MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bri3d | 2026-03-03 16:59:10+00:00
I'm very familiar with CFG flattening and other obfuscation techniques, thanks.

That's interesting; I suppose I must not have touched the parts of the platform that use them, and I've touched a fair amount of the platform.

Again, I _have_ seen plenty of obfuscation techniques in DRM/FairPlay, but otherwise I have not, and again, I am entirely sure the ANE toolchain from CoreML down through Espresso and into AppleNeuralEngine.framework definitely does not employ anything I would call an obfuscation technique.

> Ever wonder why Apple stopped shipping system frameworks as individual .dylib files?

If the dyld cache was supposed to be an obfuscation tool, shipping the tools for it as open source was certainly... a choice. Also, the reason early tools couldn't preserve selector information was selector uniqueing, which was an obvious and dramatic performance improvement and explained fairly openly, for example - http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2009/09/01/objc_e... . If it was intended to be an obfuscation tool, again it was sort of a baffling one, and I just don't think this is true - everything about the dyld cache looks like a performance optimization and nothing about it looks like an obfuscator.
by graemefawcett | 2026-03-03 16:59:10+00:00
This is exactly how problem solving works, regardless of the substrate of cognition.

Start with "all your questions contained in randomness" -> the unconstrained solution space.

The game is whether or not you can inject enough constraints to collapse the solution space to one that can be solved before your TTL expires. In software, that's generally handled by writing efficient algorithms. With LLMs, apparently the SOTA for this is just "more data centers, 6 months, keep pulling the handle until the right tokens fall out".

Intelligence is just knowing which constraints to apply and in what order such that the search space is effectively partitioned, same thing the "reasoning" traces do. Same thing thermostats, bacteria, sorting algorithms and rivers do, given enough timescale. You can do the same thing with effective prompting.

The LLM has no grounding, no experience and no context other than which is provided to it. You either need to build that or be that in order for the LLM to work effectively. Yes, the answers for all your questions are contained. No, it's not randomness. It's probability and that can be navigated if you know how
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by scoofy | 2026-03-03 16:59:20+00:00
I always have to remind my mom that she legitimately thought Obama might be the Antichrist… I honestly think the entire premise of the “End of the World” religious beliefs is just pattern recognition instincts being pointed at something entirely random.

It looks very, very silly in hindsight, but natural selection actually selects for a nontrivial predisposition to make type 1 errors, so we should expect them to be very common.
by mcv | 2026-03-03 16:59:23+00:00
Sounds like a much better use of LLMs: use them to replace jobs that should never have existed in the first place. Use them to replace parasitic systems.

Even so, you should never trust their calculations. Don't have it file your taxes, have it explain to you how to file your taxes. Use it to dig through all the bureaucratic forms and let it help you find your way. Don't let it do it for you, because you have no idea where it might end up, and filing your taxes incorrectly can have severe consequences.
by latexr | 2026-03-03 16:59:28+00:00
Safari’s extension model could be really good by now, had they not stopped putting effort into it. You are able to define which extensions have access to which websites, and if that applies always or only in non-Private¹ mode. You can also easily allow an extension access for one day on one website.

But there are thing a couple of things I find subpar:

You can’t import/export a list of website permissions. For a couple of extensions I’d like to say “you have access to every website, except this narrow list” and be able to edit that list and share it between extensions.

On iOS, the only way to explicitly deny website access in an extension’s permissions is to first allow it, then change the configuration to deny. This is bonkers. As per the example above, to allow an extension access to everything except a narrow list of websites is to first allow access to all of them.

Finally, these permissions do not sync between macOS and iOS, which increases the maintenance burden.

¹ Private being the equivalent to incognito.
by hedora | 2026-03-03 16:59:44+00:00
Pick one:

- Read-only access to cross-tab web site content

- Ability to modify web site content

- Ability to access the network

They can always "access the network" in that the extension developer can push static updates for things like ad block lists or security updates.

It might be possible to have "read only" cross-tab access include automation APIs like keyboard + mouse, with user prompting to prevent data exfiltration.
by charankkshetty | 2026-03-03 17:00:04+00:00
Part of CodeAnt team - one thing we appreciated in this process was how quickly the maintainer responded.

In security disclosures, the technical bug is one thing. The responsiveness and clarity of communication are just as important. Shipping coordinated fixes across multiple major versions in two days is not trivial.

Regardless of the bug itself, the handling here is worth highlighting.
by 1shooner | 2026-03-03 17:00:17+00:00
First of all, if you don't practice any tracking limitation, you're almost certainly giving additional parties access (directly or otherwise) access to your personal information. This is marketing data brokerage, this is the whole ballgame.

To your point about the actual harm, I've come to see it as a kind of ecological problem. Wasting energy and sending more trash to a landfill doesn't harm me individually, at least not immediately. But it does harm in aggregate, and it is probably directly related to other general harms, like overall health outcomes, efficiency, energy costs, etc.

No, accepting cookies by itself may not do much to me, but the broader surveillance and attention economy that relies on such apathy certainly has.
by waffletower | 2026-03-03 17:00:20+00:00
The costs of interactive AI have interesting effects as the author points out. Much like the lack of variety in music models, 3D asset generation via AI has a long way to go, particularly as studios have no incentive to share their data. But I think AI assistance could at least make some marginal improvements. Take a procedural game like No Man's Sky. There are billions of possible worlds in the game. But, presumably because of team size and/or agile philosophy, they drop these rigid, nearly identical, items and buildings throughout those billions of planets. AI could at least conveniently empower some added incremental complexity (via Claude Code etc.) to their existing asset generation, which lends more believability to these planets. If studios were willing to partner and share data, incredible world generation models, which could be used exclusively as asset generators rather than real time world renderers initially, could be built and dramatically empower designers.
Show HN: Mcptube – Turn YouTube videos into AI-queryable MCP servers
by belai | 2026-03-03 17:00:34+00:00
I built mcptube because I spend a lot of time learning from Stanford and Berkeley lectures on YouTube, and I wanted a better way to interact with the content.

mcptube ingests YouTube videos (transcripts, metadata, frames) and exposes them through both a CLI and an MCP server. You can semantically search transcripts, extract frames at any moment, ask questions about videos, and generate illustrated reports.

It works with Claude Code, VS Code Copilot, Claude Desktop, and any MCP-compatible client. The MCP tools are passthrough — the connected LLM does the heavy lifting, zero API key needed on the server. The CLI also supports BYOK for more deterministic results.

Tech stack: FastMCP, yt-dlp, ChromaDB, LiteLLM, SQLite.

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pipx install mcptube --python python3.12
by kartika848484 | 2026-03-03 17:00:34+00:00
agree to this if their target market is only developers

but over 90% of their users are non technical so removing that approval step is the correct move in a product sense.

users install cowork for the magic, 10gb is negligible. these days even steam games are 50gb+ and you care more about the gameplay than the disk space.

hn should really touch more grass.
by jascha_eng | 2026-03-03 17:01:08+00:00
Yeh there is a skyrim mod that lets you talk to any NPC and basically queries an LLM behind the scenes even with a screenshot of the scene so it can react to your clothing etc. if you insult it the LLM understands it dynamically and makes the NPC attack.

I mean thats not a new game concept but I definitely think that levels up the experience.
by tastyface | 2026-03-03 17:01:18+00:00
Funny how this logic doesn't seem to apply to Republicans. They run the absolute worst candidate I've seen in my entire life -- in any democratic country -- and they get everything they want. At no point did they feel the need to compromise in any way or adjust their positions any closer to the left. Apparently pounding the table until you win is a viable political strategy in America. Or maybe timing the political pendulum with economic swings simply lets you run any candidate you want.

No offense, but I'm not sure you have much strategic sense here either. Your take on how politics works in the US strikes me as utterly naive.
by skywhopper | 2026-03-03 17:01:26+00:00
This is a terrible idea. You shouldn’t trust LLMs to handle this level of complexity well for anything you can’t verify yourself. And far from saving money, it certainly isn’t “free” to use Claude at this scale. There’s no way this cost less than using TurboTax.

If you have simple taxes, you can probably figure out how to file yourself, as it’s mostly just copying from a box on one form into another. If you have complex taxes, you should have a CPA prepare them.
Show HN: NoteCat – Record, Transcribe, Summarize Discord Voice Channels
by h4rris | 2026-03-03 17:01:46+00:00
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When I saw the Parakeet ASR model from NVIDIA, I realized there was an opportunity to operate a Discord bot at scale offering near-realtime transcription. So we built it! Let us know what you think.

Paired with a web UI for viewing transcripts, it's surprisingly fun to see summaries of our gaming sessions and of course it's been useful for meetings.
by jedberg | 2026-03-03 17:01:55+00:00
Not sure I agree (and I made the jump from IC to management).

Look at the parallel tracks. A VP is the same level as a distinguished engineer, roughly. To be a VP, you have to be a great manager and got lucky with a few big projects.

To be a DE, you basically have to be famous within the industry. And when I look at a large tech company, while there aren't a lot of VPs, usually the number of DEs is countable on one hand (or maybe two).

They are very different skill sets. You shouldn't choose your role based on money or career progression, you should choose based on what you love to do, because especially in this world of AI replacing all the "boring" work, the only people who will be left will be the ones passionate about what they are doing.
by roywiggins | 2026-03-03 17:02:15+00:00
Turing Machines don't need access to the entire tape all at once, it's sufficient for it to see one cell at a time. You could certainly equip an LLM with a "read cell", "write cell", and "move left/right" tool and now you have a Turing machine. It doesn't need to keep any of its previous writes or reads in context. A sliding context window is more than capacious enough for this.
by SamuelAdams | 2026-03-03 17:02:36+00:00
FreeTaxUsa [1] exists and is much cheaper than Turbo Tax.

That being said, this is not free - you are paying for Claude to do this in both tokens and data. I personally think it is insane to hand over your private financial data to an AI company, but I also recognize not everyone has the same concerns.

[1]: https://www.freetaxusa.com/
by mijoharas | 2026-03-03 17:02:48+00:00
I'm the same, (well, mid thirties, and over a decade) but I always click accept for cookies.

The only times I've stopped, or tried to deny it is with the recent thing I've seen from some sites that say "accept cookies or pay money". I think that is scummy, and against what these regulations require, so I'll usually just close the site in that case.

Oh and to address the point from the main article, I think I'm unfortunately beholden to more companies, but would strongly prefer to not verify my identity, because I have little to no trust in the companies to safeguard my actual personal data. (rather than inferred cookie tracking data, which they can have imo).
by bitexploder | 2026-03-03 17:03:09+00:00
I think you can look at it dispassionately from a systems perspective. There is not /really/ a quantifiable threshold for capital I Intelligence. But there is a pretty well agreed set of properties for biological intelligence. As humans, we have conveniently made those properties match things only we have. But you can still mechanistically separate out the various parts of our brain, what they do, and how they interact and we actually have a pretty good understanding of that.

You can also then compare that mapping of the human brain to other biological brains and start to figure out the delta and which of those things in the delta create something most people would consider intelligence. You can then do that same mapping to an LLM or any other AI construct that purports intelligence. It certainly will never be a biological intelligence in its current statistical model form. But could it be an Intelligence. Maybe.

I don't think, if you are grounded, AI did anything to your philosophical mapping of the mind. In fact, it is pretty easy to do this mapping if you take some time and are honest. If you buy into the narratives constructed around the output of an LLM then you are not, by definition, being very grounded.

The other thing is, human intelligence is the only real intelligence we know about. Intelligence is defined by thought and limited by our thought and language. It provides the upper bounds of what we can ever express in its current form. So, yes, we do have a tendency to stamp a narrative of human intelligence onto any other intelligence but that is just surface level. We de decompose it to the limits of our language and categorization capabilities therein.
by jrussino | 2026-03-03 17:03:23+00:00
I hear this rebuttal a lot; here's why it doesn't work for me:

I'm the exact same age as Zuckerberg. When I first read this quote, it struck me as a really gross mindset and a point of view that I could neither relate to nor have sympathy for. I would not have said (or thought) those things when I was his age. Fundamentally, this is a demonstration of poor character.

Now, people do grow and change. We've all said or done things that we regret. Life can be really hard, at times, for most of us, and more often than not young arrogant guys eventually learn some humility and grace and empathy after they confront the real world and experience the inevitable ups and downs of life.

But Zuckerberg had no such experience. His life during and after the time when he said this was one of accelerating material success and validation. The scam he was so heartlessly bragging about in that statement actually worked, and he became one of the richest men in the world. So my expectation of the likelihood that he matured away from this mindset is much lower than it would be for someone like you or me.

(And, as others have said in this thread, there's ample evidence from his subsequent decisions to support this)
by delfinom | 2026-03-03 17:03:27+00:00
>However, the fact that the aluminum gets hot during prolonged use means that it is acting as a heat sink and cooling the CPU compared to a body made of plastic. Thermodynamics, it's the law!

Not really. It's picking up "stray heat" that is radiated from the copper heatsink inside and conduction from the air in the fan system. It does not improve cooling the processor in any kind of manner. If it were plastic, the plastic would get warm too. Maybe it'll be a 2 degree difference.

Direct contact or bust.
by zamadatix | 2026-03-03 17:04:21+00:00
The Discord portion of the "Microslop" story was just one of many knock-on effects of the outrage about Microsoft in general lately. E.g. this extension was last updated a month ago and there were discussions and articles before that about "Microslop" catching on in social media as early as a month before that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490908

It doesn't help Nadella has been pressing to move things beyond calling AI output "slop" either.
by mkmccjr | 2026-03-03 17:05:09+00:00
These are both great points. When I wrote the post, it didn't occur to me that I could inspect the emitted bytecode. In hindsight, including that would have made the explanation much stronger.

To be honest, this is my first time really digging into performance on a JIT runtime. I learned to code as an astronomy researcher and the training I received from my mentors was "write Python when possible, and C or Fortran when it needs to be fast." Therefore I spent a lot of time writing C, and I didn't appreciate how aggressively something like HotSpot can optimize.

(I don't mean that as a dig against Python; it's simply the mental model I absorbed.)

The realization that I can have really good performance in a high-level language like Clojure is revolutionary for me.

I'm learning a ton from the comments here. Thanks to everyone sharing their knowledge -- it's genuinely appreciated.
by joshuakcockrell | 2026-03-03 17:05:29+00:00
> Maybe there are some cool AI-centric games that I’m overlooking?

The enemy locomotion in Arc Raiders was almost entirely created with reinforcement learning. It’s a very impressive modern example (the game has been out for less than 6 months).

Here’s the documentary explaining how the RL locomotion works. Skip to 10 min 36 sec. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRlhpzc7ImA&t=636s
by neonnoodle | 2026-03-03 17:05:31+00:00
> You know what’s fun? A stick. A stick is fun. A ball is fun.

Having a body is fun. I think that's one reason why VR has such quick hype/death cycles--it doesn't do a good enough job of fooling your body. Conventional games induce more like a dissociative or hypnotic state where you temporarily forget your body. That can range from very, VERY abstract (like Pong or Pac-Man, or BABA IS YOU), or built on an attempt to simulate the real world as convincingly as possible through high-end graphics and physics engines.

One of the things that made Untitled Goose Game so much fun for me was that playing it made me _feel like a goose_. It made me want to run around doing goose things for goose reasons. You can spread your wings and honk, regardless of whether it advances the game. A similar game that came out called Little Kitty, Big City offers the promise of the same idea but as a cat instead of a goose. I tried that game but never felt like a cat playing it, instead it felt like being a person controlling a cat. These are such subtle shades of gameplay and storytelling that I have a hard time imagining LLMs being useful in the design.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-03-03 17:05:35+00:00
I think this is the intended reference, since Python made that common phrase popular in programming.

TBH, I haven't seen "batteries included" referencing actual batteries in the package for many years, I suspect because rechargeable batteries are usually expected these days. I've seen remotes with batteries included, but the packages don't botheer to mention that fact.
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by zacksiri | 2026-03-03 17:07:30+00:00
This is going to be a fun one to play with. I've been conducting tests on various models for my agentic workflow.

I was just wishing they would make a new flash-lite model, these things are so fast. Unfortunately 2.5-flash and therefore 2.5-flash-lite failed some of my agentic workflows.

If 3.1-flash-lite can do the job, this solves basically all latency issues for agentic workflows.

I publish my benchmarks here in case anyone is interested:

https://upmaru.com/llm-tests/simple-tama-agentic-workflow-q1...

P.S: The pricing bump is quiet significant, but still stomachable if it performs well. It is significant though.
by jerf | 2026-03-03 17:07:32+00:00
"This suggests to me that there is a wider gap between the computables and the reals"

I didn't say "wider". I said more subtle. It doesn't take much mathematical intuition and training to understand the rationals versus the reals. Understanding the computables versus the reals is a lot more tricky and takes a lot more thought. The simple arguments that show the difference between the rationals and the reals require a lot of very careful adjustment if you want to translate them to the computables versus the reals.

I agree the gap up to the reals is still bigger than rational -> computable. The reals are weird. This is a meme but there's a lot of truth in it: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....