MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brettgriffin | 2026-03-03 16:25:29+00:00
It's curious to see the rational argument against the emotional choice the author makes.

The critical piece here is the anecdotal (but true) insight that engineering orgs have been flattening over the last few years.

There are a lot of factors, but rarely discussed is the realization that senior engineers are completely capable and often willing of managing other engineers directly. The definitive text on this subject is literally called "Herding Cats" :facepalm:

In reality, senior engineers often have strong communication skills (albeit different than the styles of other management and leadership positions), very good time management, and likely can perform many of these 'soft skills' that engineering management is doing out-of-band from the teams directly responsible for shipping software.

The engineering manager role feels like it was borne out of a very west-coast ideology from another era responsible for removing agency from people based on dated stereotypes. There was a self-fulfilling prophecy wherein we said engineers aren't capable or willing to have agency to work across teams, manage resources, or communicate about career goals or blockers, and then plugged someone in the middle to take these activities away from engineers.

I'm exposed to a lot of teams with high-aptitude/techincal people that are not software engineers and almost never do you do see the equivalent of a traditional software engineering manager.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a continued and dramatic compression of these roles going forward.
by 21asdffdsa12 | 2026-03-03 16:25:34+00:00
Or you are proven wrong entirely, again and again.
And it turns out, that the legacy, unimportant and derelict of the past - culture is all decisive It turns out that only some cultures can generate high trust societies, capable to form institutions. And you prolonged suffering, by declaring that all cultures are created equal. History may write you down a monster.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-03 16:25:43+00:00
The problem is, we haven't really created a safer world. We created an illusion of safety by taking away agency.

We might be safer in terms of vulnerabilities, root exploits, RCEs, etc. but the internet is still full of malware, scams are still just as rampant. Vigilance is still very much required, but is no longer taught.

Look at all the malware available on the Play Store. The curation does nothing but create an illusion of safety.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-03-03 16:25:45+00:00
Quiet the contrary, companies layoff all roles (frontend, backend, qa, devops, even ui/ux) and handle a project to one competent dev. And asks them to deliver it in 1/3rd the time it would have took with a proper team. It's happening at places I know. This thread on reddit is 100% same: https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/s/EIksvB15tm

I can't even imagine the stress from context switching, and since people don't realize this is still work, they do this late into the night as well.
by qsera | 2026-03-03 16:26:13+00:00
>Probable given what?

The training data..

>predicting what intelligence would do

No, it just predict what the next word would be if an intelligent entity translated its thoughts to words. Because it is trained on the text that are written by intelligent entities.

If it was trained on text written by someone who loves to rhyme, you would be getting all rhyming responses.

It imitates the behavior -- in text -- of what ever entity that generated the training data. Here the training data was made by intelligent humans, so we get an imitation of the same.

It is a clever party trick that works often enough.
by Barbing | 2026-03-03 16:26:29+00:00
>circumventing

I would say the time to buy mesh networking equipment is now. But it's not like I'm capable of defending the transmitter. So when they come for the VPNs, the VPSs, and encryption, I guess I'll just be out of luck.

(Out of luck = resigned to zero digital privacy. No matter I follow the law and “have nothing to hide” of course.)

Perhaps people will pass flash drives like North Korea or Cuba?
by atarus | 2026-03-03 16:26:42+00:00
To clarify you are using the "fast brain, slow brain" pattern? Maybe an example would help.

Broadly speaking, we see people experiment with this architecture a lot often with a great deal of success. A few other approaches would be an agent orchestrator architecture with an intent recognition agent which routes to different sub-agents.

Obviously there are endless cases possible in production and best approach is to build your evals using that data.
by adamtaylor_13 | 2026-03-03 16:27:32+00:00
That's the way many people reduce it, and mathematically, I think that's true. I think what we fail to realize is just far that will actually take you.

"just the most probable word" is a pretty powerful mechanism when you have all of human knowledge at your fingertips.

I say that people "reduce it" that way because it neatly packs in the assumption that general intelligence is something other than next token prediction. I'm not saying we've arrived at AGI, in fact, I do not believe we have. But, it feels like people who use that framing are snarkily writing off something that they themselves to do not fully comprehend behind the guise of being "technically correct."

I'm not saying all people do this. But I've noticed many do.
by aseipp | 2026-03-03 16:27:33+00:00
I feel like that was much more true in the past but the X925 was only spec'd 18 months ago(?) and you can buy it today (I'm using one since October). Intel and AMD also give lots of advance notice on new designs well ahead of anything you can buy. ARM is also moving towards providing completely integrated solutions, so customers like Samsung don't have to take only CPU core and fill in the blanks themselves. They'll probably only get better at shipping complete solutions faster.

Honestly, Apple is the strange one because they never discuss CPUs until they are available to buy in a product; they don't need to bother.
AI Domains Not Resolving
by rspijker | 2026-03-03 16:28:25+00:00
Noticed this when trying to download claude code. The claude.ai domain is currently not reliably resolving from many major sources (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9). The same appears to be true for other .ai domains. Is there something going on with the Anguilla nameservers?
by elxr | 2026-03-03 16:28:26+00:00
Good news, intel panther lake (and the laptops they come in) are on par with M5 macbooks in almost every way.

This year is a lot more competitive than any of the past ~4 years for premium laptops.

The asus expertbook ultra even has a much better screen, a much better keyboard, and a very similar haptic trackpad. Weighs less than a 13 inch macbook air too. There's cheaper options too that are close to as good (minus the screen).
by sowbug | 2026-03-03 16:28:31+00:00
It's strange how hard it is to think of a situation that could lead to that case. Who would bother filing an infringement lawsuit for code whose very existence proves that it can be derived by anyone from LLM prompts? What would the damages even be?

Interesting world we live in. Soon it'll be faster to one-shot the tiny slice of functionality I need from Adobe CS than to navigate their subscription cancellation obstacle course.
by visarga | 2026-03-03 16:28:32+00:00
> In 2030, how is Anthropic going to keep Claude "up-to-date"

I think the majority of research, design and learning goes through LLMs and coding agents today, considering the large user base and usage it must be trillions of tokens per day. You can take a long research session or a series of them and apply hindsight - what idea above can be validated below? This creates a dense learning signal based on validation in real world with human in the loop and other tools, code & search.
by virtualritz | 2026-03-03 16:28:38+00:00
> There’s a tiny, tiny market for people who would pay for this.

Not sure what market you are talking about.

What I was talking about: people pay for motion graphics. LLMs are excellent at creating motion graphics from/around browser technology ...

Advertising is a huge market and motion graphics is everywhere in video/film-based advertising.

> Also you must understand that chrome is not a deterministic renderer. You cannot get the per frame control because it is fundamentally designed to get frames in front of the user fast.

It absoluetly deterministic if you control the input. There is no "add random number to X" in Chrome. The non-determinism is user inputs and time.

I know this because the company I work for did extensive tests around this last year. I was one of the people working on that part.

We looked into the same approach as replit. The only reason we gave up on it was product-related which changed our needs. Not because it is impossible (which, I guess, their blog post prooves).
by CivBase | 2026-03-03 16:28:40+00:00
Oh cool. That's a promising start.

I don't know if the "The Nebraska Guy Ranking" this project uses is very useful, though. In particular the "depth" criteria doesn't make much sense to me, since it assumes the more foundational a dependency is, the more robust it must be. This seems to run counter to the point of the original comic where the "Nebraska Guy" piece was the fragile block holding up the entire tower.

This project also doesn't attempt to measure or visualize the complexity of a project. Theoretically a more complex project would require more support than a simple one, so I think that's an important metric to capture.
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-03-03 16:29:18+00:00
I don't have a problem with verifying that I am an adult as long as I don't have to provide information that makes it easy to track down my identity.

The UK government has approved 7 age verification methods. Not one of them meets that standard.

That's not an accident.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/a...
by gortok | 2026-03-03 16:29:20+00:00
> So if this is a tool, the fault lies fully in the user, and if this is treated as “another persons work” then the user knowingly passed the work onto someone not authorized to do it. Both end up in the user being guilty.

I am particularly against this point of view, because we as a community have long touted how computers can do the job better and faster, and that computers don’t make mistakes. When there are bugs, they’re seen as flaws in the system and rectified, by programmers.

When there are gaps between user expectations and how the software works, it’s our job to manage those gaps and reduce the gap.

In the case of AI, we are somehow, probably because we know it’s non-deterministic, turning that social contract we had developed with users on its head.

Now, that’s just the way it is and it’s up to them to know if the computer is lying to them. We have absolved ourselves of both the technical and the non-technical responsibilities to ensure the computer doesn’t lie to the user, or subverts their expectations, or acts in a way contrary to human logic.

AI may be different to us in that it’s non-deterministic, but that’s all the more reason that we’re responsible to ensure AI adoption aligns to the social contract we created with users. If we can’t do that with AI then it’s up to us to stop chasing endless dollars and be forthright with users that facts are optional when it comes to AI.
by k9294 | 2026-03-03 16:29:32+00:00
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our most cost-efficient Gemini model, optimized for low latency use cases for high-volume, cost-sensitive LLM traffic.

It provides a significant quality increase over Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Flash-Lite models, matching Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across key capability areas:

Improved response quality: Aims to match 2.5 Flash performance and align with target Flash-Lite use cases.

Improved instruction following: Targeted improvements to serve as a reliable migration path for complex chatbot and instruction-heavy workflows.

Improved audio input: Improved audio-input quality for tasks like Automated Speech Recognition (ASR).

Expanded thinking support: You can control how much reasoning the model performs by choosing from minimal, low, medium, or high thinking levels. This feature lets you balance response quality and speed for your specific use case.

---

Already available in Google AI Studio and OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
by jameson | 2026-03-03 16:29:50+00:00
Everyone should assume that _anything_ connected to internet will get uploaded to internet and someone within the company will have permission to review the contents regardless of what the policy says.

1. Debugging for troubleshooting.

2. Analytical for making product better.

3. Bugs that collects your info when it shouldn't.

4. Bugs from 3rd party vendor if company uses those.

5. Insecure process. Getting access to a private content within the company is trivial due to coarse permission model.

Source: I worked at two well known social media companies. Trust & Safety and data infra teams
by hedora | 2026-03-03 16:29:59+00:00
logind partially replaces things like xdm.

My machine has elogind and slim running (devuan default behavior), and from what I can tell this gives you the same functionality as xdm used to, but worse.

I'm not sure why things got split into two subsystems, but I guess logind is essentially required in systemd systems. I remember there were a bunch of bugs where systemd would do stuff like unexpectedly force-kill background processes, and rm -rf home directories, etc, etc.

I think those bugs had something to do with logind, but I'm not sure.

Again, I just see weird vestigial stubs on my machine, not the underlying multi-decade train wreck.
by allreduce | 2026-03-03 16:30:00+00:00
I encourage you to look at what the current models with a bit of harnessing are capable of, e.g. Opus 4.6 and Claude Code. Try to make it solve some mathematics-heavy problem you come up with. If only to get a more accurate picture of whats going on.

Unfortunately, these tools generalize way beyond regurgitating the training set.
I would not assume they stay below human capabilities in the next few years.

Why any moral person would continue building these at this point I don't know.
I guess in the best case the future will have a small privileged class of humans having total power, without need for human workers or soldiers.
Picture a mechanical boot stomping on a human face forever.
by bpt3 | 2026-03-03 16:30:09+00:00
I'm sorry, the "Karen" drove onto your private road to interrogate your kid?

These things don't happen on a liberal/conservative axis in my experience.

I've lived all over the place, though not as much with kids, and have had none of these issues (including having mixed race kids who look much more like their other parent than me).

You really need to look at why you're living where you do.
by lifty | 2026-03-03 16:30:10+00:00
So it seems the new Studio Display XDR is the only display on the market that offers:

- 5k resolution at HIDPI (27inch)

- 120hz refresh rate

- TB5 and single cable connectivity.

There are a couple of other HIDPI displays at 5k with 120hz refresh rate but they don't do TB5.
by compressedgas | 2026-03-03 16:30:12+00:00
The week of 02-23 to 03-01 had 5033 story posts that aren't dead or deleted from 3298 different users. Of these 1146 users have 500 or more karma. Of these 1548 were created over 5 years ago. Of these 966 users have both 500 or more karma and have created their account over 5 years ago.

Your filter would reduce the number of posts to 2141 posts by 966 users from 5033 posts by 3298 users.
by taeric | 2026-03-03 16:30:15+00:00
I challenge the idea that 10 minutes is too large of a change?

I accept that it was too many changes back when we didn't have smart phones/clocks controlling the vast majority of time pieces. Even most cars, nowadays, set themselves off of a GPS signal.

Nowadays, though? A surprising number of people flat out don't notice that the time even changed until people tell them about it.

As the other response said, though; if you look at when people were on solar time, the length of an hour just flat out wasn't constant. Such that most animals are already used to wake times changing throughout the year. It was specifically our move to a mechanical method that was constant that is causing this.

To that end, shifting to a change every month would, in many ways, be a step back towards how sundials worked with constant changes. As you say, we could go even more continuous someday. That feels like it would have slightly more complications. But by the time everything is controlled by a central computer like thing, most of them would be completely obviated.
by alemagionami | 2026-03-03 16:30:44+00:00
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by bornfreddy | 2026-03-03 16:30:50+00:00
It is not, it is related to both major phone service providers in my country. Abroad, everything worked just fine. And just in 4G/5G, however 3G is getting phased out, so if I forced it, I was often unreachable.

I was wondering if I could fix it myself, but I'm not even sure if this is firmware or OS issue. I assume the former, which afaik is not opensource? Not sure.
by cortesoft | 2026-03-03 16:31:38+00:00
I am in my mid forties, been working as a professional software developer for over 20 years.

I click “accept the cookies” almost every time. I just personally don’t feel it’s worth the effort and cost to try to avoid it.

What “dark pattern cookie trick” are you worried about? I just can’t come up with a scenario where it will actually harm me in any way. All the examples I have heard are either completely implausible, don’t actually seem that bad to me, or are things that are trivially easy to do even without any cookies.

Now, I am not going around giving my real email out to random sites, though, although even that doesn’t strike me as particularly dangerous. I already get infinite spam, and I am sure there are millions of other ways to get my email address… it is supposed to be something you give out, after all.

I just don’t think it is something that is worth stressing out about and fighting against. Maybe I am actually naive, but I just have not yet been convinced I should actually care.
by lachiflippi | 2026-03-03 16:32:06+00:00
My understanding is that the responses are signed, but in a way that prevents linking signatures across vendors, so the same card being used for verification on different sites could not be linked, while the same card being used multiple times for the same vendor could.

As I'm not an expert on the crypto underlying the protocol, feel free to check the eIDAS standard for more info (the documents are in English, even if the link is not): https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Themen/Unternehmen-und-Organisati...
by _heimdall | 2026-03-03 16:32:10+00:00
I can't imagine countries with such strict speech laws, for example, would be willing to build a system that is technically incapable of linking the person visiting a sire and the site requesting verification.

This proposal may have been updated since I read it previously, so I could be wrong now, but it didn't read as a true zero-knowledge proof as key steps in the flow still required a level of trusting the government as the central authority to do the right thing and not track requests, both today and in the future.
by adamtaylor_13 | 2026-03-03 16:32:13+00:00
> No it's not, it's a sales pitch that intentionally ignores some of the things pointed out in the article.

Sales pitch or not, someone offering their time to help me with a problem is feels generous to me. To each their own, I suppose.

But again, you reinforce my point in your last sentence. Now anytime I want to make any little toy project (because how can anyone know when their toy project will blow up overnight?) I have to make a full blown website just to ensure I don't get SEO-spammed into oblivion?

My point still stands. Google is the problem and while we likely can't effectively do anything about it, it's frustrating as hell.
by circuit10 | 2026-03-03 16:34:12+00:00
I doubt that much software is entirely AI-generated with no human review or testing, it’s probably more like integrating some public domain snippets you found online into your code (which doesn’t invalidate copyright on the rest of it, or the way it’s put together) or having some files auto-generated by a script (like a C header containing a lookup table for a simple mathematical function, the table isn’t copyrightable itself maybe but the software as a whole still is)
by bhouston | 2026-03-03 16:34:15+00:00
I love my MacBook Air 15" M3 so much. It is large fast and light. While I really appreciate the improved M5, my main ask is actually a brighter screen. The current 500 nits is a bit low if you are ever not in a dark room.

Anyhow, because the differences between my M3 and the new M5 are just the CPU/GPU and I am not actually hurt much by the current CPU speed, I won't be upgrading.
Show HN: I built a new programming language for AI and Data – 'ThinkingLanguage'
by mallesh123 | 2026-03-03 16:34:25+00:00
I built a new programming language for AI & Data - 'ThinkingLanguage' in 5 days capable of transferring 1 Billion rows in 30 seconds.

Every data team runs the same stack: Python for glue code, SQL for transforms, Spark or dbt for scale, YAML for orchestration. Four languages, four mental models, four places for bugs.

What if one language could do it all?

ThinkingLanguage (TL) is a purpose-built language for Data Engineering and AI. The pipe operator is a first-class citizen. Tables, schemas, filters, joins, and aggregations are native - not library calls.

let users = read_csv("users.csv")

users
|> filter(age > 30)
|> join(orders, on: id == user_id)
|> aggregate(by: name, total: sum(amount))
|> sort(total, "desc")
|> show()

What's under the hood:
- Apache Arrow columnar format
- DataFusion query engine with lazy evaluation and automatic optimization
- CSV, Parquet, and PostgreSQL connectors
- 1M rows filtered + aggregated + sorted in 0.3 ms
- Written in Rust

Includes a JIT compiler (Cranelift/LLVM), native AI/ML operations (train, predict, embed), streaming pipelines with Kafka, GPU (CUDA, ROCm). Python FFI Bridge (Run/Call Python Libraries) and a full ecosystem with notebooks and a package registry.

Download via npx, ssh native installer, crates, github

This is open source (Apache Licence). If you're a data engineer tired of context-switching between five tools, or a Rust developer who wants to contribute to something new - check it out the github repo: https://github.com/mplusm/thinkinglanguage

Data Deserves its own language.