MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hypeatei | 2026-03-09 16:01:35+00:00
It is, because you can't have pleasure without suffering but I think these conversations should focus on the amount (maybe as a percentage) of suffering that someone/something experiences.

If you were locked in a room and being tortured, would you think it'd be appropriate for me to go: "they feed you at the end of each torture session, isn't it worth it to keep going for that?"
by cjbgkagh | 2026-03-09 16:01:47+00:00
It’s one of those ironies in power structures, how a ‘communist’ society can act as turbo capitalist one and visa versa. It’s a mistake to think that just because things are one way at the top they’re the same way all the way down the power structure. Even with heavy corruption there are competing corrupt entities which can lead to a healthy competition of governance as an emergent behavior. Dysfunction at one level efficiencies at another. Corruption is self corrupting so it’s difficult to maintain at all levels.

In my view much of the ‘corruption’ in the west takes the form of very legal financialization, this massively rewards consolidation as the high debt to equity ratios means low interest rates are paramount and combining two entities allows one to act as insurance for the other lowering the risk component of the interest rate allowing the entity to out compete the remaining entities. Once reaching a certain size the company becomes too big to fail and the risk component merges with the US government. Since the US government is very receptive to donations these companies are in effect able to form an oligarchy. Compare this to China where companies are subordinate to the politicians.

I think the West overestimates the deleterious effects of corruption of our competitors and underestimates our own systemic (and legalized) corruption.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-09 16:01:48+00:00
Getting something accepted upstream is orders of magnitude harder than patching it internally.

The typical situation is that you need to write a proof of concept internally and get it deployed fast. Then you can iterate on it and improve it through real world use. Once it matures you can start working on aligning with upstream, which may take a lot of effort if upstream has different ideas about how it should be designed.

I’ve also had cases where upstream decided that the feature was good but they didn’t want it. If it doesn’t overlap with what the maintainers want for the project then you can’t force them to take it.

Upstreaming is a good goal to aim toward but it can’t be a default assumption.
by staticassertion | 2026-03-09 16:01:54+00:00
I don't think so. I've never had Claude reject the idea of finding a vulnerability (unlike ChatGPT). The issue is that it's limited by its training set. It'll be trained on things like UAF, it won't be trained on things like "the way your secrets are injected + the way you make HTTP requests + the way you deploy means that an SSRF can expose your private key" or whatever, and that's a technology limitation.
by gignico | 2026-03-09 16:02:19+00:00
I'm not sure it shows that. Even basic features of Rust we take from granted come from concepts common users do not need to understand. Borrowing of lifetime draws from affine types, but nobody cares when writing Rust code. If in 2012 you read a similar article explaining borrow checking in academic terms you would have thought Rust would be unusably hard, which is not.

Also I do not think that adding features is always bad to the point of comparing with Scala. Most of the things the article mentions will be almost invisible to users. For example, the `!Forget` thing it mentions will just end up with users getting new errors for things that before would have caused memory leaks. What a disgrace!

Then, pattern types allow you to remove panics from code, which is super helpful in many critical contexts where Rust is used in production, even in the Linux kernel once they will bump the language version so far.
by xoa | 2026-03-09 16:02:22+00:00
>It’s very disputable whether BEVs are industry’s future

It is not disputable (unless you're including Old Auto lobbyists I suppose). Without government imposed restrictions keeping the public from buying Chinese BEVs without an outrageous markup (or at all) the ICE industry would already be imploding. The government could and should require that all vehicles be under full control of their owners with no remote telematics required, or even allowed necessarily (and heavily restricted even then). That'd resolve concerns about Chinese kill switches or gathering intel data or whatever. But of course the Western industry hates that too because they want to fully enshittify cars next and turn them into locked-in subscription revenue and advertising data sources. So they can't even compete on trustworthiness. Total embarrassment and also long term ruin.

The present gas price mess and global instability Trump has kicked off is just going to draw an even bigger line under both the personal and the national security value of not being tied to any single source of energy for mechanized transportation. BEVs are simply fundamentally superior particularly in a risky world.
by lm28469 | 2026-03-09 16:02:33+00:00
imho there are multiple, starting with the pension and healthcare system which are not sustainable with the current demography trend, which pushed them into going all in with immigration, which fractured whatever was left of german identity (which was arguably already wiped out after ww2 and the cold war). Taxes are going up, retirement age is increasing, pensions are decreasing, public services are getting worse year after year, there is nothing young people can focus on, nothing they can expect to have better than their parents or grand parents, most will never own their place.
The self sabotage of the energy sector certainly didn't help. No long term vision + no clear way to improvement + no sense of appartenance = game over, and this is hitting most of the west at once, it's all about individualism and consumption, you can't build societies on these principles.
by scottyah | 2026-03-09 16:02:37+00:00
Artificially increasing wages to get a better product is like Cargo Culting. Some people see successful companies paying their employees a ton, then assume that's what created the successful company when it's so obviously the other way around. But the politicians/union heads benefit from selling it the other way. This conversation just always gets derailed by pointing out how paying substantially below market is also bad, as if it were a counterpoint.
by kvgr | 2026-03-09 16:02:48+00:00
What Imperial will if you dont mind asking? That they stoped buying gas from country that attacked europe and tries to overthrow democracy in other EU countries? Their delusion was in turning off nuclear... and it was exactly what russia wanted. By funding anti nuclear protests in EU, and selling more and more gas to make Europe attached. So when Russia does something bad, it is harder to sanction them.
What happend in Germany is real political failure in seeing this, maybe even treason.
by palmotea | 2026-03-09 16:02:59+00:00
> I'm vaguely surprised so many people who don't stand to benefit in any way shape or form, or who will even potentially starve if it works out, are so keen on it. But there are always bootlickers.

I've been getting more and more disappointed by software engineers (in aggregate) as the years go by. They don't even have to be bootlickers to do what you describe, I think a lot of it is pride in their "intelligence," which they express by believing and regurgitating the propaganda they've consumed. They prove their smarts by (among other things) having opinions that align with a zeitgeist of some group of powerful elites. They're too-easily manipulated.

And it's not just AI, it's also things like libertarianism. You've got workers identifying as capitalist tycoons, because they read a book and have some shares in a 401k.
by mxuribe | 2026-03-09 16:03:35+00:00
IANAL but i think Sony would have had to *first* fully accept the terms initially, and then a brick (or many other delivery mechanisms used to convey "notice") with updated terms i guess would be weirdly acceptable...however, other laws would be broken since its, you know, property damage. But what a story that would be! lol :-)

I hate all these TOS that always favor a company...but what if alot of society started hurling bricks back at tech companies in a sort of retaliation...not unlike Luddites damaging ye old machines?
by dredmorbius | 2026-03-09 16:03:52+00:00
The solution I've found, whether with RSS or other feed-based platforms (e.g., Mastodon / the Fediverse), is 1) organise feeds (by topic using RSS, by interest generally); 2) to ruthlessly prune feeds particularly in my high-interest list/category/tag; and 3) park any voluble feeds into their own "voluble / noise" group. They can drown out each other, but not lower-volume, higher-quality feeds.

Interest level works far better than category for social-media feeds, if only because few people (as opposed to organisations) tend to stick to a given topic. On Google+, one feature I used for my own outbound content was its own classification system, such that my tech posts went to a tech channel, science to science, news/current events, etc. to their own. Those following me could choose which of those they were interested in or not.
by LavaDMan | 2026-03-09 16:04:05+00:00
Building a self-hosted agentic OS I call AEGIS — Adaptive Execution & Generative Intelligence System. Running on a single workstation with a consumer GPU.
The core idea is a three-tier model cascade: a cloud model handles architecture and review, a local 32B model handles execution and code generation, smaller local models handle evaluation. The cloud model never executes directly — it reviews diffs and approves before anything gets committed.
The interesting problems so far: GPU arbitration across competing inference services using a distributed lock, giving local models read-only access to institutional memory before task execution so they're not flying blind, and autonomous fleet provisioning — I spun up a new server node last night without touching it after the USB went in.
Next phase is adding department queues so the system understands context — infrastructure work vs. client consulting work vs. internal tooling — and idle-time priority advisory so it starts anticipating what I need rather than waiting to be asked.
Goal is something closer to Jarvis than a chatbot. Early days but the bones are solid.
by ericol | 2026-03-09 16:04:06+00:00
When my eldest daughter was in high school (~2010, Argentina) there was a provincial policy where if every single student had a result below a certain score in a test, the scores had to be re assessed against the maximum result.

The resulting situation here was that she was constantly bullied into underperforming. Both cases are actually similar in that each individual has a personal incentive to underperform - the difference is that in your friend's case the policy is granted at the company level so no single employee can defect and break it for the rest, while in my daughter's case one high scorer could invalidate the reassessment for everyone, which is exactly what made defection punishable and the bullying emerge naturally.
Show HN: Ducktel – observability when the consumer is an AI agent, not a human
by djhope99 | 2026-03-09 16:04:27+00:00
Receives OTLP, writes Parquet, exposes DuckDB SQL via CLI. No dashboards, no query builders, no alerting engine. An LLM agent shells out to ducktel query, gets JSON back, and does the reasoning itself. The thesis: everything observability platforms built above ingest+store was scaffolding for human cognition. When the consumer is an LLM, the scaffolding is just overhead.
by tzs | 2026-03-09 16:04:28+00:00
> It turns out a lot of things we are told we need, we really don't. People lived without them as recently as a few years ago.

It also often turns out that when some new way comes along to do something that people like to do, the ways they used to do those things go away. If you don't like the new way you can't go back to how it used to be done.

The last physical media video rental store within a reasonable drive of me closed around 8 years ago. Redbox went away in 2024. There is still rental by mail, but that is slow.

Those who liked being able to be able to rent a movie without planning days ahead are stuck with streaming now.

Another example is cell phones. It used to be that there were pay phones all over the place. Nearly every public place had a payphone nearby. In most cities there was a good chance there was a street payphone on every block, and nearly every restaurant and gas station had one. On freeways there were call boxes to summon help.

Pay phones peaked in the US in 1995. When cell phones went mainstream in the early to mid 2000s, pay phones rapidly went away, and in about 10 years were almost all gone. Around 90% of freeway call boxes also disappeared. They now are mostly only in areas with poor cellular coverage.

If you want to be able to make calls while out and about now doing it the way it was done before cell phones quite likely is not feasible.
by axegon_ | 2026-03-09 16:04:47+00:00
I have some experience with the German automotive industry (having worked at a company that is a service provider for much of the German giants), I can instantly confirm a few things, which are known by some and suspected by most:

Historically VW has been the "people's car" - a good car that people could afford and for the longest period that was the case: affordable and rock-solid. Around the late 2000s, that changed. VWs are no longer affordable and when problems hit, they hit hard - they are both time consuming and unless covered by a warranty, expensive. Also hard to fix even if it's something simple. That problem is cascading down the entire VW Group and it is hurting everyone along the way. Some companies under the VW Group are hit very hard by this. At the same time, the second big player, Mercedes, was never really affordable but lately their image of a tank-solid machine has cracked, suffering from a similar, brutally over-engineered, unmaintainable, engineering maze as VW. BMW is in a similar state as Mercedes but with a slightly different twist: BMW's are not to everyone's taste and I am saying that as an owner myself. But these days even the most die-hard fans acknowledge that the modern designs are absolutely atrocious. Top Gear were making fun of the Porsche Panamera back in the day but looking at new BMWs, I'd pick the Panamera in a heartbeat. In addition to their hard push for anti-consumer practices and outrageously over-engineered solutions.

All of this has painted German cars in a negative way - expensive and finicky. Most of the customers were happy to pay a higher price for quality and creature comforts but there is a line between comfort and something dumb like having to visit a mechanic in order to swap a dead battery - something which should have been a simple operation that you can do on the side of the road if it comes down to it. And even though I am happy with my current car and I don't plan on changing it anytime soon, if I were in the market for a new car, I'd definitely consider other options, knowing what I know.

My suggestion to the big-3 which will start solving problems: KISS.
by Pxtl | 2026-03-09 16:05:24+00:00
I don't mean HTML+CSS, I mean just HTML, as a middle-step between CSV and full spreadsheet file.

HTML with only the table tags allowed get you a document that you can
1) View in a browser,
2) Has table headers and the ability to define column widths and combine cells

But you can leave presentation up to the viewer.

Same principle as Markdown, but markdown tables are bad.
by gethly | 2026-03-09 16:05:26+00:00
I usually write code every day but right now I don't have anything important to do. I started writing a graphical text editor / IDE as i wanted to do some GUI stuff, which I never did. But my heart is not in it, so i just randomly write few lines here and there. I am not burnt out, just lack sufficient motivation at this time. But generally i code every day. I had a 6m break from coding 3 years ago and i definitely noticed that I forgot quite a lot of stuff. Although I was back on the horse in few days. But at least I know that the knowledge is not eternal and needs to be constantly engaged.
by greygoo222 | 2026-03-09 16:05:29+00:00
"Someone who would" is a terminally online loser who's confused the symptoms of their mental illness for philosophical insights.

Speaking as a lifelong atheist, I cannot stand this genre of nihilistic post-Christianity, all questionable moral baggage with none of the guidance. Here's a tip for you: humanity did not introduce evil to the world. If you don't understand this, find a church, it'll be better for us all.
by Spooky23 | 2026-03-09 16:05:31+00:00
It's the standard innovators dilemma nonsense, with the added drama of the car case that the innovator (Tesla) shot itself in the foot due to a madman in charge.

The entire ecosystem of automaking is just like tech - clusters of complimentary industries. There's a symbiotic relationship between Mercedes, Ford, BMW, GM, etc and their suppliers -- many of whom in the american case were former subsidiaries of the automaker.

That's why Ford, GM, Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, etc have a hard time closing the deal on EV. The American car companies are more fucked because they've engineered the business around compliance requirements to mostly only make trucks. It's hard to eat your children. Meanwhile, BYD isn't run by a bipolar drug addict, and they are going to back up the truck, slowed down only by protectionism. I drove one when traveling, and it felt like driving a Tesla in 2015.

For companies building cars in Germany, the US and to some extent Japan & Korea, we're living in a do-over of 1976, except China is Japan.
by bayarearefugee | 2026-03-09 16:05:45+00:00
> The older I get, the more careful I am to remember there's young people left in my wake and I get to decide whether I owe them anything or not - and, I make a personal belief that I do, a very great deal in fact.

I don't disagree with this at all, and on a personal level I do everything I can to reasonably leave things as good or better than I found them. I just no longer believe anything I do is going to pull humanity as a whole back from the edge.
by phil21 | 2026-03-09 16:05:50+00:00
The answer is you don't scale nuclear up or down, it's a silly waste of time and effort to even think about it. The fuel costs are effectively a rounding error, so running at 100% 24x7 is the only way to ever think about how nuclear should operate.

If you are going to curtail, you curtail other sources including solar and wind.

Nuclear fits quite well for the baseload you need. It's more expensive, but if you are going to need X capacity 24x7 and build nuclear, you simply build enough to provide just that plus perhaps a few extra for redundancy when another one goes offline. Then use gas peakers for the "oh shit" days difference between what nuclear is providing and solar was expected to but could not.

I don't understand the fascination folks have about nuclear not being able to following the grid. They don't need to, since they only ever remotely make sense when operated 24x7 at 100%. If you always have 1TW of grid usage every night during your lowest usage period - build that much nuclear as your starting point and figure out the rest from there. Nuclear's share of the total mix should be a straight line on a graph outside of plant shutdowns for maintenance.
by bonesss | 2026-03-09 16:05:56+00:00
Grok “apologizing” for generating potentially illegal images and related cases working through various legal systems is an early test of that lack of liability shield.

There are a number of industries where I don’t think “kinda…” is an acceptable answer to “was this code read before deploying?”. Humans aren’t great at repeating boring tasks ad nauseam.
by thi2 | 2026-03-09 16:05:59+00:00
I've mostly worked in smaller companies (max 250 employees) and recently joined one of the larger corporations (not automotive related).

The main issue I notice is how bad the communication is and how little can be done & decided. Before deploying a new Jenkins pipeline I need to speak to two different teams. It's insane how much time is lost doing meetings and syncs.
by VorpalWay | 2026-03-09 16:06:11+00:00
No, stackful coroutines requires a runtime. Not going to work on embedded, which is where async rust shines the strongest.

If you don't care about embedded that is fine. But almost all systems in the world are embedded. "Normal" computers are the odd ones out. Every "normal" computer has several embedded systems in it (one or more of SSD controller, NIC, WiFi controller, celular modem, embedded controller, etc). And then cars, appliances, cameras, routers, toys, etc have many more.

It is a use case that matters. To have secure and reliable embedded systems is important to humanity's future. We need to turn the trend of major security vulnerabilities and buggy software in general around. Rust is part of that story.
by tovej | 2026-03-09 16:06:20+00:00
Yes, what I said should be falsifiable. The burden is on you to give me an example, but I can give you an idea.

You need to show me an LLM applying writing techniques do not have examples in its corpus.

You would have to use some relatively unknown author, I can suggest Iida Turpeinen. There will be interviews of her describing her writing technique, but no examples that aren't from Elolliset (Beasts of the sea).

Find an interview where Turpeinen describes her method for writing Beasts of the Sea, e.g.: https://suffolkcommunitylibraries.co.uk/meet-the-author-iida...

Now ask it to produce a short story about a topic unrelated to Beasts of the Sea, let's say a book about the moonlanding.

A human doing this exercise will produce a text with the same feel as Beasts of the Sea, but an LLM-produced text will have nothing in common with it.
Show HN: TubeTrim – A local YouTube summarizer using Qwen in pure Python
by guglielmoce | 2026-03-09 16:06:38+00:00
I wanted a way to summarize YouTube videos without paying for a SaaS or leaking my viewing history to someone. TubeTrim is a Python-based tool that runs LLMs locally to process transcripts. No API keys, no subscriptions, no tracking.

It uses the transformers library with a device-aware backend: it will prioritize CUDA, then MPS (for Mac users), and finally fallback to CPU. I've found that Qwen 2.5-1.5B provides a good balance between speed and summary quality for this specific task.

How it works:

- Extracts the transcript via yt-dlp.
- Performs extractive compression if the text exceeds the context window.
- Summarizes via local inference with streaming output.

I'd appreciate any feedback for optimization!
by jansan | 2026-03-09 16:07:48+00:00
It's both. Of course the massively shrinking share of the Chinese market is a big chunk of the problem. But the whole mindset here in Germany is completely delusional with the idea to be leaders in environmental technology and sustainability solutions.

My favorite example of this delusion is Porsche who somehow thought that selling their bread-and-butter model Macan exclusively as an EV was a good idea. I still cannot understand how they arrived at this decision.
by bluescrn | 2026-03-09 16:08:23+00:00
> Ireland is richer than it has ever been.

Isn't that more about big tech companies using Ireland as a tax dodge, rather than a sign of average people doing well?

For less-well-off people, energy costs in the UK are a huge issue, they're more than twice what they were pre-Covid. Energy bills are second only to housing costs when it comes to the cost of living crisis. Although grocery price inflation/shrinkflation has been pretty shocking too.