MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintro | 2026-03-10 23:49:52+00:00
really resonate with the problem here, have been thinking about it for quite some time. in fact, assuming this basic continuity problem gets solved, the velocity at which they can experience things has the capacity to be so much higher than us, it really makes you think about where the limits might be.

you might enjoy this article: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/Agent-Identity,-Meta-Narrat...

full disclosure, i'm one of the authors and co-founders of the company behind that blog, but we've got tooling to help you solve this. would love to have you in our discord to chat about it more: discord.gg/honcho
by csb6 | 2026-03-10 23:50:57+00:00
The message to all other states to get nuclear weapons as soon as possible is reinforced by Trump's scrapping of the Iran nuclear deal. Even if you negotiate a treaty with the U.S. agreeing to deescalation, a new leader will likely tear it up (given the flip-flopping of the U.S. presidency, which has near total power over foreign policy).

Even returning to the negotiating table isn't enough - the U.S. and its allies may strike you anyways. (as they did last year when they killed the lead Iranian negotiator and again preemptively attacked during recent negotiations)
by AngryData | 2026-03-10 23:51:23+00:00
Depending on the farm of course, animals can be extremely happy living a domesticated life. For the first 30 years of my life I raised my own beef, those cows only stayed fenced in because they didn't feel a need to leave. How do I know this? Because as soon as the field they were in had grass under 4 inches to chew at their leisure they would walk up to a fence and push it right over like it wasn't there, then stand 5 feet over the fence chewing fresh grass until you shooed them back inside. If you weren't on top of rotating pasture you would get home to see them happily chewing the grass in your front yard.

They were treated not much different than a dog that eats grass, and had no idea they were food. The worst they knew is sometimes a new calf would appear, sometimes an old cow would be loaded up and drove away. All of them named, although they were mostly on-the-nose, our biggest cow was 2400 pounds and we called him Big Mac.

All that said, that is nothing what factory farming is like which is what most people are eating their food from. But there are ways to raise food animals "humanely", we did it for thousands of years up until the industrial revolution because it was the only way we knew how or could manage them. Without solid walls, hefty steel bars, and a cocktail of drugs and antibiotics when disease inevitably infects those overcrowded facilities, it is pretty difficult to keep most animals contained if they aren't happy, domesticated or not.
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-03-10 23:51:34+00:00
I mean, the person above complaining about it not being able to create a simple thing is absolutely holding them wrong! They aren’t feeding the right context, aren’t using the correct tools or harnesses, who knows. But the problem exists between keyboard and chair, so to speak.

I’m constantly amazed at the amount of scope I can now one-shot with Claude Code. It can crank out multi command cli apps with almost zero hand holding beyond telling what to generate… you know, the hard part. And then we’ll back and forth to refine the working thing it built.
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-10 23:52:11+00:00
Well this is the main problem with AI right now isn't it? How to use it successfully without having it fuck up.

How are they expecting some juniors to do this when the industry as a whole doesn't know where to begin yet?

Like that Meta AI expert who wiped her whole mailbox with openclaw. These are the people who should come up with the answers.

Ps I mostly hate AI but I do see some potential. Right now it feels like we're entering a fireworks bunker looking for a pot of gold and having only a box of matches for illumination.

What we need to know from management is exactly what you mention. Do we go all out and accept that shit will hit the fan once in a while (the old move fast and break things) or do we micromanage and basically work manually like old. And that they accept the risk either way. Because the tech as it is right now is very non-deterministic. One day it works magic and the next day it blows up.

And yes that SMILE thing was a good example. Been in too many of those time wasters.
by ShowalkKama | 2026-03-10 23:52:51+00:00
wer impact?

Just because you have root it doesn't mean it's a vulnerability. Can he read the data of other customers? Can he interact with the internal network?
Do you want to know how you can get code execution on microsoft's servers? Easy, go to github and spin up a github action.

The SSRF section does NOT prove SSRF, just because you can make a server interact with attacker supplied urls it doesn't automatically mean it can reach internal things and it does not automatically mean it's exploitable, far from it.

The user location leak is also not a leak since it's fair to assume that the user already knows his own physical location. It'd be interesting if there was a way to reveal the location of other users but alas that isn't mentioned, let alone proved.
by joegaebel | 2026-03-10 23:53:24+00:00
I've been able to encode Outside-in Test Driven Development into a repeatable workflow. Claude Code follows it to a T, and I've gotten great results.
I've written about it more here, and created a repo people can use out of the box to try it out:

https://www.joegaebel.com/articles/agentic-gold-standard-dev...
https://github.com/JoeGaebel/outside-in-tdd-starter
by cermicelli | 2026-03-10 23:53:40+00:00
Anthropic has private ownership from a bunch of foreign investors GIC and MGX for one.

Not saying this action is correct or not but Anthropic has no reason to decline Chinese investment if they could get it. Neither does openAI.

It's insane people consider private companies should have free speech.

When they can't and aren't willing to do the same for private citizens. People being shot on streets didn't see any court cases?

I find hn to be quite brain dead in terms of what it chooses to care about.
by 8note | 2026-03-10 23:54:11+00:00
code review is too late to give some of that feedback, and design/requirements documents dont have nearly the standardization of presentation and feedback tools for that to be useable.

Amazon does have those things, and has fine tuning on models based on those postmortems.

Noisy reviews are also a problem causer. the PR doesnt know what scale a chunk of code is running at, without having access to 20 more packages and other details.
by aleyan | 2026-03-10 23:54:26+00:00
This is a fantastic discovery! Displaying azimuth in my ascii-side-of-the-moon [0] sounds useful, but then I would need to explain the symbol. I am displaying altitude/elevation below horizon, but there doesn't appear to be standard symbol for it. I checked the tables linked from article and there doesn't seem to be a symbol for it.

Maybe this the opportunity to invent and suggest a symbol for Altitude?

[0] https://aleyan.com/projects/ascii-side-of-the-moon
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2026-03-10 23:54:40+00:00
>Measles and chickenpox aren't even similar pathogens

Are you sure?

(You can't take their word for these things. I'm saying that Medical 'science' itself is flawed. They make leaps of faith, which is then passed of 'science'. I'll let you look deeper into how the prove ( or don't prove) a single type of virus = one disease. )
by roqueribeiro | 2026-03-10 23:55:41+00:00
I’ve been building RoqueOS, a project focused on simplifying homelab management and automation.

The goal is to provide a lightweight OS that allows you to control servers, services and integrations from simple interfaces, including messaging apps.

Recently the project reached an important milestone: the mobile app was approved on the Apple App Store.

RoqueOS is currently available on:

• Apple App Store
• Web version
• Self-hosted environments

Project docs and details:
https://roqueos.com.br/docs

Happy to hear feedback from the community.
by 2001zhaozhao | 2026-03-10 23:56:10+00:00
I made a roblox game years ago with no more than like 2 concurrent players at a time. The game's ideas were immediately copied by a much bigger game (this turned me off the Roblox platform for good).

I still got enough robux to DevEx just from premium roblox subscribers playing the game. (If I cash it out i would get a few hundred dollars. Which is nothing for me today but absolutely a lot of money for an aspiring teenage developer.)
by lich_king | 2026-03-10 23:56:27+00:00
When someone tells you "you can have this if you pay me", they don't mean "you can also have it if you don't pay". They are implicitly but clearly indicating you gotta pay.

It's as simple as that. In common use, "if x then y" frequently implies "if not x then not y". Pretending that it's some sort of a cognitive defect to interpret it this way is silly.
by metalman | 2026-03-10 23:56:51+00:00
It could backfire in a way that ends American actions like the one the Chinese have pulled there ballistic missled arm chair up to watch the action more closely.
The recent embarasment of european tech by chinese tech in pakistan india scuffle, is a hint at what are otherwise unknown Chinese missle capabilities, ie the two OTHER ships in the flotilla, there will of course be many oilers , tenders, and whatnot joining up, complicating things further.
Plus given that China got this hardware on site in 10 days, is a message all it's own.
by curao_d_espanto | 2026-03-10 23:57:17+00:00
> The emerging field of mechanistic interpretability suggests otherwise. Researchers are developing tools to understand how neural networks do what they do, from network ablation and selective activation to feature visualization and circuit tracing. These techniques let you study a trained model the way a biologist studies an organism, through careful experimentation and observation.

honestly, when I read that part of the article I imagined that author never studied how computers were made and where the engineering ideas came from, all technology just "popped" and here we are talking about complexity and stuff like the LLM is truly alive
by iAMkenough | 2026-03-10 23:58:04+00:00
OCR'd for screen readers:

Fight with phone lost

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Police responding to reports of a stabbing found instead a bleeding 20-year-old man who lost a confrontation with a pay telephone, authorities said.

According to police, Richard A. Anderson had tried to call a friend from a pay phone and when the call went unanswered angrily tried to jerk the receiver out of the phone.

Police said Anderson just managed to stretch the wire webbing that covers
the telephone cord. The receiver stayed put. So Anderson again vented his anger — this time by throwing the receiver, police said.

But when the receiver reached the end of its cord, it snapped back and the cord wrapped around Anderson's neck.

The sharp edges of the wire webbing dug into Anderson's skin, cutting him. When Anderson struggled to free himself, the webbing cut deeper.

"Once we got out what had happened," said one police officer. "it was, 'Be real. This did not happen."

Anderson was treated at University Hospitals and released.
by willtaubenheim | 2026-03-10 23:58:21+00:00
I spent the last 2 years building a 248,000-word research paper on the economics, infrastructure, and labor impacts of AI. This is the interactive executive summary.

For context on my background: I am an AI engineer (2x NASA award winner, built autonomous systems for the DoD) and a tech founder. I wanted to look past the hype and audit the actual numbers.

The core finding that surprised me most: the AI tools everyone uses today are subsidized by 90 to 98 percent of their true cost. For every $1 a business pays OpenAI for API access, OpenAI spends $0.37 just on the electricity and hardware to generate the response.

The report also covers the 7 to 10 year US grid interconnection queue capping compute growth, the semiconductor supply chain risk (92% of advanced chips from one island), and what the 23.8% true US unemployment rate means for knowledge workers.

I built the report as a fully interactive website with 35+ data visualizations. Happy to answer questions on the methodology or the engineering side of things.
by wvenable | 2026-03-10 23:59:14+00:00
> Of stolen text, or at the very least of text ingested without consent.

Stolen? They've taken it all and it's gone? No. They read it and processed it and that's fair use.

> Either an AI is something with inherent value like human life and then it cannot be owned or controlled because that would be slavery. Or it's just an unfeeling ordinary tool and then it's just a sum of its parts which are stolen.

Again you're fair too liberal with the world "stolen". Your entire argument is begging the question. You've got a conclusion and your argument rests on that conclusion. That intellectual property is a real thing. That it can be stolen. And that anything learned from stealing knowledge is somehow tainted.

> Humans value their own time.

Do they? This conversation alone proves that neither of us truly values our time.

> It's absolutely relevant. Why do we have laws? Who should they serve and protect first and foremost? Corporations? Algorithms? Humans?

Do you feel ordinary humans are protected by the current copyright laws? I feel like at least one much larger group of humans is constrained by those laws so a considerably smaller number of humans, many of which not directly involved in any creative ventures, can profit. If the whole system was torn down, are you absolutely sure that wouldn't be a benefit to society as a whole?

> All the other people chose to make their work available under certain rules. What I object to is those rules changing without those people being able to renegotiate the deal.

I never got a say in the deal but now I can't express myself in certain ways without potentially criminal liability. The rules have changed dozens of times over the last 200 years.

> Imagine 5 years from now, AI is better at everything than humans, all white collar workers are forced to work manually. 25 years from now, robots have advanced enough that all workers are without jobs. What, however, remains is owners of AI companies who now control the entire economy, top to bottom, and we are at their mercy.

What economy? You just described a world without one. And without an economy, they are at our mercy. Their power comes entirely from the system that you imagine will no longer exist.

> > We're starving human minds of modern culture
> What?

There's an entire missing middle of human culture -- basically everything from the 20th century -- because of copyright. This is a well known phenomenon.

> One thing gamedev taught me is that even if you have the best intentions and help people, you might end up helping some people more and those people will make everything worse for the others, effectively working against your goal.

There is a bias towards the status quo. That whatever system we have now, with the people who win or lose, is the correct system. That the winner deserved to win and the losers deserved to lose. It's difficult to imagine a different system, with different winners and losers, might actually be better.
by its-kostya | 2026-03-11 00:00:03+00:00
Cloudflare has been trying to mediate publishers & AI companies. If publishers are behind Cloudflare and Cloudflare's bot detection stops scrapers at the request of publishers, the publishers can allow their data to be scraped (via this end point) for a price. It creates market scarcity. I don't believe the target audience is you and me. Unless you own a very popular blog that AI companies would pay you for.
At what level of deep context engineering does AI output become human-crafted?
by svstoyanovv | 2026-03-11 00:00:11+00:00
I’ve been wrestling with a philosophical and ethical question regarding authorship in the age of LLMs, and I’m curious where the HN community draws the line.

Suppose you spend months deeply researching a niche topic. You make your own discoveries, structure your own insights, and feed all of this tightly curated, highly specific context into an LLM. You essentially build a custom knowledge base and train the model on your exact mental framework.

When you finally want to write a post or comment sharing your findings, you outline your specific thoughts and use that meticulously primed LLM to structure and generate the final prose.

My questions for you:

Is it unethical to post this without an "AI-generated" disclaimer? 2. Whose knowledge is actually being showcased? The LLM is generating the syntax, but the semantics, the insights, and the deep context are 100% human-sourced.

Is this fundamentally different from using a ghostwriter, an editor, or a highly advanced compiler? If I am doing the heavy lifting of context engineering and knowledge discovery, it feels restrictive to say I shouldn't utilize an LLM to structure the final output. Yet, the internet still largely views any AI-generated text as inherently "un-human" or low-effort.

Where does human insight end and AI generation begin? If the core ideas are yours, is the medium of the text really the message?
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-11 00:01:25+00:00
This doesn’t mean anything is wrong. I honestly can’t understand what the author of the Reuters article is even trying to manufacture here. They go on to explain exactly why the numbers can both be correct:

> The $5 billion figure refers to GAAP revenue generated from 2023 through to December 2025, a person familiar with the matter told Breakingviews; the $19 billion is an extrapolation. Anthropic defines “run-rate revenue” in two parts. Use the last 28 days of sales from customers charged on a consumption basis and multiply it by 13. Then, multiply the monthly subscription take by 12, and add the two together.

If anything, it suggests they’re seeing either existing customers increasing their spending or new customers coming to Anthropic in higher and higher numbers.
by iam_circuit | 2026-03-11 00:02:22+00:00
The "low-end Android" point is criminally underrated. I've seen fraud detection systems with 98% precision on iPhone 14 Pro drop to 72% on a Samsung A12. The irony? Fraudsters know this and deliberately use cheap devices to slip through.

Your vertical integration approach makes sense for this exact reason—when you're orchestrating third-party APIs, you inherit their lowest common denominator. One provider fails on 3G, another chokes on non-Latin scripts, and suddenly your conversion funnel has a 40% drop-off in emerging markets.

Curious: how do you handle the adversarial evolution problem? Deepfake models improve weekly. Do you retrain continuously, or is there a detection layer that's more fundamental than just model outputs?
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by iam_circuit | 2026-03-11 00:02:55+00:00
SDK supply chain attacks are becoming the express lane for mass compromise. AppsFlyer is in millions of apps—one malicious commit can instantly reach more users than any traditional exploit.

What's worse: most teams load third-party SDKs with zero integrity checks. No SRI, no pinned hashes, just a CDN URL that could serve anything tomorrow. The trust model is "we hope the vendor doesn't get owned."

Practical defense: subresource integrity for any externally-hosted script, and treat SDK updates like you'd treat kernel upgrades—with paranoia and a staging environment.
by 8note | 2026-03-11 00:03:31+00:00
but thats what it was like when i started at amazon in 2016?

i think the team i was on was a bit of an outlier in terms of owning 40 dumptser fires at once, and the first time reading any one of them was at 2AM because it was down.

having an LLM give early passes on reading the godawful c++ code that you can tell at a glance that its not gonna work as expected, but you cant tell why, or what expected actually is would have been phenomenal, and gotten me back to sleep at 3 on those codebases rather than 5.
by steelbrain | 2026-03-11 00:04:29+00:00
tl;dr:

- Client makes request to server (which opens a bidirectional network socket)

- Server uses that bidirectional socket, spawns a local patched ffmpeg with vfs-like characteristics

- ffmpeg (using client-server bidrection socket) does input/output operations, treating client filesystem as if it was local

Thus client doesn't need to open any ports, or expose its filesystem in a traditional mounting manner, and one server can handle filesystems & requests of any amount of clients.
by cobolcomesback | 2026-03-11 00:05:51+00:00
And too many people have their egos tied to its failure, too.

Im a massive AI skeptic. If anyone were to be jumping up and down on the corpse of AI and this incessant drive to use it everywhere, it’d be me. But I also work at Amazon. I got the email. I attended the meeting. I can personally attest that there are no new requirements for AI-generated code. The articles about this in the meeting at extremely misleading, if not outright wrong. But instead of believing the person that was actually there in the room, this thread is full of people dismissing my first-hand account of the situation because it doesn’t align with the “haha AI failed” viewpoint.
by akramachamarei | 2026-03-11 00:07:43+00:00
You should do a little basic research before commenting. Property rights are part of the very definition of capitalism. Wage theft is illegal, because theft is illegal. If you believe that corporations are stealing wages from their employees and the government is tolerating this, then you should probably conclude that those businesses aren't capitalist; that's straightforward, not absurd. And you could probably break a great news story while you're at it.
by metalman | 2026-03-11 00:07:44+00:00
rural here also.
ridiculous to suggest that mega sattelite fleets can be recalled now.
little know fact about high tension power lines: they have has fibre in the core for mreo than 25 years, but in most cases are left unused, per contracts with the telecoms
ie: massive price fixing deals

more?, look into the truely surreal world of overlapping rights of way for power, phone, roads, water,rail etc that are spread and smeared into blurry mess that EATS MONEY, that then dissapears again.
the satellites just fly right over all that.
by greatgib | 2026-03-11 00:08:03+00:00
All what was expected, first they do a huge campaign to out evil scrapers. We should use their service to ensure your website block llm and bots to come scraping them. Look how bad it is.

And once that is setup, and you have you walled garden, then you can present your own api to scrape website. All well done to be used by your llm. But as you know, we are the gate keeper so that the Mafia boss decide what will be the "intermediate" that is proper for itself to let you do what you were doing without intermediary before.
by tombert | 2026-03-11 00:09:09+00:00
Jim is an amazing guy. One of the rare people who are absolutely brilliant in their respective field, and are equally good at teaching the subject. He's also just a really kind, nice person who is delightful to chat with, though that's true of pretty much anyone in York [1].

I also think his book "Software Engineering Mathematics" [2] is an extremely approachable book for any engineer who wants to learn a bit more theory.

As I said, my dropped PhD is not a failure in any capacity from my advisors or the school, mostly just life juggling stuff.

[1] I don't know why exactly, but of all the places I've been, York has the highest percentage of "genuinely nice" people. It's one of my favorite spots in the UK as a result.

[2] https://a.co/d/02M25LcY, not a referral link.