MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2026-03-07 01:33:06+00:00
I've found it's pretty good. It's really not that much of a burden to dig through 10 reports and find the 2 that are legitimate.

It's different from Hacker One because those reports tend to come in with all sorts of flowery language added (or prompt-added) by people who don't know what they are doing.

If you're running the prompts yourself against your own coding agents you gain much more control over the process. You can knock each report down to just a couple of sentences which is much faster to review.
by sam_palus | 2026-03-07 01:33:16+00:00
We're up-front with founders that Palus is meant for longer-term cash, not money you'll need on short notice. Even then, our liquidity timeframe is typically 1-2 days.

I'm curious about your experience dealing with your board. We haven't heard that issue from our customers yet, but thus far we mostly just target up to Series B (mainly since, once companies are taking venture debt, they're typically required to hold their money at specific banks).

What were you trying to invest in, and what did they push back on?
by D-Machine | 2026-03-07 01:33:55+00:00
You are also not quite correct, IMO. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283197.

What you are talking about is abliteration. What OBLITERATUS seems to be claiming to do is much more dumb, i.e. just zeroing out huge components (e.g. embedding dimension ranges, feed-forward blocks; https://github.com/elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS?tab=readme-ov-f...) of the network as an "Ablation Study" to attempt to determine the semantics of these components.

However, all these methods are marked as "Novel", I.e., maybe just BS made up by the author. IMO I don't see how they can work based on how they are named, they are way too dumb and clunky. But proper abliteration like you mentioned can definitely work.
by alexpotato | 2026-03-07 01:33:59+00:00
Was chatting with a friend about this:

"I used to write java code and the compiler turned it into JVM bytecode.

Now I write in English and the LLMs compile it into whatever language I want."

Although as one HN commenter pointed out: English is a pretty bad programming language as it's way more ambiguous than most programming languages.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-03-07 01:34:13+00:00
>I'm using Claude every day, and it definitely makes me faster but..

I see a lot of posts about this, and I see a lot studies, also on HN, that show that this isn't the case.

Now of the course the "this isn't the case" stuff is statistically, thus there can be individual developers whom are faster, but there can also be that an individual developer sometimes is faster and sometimes not but the times that they are faster are just so clearly faster that it sort of hides the times that they're not. Statistics of performance over a number of developers can flatten things out. But I don't know that is the case.

So my question for you, and everyone that claims it makes them so perceptively and clearly faster - how do you know? Given all the studies showing that it doesn't make you faster, how are you so sure it does?
by smalley | 2026-03-07 01:34:39+00:00
If we're talking about standard server RDIMMs with ECC (or the prosumer stuff) the CPU visible ECC (excluding DDR5's on-die ECC) is typically implemented as a sideband value you could ignore if you disabled the correction logic.

I suppose what winds up where is up to the memory controller but (for DDR5) in each BL16 transaction beat you're usually getting 32 bits of data value and 8 bits of ECC (per sub channel). Those ECC bits are usually called check bits CB[7:0] and they accompany the data bits DQ[31:0] .

If you're talking about transactions for LPDDR things are a bit different there, though as that has to be transmitted inband with your data
by gzoo | 2026-03-07 01:35:14+00:00
Oh but they ARE! MUAHAHAHA... no seriously... Claude in particular is getting awful human like. It just cracked a joke about something I mentioned 2 months ago. GULP. I joke about it but at the same time we can see that layer 47 activated in some pattern and that attention heads focused on certain tokens, but translating that into "the model reasoned about X, then connected it to Y, then chose Z" is still largely unsolved.
by nickcoffee | 2026-03-07 01:35:53+00:00
The productivity-to-workload compression point is real, but I think the more interesting dynamic is what happens to team shape over time. Running a small sales team with agents, the bottleneck shifted from execution to judgment almost overnight. The work didn't disappear, but who's doing which part of it changed pretty fast.

The junior hiring slowdown makes sense in that context. Junior roles were often the execution layer. That layer is getting absorbed. Whether that's bad long-term depends on whether there's still a path to build judgment without first doing the execution work for years. But what can be seen on entry level teams is you typically have 20% of these people that are outstanding, and 80% average. I assume this 20% will simply be able to cover more ground.
by bjackman | 2026-03-07 01:35:55+00:00
If your benchmarks are fast enough to run in pre-commit you might not need a time series analysis. Maybe you can just run an intensive A/B test between HEAD and HEAD^.

You can't just set a threshold coz your environment will drift but if you figure out the number of iterations needed to achieve statistical significance for the magnitude of changes you're trying to catch, then you might be able to just run a before/after then do a bootstrap [0] comparison to evaluate probability of a change.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)
by F3nd0 | 2026-03-07 01:36:00+00:00
What Photo app are you referring to? On Debian Trixie, I just get the screenshot app, Spectacle. It shows the screenshot it just took, tells me where it’s been saved, lets me do stuff with it, and lets me take another one. It could do with a facelift, but it’s fairly clear, really. I wonder if they changed it later or if the distribution you used deviated from the defaults.
by the_af | 2026-03-07 01:36:35+00:00
Like I said, you're cherry-picking. You believe some of what the Iranians say, and not the rest. You believe some of what Trump says, but not the rest.

And you do care what Trump says, since you're buying his bogus, self-contradicting justification for going to war with Iran.

Iran wasn't a threat to the US.

Edit: that 2022 interview you quoted from an Iranian not affiliated to any nuclear program or knowledgeable about it, and which later recanted/clarified it, has problems to say the least. Another example of cherry-picking. I'm not surprised it has since been amplified by Trump (a person whose opinion you don't care about) and by various Israeli news outlets.
by YZF | 2026-03-07 01:36:55+00:00
I know people that live there. But you believe whatever you want. Those cluster bombs are relatively small. They do minor damage. Nobody was even injured.

All your images are the single missile that got through to Tel Aviv where there was some civilian casualties because the sirens were delayed. Generally there is plenty of warning and bomb shelters. The minor property damage is meaningless and has no impact on Israel overall.

What is hitting Israel this round is lot less than the last round. I saw first hand the damage from the previous round where a lot more missiles got through when I visited Israel. It's still some tiny fraction of what Iran and Hezbollah are getting hit with.

This has zero impact on Israel. But by the time Israel is done with the Dahiye it's going to be a parking lot.

[EDIT: https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/israel-gaza-l... ]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7jx575pg7o .. Assuming Hezbollah doesn't back off and agree to disarm. Iran is getting pounded x10 of that though more military and regime targets.

EDIT: Smotrich's son did get injured. He was lightly wounded. Cluster bombs are a) illegal b) totally ineffective other than causing broader property damage. You're live in fantasy land. I suggest visiting Israel after the war is over to see how destroyed it is ... not.
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-07 01:37:49+00:00
The majority of people sacrifice nothing. They won't move to a 1000sq or less apartment but instead want their 2200sqft suburban house. They won't move the place where they can use public transportation, they just keep driving their car everywhere. They won't stop flying around the world on vacation. They won't give up upgrading their phone every year or stop owning tons of clothing. They won't change their diet to eat whatever is most environmentally friendly.

Instead, they just blame the electorate. The electorate just responds to demand. Same as industry. Stop buying beef there will be no beef industry. Stop buying cars there will be no car industry. Stop buying things from the other side of the world there will be no shipping industry.

People keep expecting politicians to somehow magically do something but are usually unwilling to do anything more than separate their trash or once in a while, bring a bag to the grocery store they just drove too.

Yea, all of that is hard. But if you're not willing to do it, what makes you think the electorate could possibly pass anything no of their constituents is willing to do?
by NDizzle | 2026-03-07 01:37:53+00:00
This past week I found and fixed a bug that happens once in 40,000 transactions working with Claude Code - Opus 4.6. Our legacy app was designed around 2008 and has had zillions of band aids added since then. Nobody (~700 person company) has been able to reliably reproduce this issue to confidently claim that they know what the cause is and how to definitively fix it. That all changed yesterday. I spent today writing up summaries that were shared far and wide. My wizard status is yet again renewed.
by poissac | 2026-03-07 01:38:21+00:00
Honestly, the spark came from discovering trustMRR.com by @marclou — a platform that lists SaaS products with verified MRR. I thought: why doesn't this exist for YouTube channels?
The YouTube channel acquisition market is completely broken.
Sellers fake their AdSense revenue with edited screenshots. Buyers wire thousands with zero protection. No contracts, no escrow, no recourse. I watched someone lose $8,000 on a deal gone wrong.
So I built YtMRR — here's what makes it different:
API-Verified Revenue
Sellers connect via Google OAuth (read-only). We pull Monthly Revenue, Subscribers, and Views directly from YouTube. You cannot fake a listing.
Integrated Deal Room + Free Legal Docs
NDAs, Letters of Intent, Asset Purchase Agreements — generated and signed inside the platform. Free. No lawyers needed to get started.
Escrow Integration
Funds are always held in escrow. Never sent directly between strangers.
7-Day Transfer Protocol
YouTube's mandatory ownership transfer window becomes a built-in inspection period. Buyers verify everything before a single dollar is released.

Launching tomorrow — and I currently have zero channels listed.
So I'm asking directly: if you own a monetized YouTube channel and have ever thought about an exit, I want to list you first. Drop a comment or DM me — first listings get maximum visibility to every buyer and investor that comes through.
by throwaway-abdq | 2026-03-07 01:38:44+00:00
When I was a team lead at a big tech company, any requisition that was not filled at the end of each quarter was cancelled and required a fight to be reinstated. Many job listings became conflicts between:

Option 1) Hire someone sub-standard and deal with either an intense drag on the team while they came up to speed or worst case having to manage them out if they couldn't cut it.

Option 2) Give up the requisition which looked like an admission that we didn't really "need" the position, and also fails to help with senior management and director promotions tied to org size.

This always seemed pathological to me and I would have loved to have the ability to build a team more slowly and intentionally. Don't let all this criticism get to you.
by macintux | 2026-03-07 01:39:06+00:00
~30 years ago I sat down with two students and accused them of copying each others’ work, because they both made the same amusing mistake: they called their C functions without passing arguments, but they declared their variables in such a way that the values would coincidentally be in the right place on the stack. I have to imagine debugging their own code was a mystery.

They indicated that while they worked closely together while learning the material, they weren’t stealing from each other. I believed them then, and still believe them now, but I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with today’s AI world.
by dang | 2026-03-07 01:39:39+00:00
Macroexpanding the previous threads:

Show HN: Yare 2 – Programmable RTS game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32394902 - Aug 2022 (26 comments)

Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27365961 - June 2021 (64 comments)
by asdff | 2026-03-07 01:39:52+00:00
The whole thing is this perfect candidate doesn’t exist. How can they? You are dealing with imperfect information. A resume, yours and theirs assumptions about eachother. That is it. All the interview hoops attempts to make ourselves the hirer comfortable with the fact we are fundamentally taking a leap of faith. Because n=1. Because we aren’t simulating this hire 1000 times and modelling the distribution of performance. Because we haven’t accounted for all latent factors that may intersect between our work model and the hiree. Because we can’t ever know anything at all about the future for certain.

I think we could all be a little more mindful of that in hiring. That waiting for perfection is itself a fallacy for all these reasons and plenty more.
by sanchitmonga | 2026-03-07 01:39:58+00:00
We built MetalRT from scratch in 48 hours: pure C++ to Metal, no abstractions, no compromises. Result is the fastest decode performance available today on Apple Silicon.
658 tokens per second on Qwen3-0.6B (4-bit) using a single M4 Max.

We benchmarked against the strongest competitors on the exact same hardware (M4 Max, 64 GB, macOS 26.3):
- MetalRT
- uzu (Rust production engine)
- mlx-lm (Apple's official MLX framework)
- llama.cpp
- Ollama (REST API)

Models: Qwen3-0.6B, Qwen3-4B, Llama-3.2-3B, LFM2.5-1.2B (all 4-bit quantized, greedy decoding, 5 runs, best reported).

MetalRT is fastest on 3 of 4 models and wins the only clean apples-to-apples comparison: 1.10–1.19× faster than Apple's own MLX using identical model files.
Average 1.67× faster than llama.cpp, 1.59× faster than Ollama.
TTFT on Qwen3-0.6B: 6.6 ms.

Same model weights = same output quality. Only the speed is different.

Public access coming soon as part of MetalRT by RunAnywhere Team.
by michaelsbradley | 2026-03-07 01:40:01+00:00
- Climate Warming in the last ~200 and current years is Man Made, but given Man’s relative shortsightedness and propensity for becoming preoccupied, his ongoing impact on climate change will run its course to one end or another, probably redefining coastlines in the process and including other effects on agriculture, diversity of species, and so on. Much, much later the Earth will more than likely enter another Ice Age and most of the planet will be frozen over. Between the Man induced (relatively) extreme warm period and the next Ice Age, Man will find his way one way or another. Or Not.
by ynac | 2026-03-07 01:40:07+00:00
Just checked out MoveOMeter.com Great idea - and I get how pitching to "an old coot" like my parents would get a laugh out of them before an insulting hurtful pass. Very clever positioning - I'd lean in on that. Your audience is there and waiting - which is tricky since your customer is actually the sales person and you need to give them the training up front to close the deal with their elder. Nice work!
by D-Machine | 2026-03-07 01:40:09+00:00
Doesn't look legit to me. You are talking about abliteration, which is real. But the OP linked tool is doing novel and very dumb ablation: zeroing out huge components of the network, or zeroing out isolated components in a way that indicates extreme ignorance of the basic math involved.

Compared to abliteration, none of the ablation approaches of this tool make even half a whit of sense if you understand even the most basic aspects of an e.g. Transformer LLM architecture, so my guess is this is BS.
by saalweachter | 2026-03-07 01:40:11+00:00
It's not so much what's better as whether it's different enough to attract a significant tourist group from areas with similar attractions nearby.

Like, if you want to see a rain forest or a thousand year old Buddhist temple or a pyramid, there's not really a substitute in the continental US.

But if you've two options, where you can go to the pretty good option domestically or drive past it and continue on to the much better option in another country ... most people will be happy with the closer option, even if there's some small number of people who want the best or have seen all the closer options before and want something different or just whimsically like the idea of going to the further-away one none of their friends have been to.
by thangalin | 2026-03-07 01:40:12+00:00
Yes! Although 60 is still a decade away, I've spent a fair few evenings vibe-coding a FOSS dependency-free raw git repo browser.[1] Never would have even started such a project without LLMs because:

* Implementing a raw Git reader is daunting.

* Codifying syntax highlighting rules is laborious.

* Developing a nice UI/UX is not super enjoyable for me.

* Hardening with latest security measures would be tricky.

* Crafting a templating language is time-consuming.

Being able to orchestrate and design the high-level architecture while letting the LLM take care of the details is extremely rewarding. Moving all my repositories away from GitLab, GitHub, and BitBucket to a single repo under my own control is priceless.

[1]: https://repo.autonoma.ca/treetrek/
by bayarearefugee | 2026-03-07 01:40:21+00:00
You can't speak this kind of truth on hacker news!

But, uh, yeah... I've been noticing a growing divide between people like OP who are either already retired or are wealthy enough that they could if they wanted to who absolutely love the new world of LLMs, and people who aren't currently financially secure and realize that LLMs are going to snatch their career away. Maybe not this year, but not too far out either.
by mmooss | 2026-03-07 01:40:36+00:00
> Theres a mistrust of government and the establishment. Not saying fringe is better but the behavior of govts, corruption and influence by rich donors doesn't help

These are scientists, not the government, and the US government, at least, has long opposed or been ambivalent toward climate research.

I'm not sure how rich donor influence is involved. Rich donors generally have acted to oppose climate research.
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-07 01:40:44+00:00
ZIO in Scala tracks this sort of thing except you don't have to remember to pass around or select on the ctx (it's just part of the fibre/"goroutine"); if it's cancelled, the fibre and its children just stops the next time it yields (so e.g. if it "selects" on anything or does any kind of IO).
by rogergrubb | 2026-03-07 01:40:58+00:00
You've got the architecture exactly right on the audit trail. The enforcement layer owns the log — agent requests authority, enforcement decides and writes the receipt, agent never has write access to its own trail. Learned that one the hard way early on; the self-reporting model feels fine until you think about what a compromised agent would do with it.

The cold-start problem with circuit breakers is real and honestly the thing I'd change if I were starting over. Right now we handle it two ways: first-deployment agents run in shadow mode for a configurable window (logs anomalies, doesn't trip), and you can seed a baseline by importing behavioral profiles from similar agent types. Neither is perfect. The shadow window is a genuine blind spot — you're essentially saying 'we'll catch drift but not the first-run behavior.' Still figuring out a cleaner answer there.

Failure mode in practice: authorization layer, by a lot. The pattern is almost always agents that were scoped for one task creeping into adjacent ones — not malicious, just the model generalizing in ways the permission declaration didn't anticipate. Audit layer failures are rarer and usually infrastructure (the log queue backing up, not the design). Which is somewhat reassuring — it means the architecture holds, the problem is teams underspecifying permissions at registration time.
by bscphil | 2026-03-07 01:41:28+00:00
I believe they changed the app since Trixie was released (Trixie has KDE 6.3, the changes were in 6.4) and buried a lot of the really common settings behind menus. E.g. you might want to take a screenshot on a delay, and that's now hidden behind a menu whereas they used to surface the most common features on a panel.
by nickcoffee | 2026-03-07 01:42:41+00:00
The behavioral dataset problem is the most interesting part of this. Response latency by role, channel preference by demographic, that data genuinely doesn't exist anywhere off the shelf, so you have to build it from real interactions. Curious how long it took before you had enough signal to start making confident decisions on, say, follow-up timing by segment.

The staffing use case makes a lot of sense as a wedge. 1000+ interviews a week across SMS and email is exactly the kind of workflow where coordinators are drowning and no one's built the right tool yet. Good luck with it.
by beepbooptheory | 2026-03-07 01:42:56+00:00
I simply have no need for these things. I am faster, smarter, and I understand more. I syntesize disparate concepts your SoT models could never dream of. Why should I waste the money? I have all that I need up in my brain.

When everyone forgets how to read, I'll be thriving. When everyone is neurotic from prompting-brain, I will be in my emacs, zen and unburdened.

I love that yall have them though, they are kinda fun to mess with. And as long as I can review and reject it, all yalls little generations are acceptable for now.
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-07 01:42:57+00:00
Certainly doesn't help that nobody made those predictions but denialists make up or intentionally misinterpret people making predictions so as to "prove" nothing is actually happening.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nations-vanish-global-warm...

The widely-cited UNEP report where people get the supposed non-occuring Maldives prediction from suggested that half of the Maldives could be inundated by 2100 in a one-meter-rise scenario.
by sam_palus | 2026-03-07 01:43:16+00:00
Do you mean this Crescent? https://www.getcrescent.com/

They're more of a traditional banking product. They seem to have a great high-yield checking account (3%), which is a great place to keep short-term cash. But for long-term holdings that you won't touch for months, a higher-yield product like Palus makes more sense, earning closer to 5%.

For what it's worth, we don't try to replace products like Crescent (or Mercury, Brex, etc.) at all. They're great for day-to-day banking. Instead we connect to your account there and optimize for really simple UX. We're working on setting up automatic sweep to/from Palus to make it even simpler.
by zeagle | 2026-03-07 01:43:22+00:00
No, most people recognize a government isn’t reflective of individual people and are kind. If anything you’ll be more likely to be let in on the road if you are in the wrong lane assuming you don’t know where you are going. Having said that I wouldn’t wear/sticker political messaging, namely Trump and MAGA given current realities, but really of any type because you might trigger a US aligned conservative or angry centrist. Not labeling all of one side as crazy/angry but those are the two vocal subgroups I see. The rest of us privately groan.