuses to do it, people can always rise up.

> Even if all models were open, we're not at the point where it would create an equal playing field.

Hopefully we will be, in the future.
by hunter2_ | 2026-03-10 02:37:07+00:00
This is cool except that the only ad for this I've come across so far was for analog summing. Remote or not, that concept (going out of one's way to theoretically have something more pleasing than digital summing) always smelled like a scam to me. Like ok, maybe a sample rate a hair above what Shannon/Nyquist demand can't do digital summing with all the right IM distortion of the missing supersonic content or whatever, but 192kHz ought to solve for that! So is it something else to be gained via analog summing?
by bix6 | 2026-03-10 02:37:13+00:00
> a move almost certainly driven by cocoa prices that have surged by 400% in the past decade, as climate-driven droughts devastated harvests across West Africa, where the majority of the world’s supply is grown.

How does this square with the story from yesterday about African farmers letting their fields rot due to a massive decrease in price?

To me this all sounds more like PE playing games to bankrupt industries and hoover up supply from the desperate.
by delichon | 2026-03-10 02:38:11+00:00
This looks like asymmetric psyop warfare, aka a publicity stunt, but an effective one. It doesn't do much operational damage to their enemies, and they have far better targets if they want to do economic damage. Like oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz or Saudi refineries. But it's novel, it spooks investors, and it pushes the west to start defending data centers like military targets.