MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spwa4 | 2026-03-14 00:36:30+00:00
Yes. What I don't understand is why you blame Google for being forced by justice departments to do this and still resisting (e.g. publishing the numbers). Trust me that's showing a LOT more backbone than BT ever has shown.

Are you aware all Telcos, from AT&T to BT do the same, except 1000x bigger scale?

Have you ever seen the interface that the police forces of many countries demanded be delivered along with cell phone towers? You can livetrack individual phones (location, proximity), listen in, get lists of websites they visit (not 100% accurate, but pretty good, this part is sort of like Palo Alto Networks. E.g. you see when the system thinks they're sending or receiving Facebook messages)

Are you aware that in the Police department, yes, you have "IT cops", but they don't work to protect institutions, they mostly work to catch "copyright thieves". Not even bank fraud (which is a huge problem, btw). They're actually terrified of doing something about that (because it involves international relations and they're pretty sure the result some organized scammer would be someone in the department gets fired)

Are you aware that an EU country kidnapped the CEO of a large instant messenger, actually tried to keep it secret, then charged him with "complicity to child sex trafficking" and is still holding him?

Are you aware that a US police officer used cell phone lawful intercept to stalk, then beat up, his ex-girlfriend 3 years ago? He got fired for it but no persecution, then he got a friend to do the same again.

And this is all JUST public information. Things are way, way worse than what's leaked.

No offense, but Google is not the problem in this space.
by rootusrootus | 2026-03-14 00:36:56+00:00
Yes, part of the solution could be strongly curtailing how we apply the first amendment to political spending. Maybe elections should all be taxpayer funded, access to media guaranteed, etc. And if we do allow donations, it has to be something fairly trivial. Maximum $50 or something per person regardless of net worth.

The unregulated, unlimited money situation we have now is a big part of the problem.
by Perseids | 2026-03-14 00:40:26+00:00
Yes, yes, true, but you've massively moved the goalpost. The original commenter was referring to people working at xAI right now. To continue your comparison, your argument would be like Oppenheimer claiming "How could I have ever known my work would be used as a weapon? I just wanted to make big explosions."

I don't know why this argument often pops up in these kinds of discussions. Approximately no one is judging people who have done their best effort to avoid doing harm. We are judging people who don't care in the first place.
by hashmap | 2026-03-14 00:40:46+00:00
oh neat ill check that one out. i dont get that much speedup from ssd/128gb unified vs vram if im doing like a predefined set of prompts, since i have it load it from disk anyway and im just doing one forward pass per prompt. its a bit slower if im doing cpu inferencing but i only had to do that with one model so far.

but yeah on demand would be a lot of ssd churn so id just do it for testing or getting some hidden state vectors.
by kolinko | 2026-03-14 00:41:39+00:00
Apollo mission was a national mobilisation project that's size happened once/twice in a century. And it still took 10 years. There is no willpower to do that right now in EU.

Right now we, in EU, plan to have first reusable vehicles (Ariane Next) in around 10 years - around 2035. And that is for the first vehicles, not for scaling up the production.
by rootusrootus | 2026-03-14 00:42:22+00:00
This makes me think the other comment in this thread about mandatory voting may be on point. Part of our problem is that not only can we elect petty dictators with less than 50% of the vote, we can do it with way less than 50% of the adult citizenry when people cannot be bothered to vote.

Make voting mandatory, and require vote-by-mail. Or if that is too 'risky' then mandate a sufficient number of voting locations with a maximum travel distance from their voters (and maybe allow voters to go to any location convenient for them) and make it a paid federal holiday.

Pipe dream, of course. One party is too strongly incentivized to suppress the vote. They could just moderate their positions somewhat to attract more centrists, but for some reason that has not occurred to them.

In a sane world, we could compromise. I would hate to give up vote-by-mail, but as part of a grand compromise I would accept it. Empower the FEC to issue ID for voting (and only voting), give them the budget and mandate to go roving around the country periodically like the census and track down every last citizen and give them an ID. Then require that ID for in-person voting. Ostensibly this should also satisfy the GOP, but of course it won't, because it isn't actually about the ID.
by yodsanklai | 2026-03-14 00:42:28+00:00
Why not? Claude is a male name, and the model behaves close enough to a human that I think it's fine to refer to it as a he or a she. Also note that some languages don't have neutral pronouns and it's perfectly fine to say a mosquito is a "he", and a spider a "she" for instance. Are they more humans than a LLM?
by gwerbin | 2026-03-14 00:42:55+00:00
Out of curiosity how do you authenticate yourself with government services and finance companies and such? The reason the SSN is considered private is because it's used for authentication. Usually an SSN + one or two pieces of trivially obtainable information is enough to sign up for just about anything in somebody else's name, unless physical documents are required as in the case of a passport.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-03-14 00:43:17+00:00
Do not succumb to "we have to win the race" reasoning and escalation, when the race is leading off a cliff. It is, in fact, possible to stop things via international cooperation. Treat it the way we do nuclear proliferation. (Efforts to stop nuclear proliferation have not been perfect, but they've been incredibly effective and made it much more difficult to make the problem worse than it already is.)
by hananova | 2026-03-14 00:43:31+00:00
Ethically, if you do not agree with the company you work at, the optimal course of action if you can stomach it is to stay and do a bad job rather than get replaced by someone who might do a good job.

I have been in such a situation before, and while I was not able to coast along until the company went under, the time delta between me getting fired and the company going under was measured in weeks.

In hindsight I'd probably not do it again, it was hugely mentally taxing, and knowingly performing work in such a way that it provides negative value to the company (remember, the goal is to make it go under) is in my experience actually harder than just doing a good job... Especially if being covert is a goal.
by anon-3988 | 2026-03-14 00:44:04+00:00
There's more to open source than just the code or output, it is also the community. There's apparenticeship, sharing of knowledge, sense of comradery, supporting each other, etc.

My day job uses a lot of open source libraries and projects, and do you know what we do when we fix things? We fork internally and don't upstream any patches.

Do you not see a loss here?

With LLMs, there's even LESS reason to keep up with upstream. We would probably just ask LLM to keep up with the changes commit by commit.
by alwillis | 2026-03-14 00:44:11+00:00
> And oh yes, the modern Mac shares those 8GB with the video RAM...

The Unified Memory Architecture is why these Macs are so fast—no wasted cycles moving data between RAM and GPU. And the data is compressed in real-time so less data has to be transferred and there's less ware and tear on the SSD, which is directly to SoC [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354705
by al_borland | 2026-03-14 00:44:22+00:00
That didn't last long. I'm not sure I want to invest my time again if/when they relaunch.

I kind of expected this. The way some of these people work, if the site isn't an instant unicorn, it's trash. But if the goal is a good community, that is something that takes time to build and should grow slow. The incentives are all backward.
Show HN: SupplementDEX – The Evidence-Based Supplement Database
by richarlidad | 2026-03-14 00:44:32+00:00
Hi this is a work in progress but it works to determine supplement efficacy for 500 conditions at the moment.

Things you can do:

- search for a condition -> find which supplements are effective -> see which studies indicate they are effective -> read individual study summaries

- search for a supplement -> see effectiveness table, dosing, safety, dietary sources, mechanisms of action (+ browse all original sources)

let me know what you think
by w10-1 | 2026-03-14 00:44:34+00:00
Key point (mostly drowned): Feds can compel A to surveil B if A maintains equipment or services for B. The Feds can also compel A's silence on point.

Originally applied only to the largest communications companies, this now has effectively unlimited scope.

The only safeguard (which took years to add legislatively) was that the FBI had to clear it; but now the FBI is refusing even to record such requests, to avoid any record of abuse (and the person responsible is dubious).

Surveillance seems necessary, but in the wrong hands, it's systemically deadly: it grants overwhelming advantage, and destroys arms-length trust, driving transactions of any size into networks prone to self-dealing and corruption.
by zugi | 2026-03-14 00:45:29+00:00
Just 4 hours before this announcement, Cappy posted a video explaining that special forces may be planning to put some "boots on the ground" to take over that island: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5u8yCP5WQVw

Whether that's correct or it's just a bombing campaign, his description of the island, its importance for oil exports, its layout and defenses is interesting.
by michaelteter | 2026-03-14 00:45:35+00:00
I have no idea how that person is doing it, but I suspect it could be using osascript. Here's how I do it from my homegrown Go bookmark tool:

const fetchTabsScript = `
tell application "Brave Browser"
set output to ""
repeat with w in windows
repeat with t in tabs of w
set output to output & (URL of t) & "|||" & (title of t) & "\n"
end repeat
end repeat
return output
end tell
`

func GetOpenTabs() ([]Tab, error) {
cmd := exec.Command("osascript", "-e", fetchTabsScript)
output, err := cmd.Output()
// ...
}
by nitwit005 | 2026-03-14 00:45:59+00:00
During my last job search I had an interview with Walmart, related to health software. I was flatly told that I might have a project canceled, then restarted on the original timeline. I declined after the interview.

They then shuttered the whole thing some months later: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248397756/walmart-close-heal...

Which is to say, these things are real warning signs about the company.

In the case of Musk's companies, here we are discussing a major failure and firings.
by treetalker | 2026-03-14 00:46:00+00:00
> The person invoking Crocker's Rules is saying, in effect, "your feelings about how I might receive this are your problem to manage, not mine, just give me the information."

Isn't it quite the opposite? The person invoking Crocker's Rules is saying, in effect, "my feelings about the information and how I might receive it are my problem to manage, not yours, just give me the information."
by tharkun__ | 2026-03-14 00:46:46+00:00
This. Same timeframe and I've lived through both lots of lightning storms and in areas with lots of power failures. Some of them intermittent and essentially caused by transformers blowing up. Like earlier this winter, we had multiple storms where you'd hear a transformer blow up, in many cases even seeing the sky light up as well from it, power going out, couple seconds, power coming back, next transformer blowing out, rinse, repeat.

On the other hand I've read about plenty of stories of the "cheap" UPSs you'd usually buy as a consumer (not to name any brands coz I've never had any) actually causing such issues in the first place. Without any actual surges from the grid.

That said, being totally not superstitious (for real, but someone's gonna "kill me" if they find out I wrote this and something dies from a surge...), now I guess I need to knock on wood like seventeen times ...

I do use surge protectors when we're on generator power temporarily.
by tshaddox | 2026-03-14 00:46:53+00:00
I think this is actually the reason the Neo has 8 GB of RAM (non-upgradable). It’s their anti-cannibalization strategy.

They’re relying on the huge portion of their existing laptop market who self-identifies as “tech-savvy” or “enthusiast” and thinks 8 GB of RAM is a non-starter.

Those folks will keep buying Mac laptops at double (or triple, quadruple, …) the price.
by hananova | 2026-03-14 00:47:21+00:00
To not frame the amorality and negative effects centrally and primarily is to be dishonest. There is absolutely not a single person whose wage doesn't rely on not seeing it, that doesn't see that that entire branch of tech has strictly negative value to society.

But of course, line must go up, and it's not you personally being negatively affected, so it doesn't matter.
by janalsncm | 2026-03-14 00:47:23+00:00
Well if I moved it, consider this to be me putting it back where it was: people who continue to work on things which are concurrently being used in mostly harmful ways and have means to find a different job have no excuse.

As far as Oppenheimer is concerned, his argument is not that nukes are harmless, but that they are less harmful than Nazis, and much less harmful than Nazis with nukes.
by netsharc | 2026-03-14 00:47:45+00:00
So you agree partially with what I said.

The poster is 16, he can take it as feedback towards effective writing. Or the intellectual HN crowd can just downvote it and dissuade me from contributing and helping a kid (oh look at me, how fucking noble am I, right?).

Ah, that feeling of "Am I the only one who gets it around here?". I wanted to explain to you why graph 2 is dumb, and graph 1 is very little information, but heck, I felt dissuaded.
by slythefox | 2026-03-14 00:48:03+00:00
Hey HN. I built this to solve context loss across Claude Code sessions. Every session starts cold, so I needed a persistence layer that could carry forward priorities, decisions, blockers, and institutional memory without depending on anything outside the terminal.

The core design decision was bounded responsibility per agent rather than one monolithic prompt. 38 agents in 5 categories (governance, knowledge, technical, business, evolution), each with a defined role and explicit collaboration interfaces. Workflows are pipelines with ordered handoffs, not free-form agent swarms. A technical task goes Architect → Security-Expert → Engineer → Security-Expert (second pass) → QA → Reviewer → Documenter → Historian. The routing is deterministic.

State is plain markdown in an `active/` directory that loads on session start. Git handles persistence and backup. Two-remote model separates the public framework from private user data so you can receive updates without exposing your files.

The part I find most interesting architecturally: the evolution loop. An evaluator agent measures outcomes, an improver proposes changes through a formal queue, and nothing gets implemented without user approval. The system's structure is mutable by design but gated on human review.

Tradeoffs worth noting: it's opinionated. The agent definitions and workflow ordering reflect how I work as a solo founder. If your workflow is fundamentally different you'll want to modify the agent prompts and pipeline ordering. The `/setup` wizard handles initial customization but it's not infinitely flexible out of the box.

MIT licensed. Happy to discuss architecture decisions.
by nephihaha | 2026-03-14 00:48:46+00:00
There are notable male companions such as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart as well as Jamie. The Brigadier is one of the best Doctor Who characters, a military man who is adaptable and can deal with strange situations.

The Brigadier got some great lines:

* (To other soldiers) "Chap with the wings - five rounds, rapid."

* "Most of their work's so secret, they don't know what they're doing themselves."

* "Look, just tell me this: Are you or are you not the Doctor that I met during the Yeti business and then later when the Cybermen invaded?"
by mindslight | 2026-03-14 00:49:19+00:00
In the pejorative sense the word has taken on as the wheels have slowly come off the cart for the past several decades, sure. But as far as the lofty ideals outlined by conservative thinkers, an "institutional arsonist" is basically the polar opposite. The conservatives with any principles left got labeled "RINO" and sidelined. And that's saying a lot given what had previously passed for principles.

The correct term is "reactionary." Or less awkwardly, "fascist." Yarvin elucidates on this in A Gentle Introduction ....
by andrewflnr | 2026-03-14 00:49:29+00:00
In practice you can infer a lot. The payload of a TLS stream is formally indistinguishable from random data, but you can still tell on the wire that it's TLS. There aren't a lot of widely-used TLS implementations. It's been a while since I looked at the specifics, but I bet there's a lot of more specific signature data in the plain-text parts of the protocol like supported ciphers. You can make some good guesses from the metadata.

In the case of a physical interception, you can probably infer more. If you, after reading this article, spot an enemy drone that doesn't have any obvious emissions, then, well, there might only be one option for the software running on that drone, namely The Software that your enemy uses on their drones.

Anyway, it's not clear to me from the article whether the source object from the signal will necessarily be invisible. I think every transmitter still at least looks like a point source of blackbody radiation. The signal may not be detectable from thermal background radiation, but if the background itself is coming from a big obvious drone, well, you know it "exists nearby".
by hananova | 2026-03-14 00:50:13+00:00
Sales are artificial boosts yes. The difference is in the connotation. A sale is given for something that people generally would buy anyway, but now more people will. An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy.

Or in other words, sales raise $high_number to $higher_number while artificial boosts raise $essentially_zero to $acceptable_number.
by thereitgoes456 | 2026-03-14 00:50:16+00:00
I see you're treating Sam Altman as some kind of trustworthy source. Might it be possible that he's making that up -- of course, nobody will ever call him on it! -- and exaggerating the numbers to make his company and team look really good and ethical for not accepting such lucrative offers, or perhaps to make them sour on Meta for not receiving $100M offers?
by kolinko | 2026-03-14 00:51:16+00:00
> And it can still send outbound to a v4x address that it knows about.

No, it cannot, if there is a router on the way that is unaware of v4x, it will interrupt the signal.

Say your router is 1.2.3.4.0.0 in IPv4x (and 1.2.3.4 in IPv4). You are 1.2.3.4.0.1 . Someone sends you a message from outside. Your router only sees the previx of the address (1.2.3.4), and since it thinks it has 1.2.3.4, it reads the message and doesn't forward it further.

I highly recommend reading original TCP/IP RFC - it is a good tutotrial on how the IP routing works: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1180
by diacritical | 2026-03-14 00:51:36+00:00
> And there’s really not much point in publishing good content anymore, since AI is just going slurp it up and regurgitate it without driving you any traffic.

You just published good content knowing AI will slurp it up and not give you any traffic in return. I'm now replying to you with more content with the same expectations about AI and traffic. Why care about AI or traffic or recognition? Isn't the content the thing that matters?

It's like answering technical questions in an anonymous/pseudonymous chat or forum, which I'm sure you've done, too. We do it to help others. If an AI can take my answer and spread it around without paying me or mentioning one of my random usernames I change every month or so, I would be happy. And if the AI gives me credit like "coffeecup543 originally posted that on IRC channel X 5 years ago", I couldn't care less. It would be noise to the reader. Even if the AI uses my real name, so what?

The people who cared about traffic and money from their posts rarely made good content, anyway. Listicles and affiliate marketing BS and SEO optimizations and making a video that could be 1 minute into 10 minutes, or text that could've been 5 articles into a long book - all existed from before AI. With AI I actually get less of this crap - either skip it or condense it.
by aeonfox | 2026-03-14 00:52:13+00:00
More succinctly, Carmack only contributes his code to OSS, but not his time, and shouldn't impose his values on the wider community that contribute both.

> technically correct, but in context I think that's somewhat beside the point

Talking past people to argue on semantics and pedantry is a HN pastime. It may even be it's primary function.
by roncesvalles | 2026-03-14 00:52:18+00:00
In my experience, the grief goes away when you realize that making the LLM do useful stuff is very much not a solved problem and that there is ample room for creativity here.

And that once you fully lean into this part of software engineering, all the other stuff becomes interesting again. I highly recommend if anyone is demotivated from software engineering to write their own orchestrator or Ralph loop or sub agent system whatever it is that makes LLM actually work for you, exactly in the way you want it to work. And then to go back to your projects again. Because now the LLM is a part of you. It's no longer a vending machine, it's a gundam suit.
by TehShrike | 2026-03-14 00:53:22+00:00
I agree to a certain point, but I think about it in different terms – some people want to avoid any form of disagreement in order to maintain a kind of politeness, but I want to work on a team where people care enough to disagree with each other if something is wrong: https://joshduff.com/2024-07-18-communication-culture.html
by integralid | 2026-03-14 00:54:09+00:00
I liked the graphs. When skimming posts i often stop on graphical elements and decide if I want to understand the context or continue skimming. In this context, all three graphs were useful for me.

Posts with just text are sense and just not nice to read. That's why even text-only blog posts have a tendency to include loosely-related image at the top, to catch reader's eye.
by al_borland | 2026-03-14 00:54:14+00:00
I wonder if the old forum model would work. Instead of these mega-forum-platfroms, there are just small communities with a niche focus at their own URL.

I suppose bots could find forums that use the most popular software and still make accounts and spam, but it would be much more obvious and less fruitful for someone to spam deck builders in Vancouver (something I saw often on Digg) on a forum that is focused on aquariums owners in the midwest.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-03-14 00:55:03+00:00
Far fewer deaths. In those pitched battles it would mostly be about breaking the organization structure of the opposing line and having the soldiers disperse. Very few battles in history actually saw slaughter of tens of thousands and they remain notable as such.

Wars of the gunpowder age have been far more bloody. Far more destructive to civilian life. Far more lasting damage to the environment.
by drdaeman | 2026-03-14 00:55:16+00:00
That was all x86_64, but even if aarch64 is more memory efficient, it can’t be too drastic, and 8GiB was borderline unusable even 10 years ago.

Nowadays it must be a teeth-grinding tight fit for a browser and couple Electron apps, held together on a prayer next website doesn’t go too crazy with the bells and whistles and wasn’t vibeslopped with utter disregard to any big-Os.