MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eschaton | 2026-03-11 03:08:44+00:00
There’s this thing called “honor” where if you tell someone that they need to affirm their contribution is their own work and not created with an LLM, most people most of the time will tell the truth—especially if the “no LLMs” requirement is clearly stated up front.

You’re basically saying that a “no-LLMs” rule doesn’t matter, because dishonorable people exist. That’s not how most people work, and that’s not how rules work.

When we encounter a sociopath or liar, we point them out and run them out of our communities before they can do more damage, we don’t just give up and tolerate or even welcome them.
by Escapade5160 | 2026-03-11 03:08:46+00:00
I recently tried to learn it and found it frustrating. A lot of docs are for 0.15 but the latest is (or was) 0.16 which changed a lot of std so none of the existing write ups were valid anymore. I plan to revisit once it gets more stable because I do like it when I get it to work.
by ekianjo | 2026-03-11 03:09:07+00:00
> Tifa and Cloud don't age even when you republish Final Fantasy VII decades over

Those are not the same characters at all. The remake made them into different characters altogether.

Plus you are talking about RPGs only so moving goalposts. A 3d platformer that was the best from the 90s would be considered awful to play in 2026.
by RichMarshall | 2026-03-11 03:09:35+00:00
I've spent most of my career designing and maintaining real-world technical systems where reliability and accountability matter.

One thing that has become clear watching AI adoption over the past couple of years is that most organizations assume adoption will happen through formal strategy.

In practice it usually enters through everyday tools: writing assistants, summarization tools, coding copilots, analysis tools, etc.

By the time leadership notices, AI systems are already influencing operational workflows.

That creates a strange governance gap: responsibility still sits with humans, but decision assistance is increasingly automated.

I've been working on a small framework intended to introduce governance boundaries before operational problems appear.

It's called the Marshall AI Governance Standard.

Curious how others are thinking about introducing governance structures early rather than after incidents occur.
by rramadass | 2026-03-11 03:10:29+00:00
The problem is with folks who don't know/have never read (seriously that is) Dijkstra.

For example, every time somebody posts something about Dijkstra on HN/etc. somebody will trot out this silly quote and then others pile on (since it requires no effort) and derail any interesting conversation.

It is human nature to have an opinion on everything and mediocrity often takes great pleasure in tearing down the greats (i mean the true ones) in order to soothe their own egos (since they know they don't measure up) i.e. "see? the great one is as flawed/mundane as us and i am showing him up".

And Dijkstra was Dutch who are famously known to be blunt which is often perceived as arrogance by others :-)
by eschaton | 2026-03-11 03:11:08+00:00
This is the dream of the sociopathic slopmonger.

Real people in the real world understand that rules don’t simply cease to exist because there’s no technical means of guaranteeing their obedience. You simply ask people to follow them, and to affirm that they’re following them whether explicitly or implicitly, and then mete out severe social consequences for being a filthy fucking liar.
by draftsman | 2026-03-11 03:12:12+00:00
RuneScape private servers used to bring in tons of money. I helped manage one when I was in my early teens, and I can confirm the owner (who was only a few years older than I) was bringing in mid six-figures annually.

Then of course there was the rampant gambling. The founders of online casino Stake and streaming platform Kick both started their “careers” in RuneScape gambling. IIRC they invented “staking” which was a method of gambling gold against other players, before they were banned. But the gambling economy in RuneScape used to IRL mint millionaires for sure.
by backrun | 2026-03-11 03:12:17+00:00
I built Gemini Exporter because I use Gemini daily for research and coding, but getting the formatted output—especially complex markdown, tables, and code blocks—into my workspace was a frustrating copy-paste exercise that often broke the formatting.

It's a browser extension that injects export options directly into the Gemini UI, allowing you to push conversations to Notion, Google Docs, or download them as Word/PDF files with a single click.

How it works: > Under the hood, it parses the chat DOM to extract the raw markdown and context. For local exports (PDF/Word), the file generation is handled entirely client-side. For cloud exports (Notion/Google Docs), it connects to their respective APIs, ensuring the markdown syntax is properly converted into Notion blocks or Google Docs formatting.

A note on privacy: > Since chat history can contain sensitive data, privacy was a priority. The extension does not collect, track, or route your conversations through any middleman servers. Everything is processed locally in your browser, and API keys (like your Notion integration token) are stored strictly in your local browser storage.

I'd love for you to try it out. I’m currently looking for feedback on how it handles complex code snippets or edge-case formatting. Happy to answer any technical questions about building it or the DOM parsing process!
by jackyli02 | 2026-03-11 03:13:34+00:00
Essentially the same thing Elon has been saying for years. Physical AI plays to a real Chinese advantage: manufacturing density. China doesn't just have cheap labor, it has the iteration speed that comes from having chip fabs, robotics assemblers, and end-user factories within the same industrial corridor. Compared to foundation models, the gap in embodied AI narrows fast when the bottleneck shifts from compute to real-world manufacturing.
by dang | 2026-03-11 03:14:13+00:00
We've banned this account for egregiously breaking the site guidelines. You can't post like this here, no matter how wrong other users are or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567569

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541957

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540675

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388711

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by zarzavat | 2026-03-11 03:15:47+00:00
There's a real disconnect. I was talking to a junior developer and they were telling me how Claude is so much smarter than them and they feel inferior.

I couldn't relate. From my perspective as a senior, Claude is dumb as bricks. Though useful nonetheless.

I believe that if you're substantially below Claude's level then you just trust whatever it says. The only variables you control are how much money you spend, how much markdown you can produce, and how you arrange your agents.

But I don't understand how the juniors on HN have so much money to throw at this technology.
by dang | 2026-03-11 03:16:15+00:00
Can you mention some specific examples? If you don't want to post them here, emailing hn@ycombinator.com would be good.

We recently promoted the no-generated-comments rule from case law [1] to the site guidelines [2], and we're being pretty active about banning accounts that break it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
by akhrail1996 | 2026-03-11 03:18:20+00:00
Honestly I think the "same AI checking same AI" concern is a bit overstated at this point. If the agents don't share context - separate conversations, no common memory - Opus is good enough that they don't really fall into the same patterns. At least at the micro level, like individual functions and logic. Maybe at the macro/architectural level there's still something there but in practice I'm not seeing it much anymore.
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-03-11 03:18:20+00:00
Congratulations to the dev, a 30,000 line PR for a language compiler (and a very much non-trivial compiler) is a feat to be proud of. But a change of this magnitude is a serious bit of development and gave me pause.

I understand both of the following:

1. Language development is a tricky subject, in general, but especially for those languages looking for wide adoption or hoping for ‘generational’ (program life span being measured in multiple decades) usage in infrastructure, etc.

2) Zig is a young-ish language, not at 1.0, and explicitly evolving as of the posting of TFA

With those points as caveats, I find the casualness of the following (from the codeburg post linked on the devlog) surprising:

‘’’This branch changes the semantics of "uninstantiable" types (things like noreturn, that is, types which contain no values). I wasn't originally planning to do this here, but matching the semantics of master was pretty difficult because the existing semantics don't make much sense.’’’

I don’t know Zig’s particular strategy and terminology for language and compiler development, but I would assume the usage of ‘branch’ here implies this is not a change fully/formally adopted by the language but more a fully implemented proposal. Even if it is just a proposal for change, the large scale of the rewrite and clear implication that the author expects it to be well received strikes me as uncommon confidence. Changing the semantics of a language with any production use is nearly definitionally MAJOR, to just blithely state your PR changes semantics and proceed with no deep discussion (which could have previously happened, IDK) or serious justification or statements concerning the limited effect of those changes is not something I have experienced watching the evolution (or de-evolution) of other less ‘serious’ languages.

Is this a “this dev” thing, a Zig thing, or am just out of touch with modern language (or even larger scale development) projects?

Also, not particularly important or really significant to the overall thrust of TFA, but the author uses the phrase “modern Zig”, which given Zig’s age and seeming rate of change currently struck me as a very funny turn of phrase.
by nirui | 2026-03-11 03:19:03+00:00
>> then why do we also invented the career of professional police force?

> Historically? To protect the property of the rich from the people they stole it from.

Which one is worse? Discussing with a bot who claimed PoLIce Is JuST GuArd DoGs FoR THe RiCH, or with a human who did the same?

There are ifs and context in the real world. Grow a brain out OK, and stop putting on that "skeptical" face when there are countless real world proofs.
by interpol_p | 2026-03-11 03:19:11+00:00
The example given in the article is acceptance criteria for a login/password entry flow. This is fairly easy to spec-out in terms of AC and TDD.

I have been asking these tools to build other types of projects where it (seems?) much more difficult to verify without a human-in-the-loop. One example is I had asked Codex to build a simulation of the solar system using a Metal renderer. It produced a fun working app quickly.

I asked it to add bloom. It looped for hours, failing. I would have to manually verify — because even from images — it couldn't tell what was right and wrong. It only got it right when I pasted a how-to-write-a-bloom-shader-pass-in-Metal blog post into it.

Then I noticed that all of the planet textures were rotating oddly every time I orbited the camera. Codex got stuck in another endless loop of "Oh, the lookAt matrix is in column major, let me fix that <proceeds to break everything>." or focusing (incorrectly) on UV coordinates and shader code. Eventually Codex told me what I was seeing "was expected" and that I just "felt like it was wrong."

When I finally realised the problem was that Codex had drawn the planets with back-facing polygons only, I reported the error, to which Codex replied, "Good hypothesis, but no"

I insisted that it change the culling configuration and then it worked fine.

These tools are fun, and great time savers (at times), but take them out of their comfort zone and it becomes real hard to steer them without domain knowledge and close human review.
by Zambyte | 2026-03-11 03:19:28+00:00
It said it was able to correlate where you live (I don't think it said anything about the tone, unless it said more than you included in the article). At best, it's really just using that for justification though. The model can't feasibly search the web for your writing style. That correlation had to be trained in.

My point is that, if you created a new account and actively used it for a while, I don't think the current version of Grok (never trained on your new account) would ever be able to make that association. It's certainly interesting that it could do it, I just want to drill into the how.
by nextaccountic | 2026-03-11 03:19:48+00:00
I don't know about your country, but in my country whenever there is a power outage there's news where some 10000 or 80000 chickens died because of the power outage

https://www.facebook.com/nhnoticiasmanoelribas/posts/queda-d... 5 days ago, 20k chickens dead in just twenty minutes without power

But power outages don't cause chicken death, at least not directly. The most immediate cause of death is dehydration. And it happens because chickens are kept in an environment so confined, so absurdly cramped, that without giant fans blowing 24/7 they overhead, dehydrate, and very quickly die. (in some cases, the beaks are clamped, too, so they don't peck each other to death)

That's what it takes to have cheap chicken and cheap eggs. That's what happens when we are so detached from animal food production that it becomes a commodity. It doesn't matter how much the animal suffer, as long as the consumer can ignore it safely when they eat. And the reason this can happen is that animal well being isn't worth much

Btw this environment doesn't look a lot like the natural environments the chickens and other dinosaurs evolved in
by ziofill | 2026-03-11 03:19:53+00:00
> Writing acceptance criteria is harder than writing a prompt, because it forces you to think through edge cases before you've seen them. Engineers resist it for the same reason they resisted TDD, because it feels slower at the start.

This resonates with my experience, and it is also a refreshing honest take: pushing back on heavy upfront process isn't laziness, it's just the natural engineers drive to build things and feel productive.
by dilawar | 2026-03-11 03:20:39+00:00
"At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way-- and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay."

This explain quite a lot actually!
by godsinhisheaven | 2026-03-11 03:20:40+00:00
I liked the article, but I feel like this article, and many artices like, only hint or brush at truly one of the largest issues for conservatives: the numbers game. Strong majorities of professors, in pretty much every college in the United States, range from liberal to marxist. There just aren't enough conservative professors to go around! How many conservative professors even exist in the United States? 500? Maybe? Seems high honestly. (And of those, perhaps a dozen are actually honest to goodness God-fearing Conservatives, and not just libertarians.) So to me, it's no wonder that universities are such a target, pretty much everyone who staffs them, everyone who teaches at them, and everyone who attends them, is liberal.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-03-11 03:20:59+00:00
It’s funny how you basically explain precisely why the war in Ukraine has gone on so long but refuse to recognize it.

As Russia’s economy has continually reshaped over the last 4 years there has been increasingly a domestic demand for war. You point out all the evidence yourself:

> Yes it has grown through conscription, has been equipped by foreign and domestic supplies, has made some brilliant advances in tech and tactics...

Russia (well its oligarchs and rulers) has increasingly benefited from perpetual war. Yes, soon it will need to switch positions to expansion to maintain its economy, but this situation in Iran presents a perfect opportunity if things play it Russia’s interests.

You also will find that if you paid any attention to European politics over the years this is a serious topic to all leaders there.

But I don’t mind if you’re not convinced, I had similar people on hacker news unconvinced Russia could sustain operations in Russia longer than a few months because they were doing so poorly… 4 years ago.
by rramadass | 2026-03-11 03:21:12+00:00
Yeah, i knew of the video. That somewhat proves the point i make here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331352

People only focus on that phrase since it makes a nice "talking point" and ignore all the other interesting things from Kay's talk. For example; i never knew that most of Euler's proofs were wrong w.r.t. rigorous approach as defined today!
by smj-edison | 2026-03-11 03:21:16+00:00
mlugg is one of the core contributors of Zig, and is a member of the Zig foundation iirc. They've been wanting to work on dependency resolution for a while now, so I'm really glad they're cleaning this up (I've been bitten before by unclear circular dependency errors). There's not a formal language spec yet, since it's moving pretty fast, but tbh I don't see the need for a standard, since that's not one of their goals currently.
by Zastinian | 2026-03-11 03:21:20+00:00
TECTO (Transport Encrypted Compact Token Object) is a lightweight token protocol
that fully encrypts token contents using XChaCha20-Poly1305, unlike JWTs which
are only base64-encoded and readable by anyone.

Key features:
- Fully encrypted payloads (mathematically unreadable without the 32-byte secret)
- Authenticated encryption with Poly1305 integrity tags
- Per-token cryptographic nonces generated from CSPRNG
- Generic error messages to prevent oracle attacks
- Key rotation support with multiple keystore backends (Memory, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MariaDB)
- Replay protection via jti claims
- Zero-copy plaintext cleanup

GitHub: github.com/Zastinian/tecto
by sanchitmonga22 | 2026-03-11 03:22:29+00:00
Fair point. The install script shouldn't silently install Homebrew without explicit consent. We'll update it to detect when Homebrew is missing and prompt the user before installing anything beyond RCLI itself.

In the meantime, if you already have Homebrew, you can install directly:

brew tap RunanywhereAI/rcli https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/RCLI.git
brew install rcli
rcli setup

Or build from source if you prefer not to use either method: https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/RCLI#build-from-source
by antegamisou | 2026-03-11 03:23:54+00:00
Ragebait comment for sure, but not everyone lives in some bubble where $14/months is spare change and anyway the fact that even a philosophical wall of text on why paying for something so fundamental like not getting spammed with retarded unksippable ads on a 20 second video, (or even worse getting one in the middle of a concerto movement) would not convince, makes further engagement unworthy. It's pretty appalling to note that not a single comment so far brought up the affordability issue.
by sanchitmonga22 | 2026-03-11 03:23:56+00:00
RCLI includes local RAG out of the box. You can ingest PDFs, DOCX, and plain text, then query by voice or text:

rcli rag ingest ~/Documents/notes
rcli ask --rag ~/Library/RCLI/index "summarize the project plan"

It uses hybrid retrieval (vector + BM25 with Reciprocal Rank Fusion) and runs at ~4ms over 5K+ chunks. Embeddings are computed locally with Snowflake Arctic, so nothing leaves you're machine.
by monocasa | 2026-03-11 03:24:40+00:00
Not according to Ex parte Garland (1866).

> 9. The power of pardon conferred by the Constitution upon the President is unlimited except in cases of impeachment. It extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment. The power is not subject to legislative control.

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...

Basically you can't pardon acts that haven't happened yet, but you can pardon before any legal action has been taken on prior acts.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-11 03:25:10+00:00
What you think is obvious is not obvious. Please make your argument instead of insulting people.

I could guess at arguments but the ones that come to mind are pretty weak. For copyrightability, if half the lines in a FLOSS project are public domain, the license will still be effective. For infringement when training, that's not really the user's problem. For LLMs being proprietary, that doesn't infect the output, also many LLMs are not proprietary. For danger, there's not a lot of that specifically in the code-making context, and I don't see how danger makes something anti-FLOSS either.
by wavemode | 2026-03-11 03:25:17+00:00
It's not clear what precisely you're asking.

"Does world suffering actually cause people to feel sad?" Yes, of course it does. (If it doesn't for you, you're not necessarily a bad person or something, but you have perhaps compartmentalized it better than some people do.)

"Does the sadness people feel from world suffering cause them to take meaningful action?" Yes as well, though it's not as common. Some people who do feel sad about these things aren't necessarily in a position to do anything about it. (For example, I would ask as a counter - how would someone who feels "genuine concern", as you put it, end the suffering in Iran? What actions would you expect to see out of such a person?)