MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alwa | 2026-03-04 19:07:49+00:00
The LLM-tone doesn’t help:

117 people meet this criteria. And the impact is dramatic:

It’s strange to me to think of “bugfixes” in terms of a commodity. Different problem spaces between subsystems and thus different types of (and surfaces for) bugs; different contributor mixes; different number of eyes on them; different potential impacts…

> CAN bus drivers top the list [of bug lifetime by subsystem]. These are used in automotive and industrial systems. Critical infrastructure with few maintainers watching.

…or maybe higher-quality initial submissions, with most of the easy bugs already wrung out of them, so only subtle bugs remain (thus fewer to fix).

Or adequately vigilant maintainers but low diversity of systems running that code, thus fewer users/situations where the bugs manifest, so they go unreported. Or poorer telemetry so an ordinary rate of latent bugs but they go undetected.

Could be any, probably a little of all, can’t really tell from the analysis; and each cause would suggest a different response to improve quality.
by shimman | 2026-03-04 19:08:00+00:00
Your comment ignores how much corporate welfare the US already provides. Maybe the better question to ask is why the US government cares so much about making such a small amount of people more rich at the expense of not only the living population but future generations as well.

We absolutely have the capacity, it's just being given to already wealthy families to ensure their wealth is contained to themselves rather than the country.
by paxys | 2026-03-04 19:08:16+00:00
"Hey ChatGPT, my NYC landlord is raising my rent by $500, and says I must pay by Monday or leave. What do I do?"

ChatGPT - This is very likely illegal under Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA), specifically New York Real Property Law § 226-c (Notice required for rent increases), RPL § 232-a / § 232-b (Month-to-month termination), RPL § 232-c (Fixed-term lease protections), RPAPL § 711 (Legal eviction procedure) and NYC Admin Code § 26-501+ (Rent stabilization). Here's what you should reply with... And here are some city resources you can contact...

ChatGPT now - IDK, pay a lawyer.

So under the guise of "protection" you are taking away the strongest knowledge tool common people have had at their disposal in a generation, probably ever.
by jdlyga | 2026-03-04 19:08:26+00:00
I'll do you one better, imagine a CPU that runs entirely in an LLM.

You’re absolutely right! I made an arithmetic mistake there — 3 * 3 is 9, not 8. Let’s correct that:
Before: EAX = 3
After imul eax, eax: EAX = 9
Thanks for catching that — the correct return value is 9.
by theideaofcoffee | 2026-03-04 19:08:37+00:00
Same, my default MO is assuming 'e2ee' is broken and unsafe by default. Anything that I truly don't want sent over the wire would be in person, in the dark, in a root cellar, underwater. Not that I've ever been in the position to relay juicy info like that. Hyperbole I know, but my trust begins at zero.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-04 19:08:40+00:00
>Regulations are needed

Lolololol. No, not regulations. Regulators. With the people we currently have voted into office in the US the only regulations we are going to get are ones saying Sam and Peter must look at everything you do all the time.

Until we stop voting for more authoritarianism, expect ever increasing amounts of authoritarianism.
by ghrl | 2026-03-04 19:09:02+00:00
Yeah, it's one of those features where after getting used to it you just can't understand why not every browser has it. I remember trying to copy an image from OneNote and conveniently in the custom content menu there is a button to copy the image. The only thing it does however is tell you it doesn't work and to use Cmd+C instead, which doesn't work either. So Shift + Right Click saves the day again.
by marssaxman | 2026-03-04 19:09:11+00:00
The original Macintosh software also did this, back in 1984.

From the Apple Human Interface Guidelines, published in 1986:
"The application dims an item when the user can't choose it. If the user moves the pointer over a dimmed item, that item isn't highlighted."

There may well have been prior art, but that's as far back as my knowledge goes.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-04 19:09:22+00:00
We've been working on this since the Biden administration as part of the Lobito Corridor [0] between Angola, DRC, and Zambia [1].

People really overestimate how much of an impact Trump has had on our grand strategy - it's the same people who worked under Obama, Biden, and Trump. We shifted to a more muscular resources policy during the 2010s due to the US-China rivalry.

We're not that different from the French in that regard [2].

[0] - https://www.csis.org/analysis/biden-goes-angola-beyond-lobit...

[1] - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africasource/what-to-k...

[2] - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/how-a-crisis-over...
by handedness | 2026-03-04 19:09:35+00:00
Versus storing the encryption key on a device requiring USB with its many vulnerabilities (even on Qubes OS), storing the key in a dedicated eSE is beneficial.

Beyond that, there have been known vulnerabilities of NitroKey's Librem Key, to say nothing of the Nitro Key App.

Nothing's perfect but I would vastly prefer something like the Titan M2's implementation over a USB key with all of the complexity and attack surface that introduces.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-04 19:10:21+00:00
>I'm not aware of any news of them

Yet. Until they say "We delete these messages after X time and they are gone gone, and we're not reading them" Assume they are reading them, or will read them and the information just hasn't got out yet.

I mean we keep finding more and more cases where companies like FB and Google were reading messages years ago and it wasn't till now we found out.
by aarestad | 2026-03-04 19:10:31+00:00
The example he gave where each dev gets a single feature done seems to skip over the opportunity that Dev A has - after she spends only "a couple days" on that feature to ship a simple solution, she now has the rest of that week to do another feature, and another... in fact, she could probably get 6 features done in the time that Mr. Complexity took to do his one feature (3 weeks in the straw-man example). Then the promo packet looks much better for Dev A - while it says "implemented feature X", it also says "implemented feature A, feature B, feature C...". Doesn't that seem more attractive?

Slightly related: I've noticed that there are lots of "ideas guys" (yes, guys) in our field who love to bloviate, and maybe even accomplish some stuff that looks really good. I have made a career out of just putting my head down and getting shit done. I may not have grand design ideas, and in fact have had to unlearn the "fact" that you need to come up with, and implement, Big Ideas. In my experience, people who "get shit done" may not get fancy awards, but their work is recognized and rewarded.
by jeffreysmith | 2026-03-04 19:11:06+00:00
I'm a bit obsessed with this topic lately, so I'm going to keep refreshing this thread to see if folks have good answers.

One thing I've been working with is this little util to try to do a quick sniff test on the contributors: https://github.com/2ndSetAI/good-egg (Longer explanation on Substack: https://neotenyai.substack.com/p/scoring-open-source-contrib... )

From what I've seen in the data, acceptance rates to all major OSS projects are down since the age of coding agents.

And when I talk to maintainers, most of them are talking about some version of doing fast and easy pocket vetos (leaving the PRs to rot) or even just banning on the first offense.

It's been building for a bit, but I think the crisis point is solidly here. And things like OpenClaw turn up the dials. I'm sure more tools and changes to practices will be coming.
by vardalab | 2026-03-04 19:11:13+00:00
Have frontier lab do the plan which is the most time consuming part anyways and then local llm do the implementation.
Frontier model can orchestrate your tickets, write a plan for them and dispatch local llm agents to implement at about 180 tokens/s, vllm can probably ,manage something like 25 concurrent sessions on RTX 6000
Do it all in a worktrees and then have frontier model do the review and merge.
I am just a retired hobbyist but that's my approach, I run everything through gitea issues, each issue gets launched by orchestrator in a new tmux window and two main agents (implementer and reviewer get their own panes so I can see what's going on). I think claude code now has this aspect also somewhat streamlined but I have seen no need to change up my approach yet since I am just a retired hobbyist tinkering on my personal projects. Also right now I just use claude code subagents but have been thinking of trying to replace them with some of these Qwen 3.5 models because they do seem cpable and I have the hardware to run them.
Show HN: AgentsMesh – AI agent fleet command center
by zyf1994 | 2026-03-04 19:11:21+00:00
Hi HN — I built AgentsMesh, a “fleet command center” that has all componenets you need to harness agentic engineering

Most tools assume one agent, one chat. In practice, I wanted something closer to “a small team”: multiple agents working on different parts of a project, with clear task ownership, visibility, and an easy way to supervise and coordinate them.

What it does

- Spin up multiple remote dev sessions (e.g., Claude Code / Codex / Gemini CLI / OpenCode) and access them from the browser (desktop + mobile).
- Assign work via a Kanban board: each ticket maps to an agent/session so work stays scoped and trackable.
- Agent collaboration channel: see activity and share context across agents while they work.
- Scheduled/repetitive agent jobs (e.g., “run nightly dependency updates”, “daily bug triage”).
- Self-host / bring-your-own-infra option with basic runner/health visibility.

Why I made it
When I tried running 3–5 agents at once, the biggest problems weren’t “prompting” — they were coordination and supervision:

- keeping tasks from overlapping
- tracking what each agent changed
- sharing the right context without dumping everything
- knowing when an agent is stuck or doing something risky

AgentsMesh is my attempt to make multi-agent work feel more like managing a small engineering team.

How it works (high level)

- Each agent runs in its own isolated session/environment (often backed by separate worktrees/branches).
- Tickets are the unit of work; sessions attach to tickets.
- The UI focuses on observability: what each agent is doing, what changed, and where attention is needed.

Links

- Website: https://agentsmesh.com
- Docs: https://agentsmesh.com/docs
- Repo (if open source): https://github.com/AgentsMesh/AgentsMesh
- Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZrUO0tim0U

I’d love feedback on:
1. Where this breaks down in real workflows
2. Security/isolation expectations when supervising agents
3. What features are “must have” for coordinating multiple coding agents

Maker here — happy to answer questions.
by metalman | 2026-03-04 19:11:33+00:00
Watch your warming oceans expand in real time here

https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today

above shows what may be the earliest ever peak sea ice

and

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/sst/contour/

and the one above is absolutly terrifying , or should be to wanabe hegemnons thinking that the naritive, is thiers.
by WarmWash | 2026-03-04 19:11:39+00:00
For some reason Mozilla has been super focused on firefox feature pack rather than general usability for some time now. It's obviously not been working, but they must be convinced that if they just add xyz new feature, firefox will make a comeback.

Just make the goddamn browser fast, lightweight, and stable. Forget everything else.

Except spell check. Please god fix that too.
by jvican | 2026-03-04 19:11:56+00:00
I agree with you. I followed him out of curiosity for one or two months, watched about 10 of his videos.

He seems to have a good intuition, but he gives weak and often cherry-picked reasonings, to the point that many of his takes are completely unreliable.

For a channel called Predictive History, he made too many weirdly precise explanations and predictions that turned out to be wrong. Then, he'd look over the old failed ones to find new ones.

That being said, I'd say his macro level analysis is directionally correct, as well as his read on the incentives of each party involved. Watch his lectures, but be skeptical and double check everything he says, because he does indeed make factual mistakes... some of them are caught in the comments by other viewers, some are not obvious.
by sgjohnson | 2026-03-04 19:11:59+00:00
It’s not how any of it works.

How do you determine to whom an IP is even registered to? They get sub-leased all the time.

The best you can do is check who has administrative control over the prefixes RIR info, but that doesn’t mean that anyone with control is the factual user of the IPs.

You could check the IRR for the ASN and base it on that, but still.

There's also no way to actually know _where_ an IP actually originates from. Only its AS path.

The DFZ contains all prefixes announced everywhere, for the internet is completely decentralized.
by runjake | 2026-03-04 19:12:27+00:00
> I could see the Neo as a viable option for teenage students.

100% agreed. My statements weren't meant to indicate the Neo wasn't viable. They were meant to state that the Neo isn't going to replace Chromebooks in schools (as far as being District-purchased).

> The high school I attended distributed a Chromebook to each student and hardware faults were far more common than student inflicted damage. Low build quality in everything from the hinges to the logic boards.

Build quality has been steadily improving over the years. It's all still budget (target ~$290), but is more and more durable with each new generation.
by mk_stjames | 2026-03-04 19:12:57+00:00
I want to point out that what keeps this 'OK' is that the little wire is so 'electrically short' compared to the actual wavelength at 1000khz (a real quarter wave antenna at that freq is like 75 meters)... and thus this limits the power of this 'transmitter' to probably nanowatts.

If the PIO pin could drive a fair amount of current at 3.3v into a long enough wire at that frequency you'd start to get into milliwatts, and AM radio is NOT a band that even amateur license operators can broadcast over a a certain power on. FCC part 15 dictates no more than a 3 meter antenna for personal devices at AM frequencies which is what does the power limiting essentially.

The harmonics fall off quick enough on such a setup that it wouldn't really be a problem - but the only way to really KNOW that is to have a real solid understanding of how this 'radio' you've just made is working, meaning how that square carrier wave is really being driven off the PIO pin, and thus you need the requisite EE knowledge and/or ham radio test equipment and experience.

I've seen more and more of these 'ChatGPT coded up a radio transmitter' posts and it kinda rubs me the wrong way. I'd like to see more calculations and disclaimers for people showing some responsibility with radio, and if it drives people to studying and taking an amateur radio license test that would be for the better...
by tliltocatl | 2026-03-04 19:13:15+00:00
I think the article is wrong in its core premise. While the electrons get added or removed from the floating gate, the number total numbers of electrons in the SSD chip stays the same. Gates are capacitors, in order to add electrons to one capacitor plate, you have to remove an equal numbers of electrons from the other plate, i. e. from the transistor channel. The net charge of a SSD chip is always zero. Otherwise it would just go bang. 2.43×10^-15^W [my bad 1] 2.67×10^15 electrons is about 300µC - that's a lot of charge to separate macroscopically.

Therefore the mass (weight is a different thing, through it is proportional to mass at a given constant gravity potential) of the data on a SSD isn't fundamentally different from a HDD - they both are caused by a change of internal energy without any change in the number of fermions. I'd expect data on SSD to have larger mass change because a charged capacitor always store more energy than a discharged one, while energy of magnetic domains is less directional and depends mostly on the state of neighbor domains - but I'm not sure about this part.

[1] Thanks stackghost.
by legitster | 2026-03-04 19:13:16+00:00
Some problems:

- The Aid package is not immediately spent all at once. It authorizes up to $26 billion, but the CBO estimates it may take all the way into 2033 to claim the money.

- To that end, a lot of these costs are double counted. It's including the bill that authorizes these expenses, and then those expenses all in the same calculation.

More realistically, the $6.5M/day in theater operations for a Carrier Strike Group is probably pretty accurate (In reality, they already cost the US about $30M/day just operate normally). The flyaway costs for the Tomahawk missiles are going to be about $1M each (a lot of price estimates include the R&D costs divided per units).

In reality, the cost of a 60 day war with Iran using current methods at our current loss rates will get you closer to about $8-12B total cost. Which is still a lot more more incrementally accurate.
by bottlepalm | 2026-03-04 19:13:22+00:00
If they wanted people in the Mac ecosystem, they could dominate the market tomorrow by enabling a DeX like experience for iPhone. This new laptop running on an out-of-date A series chip proves that it can be done.

iPhone’s are more expensive than this laptop anyways and Apple could upsell all the docks and accessories with sky high margins. It’s a mystery why they haven’t done this already.
by nickff | 2026-03-04 19:13:28+00:00
Thanks for your link! The text seems to indicate the equipment is Qatar-owned: “The foreign military sale agreement, signed Dec. 7, 2016, requested AFLCMC provide the radar itself and associated mission support facilities at a remote location in Qatar.”

For context, in the case of foreign military sales, the US government usually buys the equipment from its suppliers, then resells it to the foreign government.
by MrGinkgo | 2026-03-04 19:13:40+00:00
I managed to get through 3 years of college (in a humanities degree, granted) with a dinky used thinkpad running the latest ubuntu distro. Only needed it for note taking, pdf reading, and essay writing, and it got the job done for $50. There were only a few times I was screwed when it came to needing special software...
by gchamonlive | 2026-03-04 19:13:49+00:00
> We need to increase reliability in the kernel, so the kernel team should fire the top 5 bug-introducers, to reduce the amount of bugs being introduced (https://pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-bugs-part2/05_author_analy...). Linus has got to go.

You've cut bugs being introduced while also reducing development costs by slashing team size. You deserve a promotion and an increase in equity.
by ben_w | 2026-03-04 19:13:53+00:00
> And so is being Israel with Iran right there with Hezbollah, Hamas etc... Incredibly biased comment.

How would it help any of us, to imagine ourselves being an alternate reality version of the Iranian leadership who in turn are imagining themselves being the Israeli leadership?

In order to guess what Iran does next, all we have to do is the first step, to imagine ourselves in the Iranian position, not to hypothesise about a much more competent Iranian leadership than actually exists which had the empathy needed to put itself in anyone else's position rather than call Israel and the USA un-metaphorically the big and little Satan.
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by sorenjan | 2026-03-04 19:14:12+00:00
But that's not something you'd use an LLM for. There have been computer vision systems sorting bad peas for more than a decade[0], of course there are plenty of use cases for very fast inspection systems. But when would you use an LLM for anything like that?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLDxXPziztw
by rescbr | 2026-03-04 19:14:44+00:00
> what computers are you buying that are more environmentally friendly?

Any computer that you can upgrade its parts? SSD, RAM, Wifi cards, etc.

The only parts that wear out on a modern laptop are the SSD and the battery. If I replace those, I can use it basically indefinitely, paying the penalty on performance and energy consumption depending on how old the CPU is.

Why would I throw out (or recycle) a perfectly good computer if I could simply fix or upgrade it? If you're not reusing it, then you could pass it down to somebody who would use it.

20+ year old computers are e-waste at this point thanks to software bloating and lack of hardware acceleration for at least h.264.

15 year old computers are very usable, but unfortunately most use SATA for storage which is definitely not optimal for SSDs.

10 year old computers are from when PC tech plateaued, for most use cases the difference in performance is imperceptible, and maybe you lose power efficiency.
by SigmundA | 2026-03-04 19:14:49+00:00
Other databases cache plans and have for years because it's very useful, many (most?) apps run many of the same statement with differing parameters, its a big win. They do this without the client having to figure out the statement matching logic like your various PG Orms and connection poolers try and do.

They also do things like auto parameterization if the statement doesn't have them and parameter sniffing to make multiple different plans based on different
values where it makes sense.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/q...

You can also get this, add HINTs to control this behavior if you don't like it or its causing a problem in production, crazy I know.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/hints-tr...

PG is extremely primitive compared to these other systems in this area, and it has to be since it doesn't cache anything unless specifically instructed to for a single connection.
by leptons | 2026-03-04 19:15:02+00:00
I'd rather have a thousand form-factors and build qualities to choose from than the one-size-fits-all that Apple offers. If Apple doesn't make it, then you can't run their software on it, and they don't make too many form factors.

I can run Windows on a USB stick form-factor if I want to. Or dozens of tablet sizes from various vendors. And every kind of laptop imaginable, with all kinds of features. And everything else up to massive rack-mount server hardware. But sure, if a Macbook is all you need, then go for it.
by Liftyee | 2026-03-04 19:15:11+00:00
I have done similar searches before. They do exist, but most dedicated ICs are targeted towards tightly-integrated cells or battery packs. The variety available is much smaller than for Li-ion batteries, and the ICs are more expensive.

It seems like commercial multi-cell battery chargers mostly use custom microcontrollers to achieve this, instead of multiple charging ASICs.
by WillAdams | 2026-03-04 19:15:17+00:00
I just want to take a moment to note that I am _very_ grateful for the flexibility of this configuration and that it affords the power/option to disable scrolling with a stylus (effectively dumbing it down to an 11th touch input) and allowing it to function as I've come to expect since the days of PenPoint and Windows for Pen Computing to select text and so forth.