MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pron | 2026-03-06 12:00:55+00:00
Stock market collapses and technological success are two very different things. The internet caused a market collapse as it started showing promise, but it's still around. One of the problems is that you can't invest in a technology, only in companies that already exist, and oftentimes the companies that use a technology for financial success are not the ones that exist when the technology is in its infancy. It's not unlikely that LLM will be a huge success while Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic collapse.
by lproven | 2026-03-06 12:01:47+00:00
I lost a Nationwide Building Society account I've had for forty years last year because the bank bought some extremely poor online-ID-verification system.

The bank forgot it had customers in a Crown Dependency. It forgot those countries issues their own ID, their own passports, their own drivers' licences. It forgot it closed its branches in those countries: it told me I had to go into my branch. My nearest branch is a £200 airfare away. It was not paying, naturally.

The crappy online-verification tool only recognises UK documents. It can't handle Isle of Man ones. They did not think.
by ben_w | 2026-03-06 12:01:49+00:00
I have not observed meaningful quality differences between the default (medium) and extra high. What does make a difference is to turn the metaphorical lights back on, and instead of vibe-coding (as in, don't even look at the code) actually examine what it did at each step (either at code level or QA) before allowing it to proceed to the next step.

OpenAI's 5.3 Codex model on xhigh still makes a huge number of mistakes, somewhere between 25-50% of commits, and it's still terrible at making its own plan, estimating how long tasks will take to complete, and recognising which tasks need to be subdivided*. Claude's model last November was better on both counts, even though it still wasn't IMO ready for true lights-off-no-code-check-needed-vibe-coding, it was making mistakes far less often and was scoping task complexity appropriately.

That said, given xhigh seems to be going through my token allowance far, far slower than on medium, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the Codex app itself is vibe coded and has mis-mapped that setting in some weird way. Either that or they've suddenly got a lot more spare capacity because of the boycotts.

* given the METR study, in the planning phase I ask all these models (Codex and Claude) to break down tasks into things that would take a junior developer 1-2 hours, but Codex will estimate 60 minutes for everything from "write 19 lines including comments to stub 3 empty methods in new class" to tasks I'd expect to take a senior 2 days.
by laserlight | 2026-03-06 12:02:05+00:00
> we now think it's +9% - +38%

If you are referring to the following quote [0], you are off by a sign:

> we now estimate a speedup of -18% with a confidence interval between -38% and +9%.

[0] https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/
by general_reveal | 2026-03-06 12:02:22+00:00
”Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” - Christ

You know, who said our lord doesn’t have a sense of humor? He could have said it any other way lol.

I just don’t understand how we can not have a category in the DSM for wealth-fixation, because after … I don’t know, $100m, you have to be mentally ill to even be talking about, let alone pursuing, money. Shout out to Christ for being a radical pioneer on this issue.

Tech needs Jesus in ways tech is too corrupted to understand.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-03-06 12:02:52+00:00
Thanks for confirming how insanely expensive new built nuclear power is by using absolutely insanely low discount rates.

Hinkley Point C just got a bridging loan to finalize the plant, after 8 years of building so the remaining risk should be minimal. They got an 7% interest rate. Then EDF needs to make profit on top of that.

When using real world discount rates for FV3 you end up towards 20 cents/kWh.

I love how you quote the EPR2 units cheaper than the proposed subsidies. This looks like blind conviction rather than a factual statement.

The proposed subsidies for the EPR2 fleet is a 10 euro cents CFD and interest free loans. Sum freely, but you end up towards 20 cents per kWh.

And that is excluding for example the backup needed when suddenly half your fleet is offline at the same time. Like happened in France during the energy crisis and multiple times in Sweden last year.
by surgical_fire | 2026-03-06 12:03:29+00:00
Iranians must indeed be thrilled at having their capital bombed and civilian infrastructure in chaos.

Tehran is not a mudhut backwater, it is an actual city of 15M+ people.

As much they could possibly despise their current leadership, they will likely despise a lot more the country that is throwing bombs in their neighborhood. And rightly so.
by benterix | 2026-03-06 12:03:33+00:00
"Half" is obviously an exaggeration but apart from time-sharing operating systems, the Internet, what is now CSAIL and (partially) GPS, they sponsored a ton of open source projects. They used to maintain a catalog[0]. The Web Archive version[1] contains a partial list (e.g. OpenBSD was sponsored only for a few years and is not included there).

[0] https://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140301185004/https://www.darpa...
by lproven | 2026-03-06 12:04:06+00:00
Online, I believe that one bit of Beverley Hills has the highest number of online users in the USA.

I am one.

I have never visited California or the West Coast of the USA in my life.

But I have used dozens of websites which need a Zip code.

I have never had a Zip code. I have postcodes, like my old one IM2 3EW. That has letters. It won't fit a Zip code field.

So I and millions of others use the only Zip code we know:

Beverley Hills 90210.
by cyberax | 2026-03-06 12:04:19+00:00
It seems to be a rather weak article. I think everyone in the US military was expecting that a certain number of drones/rockets are going to make it through.

But they're not going to present a serious threat to the overall military capabilities. Look at Ukraine, it's getting pummeled by literally thousands of drones. For years. Yet it's still fighting.

No, a more serious question is what the US is going to do if the air bombing campaign fails to effect a regime change.
by intelVISA | 2026-03-06 12:04:19+00:00
To be fair to this example it was also an tough situation: imagine MS trying to release W10 Classic with W11 still in prod!

E.g. the older ver may well be better, and even what most users want, but pulling off the optics of selling both without damaging the modern variant is difficult if you're not c-level. The internal champion would basically be ending their career with "yeah I messed up the product let's roll back". Also sends a very interesting signal to shareholders and competitors about the direction of the corp.
by davidcollantes | 2026-03-06 12:05:38+00:00
> Right now I would argue that unless some evidence of the contrary could be provided, this can be seen as a new implementation from ground up.

Not ship of Theseus, but a "new implementation from ground up.

Evidently, the author prefers MIT (https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4...), and seems OK with slop-coding.
by somewhereoutth | 2026-03-06 12:06:17+00:00
It could also be because we don't want a theocratic regime with nuclear weapons and the delivery systems to put them on European capitals.

It could also be that the whole region is simply tired of their bullshit, and would like to normalize their relations with Israel and generally get on with life without nonsense like Hamas and Hezbollah interfering. Note how Lebanon is seeing this as an opportunity to get rid of Hezbollah once and for all.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-03-06 12:06:22+00:00
There's a distinction between countries and governments. Both sides officially consider themselves to be China, the country, but under different, competing governments. They're the product of a civil war inside China, after all.

The current ruling party of Taiwan would like to change that, but they haven't done so for the obvious reason that the PRC would not accept it (and most Taiwanese people prefer to just leave things as they are).
by ezst | 2026-03-06 12:06:45+00:00
No it hasn't. Work mechanisation throughout history has resulted in a shift from manual labour to one that's more intellectual in nature. Modern AI believers pretend that it will take over those jobs soon as well.

This would essentially bring us to a cross-roads between, on one hand, a utopia with UBI and people not needing to work (because their labour is unnecessary), or a dystopia, where few technocratic "lords" own the means of work automation and rule over a submissive world.

I don't think it takes a genius to guess where this is heading in our current political climate.

Personally, I'm not scared about any of that, because I don't believe LLMs to be very potent as an AI tool. Robotic militias (remotely controlled by BI or AI) seem a much more tangible threat.
by fakedang | 2026-03-06 12:06:49+00:00
> outsourcing of all blame to Israel is just excusing the mistakes of American leadership.

Isn't it really the other way around? Israel is literally outsourcing its war and its war crimes to the US military (the strike on the girls' school was not Israeli but American).

Sure, Israel is getting some bombardment, but the lion's share of retaliatory strikes are being borne by American allies, almost all of whom have now lost trust in the US, and are now being forced to buy stockpiles from the EU and even Ukraine because the Americans came unprepared.

It's telling when the tightly controlled media in those countries lets billionaire magnates to openly criticize their country's relationship with the US (not Israel), on national print.
by timmetime | 2026-03-06 12:07:29+00:00
Show HN:

The scale problem first: Pipedream has ~10,000 actions.
Full catalog = 750K tokens. GPT-4o context = 128K.
The LLM literally cannot load the tools.

We inverted the architecture.

LLM runs once, offline, at build time — generates every
possible way a human might phrase an intent. 22,614
exemplars compiled into an 8.5MB HDC vector space.
At runtime: pure math, no LLM, 7ms.

Results across 85,125 test queries:

First-pass action accuracy: 89.6%
Action accuracy (with ASK): 100%
App accuracy: 100%
Silent errors: 0%
Latency p95: <13ms
Tokens per query: 0
Model size: 8.5MB, no GPU
Improves with use: Yes

The 10.4% that trigger ASK aren't failures. The system
asks rather than guesses, the correct action is always
in the candidate set, and every resolved ASK strengthens
the model via Hebbian reinforcement. No retraining.
No labeling pipeline. The production model is the
learning model.

GPT-4o hits 98.5% accuracy — when given a pre-filtered
shortlist of 200 actions and human-readable action keys.
It can't do app selection across 3,146 apps. HDC does
the whole thing in 7ms and gets better with every use.

We benchmarked honestly — full methodology in the paper
including where GPT-4o wins.

Patent pending: US 63/969,729
Covers: build-time LLM→HDC pipeline, confidence gating,
Hebbian self-improvement without retraining.

White paper + benchmark + Docker quickstart:
https://github.com/glyphh-ai/model-pipedream
by Horos | 2026-03-06 12:07:54+00:00
And to put it plainly: we won't be able to manage LLM-generated contributions without LLMs. It's physically impossible at this scale.

Which means the immune system has to be built from the same substrate as the threat. The question isn't whether to use AI for review — it's whether that review layer will be open, distributed, and community-owned, or closed, centralized, and controlled by whoever gets there first.

But there's a layer above that which is easy to skip over: human supervision.

Not line-by-line review — that's already gone. What remains is supervision of curated logs, at ratios that might look something like 1 in 10^10. The human role is no longer technical production. It's oversight. And that's a genuinely new function that we don't have good tools for yet.

The flow is perpetual. It doesn't stop, it doesn't slow down, it only accelerates. Which means we'll need to build tooling specifically designed to absorb volume, abstract it into supervisable signals, and train us to work at that level of abstraction — where the unit of human attention is no longer a line of code or a PR, but a pattern across millions of automated actions.

Automation isn't the threat to manage. It's the only viable response to production at this frequency. The question is whether we build the abstraction layer deliberately, as a community, before someone builds it for us.
by orwin | 2026-03-06 12:08:35+00:00
You are comparing new car to new car, which is fair to you, but you probably aren't in the class getting squeezed yet.

At least my country, the issue is with used car prices. The first car i bought, i bought for 300€ (+200€ of repair i knew about beforehand), in a garage, around 2010. If i want to buy a car in a garage (not using the craiglist equivalent), the minimum i have to pay is 4k, and 1k of repairs. The inflation in europe is _not_ close to x10 in 15 year. Even if i use the local craiglist, the first option i have is a car that can't start at 1.3k (it's a nice model though, easily 12k if it worked).

I can easily afford to buy a 22k new car, so i'm not the one who really suffer from it (i need cargo space for my windurf, and i got it), but for those who are still working minimum wage jobs, and need a car to go to that job, you can't bet on a 5k car. You will either have to go to a very basic new car (9-10k) or a 6-7k used car that you're sure don't need any work for the next 15 months (so that you will have finished paying your car before you have to pay for fixing stuff).
by mchaver | 2026-03-06 12:08:55+00:00
> All AI has done for me is give me the power of how good search engines were 10+ years ago

So the good old days before search engines were drowning with ads and dark patterns. My assumption is big LLMs will go in the same direction after market capture is complete and they need to start turning a profit. If we are lucky the open source models can keep up.
by senfiaj | 2026-03-06 12:08:59+00:00
But why not force age verification / content restriction on Facebook / Instagram / alikes instead? There aren't really that many big players, isn't it?

Also, if what the OS does, is requiring to pick some number from 0 - 100 and date without doing any verification, everyone can lie. It has other flaws like not considering that many people can share accounts, some embedded devices with UI can no longer receive updates, etc. Honestly, if I thought for 30 minutes, I could list dozens of such problems. I doubt these laws can work efficiently enough.

For now this might sound like the least of evils, but are we sure that these idiot politicians won't come up with something even more insane after seeing the inefficiency of this?
by spwa4 | 2026-03-06 12:09:05+00:00
Your first 3-4 arguments I just read as trying to weasel out from under the GPL. Because everyone trains on GPL code and if the GPL applies to the result ... well clearly you know the implications of that.

And btw: that a "compilation copyright" would apply to training data. Great. That only means, of course, that if they are publish their training data (like they agreed to when using GPL code to base their models on), people can't republish the exact same collection under different conditions (BUT they can under the same conditions). Everyone will happily follow that rule, don't worry.

> Paying someone to break into the DC and do that would subject you to criminal charges for burglary and conspiracy, and civil liability for the associated torts as well as for theft of trade secrets covering the resulting harms, even without copyright protection.

I don't claim the break-in would be legal, but without copyright protection, if that made a model leak, it would be fair game for everyone to use.

> Distillation is a violation of ToS, for which there are remedies outside of copyright.

But the models were created by violating ToS of webservers! This has the exact same problem the copyright violations have! Scraping webservers is a violation of the ToS of those servers. For example [1]. Almost all have language somewhere that only allows humans to browse them, and bots, and IF bots are allowed at all (certainly not always), only specific bots for the purpose of indexing. So this is a much bigger problem for AI labs than even the GPL issue.

So yes, if you wanted to make the case that the AI labs, and large companies, violate any kind of contract, not just copyright licenses, excellent argument. But I know already: I'm a consultant, and I've had to sue, and won, 2 very large companies on terms of payment. In one case, I've had to do something called "forced execution", of the payment order (ie. going to the bank and demanding the bank execute the transaction against a random account of the company, against the will of the large company. Let me tell you, banks DO NOT like to do this)

Btw: what model training is doing, obviously, is distilling from the work, from the brain, of humans, against the will of those humans, and without paying for it. So in any reasonable interpretation, that's also a ToS violation. Probably a lot more implicit than the ones spelled out on websites, but not fundamentally different.

[1] https://www.bakerdatacounsel.com/blogs/terms-of-use-10-thing...
by abhinavssabhi | 2026-03-06 12:09:14+00:00
Hi HN, I created this account today specifically to share an open-source tool I just finished building. Parsing endless tracebacks in the terminal was driving me crazy. The coolest feature is the --serve flag, which spins up a localhost server so you can view the parsed HTML report over an SSH tunnel. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or why I used rapidfuzz instead of standard regex.
by danielEM | 2026-03-06 12:09:21+00:00
> problems because Dell sourced the absolute cheapest stuff for their computers;

Price itself has nothing to cause problems, it is either bad design or false or incomplete data on datasheets or all of it. Please STOP spreading this narrative, the right thing is to make ads, datasheets, marketing materials etc, etc to tell you the truth that is necessary for you to make proper decision as client/consumer.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-06 12:09:52+00:00
> No, a more serious question is what the US is going to do if the air bombing campaign fails to effect a regime change

How is this even a question though? The Islamic Republic's religion literally gets fueled by martyrdom, something the US and Israel is handing out freely these last few days, it only serves to make the republic stronger and more fearsome, and plays into their hand. Ok, you killed one leader, now there are ten more that are even more willing to die for the cause, and for each next one you kill, you spawn ten more. What really is the point here?

Unless the US and Israel decides to actively invade with humans on the ground and some serious overtaking of organizations, entities and institutions, this war serves nothing else but create more future martyrs, which their entire religion centers around.
by gzread | 2026-03-06 12:09:59+00:00
There's fake protecting children and there's real protecting children. The Colorado and California parental controls API laws (not age verification laws, there is no age verification in these laws) are clearly "real protecting children" since all they do is mandate standardisation of a parental controls API on each OS.

We kept saying parental controls are all that's really needed, these states said "ok then, do parental controls" and we're still complaining.
by EL_Loco | 2026-03-06 12:10:21+00:00
Humans can be so different, it's fascinating and awesome. I'm quite the opposite. Where I wanted to talk to people from around the world and have some interesting conversations about everything, the fact that they are mostly "Hello, I'm calling from x, using radio y, and your signal is z. 73" is a big let down for me. I somewhat like the technical sid of it, but just calling to say "Hello, x, y, z, bye." ends up feeling like a waste of time to me (in the sense that I could be using this time for other, more interesting things. I still find it somewhat interesting though). But, if you enjoy the technical aspect of it, then I think it's fine, you can focus more on cw, or the digital modes where the contacts are automated.

edit: I know there are ragchews all the time, but it's still mostly about equipment.
by cardanome | 2026-03-06 12:10:29+00:00
Israel serves the interest of US imperialism. It is a project of Western imperialism that couldn't exist without its support.

The war against Iran is deeply unpopular in the US so leaders try to blame Israel. They are playing on the anti-semitic tropes of certain groups secretly controlling the government. It is important to not fall into this narrative.

If the US had told Israel that they wouldn't support them if they attacked Iran, this war wouldn't have happened.

What we see is a continuation of US imperialism as it has always been. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. There have never been any morals.

The war against Iran serves the geostrategic interests of US imperialism. It is the only country that dared to oppose them, that dared to criticize the genocide in Palestine, that dares to ally with their rivals.
by ixsploit | 2026-03-06 12:10:36+00:00
It's really not an easy problem to solve.

You would hire someone with the expactation that they learn, but you also need to pay them. New hires always slow the team down. And currently you wouldn't even get much out of them, as you can delegate those tasks to AI.

Additionally you can not even be sure that the junior will learn or just throw stuff at AI. The amount of vibecoded Code I have to review at the moment from Seniors is stunning.

So yeah, the market needs Seniors, but there is basically no incentive for a company to hire a Junior at the moment. It's just easier and cheaper to pay a bit better than the market and hire Seniors then to train a Junior for years.
by JoranCornelisse | 2026-03-06 12:11:15+00:00
The internet is 90% bots, AI slop, and self-proclaimed gurus with 10k followers who skimmed one blog post.

We built https://amygdala.eu/verify to cut through it: paste a handle and instantly see if the person is legit in their claimed domain.
It returns:
Topic-specific authority score (0-100)
Top topics they actually lead (not tweet-volume spam)
Real influence reach (followers + cross-platform signals)
Verified identities & activity summary
One endpoint from our live authority index (<1h updates, no LLM fluff).

Example: before quoting someone, vetting speakers, or filtering candidates/recruiters.
Dead-simple curl (replace YOUR_KEY):
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
"https://api.amygdala.eu/v1/verify?handle=sama"

(Or just hit the web UI at https://amygdala.eu/verify/?handle=sama)
Private beta keys still open.
Throw edge-case handles, bad rankings, or ridiculous use-cases at me in the comments.
by duskdozer | 2026-03-06 12:12:26+00:00
I wonder how much this changes based on country. The closest thing to a war happening within US borders was the attack on Pearl Harbor (I think). The US hasn't had conscription for 50 years. So there isn't much of a clearly visible and direct cost to war for many many Americans. I'm not arguing there isn't a cost, by the way, just that most can basically just not watch the news and have no idea war is happening.
by dismalpedigree | 2026-03-06 12:12:57+00:00
A while back I built an orchestrator application that would monitor usb events and then launch/destroy containers that have that usb device mapped to them. The orchestrator also ran in a container with no networking.

Imagine my frustration when I learned that udev events don’t make it into containers unless networking is enabled.

Figured out a solution eventually. Was a combination of compiling certain packages from source and some kernel flags if i remember correctly.