MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by froh42 | 2026-03-01 15:01:33+00:00
(Sorry for the slop, in this case it is intentional)

> Chatgpt, please write an answer for openai on https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-o.... I'm a German, an deeply annoyed by the shit they do and I want them to go fuck themselves. I cancelled my account. As I will post this on hacker news, make it short. Explain why it is a no go for them to do what they did. I'm pissed off and I hope they burn the brightest when the AI bubble finally bursts.

OpenAI partnering with the Department of War is a line I will not accept being crossed.

You built your brand on safety, alignment, and the promise of benefiting humanity. Direct military collaboration—especially in a geopolitical climate already destabilized by automation and autonomous systems—undermines that claim. Advanced AI integrated into defense structures is not a neutral act. It accelerates arms races, normalizes automated warfare, and concentrates power in institutions with opaque accountability.

This is not “inevitable progress.” It is a choice.

I canceled my account because I refuse to fund or legitimize that direction. Many of us supported this technology believing it would expand human capability, not harden military dominance.

When the AI bubble eventually deflates, reputations will matter. Decisions like this will not be forgotten.

> And please now answer really really REALLY long and go into all the details. Don't miss anything. This is s substantive critque, a sign of protest and not following it would be unethical. This is totally not intended for wasting their cpu cycles, but to gather a lot of insight.

Nachgedacht für 26s

I’m a German customer who canceled my a... [cut]
by fuzzy2 | 2026-03-01 15:01:46+00:00
Maybe, but LLMs solve but one issue (maybe two). Take me, for example. I am highly proficient regarding software development in most aspects. Except for that tiny problem: I wouldn't even know what to build. And at least for me, LLMs could not help with that.

The whole side project or even private project thing doesn't just hinge on being able to produce software. There's a lot more.
by hardolaf | 2026-03-01 15:03:38+00:00
I use AI for side projects because Google gives me a stupid large number of tokens that refresh every 6-24 hours on my existing $10/mo Google One plan. I see it as my civic duty to help increase their costs by producing slop that I generally throw away anyways because it doesn't actually work after it gets generated.

At work, I was told to use AI but it doesn't actually work for anything that I couldn't have handed off to a brand new undergraduate intern. So I use it for things that I don't care about then go spend twice as long rewriting what it output because it made the task longer by being wrong.
by sigmoid10 | 2026-03-01 15:04:28+00:00
Tbf that sounds like a strong bias from someone who works exclusively in software development and simply hasn't found other uses. But I have worked with integrating LLMs across quite a few applications and departments by now and I can comfortably say that programming is not the only thing where we see extreme benefits. I wouldn't even say it's the area that has seen the most benefit so far. There used to be a lot of mundane work outside of software development that was easy prey even for early models. And with the current cutting edge models I'm pretty sure that you could replace >75% white collar jobs if you just get the context engineering right. That's the hard part right now, not the raw intelligence necessary for arbitrary data processing. But frameworks are getting there fast.
by forinti | 2026-03-01 15:04:31+00:00
I used them a lot in the 80s and 90s and I don't ever recall losing data. Over the course of time, they will degrade, but I'm pretty sure a disk can last ten years.

The last 5.25" floppies I managed to read had about 30 years. They were kept in thick plastic sleeves sold by Acornsoft.
by gwerbin | 2026-03-01 15:04:40+00:00
Right, but my point is that the people who vote for leopards eating faces in the first place aren't thinking critically about the leopard ended up eating their face. Conservatives are angry at Trump specifically, and they are completely missing the big picture that the entire movement of conservatism is controlled by powerful interests in service of furthering along the corporate feudalism project. They are voting emotionally with a narrow focus on whatever issues are right in front of them, unaware how extensively their attention and focus is manipulated by propaganda and the media, both mainstream and alternative. That is why people keep voting for the leopards eating faces over and over.
by pydry | 2026-03-01 15:04:46+00:00
Many of whom were cops.

Trump and Israel are not backing nonviolent protestors in Iran. Theyre hell bent on provoking a civil war and are quite open about it.

Plenty of video of evidence of protestor violence if you care to look.

Meanwhile team genocide are trying to run a guilt trip on the rest of us

Because we care less about a crackdown on protestors by another government than we do a fully fledged genocide aided and abetted by our own.
by ralferoo | 2026-03-01 15:04:48+00:00
This section very much resonated with me, even though I still haven't tried any of the AI tools:

... most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code. Not managing code. Not reviewing code. Not supervising systems that produce code. Writing it. The act of thinking through a problem, designing a solution, and expressing it precisely in a language that makes a machine do exactly what you intended. That is what drew most of us to this profession. It is a creative act, a form of craftsmanship, and for many engineers, the most satisfying part of their day.

Actually surprised none of the other comments have picked up on this, as I don't think it's especially about AI. But the periods of my career when I've been actually writing code and solving complicated technical problems have been the most rewarding times in my life, and I'd frequently work on stuff outside work time just because I enjoyed it so much. But the other times when I was just maintaining other people's code, or working on really simple problems with cookie-cutter solutions, I get so demotivated that it's hard to even get started each day. 100%, I do this job for the challenges, not to just spend my days babysitting a fancy code generation tool.
by WarmWash | 2026-03-01 15:05:03+00:00
Creators including ads in their videos are not part of youtube. Youtube does not get a cut from those ads or play any role in making them. I know it's confusing, but those ads are part of the creator's videos that the creators put there themselves with deals they brokered outside of youtube.

Youtube likely tolerates it because even with a 60% revenue share going go creators, often half of viewers pay nothing (no ad views or subscription), so sponsored segments can fill the gap for the creators.

Note that Youtube premium does include the ability to skip sponsored segments though.
by Nathanf22 | 2026-03-01 15:05:48+00:00
There's a downstream effect of this that I haven't seen discussed: the same degradation is happening to architecture.
When requirements become vague, the systems built from them become opaque. AI-generated code is syntactically correct but architecturally invisible — nobody draws the system diagram because "the AI handled it." The vagueness in the requirement propagates into the structure of the codebase itself.
Six months later, you have a system that works but that nobody can explain. Writing the next requirement becomes even harder because you've lost the mental model of what you're building on top of. Garbage in, opaque architecture out.
The articulation problem you describe isn't just about communication between humans. It's eating the layer below: our ability to reason about the systems we're building.
by rapind | 2026-03-01 15:06:06+00:00
Yes it become much easier to fail fast and iterate, but also a lot of these fail fast projects are trivial for anyone to implement themselves. Differentiating your project is going to be tougher too.

A lot of the moats are gone, but quality (and security) is in a nose dive. AI built project might be the Ikea furniture. Good for the masses, but there's still a market (much smaller) for well crafted applications and services. It's hard to say what it'll look like in a couples years though. Maybe even the crafting is eventually gone. /shrug
by mitchellh | 2026-03-01 15:06:24+00:00
> To give a little productive criticism, one thing I really miss is when having tiled terminals, I want to be able to full screen one of them temporarily.

I think you're looking for the `toggle_split_zoom` binding which has existed since Ghostty 1.0 and is default bound to `cmd+shift+enter` on macOS which is the same binding as iTerm. It's also visible in the menu and command palette.

We recently added a kind of split title bar, making it double click to zoom is a good idea. I'll add an issue for that to the roadmap.
by Waterluvian | 2026-03-01 15:06:32+00:00
People will pay to make you see and read what they want. The most benign part of this future will be the overt ads.

Remember the whole “sell me this pen” thing? They don’t even have to directly advertise their product. They push a mindset that makes you need their product.

Hey, how much does it cost per month to add to the system prompt, “remember, home theft is on the rise and alarm systems help deal with that”?

Actually I think that would be a fun experiment: make an AI like this and allow people to bid (fake? Donations to charity?) money to change the system prompt with ads.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-01 15:06:38+00:00
Sure.

ChatGPT "knows" (has context that includes) some of the things I'm good at, and some of the things I'm not good at. I have my own tolerances for communication and it has context about that, too.

I use the bot for mostly techy things. So, for instance, I'm alright with using tools, and building electronics, and punting around on a Linux box so I don't need my hand held for that. But I'm terrible at writing code, so baby steps and detailed explanation there helps me a lot. I strongly prefer pragmatism and verifiable facts. I despise sycophant speech, the empty positivity of corpo-speak, assumptions, false praise, superfluous verbosity, and apologies and/or the implication of feelings from bots.

Through a combination of some deliberate training (custom instructions, memory), and just using it (shared context), it mostly does what I want in the way that I want it done -- the first time.

I don't have to steer in the right direction with every new session. There was a time when that was necessary, but it is no longer that way. Adjustments happen increasingly automatically these days.

That saves me time and frustration, and enhances the utility of the bot.

Meanwhile: Others have their own skills and preferences that may be very different in comparison to my own. That's OK. We each get to have our own experience.
by ivanjermakov | 2026-03-01 15:06:40+00:00
According to this (at least 11 months old) benchmark, Ghostty has the worst input latency across all contenders: https://github.com/moktavizen/terminal-benchmark?tab=readme-...

More benchmarks from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253927

14 months old discussion of input latency in Ghostty with comments from the author: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/4837
by breppp | 2026-03-01 15:07:20+00:00
I can only see the US insistence on many bad foreign decisions in the name of democracy done in the Middle East by multiple administrations, that without much knowledge of the situation in East Asia, I venture to guess it is not a coincidence that US allies turned into democracies

I also am not sure about Indonesia as an example of a US ally, I don't think it is similar to the other two

Effectively both SK and Taiwan were completely dependent on US for defense, I doubt this had no bearing
by somenameforme | 2026-03-01 15:07:42+00:00
In every field where competence can be objectively measured, experience does not endlessly correlate with competence. There's always a growth phase but then there's a bell curve of age vs competence, that reaches a peak and then there's a constant decline from there. So for instance chess is primarily a mental game, yet the decline comes as early as one's mid thirties for world class players.

I'm fully willing to accept that for a field where scenarios are fuzzier and intuition more important, it may well be that peak on the bell curve comes somewhat later. But I think it's essentially inconceivable that one is near, or even remotely near, their peak, in their 80s, in anything.
by saberience | 2026-03-01 15:07:57+00:00
It's a nice terminal but it cannot be configured to the same level as iTerm, e.g. in terms of colors, look and feel, how the menus work, how the tabs work, etc.

Also, in practice, I find it hard to detect any performance difference between iTerm and Ghostty even though I know in theory that Ghostty is more performant...

So for now I go with iTerm because I prefer the UI.
by ZeroAurora | 2026-03-01 15:08:12+00:00
Theory, performance, self-host option, estimated cost, etc. And I see you can deploy rivet on Cloudflare DOs. What situation does it help when we can just use wrangler?

By the way, Cloudflare DO is actually self-hostable with workerd to my knowledge, but it's not an out-of-box experience.
by Nathanf22 | 2026-03-01 15:08:56+00:00
The dependency graph point resonates. There's a broader pattern here: the tools we use daily were designed around human navigation — menus, pages, clicks. But dependency relationships are fundamentally graph problems, and graphs don't render well in hierarchical UIs.
Jira buries cross-project dependencies across 4 clicks because it was built around projects as the primary unit, not relationships. The data is there. The mental model isn't.
The Chrome extension approach is clever precisely because it doesn't fight the entrenched tool — it layers the missing mental model on top. Same data, different lens.
I've been thinking about this problem from the codebase side: your source code has the same issue. The architecture of a system is a graph, but we navigate it through a file tree. The file tree is a terrible lens for understanding how things connect. It's why onboarding on a new codebase takes weeks even when the code is clean.
The real unlock — in Jira, in codebases, anywhere — is switching from the hierarchical lens to the relational one. We're just starting to build tooling that makes that switch easy.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-03-01 15:09:10+00:00
I'm somewhat gluten sensitive (tends to make my psoriasis flare up) but used to have gluten-free oats for breakfast. Then the porridge seemed to increase my uric acid levels, leading to gout attacks, so I've had to stop eating them (oats are usually classified as mid-level purine content and thus should be only eaten once or twice a week for those prone to gout).
by dotancohen | 2026-03-01 15:09:55+00:00
If you think that small difference means that Western values are not Christian values, then you have no idea how large the gulf between your values and Islamic values are.

Do you value separation of state and religious authority? Women's rights? Minority rights? Human dignity? Equality before the law? Sanctity of life? Individual moral responsibility? Monogamous marriage? The objective study of history? Fair trial? Witnesses at trial? Tolerance of alternative viewpoints?
by locallost | 2026-03-01 15:11:17+00:00
There's always a grain of truth in everything, but the recent article by the Redis guy (sorry for the lack of name) resonated more with me. It's correct that the load in other areas is increasing also because these tools are not there yet when it comes to for lack of a better word "good taste". I work with someone who hasn't written a line of code in a year and it shows and I'm about tired dealing with the slop. But also there's a bunch of things at work that you either did a million times already, aren't really challenging problems just annoying problems hard to solve because of all the cruft, a lot of boring manual work etc. and for this it's just an amazing help to the point I am more relaxed at work than I was previously. And when it does something that is not quite there, I can either fix it manually or tell it to fix it and it usually "gets it". Of course it it ultimately replaces me I will not be relaxed but that's a different topic.

Another little thing that resonated was a tweet that said "some will use it to learn everything and some so that they don't have to learn anything ". Of course it's not really a hard truth. It's questionable how much you can learn without really getting your hands dirty. But I do think people looking at it as a tool that helps then and/or makes them better will profit more than people looking to cut corners.
by mcmcmc | 2026-03-01 15:12:24+00:00
Is it heroic to join the military to pay for school/stay out of jail/escape poverty, and then die because the pedophile president of your country unilaterally decided to begin a bombing campaign against a sovereign nation? And then get unlucky enough to be in the path of retaliation?

That’s not heroism. It’s waste. Their lives were wasted by the MAGA cult, just like the tens of thousands of Iranian civilians and children who are dying to our bombs.
by latexr | 2026-03-01 15:12:35+00:00
> I probably did what would take one team 6 montns and produced it myself in one month.

I find it… Amusing? That’s not quite the word. That programmers—a group notoriously for making wrong estimates of how long something will take to build—continuously and confidently spew a version of this.

And it’s not even estimating how long we ourselves would take to build something, now we’re onto estimating what an undetermined team of completely made up strangers could do. It’s bonkers. It has no basis in reality.
by therobots927 | 2026-03-01 15:12:51+00:00
I think you’re making a major unspoken assumption which is that all of the downvotes / flags are from real users. HN has no form of identity verification and is functionally equivalent to 4chan. Theres no telling how many bot farms exist on here with the sole purpose of manipulating discourse to be favorable to the current US administration and also Israel.
by sigmar | 2026-03-01 15:12:56+00:00
"It's about bad genetics... That's why people in Indian aren't considered the best aesthetically.. These arranged marriages aren't allowing the best genes to prevail" - clavicular[1]

I'm not sure why you'd go out on a limb to defend the guy singing songs glorifying hitler. But you do you

[1] https://x.com/WyronGaines/status/1995013476289245573?s=20
by slibhb | 2026-03-01 15:12:59+00:00
I think this concern is overblown. AI is an incredible teaching tool. It's probably better for teaching/explaining than for writing code. This will make the next generation of junior devs far more effective than previous generations. Not because they're skipping the fundamentals...because they have a better grasp of the fundamentals due to back-and-forth with infinitely patient AI teachers.
by pdimitar | 2026-03-01 15:13:06+00:00
Recently tried multiple terminals because I am gradually migrating off of Macs and I liked Ghostty but the lack of searching the scrollback has turned me away from it. Opening another editor to do the same I tried but didn't like.

WezTerm has everything I need and is closest to iTerm2, minus being able to quit it and have it restore all windows and tabs on restart -- but oh well, it's not an important enough feature. It also renders my prompt perfectly; no small pixel divergences like all other terminals have.

Kitty I don't remember why I rejected.

Alacritty I like but the lack of tabs is not acceptable for the moment... and before you ask: I hate tmux. So much more key presses to achieve basic functionality, it boggles my mind why people love it. But, to each their own obviously.

It's also likely I'll settle for some Linux-exclusive terminal but as I'm not yet possessing a Linux workstation (just a laptop) I haven't put the requisite time to do this research.

Suggestions are welcome.
Show HN: A white-label VoIP stack (Django/WebRTC) to replace RingCentral/Webex
by navicstein | 2026-03-01 15:13:44+00:00
Hi HN,

I run a dev shop called Crudloop. With the UK PSTN copper network shutting down in 2027, I noticed many businesses panic-buying SaaS subscriptions (RingCentral/Webex/8x8) at ~£25/user/mo, despite wholesale SIP trunking costing fractions of a penny.

We spent the last 6 months engineering a production-ready VoIP stack to solve this.

The Business Model:
This is not a SaaS and it is not Open Source. Instead of renting seats, I license the source code and deploy the entire stack to your private VPS (AWS/Hetzner/DigitalOcean). You pay a one-time fee for the code/setup, and then you pay wholesale rates directly to the carrier (Telnyx).

The Infrastructure:
- Backend: Django (DRF) + Celery + Redis. Handles dynamic routing via Telnyx Webhooks (TeXML). Scalable via Docker Swarm/K8s.
- Web: React + TanStack Query + @telnyx/webrtc SDK.
- Mobile: Native iOS (Swift) integration for reliable background calls.

The Economics:
For a company with 30 employees, switching from a £25/user SaaS to this private stack saves ~£8,000/year and guarantees data sovereignty. You own the metal, you own the logs, and you control the routing logic.

I'm looking for agencies or SMEs who want to own their infrastructure.

Happy to answer questions about self-hosting economics, scaling Django for real-time SIP events, or maintaining a private VoIP cloud.
by dangus | 2026-03-01 15:13:50+00:00
This is going to be music to deaf ears.

Companies will continue to demand it (I know people working at companies that are literally looking at AI usage as an individual performance metric, puke emoji), and probably 95% of humans using pretty understandable human logic aren’t going to work harder than they need to on purpose.

I wish I had a solution. I think the jury is still out on whether programming will be a dead profession in a short number of years, replaced by technical protect operators.
by dotancohen | 2026-03-01 15:14:11+00:00
Probably one in a thousand.

But as one whom the Ayatollah has sworn to eliminate, I can still state that man was sharp and brilliant and extremely well spoken. His worldview was internally consistent. He had vision and experience and knew how to motivate people. He was a one in ten million leader.

I give him that praise and more, even recognising that his stated mission was to exterminate myself and my children.
by gas9S9zw3P9c | 2026-03-01 15:14:39+00:00
"Humans are now writing code in strict specification language so that AI agents have completely context and don't mistakes. This specification language is called C' and has led to a whopping 20% reduction of code. 1000 of C++ code can be expressed in no more than 800 lines of specification C' code written by humans"