MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stahtops | 2026-03-05 07:44:24+00:00
That’s not what Dario said. This guy Ben took a partial quote and then used it to construct a strawman. And hey look, he was successful, you bought it.

Dario criticized the Trump admin policy of allowing Nvidia to sell advanced chipsets to China as being poor for long term national security. He said our model edge is dependent on the HW edge, and likened this Trump “deal” to selling nuclear weapons to NK and bragging that the casings were made by Boeing. You can go watch the video yourself.

He was attacking the Trump trade deal as being bad, and characterizing Trump as more concerned with being able to name drop a US company and say he made a great deal, rather than actually doing what is in the best interest of the country.

Do you just believe everything you read on the internet? Or was it Ben the bloggers amazing credentials of being an Apple INTERN in the company culture group? He’s a real philosopher king I’m sure.
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2026-03-05 07:44:53+00:00
>ARBITRATION NOTICE. Except for certain kinds of disputes described in Section 15.2 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), you agree that disputes arising under these Terms will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration, and BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU AND ZED ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. ALTERNATIVELY, CUSTOMER MAY OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION PER SECTION 15.2(a).

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
by techtalksweekly | 2026-03-05 07:44:56+00:00
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by steve_adams_86 | 2026-03-05 07:45:34+00:00
I've been using it daily for about a year now. I love it. Using most other IDEs feels like a major regression. Multi-buffers are beautifully implemented. I typically use Claude Code if I use an LLM, but their Claude integration is excellent.

Debugging is good. I'd love to see integrated test runners.

I also wish the collaboration was more relevant and fleshed out, but no one I know uses it anyway.
by vanillameow | 2026-03-05 07:45:34+00:00
I would agree if not for the fact that they just let a $200M contract slip through over it. You could argue it's "safety theater" in itself but that seems like a risky gambit especially with this administration. I definitely trust Anthropic more than OpenAI. In fact I'd go as far as to say it's probably pretty imperative that Anthropic stays a frontrunner in this race and doesn't leave the field exclusively to OAI (and maybe Google which is just as bad). That doesn't mean I'm exactly happy with Anthropic's comments like "mass surveillance bad but only for the US". But Anthropic at least regularly asks questions about the direction of AI development. I haven't seen the other frontier model companies do any such thing.
by podperson | 2026-03-05 07:46:45+00:00
OP again:

The tjs compiler transpiles ts into itself:
https://platform.tosijs.net/#example=Hello+TypeScript&sectio...

It's written in typescript and can transpile itself.

When it transpiles typescript, type declarations become contracts, and types are available at runtime.

It does all this with a 50-70% overhead (imperceptible in most cases), but there's an unsafe escape hatch (!) => {} functions bypass type checks.

Oh yeah, it does inline WASM and it handles the hard stuff other WASM implementations kind of leave as an exercise -- moving data across. And it support SIMD.

https://platform.tosijs.net/#view=tjs&example=Vector+Search+...

Error propagation is monadic, so functions passed bad arguments just don't execute. Also functions know from whence they came and you can execute code in debug mode and get a trace with your monadic error, so it's very agent friendly.

If you code in tjs natively you can do inline tests of unexported functions at transpile time.

If you transpile ts using tjs it gives you the same capability.

Single pass transpilation does inline tests and generates documentation at the same time.

tjs itself is a TRUE js superset with predicate functions to handle complex types (if your type system is going to be turing complete, own it), full introspection (so it's a true LISP, or what Dylan aspired to be), and safe Eval using a language subset that is deeply async. Again, universal endpoints.

Simple types are declared by example, so:

function greet(name: 'Alice') -> 'Hello, Alice' => `Hello, ${name}`

is not just a declaration of a function that takes a string and returns a string, but the string should look like 'Alice' and if it is 'Alice' the function will return 'Hello, Alice' and this is also an inline test that runs at transpile time.
by zeroflow | 2026-03-05 07:47:43+00:00
As far as I can find, Plex does not support AMD iGPU for transcoding. Jellyfin will work, but support seems rather spotty. For other AI/ML work, it seems like ROCm is up and coming, but support - e.g. for Frigate object detection - is still a work in progress, especially for newer chips.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-03-05 07:48:31+00:00
> You are advocating for no constraints (total war) on the stronger side. Taken literally, that means genocide of the losers. Really, that's what you want?

Taken literally, it means genocide of the losers is an option the winning side has. It always has been.

Note that Genghis Khan's explicit plan when he conquered China was to wipe out the Chinese to make room for Mongols. He wasn't stopped from doing that; there was no constraint to block him.

But he was persuaded not to.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-03-05 07:49:24+00:00
France's nuclear operators have been claiming this for years. But recently started claiming that wind and solar are bad because they force nuclear to flex which is too expensive.

> Electricite de France SA said growing solar and wind generation was increasing equipment wear and maintenance costs at its nuclear reactors, which are forced to reduce output when power demand is insufficient.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-16/edf-warns...
An offline map using OruxMaps(satellite,routing,3D terrain,GPS and POI)
by supergoogler | 2026-03-05 07:49:33+00:00
I wanted to share a setup I’ve been working on over the past few months. The goal was to prepare a complete offline mapping system for an entire country that works with zero internet access.

Imagine the internet goes down, or you’re traveling in a remote area with no network coverage. Most map apps become useless because they depend on online services. I wanted something that still works in those situations.

Using the Android app OruxMaps (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orux.oruxmaps) — I have no affiliation with the developers — I prepared a full offline dataset including:

• Satellite imagery covering the entire country
• Elevation data (DEM) for terrain shading and 3D visualization
• Offline routing data using BRouter
• OpenStreetMap points of interest
• Additional mountain and hiking POIs
• Full 3D terrain visualization

Everything runs locally on the phone once the data is installed. No network connection is required.

The result is basically a complete offline GIS-style mapping system that fits in your pocket. A very powerful tool to have. This could be useful for hikers, field researchers, emergency planning, or anyone traveling in areas where connectivity is unreliable.

Preparing and organizing the datasets took quite a bit of time, so I’m considering writing a guide or preparing ready-to-use offline map packages for people who want a similar setup without going through the whole process.

Curious if others here have experimented with fully offline mapping setups like this.

If anyone needs help setting something like this up, feel free to reach out — my email is in my profile.
by londons_explore | 2026-03-05 07:51:00+00:00
I think there will be good headway in using the part-trained model to generate itself more training data in the form of making itself tasks, completing those tasks with many different approaches, evaluating which solution is best (using the same LLM as judge), and then differentially training on the best solutions vs the worst ones.

The challenge is that such an approach almost certainly requires a model with RLHF post-training, but this needs to be done in the pre training phase. But with infinity compute, this isn't an issue - you simply do the post-training many times.
Show HN: Test your blog SEO, Content, Accessibility etc. with one tool
by mb69 | 2026-03-05 07:51:01+00:00
After training business owners how to optimise their blogs for not just SEO, but sharing, comments, etc I built this as a side project. It currently checks 51 elements on a blog post, normally in less than 20 seconds. Oh, and first audit is free.
by don_esteban | 2026-03-05 07:51:29+00:00
Re: Skill issue
Money issue. This is not level playing ground, the field is severely tilted.
The referee is bought.

But you are saying: You lost fair and square, wait 4 years to have any say in what is going on.

Re: THE ELECTIONS are how the public weighs in.

When the choice is between Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the public's choice is meaningless.

To say nothing about politicians outright shamelessly lying (e.g. Trump campaigning on 'no more wars').
by marvin-hansen | 2026-03-05 07:54:17+00:00
Totally love this app. I've always struggled with fostering relationships over time and keeping track of all the little things different people value. I actually tried a friend journal a week ago but that didn't worked as planned either. Once I installed this app, I pinged some folks, had a great unexpected call and now my garden is growing. I value the privacy & local first paradigm. I would have not installed a cloud SaaS app or hidden subscription. However I'm okay with paying a reasonable one time fee for an upgraded version. I did paid for IA Writer on Mac and iphone because their product is exactly right. Your app is similar in the sense that it solves one particular problem for one specific group of people really well. Therefore please consider a paid version at some point.
by Tanjreeve | 2026-03-05 07:55:19+00:00
This is the same mistake as made in Iraq and Syria by media policy pundits. Dictatorial regimes collapse pretty quickly without a significant base of support enough to stop a revolution happening. They might not have a majority of people supporting but it isn't a democracy. Dictatorial regimes will always have one or more of military, business, or sub-groups of citizens in their pockets as clients.

Whenever we say "the regime is hated by it's people it will collapse" it should be asked "then why didn't it collapse already?". In Iran metropolitan areas are where you see opposition. That's also where people have cameras and media orgs tend to be. We get a warped depiction of opposition in Iran even without our own media's baggage. Meanwhile the power base of Iran is everywhere but metropolitan cities. And there's a lot of clients who benefit from the regime. I think this might be worse than the sectarian violence that came out of the Hussein regimes collapse because the Sunni sect his base was built around was still a minority. This time it's the majority and the people being fought against are the Americans, the Israelis and the Arabs so their backs are against the wall this is a total war already from their side.
by HollisQi | 2026-03-05 07:55:29+00:00
me and the team built chatgoat.ai
we integrated multiple ai chat models so you can switch anytime
gpt, claude, gemini, grok, deepseek, qwen etc
lots of ai roles/personas like writing assistant
image gen with banana and others
our app has more: video generation, create your own roles/characters
phone app and website sync fully
subscription cheaper than official sites + free trial to try it
no group chat
image gen separate from main chat
video only in app for now
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feedback welcome if anyone tries it
thanks
by azangru | 2026-03-05 07:55:39+00:00
Is it a style like his that LLMs have recently learned to copy?

"It was cold out, but none of us were cold."

"In that moment, there was nothing to do. Nothing to improve. Nothing to fix. It was perfect."

"We’ve all seen it. Clear as day, you can see the goal post at the top: self-actualization. LFG! It’s time to journal and 80/20 myself! Pass me a shaman and some modafinil. That’s the mission. That’s the point. Right? But hold on."

"Because at the end of the day—and at the end of a Montana night—the point was never yourself. It was never the pyramid. It was never the optimization. It was the people around the fire."
by Moldoteck | 2026-03-05 07:55:52+00:00
"France is part of the EU power grid and flexibility comes from that not from nuclear power plants." - blatant lie. You can see in generation data they are flexing a lot in the summer. https://www.services-rte.com/en/view-data-published-by-rte/g...

"And their power plants were in trouble in the last hot summer" - blatant lie. Cooling was fine, it's env protection law to avoid damaging the fauna(read - to not boil fish). Yet, it affects about 0.02% of annual generation and valid almost exclusively to NPP without cooling towers. Yet in those exact periods EDF was net exporting about 14GW to neighbors, again, data is public. French nukes can handle ppl's AC's just well, probably EDF even hopes for that to modulate their npp less and get more $

Why people always spread such nonsense without even checking the facts? Like https://www.vie-publique.fr/files/rapport/pdf/288726.pdf

"And didn’t we learn from the internet that centralization is a bad thing? Nuclear power plants are exactly that." France has a combination of centralized and decentralized power - npp's are distributed around the country but each can generate a lot of power. Even more distribution and you start paying a ton for transmission lines and maintenance. That's the reason Germany started subsidizing them from this year, with about 6bn/y. Full decentralization is not a feature and you still can't achieve it since transmission system is centralized, prime example being recent cascade blackout in Spain.

"Imagine a grid where every consumer is also a producer who can satisfy their energy needs at least partially for themselves even without the grid. Try to blackout that." - that'll mean having to need a fully parallel grid for firming. Besides, a lot of home solar are grid followers - if there's a blackout, it'll shut down too unless you have a special invertor+bess which many dont have (yet)

"And that was before drone wars were a thing." - a drone would do nothing to a NPP. Even an airplane impact can be tolerated depending how new is the NPP.
by guitheengineer | 2026-03-05 07:56:08+00:00
that is considering if there will be elections, which many people don't believe it's the case.

reminder that trump has been flirting with just continuing in power (2028 hats and talks about a third term) and is responsible for trying a coup last time he lost.

personally I think there's a possibility where he'll just declare martial law and stay in power at the end of his term.
by hiddendoom45 | 2026-03-05 07:56:35+00:00
The memory issue may not necessarily be from bad ram, it can also be due to configuration issues. Or rather it may be fixable with configuration changes.

I had memory issues with my PC build which I fixed by reducing the speed to 2800MHZ, which is much lower than its advertised speed of 5600MHZ. Actually looking back at this it might've configured its speed incorrectly in the first place, reducing it to 2800 just happened to hit a multiple of 2 of its base clock speed.
by foota | 2026-03-05 07:56:45+00:00
> I don't think this would qualify as clean room (the Library was involved in learning to generate programs as a whole)

Hm... I mean this is really one for the lawyers, but IMO you would likely successfully be able to argue that the marginal knowledge of general coding from a particular library is likely close to nil.

The hard part here imo would be convincingly arguing that you can wipe out knowledge of the library from the training set, whether through fine tuning or trying to exclude it from the dataset.

> But what about training without having seen any human written program? Coul a model learn from randomly generated programs?

I think the answer at this point is definitely no, but maybe someday. I think it's a more interesting question for art since it's more subjective, if we eventually get to a point where a machine can self-teach itself art from nothing... first of all how, but second of all it would be interesting to see the reaction from people opposed to AI art on the basis of it training off of artists.

Honestly given all I've seen models do, I wouldn't be too surprised if you could somehow distill a (very bad) image generation model off of just an LLM. In a sense this is the end goal of the pelican riding a bicycle (somewhat tongue in cheek), if the LLM can learn to draw anything with SVGs without ever getting visual inputs then it would be very interesting :)
by wilg | 2026-03-05 07:58:16+00:00
Money issue is also a skill issue, but I have no doubt in the era of free media someone could figure it out.

Sorry I didn't invent the idea that there are federal elections every two years, I'm just telling you that you have to win them. Bonus points: this is also how you can change the election schedule or political system!

If you're saying both candidates were bad when one was Trump, and the other was Hillary, Kamala, or Joe, then you don't have very good judgement. I agree Trump lying about not starting a war was bad. Many of us have said for years that he is a terrible liar. Please help us.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-03-05 07:58:21+00:00
Very confusing.

> I've got ChatGPT, VSCode, XCode, Blender, and PrusaSlicer minimized and I'm not feeling any lag.

Obviously, when they're dumped, then there's nothing to notice.

> but when they're not in the foreground they're not using up any memory.

... well ... yes.
Show HN: 100% local speech dictation app with wakeword detection
by computerex | 2026-03-05 07:59:18+00:00
Hi HN! I built Evoke, a speech dictation app that runs 100% locally.

It supports both Parakeet and Whisper models, including Parakeet MLX on Apple Silicon, and works across Linux, macOS, and Windows (x86 and ARM).

One feature people seem to enjoy is wake word activation. You can trigger recording just by saying a phrase like:

“Dumbledore”

“Mr Anderson”

“Hey Jarvis”

Then just start speaking and your words are transcribed instantly.

Under the hood the app is written in pure Go with CGO, and the Whisper and Parakeet inference code is custom implemented and optimized for CPU performance, so it runs very fast even without a GPU.

This project was a real labor of love and a deep dive into speech inference and systems programming.
by danw1979 | 2026-03-05 07:59:35+00:00
I’m not sure about your home insurer, but here in the UK, most home electrical wiring, including solar for example, is “notifiable” to building control and requires a qualified tradesperson to implement.

If you want to DIY everything you need self-build insurance.

I’m definitely not covered if I were to burn my house down with a dodgy inverter installation.
by Veedrac | 2026-03-05 08:00:41+00:00
If you don't like the word 'actuality', I can rephrase. Many worlds is just the claim that physical reality materially evolves in correspondence with the Schrödinger equation.

If you want to quibble over what it means for something to be material, go ahead, but unless you can tie it to some specific claim being made about QD I don't really know what the exercise gets you.
by brainwipe | 2026-03-05 08:02:02+00:00
XML was much better than what was there before - which was a different standard for every endpoint and often no structure at all.

XML allowed you to use tools to build automatically. We have other better tools now but back then it was like magic. Download an XSD (the more common option to Relax NG but not superior IMO), point a pre-built tool for it and it'd build strongly typed model classes and validation checkers. Then, when you called the service, chances are it would work first time. It could also be used to write the specification too. That was unheard of before. Often the spec you'd get for service was different to what the endpoint served because keeping documentation up to date was not a priority.

XML then got a little overplayed. For example, XSL transforms allowed you to turn one XML into another and because XHTML existed you have people building entire front ends in it (not recommended). You ended up in a weird hinterland where XML wasn't just for representing structured data but it had built in functionality too. It was not the right tool for that job!

I've not needed it in a long time as I prefer lighter weight formats and I don't miss it.

Just my take, others will have their own!
by spwa4 | 2026-03-05 08:02:20+00:00
Except if there's one defining property of the last 4-5 administrations it is that they definitely and constantly violate the rules they set for themselves. With every new administration it gets worse and worse.

And while this administration is brazen about this, it's not really a drastic change anywhere.

In fact most EU laws (GPDR, AI regulation, Chat Control) are directly, up front, declaring they themselves won't respect it. They very directly have one set of rules for states, government employees, ... and ANOTHER set of rules for everyone else. And they're incredibly brazen. For private individuals, companies it goes very far, it's essentially impossible to even know what does and does not violate the GPDR, and you can't ask the courts, that's not allowed. You also cannot use the courts to compel government to do anything under these laws.

For governments, when it comes to what's allowed, it goes incredibly far. Governments can declare any action legal under the GPDR, before and after the fact, without parliament involvement. It does not matter if that action was done by the government themselves, or if it's an action by a private company (so the government can use subcontractors for any violation of the GPDR)

This means that, for THE example given for GPDR protection: medical information. Medical insurance in the EU is either state-owned or has exceptions, the law does the exact opposite of what it appears to do: it makes all your medical information available for medical insurers. And the police (e.g. to find you). And the tax office. And courts. And medical institutions themselves (to deny transplants to smokers). And ... And while doctors (and priests) used to be huge no-no's when it came to information gathering, that's no longer the case. If a doctor uses the state required medical file, your medical information flows straight into a state database, immediately searchable for everyone the GPDR supposedly protects you against.