MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lovelearning | 2026-03-07 07:50:56+00:00
It does technically democratize the exhilarating experiences of that level of performance. Likely also democratizes negative aspects like injuries, extreme dieting, jealousy, neglecting relationships.

That said, if we zoom out and review such paradigm shifts over history, we find that they usually result in some new social contracts and value systems.

Both good expert writers and poor novice writers have been able to publish non-fiction books from a few centuries now. But society still doesn't perceive them as the same at all. A value system is still prevalent and estimated primarily from the writing itself. This is regardless of any other qualifications/disqualifications of authors based on education / experience / nationality / profession etc.

At the individual level too, just because book publishing is easy doesn't mean most people want to spend their time doing that. After some initial excitement, people will go do whatever are their main interests. Some may integrate these democratized skills into their main interests.

In my opinion, this historical pattern will turn out to be true with the superdrug as well as vibe coding.

Some new value will be seen in the swimming or running itself - maybe technique or additional training over and above the drug's benefits.

Some new value will be discovered in the code itself - maybe conceptual clarity, algorithmic novelty, structural cleanliness, readability, succinctness, etc. Those values will become the new foundations for future gatekeeping.
by onion2k | 2026-03-07 07:52:16+00:00
Snark aside, we have massively more people alive today than in 1900 and yet the proportion of people that die in armed conflicts is— while horrific- barely noteworthy in most years around the dawn of the 20th century and not infrequently dwarfed by the body counts racked up in those days.

That's true if your definition of 'die in armed conflicts' is limited to 'the soldiers on the battlefield.' If you extend that definition a little to 'people who would not have died if there hadn't been an armed conflict' then you need to scale it up to about a million people a year today. That's just from 5 countries where it's been studied. Globally it's likely to be much more. There's some good information about it, from a credible source, here: https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human
by ai-x | 2026-03-07 07:52:22+00:00
The only group that cries and creates hysteria is the last group. So, not sure why you think the other groups consider it as bleak. From all the other groups perspective, they are winning, because nobody is buying the stupid de-growth, ban fossils agenda.

Yes, if hysteria and de-growth propaganda wins, it is bleak for the other groups
by stevoski | 2026-03-07 07:52:53+00:00
I think this “story” started when The Economist did a filler article about it. The Economist article was based on some pretty weak understanding and knowledge of Kiwis and their culture of spending time abroad.

From there the usual YouTube “experts” started stories on it. You know the type - they sound authoritative but they are basically regurgitating stuff from Wikipedia (or some Economist article) with some pretty screens and clickbaity thumbnails.

Ultimately, there’s nothing behind this story. As has been the case since Pakehas arrived, lots of Kiwis go abroad and spend lots of time abroad, some go back, and some don’t, and meanwhile NZ’s population continues to grow.

The trends grow and shrink based on relative health of the Aus and NZ economies.
by pistoriusp | 2026-03-07 07:53:23+00:00
You're confusing "freedom and speech" and democracy. They're not the same. You cannot even give someone the middle finger in Germany.

> showing the middle finger (Stinkefinger) is illegal in Germany and considered a criminal offense under Section 185 of the Criminal Code (StGB). Known as an insult (Beleidigung), this gesture can lead to fines, or in severe cases, up to a year in prison.
by Kiboneu | 2026-03-07 07:54:05+00:00
Neat. The author is about to stumble onto a secret.

> In Sum#
> Abstractions. They don’t exist in assembler. Memory is read from registers and the stack and written to registers and the stack.

Abstractions do not exist period. They are patterns, but these patterns aren’t isolated from each other. This is how a hacker is born, through deconstructing what an abstraction really is — imaginary.

It’s just like the fact that electrons and protons don’t really exist. but the patterns in energy gradients are consistent enough to give them names and model their relationship. It’s bits all the way down. No. It’s gradients all the way down, and even that is an abstraction.

Equipped with this understanding you can make an exploit called Rowhammer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-07 07:54:06+00:00
That has little to do with technological advances, just the fact that the US is at an imperial peace; ie. it is under zero threat of invasion and is currently only engaged in small-scale imperial adventurism across the globe which does not require a large standing army. ~16% of adult Americans served in WW2, or ~33% of adult men.
by konschubert | 2026-03-07 07:54:51+00:00
We are allowing remote-only but not advertising it like that. I think that looking for a remote only job in 2026 is a big handicap. There are too many who abuse it, so companies are hesitant to hire for these roles. And while I am personally remote only I do recognise that there is a benefit to seeing each other in person regularly is a benefit for communication and motivation.
by einrealist | 2026-03-07 07:55:09+00:00
> SQLite is not primarily fast because it is written in C. Well.. that too, but it is fast because 26 years of profiling have identified which tradeoffs matter.

Someone (with deep pockets to bear the token costs) should let Claude run for 26 months to have it optimize its Rust code base iteratively towards equal benchmarks. Would be an interesting experiment.

The article points out the general issue when discussing LLMs: audience and subject matter. We mostly discuss anecdotally about interactions and results. We really need much more data, more projects to succeed with LLMs or to fail with them - or to linger in a state of ignorance, sunk-cost fallacy and supressed resignation. I expect the latter will remain the standard case that we do not hear about - the part of the iceberg that is underwater, mostly existing within the corporate world or in private GitHubs, a case that is true with LLMs and without them.

In my experience, 'Senior Software Engineer' has NO general meaning. It's a title to be awarded for each participation in a project/product over and over again. The same goes for the claim: "Me, Senior SWE treat LLMs as Junior SWE, and I am 10x more productive." Imagine me facepalming every time.
by scoot | 2026-03-07 07:55:34+00:00
> According to Germany's Criminal Code, defamation statutes apply when someone knowingly asserts or disseminates untrue statements about another person

It seems more likely to be under the Insult clause of that statute:

> Insult (§185 StGB): Covers disrespectful, demeaning, or contemptuous statements made to or about someone, including public insults.

That's a pretty heavy handed law.
by palmotea | 2026-03-07 07:55:50+00:00
> People believe for some reason that the AI is 99.99% correct and the warning not to trust it too much is just legalese.

That "some reason" is science fiction plus some modern-day hype. The sci-fi trope of AI is that it's something more intelligent and perfect than any human (e.g. Data from Star Trek or even HAL, despite his malfunctions), and the people who are selling LLMs are happy to let influence people to over-estimate LLM capabilities.

There's no sci-fi model for subhuman and kinda crappy generative AI.
by katdork | 2026-03-07 07:55:56+00:00
It isn't open source, it's source available. You have not licensed your source code, it is thus under copyright.

Please read the open source definition; https://opensource.org/osd.

There are other phrases that are usable, such as source first (in the case of FUTO licenses) or source available (when source is under copyright but is provided).

The engine, being actually MIT, is however open source.
by kstrauser | 2026-03-07 07:56:07+00:00
I don’t remember it quite that way. Localization was a giant question, sure. Are we using C or UTF-8 for the default locale? That had lots of screaming matches. But in the network service world, I don’t remember ever hearing more than a token resistance against choosing UTF-8 as the successor to ASCII. It was a huge win, especially since ASCII text is already valid UTF-8 text. Make your browser default to parsing docs with that encoding and you can still parse all existing ASCII docs with zero changes! That was a huge, enormous selling point.

Windows is far from a niche player, to be sure. Yet it seems like literally every other OS but them was going with one encoding for everything, while they went in a totally different direction that got complaints even then. I truly believe they thought they’d win that battle and eventually everyone else would move to UTF-16 to join them. Meanwhile, every other OS vendor was like, nah, no way we’re rewriting everything from scratch to work with a not-backward compatible encoding.
by hubraumhugo | 2026-03-07 07:56:22+00:00
In a separate email, they note:

> For affected deployments created during this window, any requests served until 21:10 UTC did not execute Middleware. The issue has been fully remediated and no redeployment is required.

> If, for authentication, authorization, or access control, you are exclusively relying upon Middleware, this incident may have allowed requests to bypass Middleware logic that would normally run. We recommend that you analyze your logs for the period between 11:20 UTC and 21:10 UTC on March 6, 2026, for any potential unauthorized access or activity.
by salawat | 2026-03-07 07:56:37+00:00
I envy you to be honest. My muse doesn't bring me visions of sublime beauty. No melodies, landscapes, scenes or plays in the mind's eye. Just blueprints, system diagrams, feedback loops, crystalized reasoning, probable futures, things going wrong, breaking. Never in a way that seems to be communicable to galvanize more than a couple people who probably already know what I'm seeing deep down in their hearts. But... I'm trying. I flubbed the middle. The point was, no one at the bottom can unseat the people at the top or their optimization function from inside the system, playing by it's rules. Unless we all align on something to force a change; the system's stable & will remain so. There's just one outcome, and it ain't pretty for most of us. I can't even bring myself to throw my weight in as much as I used to, because I just can't not see the patterns everywhere I look now. Didn't mean to be rude. Just. Tired. So, so, very tired. The kind sleep won't fix. Whatever your art form... May you get good inspiration, and may the work to realize lighten your soul in the doing, and everyone's around you. Mine... Certainly doesn't.
by sebastiennight | 2026-03-07 07:57:05+00:00
As far as I've ever heard, "le code" used in a codebase is uncountable, like "le café" you'd put in a cup, so we would still say "meilleur que tout le code que j'ai vu en 20 ans" and not "meilleur que tous les codes que j'ai vus en 20 ans".

There is a countable "code" (just like "un café" is either a place, or a cup of coffee, or a type of coffee), and "un code" would be the one used as a password or secret, as in "j'ai utilisé tous les codes de récupération et perdu mon accès Gmail" (I used all the recovery codes and lost Gmail access).
by troupo | 2026-03-07 07:57:10+00:00
How is it "light years better than Slack"?

It's a terminal wrapper for Anthropic API. It somehow baloons to 68 gigabytes when all it needs to do is call an APi and slowly draw a few hundred characters on screen. And they can't even do that without flickering. Oh yes, and until very recently it would also consume a significant percentage of CPU just waiting for input to a slash command.

Yes, on that same 20 core 128g RAM machine.

You surely must be kidding. Slack is an amzing cutting edge tech in comparison as it has a bout two orders of magnitude more features that a TUI API wrapper.
by KronisLV | 2026-03-07 07:57:24+00:00
Good for you! Most people will, though. If I hadn't learnt JavaScript, I couldn't work on a large chunk of the projects that put bread on the table for the past 5-10 years.

If most folks don't learn AI (or its shortcomings and practicalities of it), then they will not be as competitive in the job market. Corpos don't care about the flaws.
by valentinprgnd | 2026-03-07 07:57:40+00:00
That's a really good distinction.

My thinking so far is that Sonde only tries to describe the capability surface of the tool: commands, inputs, outputs, and discovery. In other words, what the tool can do in principle.

Authorization feels like it belongs to a different layer that sits between the agent and the tool: something that can apply task context, policies, or sandbox constraints before execution.

So the manifest would help the agent construct a valid call, but it shouldn't imply that the call is allowed. The enforcement layer still decides that.

Your filesystem example is a good illustration: the manifest could describe `delete_file`, but whether the agent is allowed to call it on a specific path would depend on the environment or policy around the tool.

Right now I'm mostly exploring the capability contract because that surface feels under-specified in current tooling. But I agree that the authorization layer is where a lot of the real safety and control questions live.
by dust42 | 2026-03-07 07:58:19+00:00
I have to say correctly so. It is a case of "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS" [1]. What is "Lick eggs Merz" supposed to mean? In order to be a proper political message on a proper demonstration of proper school kids, it should at least say who's eggs Merz should lick and why. And clearly hint why that is either good or bad. Which would give Merz the opportunity to reflect and change his behaviour.

[1] From the Life of Brian
by k310 | 2026-03-07 07:58:24+00:00
Predicted yesterday.

> Target schools, blame vendor instead of operators.

> I fully expect this.

> Based on industry experience, where vendors were hired (and paid well) so that there would be, and I quote, "a throat to choke" when needed.

This could be the feeler for a full-on buck-passing.

The first refuge of a scoundrel is to blame someone else. "We didn't kill those kids. Faulty AI did it." A "perfect" setup. Or do you believe in a string of 10 accidental coincidences?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271391#47271572
by radu_floricica | 2026-03-07 07:58:52+00:00
Poe's law? Can't really tell, with the internet these days. Things are so polarized that people talk from and to their tribe and the message is often understood to be obvious.

Anyways, in case you're serious: there is a famous thought experiment about healthcare: should a hospital administrator approve a complex and expensive treatment to save a 7 year old girl, with a 100% success probability? Or more to the point: is approving this a "good" act, or a "bad" act? The unintuitive answer is that it depends on the opportunity cost long term, and the math is far from obvious. The quick answer is often "not even wrong" - it simply ignores a lot of facts down the line. The same cash can be used very boringly to do maintenance or to buy a piece of life saving equipment.

And it gets very dirty very fast. The easy version is pay for the operation vs buy an MRI machine - in this case you can at least compare apples to apples, if you squint - an MRI machine also saves lives. But if the alternative is renovating a waiting room, you're really off the deep end. Because doing it one time it's an obvious decision: just save the life. And it's not even bad as a general policy: have waiting rooms be a bit dusty, if this means spending more money on treatments. But... how much to cut, exactly? And then you have second order effects: throwing a moderate amount to waiting rooms can make them look a lot better, while having it linger in disrepair can make people actually avoid the hospital (if they can't even paint the walls, why would you trust them with your life?).

And all of this is assuming the hospital admin actually has mental bandwidth and latitude to make this decision. In practice, he's looking at the kid's mom when he has to turn her down because the operation money would pay for renovating a whole hospital wing. And the mom is an influencer with a large following.

> democratize the means of production

This means having humans make such decisions, and even worse, it means a committee or a mob will make such decisions. Zero skin in the game, all vibes and feelings. Some girls will get saved, but I've seen how hospitals look in such a system, and it's not good.

To note: the US system may or may not be "democratized", but it managed to have exactly the same flaws - most decisions are taken by humans in a bureaucracy. The government simply wrote the rules then outsourced the bureaucracy and the blame to private corporations.
by throw310822 | 2026-03-07 07:59:22+00:00
Have you tried this with Claude?

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Q: How do I reverse an array in the Navajo programming language?

A: I'm not familiar with a programming language called "Navajo." It's possible you might be thinking of a different language, or it could be something very niche that I don't have information about.

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As for your question, the chances go from 0 to 100% depending on how many languages I already know and whether I have an idea (or I think I have an idea) of how python looks like.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-03-07 07:59:33+00:00
Fair enough, but the quality/breadth of the standard libraries is fairly topic-specific in Go (and all languages, really). There's a reason that you picked networking and crypto for your examples, since the Go standard library is indeed really strong here—I don't even like Go, but if I had to write a program that did lots of cryptography and networking, then Go would probably be my first choice.

But lots of programs (and most of the programs that I write) don't use any cryptography, and only have trivial networking requirements, and outside those areas, I'd argue that the Python standard library [0] has broader coverage, supports more features, and is better documented than the Go standard library [1].

The Go standard library is still pretty great though, and is well ahead of most other languages; I just personally think that it's a little worse than Python's. But if you mostly write networking/crypto code, I can easily see how you'd have the opposite opinion.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html

[1]: https://pkg.go.dev/std
by palmotea | 2026-03-07 07:59:45+00:00
> ...simply because I find the whole “this looks like LLM” to be a tiresome comment. Engage with (or dismiss) the material, not the pen.

No. Engagement isn't free, and people need heuristics to figure out what's worth engaging with or not.

If people followed your advice, they'd waste their life conversing with dead-internet bots. And to what end? We're not machines mindlessly consuming and producing text.
by fch42 | 2026-03-07 07:59:55+00:00
Air pollution (from smog) in India is already at a "seasonally deadly" level. If you haven't been to India during late autumn, it's hard to imagine how bad it is. Your eyes burn and every breath stings, you literally taste the acrid smog all the time.

India is working hard to get that down. It's a much more tangible and immediate problem there than the thought some parts of the country may become so hot as to be unliveable. Addressing thst, in India, is a side effect / a benefit of cleaning up the air, as much as energy autarky via Solar PV has the benefit of becoming independent of oil imports.
India has coal. Lots of it. It's cheap to them. It doesn't particularly want to use more of it because of the associated air pollution and also because cooling water for thermal power plants competes with drinking water for people in some places.

Personally I think India is rather pragmatic here. Battery banks for scooters in the cities? tick. Buildout of PV? tick. Electric car charging stations? tick. Replacing wood, coal and other dirty cooking fuel by gas? Also tick. India just doesn't bother fighting some internal culture wars about how great fossil fuels or renewables are. They just move ahead more or less silently.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-03-07 08:00:08+00:00
Yeah if my co-worker can't start figuring out why the code is slow, with a reasonable reference to what the code in question is, that is a knock against their skills. I would actually expect some ideas as to what the problem is just off the top of their heads, but that the coding agent can't do that isn't a hit against it specifically, this is now a good part of what needs to be done differently.

The suggestion to tell the agent to do performance analysis of the part of the code you think is problematic, and offer suggestions for improvements seems like the proper way to talk to a machine, whereas "hey your code is slow" feels like the proper way to talk to a human.
by mindplunge | 2026-03-07 08:00:31+00:00
The fontTools section is the part I keep thinking about. Replacing the em dash glyph by compositing two hyphens via GlyphComponent is not something you reach for unless you really know your way around type rendering. Most frontend devs would have just swapped the character in the source, which doesn't survive the markdown processor. Doing it at the font level is the correct solution and it's a much harder problem than it looks.

The text-transform trick is more accessible but the same logic applies — the CSS has to protect code blocks from the lowercasing, which is a real edge case. It's a genuinely well-crafted technical solution underneath the poem.
by troupo | 2026-03-07 08:01:36+00:00
No. They literally can't.

E.g. they claim it's a difficult task to render a few hundred characters on screen, and that their CLI wrapper is a tiny game engine: https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427

They literally had to buy bun to have someone who understands how things work to fix this
by MadnessASAP | 2026-03-07 08:01:48+00:00
You can, and it might make things a bit better. The only real way I've found so far is to start going through file by file, picking it apart.

I wouldn't be surprised if over half my prompts start with "Why ...?", usually followed by "Nope, ... instead”

Maybe the occasional "Fuck that you idiot, throw the whole thing out"
by sharp_runner_84 | 2026-03-07 08:02:22+00:00
The interesting question is whether AP data actually makes Kalshi more efficient or just faster. If all the big market makers are already pulling from the same data sources (AP, official counts), the only thing this changes is who gets the update first. And on low-liquidity election contracts, that millisecond advantage could let one participant sweep the entire book before anyone else reacts.
by DaedalusII | 2026-03-07 08:02:31+00:00
nz has no meaningful economy. they have a real estate market and agriculture which has maxed out its productivity, because they have completely run out of land. they have cheap, generally low quality colleges, and attract middle class/rich asians to live there for a few years and get a strong passport.

they also have a big problem with alcoholism and domestic violence, and an absurdly complicated tax system. 15% first nations and 15% asian immigrants, the 70% euro population is skewed elderly and contributes most of the tax receipts, and that includes a lot of brit retirees

the problem is they run the country like canada/norway/australia/alaska, except those places all have enormous resource exports that pay for the welfare state. nz just has milk farms

the median salary is less than USD $50k, and these people can get the EB3 greencard or just move to EU/ Australia