MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2026-03-14 05:24:26+00:00
If we accept that any one person can take responsibility for their feelings then it follows that everyone is responsible for their own mind. Otherwise what exactly are we saying? And emotions are complex, especially offence, it is practically impossible to say that something will reliably offend a specific person without trying it and seeing how they react. Even for the reactee. Someone can easily say "whatever happens I won't get offended". But they might get offended anyway and then we're rolling the dice on whether they are vindictive enough to hold a grudge.

People learn that lesson then don't stir the pot without reason. Rather than saying "I don't get offended" it is generally better to prove it and push people for feedback from time to time.

There is also a subtle point here in things like "if the design is wrong, say it is wrong" - how is someone supposed to know if the design is "wrong"? Philosophically it isn't possible for a design to be wrong, the idea is nonsense. Designs have trade-offs and people might or might not like the trade offs. But a design can't be wrong because that implies there was already a right solution that people could deploy. If someone is going to be direct that is also a problem they run in to constantly - they're going to be directly saying things that are harsh and garbled. A lot of humans aren't comfortable being that person, there is a more comfortable style of being clear about observations, guarded about making value judgements from them and associating with like-minded people from the get-go rather than pushing to resolve differences. And spending a lot of time playing social games to work out how to organise all that.
by prodigycorp | 2026-03-14 05:25:08+00:00
Lots of good theories here, but none saying "TikTok", which I think is the answer.

TikTok is a big reason wired headphones are popular. AirPod microphone quality is spotty and improving the quality is non-deterministic. With wired earpods, people put the mic next to their mouth and get above-average audio quality.

Like the article says, wired headphones have also become a fashion statement akin to vinyl culture.
by cmcaleer | 2026-03-14 05:25:14+00:00
I gave up on USBC headphones because if your port becomes full of lint (say by being in your pocket all day), it doesn’t take much to disturb a USBC connection and cause it to go through the whole handshake all over again for a few seconds.

Compared to 3.5mm where the frustrations I remember were usually limited to sometimes getting a bit of a crackle or one of the audio channels dropping out and worst case scenario you just unplugged it and put it back in and it usually worked. With USBC you have to wait to see.
by sidrag22 | 2026-03-14 05:25:16+00:00
subagents are huge, could execute on a massive plan that should easily fill up a 200k context window and be done atnaround 60k for the orchestration agent.

as a cheapass, being able to pass off the simple work to cheaper $ per token agents is also just great. I've got a handful of tasks I can happily delegate work to a haiku agent and anything requiring a bit of reasoning goes to sonnet.

Feel like opus is almost a cheatcode when i do get stuck, i just bust out a full opus workflow instead and it just destroys everything i was struggling with usually. like playing on easy mode.

as cool as this stuff is, kinda still wish i was just grandfathered into the plan with no weekly limit and only the 5 hour window limits, id just be happily hammering opus blissfully.
by jamesrr39 | 2026-03-14 05:28:53+00:00
Just knowing the personal number is not enough to do much with. To get access to services, verify who you are on when talking to companies there is a verification step, most commonly with the BankID app.

Visual example: https://images.ctfassets.net/b2dmfxhmyqno/1cD0YDHjd9DGZnWfjH...

Identity theft and spam still happens, just not through knowing the personal number.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-03-14 05:29:40+00:00
Not only should you get rid of them, they are a fire hazard.

Also, do not accidentally plug surge protectors into each other, metal oxide varistors can star fires _without_ meaningful surge conditions when you do so.

I prefer to buy products without MOVs entirely due to the risk, with the exception of one, Tripp Lite Isobars; but I prefer to use series mode protectors such as Brickwall or SurgeX.
by unshavedyak | 2026-03-14 05:30:04+00:00
I'll be more likely to agree with anything being AGI if it doesn't have such obvious and common brittleness. These LLMs all go off the rails when the context window gets large. Their context is also easy to "poison", and so it's better to rollback conversations that went bad rather than trying to steer them back to the light.

There's probably more examples, but to me AGI must move beyond the above issues. Though frankly context window might just be a symptom of poor harness than anything, still - it illustrates my general issue with them being considered AGI as it stands today.

Claude 4.6 is getting crazy good though, i'll give you that.
by trinsic2 | 2026-03-14 05:30:09+00:00
I'm part of a community around the stop killing games initiative. So maybe it's a bit slanted because most might be pc gamers (technically inclined). But it's a pretty big movement on this front and most of them see right through this. A lot of them don't like what discord is doing. Whether or not they'll put there money where there mouth is is another matter.
by cmcaleer | 2026-03-14 05:30:21+00:00
Agree they’re great but it does fascinate me when there are weird edge cases that Apple mess up.

For example if I have my phone and laptop running, and I’m listening to something on my phone, I pause with my AirPods, and then I unpause with my AirPods, instead of what was playing on my phone resuming through my AirPods, a video that I’ll have forgotten about will instead play through my laptop speakers, and pressing pause on my AirPods will do nothing and I have to interrupt whatever I’m doing to pause on the laptop. Possible they’ve fixed this specific issue though since I’ve learned to not have anything that has media controls open on my laptop.

The cross platform control stuff is probably very hard and usually works though.
by 8note | 2026-03-14 05:31:25+00:00
whats the need? you have the session in a file as a dag. you can summarize to a log whenever you want. doesnt need to be as it goes.

earlier today i actually spent a bit of time asking claude to make an mcp to introspect that - break the session down into summarized topics, so i could try dropping some out or replacing the detailed messages with a summary - the idea being to compact out a small chunk to save on context window, rather than getting it back to empty.

the file is just there though, you can run jq against it to get a list of writes, and get an agent to summarize
by pipeline_peak | 2026-03-14 05:31:28+00:00
Microsoft never forced developers to jump onto Arm the way Apple did.

That’s a key part in why Windows Arm is such a substandard experience.

The Windows executive in this article sounds delusional. He talks about how if the Surface Product line actually had footing, we’d eventually see Arm bases desktops under the Windows umbrella.

The Surface failed because Windows just isn’t cool. No one consciously buys a Windows PC. It’s either to play games or do work.
by simonh | 2026-03-14 05:31:45+00:00
I’d disable major OS updates and stay on Tahoe, and only upgrade if other Neo owners report it’s ok to do so. Ive been burned by iOS updates that made the phone sluggish enough times.

Not necessarily a reason to avoid the Neo, for the right use case. If I had secondary school kids they’d get one of these, but something to bear in mind.
by AussieWog93 | 2026-03-14 05:32:23+00:00
I hear what you're saying, but for a lot of people coding isn't something we can throw 40+ hours per week at.

My main job is running a small eComm business, and I have to both develop software automations for the office (to improve productivity long-term) while also doing non-coding day to day tasks. On top of this, I maintain an open source project after hours. I've also got a young family with 3 kids.

I'm not saying Claude is the damn singularity or anything, but stuff is getting done now that simply wasn't being addressed before.
by LarsDu88 | 2026-03-14 05:33:12+00:00
The stuff I built with Opus 4.6 in the past 2.5 weeks:

Full clone of Panel de Pon/Tetris attack with full P2P rollback online multiplayer:
https://panel-panic.com

An emulator of the MOS 6502 CPU with visual display of the voltage going into the DIP package of the physical CPU:
https://larsdu.github.io/Dippy6502/

I'm impressed as fuck, but a part of me deep down knows that I know fuck all about the 6502 or its assembly language and architecture, and now I'll probably never be motivated to do this project in a way that I would've learned all the tings I wanted to learn.
by sjeiuhvdiidi | 2026-03-14 05:33:23+00:00
Let me explain the naysayers, they know "programmer" has always meant "builder" and just because search is better and you can copy and paste faster doesn't mean you've built anything.First thing people need to realize is no proprietary code is in those databases, and using Ai will ultimately just get you regurgitated things people don't really care about. Use it all you want, you won't be able to do anything interesting, they aren't giving you valuable things for free. Anything of value will still take time and knowledge. The marketing hype is to reduce wages and prevent competition. Go for it.
by lorenzohess | 2026-03-14 05:33:33+00:00
Agreed.

We should also consider whether the rise of AI for any type of implementation task will reduce the number of new Emacs and Vim users, thereby limiting and ultimately killing the communities' growth.

I came to Vim, and then Emacs, because I wanted a tool for coding that I could configure exactly how I liked. If AI does my coding for me, my need for a custom editor will decrease. More generally speaking, if AI can do any type of implementation task -- coding, task management, email, etc -- my need for software customized for those things will decrease.

If people don't need custom software, many fewer people may seek out and find Emacs and Vim.

Who will maintain them and evangelize once today's generation cannot?
by evan-dong | 2026-03-14 05:34:38+00:00
A big part of it is that RAM fabs are insanely capital‑intensive and slow to ramp: you’re talking years to build, then months per wafer, with very cyclical, boom‑bust demand. That makes it rational for the handful of DRAM vendors to be cautious, because overbuilding capacity in a bubble can destroy them for a decade.
by fbrncci | 2026-03-14 05:35:55+00:00
I am starting to believe it’s not OPUS but developers getting better at using LLMs across the board. And not realizing they are just getting much better at using these tools.

I also thought it was OPUS 4.5 (also tested a lot with 4.6) and then in February switched to only using auto mode in the coding IDEs. They do not use OPUS (most of the times), and I’m ending up with a similar result after a very rough learning curve.

Now switching back to OPUS I notice that I get more out of it, but it’s no longer a huge difference. In a lot of cases OPUS is actually in the way after learning to prompt more effectively with cheaper models.

The big difference now is that I’m just paying 60-90$ month for 40-50hrs of weekly usage… while I was inching towards 1000$ with OPUS. I chose these auto modes because they don’t dig into usage based pricing or throttling which is a pretty sweet deal.
by vips7L | 2026-03-14 05:37:27+00:00
Of course. That’s because the labor market prefers cost over quality. The labour market will always prefer cheap and fast code that works at first glance. That is how capitalism works. That has nothing to do with my capabilities. It has nothing to do with the fact that I will always outperform a shitty statistical model. It has everything to do with the fact that most of you are too lazy to think. It has everything to do with most of you sucking and being too lazy to your job.
by tombert | 2026-03-14 05:37:46+00:00
> That's what you had decided/wanted though right? I can't imagine you hoping for any other outcome with that kind of question and follow up?

The job paid really well so a small part of me still wanted to move forward, but I will admit I was pretty annoyed.

I should provide a bit of context; the recruiter that the company “valued directness” on their copypasted job description.

Regardless, if you show up late halfway through an interview that you scheduled, you shouldn’t be surprised when people are irritated with you.
by k310 | 2026-03-14 05:39:06+00:00
> But there’s a third group. They learn to work with AI critically, treat it like a bright, enthusiastic intern that needs to be managed and supported to do their best work.

> The difference? It’s rarely technical ability. It’s curiosity. A willingness to experiment, get things wrong, and figure out what AI is actually good at.

The average Mom and Pop can't get things wrong. They have responsibilities, homes to lose to fire, kids to send to the E.R. when they get less than trustworthy and situationally appropriate advice. That's why we have licensed electricians and doctors.

The average person is not skilled enough to figure what's appropriate (since there can be more than one right answer), nor to provide unambiguous questions and prompts.
by seer | 2026-03-14 05:39:15+00:00
I got myself a plastic welder - the thing that melts little pieces of metal to strengthen plastic joints - now I can keep old plastic things in shape almost indefinitely. Cost like 10 usd or so and has prolonged the life of all manner of things.

If you still want to make the old headphones work these welders are a godsend, and with some small amount of diy work of cleaning, sanding and buffing you can easily hide these welds.

I personally like to leave them though since they accent that something that was once broken is whole again, and that it has a long history!
by evan-dong | 2026-03-14 05:39:43+00:00
The impact of AI already feels pretty brutal from where I’m sitting. A founder friend of mine is in the middle of cutting his team from ~30 people down to about 10, and roles like customer support are explicitly being handed over to AI systems.

That doesn’t mean every PM (or engineer, or designer) disappears overnight, but it does mean a lot of the “coordination + reporting + routine ops” surface area is now fair game for automation. In that kind of environment, even good people can get squeezed out simply because the economics changed faster than the org chart.
by roenxi | 2026-03-14 05:40:05+00:00
And if we're talking about 'if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about' - the other irony is they probably are doing something wrong. There are a lot of rules out there. The only reason it isn't being bought up in the conversation is because the person has a certain level of privacy.

One of the interesting things the Epstein drama has kicked up is legal or not, the powerful get up to some wild things at parties. And in their business dealings just based on the background number of scandals. If there is an organised group of people allowed to look there is just endless blackmail material which is going to get used, just like LOVEINT.
by Dig1t | 2026-03-14 05:41:04+00:00
They did a double tap strike on a girls school.

i.e. they blew up a school with kids in it, then when people went in to try and rescue the survivors they struck the school again to kill the rescuers.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/3/12/who-bombed-the-...

Our leadership obviously does not care at all about civilian lives.
by evan-dong | 2026-03-14 05:41:24+00:00
I think this is going to be extremely hard in practice. Back in 2016 Twitter was already flooded with social bots, and that was before LLMs got good.

Ten years later the tools are vastly more capable and much cheaper to run, so the incentive to automate every possible interaction is only going to get stronger. AI “infiltration” won’t just stop by wishing for a human‑first web.
by beloch | 2026-03-14 05:41:45+00:00
This isn't a Vinyl vs CD thing where a clearly inferior technology lives on due mainly to sentimental reasons. There are a number of concrete advantages to wired headphones over bluetooth headphones.

- They don't need charging. Charging may seem like a minor inconvenience, and we're used to charging a lot of devices. However, even a minor inconvenience is still an inconvenience.

- They're harder to lose. When Apple almost immediately started selling accessories to connect their airpods together (i.e. Cables), it was pretty obvious that going completely cordless was not entirely superior.

- For an equivalent price point, wired headphones produce higher quality audio, and the top-end is a lot deeper.

- Wired cans don't need to pair, don't glitch out, don't become laggy, pair with the wrong device, etc.. Bluetooth was never really meant for use as an audio connection, and it's never really become 100% foolproof. With Apple's proclivity for proprietary standards, I'm amazed they (or others) haven't rolled their own wireless audio standard by now.

Too many android phones copied Apple and ditched the venerable audio jack, but a few kept it, and I've always insisted on it when buying phones. It's old but far from obsolete.
by toraway | 2026-03-14 05:41:55+00:00
Codex CLI is so much more pleasant to use than CC. I cancelled my CC subscription after the OpenCode thing, but somewhat ironically have recently found myself naturally trying the native Codex CLI client first more often over OpenCode.

Kinda funny how you don't actually need to use coercion if you put in the engineering work to build a product that's competitive on its own technical merits...
by nine_k | 2026-03-14 05:43:29+00:00
If implementation of anything is easy, far fewer people would be needed to keep the projects alive.

AI is okay at doing simple things, but it needs to be overseen. Even before any viable AI, I used to read code more than to write. And Emacs is a good tool for that.

Then, Emacs specifically has a killer app, Org mode. For me, it's about as important as good programming modes, if not more

More importantly, Emacs is a platform (as is Neovim, and VS Code). It adjusts to the needs of the user and the moment.
by treetalker | 2026-03-14 05:43:54+00:00
I don't disagree that all people should. But Crocker's Rules are specifically to give the other person permission to give it to you straight because you assume responsibility and maturity to deal with the information itself, regardless of social niceties. And those rules cannot be imposed on the other person: invoking them yourself doesn't mean you can be an asshole back — as the very description of the rules linked in this article explains.
by nxtfari | 2026-03-14 05:44:01+00:00
In his entire screed he never realizes the reason Apple got their transition to work was they genuinely worked hard to make it happen on both ends: they forced developers hard AND still shipped Rosetta 2 to make it seamless for user anxiety for laggard developers. They even had this playbook watching Apple do their first transition from PowerPC to x86. Yet he seems to think Windows 8’s problem was velocity.
by teiferer | 2026-03-14 05:44:07+00:00
I can imagine that this will be similar to the "Emacs/Vim in the AI age" article - it will just be considered to matter less in the AI age. Why spend 3-5 years of your life with a sometimes frustrating experience to obtain this PhD degree if you have powerful models at your disposal that will just be able to solve everything for you? (Similar to why learn Elisp/VimScript/...) Especially considering the current trajectory, expecting where things will be in 5 or 15 years. It will just feel less and less appealing to get an in-depth education, especially a formal one.

Which is quite ironic, considering who wrote the article.
by themafia | 2026-03-14 05:46:48+00:00
The single layer of abstraction.

Pokemon cards have utility within the game of pokemon. They additionally have value in secondary market places which is not strictly tied to the rarity of the item. These markets are not required to exist for the game to function.

Lootboxes, especially for competitive games, do not have any utility within the game and are often cosmetic. Their value is strictly tied to the rarity of the item which the vendor fully artificially controls. Absent the secondary markets the cases would not be purchased and the items ignored.

So you have a choice. You can make pay to win items and publish the probabilities of actually winning them. Or you can have items that can't be traded. Otherwise you're trending very close to widely known regulated activity like gambling.
by jdlshore | 2026-03-14 05:47:00+00:00
This seems like a victory:

‘US District Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg wrote in the new opinion that a “mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.”’

Unless you mean it’s sad that we’re in this position to begin with, in which case I agree, but that ship sailed the moment people chose to re-elect Trump. (And arguably, when Democrats chose to stay home rather than vote for Hillary, just because they were pissed about Bernie. A tragedy of letting perfect be the enemy of good that Democratic voters are all too prone to.)
by kstrauser | 2026-03-14 05:50:20+00:00
I don't believe that for a second. More likely, infosec tends to attract more results-oriented personalities. To generalize, "who cares what you look like as long as you're good?" As a consequence of that, infosec tends to be a lot more welcoming than other groups I've been around. As long as you act nicely, people generally don't care if you're man, women, both, neither, or a gay horse. And it seems like there's been a feedback loop over many years: that acceptance drew more out-of-the-norm folks, which made it more accepting. Lather, rinse, repeat.

But in any case, I thoroughly believe the "joke": turn people away because they don't look / act / think like most others, and soon the very best infosec talent will want nothing to do with you. And based on this article, I'm guessing that's true for other extremely technical fields, too.
by lelanthran | 2026-03-14 05:50:36+00:00
Yeah, I use Slime in vim to drive programs (like psql) via their stdin/stdout, so an "agent" that does stdin/stdout only for UI is perfect.

If I ever write my own agent, it will be in this fashion.

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[1] I have a `scratchpad.sql` file filled with whatever sql snippets I am testing and have `psql mydbname` in a vertical split. Doing C-c C-c in the scratchpad sends the paragraph to the psql instance.
by nurettin | 2026-03-14 05:50:46+00:00
Differ all you want. No child will bankrupt a family at a trading card game store. These are physical goods paid in bulk with provisioning and there are laws for returning them.

Another point of contention is the randomness of packs. The way you play is: You save up to buy the entire set of boosters and already get almost all cards you need for competitive or fun play. The rest you need to trade for or buy individually. It is much more of a social interaction than gambling. The value you get from saving up and trading is easily 10x what you get from opening boosters.

That's why you will never see a bunch of kids queued up in front of a counter frothing from the mouth saying "just... one more!"
by nerdsniper | 2026-03-14 05:51:01+00:00
I feel like people really need to learn basic physics.

The gas inside a standard party balloon is generally compressed 3% to inflate the balloon. This wipes out even the theoretical buoyancy of nitrogen. And trust me, there was never any practical buoyancy to begin with. You’d need a ridiculously large balloon in a room with impossibly still air and impossibly null thermal gradients to even measure the buoyancy of nitrogen vs air. The buoyancy of nitrogen vs air would never be perceptible to human senses in any real-world setting.

It would be the same as just filling the balloon with air.