MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by impendia | 2026-03-09 17:12:09+00:00
Personally, I've enjoyed classes in yoga and in group fitness.

This has several advantages: exercise is obviously good for you, and you can meet people while you're there. But more subtly, once you show up, someone is constantly telling you what to do. For me, this has meant much less of a drain on my mental energy and discipline than if I tried to work out on my own.

Good luck!
by alsetmusic | 2026-03-09 17:12:12+00:00
> Don’t know what it is about geek culture that leans so conspiratorial.

It’s much wider. This is why QAnon and contemporary fascism spread. People love a story.

The QAA podcast deep-dives explaining conspiratorial thinking. They started with QAnon and then expanded. The episodes on the Queen of Canada (Romana Didulo) were especially interesting. She’s a dangerous person and so are her followers. Sovereign citizens, too (though they’ve abandoned that term). Think Freemen in Montana in the 90s.
by nicole_express | 2026-03-09 17:12:29+00:00
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is: In theory, copyright only protects the creative expression of source code; this is the point of the "clean room" dance, that you're keeping only the functional behavior (not protected by copyright). Patents are, of course, an entirely different can of worms. So using an LLM to strip all of the "creative expression" out of source code but create the same functionality feels like it could be equivalent enough.

I like the article's point of legal vs. legitimate here, though; copyright is actually something of a strange animal to use to protect source code, it was just the most convenient pre-existing framework to shove it in.
by samrus | 2026-03-09 17:12:37+00:00
> Another fighter pilot’s analysis, seen in video below, questions whether the Kuwaiti pilot might even have gone rogue against an ally. That actually seems possible based on the evidence, but it is hard to believe.

I get the concern, but i would remmeber to attribute it to incompetance rather than malice. And from my understanding, there is no shorten of incompetance among gulf arab militaries
by foobiekr | 2026-03-09 17:13:00+00:00
I managed a lab of them. I _hated them_. They were unreliable, slow, and just absolutely miserable because they created endless complaints.

We were rolling out labs of Windows machines. Except for the lack of terminal, they were better on every single axis for the common university lab use cases - mostly netscape/mosaic and applications..

I also managed NeXT slabs and cubes; they were vastly better than the sun boxes because we had installed HDDs in the cubes and extra memory. The only problem with them was the absolutely terrible, shit behavior when users accidentally browsed the AFS root...

The only positive thing I can say about those Sun boxes is that _one_ behavior was better than NeXT. With NeXT, students would pull the power on them after wating four or five minutes of the beachball due to AFS I/O.
by amiga386 | 2026-03-09 17:13:12+00:00
Well, Tories would argue that you can't get the really big turbines onshore that you can offshore, so it doesn't really matter. Tiddly little turbines don't generate that much, and why spend lots of money on the planning process and fighting NIMBYs when you can generate it offshore?

However, it does matter, when looked at in whole with the need for capacity in the National Grid. A pile of turbines across SE England would have really helped, because a lot of the offshore wind and Scottish wind power has to be dumped, and gas generators fired up instead, due to lack of grid capacity to distribute that power across the country.

We should, of course, have completed upgrades to the grid by now, but they're late.

Here's a great article about "curtailment" as it's known: https://ukerc.ac.uk/news/transmission-network-unavailability...
by idle_zealot | 2026-03-09 17:13:12+00:00
I don't buy that it's an intentional distraction. Everything they want to do is terrible and bombastic and constantly floods and overwhelms information channels.

Like, if you're fighting someone and they stab you in the gut, then push you over and start stomping your face, are they distracting you from treating your stab wound? Maybe in the most literal sense, but the more apt description of the situation overall is that they're doing whatever they can to kill you.
by sazz | 2026-03-09 17:13:26+00:00
That's right, Germany sells electricity to other countries during the day and buys electricity in the evening because there is no sun then.

The problem is that other countries also have solar and wind power during the day and don't need this electricity at all. That's why Germany has to “sell” this surplus electricity, even though no one needs it. To ensure that the electricity is still "purchased", Germany has to pay money for it. In the evening, Germany has to pay money to buy back the missing electricity.

Paying money to have something purchased is generally referred to as garbage fees.
by rzerowan | 2026-03-09 17:13:26+00:00
This is why i keep saying the Jolla management neds a rethink. Its 2026 GraphenOS is in a partnership with Motorola while Jolla is still doing early 2K style kickstarter campaigns.

The market is there , product is loved and ppeople have proved they are willing to take some pain adopting the product.But still the execution to serve that market is shambolic to say the least.
by zahlman | 2026-03-09 17:14:08+00:00
I don't know if I buy this argument. If the US sends oil to another country, which burns it for energy, produces a finished good and exports that back to the US, then the CO2 released isn't accounted for in production-based numbers. But it seems to me like it isn't really properly accounted for in the consumption-based numbers that Noah is holding up, because those are effectively giving the US a credit for exporting the oil in the first place that offsets the imported good. As he says, the US's exports are carbon-intensive and that largely explains the difference being so small.

Noah also tries to refute the perception that manufacturing is in decline in the US, but he doesn't adjust per-capita and doesn't account for the obvious fact that major US exports are looking more and more like raw materials and less like finished goods, while imports are the other way around. Aircraft and ICs used to compete for top spot on the US export list. Since 2008 it's petroleum and oil.
by toast0 | 2026-03-09 17:14:19+00:00
They basically are, the algorithm is something like:

At the beginning of january and july, observe the difference between UT1 and UTC. If the difference is >= 0.6s, a leap second will be inserted at the end of june/december. Publish the results here: https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc
by impendia | 2026-03-09 17:14:40+00:00
Definitely agreed!

When I started my Ph.D. program, there was a weekly seminar that I started going to. At first, I instinctively left each week immediately after the talk was over. But I noticed that a lot of people would hang around afterwards and chat. Even though I found it a bit awkward, I started following their lead -- a habit I'm very glad I developed!
by philistine | 2026-03-09 17:15:00+00:00
> they'd nuke themselves before accepting the unconditional surrender he asked for

To me it's a bit more complicated than that. Unconditional surrender can be achieved ... with boots on the ground all over Iran on a penetration level last seen in WW2. If you think Iran's government is as simple to decapitate as Iraq, think again.

Then you get the unconditional surrender of a government. Is the average Iranian amenable to tolerate this situation and get its terms dictated by the US? Nope, they're not the Germans in '45. You'll get decades of insurgency; if you think ISIS as a consequence of the Iraq Invasion was bad, look forward to even worse.

At the end of the day, Trump always chickens out. Look forward to the end of the American bombings the second the new leader gets him on the phone. The Israelis that's another thing.
by guerython | 2026-03-09 17:15:31+00:00
we built something similar but kept it even lighter. every agent event writes a 70–100 token summary + a tiny metadata tuple (topic, user_id, timestamp) into a local key/value table keyed by conversation+topic hash, plus we append the full transcript to a cold log for audits. retrieval just fetches the last 2–3 rows and the agent treats them like context; we run a background pass that re-checks those summaries against the cold log before every decision so nothing drifts, and we never churn big vector indexes, which keeps the latency predictable.
by close04 | 2026-03-09 17:15:36+00:00
Every contract has that, either party can exit the contract under normal conditions. You can cancel your Netflix subscription with a short notice period. They can do the same. They use the notice period as grace period for you to accept the new conditions. You accept a new contract with new conditions.

I negotiated my mobile phone or internet contracts again and again, to get better deals. I threaten to leave, they throw a bone. Because they know I have options. Providers who know you don’t will squeeze you however they please.
by glimshe | 2026-03-09 17:15:44+00:00
I think Anthropic certainly mishandled things, otherwise they would not have lost the contract. Obviously the investors are upset: this is a guy making millions/billions, the expectation is absolutely for him to find a way to resolve complex issues. I could have done what he did, that is, "stand on principle" and lose the contract. It requires no skill to do so.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-09 17:16:18+00:00
Yeah. They just plaster the UI elements all over the video, VHS style, and they remain on screen for several seconds. Browsers are particularly obnoxious: they display a giant icon right in the middle of the video. Depending on screen size and orientation, it can straight up block the entire content for several seconds, or indefinitely if the video is paused.

One of so many reasons why I love mpv so much. Fine control via keyboard, allows turning off all the UI elements. Always a pleasure to use. I hate having to use any other media player.
by ecekyn | 2026-03-09 17:16:22+00:00
https://metoro.io/ - “AI SRE” for k8s that finds and root causes issues and raises fix prs, checks if deployments introduced any regression or any new behaviour by looking at code and ebpf generated telemetry (doesn’t rely on existing telemetry/integrations as a result). Looking for feedback, thank you!!

Ps: i dont like the term “AI sre” but its what people call it…
by cuuupid | 2026-03-09 17:16:32+00:00
Palantir famously sued the army and won, now accounting for the majority of their USG revenue. So, this is not necessarily a bad strategy.

Key differentiator though is Palantir’s suit was based primarily on Congressional acts and explicit clauses of the FAR. This absolutely does not seem to be the case for Anthropic, who could easily do the same, but chooses another ideological battle. I can’t imagine their legal counsel would recommend this route (actually asking Claude it doesn’t either!) which would imply this is Anthropic leadership’s move.

I’d gamble they’ve already given up on actual business with the government/military and that this is more of a PR move to further distance themselves and maintain a high road image.
by hbn | 2026-03-09 17:17:02+00:00
We aren't given an option at my work, but if we were I'd still choose the Mac anyway. I love the Mac and that's why I care so much about this design regression. I like that it unlocks with my watch or fingerprint from a wireless keyboard, I like that I can push files and browser tabs between my Mac and phone just by sharing, I like that if I can push my mouse off the side of the screen and control my iPad with my keyboard and mouse with zero setup, or if I want one more monitor I can turn my iPad into that with 2 clicks. I could go on.

They just need to get back into the mindset that design is how it works. Not forcing some aesthetic into everything with the superficial idea of "focusing on content" as a backwards justification for making everything transparent cause someone thought it was prettier.
by dathinab | 2026-03-09 17:17:14+00:00
> we'll see that it was an attempt to fight copyrights with copyrights

it's not that simple

yes, GPLs origins have the idea of "everyone should be able to use"

but it also is about attribution the original author

and making sure people can't just de-facto "size public goods"

the kind of AI usage is removing attribution and is often sizing public goods in a way far worse then most companies which just ignored the license did

so today there is more need then ever in the last few decades for GPL like licenses
by sazz | 2026-03-09 17:17:32+00:00
Common sense person here.

That is totally wrong. Germany does not have battery capacity nor the power grid to transfer all the power to right places at the right time.

"We just don't do it because it's cheaper to buy i.e. heavily subsidized nuclear power from France"

Oh yes, market rules are a bad thing. Anyone who produces something more cheaply is simply lacking solidarity.
by nullocator | 2026-03-09 17:17:50+00:00
> None of this is what people voted for, and is almost directly the opposite. That isn’t a new thing, of course, but this seems like a pretty huge turnaround from what the campaign was about.

Citation needed. I think there is demonstrable evidence that this is exactly what people voted for and they will continue voting and behaving exactly as they have been for the foreseeable future.

Around ~30-40% of the U.S. population is basically subject to the whims of of the other 60-70% who are either A. Cult members B. Completely apathetic or C. Stupid/Insane and openly hostile to any techniques that could be used to bring them around.

It's seemingly impossible to get off this progression, and no the apathetic people being shocked into making an opposition based choice every ~4 years before they go back to fucking off is not going to pull us out.
by thunderfork | 2026-03-09 17:18:28+00:00
"Adobe Creative Suite not running on Linux can be worked around easily" is something that people have been getting wrong for decades, but injecting AI into the premise is a new frontier of funny.

What's the AI workaround for Illustrator/After Effects/etc.? You're not suggesting generating vector art or video assets via LLM replaces these, surely?
by hexyl_C_gut | 2026-03-09 17:18:47+00:00
M5 Max outperforms M3 Ultra.

M3 Ultra, 3.3k single core 27k multicore on Geekbench. https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16959045

M5 Max, 4.3k single core 29k multicore
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16956481
by coldpie | 2026-03-09 17:19:04+00:00
> Some years leap seconds need to be added, some years they need to be removed.

Is that true? Per Wikipedia:

> Since [1972], 27 leap seconds have been added to UTC, with the most recent occurring on December 31, 2016. All have so far been positive leap seconds, adding a second to a UTC day; while a negative leap second is theoretically possible, it has not yet occurred.

Either way, it's due in part to Earth's rotation slowing down, so the average drift would still be non-zero.
by xorvoid | 2026-03-09 17:19:18+00:00
I feel the same confliction about this organizational policy. It has been refreshing that they haven't just jammed half-baked ideas into stable like C++ has done for decades. But, yes, it's frustrating to bump into an issue and discover that a fix has been proposed and implemented but has never been moved to stable in 5-10 years. Some things feel like they're languishing in nightly forever.

I don't personally have a solution to propose to this problem. I generally appreciate their caution and long-term considering. It's refreshing coming from C++. I suppose one could argue that they've overcorrected in the other direction. Unclear.

Deeper than that, I think there's a philosophical dispute on whether languages should or shouldn't even evolve. There are people with C-stability type thinking that would argue that long-term stability is so important that we should stop making changes and etch things into stone. There is some merit to that (a lot of unhelpful churn in modern programming). But, failure to modernize is eventually death IMHO. I think C is slowly dying because of exactly this. It will take quite a while because it is critical computing infrastructure. But, few people remain that defend it's viability. The arguments that remain are of the form "we simply don't have a viable replacement yet".

Perhaps you can even take the view that this is the lifecycle of programming languages. They're not supposed to live forever. That could be a reasonable take. But then you really have to confront the problem of code migration from old languages to new languages. That is a very very hard unsolved problem (e.g. see: COBOL).

Language evolution is foundationally a hard problem. And I'm not unhappy with Rust's approach. I think no one has managed to find an ideal approach.
by antirez | 2026-03-09 17:19:22+00:00
> They completely miss the fact that a lot of his blog post is not actually just about legal but also about ethical matters.

Honestly I was confused about the summarization of my blog post into just a legal matter as well. I hope my blog post will be able to flash at least a short time in the HN front page so that the actual arguments it contain will get a bit more exposure.
by dwoldrich | 2026-03-09 17:19:49+00:00
Discoverability was why I decided to discuss menus in the first place and I was being a bit of a contrarian by expressing happiness for the kitchen sink aspect to the "right-click" context menu.

Not everyone will understand the dilemma that UX designers have about surfacing their features without causing clutter and distraction, and I was trying to start a conversation about that.
by aw1621107 | 2026-03-09 17:19:55+00:00
I guess the no_std/alloc/std split is sort of like what you're talking about? It's not an exact match though; I think that split is more borne out of the lack of built-in support some targets have for particular features rather than trying to cordon off subsets of the language to try to prevent users from burning themselves.

On that note, I guess one could hypothetically limit certain effects to certain Rust subsets (for example, an "allocates" effect may require alloc, a "filesystem" effect may require std, etc.), but I'd imagine the general mechanism would need to be usable everywhere considering how foundational some effects can be.

> Or are such language features beneficial for all applications?

To (ab)use a Pixar quote, I suppose one can think of it as "not all applications may need these features, but these features should be usable anywhere".
by jrowen | 2026-03-09 17:19:55+00:00
I think the "you" they refer to there is the hypothetical other skilled human, not a computer. The wording is confusing but I think they're just saying that the human players will reach a ceiling with each other (they then contrast this with real life where the ceiling is always moving). That whole paragraph is a bit muddy with the point it's trying to make.
by blinkbat | 2026-03-09 17:20:05+00:00
it's kind of the difference between a studio musician and a songwriter. one you're doing for a paycheck, and you may or may not enjoy the work to varying degrees. the other is your passion.

LLMs are freeing companies to produce faster, but your expertise is still needed to supervise them for now.

coding in your spare time as a passion project is likely the outcome for many engineers who like the craft.

you might go as far as separating environments, or even whole machines, for your passion. keep a machine with NO ai options available to push you to code solutions by hand, etc.
by grahamlee | 2026-03-09 17:20:12+00:00
It's clear that we're entering a new era of copyright _expectations_ (whether we get new _legislation_ is different), but for now realise this: the people like me who like copyleft can do this too. We can take software we like, point an agent at it, and tell it to make a new version with the AGPL3.0-or-later badge on the front.
by Daves | 2026-03-09 17:20:36+00:00
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by throw0101c | 2026-03-09 17:20:38+00:00
So lunar tidal forces are slowing the rotation, but (recently?) Earth mantle/core is causing a speed up, but climate change and melting ice is contributing to the slow down side:

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/leap-seconds-may-...

* https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/global-warming-influencing-glo...

The general trend is slowing down. Apparently (?) once the day gets to be 24h+0.001sec (+1 millisecond), a leap second would occur about every 1000 days; then when it becomes 24h+0.002sec, a leap second would occur about every 500 days; when it reaches 24h+0.003sec, a leap second would occur about every year; etc.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-09 17:20:39+00:00
They have been selling real time bare metal Java runtimes for embedded systems, widely deployed across weapon systems in battleships and missile tracking units, factory automation, satellites, and other similar systems for the last decades.

I bet many of those helper microcontrollers, are still Assembly, compiler specific C, and if there is Rust support, most likely only no_std fits, thus no async anyway.
by verdverm | 2026-03-09 17:20:41+00:00
Glad to find comradery! I've started the CLI interface to my custom agent since lol

The reasons are (1) it's faster to do admin work like naming or deleting old sessions (2) I have not gotten the remote setup to work yet (haven't tried) but I do want to use it somewhere

But yeah, it's gotten worse, the latest I recall is a new diff viewer for AI in the terminal (I already have git and lazygit)
by sarchertech | 2026-03-09 17:20:51+00:00
Ignoring the legal or ethical concerns. Let’s say we live in a world where the cost of copying code is so close to zero that it’s indistinguishable from a world without copyright.

Anything you put out can and will be used by whatever giant company wants to use it with no attribution whatsoever.

Doesn’t that massively reduce the incentive to release the source of anything ever?
by mekdoonggi | 2026-03-09 17:20:55+00:00
Do many people hold the view that Chinese cars are cheaper because of subsidies?

Seems pretty obvious that the world's largest market, with a huge manufacturing base, lower wages, industrial policy, and weak yuan all combine to make cheap cars.

As a US citizen, I'm happy that China is transforming the global auto market. I just wonder how long it will take to rip the tariff band-aid off.
by largbae | 2026-03-09 17:20:58+00:00
This is only worth arguing about because software has value. Putting this in context of a world where the cost of writing code is trending to 0, there are two obvious futures:

1. The cost continues to trend to 0, and _all_ software loses value and becomes immediately replaceable. In this world, proprietary, copyleft and permissive licenses do not matter, as I can simply have my AI reimplement whatever I want and not distribute it at all.

2. The coding cost reduction is all some temporary mirage, to be ended soon by drying VC money/rising inference costs, regulatory barriers, etc. In that world we should be reimplementing everything we can as copyleft while the inferencing is good.