MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goldmar | 2026-03-11 14:51:38+00:00
For me plan mode and answering questions didn’t work great when I tried using Claude Code with OpenClaw out of the box. So I think that’s the main problem that this plugin solves. And getting proper notifications when something is done or needs a response.

Regarding delegate mode - if something requires attention/clarification, the agent will “block”. That’s just how the mechanism works in the underlying Claude Code and Codex harnesses. There is generally no “let’s continue working on everything else that can be done without answering the questions” mechanism. That would be great, I agree, but probably a feature that should be in Claude Code / Codex themselves rather than this plugin.
by victorbjorklund | 2026-03-11 14:51:51+00:00
You can of course discuss whether a thing is good or bad, even before it has been proven a fact. As an example, you could discuss whether it would be good or bad if it turned out that Trump fucked a minor in the presence of Epstein. Doesn't have to be proved first. You can still discuss whether it's good or bad. You could even discuss things that are totally hypothetical: if we colonize the moon, should we make murder legal or illegal on the moon? We can answer that question even if it hasn't happened yet.
by frereubu | 2026-03-11 14:51:59+00:00
From TFA: "Fun fact: As part of our research preview, the CodeWall research agent autonomously suggested McKinsey as a target citing their public responsible diclosure policy (to keep within guardrails) and recent updates to their Lilli platform. In the AI era, the threat landscape is shifting drastically — AI agents autonomously selecting and attacking targets will become the new normal."
by reacharavindh | 2026-03-11 14:52:04+00:00
I mean it is a business after all, trying to make money..

I must say, the new smart bricks with all sorts of sensors(color, gyro, distance etc) triggers the inner child in me. I can’t wait to get them for my kiddo and teach him how that magic actually works beneath.

The regular LEGO at this points feels “just plastic” and I won’t feel bad offloading that purchase to AliExpress.
by nindalf | 2026-03-11 14:52:21+00:00
Same reason Android and Chrome and git and Linux weren't written in Rust when they started. Rust didn't exist. All of these projects integrate Rust now, after being single language projects for the longest time.

It's notable that the projects you mentioned mostly don't need to deal with adversarial user input, while the projects I mentioned do. That's one area that Rust shines in.
by regularfry | 2026-03-11 14:52:47+00:00
At some point you hit information limits. With conventional quantisation you see marked capability fall-off below q5. All else being equal you'd expect an N-parameter 5-bit quant to be roughly comparable to a 3N-parameter ternary, if they are trained to the same level, just in terms of the amount of information they can possibly hold. So yes, 100B ternary would be within the ballpark of a 30B q5 conventional model, with a lot of hand-waving and sufficiently-smart-training
by hkonte | 2026-03-11 14:53:00+00:00
The "hard constraints, not prose descriptions" framing is exactly right. Giving Pass 2 explicit hex codes and section lists instead of open-ended style descriptions is the same principle as separating a prompt into typed semantic blocks. The model stops interpreting intent and starts executing on a fixed spec.

The quality jump from pageStructure over a hardcoded template shows the same thing in reverse: structure that matches the actual input beats generic assumptions.

I've been building flompt around this idea, a tool that decomposes prompts into 12 typed blocks and compiles to Claude-optimized XML: https://github.com/Nyrok/flompt
by kimbernator | 2026-03-11 14:53:03+00:00
> Also, I would be wary bragging about buying your goods in Oregon, you technically may owe WA use tax

In my experience, this is well-known around Vancouver and elicits nothing but eye rolls when mentioned. If there is any enforcement whatsoever for that rule (a big if), it's clearly toothless and people don't worry much about it. A Best Buy opened a couple miles north of the river in the late 2000s and didn't make it much more than a year because another one existed in Jantzen Beach, immediately across the state line. The Vancouver location amounted to a showroom before people decided if they wanted to drive the extra 15 minutes.
by fastaguy88 | 2026-03-11 14:53:09+00:00
It is useful to distinguish between "effective" scientific fraud, where some set of fraudulent papers are published that drive a discipline in an unproductive direction, and "administrative" scientific fraud, where individuals use pseudo-scientific measures (H-index, rankings, etc) to make allocation decisions (grants, tenure, etc). This article suggests that administrative scientific fraud has become more accessible, but it is very unclear whether this is having a major impact on science as it is practiced.

Non-scientists often seem to think that if a paper is published, it is likely to be true. Most practicing scientists are much more skeptical. When I read a that paper sounds interesting in a high impact journal, I am constantly trying to figure out whether I should believe it. If it goes against a vast amount of science (e.g. bacteria that use arsenic rather than phosphorus in their DNA), I don't believe it (and can think of lots of ways to show that it is wrong). In lower impact journals, papers make claims that are not very surprising, so if they are fraudulent in some way, I don't care.

Science has to be reproducible, but more importantly, it must be possible to build on a set of results to extend them. Some results are hard to reproduce because the methods are technically challenging. But if results cannot be extended, they have little effect. Science really is self-correcting, and correction happens faster for results that matter. Not all fraud has the same impact. Most fraud is unfortunate, and should be reduced, but has a short lived impact.
by antonyh | 2026-03-11 14:53:09+00:00
From experience there's a motivation, almost a compulsion, to follow the instructions to build the cool thing. Then... they sit there, those bricks never taken apart.

That compulsion doesn't seem present in freeform building, and there's been zero interest in it in our household. I know that's not true for all, but it seems like a lost art. Maybe it's because the IP sets show how but not the why it's constructed in a certain way, so given a bag of Lego most wouldn't know the process of creating something they can see in their minds eye within the constraints of the available bricks.
by foobarian | 2026-03-11 14:53:11+00:00
In a way I found sketchy/scammy aspects of Roblox helpful to educate my kid about that sort of thing. Early on a classmate scammed her out of some item on AdoptMe, nothing monetary valuable but it shook her and really caused her to think critically about online transactions and security. These days the friend group talks about IP bans and account bans so we did a good session about what IP addresses are, how they work, etc. She also did temper her expectations on how attached to get to the main account since it can get hacked or locked etc.
by al_borland | 2026-03-11 14:53:14+00:00
> Given Apple's struggle to sell more compact iPhones like the iPhone mini, it may not be surprising that a clamshell-style foldable has been shelved for now.

This felt like a marketing failure. The iPhone mini didn’t have a small screen. It was only 0.1” smaller than the 8 Plus.

Had they simply called it the iPhone and talked about how they essentially fit the 8 Plus screen in the body of the 8, and emphasized the better usability, I think it would have sold better.

Most people I know don’t like how much space a these large phones take up in their pockets.
by ryukoposting | 2026-03-11 14:53:26+00:00
Several years ago I wrote this reddit post analyzing LEGO piece pricing: https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/1328f52/detailed_lego...

It's a little out of date, but the conclusions are still relevant.

Main things of note: Brickheads are pretty economical as a "parts pack." No significant correlation between per-piece pricing and IP licensing (except for Star Wars). Star Wars and City sets are overpriced.
by xrd | 2026-03-11 14:53:43+00:00
I admittedly harbor a bunch of resentment towards Roblox for the predatory way they have encircled my childrens' friends, and my children as well, so take my feelings with a grain of salt.

I didn't get far in this article.

It feels like the modern equivalent of "there is a kid named LeBron James who is only 19 and will be make millions in the NBA." Roblox Millionaires might be true, but feels like an anomaly, and in this case, causes serious harm IMHO. Lebron James actually has used his wealth and prominence to make a difference in the world, and if he encouraged kids to get active, it feels like on balance a good thing.

I just don't see a good/happy career path for anyone becoming a Roblox Millionaire no matter whether it is true for even one person.
by mil22 | 2026-03-11 14:53:52+00:00
It's not about whether rich people should or should not feel it. It's not about whether they should or should not be taxed heavily. This isn't a normative question - it's about incentives and mobility.

It's about what their alternatives are, where they choose to be domiciled, what job-creating businesses they take with them, and what effect that has on the state's economy over the long term.

As it is, California and New York have the highest income tax rates in the nation, and are both experiencing large net domestic out-flows. Florida and Texas have no state income tax and have been the largest net recipients of domestic migrants for several years.
by mhitza | 2026-03-11 14:53:59+00:00
Big exaggeration. Opened the link and with the dozen comments or so that I've seen there is no rhetoric of the kind your asserting.

We know from France, UK, Spain, Italy that censorship is ramping up rather than down.

Still not a good enough excuse for freedom.gov when the current US agenda is to support the right wing organizations in Europe.
by thowawayko1 | 2026-03-11 14:54:24+00:00
After working both in automotive and at LEGO, I think LEGO is more impressive tolerance wise when it comes to molds, molding and tolerance quality control.

Also to correct you, LEGO has been making most of the parts for decades, some have had changes due to new materials (which you can read upon online) but besides the ones that remained the same (not really), many new system elements got released in the last decades and new I.P tied elements get released on a yearly basis.
by wswope | 2026-03-11 14:54:49+00:00
Yeah, but this happens all the time.

>>95% of the time, the fraudsters get off scot-free. Look at Dan Ariely: Caught red-handed faking data in Excel using the stupidest approach imaginable, and outed as a sex pest in the Epstein files. Duke is still giving him their full backing.

It’s easy to find fraud, but what’s the point if our institutions have rotten all the way through and don’t care, even when there’s a smoking gun?
by limagnolia | 2026-03-11 14:54:53+00:00
In Missouri, the current proposal is to put it up to a vote, so Missourians will decide what they want. There are safguards builtin where the income tax is only phased out if there is revenue to replace it. Its an interesting experiment setup.

**

The way to make a consumption tax progresive is with a prebate, or if you want to be more complicated, a rebate. With a prebate, every citizen or resident would recoeve a check each period for the amount of the consumption tax up to the spending level you set as the curve for regresive ess, such as the federal poverty line.

It would be difficult for Missouri to implement a prebate on ots own die to the proximity of the population to other states! (Residents could take the prebate, then travel across state lines to spend it, resulting in a huge loss to the state).

Income taxes are complicated to collect, subject to massive violations of privacy, and generally provide more perverse incentives than consumption taxes.
by HardCodedBias | 2026-03-11 14:55:01+00:00
Legally this is quite fascinating.

The state constitution is quite strange wrt. taxes:

https://law.justia.com/constitution/washington/constitution-...

There is a school of thought that the powers should be enumerated in the constitution. But this is not in favor.

Instead this argues that Culliton the ruling that classified income as property was incorrect. And once that door is opened saying that the claims within the existing constitution only apply to property and finally that there is a strong presumption of constitutionality.

Seems like a gauntlet. But it seems clear that given the composition of the supreme court that they will pass the gauntlet.

A constitution is but paper. It does not hold back the motivated.
by orochimaaru | 2026-03-11 14:55:26+00:00
DOGE was a shit show. It didn’t need to happen and achieved nothing. It was distraction so that musk could gut regulatory organizations probing his self-drive claims.

I was for the admin based on claims of lawful immigration enforcement and keeping out of foreign wars. however, after inept efforts with immigration, doge and the Iran war I will not be for republicans again.
by Shocka1 | 2026-03-11 14:55:30+00:00
My agent will just be full AGI. It’ll invent time travel and go back to attend all my meetings 100x faster.

Meanwhile the normie “Claw/OpenBot” agents can stay in the present grinding 24/7, while mine recursively spawns across alternate timelines and handles my work at ~1e9x parallelism.
by qsera | 2026-03-11 14:55:32+00:00
There is a saying in my native language that goes something like "If you mix poison and milk, the milk will turn poisonous, instead of poison becoming milk (aka beneficial)".

I guess, to convert it into this context, we can say that if you mix the high minded and infantile (which I think is what Internet and social media did), the high minded becomes infantile, instead of the other way around.
by ajross | 2026-03-11 14:55:32+00:00
I knew it. I was saying from the instant they started we'd have a scandal like this. Bunch of tech bros walking into the government with personal MBPs and administrative authority to demand data from anyone and everyone was a privacy crisis happening in real time.

Yet here on HN, what have we been arguing about? Big tech. Google and Meta have been allowed to become boogeymen in this community out of all proportion to the actual threat they posed[1].

While the actual boogeyman stealing our data to exploit in the market? It was us.

[1] I mean, lets be honest, while everyone has abstract complaints the truth is that they've actually been remarkably benign stewards of our data over the past 20 years. Much, much, MUCH more responsible than the glibertarian dude in the cubicle next to you, as it turns out.
by rkangel | 2026-03-11 14:55:35+00:00
The tolerance for interference fit ("clutch power" in Lego terminology) is important, but that's fairly simple. It's the cumulative tolerance when you assemble large structures that's important. Knockoff bricks can be fine for the first few you assemble, and then as the structure gets larger things don't quite fit together.

Also interesting is that in very large models, there is decoupling between sections. Lego has design rules for how large a well connected chunk of Lego can be, which are driven by the tolerances. Above that you are then loosely coupling those large "chunks".
by AuryGlenz | 2026-03-11 14:55:38+00:00
It’s always this argument with people, all totaled up against people’s overall health - as pretty much every sleep scientist agrees, kids actually being able to get to school because it’s not too cold (not to mention safety as far as light goes), and making night owl’s lives hell.

But yeah, you definitely need to drive home in the light instead of the dark for those two months out of the year or whatever. Definitely worth it.
by wongarsu | 2026-03-11 14:56:06+00:00
> I heard your same rant in the 1980s

The two options would be that either the perception is unsubstantiated but persists, or there has been a continuous decline for the last 40 years. I'm strongly leaning towards the latter. I also having the same issues in the 00s looking at old sets from the 80s, and looking back now the 00s look much better than what we have today. Obviously not in every way, and not all recent sets were bad. But overall I have the feeling that there's been a steady trend that the bricks got better but the sets got worse
by Femiaguda | 2026-03-11 14:56:33+00:00
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by foobarian | 2026-03-11 14:56:35+00:00
Oddly enough I found the Duplo line much more fun to play with as our kid went through the blocks years. You could build something substantial with fewer block clicks, there were fewer different types of blocks, they were less fiddly and prone to vanishing into rugs/carpets, etc. Also the proper Legos tended to be sets which makes it very stressful to mix them into a misc bag.
by elpakal | 2026-03-11 14:56:41+00:00
> This is a known limitation with small LLMs (0.6B-1.2B) doing tool calling.

To me this is this nut to crack, wrt tool calling and locally running inference. This seems like a really cool project and I'm going to dive around a little later but if it's hallucinating for something as basic as this makes me think it's more of POC stage right now (to echo other sentiment here).
by HardCodedBias | 2026-03-11 14:56:48+00:00
I'm going to assume that you mean progressive INCOME taxation is the most efficient and fair...

Classically the ranking is :

Least distortionary
Land value taxes / recurrent tax on pure land rents
Broad recurrent property taxes
Broad consumption taxes (uniform VAT / sales tax)
Tariffs / trade taxes
Personal income / labor income taxes
Corporate income taxes
Transaction taxes
Most distortionary
by gnabgib | 2026-03-11 14:56:54+00:00
> How do I reset my password?

> If you have an email address in your profile, you can do that [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/forgot?id=). If you haven't, email hn@ycombinator.com for help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

No idea of the process (always a good idea to attach an email ;))
by aether-dev | 2026-03-11 14:57:22+00:00
Ok so as part of a larger project and PoC I built a tool that will score your startup idea, output a list of competitors, as well as their scores. It also let's you pick a stack and will do it for you (although this feature is only sort of working right now)

It will also give you a stack (WIP) and it will tell you why the idea works or why not.

The more detail you put into the prompt the better. If you can get above 60 you're doing better than most YC ideas I've put in. If you can score above 80, congrats you've beat my high score (and anyone who has tried it)

On discord I had some people try their ideas and most couldn't crack 55. "Uber FOR uber" scored very low. If you want to see just how worth building your app is or if you have the right tech stack...or even just who your competitors would be give it a try!

I could use feedback because like I said, this is part of a larger project. Thank you!
by StilesCrisis | 2026-03-11 14:58:07+00:00
I don't launch rockets into space, don't want a housekeeping robot, don't have a Twitter account, don't do ketamine, and have never been laid off from a government job, so I can't speak to any of those things which Elon has involved himself with more recently.

My personal experience with Elon's promises is through the Model 3 which I do own, and essentially none of his promises for it have materialized. It hasn't morphed into a revenue-generating taxi which drives around strangers at night; it can't be summoned from across town (or even across a parking lot); it can't even safely drive itself without oversight, which was a goal only "months away" in 2019.
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-11 14:58:10+00:00
> Isn't this what parenthesizes are meant for?

Parentheticals (including non-restrictive appositives) can be set off in English by either commas, em-dashes, or parentheses. There aren’t a lot of hard and fast rules for which is used where, though a common (partial) rule is for appositives without internal commas to be set off by commas and thise with internal commas to be set off with em-dashes. This obviously leaves open the handling of non-appositive parentheticals.

> I don't understand what the issue even is here, and the RFC also doesn't clearly outline it.

The RFC—fake, the maximum RFC number currently is 9945—is a joke.
by pc86 | 2026-03-11 14:58:30+00:00
This is one of those things that I question the legality of, but it will never get answered because nobody is going to the Supreme Court over sales tax. I can understand the argument of me sitting at home in State 1, buying something online, and having it delivered to me in State 1, and owing State 1 some sales tax on that.

It is absolutely business of State 1's what I do when I travel into State 2. Whether or not I buy something and/or the value of that purchase should not enrich State 1 in any way.
by jfkimmes | 2026-03-11 14:58:47+00:00
Not the same league as McKinsey, but I like to point to this presentation to show the effects of a (vibe coded) prompt injection vulnerability:

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-skynet-starter-kit-from-embodied...

> [...] we also exploit the embodied AI agent in the robots, performing prompt injection and achieve root-level remote code execution.
by brightbeige | 2026-03-11 14:58:53+00:00
Here's the blog post

https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremon...

> Abrahams explains: “The city of Zurich and its institutions rapidly moved mountains (only metaphorically — in Switzerland it is illegal to physically move mountains) and committed to make this possible. Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things — Albert Einstein’s physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind — and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas.”

I would like to point out the cuckoo clocks originate from the Black Forest and southwestern Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock