MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ks2048 | 2026-03-14 19:03:05+00:00
> The establishment folks are mostly sensible.

The establishment has been replaced by MAGA and The Heritage Foundation extremists. The "data collection", surveys, remote-sensing etc are things they all want to get rid of and are doing so.

Here's one article from last year about climate datasets being disappeared,

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-r...
by figassis | 2026-03-14 19:03:24+00:00
I am less concerned here. If you plug in AI into your identity, I guess your identity is revoked. I see the problem though, that once a service notices you're an AI, there is no way to block you because we don't really know who you are, only that you're human.

So we need a mechanism that makes this identity verifiable, maybe you get a unique identifier from the identity service, so you can block the account. There is no mechanism to report you to say, the identity service (this is a bot), so you manage your own block list.

The risk here is fingerprinting, your id can be cross referenced across apps. Maybe here is where you implement a zk proof that you're who you say you are.
by Findecanor | 2026-03-14 19:03:35+00:00
When clicking on this topic, I had anticipated it to be about GTK 3.x's messed up sliders.

This was more fun, in a dystopian kind of way. I have sure encountered the rate-limited spinner and the self-resizing slider in real UIs.
Perhaps GTK's behaviour is on a level that I have not reached.
by Bender | 2026-03-14 19:03:39+00:00
That caught my attention as well. I can make a couple guesses. We are fighting religious zealots that do not surrender. They historically have waited out aggressors in deep bunkers. My guess is that Pete is trying to match our rhetoric with their zealotry otherwise we are just a joke to them. If the actions of the military match his rhetoric then we may be respected as legitimate adversaries. Of course "No Quarter" violates international law but AFAIK nobody follows such laws any more and nobody outside of specific regions of Africa specific warlords have been prosecuted for it in recent times. That's of course just a guess.

It could also be projection of the Templar's in reference to one of his tats fighting the Muslims during the Crusades. There is talk in one of their documents of preparing the world for the return of Jesus Christ. That should probably concern people a bit more, I think. It appears both sides want this to be a holy war of sorts. It is creating a bit of a stir. [1] There are no rules in a holy war beyond Victory or Death. Even if this is all truly just rhetoric it should concern people as such times can be excuses to implement very draconian laws.

[1] - https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/03/military-offi...
by idle_zealot | 2026-03-14 19:03:41+00:00
The decision of the market seems pretty clear. We've been able to co-operate and build a software commons for decades, iterating on and improving shared infrastructure and solutions to problems common and niche. The work done for these commons, though, benefits everyone, and that's a hard sell for a profit-driven organization. So the commons are enriched with

a) volunteers

b) brief windows in which corporate decision makers are driven by ideology and good intentions, where those decisions carry momentum or license obligations (see Android, and how Google tries to claw it back)

c) corporations attempting to shape the larger landscape or commoditize their complement, see Facebook's work on React, or contributions to the Linux kernel

Of the above, only (a) or rarely and temporarily (b) are interested in collective wellbeing. Most of the labor and resources go into making moats and doing the bare minimum to keep the shared infrastructure alive.

Now companies selling LLM coding agents enter the scene, promising to eliminate their customers' dependence on the commons, and whatever minimal obligations they had to support it. Why use a standard solution when what used to be a library can now be generated on the fly and be part of your moat? Spot a security bug? Have an agent diagnose and fix it. No need to contribute to any upstream. Hell, no upstream would even accept whatever the LLM made without a bunch of cleanup and massaging to get it to conform the their style guides and standards.

Open source, free software, they're fundamentally about code. The intended audience for such code is machine and human. They're not compatible with a development cycle where craft is not a consideration and code is not meant to be read and understood. That is all to say: yes, it is unrealistic to expect companies to donate anything to the commons if they can find any other avenue. They prefer a future where computer programs are purchased by the token from model providers to one where they might have to unintentionally help out a competitor.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-14 19:03:42+00:00
> Most people using these things aren't going to be using more than 8GB on an ongoing basis, and if they do, they'll not be swapping it like mad as you suggest, because it's only on application-switch that it will matter.

To begin with, a single application can pretty easily use more than 8GB by itself these days.

But suppose you are using multiple applications at once. If one of them actually has a large working set size -- rendering, AI, code compiling, etc. -- and then you run it in the background because it takes a long time (and especially takes a long time when you're swapping), its working set size is stuck in physical memory because it's actively using it even in the background and if it got swapped out it would just have to be swapped right back in again. If that takes 6GB, you now only have 2GB for your OS and whatever application you're running in the foreground. And if it takes 10GB then it doesn't matter if you're even running anything else.

Now, does that mean that everybody is doing this? Of course not. But if that is what you're doing, it's not great that you may not even notice that it's happening and then you end up with a worn out drive which is soldered on for no legitimate reason.

> As for 600TB in just over 3 days, I want some of what you're smoking.

2GB/s is 8200GB/hour is 172.8TB/day. It's the worst case scenario if you max out the drive.

In practice it might get hot and start thermally limiting before then, or be doing both reads and writes and then not be able to sustain that level of write performance, but "about a week" is hardly much better.
by 9rx | 2026-03-14 19:03:58+00:00
> but you need moderators to define and adjust the guidelines

The comments above you are suggesting that global guidelines are unnecessary. Instead, they suggest you don't need moderation at all when LLMs now give us the technology to filter out the stuff individual users don't want to see based own their own personal policies. I am sure you can come up with reasons to dispute that, but "you need moderators to do the thing you say is no longer necessary" doesn't add to the discussion.
by aminerj | 2026-03-14 19:04:16+00:00
The linguistics angle on the "wait..." pattern hadn't occurred to me -- a pragmatic rethinking marker in token space because it's well represented in training data as exactly that.

My lab used Qwen2.5-7B at temperature=0.1 specifically to minimize variance, so I have no signal on whether explicit reasoning steps surface the contradiction before committing. That's exactly the gap your setup could point toward.

Look forward to hearing from you.
by eyepaqio | 2026-03-14 19:04:23+00:00
Built this because I kept running into the same problems with existing memory libraries:

1. Everything gets equal weight. A peanut allergy and a lunch preference sit at the same priority. So I added importance scoring (1-10) at extraction time, and retrieval ranks by a weighted mix of similarity, importance, and recency.

2. Contradictions pile up. "Lives in Berlin" and "moved to Paris" both stay in the store. Widemem batches new facts against related existing memories in a single LLM call and resolves conflicts at write time.

3. No concept of "don't forget this". Health, legal, and financial facts get tagged as decay-immune so they never fade out of retrieval.

Runs fully local with Ollama + sentence-transformers + SQLite + FAISS. Also supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and Qdrant. 140 tests, Apache 2.0.

pip install widemem-ai
by K0balt | 2026-03-14 19:04:47+00:00
Sorry, my AI autocorrected “ubi is” to “unions”. When I came back to all these “unions bad” comments I was like WTF are they on about??? lol.

But, I will say, often, unions are very positive things. Other times, basically evil. So, I think unions are a mixed bag. But the threat of potential unionization is almost a universal good, so it’s a right worth exercising once in a while.
by steezeburger | 2026-03-14 19:05:23+00:00
Haha whoops, I totally conflated the two! The Sony Atrac3Plus had a feature called "G Protection". It was the only "anti skip" cd player that I tried that actually worked really well back then.

I also exaggerated the year a bit. After looking it up, I think this cd player came out in 2004!
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-14 19:05:57+00:00
This just isn't true across the time and space of human cultures and civilizations. There are plenty of places, even in the USA within the last 50 years, that have had a housing surplus.

The current problems have tended to arise when desirable work is geographically limited which then leads to a much larger housing shortage in those areas despite the presence of sufficient housing across a broader territory.
by rafael-lua | 2026-03-14 19:06:14+00:00
Well, out of all the workflows I have seen, this one is rather nice, might give it a try.

I imagine if the context were being commited and kept up-to-date with CI would work for others to use as well.

However, I'm a little confused on the autocontext/globs narrowing part. Do you, the developer, provide them? Or you feed the full code map to flash + your prompt so it returns the globs based on your prompt?

Also, in general, is your map of a file relatively smaller than the file itself, even for very small files?
by estearum | 2026-03-14 19:06:17+00:00
> Why are prices for an apartment in SF only 3k/mo instead of 30k? Surely under your reasoning a landlord could just wait and get a tenant at any price they set?

No, because local wages cannot sustain those prices

If local wages could sustain those prices, then yes all rents would rise to that new higher local income level

That is (quite self-evidently) prices are so phenomenally high in ultra high-income areas like SF

Every single landlord is setting prices by the same metric: what can the people who would live here be able to afford? Competition between landlords is almost nil, which is why you find almost no "deals" anywhere. The market is totally efficient. Everyone agrees on how to set prices: by local wages.
by dahart | 2026-03-14 19:07:06+00:00
Please. The URL above is pretty short, this is not the kind of URL link shorteners were made for, in fact it’s already shortened, as @alecco pointed out.

Pleasant? I could not care less about the pleasantness of the video code, but a shortened URL in this case would not be more pleasant, and it would be functionally worse, and barely shorter; all you’d be able to trim is the “?si=“. I’m baffled by this thread.
by indymike | 2026-03-14 19:07:16+00:00
> Now companies selling LLM coding agents enter the scene, promising to eliminate their customers' dependence on the commons, and whatever minimal obligations they had to support it.

This is misguided. Maintenance of LLM code has a far greater cost than generating it.

> They prefer a future where computer programs are purchased by the token from model providers to one where they might have to unintentionally help out a competitor.

I don't think that's even a thought. The thought is that "no one can tell me no".
My Thoughts on GDC 2026 – The Good, the Interesting, and the Bad (ARM, WTF)
by swaggyteddy | 2026-03-14 19:07:17+00:00
Hello all! This is my 1st post here! I promised to myself that in 2026, I'd get out of my shell virtually, so here I am :-)

I attended GDC for the first time this year, always wanted to go, but never could. So I went this year, as an independent person. I just got home after a long week (San Francisco is awesome!), I wanted to share some of my own thoughts on where the gaming industry is heading and where it’s not doing so hot.

The Good/Awesome

Google DeepMind’s Genie 3: The talk was packed, there was no room, and it became standing room only with tons of people being turned away. You had to get there early. As for the talk/demo itself. AWESOME. MIND BLOWING. I can't imagine what that is going to be like in a few months / years from now, given how fast the AI space is moving. Just crazy. And I hope game creators and gamers can take advantage of it meaningfully somehow.

Microsoft’s Project Helix: I'm a huge Xbox nerd, so I love anything Xbox. So I attended this hoping to hear about a new console, and I sort of did. Console + PC gaming in 1 machine is an interesting idea for sure, but lets see how it pans out. Given they have a new gaming chief, no idea how this is going to turn out, but my hope is they don't forget the actual point of a console is to play games and not stuff it with AI slop.

The Interesting:

I spent a lot of time at the Luminaries panel discussing Generative AI in gaming. It’s an incredibly tough topic, and I noticed a lot of tiptoeing around the core issues. My thoughts right now? Artists and game creators **MUST** be credited. Full stop. It felt like there were too many out-of-touch heads in the room who don’t understand how to integrate this technology in a way that actually benefits the humans who make games. AI shouldn’t be force-fed into the process imo, it should empower the craft.

The Bad:

I do have to address the ARM keynote I attended. To be brutally honest, it was TERRIBLE. I left it feeling surprised by how bad it was, but the more I thought about it, the less surprising it felt. I've used ARM tech since my undergrad and always felt they're a step behind in things, especially in mobile gaming, and this keynote only reinforced my views. If they want to stay relevant to developers and the space, they need to show up at this conference with a much better understanding of the audience they’re speaking to.

What made it even worse is that the rest of ARM’s mobile gaming presence did little to change my view. The talks lacked clarity, substance, and any real sense of insight into the problems developers actually care about. The keynote was absolutely the low point though: it was difficult to tell what the message was, who it was for, or what ARM was trying to accomplish. MAJOR WTF. My advice to ARM would be to get an actual PERSON and not a CORPORATE ROBOT to speak in keynotes, especially when you want to try and support game developers at a game developer conference, but drop the ball in connecting with the community in a meaningful way.

That's all for now, hope people find this useful!
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-14 19:07:37+00:00
Not that contagious, I'm afraid.

My boss uses Reddit some. I'm banned. At the shop, we use the same IP address (and we do not use ipv6 there).

I tried to log in with a ~10-year-old account that I'd never commented with. A perfect Beetlejuicing moment had arrived and I just wanted to play the game with a short, snarky comment.

It logged in fine, and then: Insta-ban, just like that. (Maybe I should have used a new browser on a new network that I've never used before, but whatever -- nothing of value was lost here.)

Meanwhile, the boss man's access continued unimpeded; this suggests that it is a rather targeted contagion.

And it seems to follow the systems, not the networks.

(If anyone wants banned, just let me know. I seem to have a well-poisoned system to play with.)
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-14 19:08:24+00:00
It won't change until states nominally considered "red" or "blue" actually lose the vast majority of their nominally opposed population (e.g. Atlanta's current population migrates out of GA). Until then, just about every state is a complex mixture of populations with different political alignments and sufficient sizes to make secession extremely difficult if not impossible.
by jeremychone | 2026-03-14 19:08:48+00:00
Oh, that's great.

I've always wanted to explore how to fit tree-sitter into this workflow. It's great to know that this works well too.

Thanks for sharing the code.

(Here is the AIPack runtime I built, MIT: https://github.com/aipack-ai/aipack), and here is the code for pro@coder (https://github.com/aipack-ai/packs-pro/tree/main/pro/coder) (AIPack is in Rust, and AI Packs are in md / lua)
by lateforwork | 2026-03-14 19:08:59+00:00
Speaking of US economic data reliability:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/economy/inflatio...

Story title:

Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading

Excerpts:

“On its merits, you can defend the change,” said Omair Sharif, founder of Inflation Insights, a forecasting firm. “Optically, it’s just not a good look in an environment when people are worried about political interference.”

Mr. Sharif said he did not believe the change was politically motivated. But Courtney Shupert, an economist at MacroPolicy Perspectives, another forecasting firm, said such decisions undermine public confidence in the statistical system.

“It seems like we are moving to more of a vague, uncertain, cloudy data quality environment that is going to make market participants less confident in the data that we do receive,” Ms. Shupert said.
by dangus | 2026-03-14 19:09:36+00:00
Well, there's definitely other ways. I would prefer a system where company ownership public and private has a mandatory public stake in both ownership and voting on company policy and major business decisions.

I would prefer it illegal for the wealthy to possess an excessive amount of assets. If your assets became more valuable than the limit, the asset share would automatically rebalance toward other employees and owners in the organization who are below the asset ownership limit.

You don't even really need UBI if healthcare, housing, food, and education are considered basic human rights that are included and free of cost at point of usage.
by mattmaroon | 2026-03-14 19:09:37+00:00
That sounds logical but the timeline doesn’t match up. Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010. This came after years of decline.

Netflix streaming launched in 2007 and ended 2010 with only 20 million users. (They currently have over 15x that). I was using it from the start, they had barely any content back then, Hulu was pretty new, and that was the entirety of the streaming universe. Netflix’s first major original content, House of Cards, came out in 2013.

Blockbuster peaked in 2004. Redbox was just getting started.

Blockbuster’s fall loves to get shoved into 100 different narratives, none of which match the facts. It was death by 1,000 papercuts. Netflix. Redbox. Cable system technology improving drastically. Cable TV improving drastically (this happened right around the time Blockbuster peaked, great book on how/why called Difficult Men). TV show quality in general improving drastically. The rise of HBO. Poor management. Etc.
by scoofy | 2026-03-14 19:09:39+00:00
There are even practical ways to allow this type of exchange. However, they require a truly egalitarian business relationship, mutual respect, and signaling mechanism to note when to be blunt and when to be decent.

If these conditions aren't met, then a subordinate could trivially get fired because they're superior hadn't had breakfast or lunch that day and was just hangry.
by keeda | 2026-03-14 19:10:10+00:00
I dunno, most reports from the time (and a quick Google AI overview just now) mentioned the cuts largely focused on T&S and moderation teams. Even the ML teams he cut reprotedly were working more on safety and integrity issues. Many who worked on "woke" issues were also cut, but the line between T&S and "woke" gets blurry quickly.

To be fair, this could be due to the bias in reporting, as media outlets may have had incentives for over-emphasizing the T&S angle.

I do not deny there was bloat. There was bloat in most tech firms at the time. But I don't think it was 80% bloat. My post was to explain how, even if T&S / moderation seems like a small function, it can require an unexpectedly large headcount -- probably even more for a pure-UGC company like Twitter -- and so could realistically account for the bulk of the cuts.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-14 19:11:45+00:00
> It only chills when the watchers are hidden.

How does that even help? The concern is that you're deterred from e.g. admitting that you're a lesbian under your own name because your religious grandparents wouldn't approve, or advocating for school choice because your boss is married to a public school teacher, or criticizing the government.

Knowing that they're going to see it doesn't stop them from cutting you out of their will or putting you on toilet duty or playing "show me the man and I will show you the crime".
by 4k93n2 | 2026-03-14 19:11:51+00:00
i use an android app called keymapper (by sds100) that lets you remap the volume buttons so that a long press will change the track.

my wired earbuds only have 1 button on the in-line remote but the app can detect the button being pressed whether its a single, double tap or long press, and you can just assign whatever you want to them
by cornelj834 | 2026-03-14 19:11:52+00:00
Every Friday night, same fight. My Wife loves rom-coms, I love action. We'd spend 30 minutes scrolling Netflix, getting annoyed with each other, then watching something neither of us wanted. or just quitting.

So I built WatchPick. It's basically Tinder for movies — you both swipe on what you want to watch, and it finds the match.

Took 3 months to build. Launched on the App Store last week.

The business model is freemium — free to use, $4.99/month or $39.99/year for premium features like unlimited matches and advanced filtering.

Happy to answer questions!

https://dub.sh/watchpick
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-14 19:12:00+00:00
> Or a hundred more $100+ millionaires who aren't preppers?

This.

I live in Wyoming and frequent the Bay Area, New York and some places in Europe and India. The rich preppers are rare. (And mostly techies or oil men.) It’s mostly a middle-class pursuit, the singler and older and maler the person, the more likely they own clothing in camo. If they’ve spent any time in a military or intelligence service, their “prepping” is basic emergency preparedness, not bunker lunacy. (Though one retired special ops guy who started military contracting kept a map of the bunkers. I think as a joke. The saying being a well-stocked bunker owned by an asshole is a good target for a group of guys with guns.)

At the end of the day, the rich preppers build bunkers because it gives them something interesting to talk about. That group is mostly chasing that high.
by ahsillyme | 2026-03-14 19:12:06+00:00
I think it betrays cynicism about the tendency for single-objective optimizing market actors to rent-seek and cartelize. I don't think it's a stretch at all. On the surface it would be equally preposterous to suggest that breathing could be theoretically revoked by the government, which truly is preposterous but we do have those laws in place depending on whether the air you breathe has "illegal substances" in it. But then again, explicit revocation is a high bar when you can throttle the free use of computational resources by regulatory capture: the AI incumbents could say, for example, that AI is so dangerous that it must be kept out of the hands of the unwashed masses. Another excellent strategy (with a rather high bar to entry) would be to distort the markets themselves by ensuring that your prospective renters can't afford basic compute.