MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by harmmonica | 2026-03-05 21:03:53+00:00
I canceled my subscription, but have not yet exported and deleted because I'm an idiot, and also because I'm not sure if deleting it will have any actual impact (is it a hard delete? Likely not, even if they say it is).

And I'm just trying to play out what happens if Anthropic, and Google (if they haven't already), capitulate. Am I just going to forego using the best models and suffer any repercussions of not having access when the people who couldn't care less if the military is using AI for illegal uses continue to leverage them? When I say illegal I'm talking about the surveillance-of-US-citizens red line Anthropic would not agree to. The autonomous weapon one I'm sure there are zero laws against and so that wouldn't actually be illegal.
by pwg | 2026-03-05 21:04:05+00:00
There's no mystery. The way any story makes the front page is enough users upvote it from the "new" page for it to appear there.

So the answer to the question of "how did it make it there" is exactly what I said, enough upvoted it that it made it to the front page.

As to "why" those folks upvoted it, well, on that I have no idea.
by nathan_douglas | 2026-03-05 21:04:54+00:00
Great stuff. I love that there's this kind of modern noir tone to the writing.

> I wanted to try and see if we could bypass the door entirely, and that’s where the canned air comes in. If you turn a can of compressed air upside down, it starts “boiling off cold gases.” These are not harmful in open spaces, and their temperature is well below freezing point even when gaseous. This can trigger a sensor that checks for temperature increases: First it sees a drop to -50C, thinks “Baby, it’s cold outside.” Then, the temperature starts rising again, and the sensor thinks “Oh, temperature going up?! Must be a human!” and opens the door. If this works, I will update my Mastodon. If it doesn’t, well I can still walk in after someone, so it’s a finding nonetheless.

I enjoyed it a lot.
by streetfighter64 | 2026-03-05 21:05:10+00:00
Well, I'm not sure either what the term "common facts" is supposed to mean, but wikipedia is not a good place to look for what "other people" think, unless if by "other people" you mean a small set of wikipedia powerusers. Just like traditional newspapers are controlled by a small set of editors who decide what's worth publishing, so is wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...
by the_mitsuhiko | 2026-03-05 21:05:12+00:00
> "But I wish that car was free", sure pal, but it's not. Are you like, 8 years old?

Just because things are not as one wants, does not stop that desire to be there.

> When the author of a project choose a specific license s/he is making a deliberate decision.

Potentially, potentially not. I used to release software under GPL and LGPL but changed my mind a few years after that. I did so in part because of conversations I had with others that convinced me that my values are closer aligned with permissive licenses.

So engaging in a friendly discourse with a maintainer to ask them to relicense is a perfectly fine thing to do and an issue has been with chardet for many, many years on the license.
by egoode007 | 2026-03-05 21:05:12+00:00
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by kelnos | 2026-03-05 21:05:18+00:00
> The president holds all the cards, he is above the law

Even though it seems that way, he really isn't, even now. Many of his EOs and other actions have been struck down in court, and while compliance with court orders has been far from perfect (another alarming trend), Trump has not actually gotten away with doing everything he wants to do.

I do fear for the future of this country, for rule of law, and the democractic norms that degrade day by day. But Trump is not actually above the law, as much as he wants to be.
by DavidPiper | 2026-03-05 21:05:36+00:00
If we accept the short and sweet "Programming as Theory Building (1985)", by Peter Naur, you land on Einstein's (alleged) maxim:

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Or, more fully [1]:

“It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.”

[1] https://www.makingthemuseum.com/newsletter/the-einstein-rule...
by Gobhanu | 2026-03-05 21:05:46+00:00
The concurrent resolution problem you're describing is exactly what we deal with. When a staffing coordinator has 15 interviews to book across shared interviewers, confirming one cascades into others. We track pending holds, rank by urgency, and when a confirmation on one thread invalidates a proposal on another, Vela detects the conflict and re-proposes. Theres

The only other alternative is a booking link but this, slows down business, doesnt work in many many real life situations and more :)
by shagie | 2026-03-05 21:05:56+00:00
It's listed in his computer science bibliography https://dblp.org/pid/c/VintonGCerf.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf#Author

Though the edit for that authorship to the RFC came much later. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1217/history/
by zone411 | 2026-03-05 21:06:22+00:00
Results from my Extended NYT Connections benchmark:

GPT-5.4 extra high scores 94.0 (GPT-5.2 extra high scored 88.6).

GPT-5.4 medium scores 92.0 (GPT-5.2 medium scored 71.4).

GPT-5.4 no reasoning scores 32.8 (GPT-5.2 no reasoning scored 28.1).
by scblock | 2026-03-05 21:06:46+00:00
There isn't much here beyond speculation. No technical analysis, certainly.

GrapheneOS is neither rooted nor jailbroken in any technical sense, and Authenticator certainly works today, as do Work Profiles and Intune Company Portal (with a little wrangling). Would be nice to know if this is real or not since I am forced to rely on the app even though I don't want to.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-05 21:06:51+00:00
Yup. It's why even in fairly red states like my own (Idaho) solar, wind, and battery are going up everywhere. Even without significant subsidies the economics are really good for renewables.

They'd be even better if we didn't have extreme tariffs on China.

That's actually what's convinced me that renewables are a better choice than nuclear. I still like nuclear, but renewables are just so much easier and faster to deploy while being a lot cheaper. To make nuclear competitive requires regulatory changes along with a government that's simply willing to tell it's NIMBY citizens YIMBY.

Government literally has to get in the way of renewable deployments at this point to stop them.
by zamadatix | 2026-03-05 21:07:00+00:00
> Doesn't help much because LCDs getting significantly brighter than OLEDs is normal.

The point isn't it's brighter than OLEDs specifically, that's just why it can't have been OLED, the point is it's significantly brighter than normal LCD monitors which are usually <=500 nits.

> The dynamic range of this LCD is still not necessarily higher than of an OLED because dynamic range depends both on maximal and minimal brightness. So "extreme dynamic range" is highly uninformative, while "OLED" or "LCD with local dimming", or something like that, wouldn't be.

But the dynamic range is actually significantly wider. It goes from a few nits to 2,000 nits peak/1,000 nits sustained full screen. That OLED goes from 0 nits to ~1,000 nits peak/~400 nits sustained full screen on panels of this size makes the contrast much higher, not the range.

> XDR is simply a marketing term. Apple is doing the same thing here as TV manufacturers who come up with ever new fantasy acronyms.

Well of course it's a marketing term. That isn't the same thing as being meaningless or hiding that it's an LCD. It's literally marketing the main feature.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-03-05 21:07:12+00:00
Good riddance to the strategy of designing your software with subtle incompatibilities that make it hard to leave. If you’re too tyrannical someone will rewrite your stuff and you’ll be replaced.

We’re headed to a world of more viable alternatives. And companies competing on customer service. After all, putting in the energy to migrate to a one-week-old web framework isn’t in the risk appetite of most of Vercel’s customers; unless Vercel is truly distasteful as a vendor, and then people can leave with less effort than before. So the existence of vinext, even if no one moves to it, keeps Vercel more honest than a world without it.

Really good news for both consumers and business.
by derriz | 2026-03-05 21:07:20+00:00
> The idea is I believe from French: maïs, Noël, etc.

Apropos of nothing, except that it will allow me to vent a bit, it also changes the rule for the pronunciation of the last consonant of French words.

Normally the lack of a trailing "e" would mean the last consonant is not-sounded but the diaeresis changes it: maïs/"my-isz", Noël/"noh-ell", etc.

And yes Moët (the champagne) is pronounced "moh-ett" in France and by French speakers.

It's incredibly annoying having someone subtly but in a slightly superior manner "correct" your pronunciation by repeating the mispronunciation right after you've pronounced it correctly - "sure, I'll order some some MOHAY". Outside I'm smiling and nodding pretending not to notice, inside I'm screaming "IT'S MOH-fcking-ETT MTHERF*KER - MOH-ETT."
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-03-05 21:07:21+00:00
> Haven't we hit that point already with bad faith (and potentially government-run) coordinated editing […] campaigns,

Yes, this is a real phenomenon. See, for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Wikipedia%E2%80%93...: the examples from 2006 are funny, and the article's subject matter just gets sadder and sadder as the chronology goes on.

> and voting campaigns

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Wikipedia is not a democracy.

> as both Wales and Sanger have been pointing out

{{fv}}. Neither of those essays make this point. The closest either gets is Sanger's first thesis, which misunderstands the "support / oppose" mechanism. Ironically, his ninth thesis says to introduce voting, which would create the "voting campaign" vulnerability!

These are both really bad takes, which I struggle to believe are made in good faith, and I'm glad Wikipedians are mostly ignoring them. (I have not read the third link you provided, because Substack.)
by kevin_thibedeau | 2026-03-05 21:07:21+00:00
It also solves the real problem of labor scarcity. If you have X master watchmakers available to make a halo product you can only get so much output from them. You can increase X, increase production efficiencies (reduce labor input), or limit supply. The first two reduce exclusivity and perceived quality so the third makes sense if you can live without growth or can grow via high pricing strategies.
by Traster | 2026-03-05 21:07:38+00:00
>That's not why brand age watches look strange. Brand age watches look strange because they have no practical function. Their function is to express brand, and while that is certainly a constraint, it's not the clean kind of constraint that generates good things. The constraints imposed by brand ultimately depend on some of the worst features of human psychology. So when you have a world defined only by brand, it's going to be a weird, bad world.

This is a wild thing to say. Brand age watches don't look strange. They look beautiful. Incredible thought and care and intention is put into their design. The people who buy them love them. It's so funny to me to get this far into one of PGs blogs and sort of realise "Oh right, you don't actually understand beauty". It's very hard to read this as much more than a slightly autistic man not understanding that it's ok for people to like beautiful things. It is not worth it to me to spend £100k on a watch, but I don't deny it is to other people, I'm not going to pretend the watch is undesirable.

But it does make me wonder whether Paul things that YC is successful today because it has a better design than other startup programmes, or is it successful today because of it's brand?
by pixelsort | 2026-03-05 21:08:25+00:00
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by yread | 2026-03-05 21:08:31+00:00
it's not just about iranian oil. The strait is blockaded. Plus refineries in Kuwait, KSA and Bahrain were targeted. And LNG facilities in Qatar - which stopped and restarting will take ~1 month at least. Leading to this

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eu-natural-gas

Gas in EU is cca 100% more expensive than a week ago.
by hnsr | 2026-03-05 21:08:32+00:00
> I've been using Codex for software development personally (I have a ChatGPT account), and I use Claude at work (since it is provided by my employer).

Exact same situation here. I've been using both extensively for the last month or so, but still don't really feel either of them is much better or worse. But I have not done large complex features with it yet, mostly just iterative work or small features.

I also feel I am probably being very (overly?) specific in my prompts compared to how other people around me use these agents, so maybe that 'masks' things
by kelnos | 2026-03-05 21:08:34+00:00
I agree with you, but at the same time: we shouldn't have to worry about this. We should be able to have nice things. We should be able to live our lives how we want (within reason) and not have to worry about our own government spying on us and tracking our every movement.

The response to revelations about this sort of tracking should not be to roll our eyes at people who carry their phones everywhere. It should be to get angry at our government for treating us all like potential criminals, and vote out shitheads who support this sort of thing. (Which I know feels damn-near impossible most of the time...)
by consumer451 | 2026-03-05 21:09:00+00:00
I am very curious about this:

> Theme park simulation game made with GPT‑5.4 from a single lightly specified prompt, using Playwright Interactive for browser playtesting and image generation for the isometric asset set.

So, is "Playwright Interactive" a skill that takes screenshots in a tight loop with code changes, or is there more to it?
by watwut | 2026-03-05 21:09:00+00:00
> which is why modern governments have worked so hard to lower corruption

I would argue that they did not. They should have and some were better then others.

But, bulk of financial markets, all of predictionmarkets and crypto, startups and sillicon valley, Musk imperium, Thiel, Murdock, all run on corruption. And to large extend, Trump is the endgame of that.
by ploden | 2026-03-05 21:09:04+00:00
Calvin: I wish my shirt had a logo or a product on it.

Hobbes: …

Calvin: A good shirt turns the wearer into a walking corporate billboard!

Hobbes: …

Calvin: It says to the world, “My identity is so wrapped up in what I buy that I paid the company to advertise its products!”

Hobbes: You’d admit that?

Calvin: Oh, sure. Endorsing products is the American way to express individuality.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-05 21:10:30+00:00
The DOD can't even force companies to hand over data, such as schematics, if it wasn't in the original contract without providing extra payment negotiated with the contractor, and they can't force the contractor to set a particular price. This has happened on numerous systems. One of the biggest I'm aware of was the H-60 where the DOD ended up reverse engineering the early helicopters in order to maintain them, all because the DOD program office forgot to include a data rights clause in the contract (Sikorski didn't forget, they just didn't remind the DOD).
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-03-05 21:11:31+00:00
Ironically a desire for such social signalling requires being poor enough that you believe the item is worth a vast and near unobtainable amount of money making it seem like a very impressive signal to you. That’s what makes these items desirable. As in these signals can be a sign of just how poor you are as opposed to how wealthy.

A classic case is when you observe teenager targeted status signalling trends. This can be as low value as an expensive shirt, ie shirts branded ‘supreme’ costing $300 which isn’t worth signalling to anyone who pays rent or a mortgage. But to a teenager? Wow man $300! such status!!! On the flip side if we see someone above teenager age wearing such teenager targeted status symbols we reasonably subconsciously assume they live with their parents and have very little income.

This continues up the wealth chain forever. Status symbols are invariably a way to see just how little people actually have because the person wearing the status symbol clearly believes the value of what they are flaunting is impressive.

Status symbols aren’t a signal of how much money you have so much as signal of what you believe to be an incredible amount of wealth to flaunt.
by BoiledCabbage | 2026-03-05 21:11:34+00:00
> Look I know it's an insane idea. I'm just curious what the most unhinged response to this might be.

I mean what if all the employees stripped off their clothes and walked through the streets naked while barking, then called up their middle school math teachers and barked live dogs then moved to a commune and stood on their heads.

> Writing out a thought I had, someone please critique my reasoning here...

I mean to critique your reasoning, it makes sense to also include a criteria of something they might reasonably do. There are an infinite number of unhinged things a group of people could in theory do. But maybe start with something they would actually have an incentive to do.

Why would they voluntarily dissolve their company, put themselves out of work, release their crown jewels and get nothing for it? Yes it's unhinged but unless I'm missing something bug, they wouldn't do that because they wouldn't at all want that to happen.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-05 21:11:35+00:00
> OpenAI now has three price points: GPT 5.1, GPT 5.2 and now GPT 5.4.

I guess that's true, but geared towards API users.

Personally, since "Pro Mode" became available, I've been on the plan that enables that, and it's one price point and I get access to everything, including enough usage for codex that someone who spends a lot of time programming, never manage to hit any usage limits although I've gotten close once to the new (temporary) Spark limits.
by mike_hearn | 2026-03-05 21:11:36+00:00
I've seen that problem with 5.3-codex too, it didn't happen with earlier models.

Looks like some kind of encoding misalignment bug. What you're seeing is their Harmony output format (what the model actually creates). The Thai/Chinese characters are special tokens apparently being mismapped to Unicode. Their servers are supposed to notice these sequences and translate them back to API JSON but it isn't happening reliably.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-05 21:11:41+00:00
If I produce and sell widgets in my widget shop, then nobody but me gets to decide how I make those widgets.

The government can come into my shop and order sixty thousand widgets built exactly the way they say they want them built, and it may be something that doesn't run afoul of any laws at all.

But that doesn't mean that I am required or compelled to build widgets their way -- or at all.

I'm free to tell them to fuck off.

The government can then find go someone else to build widgets to their specifications (or not; that's very distinctly not my problem).
by groby_b | 2026-03-05 21:11:46+00:00
If we could move past the empty rhetoric?

It turns out a working economy requires well paid workers because somebody needs to buy shit

Even "capitalist overlords" (why not "evil bourgeois swine", while we're here) realize that. The "all SWE replaced" jabbering is a sales pitch to the uninformed. I.e. it's more P.T. Barnum than Jay Gould.
by webnrrd2k | 2026-03-05 21:12:25+00:00
Just as an FYI, if anyone is into reading some good poems, I'd recommend "Good Poems", an anthology edited by Garrison Keillor. It's a great book to start reading poetry.

I had a friend who was reading it, and she loaned it to me, and it got me much more into poetry. I read the intro and was hooked. The whole series is pretty good, too.
Show HN: Expose The Culture – Anonymous company culture reviews
by david_fanxie | 2026-03-05 21:12:41+00:00
I just launched a company culture review platform as a direct response to Glassdoor's broken incentive model (owned by a recruiting conglomerate, lets companies pay to manage profiles).

Live at https://exposetheculture.com

The core idea: reviews focus exclusively on culture — not salary, not interview prep, not benefits. Five rated dimensions: management transparency, work-life boundaries, psychological safety, growth & development, and team collaboration.
Plus a binary "would you recommend" and optional free text.

The interesting part is the anonymity architecture:

- Company email is used for one-time verification, then the association is destroyed
- Only a hash is stored (to prevent duplicate reviews), never the email itself
- Reviews are timing-obfuscated — they don't publish at the exact moment of submission
- Metadata is suppressed for companies below a reviewer threshold to prevent inference attacks
- The system is designed for genuine data deletion, not just soft deletes

No account required to browse. No employer reputation management tools. No investor pressure to monetize the reviewed-company side.

Stack: Laravel + Blade, PostgreSQL, Redis, Postmark for transactional email.

Would love feedback on the verification/anonymity approach — specifically whether the hash-only model is sufficient or if there's a stronger approach I'm missing.
by pmarreck | 2026-03-05 21:12:45+00:00
Presumably, if a spouse requested being able to have access to your phone at any time for a spot check, and to vet every single outgoing call and text you made, you would still marry this person, because that’s pretty much what Anthropic was requesting. Go/no-go on a per project basis.

No reasonable self-respecting person would agree to that, that’s basically “my relationship with you is contingent upon your guilt, until proven innocent.”

Dear HN: I would like comments before additional downvotes, please, this is not fucking Reddit