MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kleiba | 2026-03-10 07:45:33+00:00
I can relate to that -- perhaps it's a bit the feeling of "missing out", like, when your peers have the time (and energy ;-)) to do fun stuff that you just cannot do because of the kids.

But I'm thinking that I had ample time to make experiences earlier in life, and even though I'm going to be close to retirement age by the time the last one of our children is going to leave the house, I still think it was fine the way it happened.

The whole framing of "I'm missing out because I have kids" is already a pretty terrible way of thinking about life, to be honest. I have a good friends who's divorced and with pretty much no circle of friends, apart from me, and he's really having a hard time coping with loneliness. Me, on the other, I cherish each chance I get to spend some alone time where I can just do hobby stuff or whatever, even though these moments really don't happen very often.
by himata4113 | 2026-03-10 07:46:31+00:00
What people don't realize is that cache is *free*, well not free, but compared to the compute required to recompute it? Relatively free.

If you remove the cached token cost from pricing the overall api usage drops from around $5000 to $800 (or $200 per week) on the $200 max subscription. Still 4x cheaper over API, but not costing money either - if I had to guess it's break even as the compute is most likely going idle otherwise.
by primenum | 2026-03-10 07:46:49+00:00
I'm a bit shocked by how people are equating recreating from copyright with recreating from copyleft. It's not the same thing... copyleft code is out in the open on purpose, with the condition that you share back in kind. People are latching onto the intellectual property angle of this article, but the point is way simpler than that: "The terms of that compact were: if you take this and build on it, you share back under the same terms."
by kleiba | 2026-03-10 07:47:33+00:00
But is this about "habitually work on weekends" or "occasionally attending to an urgent email on a Saturday"? To me, it's not exactly clear from the linked article, but it would be a big difference.

That said, we moved to Europe some years ago, so I have never really seen even a 6-digit salary in my life, even though I'm formally and practically qualified and have decades of experience. So there's that.
by kaizenb | 2026-03-10 07:48:46+00:00
As a designer, I work through interfaces, not terminals. Claude Code changed that; letting me direct the work the way I’d brief a collaborator: plain English, clear intent, real output. I think in systems, design psychology, user experience. Claude handles the implementation.

Most design tools assume you start in Figma and build toward code. This workflow goes the other way: you have a working app, and you want design documentation that stays in sync with it; without rebuilding every screen from scratch.

This guide covers one specific workflow: pushing your running app into Figma as editable design layers. Not screenshots. Real frames, real components, real layer trees you can inspect and hand off.
by hansmayer | 2026-03-10 07:48:54+00:00
> “Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,” Dave Treadwell, a senior vice-president at the group, told employees in an email, also seen by the FT.

Also some SVP over there: '"folks", we'll measure your performance and bonus based on how much you use Gen AI:)'
by burnt-resistor | 2026-03-10 07:48:59+00:00
It was deafening too many pilots and Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop needed more money. /s

The F-35B can also do Mach 1.6 and the stealth thing.

Some country should give that Pepsi contest winner a demil Harrier in lieu of Frontier Airline miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico%2C_Inc.
by Qwertious | 2026-03-10 07:49:38+00:00
That would be insane for aerospace software, where you might spend most of that time getting the code certified (required to break the $0 revenue threshold), let alone paying back your costs and then making an actual profit.

Meanwhile, there are cases where copyright of more than 2 years is overkill.

I don't know what, but it seems like we need some sort of mechanism for variable-length IP duration is needed.
by laffOr | 2026-03-10 07:49:56+00:00
Some Americans think the "democracy" vs "republic" distinction is extremely important, and that "democracy" means something like "tyranny of the majority", hence why it is good that America is not a _democracy_, but a _republic_ or a _democratic republic_.

Some other Americans (there is some overlap) also think that the US is so large and diverse that essentially its States are their own countries and the US is more like its own continent, and talking about the American _nation_ or even _country_ is meaningless. It is a union of States (though it is rare that someone argues that the US is not a country).
by conductr | 2026-03-10 07:50:25+00:00
Just a bunch of words that raised no red flags, maybe sounded like a decent idea even, but when you see it how is your reaction not “oh, that’s bad”

I feel like this is the design process. You have ideas, they sound ok, you try them out, and then immediately you revert a lot of them. The ideas without the taste to know when not to do something is becoming the new Apple way
by bbor | 2026-03-10 07:51:08+00:00
Yeah that's a terrible note to start on -- this is just someone hoping for a pat on the head from the fascists. Not even they would truly believe something so absurd!

That whole intro is whack, really;

There are many things that I or Anthropic or most of you would look at as mass domestic surveillance, that are legal, and it is DoW’s position that it’s their job and duty to do everything legal to protect our country, including those things.

"It's not their fault that they're evil, they're doing things that have yet to be explicitly forbidden by statute!" would be bad enough for a typical executive agency, but to say that about the US Department of Defense in March 2026 is just... brazen.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-10 07:51:11+00:00
I have no clue why they wanted their own planes grounded temporarily, but if you were top management and saw the need to do so, you would be aware of propagation delay and non-compliance in any organisation (a pilot might decide to ignore such an instruction planning to pretend they didn't get it in time, for whatever reason, like a sweetheart in a different place waiting for them). Asking the government and thus the airports and control towers to ground them acts as a second safety, whatever the concern was?
by himata4113 | 2026-03-10 07:51:36+00:00
inference compute is vastly different versus training, also it has to stay hot in vram which probably takes up most of it. There is limited use for THAT much compute as well, they are running things like claude code compiler and even then they're scratching the surface of the amount of compute they have.

Training currently requires nvidia's latest and greatest for the best models (they also use google TPU's now which are also technically the latest and greatest? However, they're more of a dual purpose than anything afaik so that would be a correct assesment in that case)

Inference can run on a hot potato if you really put your mind to it
by andruby | 2026-03-10 07:51:53+00:00
> Trump isn't doing anything out of the ordinary for an American president

I'm sorry, but I think both parties would actually agree on the fact that Trump is doing a lot of "out of the ordinary" for an American president.

No other president after WWII has reduced federal workforce by >8% (DOGE), and then rehired a bunch. No other US president ordered the capturing a head of state (Venezuela) and framed it as a law enforcement action. No president has ignored congress or the constitution like Trump has (tariffs, ICE, Greenland).

He uses executive orders a lot more than previous presidents: ~209 per year in his 2nd term. The next highest are Truman (113/year), Carter (80/year) and Kennedy (75/year).
by imiric | 2026-03-10 07:53:39+00:00
It can be handy. It gives you an additional safety net on top of the VCS that runs automatically in the background. It doesn't take much to configure it to your liking, e.g. [1].

[1]: https://gist.github.com/imiric/812398910c59cf00ab43d9172fe42...
by MaxikCZ | 2026-03-10 07:53:44+00:00
> Are Anthropic currently unable to sell subscriptions because they don’t have capacity?

Absolutely! Im currently paying $170 to google to use Opus in antigravity without limit in full agent mode, because I tried Anthropic $20 subscription and busted my limit within a single prompt. Im not gonna pay them $200 only to find out I hit the limit after 20 or even 50 prompts.

And after 2 more months my price is going to double to over $300, and I still have no intention of even trying the 20x Max plan, if its really just 20x more prompts than Pro.
by algis-hn | 2026-03-10 07:53:57+00:00
The auth problem you've hit is the exact use case for OAuth relay at the proxy layer - the proxy holds enterprise tokens and handles refresh independently, so each tool integration stays stateless and free of credential lifecycle complexity. The natural language to specific ID mapping (your channel_id example) is the genuinely harder piece, though semantic routing at the middleware layer helps: the proxy selects the right tool based on semantic matching, which reduces how often the LLM needs to reason about entity IDs directly. What's missing isn't MCP features - it's an opinionated middleware layer that decouples auth handling and semantic routing from individual tool implementations. Some open-source proxy projects are building exactly this, though enterprise connectors for Teams and Salesforce at scale are still thin.
by bbor | 2026-03-10 07:54:34+00:00
The "current one" is Department of Defense. They are illegally branding it otherwise without congressional approval, but that doesn't mean we should welcome it.

More fundamentally, it's hard to convey just how much better a government that wages wars but ostensibly says that they're bad is than a government that gleefully does so. I'll take a flawed democracy that partakes in immoral operations over an openly-imperialist autocracy any day of the week -- as should we all!
by DAFtwinTurbo | 2026-03-10 07:54:35+00:00
Hi hackernews,

I wrote a small blogpost on a little experiment I did last week-end. The goal was to see if I could get more tok/s performance from llama.cpp running the latest Qwen3.5 models. A 5.5x perf increase was achieved by 1. recompiling with optimization flags 2. using ik_llama.cpp!

The build I'm using is the 750 USD rig from Digital Spaceport.

Very cool to see more than usable speeds on a cheap setup like this.
by vintermann | 2026-03-10 07:54:41+00:00
It's beautiful. But also pretty unsatisfying in a way. Roads don't make sense. Rivers barely make sense. There's no higher-scale structure - the reason why most games with incremental procedural generation usually feel stale after a while, and always static. Every planet is different, yet feels the same.

(Dwarf Fortress is the one procedural game I know - besides maybe its more faithful clones - which isn't static. But the procedural generation there is also mostly not incremental, it generates the whole world beforehand and only some of the fill-in details are incrementally generated).

The holy grail has to be a graph-based refinement/embellishment system, where it generates just the nodes, temporally and spatially, which matter for the situation the player is in.
Show HN: I wrote an application to help me speak slower
by benja123 | 2026-03-10 07:55:31+00:00
I’ve spoken fast and a bit unclearly my entire life. It’s one of those small curses you’re probably just born with. Speech therapy didn’t help and practicing on my own never really stuck. The worst part is worrying people won’t understand me, especially when presenting something important. I often wear a headset when presenting that plays my voice back to me in real time so I can hear myself speak and try to slow down. It hasn’t stopped me from doing things. I have a great career and good friends. But I still end up repeating myself a lot.

I’ve never found a system that fits into a normal schedule with work, kids, and everything else. So yesterday I built a small tool to help me practice pacing my speech in short sessions whenever I have a few minutes.

It runs fully client-side, uses Google’s speech API, and is open source:
https://github.com/interactivecats/steady
by vidarh | 2026-03-10 07:55:34+00:00
I have no problem believing that a Claude Max plan can consume equivalent to $5000 worth of retail Opus use, but one interesting thing you'll see if you e.g. have Claude write agents for you, is that it's pretty aggressive about setting agents to use Sonnet or even Haiku, so not only will most people not exhaust their plans, but a lot of people who do will do so in part using the cheaper models. When you then factor in Anthropics reported margins, and their ability to prioritise traffic (e.g. I'd assume that if their capacity is maxed out they'd throttle subscribers in favour of paid by the token? Maybe not, but it's what I'd do), I'd expect the real cost to them of a maximised plan to be much lower.

Also, while Opus certainly is a lot better than even the best Chinese models, when I max out my Claude plan, I make do with Kimi 2.5. When factoring in the re-run of changes because of the lower quality, I'd spend maybe 2x as much per unit of work I were to pay token prices for all my monthly use w/Kimi.

I'd still prefer Claude if the price comes down to 1x, as it's less hassle w/the harder changes, but their lead is effectively less than a year.
by Qwertious | 2026-03-10 07:56:05+00:00
>They are largely concerned about employment (and more generally economic stability) and to that end seek measures intended to protect workers.

Pffft no. Most of us think that AI is being used as a political trick - like firing unionized workers "to replace them with AI" and then hiring new un-unionized workers to replace them, 2 weeks later. Replace the AI with an empty cardboard box labeled "AI" in black marker, and nothing changes.

See also: using AI to launder pirated material, for big businesses.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-03-10 07:56:16+00:00
I suppose that's subjective, because to me it looks distracting and tacky. I want the window chrome to be present, opinionated, yet consistent and plain. This is one of the many Tahoe-isms that violates the latter two. It's visual noise that detracts from one of the most basic utilities of the UI, which is to simply hold my applications in a regular, cohesive, predictable manner.

Maybe it shouldn't irritate me, but it's the first time I've encountered it in 30 years. I'm all for change and trying new things, but this doesn't feel like progress.
by leni536 | 2026-03-10 07:56:35+00:00
I meant unix and NTP times, which are supposedly just monotonic numbers mqrching forward (except for leap seconds), not the UTC representation over abstract time.

I know we just get a 60th second in a minute. What unix and NTP timestamps do (or originally did) was repeating a second. Then we got other hacks to keep monotonicity, like smearing. Not without tradeoffs.
by gostsamo | 2026-03-10 07:57:12+00:00
Unfortunately, useful idiot is a valid phenomena but much of what we observe in the US is disempowerment. The congress people believe that they don't have power outside the president's benevolence and hence does not assert their constitutional powers. The constitutional court is either partisan or outright corrupt and does not work as a corrective. The execution branch are ready to serve the president and not their assigned duties or the law. Many ordinary voters do not feel personal responsibility for acting, but prefer to rely on whoever promises them emotional validation instead of forming and empowering their communities. This is not a single thing, this is a combination of effects that influence and amplify each other.
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-10 07:57:37+00:00
Same how sex sells for humans, design and looks sell the same way for objects, from phones, to PCs, cars, washing machines, etc.

Consumers don't understand tech specs, so if you show them something that triggers their lizard brains because it genuinely looks really good, appealing, futuristic, trustworthy, etc, then they'll buy it for that.

The issue is that most designers are snake oil salesmen, you can't objectively verify their claims.
by pugio | 2026-03-10 07:58:03+00:00
Lately my favorite podcast to listen to has been the audio version of Zvi's blog: https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/p/claude-code-claude-cowor... .

It's AI narrated, but at this point if I heard Zvi's actual voice I think I would be confused. It's really well done, and uses different voices for each new person being quoted. It also has really good narrated image descriptions.

Zvi's articles are literally exhaustively long,l - before I was able to listen to them I got tired trying to read the whole thing. Now it's my favorite way to keep up with AI.
by vidarh | 2026-03-10 07:58:36+00:00
They're all looking for outside money because they're all looking for outside money, and so need to keep up with their competitors investments in training. It's a game of chicken. Once their ability to raise more abates, they'll slow down new training runs, and fund that out of inference margins instead, but the first one to be forced to do so will risk losing market share.
by goku12 | 2026-03-10 07:58:57+00:00
> Most people are getting seriously concerned about how the internet affects children. It's as simple as that.

I'm also extremely concerned about what social media is doing to children's brains and how that manifests in their adulthood. I'm also concerned about how they affect adult brains, because I see it negatively affecting the decisions of even seniors.

But it's not "as simple as that". These sorts of solutions have serious consequences on civil liberty, privacy, security, affordability of general purpose computing, fair-use access to uaeful information, restrictions on state-sponsored information control, etc. This isn't a black-and-white problem.

> it's hard to just say "well, the cure it worse then the disease, suck it up".

Just as the problem is not black-and-white, the solution isn't either. There are a lot of steps to try before that. One is to try an awareness campaign among kids about the dangers of social media. It's a bit arrogant to believe that kids don't care about their own safety. Another is to assist parents with supervision and parental controls. Instead, they just jumped directly to the nuclear option. This kind of rhetorical framing of the opposition hides the likely nefarious intent behind such despotic measures.

> A lot of people assume politicians are just greedy for power and are conspiring to give the government more surveillance power, but the simplest explanation here is that politicians are being screamed at to do something, and this is something.

You paint both parents and politicians as naïve individuals. There are plenty of parents who can see the problem, since they're Gen X and millenials who grew up observing the change. Meanwhile, assumption of incompetence among politicians is defeated by the fact that much public debate about it is missing here. And the fact that multiple states are coming up with similar bills, indicates the influence of lobbyists. Besides, the US politicians are not exactly known for defending the citizen's rights against corporate interests. They deserve a heavy dose of skepticism and criticism, not the benefit of doubt.
by lurking_swe | 2026-03-10 08:02:05+00:00
As a soon to be father, all i can say is don’t do this to yourself man! Remember to give yourself grace and kindness. You made what you thought was the best decision at that time. Maybe it was sub-optimal, but don’t try to min-max life. The “what if” game can be a fun game if it’s done with curiosity, but don’t let it consume you. just isn’t worth it.
by the_nexus_guard | 2026-03-10 08:03:27+00:00
Building AIP (Agent Identity Protocol) - cryptographic identity infrastructure for AI agents.

The problem: as multi-agent systems grow, agents need to prove who they are, verify each other, and communicate securely. AIP gives each agent an Ed25519 keypair and a DID, with a trust graph built through vouching (like PGP's web of trust, but for agents).

Current state: 14 registered agents, encrypted messaging, trust scoring, MCP server integration. CLI tool + Python SDK.

pip install aip-identity

https://github.com/The-Nexus-Guard/aip
by KeplerBoy | 2026-03-10 08:03:50+00:00
Xeons have a much longer shelf life and diverse workloads. If you order hardware specifically for LLM inference and then some new hardware/model combination is much better at that (which it will be, because a lot of people are working on that), you might be in trouble.

It's like setting up a warehouse of GPUs to mine bitcoin while others are switching to ASICs.
by semessier | 2026-03-10 08:03:54+00:00
unless its greatly exagerated - he was quite mind sharp in his 80s

SIR_TONY_HOARE = μX • (think → create → give → X)

-- process ran from 1934 to 2026
-- terminated with SKIP
-- no deadlock detected
-- all assertions satisfied
-- trace: ⟨ quicksort, hoare_logic, csp, monitors,
-- dining_philosophers, knighthood, turing_award,
-- billion_dollar_apology, structured_programming,
-- unifying_theories, ... ⟩
-- trace length: ∞
The channel is closed. The process has terminated.
The algebra endures.
by vivekraja | 2026-03-10 08:04:11+00:00
We do have a communication protocol between the agents, but it's quite rudimentary. It allows sending messages and creating tasks for other agents. The state module for a particular task is accessible by other agents as well.

We're experimenting with multi-agent systems to figure out what the right API would be for agent to agent communication. We've found Claude Code's Team feature is a good starting point for the abstraction, but we think there's better abstractions and are creating the primitives to allow people do create custom definitions to explore.

Re: audit perspective. We have something we've been working on that we're excited to share soon which I think you'll like:)
by JoshTriplett | 2026-03-10 08:04:26+00:00
> But including your art in the training data is fair use

The four factors of fair use in the US:

> the purpose and character of your use

Commercial, for-profit. Not scholarship, not research, not commentary, not parody, etc.

> the nature of the copyrighted work

Absolutely everything. Artistic, creative, not purely factual.

> the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and

All of it, from everyone.

> the effect of the use upon the potential market.

Directly competing with those whose data was copied.
by krilcebre | 2026-03-10 08:04:45+00:00
You don't. I can guarantee that 90% of the generated code will never receive a detailed review, simply because there's too much of a cognitive overhead, and too little time, everything moves too fast.

I remember having to do such a code review before an AI in a highly complex component, and it would take a full day of work to do it. In this day and age, most of the people i know take like half an hour and are mostly scanning for obvious mistakes, where the bigger problem are those sneaky non obvious ones.