MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exmadscientist | 2026-03-11 16:06:01+00:00
This line:

> This amazing snippet of code was languishing in the docs of dead software, which in turn the original formula was scrawled away in a math textbook from the 60s.

was kind of telling for me. I have some background in this sort of work (and long ago concluded that there was pretty much nothing you can do to improve on existing code, unless either you have some new specific hardware or domain constraint, or you're just looking for something quick-n-dirty for whatever reason, or are willing to invest research-paper levels of time and effort) and to think that someone would call Abramowitz and Stegun "a math textbook from the 60s" is kind of funny. It's got a similar level of importance to its field as Knuth's Art of Computer Programming or stuff like that. It's not an obscure text. Yeah, you might forget what all is in it if you don't use it often, but you'd go "oh, of course that would be in there, wouldn't it...."
by Heliodex | 2026-03-11 16:06:17+00:00
The main reason this argument exists is because of Roblox being difficult to compare with other platforms. For the most widely used platforms/engines/storefronts in the industry, the main payout model is that the percentage (for storefronts ~30%, smaller for smaller platforms, for commercial game engines ~5%) or fixed/variable fee (per month or per seat in the client organisation) is taken as payment for using the distribution platform or a royalty for using the game engine. The remaining quantity (60-80%) is given to the developer of the game.

To make it clear, this is not profit! Any money earned after paying the storefront and the engine still needs to be spent on server hosting & maintenance, as well as moderation & legal compliance if a game is popular enough to need it. There also is a risk that the expenses taken away in this area could outweigh the revenue and the developers end up with a loss. Unless all expenses are negligible, the resulting revenue isn't just for the developer to keep.

Roblox pays for an experience's server hosting, maintenance, moderation, legal compliance, discoverability, engine development, app store fees, etc. As results, there is no risk of such loss, though Roblox's operating costs are much higher than a typical game storefront. I would consider these costs as developer operational costs. As far as I can tell, the key difference is the fact that one party is having their costs paid by another rather than one party giving another the money to pay for it themselves. This, to me, is an arbitrary distinction.

Other platforms don't have clauses that need to differentiate between money given to developers as profit and money given to developers as infrastructure/upkeep costs because these other platforms don't deal in the kind of broad integration that Roblox has from the storefront to the datacentres. In almost all cases, the final payout a developer gets from Roblox is pure profit.

The services Roblox is selling might not be using a standard industry pricing model, though it's still very clear and not at all deceptive what the product is the developers are paying for and what the profit share is after operating expenses have been paid for on their behalf.
by patchnull | 2026-03-11 16:06:24+00:00
The most underappreciated design decision in Temporal is making everything immutable. Half the Date bugs I have debugged over the years come from someone calling setMonth() or setHours() on a Date object that was shared across call sites. The other half come from the implicit local timezone conversion in the Date constructor. Temporal fixes both by forcing you to be explicit about timezones through ZonedDateTime vs PlainDate, and by returning new objects instead of mutating. Nine years is a long time, but given how many TC39 proposals ship half-baked and then need follow-up proposals to fix the gaps, I would rather they got this one right.
by JumpingVPN2027 | 2026-03-11 16:06:28+00:00
This started as a small experiment while exploring how session identity could be separated from transport stability.

The current repo is just a research prototype, but the goal is to explore things like:
- transport migration
- relay switching
- session continuity under network volatility

Happy to hear criticism or ideas from people who have worked on VPN protocols or transport layers.
by patchnull | 2026-03-11 16:06:51+00:00
The plan-vs-implementation diff for code review is a neat idea I had not considered. That essentially gives reviewers a spec to review against instead of just reading code in isolation and guessing at intent. Curious if you have ever had the agent update the plan doc mid-implementation when it discovers the original approach will not work, or do you treat the plan as immutable once written?
by pc86 | 2026-03-11 16:07:00+00:00
Until there are severe personal penalties for an elected official violating their oath of office with regard to unconstitutional laws, they will simply ignore it. This is doubly true in formerly purple but now uniparty states like Washington where the Supreme Court is completely beholden to the party elite.

We have the same problem at the federal level in part because SCOTUS will not or cannot provide input or warnings on proposed legislation. How many federal laws would simply not exist if SCOTUS got a veto before it went to the President for signing?
by lukas099 | 2026-03-11 16:07:01+00:00
On the contrary, the frugal option is quite often the cooler, more fulfilling one:

- riding a bike instead of driving (makes you fitter, hotter, increases mating potential)

- cooking food (impressive to friends and potential mates, makes you and your family healthier)

- building furniture, tech stuff, whatever (your stuff is customized to your own tastes and situation)

- playing music in a band (get paid for a Saturday night out instead of paying for it)

- helping friends and asking friends for help in return (builds social ties)
by torginus | 2026-03-11 16:07:25+00:00
AI will be the straw that breaks the camel's back on copyright Imo. We've known since 90s Napster music piracy that copyright is broken in the information age, and its just a flimsy set of unprincipled edicts meant to protect those with power and money.

Nowadays AI companies have more money and lawyers than most movie studios, so

I predict that there will be a billion dollar company/ies (probably exist even now in stealth mode), whose business model will be to slopfork existing software - after all AI has proven to be very capable at that.

With trillions of dollars both supporting and opposing this business model, something will probably change in some way wrt copyright, and hopefully in a way that's an improvement to the average person.
by tialaramex | 2026-03-11 16:07:31+00:00
Ghislaine's father (Robert Maxwell) was also a terrible person but for different reasons.

Robert Maxwell was a crook, he used pension funds (supposed to be ring-fenced for the benefit of the pensioners) to prop up his companies, so, after his slightly mysterious death it was discovered that basically there's no money to pay people who've been assured of a pension when they retire.

He was also very litigious. If you said he was a crook when he was alive you'd better hope you can prove it and that you have funding to stay in the fight until you do. So this means the sort of people who call out crooks were especially unhappy about Robert Maxwell because he was a crook and he might sue you if you pointed it out.
by throwaway27448 | 2026-03-11 16:08:00+00:00
I don't know what a TUI is (i'm guessing "terminal ui" as if the term CLI doesn't exist lmao) but yea, they could have put effort into their product and not forced people to use their atrocious ncurses interface which is like the worst of all worlds: text interface without the benefit of the shell, zero accessibility.
by UncleEntity | 2026-03-11 16:08:04+00:00
I find it as an interesting experiment to find the limits of what they can do.

Like, I've had it build a full APL interpreter, half an optimizer, started on a copy-and-patch JIT compiler and it completely fails at "read the spec and make sure the test suite ensures compliance". Plus some additional artifacts which are genuinely useful on their own as I now have an Automated Yak Shaver™ which is where most of my projects ended up dying as the yaks are a fun bunch to play with.
by OutOfHere | 2026-03-11 16:08:22+00:00
Please. I shouldn't have to ask the taxi driver to use the fastest route. They are supposed to do that on their own. Instead, they intentionally use a slower route, and sometimes even intentionally miss turns. All this is true in Europe. Moreover, at least in the US, sometimes their behavior can be downright rude, hateful, and hostile.

You seem altogether blind to what you're missing. Uber/Lyft rates are substantially lower than of taxis, and they never intentionally take a long route, as the rate is almost always pre-decided. Their drivers too earn for a living.

Whenever competition is artificially suppressed, you're getting scammed as a default.
by keybored | 2026-03-11 16:08:39+00:00
> This is what I have been saying the whole time. Go create value for others and don’t worry about the returns.

No. This is the time to abandon naive dogooderism.

The capitalists said that they don’t need labor any more. Fine. Prepare for that potentiality by not giving jack shit away for free. That includes permissively licensed open source software. But it goes way beyond that.

In the long term maybe we can get rid of the labor-employee relation so that people who do honest work don’t have to worry about their work becoming automated. Let the ones who engage in dishonest pseudo-work (capital accumulation) worry about their pseudo-productivity becoming null and void.
by tim-tday | 2026-03-11 16:08:47+00:00
Why is it surprising when the FDA allows forever chemical pesticides? The word is right there in the name. They don’t break down. That causes them to accumulate over time. The science is clear now that 3M’s decades long suppression of the science has ended, high concentrations are toxic to humans.

The fact that we still allow these to be directly sprayed on food is insanity.
by everdrive | 2026-03-11 16:09:23+00:00
I think a lot of people refuse to be clear-eyed about entitlement programs. They cost money, and some portion of the population will indefinitely be a negative tax burden. Totally ignoring the moral issues here -- this means that you end up hitting breakpoints where entitlement programs stop making sense -- but of course -- with the right population, policy, and tax base, those programs can continue indefinitely. I seldom see any real calculation or discussion of these issues with regard to specifics, but instead just seem two camps who either want more entitlements and fewer entitlements, and seem to only argue from dispositional perspectives.
by Multicomp | 2026-03-11 16:09:42+00:00
that's one of my AI shower thoughts, an improved version of https://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ s basic idea: write compressed computer data to barcode (1d), QR code (2d), multi-color barcode ('3'd), and so on.

But I keep hoping someone will finish the 'use lasers to burn 5d storage into glass chips' project silica concept and bring it to market so I can have isolinear star trek chips.
by gruez | 2026-03-11 16:10:13+00:00
>For example, pump and dump schemes have both an up part and a down part. Not hard to understand things can be manipulated in either direction to benefit a specific group.

The pump and dump analogy doesn't really work because the crash associated with the "dump" isn't something that the organizer wants, nor do they benefit from the crash. It's just an unfortunate side effect from them cashing out and the truth catching up to them. Meanwhile the OP argues the opposite, claiming that companies knowingly made bad loans to create a crash, which implies more nefarious behavior than the standard explanation of bubbles caused by irrational exuberance. The latter is a conjecture that's not supported by any empirical evidence or even anecdotes.
by TYPE_FASTER | 2026-03-11 16:10:35+00:00
> Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.

Not sure I agree. I remember e-mails being capitalized and punctuated.

It's not so much typos and laziness as much as incomplete thoughts and distraction. Communication as a whole has devolved from an e-mail with a complete thought and some details to a text or chat message without capitalization, punctuation or context.

The lack of capitalization and punctuation are just a tell to me that the sender didn't put thought into it.

I can't tell you how many times I get a chat message asking a question. I in return ask questions about context, and explain why I'm asking. Then the original sender gets annoyed and provides context. Then I ask more questions. Then the original sender gets quiet. Then I get an invite to a meeting to discuss with a wider audience.
by alkonaut | 2026-03-11 16:10:41+00:00
Doesn't it just limit property tax to 1% while saying nothing about income tax?

Is it this?

> the aggregate of all tax levies upon real and personal property by the state and all taxing districts now existing or hereafter created, shall not in any year exceed one percent of the true and fair value of such property in money

Asking an AI (I know, I know) it suggests "Courts have ruled that income is property" which to me sounds like ruling up is down. I mean everywhere that has property tax separate from income tax or only one or the other would object...

There was initiative 2111 which seems it wouldn't even be necessary if income tax was against the constitution to begin with? Also I assume this law basically nullifies initiative 2111?
by mmooss | 2026-03-11 16:10:54+00:00
This could be read as a condemnation of the text input interfaces we've designed; the users are busy and have little choice. Typing on a phone still is awful:

* Very time-consuming, especially for edits/corrections

* Lacks functionality (where is undo? the right/left arrow keys?) and other functionality is very poor (mouse/pointer control)

* Frustrating!

* Consumes attention: I can type on a full keyboard while looking elsewhere - including talking to someone else, though of course all actions suffer. On full keyboards I can type while reading something, to transcribe it, or I can just watch the output. Or just imagine using keyboard-based commands (e.g., Vim) on a smartphone.

I've tried alternative screen keyboards and they are a bit better, but it still sucks a lot.
by vardalab | 2026-03-11 16:11:02+00:00
I was building awesome things with Access 20 years ago. I loved that thing.
I wasn't even a software engineer. I was in the EE, but I needed a way to track process and it definitely outperformed. And the best thing, it didn't cost us anything. Everybody already had access, lol.
I had 40 people use it in production, manufacturing cutting edge stuff. Definitely beat spreadsheets because Access gave you gui for operators.
by riidom | 2026-03-11 16:11:19+00:00
Text is misleading too. 5-7 tok/sec is not reading speed, it's a tad slower. For me, at least, and I am an experienced reader, not especially schooled in quick-reading though.

I happened to "live" on 7.0-7.5 tok/sec output speed for a while, and it is an annoying experience. It is the equivalent of walking behind someone slightly slower on a footwalk. I dealt with this by deliberately looking away for a minute until output was "buffered" and only then started reading.

For any local setup I'd try to reach for 10 tok/sec. Sacrifice some kv cache and shove a few more layers on your GPU, it's worth it.
by clueless | 2026-03-11 16:11:47+00:00
> If you take a lot of chances, that adds up eventually and you'll have some big wins. Just do it safely, so that they don't add up to a lot of big losses, too.

And here is great contradiction in this whole essay. You can't "safely" take a lot of chances and not lose big, when in most cases to have big wins, one has to do unsafe things...

This is also why folks who have a safety net (in terms of family wealth, etc) tend to do better as entrepreneurs. Not sure this essay is helpful.
by digitalgnist | 2026-03-11 16:12:03+00:00
I used this framework in a university lecture while teaching web applications. The main reasons for choosing it were its simplicity, adherence to web standards, and how easy it is for students to grasp. When used together with Cloudflare, you also get a lot of batteries included out of the box.

Teaching the basics was also simpler than with Next. Next has evolved to include many abstractions, features, and tools, which often means the teaching quickly becomes centered around the Next way of building things.

Being able to use RSC in a simple way alongside APIs was also very nice. I’m used to using Hono and really enjoy working with it, but having the best of both worlds through the SDK was great.

And not to mention the realtime features. This was a little cumbersome to get started with, but once set up it became simple to work with.

Working with the SDK in the 0.1 version created some friction for students, but it also became part of the learning process. It was also great to be able to contribute, give feedback to the core team, and gather feedback from students that could help further develop this amazing framework.
by plucas | 2026-03-11 16:13:14+00:00
Would have been interesting to connect back to Java's own journey to improve its time APIs, with Joda-Time leading into JSR 310, released with Java 8 in 2014. Immutable representations, instants, proper timezone support etc.

Given that the article refers to the "radical proposal" to bring these features to JavaScript came in 2018, surely Java's own solutions had some influence?
by ryandrake | 2026-03-11 16:13:15+00:00
I think a more likely reason, that for some reason, a lot of people don't want to talk about, is that these "Global Elite" aren't really that smart, creative, or articulate. That they've gotten to where they are despite, not because of their communication skills. They're not being "typical unconventional / quirky entrepreneurs." They're simply C students who knew the right people.
by wincy | 2026-03-11 16:13:28+00:00
I often look at these and think they’d be fun for me to display, then think I’d prefer an actual Game Boy disassembled as a piece of wall art [0]. This sort of stuff is just so cool in my opinion.

Edit: now that I look on EBay building my own display like that would probably cost maybe $60 vs $189? Broken Game Boys are $40 on eBay, so maybe a project I could do for fun!

[0] https://xreart.com/products/xreart-game-boy-pocket
by stanford_labrat | 2026-03-11 16:13:30+00:00
the problem is two-fold in my opinion.

firstly, there are basically no legal repercussions for scientific misconduct (e.g. falsifying data, fake images, etc.). most individuals who are caught doing this get either 1) a slap on the wrist if they are too big to fail or in the employ of those who are too big to fail or 2) disbarred, banned, and lose their jobs. i don't see why you can go to jail for lying to investors about the number of users in your app but don't go to jail for lying to the public, government, and members of the scientific community about your results.

secondly, due to the over production of PhD's and limited number of professorship slots competition has become so incredibly intense that in order to even be considered for these jobs you must have Nature, Cell, and Science papers (or the field equivalent). for those desperate for the job their academic career is over either way if they caught falsifying data or if they don't get the professorship. so if your project is not going the way you want it to then...

sad state of things all around. i've personally witnessed enough misconduct that i have made the decision to leave the field entirely and go do something else.
by mzivkovicdev | 2026-03-11 16:13:52+00:00
Open-source Maven plugin for generating Spring Boot CRUD code from YAML/JSON specs.

v1.5.0 adds CI integration tests for validating generated output, Set-based
relation support via relation.uniqueItems, basePath/basepath consistency fixes,
and better GitHub Copilot/autocomplete support for spec authoring.
by d4mi3n | 2026-03-11 16:14:10+00:00
Probably a diversification play and a play to see out bigger contracts. If you've worked in the FEDRamp space, you may be aware that Wiz (last a checked, a year or so ago) is one of the few and possibly ownly player certified to operate in FedRAMP Medium/High deployments operating with the technology it does (eBPF instrumentation).
by eszed | 2026-03-11 16:14:11+00:00
The public do forget (even egregious) things. I usually find that unfortunate, rather than the reverse, and tend to distrust those who count on public amnesia to obfuscate what they do. That's not a partisan, or even political - lots of corporations operate in the same manner - point, but I think it's a pretty good heuristic for sussing out who's being dodgy and who isn't.

> This is a nation built on egg-breaking.

Is too capacious. The USA is a nation based on "these truths [that] are self-evident", and (as the federal oath puts it) protecting and defending the Constitution.

That's not to say that egg-breaking can't be great, but it a) isn't usually to be commended for its own sake, but rather when it's to some specific and important purpose, and b) the "eggs" broken are not those in the preceding paragraph.
by pc86 | 2026-03-11 16:14:12+00:00
> I'm a bit miffed that they refused to add language that prohibited lowering the threshold.

Well that's because the entire point of this is just to get a tax on the books so they can later increase the amount and lower the thresholds when all of a sudden this $4B windfall isn't enough.

This is absolutely going to be a lions-eating-faces situation a few years from now when we're talking about a 14.9% tax with a $250,000 exemption.

I'm also genuinely curious how the exemption doesn't by definition make it no longer uniform. How does any exemption at all not violate the uniformity requirement?
by potatototoo99 | 2026-03-11 16:15:42+00:00
Yes, they have kept up with inflation, and that is the problem. Manufactured goods like Lego bricks should fall in price through innovation in processes, scale, etc. What does raise higher than the average inflation should be be labor-intensive products/services. In other words, it feels much stranger today how expensive Legos are compared to 47 years ago.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-11 16:15:48+00:00
Well I dunno what to think about the argument here

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/

which I think has an element of truth to it but that it also comes out of a need people have to believe that all problems are caused by a conspiracy of a few sinister people. Like it or not, people don't believe in markets and they don't believe in government. Maybe they are right to not believe in these things but in a certain sense it becomes a self-reinforcing pose.
by topspin | 2026-03-11 16:15:52+00:00
"I don't know what bubble you are living in"

My bubble includes a number of SBCs and embedded boards from Advantech, frequently using Ryzen embedded (V1000 class) CPUs.

SBC is too vague I suppose. Past the Raspberry Pi form factor SBC class, there are many* SBC vendors with Core i5-1340P and similar CPUs today. That's a 2023 device, and just past a 2018 i5-9600k, aligning well with what I claimed.

In 2025+, such a CPU is not a desktop class device, and is sufficient only in low cost laptops (but in much lower power form.) A MacBook Neo A18, for example, is considerably better than a i5-9600k.

It would be great if Tentorrent actually yields such a product, and if, based on later performance projections that appeared in late 2025, Ascalon is actually faster, but, as I said, the world will not change much. RISC-V developers will appreciate compiling like it's 2019, but that's as far as it will go.

* LattePanda Sigma, ASROCK NUC, DFROBOT, Premio and many NAS and industrial devices.