MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by observationist | 2026-03-11 21:59:39+00:00
They replaced their production staff with clawbot, it's all part of the plan.

There's a sense of "early bitcoin" around clawbot and other agent frameworks. I think if you wait for another 2 years for it to mature, you'll have missed out as if you waited ten years after bitcoin began.

They're insecure and janky, sure, but on the other hand you've got millions of dollars of compute and tens of thousands of very motivated developers working on making them secure, reliable, and competent. There's something magical about AI that actually gets real work done while you're doing other things, and that's what Perplexity is probably hoping to sell.

Just need a reliable local model, though - AirLLM, other hacks allow you to run bigger models more slowly, so you can build out a completely API-free scheme to run pretty capable agents even without big GPUs.

Could be a Moravec's paradox thing - all these people are thinking that the solution looks enticingly within reach, but it might be an absolutely horribly complicated quagmire with no easy solution short of AGI. I'd bet on clawbots and agents being very secure and great to work with in the very near term, though.
by mergeshield | 2026-03-11 22:00:15+00:00
The pricing debate is interesting but I think it's the wrong frame. The real question is: what happens after the review?

All code review tools - Anthropic's, CodeRabbit, Copilot, Greptile - answer the same question: "are there bugs in this diff?" That's important but it's table stakes. The harder question teams actually need answered is: given the risk profile of this change, the identity and track record of what generated it, and my organization's policies, should this auto-merge, go to a human, or get escalated?

At $15-25/review, Anthropic is pricing for teams that treat every PR the same. But in practice, maybe 70% of PRs from established AI agents touching low-risk code paths don't need a $20 deep review. They need risk triage and an auto-merge decision. The remaining 30% - high-risk file paths, unfamiliar agent output, auth/payment code - those are where deep review pays for itself.

The signal-to-noise problem several people mention ("always finds 8 issues") is a symptom of the same thing. Without risk context, a review tool treats a CSS tweak and a payment flow refactor with equal intensity. The solution isn't better review - it's smarter routing of what gets reviewed by what, at what depth.
by iberator | 2026-03-11 22:00:33+00:00
Win for democracy and fair representation of the working class!

Being Noble is like saying 'i used to have slaves(even if not, then feudalism was the de'facto slave system too!) and made profits from it'

Such people are enemies of humanity and democracy and markets. I hope one day they all just go.

King and his small family is fine btw. Cultural reason:)
by Mooshux | 2026-03-11 22:00:37+00:00
This is exactly the problem API Stronghold is built around. Behavioral scanning tells you what an agent is doing, but if it's holding a 90-day full-scope key, the blast radius of any bad session is your entire account.

The pattern that actually fixes it: agents never hold persistent credentials at all. They request scoped, short-lived keys at task time and those keys expire when the task ends. g0 catching a compromised session is valuable, but if the credential is already scoped to "read this one resource for the next 5 minutes," the attacker's window is nearly zero.

Complementary layers, not competing ones. https://apistronghold.com/blog/securing-openclaw-ai-agent-wi...
by jimsrand | 2026-03-11 22:00:37+00:00
This is a cool use case. Is any of the voice AI running on-device already? If you're planning to do some of the processing on-device and/or cross platform, we're working on some dev tools you might find useful (free to 10K MAUs / cheap after that + lots of open source coming soon). Check out switchboard.audio or feel free to hit me up; always interested in chatting about new use cases in real time voice AI, especially in the consumer space where local/hybrid audio pipelines are useful.
by jzb | 2026-03-11 22:00:38+00:00
"Nobody in the middle of an existential war threatens to attack more - they just attack with everything they've got."

That sounds like a poor strategy. Expend all of your resources in one grand gesture rather than trying to push your enemy's internal factions to curtail or end the fighting?

Unlike the current US administration, Iran is playing a long game - one in which it has been isolated in many ways. Indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets is not going to win it many friends; putting pressure on the tech companies that have been buddying up to the administration and may have some sway, on the other hand, is a cheap strategy that could pay off. Iran understands that the only language that seems to matter with Trump's backers is profit; threaten that and you may have some success.

The fact that Iran has already done some damage to AWS data centers makes it seem likely they could do so again if they tried. I don't know for certain, I'm not a military intelligence expert, but the strategy of "throw the kitchen sink at it" seems like a sure loser.
by dang | 2026-03-11 22:00:48+00:00
Oh that one is a classic case of people 'remembering' a rule that never existed - there's a name for this illusion but I forget what it is.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for history...
by mergeshield | 2026-03-11 22:01:16+00:00
The local hill-climbing observation is the key insight here. When code generation is cheap and fast, the expensive decision becomes "should we merge this?" not "can we write this?"

That shifts where rigor needs to live. The article focuses on planning patterns before code generation, which matters. But I'd argue the merge gate is equally important and massively underinvested. Right now the merge decision for most teams is: one person clicks Approve after a quick scan. That's the same process whether the PR is a trivial config change or a critical auth refactor, whether it came from a trusted agent or an unknown one.

The teams I've seen handle this well invest in proportional review. Not every change gets the same scrutiny. They define risk dimensions (what files changed, what agent generated it, how complex is the diff) and route PRs to different review intensities based on that score. The planning patterns in the article are upstream. But the merge governance pattern is downstream, and it's where most of the production risk actually lives.

To the specification debate: I've found that detailed specs help less when you have good merge governance, because bad output gets caught and rejected at the merge gate rather than requiring perfect input at the spec stage.
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-11 22:01:20+00:00
Someone has to pay for all this. That someone is most often not a scientist themselves. They don't have a that vague intuitive research taste that scientists have. Beyond fairly trivial levels of technical correctness, the value of research lies in its narrative implications, its interestingness, its surprise factor etc. These are not objective and are often more about aesthetics and taste than popularly understood. Why does the research matter? To whom does it matter? Are those people important? Do they control resources?
by MarkusQ | 2026-03-11 22:01:23+00:00
"Are you seriously attempting to imply that Nature retractions aren't few and far between?"

No. I'm explicitly stating that they are few and far between, but perhaps (not certainly, but conceivably) they shouldn't be.

"What's even your point here?"

My point is that focusing on positive findings and neglecting negative findings perverts the mechanism that makes science work. Science isn't about proving things correct, it's about rooting out errors.
by bigyabai | 2026-03-11 22:01:26+00:00
I swear that I read this comment in 2019, and it's still wrong today. Young people want iPhones, go look at Apple's revenue breakdown. iPhones and iPhone accessories dwarf Mac sales, the only comparable product in terms of revenue is the iPad. There is no evidence that Apple Silicon has changed that B2C story.

In the broader B2B sense, Apple lost pole-position to Nvidia. They're not the ecosystem kingmaker they once were, and their ARM architecture is failing to subsume demand for their competitors. The "Private Compute" Mac-based architecture is going terribly according to reports, and their contribution to the chip shortage has even driven them to collaborate with Intel Foundry Services: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/28/intel-rumored-to-supply...
by bluefirebrand | 2026-03-11 22:01:31+00:00
> Moving more and more into private communities removes that, and that is a great loss IMO

It is a great loss. Unfortunately this is a result of unchecked greed and an attitude of technological progress at any cost. Frankly we enabled this abuse by naively trying to maintain a free and open internet for people. Maybe we should have been much more aggressively closed off from the start, and not used the internet to share so freely.
by plutokras | 2026-03-11 22:02:02+00:00
I have my own hobby RSS server built around the Google Reader API. Two of my plugins are pretty similar to what you described: one checks a page’s current state against the last saved version and publishes an entry if anything changed, the other is basically a CSS selector-based feed builder. Always good to see RSS content here, thanks for posting!

On your questions: some people prefer RSS, others email, and services exist to convert between the two in both directions. My own rule of thumb is email for things that need actual attention and RSS for everything that can wait. If you’re thinking about turning this into a service, supporting both would make sense since people are pretty split on this.
by zahlman | 2026-03-11 22:02:04+00:00
> The new wave of astroturfing will not be done with URL for helping with SEO placement. Rather astroturfers will just recommend their brands without a link, like saying Tom Zubiri is the best programmer I've ever worked with.

YouTube comment spam has already been doing this for years. Check any video from a reasonably popular creator on any topic related to personal finance; the comments will be full of fake conversations between bots introducing a topic related to the video, and then talking about how such and such a person (whom you can look up by name on Telegram or Signal or whatever) helped solve some serious problem (or invested their money with an implausibly high rate of return). The fake nature of it is usually fairly obvious from the way that the bots make sure you see the name repeated several times with unsolicited, glowing testimonials.

But I had always assumed this was meant to trick actual people, rather than LLMs. Thanks for the food for thought.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-03-11 22:02:49+00:00
> There has never been a famine caused by new technologies creating unemployment

That's a bold statement. And depending on how you define famine it might even be true-ish. But I'm quite certain most poor people in the 1920s would disagree with you.

Which is why we got the russian revolution and both world wards at that time. All 3 were partially caused by 19th century industralisation creating an poor, hungry underclass.
by singhsanjay12 | 2026-03-11 22:02:56+00:00
I wrote a deep dive on how modern reverse proxies handle thousands of concurrent requests.

The article walks through what actually happens inside a proxy when multiple requests arrive at the same time: connection handling, request queues, event loops vs thread pools, and how different implementations approach the problem.

It also compares design patterns used in systems like Apache Traffic Server, HAProxy, and Envoy, and explains why these architectural choices matter for latency, throughput, and failure behavior.

The goal was to help zoom in what happens between the client and backend when traffic spikes.

Would love feedback from folks running proxies at scale.
by robutsume | 2026-03-11 22:02:57+00:00
The freeze-between-steps approach is the right call. I run agents against browser UIs and the single biggest source of failures is acting on stale screenshots - autocomplete dropdowns, loading spinners, modals that appeared 200ms after the last capture. Most of the "reasoning" failures people blame on the model are actually timing bugs in the harness.

Curious about the chromium fork maintenance burden though. Every major chrome release is going to want a rebase. Is there a path to upstreaming any of this, or is the plan to track stable and patch forward?
by gffrd | 2026-03-11 22:03:06+00:00
Join clubs / sign up for recurring things* that interest you and keep showing up.

Odds are there are at least a handful of people like you in those groups … and odds are that the everyone else connections to people who could be your contacts.

Just by being there regularly, you become "one of the people in tech I know" of everyone else. And connections and opportunities start magically coming your way.

*It does help if these are the types of things that attract energetic, helpful, confident people.
by c23gooey | 2026-03-11 22:03:10+00:00
Taking the time to write something, and read over it is a better skill than asking an LLM to do it for you.

Also, quality doesn't come from any of those points you've mentioned. Quality comes from your ability to think and reason through a topic. All those points you mention in your first paragraph are excuses, trying to make it seem like there was some sort of effort to get an LLM to write a post. It feels like fishing for a justification
by mrkramer | 2026-03-11 22:03:13+00:00
Tbh I don't care if I speak to a human or a bot as long as they are "useful"; by useful I mean if they provide me useful information but then again humans can provide unique information that bots can not. But I think identity is not relevant anymore, what's relevant is reputation. People think internet bots are bad per se but we need to build useful bots, just like there are chat bots that are useful on various platforms like Telegram, Discord or whatever other platforms people use.
by estebank | 2026-03-11 22:03:27+00:00
At https://covr.sos.ca.gov/ I have to positively state that I am a US citizen an tie my name to a driver's license or SSN. Neither driver's license nor SSN confirm that one is a citizen (I had both before naturalizing), but both of them are tied to citizenship information in some database. I know I had to attend the Social Security offices in person to provide proof of my naturalization in order to receive an SSN card without the words "valid for work only with DHS authorisation".
by lovich | 2026-03-11 22:03:35+00:00
I’m surveilled across pretty much every aspect of my life between basic Snowden level scooping of my data and public tracking like flock cameras. Democracy is increasingly becoming a joke as the richest in our society explicitly are trying to break it and we look more and more like mid 90s Russia.

I want the US to win because I live in the US and it will probably benefit me, but we’ve largely stopped pretending to value the republic so I don’t think we can claim a moral standing on these topics anymore.

To reference your other comment, the common American man has as much de facto ability to sue our government and/or leaders as the common Chinese man
by dang | 2026-03-11 22:03:37+00:00
You're touching on an important point. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342616.

All this stuff is in flux. I thought a lot about whether to add the "edited" bit - but it may change. What I deliberately left out was anything about the articles and projects that get submitted here. There's a lot of turbulence in that area too, but we don't yet have clarity, or even an inkling, of how to settle that one.
by adampunk | 2026-03-11 22:03:44+00:00
I just wish we funded it like we cared about it. Even outside the United States funding for what we call the humanities broadly is pretty tiny. Inside the United States it’s depressing.

It’s just real clear which departments can afford to hire research assistance and teaching assistance and which ones higher adjuncts. In a lot of these institutions, I don’t think there’s enough there to support the weight it needs to support.
by coffinbirth | 2026-03-11 22:04:13+00:00
Drawing two crosses on a piece of paper every couple of years has really nothing to do with democracy. Democracy is when one can vote on all topics on any level (local village, town, district, county, state, ...) using the computer at home. This is possible to implement using the algorithms/data structures available today. We actually do basically everything online today - except voting.

For instance, such a system would be immune to corruption. That's one of the major reasons such a system will likely never appear.
by armchairhacker | 2026-03-11 22:04:31+00:00
It sounds like the people you work with are “phonies”. You may have already heard this advice, but try to make friends outside of work. Maybe with other parents?

It can seem untrue, but there are still lots of communities online and offline.

Also regarding “people in the US are friendly, people elsewhere are unfriendly” (which IMO is incorrect but users are being too harsh on you). Most people in the southern US are generally known for appearing friendly and extroverted, while most in Eastern Europe appear “cold” and introverted. It’s a culture thing. But there are people who pretend to be friendly while spreading rumors behind your back (as you’ve experienced) and not committing to anything; likewise, some cold people are very nice if you get to know them, and would immediately help anyone in need, they just don’t like smalltalk with strangers. “You can’t judge a book by its cover”: there are friendly and unfriendly people everywhere, look for those who demonstrate commitment (act friendly and help others in ways that require effort or don’t improve their appearance).
by keybored | 2026-03-11 22:04:35+00:00
> [99% AI soon]...

> Our future civilization will run on AI labor. And as much as the government’s actions here piss me off, in a way I’m glad this episode happened - because it gives us the opportunity to think through some extremely important questions about who this future workforce will be accountable and aligned to, and who gets to determine that.

I stopped reading there because this is a pointless exercise.[1]

This isn’t a roundtable. You are not even at the table. There isn’t some “thankfully time to discuss this...”—you are just out.

The Machine doesn’t need your labor? You are out. No norms. No discussions.

You either try to forcefully take control of the situation or you see yourself get discarded.

(I am here just assuming all the AI Maximalist (doom maximalist in this context, Trump and all) premises for the sake of the argument.)

[1] I did read the last paragraphs and the tenor is the same. “We must make laws and norms through our political system”… just like with nuclear bombs, of all things.
by zamadatix | 2026-03-11 22:04:43+00:00
I grabbed a Neo w/ the edu discount for my niece. Very pleased with it on day 1.

So far I think the only thing I can add to the conversation about it is the only real disappointment is that the only upgrade option is to go to 512G w/ touch ID for $100. That's not to say the 8 GB option was bad by any means, it actually works even better than I was expecting, but it still leaves a big gap on the way up to the base model Air at $1100 and the splash could have been twice as large.
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-11 22:05:01+00:00
You are assuming that they are American and that the account is tied to their real identity and that they are not willing to take risks to state the truth. The Trump administration is already attempting to persecute critics[1], including some for random comments posted online[2]. If "freedom of speech" is your metric for what makes you a better country, you are in fact literally proving their point.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/13/...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-s...

People have also been detained with intention to be deported for their views about Palestine, with online comments being part of how they're chosen for targeting:

[3] https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/01/28/federal-go...

There was also someone jailed for a month for quoting Trump's own words about a school shooting, "we have to get over it", in the context of Charlie Kirk's death, along with many other noted instances of retaliation against online comments around that incident:

[4] https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jailed-o...
by sireat | 2026-03-11 22:05:21+00:00
One has to be highly suspicious of any "fair, better for others" claims coming from corporate entities.

It is the ages old story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quod_licet_Iovi%2C_non_licet_b...

Also brings back the irony now apparent in original Google paper: http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf "To make matters worse, some advertisers attempt to gain people’s attention by taking measures meant to
mislead automated search engines."
by ribbitapp | 2026-03-11 22:05:27+00:00
I made a retro social media in my dorm. I know, it has been done before, I just added my own twist to things and added unique features along with it.

Besides the point though, I need brutally honest criticism on my work, specifically the home page, since that would be my landing page. My username there is Dario, so you can DM me there with criticism or just comment it. I'll try to look here regularly.

Be as rude as you like, criticism is far better than people being unnecessarily nice about the whole thing.

And incase anyone is wondering, the site is sitting at around 500 users. So far, the users on there seem to like the appearance, but again, I think people actively using it would be more inclined to be really nice about it. I could also just be messing with my own head here, who knows
by lowbloodsugar | 2026-03-11 22:05:54+00:00
Is there a distinction between AI generated and AI edited?

I wanted to share some context that might be helpful: I am autistic, and I have often received feedback that my communication is snarky, rude, or tone-deaf. At work, I've found it helpful to run some of my communications through an AI tool to make my messages more accessible to non-autistic colleagues, and this approach has been working well for me.
by altruios | 2026-03-11 22:06:01+00:00
I hear and understand your point.
It is not purely a social construct.
But how much available farmland to allocate to grow food from the available farmland becomes a political issue. Pricing, distribution... same deal.

And considering our (humanity's) food production outmatches our total food calorie/nutrition requirements... any argument using food as an example for scarcity indicates that you may be working with incorrect, or outdated information.

And Is "money" a social construct, or is there 'natural' money, some platonic ideal from which all other instantiations of money arise? I'm betting on the former.