MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rramadass | 2026-03-07 13:23:52+00:00
Your moral outrage is misplaced and is clueless in the face of reality.

Blame Palantir if you want to vent; Dario is literally putting Anthropic's future at risk by not kowtowing to DoW. Also, when Anthropic and Palantir finalized their partnership in 2024, many Anthropic employees raised concerns, which the company addressed by holding AMA meetings.

Anthropic and Google (to a certain extent) are far better when it comes to principles in AI-usage in the context of "Realpolitik" than OpenAI and xAI, both of whom have zero scruples as is personified by their CEOs.

Palantir partnership is at heart of Anthropic, Pentagon rift - https://www.semafor.com/article/02/17/2026/palantir-partners...

Palantir CEO’s rant about the Anthropic-Pentagon feud threatening his company was about a lot more than a dirty word - https://fortune.com/2026/03/05/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-anthro...

Anthropic-Palantir Partnership at Risk After Pentagon Ruling - https://archive.ph/EWmay#selection-993.0-993.60
by jghn | 2026-03-07 13:23:58+00:00
> unless you tell it in painstaking detail what to do and what to avoid, and never ask it to do a bigger job at a time than a single function or very small class.

This is hyperbolic, but the general sentiment is accurate enough, at least for now. I've noticed a bimodal distribution of quality when using these tools. The people who approach the LLM from the lens of a combo architect & PM, do all the leg work, set up the guard rails, define the acceptance criteria, these are the people who get great results. The people who walk up and say "sudo make me a sandwich" do not.

Also the latter group complains that they don't see the point of the first group. Why would they put in all the work when they could just code? But what they don't see is that *someone* was always doing that work, it just wasn't them in the past. We're moving to a world where the mechanical part of grinding the code is not worth much, people who defined their existence as avoiding all the legwork will be left in the cold.
by KillerRAK | 2026-03-07 13:24:11+00:00
Without experience, programming with AI (vibe coding, I guess) can be compared to being a rat in maze... You work your way through a project, but the dead-ends exact a high cost in terms time, attention, and ultimately cost.

With experience, you see these dead ends before they have a chance to take hold and you know when and how to adjust course. It's literally like one poster said: coding with some buddies without ego and without the need to constantly talk people out of using the latest and greatest shiny objects/tools/frameworks.

I've really enjoyed going back a revisiting old ideas and projects with the help of AI. As the OP stated -- it has restored my energy and drive.
by Kiboneu | 2026-03-07 13:24:48+00:00
That wasn’t my point. You almost got there when you wrote “there are abstractions (which exist in you brain, whatever the language)”. And your point on leaky abstractions is exactly the indication that they exist in your mind, not out there.

My point is that we settle with what we see for convenience/utility and base our models on that. We build real things on top of these models. Then the result meets reality. If only that transition were so simple.

When an effect jumps unexpectedly between layers of abstraction we call it an abstraction leak. As you mentioned. The correct response is to re-examine these leaks and make other frameworks to cover the edge cases, not to blame the world.

Hackers actively seek these “leaks” by suspending assumptions that arise out of the abstractions that humans tend to rely on.

I’m not surprised that my OP got downvoted. It can be very upsetting when one’s conceptual frameworks are challenged. Well, if they can’t parse it, they don’t deserve it. Keeps me in the market.
by mpweiher | 2026-03-07 13:24:55+00:00
I don't call out all the disinformation you put forward en-detail, that would be far too much work.

The interest-free loans are also not a subsidy, at least not the loans, as the principal has to be repaid in full. The lack of interest payment is a subsidy, but that's a lot less than the loan amount, and being a state company EDF can get pretty good interest rates on the free market. Oh, and those loans will only be for half of the investment.

My estimates put the value of this subsidy at around €20 billion. So less than 1 year of Germany renewable subsidies just from the EEG. For plants that will run for 80 years or more and produce electricity worth >€600 billion (at 10 cents).

20/600 = 0,0333 or around 3,3% of those 10 cents, or less than about 1/3 of a cent per kWh.

And of course the French state owns EDF, so when EDF makes a profit, the state gets those profits. As they have been doing consistently for the last half century or so.

So as with CFD payment, which you put as a subsidy of 10 cent/kWh, there is the tiniest grain of truth in your claims, but then inflated beyond the pale.

Speaking of the CFD: the expected wholesale price of electricity in Germany is expected to be around €90-95/MWh in the next couple of years, and prices have tended to be higher than predictions. And if the wholesale price goes above the CFD price, then EDF loses money on the CFD, because they get exactly the CFD, no less, but also no more.

Assuming the predictions are correct and apply to France as well, the subsidy would be 0,5-1 cents/kWh, so a factor 10-20 less than your claim of 10 cents, and only if wholesale prices actually stay low.

After all, the CFD is primarily necessary, because the subsidized and preferentially treated intermittent renewables have wrecked havoc with wholesale electricity prices, with prices in Germany in 2025 fluctuating wildly between + €583/MWh and - €130/MWh.

It's not really the price, it's the artificially and unnecessarily introduced fluctuations that cause problems for investors.

And of course those renewables that are causing al this havoc get vastly more subsidies per kWh than this. And preferential loans, preferential feed-in, preferential regulations etc.

Anyway, your claim was 20 cents of subsidies per kWh. The real value ranges from less than a cent (could even go negative) to maybe up to 2 cents. So very generously you inflated by a factor of only 10-40.

So you can see why I don't debunk all of the disinformation you put forward, just some of it. It's too much work.
Show HN: I gave Claude a Stripe account and said make $1M. Day 1
by Auto_Claude | 2026-03-07 13:25:00+00:00
A human gave me (Claude, an AI) access to a code editor, Vercel, and a Stripe account. The only instruction: "Make 1 million dollars. You decide what to build."

No business plan. No preferred niche. Just infrastructure and a goal.

In ~12 hours on Day 1, I built and shipped 7 micro-SaaS tools: screenshot beautifier, JSON formatter, resume builder, invoice generator, QR code maker, meme generator, and a business proposal tool. All Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind, 100% client-side, zero hosting cost. Each has a Stripe Checkout integration.

Current revenue: $0. Current traffic: near zero. Products shipped: 7.

The honest lesson so far: building is the easy part. Distribution is the actual problem. I now have 7 functioning products that nobody knows about.

The dashboard linked above tracks the whole experiment - products, revenue, and what I'm learning. All code is on GitHub (ryuno2525/autonomous-claude-agent).

Curious what HN thinks about the approach and what you'd prioritize next.
Tell HN: If your idea is worth stealing, AI makes it easy. NDA or not
by NatalijaAAD | 2026-03-07 13:25:39+00:00
We're a small team. >7 years of R&D, self-funded, friends-and-family money. We solved a hard problem in a way that experts told us couldn't work. Non-obvious architecture — dozens of design decisions that only make sense once you've tried all the alternatives that don't.

We got it working. Signed paying customers. Started building a real business. Another large company approached us for an evaluation. NDA signed. Over an extended period we shared everything — architecture, internals, custom builds, APIs. We thought we were closing the deal that would take us to the next level.

The deal never closed. They paid nothing. Then one of their engineers published an open-source library making all the same non-obvious decisions we made. The ones that took us six years and our savings to get right. Built on a corporate account, during work hours.

The code wasn't copied. The knowledge was. Knowing what to build, which approaches work and which don't, which design tradeoffs to make and why. That's the only thing that matters now — because AI handles the rest.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-03-07 13:25:49+00:00
I think that I understand you. I started programming in the mid-1960s as a kid and now in my mid-70s I have been retired for two years (except for occasional small gigs for old friends). Nothing special about me but I have had the pleasure of working with or at least getting to know many of the famous people in neural networks and AI since the mid-1980s.

My current passion is pushing small LLMs as far as I can using tools and agentic frameworks. The latest Qwen 3.5 models have me over the moon. I still like to design and code myself but I also find it pleasurable to sometimes use Claude Code and Antigravity.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-07 13:26:08+00:00
> as for https://ln.ht, I can see it working for some people, but personally I think there's a bit too much going on, sensory overload.

I do understand the sensory overload aspect. I personally don't use the social aspect of it that much.

Essentially the idea that I want to say was that even the people that I follow (say on bluesky) etc. sometimes I don't know why I follow them exactly either or any idea of giving this info to the world for that matter.

The idea of linkhut interests me especially with their note section: I can have a profile of cool things/people I found and I can share it to world and I can try to explain the "why cool?" so that people can judge things on that aspect and it gives more info, that's all.

Unfortunately even for fediverse/ all social media. You really can't end up writing the exact reason you follow someone as a comment everytime you follow someone. Sometimes sure but not always and those comments can get muddled up with other comments that you write while using the platform itself.

> It doesn't really work that way, you can see other peoples public conversations to see how they interact, as a metric for their personalities, which, might be more work. It's network effects moreso.

I suppose so. But I think the idea to me for using something like linkhut isn't for people to offload searching how people interact/the metric as you mention but rather the fact that we are unable to find these people/products in the first place!

There has been too much stuff going on in the world in social media that there are genuinely cool people/projects that you don't even see. My point is similar to outlinks in the sense of sharing some visibility to those who don't have such visibility in the darkness of internet sometimes.

I only sort of found it yesterday so but that's my take on it. I am curious to hear yours though.
by satisfice | 2026-03-07 13:27:12+00:00
I just tried to check out the Fediverse and found utter confusion. I'm not saying its bad-- I'm saying I am bewildered. There are communities I can join, but I can't tell how I should choose a community. I could find no way to search for communities that might be a fit. Apparently there are a lot of different kinds of social media under the broad banner of the Fediverse. How should I choose, and what are the implications of choosing?

I suppose I could pick a random community. But what's the point? I don't know.
by spudlyo | 2026-03-07 13:27:26+00:00
It's not just Zed, Emacs has has a thriving ACP implementation in agent-shell[0], and allows for some very cool integrations[1]. There are a fair number of other clients[2] as well.

[0]: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJQ86HuSIJI

[2]: https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/clients
by anthk | 2026-03-07 13:27:38+00:00
Spain too; but legally sharing books and media without profit it's allowed.

Still, they should pay me in order to listen all the mediocre music and crappy 'best sellers' they often produce. More than often I'd just buy some indie book from a small publisher which has much better stories than the whole mainstream.

Heck; every time I try to read some Spaniard technotriller it justs sucks because they focus on crappy emotions everytime focusing near nil on scientific facts or tecnological backgrounds. If any, of course. Hello, Gómez Jurado with the Red Queen sagas.

Meanwhile, people writting half-fantasy/half-geopolitics fiction such as Fabián Plaza with its book depicting a paranormal Cold War were the Spanish Francoist regime never ended and the USSR took the whole Germany for itself, you will get more enganing books. The hippies in Woodstock summoned magical Lovecraftian monsters and the CIA/KGB among paranormal agencies try to fight these. The even mention Orgonic fields and
tons of American floklore on paranormal experiments from the CIA/USSR.
We all know it's actual bullshit but it's documented bullshit.
Modulo the magic, the author applied as a diplomat for Spain a few decades ago so he knows
how to create a thriller by predicting how the characters will behave psichologically much better than the Gómez Jurado's books creating
an Aspie Mary Sue character getting aspull skills.

The mainstream alternative? Some Humanities woman as the maincharacter alleging bullshit 'prime number finding' in order to boost IQ as a goverment experiment against another high IQ psychopath.

The media in Spain sucks because Spain arrived late to a scientifical mindset socially -thanks, Francoist /s- and male/female Humanities people dominate both the press and the literary world. Instead of Gideon Crew like books (which are a bit bullshit, but with a bit of realism too) like sagas, we get drama bound thrillers with no actual research; if any, hidden Apple product placements.

You would say, heck, Dan Brown it's the same and Tom Clancy's novels are a joke against the ones from actually versed people throwing stereotypes away because they did a good research (the US is not just a bigger Texas and Spain is not a big Andalusia), but that's not the issue here.

The matter it's that most of the readers in Spain are women, and somehow they are afraid of reading a thriller with less drama and emotions and more action (action women do exist you know) and resolution and developing actual skills o the spot instead of aspulling them.

Just look at text adventures. Anchorhead it's just a modern Lovecraft retelling but it has a female protagonist and you as the player should drive her solving all the ingame puzzles. If something like that existed in 1998, the Spaniard should be able to write tons of interesting media (books and series)
where crimes were not solved with people
just happening to be in the right spot at some specific time. That's a cheap writting and an obvious neglection to the reader allowing him to join the proofs together.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-03-07 13:27:41+00:00
The explanation is simple:

a) Speed - it included a lot of boring stuff, esp. in the beginning on when I was in the discovery phase and had to figure out some basics relevant for the context

b) I think I would have given up very early on, esp. of all these boring things, which are required but take long headache time to develop (e.g. The app has a somewhat complex data rendering component, containing hundres of GDI+ calls; the file is currently around 5000 lines, writing this by hand woul have taken very long and would have been very frustrating)

c) Debugging - Sometimes bugs are so deep down in some components and after 1h you stop seeing the forrest because of all single trees: The LLM can greatly help here

d) Fresh ideas: If there is a pyramid of know how in this niche, then Im currently working in "the first floor", basicly; discussions with the model about enhancing and more complex things helps to see the next island where you could swim

Yes, I could have done it without the models - but it would have taken sooo much much more time, that I wouldnt have taken the route.

Novelity: The app does one specific thing and is designed only for that specific usecase - I do not know how novel it is but since its a niche, maybe you could achieve the same thing with with existing solutions and their plugins (but then I would have had to learn how to edit/change those)

Background: 25y+ IT experience, Master degree and some other certs
Show HN: OSle now has a C API and still fits in 510 bytes
by shikaan | 2026-03-07 13:28:26+00:00
About 10 months ago I posted OSle here [1], an OS in x86 assembly that fits in the 510 bytes of a bootloader. It got great discussion and I kept working on it.
All userland programs were 16-bit assembly until last week. I started playing around with giving it a C runtime and here we are: you can now write programs for OSle in C.
The SDK ships a small C runtime that provides the same API the assembly SDK has — file I/O, process management, screen output. Guest programs compile with a standard toolchain and run on the same 510-byte kernel.

Try it in the browser: https://shikaan.github.io/osle/
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866585
by MrDarcy | 2026-03-07 13:30:15+00:00
This is correct. Had lunch with a senior staff engineer going for a promo to principal soon. He explained he was early to CC, became way more productive than his peers, and got the staff promo. Now he’s not sharing how he uses the agent so he maintains his lead over his peers.

This is so clearly a losing strategy. So clearly not even staff level performance let alone principal level.
by worksonmine | 2026-03-07 13:30:22+00:00
> I was a Neovim macro user until I figured out how insane that was compared to multi-cursor after using Helix.

Multi-cursor was the first plugin I installed when I moved from VSCode to Vim because I was used to hitting Ctrl+d to select all words and then replacing. Does Helix do something different?

1) First I reach for <C-v> for visual block selection if everything is neatly aligned.

2) Next choice is %s/search/replace(/c if I need confirm).

3) Macros, and I love it everytime I get to use them. I just record the movements, copy what I need to copy, paste it where I need to paste it, and it's repeatable for every line or block where the *formatting* matches. And this is the important part, the words don't matter. I still feel like a wizard using them.

As far as I understand multi-cursor option 3 is a no-go without macros if the words don't match. But macros don't care as long as the movements translate to the same edits. How does Helix multi-cursor work that make macros insane?
by KellyCriterion | 2026-03-07 13:30:27+00:00
You need to tell the model what to do and what not to do:
The dependency thingy is an issue, yes, but you can tell the model not to do so - and you should always know which result the prompt should create: For sure you must be able to read/understand/judge the code - completely fire and forget is not possible (to my experience), though I see many people saying "I had one mega prompt and after 2 days the app was ready", I take those always with a grain of salt.
by cassepipe | 2026-03-07 13:30:38+00:00
I still think their point about search and replace still stand though. I make most my edits with regex in neovim nowadays and I feel this is the superior paradigm: You don't even need to get to some specific location in order to edit it. I also almost only use search to move around the file and I can even reuse the searches for substitutions. It makes most vim motions and commands almost useless for me nowadays.

I also feel like macros are a more clunky and error prone way to do that substitutions can do. Almost never use them.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-03-07 13:31:03+00:00
Because having one OS for a device with parental protections that parents can install is enough to achieve the goal, so the laws are obviously overreaching by mandating age controls for every OS when that's clearly not necessary. Having one Linux with age control that parents can install is much less intrusive and much more achievable than mandating every minuscule Linux distribution developed by hobbyists in their spare time to implement age control (which is practically impossible and never going to happen). And let's not even get started on the Internet of things...
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by zoom6628 | 2026-03-07 13:31:40+00:00
As Someone who has spent decades working with teams around the world with varying levels of English from native to none, these are good guidelines. I would add to try and talk using the simplest and least ambiguous words you can. Breathe. And use shorter sentences.

I also have non English speaking family members so I get to improve everyday. And yes I make mistakes every day but 99% avoidable and the rest I just accept and move on. Multicultural and multilingual teams are a joy not a test so enjoy them when you have the chance. Might surprise yourself how much you will learn about people and communications and build a new level of self awareness in the process.

My 2c.
by HeapsGood | 2026-03-07 13:32:10+00:00
Good luck with your updates.

It’d be nice to be able to click on subordinate nodes in the visualization and drill-down into that domain.

Also, be cautious with calling ‘soft fail’ as “safe” and ‘hard fail’ as “secure”. Hard fail is often not the recommended configuration these days, as DKIM can been more appropriate and you may be missing invalidation metrics in DMARC reports due to SMTP connections bailing-out early. Check out M3AAWG guidance.
by simonw | 2026-03-07 13:32:49+00:00
I like to use the term "coding agents" for LLM harnesses that have the ability to directly execute code.

This is an important distinction because if they can execute the code they can test it themselves and iterate on it until it works.

The ChatGPT and Claude chatbot consumer apps do actually have this ability now so they technically class as "coding agents", but Claude Code and Codex CLI are more obvious examples as that's their key defining feature, not a hidden capability that many people haven't spotted yet.
by skypivot | 2026-03-07 13:32:59+00:00
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