MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dahcryn | 2026-03-06 08:05:48+00:00
I would like to counteract your statement that each token adds a distraction.

In our experiments, we see a surprising benefit to rewriting blocks to use more tokens, especially long lists etc..

E.g. compare these two options

"The following conditions are excluded from your contract
- condition A
- condition B
...
- condition Z"

The next one works better for us:

"The following conditions are excluded from your contract
- condition A is excluded
- condition B is excluded
...
- condition Z is excluded"

And we now have scripts to rewrite long documents like this, explicitly adding more tokens. Would you have any opinion on this?
by benrutter | 2026-03-06 08:05:54+00:00
I liked reading this essay, but, I get the sake vibe as a lit of PG essays. Which is, great writing and really intellegent thinking on an interesting subject, but without really being aware of ther stuff people have previously said/thought on the topic.

For instance:

> Brand is what's left when the substantive differences between products disappear.

I think, for better and worse, brands are a lot more than that.

Brands at least start out as a designation of quality, but in modern society, they're an important part in companies avoiding legal liability, and having more distributed supply chains.

Nike couldn't be the global brand it was today if it directly managed all its factories. Modern brands are a part of the economic landscape that is fundamental for making the kind of distributed supply chains that allow globalisation to be possible.

I think the essay mixes brands a little with conspicuous consumption, which can also happen without brands, like with artists or jewels. Its just that brands are so ever present, its not always obvious to see these examples.

So yeah, we definitely are in "the brand age", but brands definitely aren't non-functional at all. The world really would operate very differently without them.
by prunax | 2026-03-06 08:06:30+00:00
Hey matrixgard

Good question on the dead zone case. Right now the system presents the raw reachability overlap rather than penalising anyone's zone explicitly. If someone is in a transit dead zone, their isochrone simply ends up smaller, which naturally constrains the overlap area. The Fairness Score then measures how equitably the resulting venues sit within that overlap — so a venue that’s at the edge of the smaller zone gets scored lower than one closer to the true intersection. It’s implicit rather than explicit penalization, which feels more honest than artificially adjusting one person’s weight.

On ratings — yes, already in. Google Places rating is factored into the venue ranking inside the overlap zone, so the output isn’t just the fairest spot geographically but the best-reviewed option within the fair zone. The two signals are combined rather than sequential. The gap I’m still working on is price level — Google Places has a price tier field but it’s inconsistently populated, which makes it not very reliable as a filter right now.
by pibaker | 2026-03-06 08:07:06+00:00
+1.

Maybe it's just pattern recognition misfiring, maybe I'm too just used to workhorse software with websites that look stuck in 1999, but everything coming out of that company (Charmbracelet, Inc. according to website footer) feels like it could suddenly get monetized and enshittified next Tuesday morning.

There is also something weird about this entire aesthetics. They all got this 2020s startup vibe of smooth gradients, bisexual lighting, infantile mascots with cartoon or anime inspired styles, vaguely Asian and vaguely feminine. It feels predatory not in the Big Cat with Bloody Mouth way, but in the Cocomelon sensory videos for ages 1 to 3 way. Am I crazy or does anyone else feel similarly?
by muhammadbaibars | 2026-03-06 08:08:11+00:00
I built this to measure how much time I lose switching between coding projects.

It scans git repos, detects when you switch projects (different repo + >30min gap), and estimates the cost (20 min per switch to get back in flow).

Ran it on 15 days of my commits: 15 switches, ~5 hours lost. I'm pretty focused, but wanted to see if others struggle more with this.

Currently a Python CLI tool with --today, --week, --month, --days options.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-2PE4HOWEQ

Curious to hear if this resonates or if I'm measuring the wrong thing.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-06 08:09:35+00:00
The problem in modern wars is that those who start them claim that they do this for survival, but the claim is not based on any real action of the adversary or on any evidence that the adversary is dangerous, but on beliefs that the adversary might want to endanger the survival of the attacker some time in an indefinite future, and perhaps might even be able to do that.

Nobody who starts a war today acknowledges that they do this for other reasons than "survival", e.g. for stealing various kinds of resources from the attacked.

It has become difficult to distinguish those who truly fight for survival from those who only claim to do this.
by tuetuopay | 2026-03-06 08:09:39+00:00
The harm is well above (even that is arguable), but the probability of getting harmed is so much lower it's not even comparable.

Alcohol? Yeah one or two too many drinks and you're in the hospital getting your stomach vacuumed. Driving? Blink and you run over a kid. Internet? You can spend evening and nights over there and not be harmed in any way.

We have full generations of kids that can now be studied about the effects of the internet, starting with millenials. I won't pretend the Internet is a better place now than it was when I was a teen, but it appears to me the "dangerous" things are more focused and concentrated (at least for kids): social networks. It's still a minefield, but with leagues between two mines.

Porn has always been the topic touted for children safety, because it's scary and resonates with conservatives and religious people. Access to is is roughly the same today than it was then, and arguably less dangerous today because the dirty stuff is hidden deeper, thus less likely to stumble upon.

But other than porn, the thing that changed the most is social networks. Addiction, bullying, etc. Facebook 15 years ago was a not serious place. The equivalent today is the best place to get roasted by fellow kids and bullied 24/7 while not being able to get off the hook. The damage is psychological, which is insidious, but not systematic. Not every kid will get bullied, not every kid will be addicted to the algorithm(tm), etc.

In the end, education plays a bigger role than simple age verification. Stimulate your kids, give them things to do other than doomscrolling, and get them on the dark corners of the internet to give them curiosity about the world and un-sanitized stuff (hacking in all forms, etc).
by senko | 2026-03-06 08:09:48+00:00
> Wow, look at those luxurious titlebars, windows edges, scrollbars, and tabs! So easy to use.

That's just Motif: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)

Shame it wasn't under an open license to begin with (they relicenced it to LGPL waaay too late). We've been reimplementing it ever since.
by mpweiher | 2026-03-06 08:09:48+00:00
That is incorrect. The profitability floor of even the catastrophic FOAK FV 3 build is 9 cents/kWh for a 2% ROI, with around €130 for 4%. The EPR2 units are lower, around €90/MWh for 4% return and €70-80 for 2% return.

Contrast this with French intermittent renewables projects, which are not profitable at all, EDF receives massive subsidies for them.
by deno | 2026-03-06 08:10:26+00:00
> The EU is working on a type of digital ID that an age-restricted platform would ask for, which only gives the platform the age information and no further PII.

Sure, it might start out that way, but once adoption reaches anything critical the PII will be required to squash free speech as soon as possible. But by then the interaction flow will be familiar, hardly anyone will even notice, never mind care.

The EU has the best frog boiling experts in the world.
by Nursie | 2026-03-06 08:10:45+00:00
> Anything else I can do with my phone or laptop

Most stuff, sure, but probably not -

> heart rate monitoring

So as someone who is cantering through middle age to a point in life close to where males in my family in older generations have experienced atrial fibrillation and other heart problems, having a heart rate monitor built into my watch that is capable of spotting early signs of this stuff is pretty cool. Having it (crudely) monitor blood oxygen lets me know that for all I snore, I don't seem to have terrible sleep apnea, and I'm considering an upgrade to one that does blood pressure too.

I know this is going to be of limited interest to the young, but these devices becoming more widespread is likely very helpful to an older cohort like myself (I'm 47), making them 'just part of the package' with smart watches puts this sort of health monitoring and information in reach for a lot of people who would otherwise probably not be interested in wearing an ugly medical device, and whose first sign of trouble might be a fibrillation episode or falling asleep at the wheel.
by leptons | 2026-03-06 08:11:01+00:00
>I am shipping more code, better code, less buggy code WAY faster than ever before.

It's clearly relative. For all we know you're a crap coder and AI is now your crutch. We have no evidence that with AI you are as good as an average developer with a fair amount of experience. And even if you do have a fair amount of experience, that doesn't mean you're a good coder.
by bob1029 | 2026-03-06 08:11:32+00:00
Classes are a safe default even if you expect things to go very, very fast.

The overhead of screwing up NUMA concerns vastly outstrips any kind of class vs struct differences. It's really one of the very last things you should be worrying about.

Allocating an array of a class vs an array of struct might seem like you're getting a wildly different memory arrangement, but from the perspective of space & time this distinction is mostly pointless. Where the information resides at any given moment is the most important thing (L1/L2/L3/DRAM/SSD/GPU/AWS). Its shape is largely irrelevant.
by 3RTB297 | 2026-03-06 08:11:47+00:00
A week after I started doing OSINT research, I realized how much very personal data I had online. Much more than I wanted. Years ago I went down the privacy rabbit hole and realized how bad all of this was. And that was before it took off around 2019 and really ramped up a year ago.

It's not uncommon, but always disappointing to me, to see how out of touch most HN folks are when it comes to privacy and data. Usually privacy is dismissed as hyperbole, or tinfoil hat stuff, or only for people selling drugs on the darknet. It's not anymore. The minimum barrier to entry for simply not having your every thought and whim and search catalogued is high: Masking your IP address, masking your browser fingerprint, and simply not participating in a lot of parts of the internet.

These are your thoughts, your personal life, being dissected and catalogued and sold in an attempt to, at BEST, shape your behavior. At worst, see exactly when you cross the line into becoming "an agitator." It's the step you need before getting to "thoughtcrime." Why is this acceptable to anyone??? In exchange for free email?

We're all in the pot and the water is already starting to bubble. And I'm sure that the only replies I might get will be "Oh, but no, it's not anything like that." Sure.

This is simply the first time you're seeing it on US soil. https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ad...

Yet two years ago, look how many people were incredulous, doubtful, or simply didn't care. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39540738

Maybe now is a good time to bring up KOSA? Or maybe we should discuss that two years from now when it's too late to change anything.

https://www.eff.org/document/kids-online-safety-act-kosa
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/kids-online-safety-act...
by 7777777phil | 2026-03-06 08:14:01+00:00
CAR-T works because blood is accessible. You pull the cells, engineer them outside the body, and reinfuse.

Astrocytes are fixed in brain tissue, so "single injection" means intracranial surgery.. the clinical bar for injecting anything into an Alzheimer's patient's brain is high enough that this is still a long way from a treatment.
by mattnewton | 2026-03-06 08:14:54+00:00
When you were detained it was in service of understanding an accident. When these Americans are detained it’s because they were racially profiled. The courts may decide that’s due process now but they didn’t believe so years ago and there is quite an ugly history to that practice.

This article is from October of last year. It’s very hard to get current numbers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...
by throw3847r7 | 2026-03-06 08:14:57+00:00
You need certain company culture, to be able to scale up, and to capture this value. Most companies can not just add new developers.

AI needs documentation, automation, integration tests... It works very well for remote first company, but not for in-face informal grinding approach.

Just year ago, client told me to delete integration tests, because "they ran too long"!
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by jpollock | 2026-03-06 08:16:02+00:00
The last time I tried AI, I tested it with a stopwatch.

The group used feature flags...

if (a) {
// new code
} else {
// old code
}

void testOff() {
disableFlag(a);
// test it still works
}

void testOn() {
enableFlag(a);
// test it still works
}

However, as with any cleanup, it doesn't happen. We have thousands of these things lying around taking up space. I thought "I can give this to the AI, it won't get bored or complain."

I can do one flag in ~3minutes. Code edit, pr prepped and sent.

The AI can do one in 10mins, but I couldn't look away. It kept trying to use find/grep to search through a huge repo to find symbols (instead of the MCP service).

Then it ignored instructions and didn't clean up one or the other test, left unused fields or parameters and generally made a mess.

Finally, I needed to review and fix the results, taking another 3-5 minutes, with no guarantee that it compiled.

At that point, a task that takes me 3 minutes has taken me 15.

Sure, it made code changes, and felt "cool", but it cost the company 5x the cost of not using the AI (before considering the token cost).

Even worse, the CI/CD system couldn't keep up the my individual velocity of cleaning these up, using an automated tool? Yeah, not going to be pleasant.

However, I need to try again, everyone's saying there was a step change in December.
by mpweiher | 2026-03-06 08:16:04+00:00
Hmm...any evidence for your weird and to be frank a bit racist claims about "middle eastern labor and design" as well as regulations?

You may not be aware of this, but the UAE is one of the richest countries in the world, on par with with the United States and ahead of Denmark and most of the European nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

The design is South Korean.

So: where is your evidence that labor/design/regulations are sub-par?
by psychoslave | 2026-03-06 08:16:10+00:00
> A Grand Seiko or a Nomos or a Patek is perhaps now even more interesting & identity-productive than a watch was in the 60s.

I have no idea what these brands sell and I give it so much importance I won't even bother make a search.

To my mind, this is a lose lose game. Society at large is being engaged into wasteful goals, and as all means are going to be useful in the game where all that matter is displaying more personal material whealths, general social outcomes are undermined: first bribery, then use of other mental coercion tools, then threats, then bare physical aggressions.

>As technologists I think we're prone to dismissing improvements that aren't engineering-backed.

No that's not about technology and engineering blindness. Technologies of course can serve best interests of general public and humanity at large. Or a improve efficiency of genocide. And social engineering can be used either to create isolation and hate between groups, or spread more solidarity, diversity being loved where it's open to reciprocal appreciation of differences, and many other virtuous bounds beyond local groups.

Not all life is story telling. Behind, there are real people with actual suffering and joys that goes beyond what even the most eloquent narrator can convey.
by johanyc | 2026-03-06 08:16:58+00:00
> Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

This is a highly deceptive title. As if Proton proactively helped FBI, which is not even close to truth. Proton is not even in direct contact with FBI. It's Swiss government that forwarded the info to FBI.

A much better title would be:

Proton Mail Payment Info Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

Or

FBI Unmasked Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
via Proton Mail Payment Info

The point is informing the normies that your payment info is linked to your identity and a potential risk to your anonymity.

That clickbaity title makes me want to unsubscribe from their RSS feed.

> then it turns out they may be sharing data with the swiss government who then gives it to the us government.

Literally every legal business complies to law enforcement. They have to.
by utopiah | 2026-03-06 08:17:01+00:00
On using VMs I suggested something similar earlier https://lemmy.ml/post/43994511/24315514 so it's clearly not a deep or original ideas. It will be figured out quickly. In fact any kid reading that article or those comments is probably already researching about this topic and chatting about their successes and failures with friends. No way it can hold.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-06 08:17:08+00:00
Trump has already claimed that he has destroyed all nuclear capability of Iran at the previous attack done by USA against Iran.

Claiming now that this other attack has the same purpose makes certain that USA has lied either at the previous attack or at the current attack.

When the government of a country is a proven liar, no allegations about how dangerous another country is are credible.

Moreover, just before the attack, during the negotiations between USA and Iran it was said that Iran accepted most of the new American requests regarding their nuclear capabilities, which had the goal to prevent them from making any weapons, but their willingness to make concessions did not help them at all to avoid a surprise attack before the end of the negotiations.
by elevatortrim | 2026-03-06 08:17:43+00:00
Of course, they look like normal watches, that’s the point. However, if you paid for, you would get an extremely polished watch, rares/high-quality materials, hand-checked for every imperfection etc. as opposed to an almost the same looking watch for a brand, say Orient, which you would be able to find minor imperfections even as a non-enthusiast.
by superfrank | 2026-03-06 08:17:50+00:00
I'm an EM as well and I've been telling my teams for a while now that I think they really only need to start worrying once our backlog starts going down instead of up. Generally, I still agree with that (and your) sentiment when you look at the long term, but in the short term, I think all of the following arguments can be made in favor of layoffs:

- AI tools are expensive so until the increased productivity translates to increased revenue we need to make room in the budget

- We expect the bottlenecks in our org to move from writing code to something else (PM or design or something) so we're cutting SWEs in anticipation of needing to move that budget elsewhere.

- We anticipate the skillsets needed by developers in the AI world to be fundamentally different from what they are now that it's cheaper to just lay people off, run as lean as possible, and rehire people with the skills we want in a year or two than it is to try and retrain.

I don't necessarily agree with those arguments (especially the last one), but I think they're somewhat valid arguments
by AmazingTurtle | 2026-03-06 08:18:03+00:00
I just tried that in Codex CLI. With /fast mode enabled. Observations:

1. Fast mode ain't that fast

2. Large context * Fast * Higher Model Base Price = 8x increase over gpt-5.3-codex

3. I burnt 33% of my 5h limit (ChatGPT Business Subscription) with a prompt that took 2 minutes to complete.
by time4tea | 2026-03-06 08:18:06+00:00
Copying production data to dev is widely regarded as being a bit of a bad idea, if the data contains any information that relates to a person or real life entity.

Uncontrolled access, inability to comply with "right to be forgotten" legislation, visibility of personal information, including purchases, physical locations, etc etc.

Of course sales, trading, inventory, etc data, even with no customer info is still valuable.

Attempts to anonymise are often incomplete, with various techniques to de-anonymise available.

Database separation, designed to make sure that certain things stay in different domains and cant be combined, also falls apart if you have both the databases on your laptop.

Of course, any threat actor will be happy that prod data is available in dev environments, as security is often much lower in dev environments.

Caveat emptor.
by roenxi | 2026-03-06 08:18:15+00:00
> Do they kill over a million people a year worldwide? How many orders of magnitude fewer people are killed by E-things?

On a per meter basis I'd expect bikes to be much worse. I've had more injuries on bike than in car, and people can certainly kill themselves on a bike. The main reason they don't is because the bad bike riders usually have enough accidents that they stop getting on the things. Bikes in themselves would probably be borderline illegal to sell if they were invented today, they don't look safe at all. And E-things are less safe again than ordinary bikes.

> OP's point was that if you invented something today that killed over a million people per year, it probably wouldn't be allowed, and I don't think that's really that controversial a statement.

I'm not replying to OP. I agree with him on this one and note that the implication of that is e-bikes are probably on their way towards being banned or restricted.
by watwut | 2026-03-06 08:18:25+00:00
> They look beautiful.

I dunno there. I think that Paul Graham does not know much about what he talks about ... but these watches are not beautiful. I give you that there was care and intention put into them, but they are just ugly as a result.

And I did went through period of trying to find cool good looking old school watch. For some reason, the current watch style is ranging between "meh" and "ugly".
by pjmlp | 2026-03-06 08:18:26+00:00
Was it? I am not on US.

If anything it is all about boomers, gen z and rednecks on YT and TikTok when going over MAGA and Project 2025 videos.

As far as I am aware, the people that didn't gave a damm to elections and ignored their right to vote, are the main reason.