MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crote | 2026-03-01 01:07:41+00:00
Businesses aren't the ones who are paying for that subsidy, so from a business perspective the fact that you are using a subsidy is irrelevant.

From a society perspective, the fact that switching to electric trucks saves a business $160k over its 6-year lifespan with a $325k subsidy shows that the subsidies can probably be lowered to $165k already - with the remaining purchase price gap probably better covered by something like a low-interest loan.

In a larger context, this pricing is before mass-manufacturing of electric semi trucks has properly scaled up yet, and it isn't yet accounting for the ~203 tonnes of CO2 which aren't being emitted over those 6 years which should probably be taxed.

I agree that skipping over the subsidy for a quick headline is irresponsible, but altogether the gap between diesel and EV has been shrinking quite significantly. It makes me cautiously optimistic that in the next decade we will start seeing mass adoption of EV trucks purely for economic reasons.
by vasac | 2026-03-01 01:09:38+00:00
> ... in the Balkans this was exclusively done in areas to harm civilians ...

It wasn’t.

While there were probably some areas that were mined with the intention of harming civilians, most of the mines were laid in places where you would expect the enemy to advance. In the section of the front where I was located, all minefields were laid with the intention of slowing down or preventing enemy infiltration (which does not exclude areas near human settlements).

There was simply no point in mining places that were under your control and where you expected your people to live after the war, unless it was necessary.
by Waterluvian | 2026-03-01 01:10:21+00:00
I suspect the Venn diagram of those who: 1) are aggrieved that America covers the bulk of the cost of world policing and 2) believe that America has a natural right to unilaterally determine foreign regime change, overlap greatly.

I knew it was foolish, but I really was somewhat hopeful that the American regime’s stated doctrinal shift was true and they really were going to fuck right off from the world stage, even just a little. Naturally, we suffer the opposite.
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-01 01:10:27+00:00
Well first of all you're running a long intense task on a thermally constrained machine. Your MacBook Pro is optimised for portability and battery life, not max performance under load. And apple's obsession with thinness overrules thermal performance for them. Short peaks will be ok but a 45 minute task will thoroughly saturate the cooling system.

Even on servers this can happen. At work we have a 2U sized server with two 250W class GPUs. And I found that by pinning the case fans at 100% I can get 30% more performance out of GPU tasks which translates to several days faster for our usecase. It does mean I can literally hear the fans screaming in the hallway outside the equipment room but ok lol. Who cares. But a laptop just can't compare.

Something with a desktop GPU or even better something with HBM3 would run much better. Local models get slow when you use a ton of context and the memory bandwidth of a MacBook Pro while better than a pc is still not amazing.

And yeah the heaviest tasks are not great on local models. I tend to run the low hanging fruit locally and the stuff where I really need the best in the cloud. I don't agree local models are on par, however I don't think they really need to be for a lot of tasks.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-03-01 01:10:37+00:00
This isn't about moral principles. In china, censorship is legal. In the US mass surveillance is not. Even for those "genocidal regimes", it was lawful use. even now, both anthropic and openai agree that their models can be used in war and censorship just like with china, since those things are lawful. Even with genocide, from what i understand, the safeguard is that humans have to be in the loop, not that it won't aid the efforts.

I don't expect companies to be moral, but I do expect them to be patriotic, and to obey the law. And I also expect the government to punish them sufficiently when they fail to do so. The morality part is for the people to legislate or some other way enact laws to reflect their beliefs. Companies don't get a vote at the ballot box and they certainly are not agents for moral arbitrage between a government and its people.
by monster_truck | 2026-03-01 01:11:02+00:00
Had no idea they even did anything. Was waiting for this. Nice to see some consequences and something resembling an attempt at integrity.

Now they just need to do something about all of the other writers! With the exception of the science lady, the security guy, and the british car guy, it's indistinguishable from the kind of PR-copy-paste blogspam 'coverage' you'd see from a place that will never have the reputation Ars used to.
by estearum | 2026-03-01 01:11:06+00:00
> If a a virus is so deadly, everything it touches dies soon, it would not spread quickly but die out. If it is very contagious .. but very, very slow incubation time, so it infects the whole world, before becoming a deadly disease ..

This is a made up equilibrium that actually does not need to exist in nature.

Viruses and bacteria can in fact be both extremely, extremely contagious and extremely, extremely lethal.

> If a a virus is so deadly, everything it touches dies soon,

Trivially: you actually can have a virus that kills everything it touches not soon. Nothing in biology or chemistry or physics prevents it.
by MarsIronPI | 2026-03-01 01:11:07+00:00
No, it's not. They're just collections of numbers that can be harnessed to produce outputs. I check the outputs and if they're good I use them. If they're not, I ignore them and there's no harm done. Obviously I don't trust them to be accurate sources of information, but I don't trust American corporate LLMs much more.
by sublinear | 2026-03-01 01:11:10+00:00
I am about to hit 40 soon and have an alternative take on all that. I agree reddit was and still is a very toxic echo chamber, but the rest of us who have avoided having kids shouldn't be lumped in with those people.

I came from a big family and grew up somewhat poor watching remorseful adults who didn't recognize the gravity of bringing a life into this world, let alone several, basically drink themselves to death to cope.

My social life is mostly offline and I enjoy helping people in any way I can, but I am fully aware of my own flaws. I find balance by being generous in what seems like a million other ways I might not have the energy or time for if I had a family. To each their own.
Show HN: Integrate governance before your AI stack executes – COMMAND console
by Burnmydays | 2026-03-01 01:11:18+00:00
I built COMMAND, a governance console for operating multiple AI systems from a single control surface. It's an enterprise product — licensed to organizations, not individuals — but the full interactive demo is a single HTML file anyone can open and explore right now.
The problem: organizations running multiple AI systems (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, etc.) have no structured way to govern them together. Each system is a separate conversation with separate context. COMMAND gives you a single interface with role assignment (primary/secondary/observer), sequenced execution order, broadcast across systems, context injection, and a full audit trail.
Open the site, the demo runs in your browser. No signup, no backend, no dependencies. You're looking at the full control surface:

Assign roles and execution sequences across 6 AI systems
Set governance modes that constrain how systems respond
Broadcast a single prompt to multiple systems in defined order
Load context documents from a vault and inject them into sessions
Deploy structured missions with WHO/WHAT/WHERE configuration
Control response behavior with compression, speed, and length sliders
SNAIL mode (step-by-step acknowledgment), LOCK IN (acute focus)
Command postures: FALL IN LINE, FOLLOW, LEAD, TAKE CHARGE
Full session export and audit logging

The demo uses simulated responses to show how governance state flows through. The actual product is delivered to licensed organizations who connect their own API keys and engine.
Built as a single self-contained HTML file (~7K lines). I wanted something that could run anywhere, including air-gapped environments, with zero infrastructure dependencies.
Happy to discuss the architecture, the governance model, or the reasoning behind any of it.

RiftWalking
by pndy | 2026-03-01 01:11:27+00:00
Both OS lines were developed concurrently up until XP release where DOS-based 9x was abandoned and NT became the basis for every subsequent product. Plus of course there's that whole part of the story where MS teamed up with IBM and worked on OS/2.

NT got new 9x shell with 4.0 release but a beta package could be installed on 3.51 as well - tho, that could render some compatibility issues.
by subsection1h | 2026-03-01 01:12:42+00:00
I've been using HN since 2008 when I created my first account[1] and I use HN differently than most people. I have a group of bookmarked searches that I visit almost daily that relate to technologies that interest me, such as Emacs.

In the past year, the searches I perform that relate to web development show a horrifying increase in the amount of Show HN posts that are posted by new accounts, include AI generated descriptions and point to AI generated projects on GitHub.

In 2024, there were 17,661 Show HN posts.[2] In the past year, there have been over 448,000 Show HN posts![3] And of course, most of these posts are AI generated.

Also, if you check the new accounts posting all this AI slop, you'll see that some of them also post AI generated comments in other threads, which is the main problem.

But for me, what is even more annoying is the enormous increase in new accounts created by nontechnical vibecoders who now think of themselves as technologists and who post worthless, ignorant comments that actually get upvoted, presumably by similar folks who have unfortunately been creating accounts at HN in the past 10 years or so.

As a result, 2026 is the first year in which I visit HN about once a week instead of about once a day.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zartan

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Show+HN%22&dateRange=custom...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Show+HN%22&dateRange=pastYe...
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-01 01:13:19+00:00
Agreed, but I think it goes far beyond warfare. The biggest "plot hole" in much scifi (IMO) is the lack of explanation for why all the depicted systems aren't autonomous. Most worldbuilding seems rather lazy to me, a haphazard mishmash of things that imply AGI and things that would only ever exist in a pre-ChatGPT world.

One of the few works that at least attempts to get this right is the Culture series where it's remarked on several different occasions that anything over some threshold of computing power has AGI built into it (but don't worry you're totally free, just ignore the hall monitor in all of your devices).
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2026-03-01 01:13:36+00:00
I just get my agent to read them for me and present a few options for comments as derived from the vibes of any existing comments. If I time out, it posts a random option, then at the end of the week I get it to summarise all the content I (royal) read and distill it into a take-aways note in my (royal) journal. It's been a huge productivity boost. When ever I think I might want to think about something I just ask the agent to find a topic I (royal) read within some timeframe and have it synthesise a few new dot points in my (royal) journal. I'm hoping to reach 10,000 salient points by the end of the year.
by Vonng | 2026-03-01 01:13:57+00:00
Author here.

• This is translated from my original Chinese post. I used Claude to polish the English — not a native speaker. Fair criticism on the LLM-ese; I'll tighten it.

• This fork exists because MinIO is a production dep in my PG distribution (Pigsty) and I needed working binaries + CVE patches. It's primarily for my own use; sharing it because others may have the same problem.

• We're deliberately conservative — no new features, just a drop-in replacement that behaves like the last OSS release with the console restored. Early commits will look thin.
by lr4444lr | 2026-03-01 01:14:03+00:00
As someone who taught kids in person and fell into a deep depression with how Kafkaesque that job was and then found so much more gratification as a SWE, all I can say is, the author's experience is not universal. (And I am a parent, so it's not about disliking kids.) I will say though that remote work is definitely dystopia. I need an office and the presence of people physically.
by kir-gadjello | 2026-03-01 01:14:30+00:00
Respectfully, from my experience and a few billions of tokens consumed, some opensource models really are strong and useful. Specifically StepFun-3.5-flash https://github.com/stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash

I'm working on a pretty complex Rust codebase right now, with hundreds of integration tests and nontrivial concurrency, and stepfun powers through.

I have no relation to stepfun, and I'm saying this purely from deep respect to the team that managed to pack this performance in 196B/11B active envelope.
by intalentive | 2026-03-01 01:15:53+00:00
Iran is the main source of resistance in the region. Libya, Iraq, and Syria have been pacified. Egypt has been bought off. All the groups still fighting Israel (Hezbollah, Houthis, probably Hamas) have received significant Iranian support.

I believe the calculation is this is Israel’s last best window of opportunity to leverage the declining American empire with a compromised asset in the White House. The time to strike is now, since in 10 years US military power and US political will in support of Israel will likely be diminished.
Show HN: Quizz MCP – Turn Claude Code Conversations into Quizzes
by ThoBustos | 2026-03-01 01:15:59+00:00
I built an MCP server that generates quizzes from your Claude Code sessions.

Reading AI explanations feels like understanding, but how much are you actually retaining? I wanted active recall instead of passive reading.

How it works:
- Say "Quiz me on what we discussed" in Claude Code
- It generates questions (multiple-choice, code-writing, open-ended)
- Browser opens with a terminal-style UI
- After each answer, you can chat with an AI tutor
- Retry quizzes for spaced repetition

Tech: TypeScript, MCP SDK, Next.js, SQLite, Claude API

The whole thing is keyboard-driven (A-D to select, Enter to submit). Built it because I kept forgetting things from long Claude sessions and wanted something like Anki but automatic.

Would love feedback on the question generation quality, i'm already thinking in some kind of dashboard, reminders, gamifying your grind in the CLI.
by zahlman | 2026-03-01 01:17:33+00:00
Indeed.

> However, since the advent of widespread industrialisation, atmospheric CO2 levels have exponentially increased (Fig. 1). In just the last ~ 50 years it has risen from < 340 ppm (in 1980), to > 420 ppm in 2025 (Lan et al., 2025). Atmospheric CO2 is currently increasing at more than 2 ppm each year, largely due to humanity’s activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels (Eggleton, 2012).

There's good reason to believe we're on the cusp of a solar energy revolution and, more generally, ready to turn things around. But even in the worst scenarios I can imagine, outdoor air 50 years from now (as posited in the title) would not be as bad as indoor air now.
by lousken | 2026-03-01 01:17:41+00:00
No, the spec is for companies that need to enforce higher levels of security so that you can e.g. only enable Yubikeys in your env.
I hate big tech just like anybody else but this is just spreading FUD right now.

Also execs can already enforce their apps only - banking apps for approving transactions are already a thing at least in europe, no fido passkey needed.
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-01 01:17:53+00:00
Ranting on UI, I think I might blame MS for this but I feel like many shortcuts for customization in apps and OS are a net negative.

The first example I remember was ~2003ish when MS Office did a big redesign and got much bigger toolbars. That they were big is a matter of taste but that's not where I'm going with this. No, the issue was that they made too easy to ACCIDENTALLY mess up the UI. They added all kinds of customization (which is fine) but then made it so just dragging a little too long an a button would let you move the button somewhere else. So, grandpa drags the button, possible off the bar, deleting it, and now for all intents and purposes the app is unusable to him. IMO, the customization options should be buried deeper where they can't happen by accident.

This "ACCIDENTAL" modification is all the rage now. On iPhone, holding on the lock screen puts the phone in "edit the lock screen mode". Several family members have asked why the image they put on the lock screen was gone. It was because they "butt edited the screen". Put the phone in their pocket and it felt a press and went into edit mode and edited the lock screen. AFAIK, almost no one needs this shortcut. It would be fine to just go into Settings->Wallpaper->Lockscreen or something like that. But, I'm just guessing (1) some UX designer needed something todo (2) someone working on lockscreen options got tired of doing the Settings->Wallpaper->Lockscreen dance and put in a shortcut that no-one but them needs.

This same issue is all over the place. The iPhone's lockscreen while charging mode has the same issue. The user (me) picks the clock face I want. And, one of 10 times I reach for the phone from the charging stand I accidently touch the screen which changes the face. I NEVER NEED THIS. Again, this should be buried in Settings->Lockscreen->Clock Face. The shortcut a net negative.

There are many more.
by gerdesj | 2026-03-01 01:18:07+00:00
I recently had to get printing working for a family member on an Apple tablet. I'm not an Apple jockey so it took me a while to sort out and I've being using computers since 1980 and consulting since 1995.

You tap an icon that looks like the outline of a rectangle with an arrow pointing up. Then you tap the name of the printer. Then you tap another rectangle with an up arrow and then tap the word "Print".

I may have got the precise steps wrong but it really is that abstruse to print something on a tablet. Never mind that mDNS/Bonjour has done its thing - the steps to actually indicate that you want to print is frankly weird.

What on earth is that box with an up arrow actually supposed to mean? Why does the interface switch from icons to text?
by felipemayamuniz | 2026-03-01 01:18:17+00:00
I built a cognitive architecture called ATIC that models AI reasoning as geometric manifolds rather than relying on statistical fine-tuning. It ranked #1 on LiveBench with 68.5% quality, running on top of open-source models (Qwen, DeepSeek) without modifying any weights.
The core idea: instead of training the model to be smarter, you structure how it thinks — epistemic geometry over gradient descent.
It's live and free to test: https://truthagi.ai — no credit card, no real email required.
I'm an independent researcher from Brazil. Built this solo. Happy to answer any technical questions about the architecture.
by nemo1618 | 2026-03-01 01:19:35+00:00
> But like humans — and unlike computer programs — they do not produce the exact same results every time they are used. This is fundamental to the way that LLMs operate: based on the "weights" derived from their training data, they calculate the likelihood of possible next words to output, then randomly select one (in proportion to its likelihood).

This is emphatically not fundamental to LLMs! Yes, the next token is selected randomly; but "randomly" could mean "chosen using an RNG with a fixed seed." Indeed, many APIs used to support a "temperature" parameter that, when set to 0, would result in fully deterministic output. These parameters were slowly removed or made non-functional, though, and the reason has never been entirely clear to me. My current guess is that it is some combination of A) 99% of users don't care, B) perfect determinism would require not just a seeded RNG, but also fixing a bunch of data races that are currently benign, and C) deterministic output might be exploitable in undesirable ways, or lead to bad PR somehow.
by Telaneo | 2026-03-01 01:19:38+00:00
> Forcing users to click on graphical elements presents many challenges: what constitutes an "element"; what are its boundaries; when is it active, inactive, disabled, etc.; if it has icons, what do they mean; are interactive elements visually distinguishable from non-interactive elements; and so on.

There are standards and common conventions for a lot of this in the Windows 9X/2000 design language, and even in basic HTML. These challenges could have been solved (for values of) by using them consistently, and I think we might have been there for a little while, at least within the Windows bubble. The fact that we threw all of those out the window with new and worse design, then did that again a few more times just to make sure all the users learned to never bother actually learning the UI, since it will just change on them anyway, doesn't entail that this is an unsolvable problem (well, it might be now, but I doubt it was back in 1995).

> Like you, I do have a soft spot for the Windows 2000 GUI in particular, and consider it the pinnacle of Microsoft's designs, but it still feels outdated and inneficient by modern standards. The reason for this is because it follows the visual trends of the era, and it can't accomodate some of the UX improvements newer GUIs have (universal search, tiled/snappable windows, workspaces, etc.).

I fail to see why any of these features couldn't be implemented within the design constraints of the Windows 9X/2000 design language. There are certainly technical constrains, but I can't see any design constrains. They were never implemented at the time, and those features didn't become relevant until we'd gone through several rounds of different designs, so we never had the opportunity to see how it would work out.
by bjt | 2026-03-01 01:19:51+00:00
Even with LLMs, we need a way to translate between the imprecise plain English description of a program and the completely-unambiguous level of code. You need the ability to see when the LLM has resolved ambiguities in the wrong direction and steer it back. If you can't speak code, that's going to be a very error-prone process.
by cyberax | 2026-03-01 01:20:34+00:00
I have a pair of Radeon AI PRO R9700 with 32Gb, and so far they have been a pleasure to use. Drivers work out-of-the-box, and they are completely quiet when unused. They are capped at 300W power, so even at 100% utilization they are not too loud.

I was thinking about adding after-market liquid cooling for them, but they're fine without it.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-03-01 01:21:13+00:00
Honestly, the biggest challenge with AI tools isn't just picking one, it's explaining to management that they don't replace the need for deep architectural knowledge. Most managers think Copilot means 2x speed, but they forget about the "review debt" it creates. I’ve found that focusing on the ecosystem rather than just the syntax is the only way to stay ahead. I actually wrote a breakdown on why the Python ecosystem remains the backbone of this shift, which might be exactly what your manager needs to see to understand the bigger picture: https://codebit-daily.hashnode.dev/why-python-is-still-the-k...
by CodeBit26 | 2026-03-01 01:22:07+00:00
Copilot is definitely still relevant, but the "honeymoon phase" where we just accepted every suggestion is over. In an enterprise setting, it’s becoming more of a boilerplate killer than a logic generator. The real value now is how these tools integrate with existing libraries. If you're not deeply familiar with the core stack (like the Python/AI libraries we use daily), Copilot can actually lead you into some pretty expensive technical debt. I did a deep dive on why Python’s dominance in AI is what actually makes these tools useful in the first place: https://codebit-daily.hashnode.dev/why-python-is-still-the-k...