MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rzerowan | 2026-03-05 16:51:41+00:00
Yep , as i recall this was the original 'clean room' implementattion that was made with regard to IBM clones and the BIOS program that was used to initialize them.

Also a few years bcak theer was the csae of SAP(?) i tthink where they did a reimplementation indipendently via the design documents.

Those two were upheld on litigation and bear out to this day.

This case however is neither a clean room implementation nor relicensable.

A good example if the author had wanted to be correct would have been the sudo rewrite , which ubuntu is doing with their sudo-rs in rust.Not bug for bug compatible as they have already deviated from some usablility choices but more valid than this.
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc | 2026-03-05 16:51:46+00:00
Seems like a good time to enshrine human rights and the social safety net by ratifying the ICESCR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Econ...) and giving human rights the teeth they need.

I used Anthropic to analyze the situation, it did halfway decent:

https://unratified.org/why/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263664
by chrisshroba | 2026-03-05 16:52:01+00:00
Processes by default get stdin and stdout. If you run a command interactively from your tty, the tty shows your stdout and collects stdin from you to pass to the process. But nothing about Unix prevents you from hooking something else up to stdin and stdout. As another commenter said, you could use sockets and have a completely generic input and output stream which an arbitrary tool could read and write to. Or you could spin up a websocket server that spawns the process and converts between websocket messages and stdin/stdout bytes. Or http requests and long polled responses. Or read input from a speech to text stream and push output into a text to speech stream.

I feel like OP’s main gripe is that persistent interactive sessions should be supported without a third party tool like tmux or screen or zellij, but one of the main strengths of Unix is that it provides platform building blocks which can be composed to create whatever experience you’re looking for.
by phil21 | 2026-03-05 16:52:12+00:00
Power prices have nearly nothing to do with proximity like that, at least in most areas. Local interconnect surcharges are a thing, but not usually material.

It's the entire region where prices will increase. A facility could be built 200 miles away from you and it would have just as much of an impact on your power bill as one built across the road.

> Also BigTech is not going to build the power generation plants, it must be built by existing processes to minimize impact on pricing

The issue with this requirement is that it's not a capital problem. Big tech would be happy to pay someone to build more power generation and just take a power feed, even if it costs marginally more.

What they cannot do is wait 12 years for what they could get done in 2. And I do not blame them at all for this at all - building anything in the US is basically impossible these days due to the NIMBY and general culture of not getting things done. We forgot how to rapidly build infrastructure in an efficient manner, and anyone putting proverbial boot to ass to get this done is a good thing.

It's not a case of a datacenter operator wanting to save a few pennies per kwh. It's a case of the power literally not being there and the utilities being utterly incompetent at building anything in any reasonable timeframe.
by BoxFour | 2026-03-05 16:52:13+00:00
> The copy is not the product

I think this is an illuminative statement from you, so I’m going to just explain that I (and many of the people responding to you likely) will vehemently disagree: The copy is an extremely important part of a product like this.

Unlikely we’ll see eye-to-eye on this which is fine, but I would encourage you to do some reflection on that. I’ll certainly be reflecting on what might’ve led to you your position as well.
by WarmWash | 2026-03-05 16:52:41+00:00
Democratize means to make something available to everyone.

I suppose the root of the word is from democracy, everyone gets a vote/equal rights, but the meaning doesn't really have anything to do with politics or government...

So to reframe my argument for clarity;

I have a hard time coming up with an honest critique of why giving everyone incredibly cheap access (often free!) to incredibly powerful LLMs is somehow evil. And obviously these things are ridiculously popular. Average people seem to think they are fucking awesome, and anger seems to be mostly from gatekeepers that are relentlessly screaming that their gates are being bypassed for pennies.
by fritzo | 2026-03-05 16:52:55+00:00
How does it make sense to compare renewable vs non-renewable energy sources?

Where does that electric car's energy come from?

Suppose the electric car's energy is solar. Then driving the electric car consumes zero barrels of oil, and so is infinitely more renewable than the petrol car. Or how efficient is the electric car at capturing available energy? Maybe the petrol car is 20% efficient at capturing available oil reserve energy. But the electric car is like 1e-30% efficient at capturing available solar output. Incomparable.
by arunabha | 2026-03-05 16:53:07+00:00
It's clear that there was no reasoned thought behind the tariff push. Tariffs can work if implemented in a principled way and coupled with a complementary industrial policy to develop critical sectors of the economy.

Instead, we had a completely chaotic implementation of tariffs which seemed to be completely at the whim of Trump with zero supportive industrial policy. So much so that the term 'Taco' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out was coined to describe Trump's approach.

The charitable explanation is that Trump had no plan and was making it up as he went along. The less charitable explanation is that the chaos was an intentional feature to enable a quid pro quo of favourable policy in exchange for under the table payments via crypto or 'investments' in his family's various businesses.

When you couple completely illegal application of a supposed 'emergency' to invoke tariffs with a chaotic, whim based implementation, is there any wonder that they failed?
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-05 16:53:23+00:00
>However, if you're insinuating that the Clean Water Act is made by "slimy politicians and big picture ignoring environmentalists" then you're wrong. That's about the best common sense environmental reform in the last 100 years aside from removing lead from gas.

I'm more than insinuating it. The cause may be noble but the state and local implementations have been perverted by all the minutia and business interests and NIMBYism. I would go so far as to say that (state and local implementation of requirements within) the clean water act is a non-negligible contributor to the decline of manufacturing and agriculture in the northeast and upper midwest.

We basically took "thou shalt not dump for that is bad for our surface and ground water" and over 50yr turned it into a blank check for all manner of leeches to make a buck and all manner of NIMBYs to make things unnecessarily expensive.

Petty 1.5-acre "I want my lightly forested former field to be a field again" and "business is going great I want my gavel parking lot paved" being stalled by five figure costs and even with those costs incurred it doesn't guarantee compliance. That's a far cry from the "yeah we just dump this stuff in a settling pond, IDK where it goes after that but man that river over there sure is a weird color" type 1960s industry behavior that it was meant to really curb. And the big industrial offenders still get to do what they want, not as bad as before of course, but still bad. Some Megacorp's runoff might turn the fish neon green or their 1k unit condo development might turn the river brown with silt but of course they'll be right there with their lawyers and experts who'll tell you why it's fine even when it's not to anyone with a brain and two eyeballs. The layman can't pay off people like that be on their side and neither can the regulators. (I assume this frequent fact pattern what you refer to by "living in the stink")

I think it ought to be revamped at the state and local level into something that's substantially more "results based" rather than the proactive red tape "make the bureaucrats feel like their ass is covered if someone ever complains about what they approved" based system we have now.

(And just to be clear for any readers who aren't familiar, the clean water act basically doesn't do much to affect the average person or business at a federal level. The local implementations and all the key definitions, industry standards, etc, are where the rubber really meets the road)
by manavsehgal2025 | 2026-03-05 16:53:40+00:00
I am building my own tool in open source, inspired by Conductor, Codex, Claude Code desktop apps. They all have features I like however need a "meta tool" which caters to both code and knowledge work projects as one pane of glass. Thinking of bringing OpenClaw to the mix as well. What I would love to build is a workflow which "hides" complexity of planning, task breakdown, managing subagents, parallelizing work, loops, model switching, memory, context. One workflow regardless if I am building an app, creating a doc, or completing a web form. Long wishlist, I know :-)
by adampunk | 2026-03-05 16:53:43+00:00
They knew exactly what they wanted and they knew exactly how to ask for it. That’s the point.

engineers love announcing that nobody but engineers knows what’s important in software; that’s complete and total bollocks. wow classic is a perfect example because it is exactly the sort of thing that the business unit and the engineers and the designers would not want to do. We don’t need to assume that because we have hundreds of Internet posts indicating exactly that. Not only did they not want to do it, but they argued that users didn’t know what they wanted for the sheer fact that making it was not something that was desired by either the business unit or the engineers.

Also, the point is not that classic saves them from making new content. It’s probably the case that the more content they make the more of a value proposition classic appears to be. Is there some new race in the new expansion that’s stupid? OK hop on over to classic.

Kill the part of your brain that makes you assume users are stupid.
by airforce1 | 2026-03-05 16:53:59+00:00
I don't see how this is different from current human poaching practices. i.e. It appears to be currently legal to hire an employee from company A who has been "tainted" by company A's [proprietary AI secrets/proprietary CPU architecture secrets/etc] in order to develop a competing offering for company B. i.e. It's not illegal for a human who worked at Intel for 20 years to go work for AMD even though they are certainly "tainted" with all sorts of copyrighted/proprietary knowledge that will surely leak through at AMD. Maybe patents are a first line of defense for company A, but that can't prevent adjacent solutions that aren't outright duplications and circumvent the patent.
by jameshilliard | 2026-03-05 16:54:01+00:00
> What evidence do you have that Israel has any interest in a Iran that is functional in any capacity.

By far the best outcome here for Israel is for Iran to be a stable and friendly country with a strong central government and normalized relations like they had prior to the revolution in Iran.

Just look at the countries surrounding Israel and which ones are causing Israel more security issues, the countries Israel has good relations with are countries like Egypt and Jordan with relatively strong central governments that have a vested interest in preventing regional instability, unstable countries with a weak central governments like Lebanon and Syria on the other hand are far more problematic because you then get rouge groups like Hezbollah that cause problems for everyone.
by nickmonad | 2026-03-05 16:54:03+00:00
> It's a type of team building, improves employee morale and humanizes management. All lead to improved productivity in the long term.

Yes, but the important distinction is that its intention is to bring people together face-to-face, not isolate them to their desks for continued work. Just because the end goal is "productivity" broadly speaking, doesn't mean the mechanisms are socially/morally equivalent.

> I doubt anyone is forcing the employees to take the stimulants.

I agree, and I hope my comment didn't imply I thought that was the case.
by usefulcat | 2026-03-05 16:54:15+00:00
I had the same thought, but really I think a lot of it is just spectacle for his more gullible followers.

I mean, FFS--we have a nominally Republican candidate who campaigned on raising taxes and was elected anyway!

You'd have to be pretty gullible to think that raising taxes on imported goods won't result in price hikes at the checkout counter.
by specialist | 2026-03-05 16:54:28+00:00
This is BMW's clever attack on Tesla's overvaluation, partially based on Optimus hype.

The use of (general purpose) humanoid robots in manufacturing will fail. BMW is just accelerating the outcome.

Then Tesla's market cap will implode.

Note that Tesla's business is pivoting to batteries. They'll kill it, basically printing money, if they survive long enough.

Pass the popcorn.
by phil21 | 2026-03-05 16:54:30+00:00
> "Making AI pay more for its useless power draw" is nice idea but it is pretty hard to realise.

And should never be a thing. It's not for others to decide something is useless. Let the market figure that out. It should simply be an even playing field, and in theory we already have the regulatory mechanisms to get that done. If the rates are currently able to be abused, that is entirely correctable.

It should not matter if I want to build 1000MW of aluminum smelting capacity, or a facility that digs holes and fills them back in again - so long as I'm paying the regulatory rates that have been set to be fair across all similar power consumers.

The bigger problem by far is that we spent 40-60 years not building anything. Eventually you run out of the previous generation's power capacity. Can only ride inertia and offshoring your industrial energy usage for so long. There are a lot of chickens coming home to roost in the next decade or three on this topic, electric grid was just pulled forward a bit due to the AI bubble.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-03-05 16:54:39+00:00
Games with ai art assets are some of the most popular right now in any case. Arc raiders being a great example where some of the voice assets are AI generated.

Be careful of reading any viewpoint on the internet. Apparently no one used facebook or instagram and everyone boycotts anything with ai in it.

In reality i think you’d be foolish not to make use of the tools available. Arc Raiders did the right thing by completely ignoring those sorts of comments. There may be a market for 100% organic video games but there’s also a market for mainstream ‘uses every ai tool available’ type of games.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-05 16:55:31+00:00
I am confused. In the USA, there has been a clear rule that machine-generated code cannot be copyright. If the "new implementation" was in fact created by Claude (which is my impression), then nobody holds any copyright to the code, and it cannot be licensed under any license at all.

I am sure I am missing something ... what is it?
by sleepybrett | 2026-03-05 16:55:55+00:00
'Illegal' doesn't really mean anything in this, or any other, day and age when you are talking about the very rich, the very powerful, or the state.

The good thing about e2ee is that it probably makes the list of those with the ability to decrypt things encrypted e2e somewhat smaller. Fact is hacking can get to those keys. (i.e. state actor zero-click exploits your phone they are going to be able to get your private key and the messages in memory)
by kevstev | 2026-03-05 16:56:03+00:00
I am kind of lost here on this whole scarf through a ring thing as well. This is just a function of the thickness of the scarf? My wife went through a scarf phase about a decade ago, and I am pretty sure a Pucci scarf could easily fit through a typical sized ring meant to go on a finger?

Its entirely possible that old manufacturing methods produced things that are different, but I would be entirely surprised if they are entirely better overall. If the defining metric for scarves is how well they fit through rings, I am sure they would all be made so you could fit 3 through a ring if people were willing to pony up for that. If you look at a lot of old clothes, they are generally a lot heavier, but I am not sure I would really want to wear them, they look quite uncomfortable. I also think its wonderful that today you can get a set of clothes for a few hours of minimum wage work while in the past this was a major investment. You can also choose to pay thousands for a shirt if you wish, but from 10 feet away its going to be hard to tell the difference.
by steveBK123 | 2026-03-05 16:56:13+00:00
The way many corporates are using the models nearly interchangeably as relative quality/value changes release to release, AND the API price drops do make me question what the model moat even is.

If LLMs are going to make intelligence a commodity in some sense, where does the value end up accruing will be the question. Picks/shovels companies and all the end user case products being delivered? Mainframes value didn't primarily accrue to DEC. PCs value didn't really accrue to IBM. Internets value didn't accrue to Netscape. Mobiles value didn't only accrue to Apple.

One reminder that new efficiency / greatly lowered costs sometimes doesn't replace work (or at least not 1-1) but simply makes things that were never economical possible. Example you hear about AI agents that will basically behave like a personal assistant. 99% of the rich world cannot afford a human personal assistant today, but I guess if it was a service as part of their Apple Intelligence / Google something / Office365 subscription they'd use it.

We seem to be continually creating new types of jobs. Only a few generations ago, 75% of people worked on farms. Farm jobs still exist you just don't need so many people.

The type of work my father and grandfather did still exist. My father's job didn't really exist in his father's time. The work I do did not exist as options during their careers. The next generation will be doing some other type of work for some other type of company that hasn't been imagined yet.
by varun_ch | 2026-03-05 16:56:16+00:00
Also, I’m also surprised an XSS attack like hasn’t yet been actually used to harvest credentials like passwords through browser autofill[0].

It seems like the worm code/the replicated code only really attacks stuff on site. But leaking credentials (and obviously people reuse passwords across sites) could be sooo much worse.

[0] https://varun.ch/posts/autofill/
by rutuhffhbb | 2026-03-05 16:56:32+00:00
> ready to upgrade your favorite Linux distribution and packages to their latest versions

It is "their" distribution, to do with as they wish. If this would happen to your workstation, you are a fool, for not following release notes.

I already jumped distros for several reasons, marketing BS was one of them. I do not need latest scam or flag of the month!
Show HN: Entropy – API security testing using LLMs to generate attack scenarios
by arjinexe | 2026-03-05 16:56:53+00:00
I built Entropy to solve a specific problem: traditional API scanners often miss business logic flaws because they rely on static attack lists. Entropy uses LLMs to analyze your API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL) and think like an adversary to generate custom attack sequences.Note: I'm currently fixing a small packaging issue, so "pip install" might be temporarily unavailable for the next few hours. In the meantime, you can run it directly from the source by cloning the repo. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
by mixmastamyk | 2026-03-05 16:57:11+00:00
Wow, look at those luxurious titlebars, windows edges, scrollbars, and tabs! So easy to use.

On thing lost, their scrollbars kept an indentation of where the bar was until you let go, and was sometimes useful.

Not a fan of the busy backgrounds, but can’t win ’em all.

Does anyone have a screenshot of the window menu (right click on titlebar)? Been looking for the CUA hotkeys related to those window functions. Most still work but are not shown on Linux desktops for some reason.
by caaqil | 2026-03-05 16:57:18+00:00
Yeah, maybe let's change the title to remove that 84% rate. It's meaningless because it's just 254 websites, given the scale of what Google Safe Browsing deals with.

How is this serious? This is a marketing slop. If the title isn't enough indicator, the ending should be:

> If you're interested in trying Muninn, it's available as a Chrome extension. We're in an early phase and would genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone willing to give it a shot. And if you run across phishing in the wild, consider submitting it to Yggdrasil so the data can help protect others.
by inder1 | 2026-03-05 16:57:22+00:00
The "senior gets better results" dynamic is real and probably the most underappreciated fact in the AI-jobs debate. The question isn't whether AI writes code. It's whether the person steering it has enough context to catch what's wrong. Juniors learning on AI-generated output may end up with surface fluency but no debugging instincts. That gap will matter a lot in 2-3 years.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-03-05 16:57:35+00:00
He bragged about it, and certainly didn't spoke out against them

So I pitch these ideas, and he says, ‘Let’s do it.’ ” Why not replace the I.R.S. with an External Revenue Service, which will collect tariffs and other levies from foreign sources instead of taxing citizens?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/donald-trumps-...
by qsera | 2026-03-05 16:57:37+00:00
That is why I said it is hard to spot an souless painting.

>if someone told you a joke and you thought it was funny, then they told you it was from an LLM, would it stop being funny.

No. It wouldn't. But they can't generate funny jokes.

I would be really happy if I am wrong, and it is possible to laugh all day by reading endless jokes from an LLM...
Ask HN: Alternatives to GH Actions?
by BhavdeepSethi | 2026-03-05 16:57:52+00:00
Looks like Github actions are having an outage again: https://www.githubstatus.com/

We already use blacksmith to not use Github Runners. Highly recommend it if you haven't tried it yet. But we still rely on Github to actually trigger the workflow. With all their constant outages, I was wondering if there are alternatives available? Moving to Gitlab is quite a big migration, so I was wondering if there are ways to mitigate this for now and not relying on GitHub actions to trigger workflows periodically and on actions (eg. on merging to main)?
by b112 | 2026-03-05 16:58:00+00:00
I did read, but so ingrained is calling the "controller" MFM, that I literally thought it was referencing the standard, which I think was ST-506 (this was in 1983, so the timing seems to be right?).

EG, I literally thought of the controller and encoding as differing things, both separately called MFM. Ah well, it only took 40 years to discover differently.

Thanks for the link.
by veidr | 2026-03-05 16:58:08+00:00
Nobody gives a shit about jumping to #1 in the app stores, at this scale.

If US & A really goes full-Huawei on Anthropic, they can't IPO. It's an existential crisis for them. I think they can survive in some form, somehow, because their model is really good, probably the best.

And in other times, I would think the US government had sufficient intellectual horsepower to not cut off its own dick, and the golden goose's head, over some idiotic morning-drinker road-rage type beef. But these are not other times. These are these times.