MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VorpalWay | 2026-03-01 08:07:50+00:00
I think PrusaSlicer does this in a reasonable way. (Context: this is software for preparing files for 3D printers.)

It has three modes: Simple, Advanced, Expert. They are all the same UI design, all it does is hide some less common settings to not overwhelm users. Each level is also associated with a colour, and next to each setting is a small dot with that colour: this allows you to quickly scan for the more common settings even if you showed all of them at Expert. At Expert there are easily over a thousand different settings organised into a 2-level hierarchy.

Docs on this feature: https://help.prusa3d.com/article/simple-advanced-expert-mode...

I wrote a blog post that has some screenshots from the settings pages (5th image for example): https://vorpal.se/posts/2025/jun/23/3d-printing-with-unconve...
by notpushkin | 2026-03-01 08:08:50+00:00
One thing I really like about macOS is the shortcuts. You can fairly easily get 90% there on KDE, though. The last 10% is tricky regardless of the WM you choose: some apps just don’t want you to mess with the shortsuts in this way (looking at you, Mozilla).

Apart from that, honestly? With global menu, KDE is nearly indistinguishable from how I use macOS.
by wps | 2026-03-01 08:09:03+00:00
Could someone explain the appeal of account-wide memory to me? Anthropic’s marketing indicates that nothing bleeds over, but I’m just so protective of my context that I cannot imagine having even a majorly distilled version of my other chats and preferences having on weight on the output. As for certain preferences like code styling or response length, these are all fit for custom instructions, with more detailed things in Skills. Ultimately like many things in LLM web UX, it seems to cater to how the masses use these tools.
by invaliduser | 2026-03-01 08:09:42+00:00
I understand it can be difficult to label, and there's an inconveniently large grey area here, but there is a difference between plain vibe-coded software and software built with AI under the control, direction and validation of a developer.

The distinction is probably not very important for small applications, as nobody cares if a minor script or a one-shot data processor has been vibe-coded, but for large applications it surely matters in the long term.
by ruszki | 2026-03-01 08:12:51+00:00
> [p for mat in state_dict.values() for row in mat for p in row]

I'm so happy without seeing Python list comprehensions nowadays.

I don't know why they couldn't go with something like this:

[state_dict.values() for mat for row for p]

or in more difficult cases

[state_dict.values() for mat to mat*2 for row for p to p/2]

I know, I know, different times, but still.
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by webstrand | 2026-03-01 08:13:56+00:00
To wit, if you get to vote for the HOA board but not for the government that can override every decision the HOA makes, are you meaningfully enfranchised?

They're arguing that due to the failure/stalling of the two-state solution, the PA is effectively not a national government. It administers local services, like policing, courts, infrastructure. But it doesn't control borders, tarrifs and duties, or airspace. The Israeli military operates a parallel legal system that can detain and prosecute them, all under a legal framework that they have no vote or say in. I think its fair to call this a kind of disenfranchisement?
by nextzck | 2026-03-01 08:14:13+00:00
I built one and it’s open source https://github.com/johnzfitch/specho-v2 last I checked 141D or something but I might have left some dimensions behind at the original specHO repo. I simplified the architecture in v2. That’s essentially how you scale it. Oddly enough the easiest model to predict was humans. Almost like a baseline. See my archived v1 repo for more of the nuts and bolts.
by ordu | 2026-03-01 08:14:29+00:00
> Ok, so the Iranian regime itself published this news? And you don’t even question it?

I question everything, and in this case I'm choosing to believe it. Such fakes are hard to forge, and as recent history shows such news are not fakes. Look at Russia which claimed that it did nothing wrong for how many times? Russia all the time tried to declare that everything is a fake forged by Ukraine. And if we look at what Ukraine did to Russia, we can't find a single example of a fake news forged by Russia.

A priori probability of this being a fake is low, and if you look into it, it is a pretty good "fake". No one still questioned it, while you can see some news from Iran that are clearly anti-regime news.

So, no, without clear evidence for this being a fake, I believe it is not a fake.
by yamalight | 2026-03-01 08:15:20+00:00
I've started self-hosting email in ~2021. It took about 6 months (of mostly waiting) to clean up reputation of IP I've gotten (was in a few spam lists). After that - it was incredibly easy to maintain. It's literally just running mailcow update every now and then and that's it. So, if you are willing to fight for a bit in that initial stretch - no, it's not hard; yes, you can self-host your email.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-01 08:15:21+00:00
That qualifies as "immune to phishing" as far as I'm concerned. No reasonable person using a reasonable implementation will ever be successfully victimized in that manner.

We need to stop pretending that padded cells for the criminally incompetent are a desirable design target. If you are too stupid to realize that you are being taken for a ride when asked to go through a manual export process and fork over sensitive information (in this case your passkeys) to a third party then you have no business managing sensitive information to begin with. Such people should not have online accounts. We should not design technology to accommodate that level of incompetence.

If you can't stop driving your car into pedestrians in crosswalks you lose your license. If you can't stop handing over your bank account number to strangers who call you on the phone you lose all of your money. If you eat rotten food you get sick and possibly die. If you hop a fence and proceed to fall off of the cliff behind it you will most likely perish. To some extent the world inherently has sharp edges and we need to stop pretending that it doesn't because when we do that it makes the world a worse place.
by rswail | 2026-03-01 08:15:42+00:00
Can the output of the service be licensed? A bit like the AGPL, you're licensed to use/reuse/derive new works.

So if it's distributed outside of the license, that's subject to contractual penalties? I guess that's what all the "wrapper" SaaS businesses will do.

Read that report, it defined the issues and the boundaries well, for the current generation of AI tools. As they develop and expand, it's going to get interesting, especially if robotics/3d printing etc get involved.

If I use an Optimus Prime to help create art, similar to Andy Warhol's "factory", do I own the copyright on the completed work?

If a person uses AI to generate work that ends up being patentable, are patents also not available?
by pfix | 2026-03-01 08:15:47+00:00
I can try!

I currently use ChatGPT for random insights and discussions about a variety of topics. The memory is basically a grown context about me and my preferences and interests and ChatGPT uses it to tailor responses to my knowledge, so I could relate better.

This is for me far more natural and easier than either craft a default prompt preset or create each conversation individually, that would be way too much overhead to discuss random shower thoughts between real life stuff.

This is my use case and I discovered that this can be detrimental to specific questions and prompts and I see that it can be more beneficial to have careful written prompts each time. But my use case is really ad hoc usage without the time. At least for ChatGPT.

When coding, this fails fast. There regular context resets seem to be a more viable strategy.
by eesmith | 2026-03-01 08:16:05+00:00
Then you need a primer in competition and anti-trust law.

The steps are to identify the relevant market and show abuse of market power - abuse as defined by antitrust law. The relevant market is not "aggregate retail spending". The California complaint goes into details about how online sales are not interchangeable with brick and mortar stores, something I mentioned earlier.

Determining abuse is not a simple plug&chug exercise.

The Walmart complaint I linked to describes the SSNIP test as one such test. The complaint goes into the analysis. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_but_significant_and_non-... for an overview.

It's not "99%", but such levels are a political decision about how what is fair and what is unfair market power. I pointed to the ISLR page, and mentioned how the threshold for concerns about market concentration has increased. Here's the full paragraph:

> Even by the permissive standards of today’s Justice Department, Walmart’s market power is considered extreme. Under guidelines established by the department’s Antitrust Division in 2010, markets in which one corporation captures more than 50 percent of revenue are defined as “highly concentrated.” (The agency has repeatedly raised this threshold since the 1960s, including sharply increasing it in 2010. These guidelines are used to evaluate mergers.)

My response has been "here are complaints which go into the details that you've asked about. You should read them to understand their arguments."

> but as I said to begin with, antitrust is not just about monopoly power.

And I completely agreed with you. However, for this specific case of Amazon, the California complaint can correctly be interpreted as concerning abuse of monopoly power, even if California never used that term. Because they don't need to use that term.

> What monopoly powers does Amazon hold?

Addressed in the complaint.

> At what point did they acquire them (roughly) looking back to their founding 30 years ago?

Why does that matter? When did Standard Oil become a monopoly? I doubt the Supreme Court of Ohio had to determine a rough date before being able to issue a breakup order.

> what would have to happen to drop the “near”?

Why does it matter?

I've already pointed out that economics and law use different definitions of "monopoly". Adding the qualifier "near" ensures that "monopoly" isn't misread as the economics definition of being a (pure) monopoly.
by Barbing | 2026-03-01 08:16:08+00:00
I would’ve said they’d nerf the prompt:

>I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, as well as any context you've learned about me from past conversations. Output everything in a single code block so I can easily copy it. Format each entry as: [date saved, if available] - memory content. Make sure to cover all of the following — preserve my words verbatim where possible: Instructions I've given you about how to respond (tone, format, style, 'always do X', 'never do Y'). Personal details: name, location, job, family, interests. Projects, goals, and recurring topics. Tools, languages, and frameworks I use. Preferences and corrections I've made to your behavior. Any other stored context not covered above. Do not summarize, group, or omit any entries. After the code block, confirm whether that is the complete set or if any remain.
by Rajib1 | 2026-03-01 08:16:58+00:00
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by Joeri | 2026-03-01 08:18:27+00:00
I already switched to claude a while ago. Didn’t bring along any context, just switched subscriptions, walked away from chatgpt and haven’t touched it again. Turned out to be a non-event, there really is no moat.

I switched not because I thought Claude was better at doing the things I want. I switched because I have come to believe OpenAI are a bad actor and I do not want to support them in any way. I’m pretty sure they would allow AGI to be used for truly evil purposes, and the events of this week have only convinced me further.
by deaux | 2026-03-01 08:20:52+00:00
Do you have example prompts where this would be usual? Why would you want an LLM to know your favorite type of cheese? Now that I say that, I guess if you use it for recipes then it's useful if it remembers things like dietary restrictions. And even then a project seems like the better option.

I can't think of much else though so I'm still curious what you or others use it for.
by concinds | 2026-03-01 08:21:43+00:00
> It’s one thing for the government to reject Anthropic’s terms—and entirely another to banish them permanently and, absurdly and punitively declare them a supply chain risk. Worse, they did it in favor of someone else who took pretty similar terms and happened to have given more campaign contributions.

Marcus is so overrated. He's not even good at straight factual reporting. The terms were not "pretty similar". He missed the whole point of the recent controversy.

> Anthropic deserves a chance at EXACTLY the same terms

No, those terms are bullshit.
by neutralx | 2026-03-01 08:22:28+00:00
This got me thinking if it’s possible to use Obsidian as taskwarrior. I’ve used taskwarrior in the past but it’s CLI interface which is fine for simpler tasks. Lately, I’ve been trying to use Obsidian as task manager and addition of Bases paved path for taskwarrior like usage, but in GUI. Having options to use it as CLI and as GUI offers flexibility.

I also used some plugins like bugwarrior to sync Jira/GitHub tickets locally. This is perfect when working on multiple projects/repos.

But I guess moving from Unix one tool for each job to swiss knife tool makes Obsidian overwhelming. Maybe it’s better to bridge these two tools in some way (plugins) rather than misuse Obsidian features.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-01 08:23:23+00:00
Hmm. I like the simplicity compared to Win10 or the abomination that is Win11. But it is hard to compare 1:1 because the modern UI also improved in some ways, and degraded in other ways. Microsoft does not really seem to understand how to design UIs anymore though, or they simply don't care. I am using Linux most of the time so I don't quite depend on Microsoft anymore, but when I use a MS-specific UI I often wonder why some things are simply not thought through at all. The ribbon interface is an example; my brain can not deal with dynamic willy-nilly changes. It just adds cognitive load. Why isn't it easier to modify the classic interface? In modern HTML/CSS we can filter away things we don't need; I do that with ublock origin all of the time.
by YuriiDev | 2026-03-01 08:23:40+00:00
You’re right — under direct physical coercion this design does not provide strong resistance.
My current threat model is focused more on long-term survivability and secret non-storage rather than state-level coercion resistance.
I’m experimenting with limited deniability extensions (e.g. decoy derivation paths), but I’m aware that application-layer branching is not equivalent to formally secure deniable encryption.
So I wouldn’t claim this passes a true “wrench test.” At best it may reduce risk in casual coercion scenarios.
If the goal were coercion resistance specifically, the architecture would likely need to move toward threshold schemes or multi-party secret sharing instead.

I appreciate the pushback.
by asdefghyk | 2026-03-01 08:23:50+00:00
Is there some kind of "magnetic microscope. Something with a head that detects magnetism, that could be made to scan (vary closely ) the surface of the floppy with out actuallyTOUCHING the surface. This data could then be decoded to the actual data. It would be a "long winded" and require lots processing , but it would avoid wearing the floppy out....?
by deaux | 2026-03-01 08:24:25+00:00
Now that would make it easier for Codex users to switch indeed! This seems like the best timing for it they're ever gonna get, and worth the ultra tiny loss of marketing value their "CLAUDE.md" naming provides.

For the Anthropic employees here reading along, pitch it to whoever has kept blocking this, because you need to get the most out of this opportunity here.
by wps | 2026-03-01 08:24:32+00:00
Gemini’s web UI and mobile app are horrible. Gemini outputs malformed links that lead BACK to gemini.google.com. There are constant bugs with the side panel not showing your chats or the current chat timing out for no reason. Also, the mobile app has an issue if your text input is too long where the entire text entry box lags, even to the point of locking up the entire app. Openrouter’s web ui runs circles around all the frontier lab UIs. I even prefer their PWA to any of these mobile apps.
by utopiah | 2026-03-01 08:25:05+00:00
I'm very curious, will OpenAI basically block "I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, ..." and similar, if so how and why?

It's very interesting to learn more about because it challenges 1 core aspect of the economical competition : the moat.

If one can literally swap one AI service for another, then where does the valuation (and the power that comes with it) come from?

PS: I'm not interested in the service itself as I believe the side effects of large scale for-profit are too serious (and I don't mean doomdays AI takeover, I simply mean abuse of power, working conditions, downskilling, political influence as current contracts with US defense are being made, ads, ecological, etc) to be ignored.
by sneak | 2026-03-01 08:25:43+00:00
Technically speaking, they haven’t been able to. There’s really no way of stopping someone using an alternate client if it appears to the server the same way.

The only reason video game cheating is more difficult is because it uses custom protocols and message types, and it needs to be reverse engineered. Usually it’s just easier to reuse the existing game client and patch it to report to the server that everything is normal.

It’s why anticheat runs in the kernel now.
by VorpalWay | 2026-03-01 08:25:52+00:00
That looks perfectly functional to me? It only looks a bit ugly because the screenshot appears to have been of a very small part of the screen that got blurry when it was blown up to a larger size.

I'll take function over for every day. (I daily drive KDE, it works fine and doesn't get in my way. Most of the time I'm either in my editor or the terminal emulator anyway.)
by orbital-decay | 2026-03-01 08:25:52+00:00
This type of research requires experimentation (mostly failures) on extremely complex real-world equipment. Same with the nuclear weapons. AI being able to magically figure it out without experimental grounding is pure and absolute fantasy, used by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic as a justification for monopolizing AI R&D. In a sense it's not surprising this idea comes from rationalism-adjacent folks, as rationalism is mostly about the idea that experimentation is irrelevant and you can infer anything using just logic alone.
by 7777777phil | 2026-03-01 08:26:32+00:00
This lines up with something I keep coming back to. Sara Hooker's research shows compact models now outperform massive predecessors on many tasks, and scaling laws only reliably predict pre-training loss, not downstream performance. A minimal transformer learning 10-digit addition is a neat data point for that thesis. I wrote about the broader implications (2)

The trillion-dollar scaling bet looks increasingly like it's hitting diminishing returns.

(1) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5877662

(2) https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-most-expensive-assumptio...
by Akranazon | 2026-03-01 08:26:57+00:00
Detecting LLM-generated text is basically solved by modern watermarking techniques (https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09194). However, the main trouble with watermark-based approaches is that you have to get every LLM provider to adopt it. A student trying to cheat could always opt for some open-weight Chinese model, if the word spreads that the major providers are compromised.
by larodi | 2026-03-01 08:27:18+00:00
Sorry, perhaps, a dumb question:

Is it not that Mathematica, and most of the Wolfram innovation, is about a smart way of applying some rule-based inference. I think of it as parametrized PROLOG rules, with large lib. So term rewriting all the way to the end, correct me if I'm wrong.

Where does the mini-core+JIT come into this?

Thanks for taking time to answer.
by pabe | 2026-03-01 08:28:29+00:00
I think you're spot on. They're hiring as much as possible to make numbers look better ("we're growing so fast!") and later on blame AI for layoffs ("we're way more efficient with AI now!"). That's the play in almost all VC funded companies. If you want to stay there, try to shift to a position that decides about the product and has a lot domain specific knowledge. Start looking for an enterprise job if stability is important for you.
by wps | 2026-03-01 08:28:51+00:00
Well, the masses are wrong. See: insane amounts of compute wasted on “thank you”, “haha true”, “redo it”, etc. I think the UI should be designed to avoid misuse, and I think an ever growing distillation of your most common traits is not a good use of context length. If you want it, specify it. Maybe even hard limits on chat length, why are we 20 replies deep in a single chat? A user friendly option could be a single button that distills that chat down, and opens a new one with prebuilt instructions to continue the conversation. I’m no product designer though, just some thoughts.
by Barbing | 2026-03-01 08:29:54+00:00
>(I'm not sure I believe "guardrails" can prevent mass surveillance of civilians?)

Right, wouldn't they need a moderation layer that could, for example, fire if it analyzed & labeled too many banal English conversations?

They really gave training credit for guardtrails? I mean, it could perhaps reject prompts about designing social credit systems sometimes, but I can't imagine realistic mitigations to mass domestic surveillance generally.
by thesnide | 2026-03-01 08:30:08+00:00
I'm actually loving HN because it hasn't such a system.

While it looks like a very good idea at first, it will evolve in echo chambers. Which are the bane of current society, as noone listen to challenging opinions anymore.

So, very much like the "ban of VPN" for minors, it is a seemingly good idea that will backfire in horrible ways.