MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-03-08 17:54:59+00:00
> One can argue that they have already achieved this.

No, because they're hugely reliant on their training data and can't really move beyond their training data. This is why you haven't seen an explosion of new LLM-aided scientific discoveries, why Suno can't write a song in a new genre (even if you explain it to Suno in detail and give it actual examples,) etc.

This should tell you something enormous about (1) their future potential and (2) how their "intelligence" is rooted in essentially baseline human communications.

Admittedly LLMs are superhuman in the performance of tasks which are, for want of a better term, "conventional" -- and which are well-represented in their training data.
by rayiner | 2026-03-08 17:55:00+00:00
> But we are saving the lives of ~3 million people so who’s to say what is bad

Korea’s GDP per capita in 1950 was similar to that of Bangladesh around the same time: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-.... In the alternate timeline where there isn’t a capitalist south korea, the Korean peninsula has 100 million+ people living in poverty and squalor, like Bangladesh today. The cost of that is tens of millions of lost lives resulting from higher infant and child mortality rates.
by windexh8er | 2026-03-08 17:55:05+00:00
I think most homelabbers default to Caddy and/or Traefik these days. Nginx is still around with projects like NPM (the other NPM), but Caddy and Traefik are far more capable.

DevOpsToolbox did a great video on many of the reasons why Caddy is so great (including performance) [0]. I think the only downside with Caddy right now is still how plugins work. Beyond that, however it's either Caddy or Traefik depending on my use case. Traefik is so easy to plug in and forget about and Caddy just has a ton of flexibility and ease of setup for quick solutions.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inu5VhrO1rE
by CamperBob2 | 2026-03-08 17:55:21+00:00
And if were true, Darwin would've already taken care of the problem.

Fact is, it's not true. The survey, whose authors work in a field where a 50% replication rate justifies breaking out the champagne, clearly didn't represent tens of millions of white and Latinx women in religious communities. They are literally bred to submit. Who do you think put Trump over the top?
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-03-08 17:55:29+00:00
"The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families,” Trump said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-ter...

During the past week, in a series of interviews and events, Trump has articulated a loose, but expansive set of principles that, if enacted, would mark a fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy from the limits put in place by Democratic President Barack Obama and the Republican-led Congress. In addition to arguing in favor of reinstating waterboarding, a technique that mimics the sensation of drowning, and "much more than that," Trump has advocated the killing of suspected terrorists' wives and children, which appears in violation of international law.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/to-fight-isis-torture-terror...
by timonoko | 2026-03-08 17:55:43+00:00
You only need one bit tag and it is for number.

Symbols are just list of numbers. Variable is just a nameless place in memory, but often and at the beginning associated with a symbol.

Numbers in symbols are printed out as ASCII-characters when it seems appropriate, like after SETQ.

Or we could decide that number-list that ends with 0 and contains only range(0x21,0x7F) is printed out as symbol. Does not matter, it is just syntactic sugar.

And We do not need strings for much anything. We could of course decide that number-list with ord('"') is printed out as string. The reader could also follow this protocol.

I had all this figured out at one time. And I dont remember any major issues. B-)
by dagmx | 2026-03-08 17:55:51+00:00
A true temperament isn’t just about compensating for the string mass differences but also for their differing intonation points. A true temperament won’t get to the same level as a movable fret system but it does also compensate to a large degree for the differing intonation points across strings at different tunings (what it refers to as speaking length). They’re different but inherently associated issues.

More information is here https://www.thatguitarlover.com/blog/what-is-true-temperamen...

But this is also why I mention both fret compensation systems in my original post.
Show HN: I open-sourced the AI agents I use to run 35 marketing clients solo
by nsyno | 2026-03-08 17:55:53+00:00
Hey y'all I've been in Marketing for 9 years and built an Open-Source Repo covering everything. A simple Claude Code Subscription and you'll be connected to what I use for over 35 personal clients from ad account management to website building to advanced SEO.

Check it out
by flohofwoe | 2026-03-08 17:56:16+00:00
> You make it sound like the shim layer is actively desirable - why is that?

More flexibility. For instance even though the 'official' WebGPU shim has the upside that it is compatible with the webgpu.h C API header, it buys that compatibility with some pretty serious performance compromises which can be avoided when using a non-standard JS shim (for instance reading/writing data from/to mapped WebGPU buffers which live in their own ArrayBuffer object, I don't think the WASM Component Model has a solution for such scenarios). The WASM Component Model solution basically has to deal with the exact same problems, but the WebGPU C API will essentially be baked into the browser. I expect though that it will still be possible to write your own specialized JS shim, so it's not a too big of an issue. I would prefer if the WASM peeps first focus on solving other problems which provide more bang for the buck.
by EugeneOZ | 2026-03-08 17:56:48+00:00
Not in my experience.
Quoting my tweet:

Gave the same prompt to GPT 5.4 (high) and Opus 4.6 (high).

GPT 5.4 implemented the feature, refactored the code (was not asked to), removed comments that were not added in that session, made the code less readable, and introduced a bug. "Undo All".

Opus 4.6 correctly recognized that the feature is already implemented in the current code (yeah, lol) and proposed implementing tests and updating the docs.

Opus 4.6 is still the best coding agent.

So yeah, GPT 5.4 (high) didn't even check if the feature was already implemented.

Tried other tasks, tried "medium" reasoning - disappointment.
by westurner | 2026-03-08 17:56:57+00:00
Prompts for this?

The primary objective is to retarget PyPy on top of the Python main branch. A minor objective is to document what of PyPy can be ported to CPython (or RustPython).

Keep a markdown log of issues in order to cluster and close when fixed

Clone PyPy and CPython.

Review the backlog of PyPy issues.

Review the CPython whatsnew.

What has changed in CPython since 3.11 which affects PyPy?

Study the differences between PyPy code and CPython code to understand how to optimize like PyPy.

Prepare an AGENTS.md for PyPy.

Write tests to verify that everything in PyPy works after updating to be compatible with Python main (or Python 3.14)
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-03-08 17:57:12+00:00
Oracle is mediocre because it could be.

That's probably where you'll end up if you're a company where that's an option.

No one was ever going to switch databases to a better DB as long as:

1) they did the bare minimum to ensure no alternative existed where switching made any sense.

2) they never charged too much where it made sense to switch thinking along the lines these businesses made decisions.

It's like the resource curse played out on a company scale.

If you have no incentive to get better, you won't.
Show HN: Svitrix – open-source firmware for Ulanzi TC001 pixel clock
by BladeRunningMan | 2026-03-08 17:57:16+00:00
I got Ulanzi TC001 pixel clocks and flashed them with AWTRIX — an open-source ESP32 firmware. It kept crashing and rebooting. Dug into the code and found memory leaks, no tests, and a messy architecture. Forked it, fixed dozens of bugs, added tests, restructured into modules. Works with Home Assistant via MQTT with auto-discovery. Built an online flasher so you can flash directly from the browser.
by matricks | 2026-03-08 17:57:52+00:00
I came here to say something like this. It is getting harder to say that language models are not (a) at least very close to AGI when it comes to textual and visual inputs for most domains; (b) in many cases and domains, already clearly superhuman both in time and speed.

Humans have a really compelling advantage in terms of efficiency; brains need something like 20W. But AGI as a threshold has nothing directly to do with power efficiency, does it?

Many people distinguish intelligence from memory. With this in mind, I think one can argue we’ve reached AGI; we just haven’t paired it up with enough memory yet.
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-08 17:58:07+00:00
I think because the notion of war crimes doesn’t mean much anymore. If there’s a crime, who is prosecuting it? Who has authority to bring criminals to court? The existing western led order and its institutions like the UN have lost legitimacy and power. So maybe they recognize it’s a war crime but feel labeling it this way doesn’t add much?

But at the same time I agree with the sentiment. It’s not the first time Iran has hinted that desalination plants are a target. Trying to control the strait is also a similar tactic - it cuts off food imports. And they also recently said they would target a nuclear power plant.
by oofbey | 2026-03-08 17:58:23+00:00
What I find really sad is how slowly this science moves. As I read the article, the “a ha!” breakthrough was in the 1990s. Why did it take them 15-20 years to publish anything??? Coming from the tech industry this is mind boggling.

If you thought there was even a chance you were sitting on a realization that could literally “cure cancer” wouldn’t you want to scream it from the rooftops as loud and fast as possible?
by k310 | 2026-03-08 17:58:34+00:00
Archive.today and friends got me into an infinite captcha loop.

Often, just search the title and you'll find a syndicated version of the article. Or very close to it.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/na...

https://www.rsn.org/001/after-trump-killed-a-report-on-natur...

https://dnyuz.com/2026/03/05/nature-report-killed-by-trump-i...
Show HN: GCI, Fly.io like deployments with any VM
by sauercrowd | 2026-03-08 17:59:09+00:00
I've been a big fan of fly.io with it’s devx, but cold starts and pricing have been a consistent problem.
Even for side projects it's painful if they take 30s to load, it just kills the whole experience.

With coding agents becoming good, there were a lot more things I started building, and I just wanted to run all of those things!

GCI was built to solve this. It’s just a CLI, just uses ssh to interact with your target machine, and relies on docker swarm to get your services running (docker swarm is IMO underrated, providing benefits even with a single node).

It can deploy on any machine that can be ssh’d into and runs docker.

GCI provides the missing devx gap between docker swarm and fly.io. Building images locally, getting them onto the target machine, fetching logs, managing different servers, …

Check it out on github, or for more in-depth docs at https://gci.jonas.foo/
by bigyabai | 2026-03-08 17:59:41+00:00
For surveillance at least, multimodal AI is old hat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient_(intelligence_analysi...

If you're one of the contractors working in NRO or aware of Sentient, OpenAI and Anthropic probably do look like supply chain risks. They want to subsume the work you're already doing with more extreme limitations (ones that might already be violated). So now you're pitching backup service providers, analyzing the cost of on-prem, and pricing out your own model training; it would be really convenient if OpenAI just agreed to terms. As a contractor, you can make them an offer so good that it would be career suicide to refuse it.

Autonomous weapons are a horse of a different color, but it's safe to assume the same discussions are happening inside Anduril et. al.
by piva00 | 2026-03-08 17:59:59+00:00
Lumping "the West" as one thing in this argument is just wrong. The West is composed of so many different countries with their own legal systems, cultural baggage, bureaucratic and political processes which evolved differently over time that it makes your sentence meaningless.

From my own experience moving from Brazil, having ran businesses there, and later in life moving to "the West" (Sweden) there's simply no comparison between the hurdles you have in Brazil vs Sweden. No, not even the drumbeat is pointing in that direction, it's almost a literal different world.

You need to be more specific to make this kind of criticism, it is absurdly vague, and by that also quite unhelpful to any discussion.
Show HN: Claude Skill for temporary cost tracking
by jbdamask | 2026-03-08 18:00:08+00:00
Here's a Claude Skill that lets me turn cost tracking on an off for a particular unit of work.

I use it in interactive Claude Code sessions. For example, if I want to add a Claude API feature to an app, I'll often hack it together first in CC. This skill lets me start and stop tracking so I get get a sense for what the API costs will be.

For example:

> /cost-tracking
> [do stuff]
> stop tracking

Then I get a nice little table showing tokens and cost for the model that was used:

Haiku cost report (this session's work):

┌───────────────────┬───────────┬─────────┐
│ Category │ Tokens │ Cost │
├───────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ Base input │ 182 │ $0.0002 │
├───────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ Output │ 3,276 │ $0.0164 │
├───────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ Cache writes (1h) │ 25,619 │ $0.0512 │
├───────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ Cache reads │ 1,585,531 │ $0.1586 │
├───────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ Grand Total │ │ $0.2264 │
└───────────────────┴───────────┴─────────┘
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-03-08 18:00:09+00:00
Do you have any examples? I've read all her work, and while I'm familiar with the phenomena you describe generally, I didn't find it that notable in Chambers. Yes, some characters have neopronouns (xe/xir, iirc?), but there's no "And this is why anyone who doesn't respect pronouns is a bad person." They just are used for aliens whose genders are more complex than ours.

Maybe monk and robot has more of this, being a post industrial, solarpunk story about a tea monk bicycling across the countryside with a robot who wants to learn what humanity is?
by xoa | 2026-03-08 18:00:12+00:00
I'll admit I've still stuck with the original FreeBSD based TrueNAS, and still am kinda bummed they swapped it. So it's interesting to see a direct example of someone for whom the new Linux based version is clearly superior. I'm long since far, far more at the "self-hosted" vs "homelab" end of the spectrum at this point, and in turn have ended up splitting my roles back out again more vs all-in-one boxes. My NAS is just a NAS, my virtualization is done via proxmox on separate hardware with storage backing to the NAS via iSCSI, and I've got a third box for OPNsense to handle the routing functions. When I first compared, the new TrueNAS was slower (presumably that is at parity or better now?) and missing certain things of the old one, but already was much easier to have Synology or Docker style or the like "apps" AIO. That didn't interest me because I didn't want my NAS to have any duty but being a NAS, but I can see how it'd be far more friendly to someone getting going, or many small business setups. A sort of better truly open and supported "open Synology" (as opposed the xpenology project).

Clearly it's worked for them here, and I'm happy to see it. Maybe the bug will truly bite them but there's so much incredibly capable hardware now available for a song and it's great to see anyone new experiment with bringing stuff back out of centralized providers in an appropriately judicious way.
by flohofwoe | 2026-03-08 18:00:31+00:00
> Including much better dev-ex, which is not great as you can see in the OP.

IMHO the developer experience should be provided by compiler toolchains like Emscripten or the Rust compiler, and by their (standard) libraries. E.g. keep the complexity out of the browser, the right place for binding-layer complexity is the toolchains and at compile time. The browser is already complex enough as it is and should be radically stripped down instead.
by tptacek | 2026-03-08 18:01:20+00:00
This piece was more interesting than I went in expecting it to be. But it hinges I think on a disputable claim, that the GPL's value is based on a network effect, so that the GPL gets dramatically less useful (and thus attractive to newer projects) as the base of mainstream GPL software shrinks. I'm not sure I understand why that would be the case.

The AI rewrite of the Linux kernel also seems farfetched. I don't think it really belongs in the title of this post.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-03-08 18:02:07+00:00
Why paint the choice as black and white? Most people are doing the best they can morally even if they don't get it 100% right. Even living 60% in accordance with your values is better than 50%. Likewise, bucketing organizations as good or bad misses the same nuance. Choosing something that is slightly better is has positive consequences despite it not being 100% good.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-03-08 18:02:30+00:00
Indie games are almost always self-financed, the equivalent of an book author supporting themselves during the writing of the book and self-publishing, so the article doesn't apply to them either. I'd also wager that more people play games than read books and the volume of new games isn't as high (another post in this thread mentions 7.5k new books come out per day on Amazon per day versus 19k new games on Steam in all of 2025) so discoverability is less of an issue for indie games than for self-published books.
by aaomidi | 2026-03-08 18:04:07+00:00
From the CNN: https://x.com/fpleitgenCNN/status/2030526805589762282?s=20

The ecological and health impacts of this are going to stay with the Iranian people for decades to come.

Edit: https://x.com/mamlekate/status/2030587809371668685?s=20

Left side is vinegar. Right side is rain. PH of 3
by skeeter2020 | 2026-03-08 18:04:08+00:00
and (likely) your entire life we've seen concentration of wealth and resources in the west. It's not about maximum employment but about much more basic things like utilization and purpose. There has been no general productivity diffusion on a national basis. Gains have come from outsourcing the lower productivity jobs without acknowledging the cost: the destination subsidizes by not investing growth in their own people but by maintaining an artificially lower-cost region, and the outsourcer (i.e. the US) finances with their currency.
by troelsSteegin | 2026-03-08 18:04:34+00:00
This work was performed by people across 13 institutions, invited and coordinated through the team at Northeastern. A research "swarm" seems like a great model for this kind of work. I'm curious about how it was funded, I didn't see any acknowledgements that way. The intro references the NIST Agent Standards Initiative. Also, the acknowledgement to "Andy Ardity" should for "Andy Arditi"?
by lich_king | 2026-03-08 18:04:36+00:00
My most straightforward read is that the military simply doesn't want their contractors to have a say in the war doctrine. Raytheon doesn't get to say "you can only bomb the countries we like, and no hitting hospitals or schools". It doesn't necessarily mean the Pentagon wants to bomb hospitals, but they also don't want to lose autonomy.

A less charitable interpretation is that the current doctrine is "China / Russia will build autonomous killbots, so we can't allow a killbot gap".

I'm frankly less concerned about "proper" military uses than I am about the tech bleeding into the sphere of domestic law enforcement, as it inevitably will.
by wongarsu | 2026-03-08 18:05:13+00:00
AGI is so nebulous we will never be able to tell if we hit it. We have hit human-level abilities in some narrow tasks, and are still leagues away in others. And humans have so vastly different skill-levels that we can't even agree what human-level really means. As bad as the economic definition of AGI in OpenAI's Microsoft deal is, at least it's measurable.

Imho that's a big part of why people are shifting to ASI. Not because we reached AGI, but because 'we reached ASI' is a well-defined verifiable statement, where 'we reached AGI' just isn't
by asdff | 2026-03-08 18:05:40+00:00
Actually that is relatively cheaper than Apple has ever sold ram. They would always charge $200 for each ram upgrade and it might have been only 4gb or less back then.

The twist now though is they started soldering in the RAM with the retina macbook, so you can't run around apple's extortionate pricing like you could in the past and just buy components off the market.

Such a stupid cartoon evil villain move too, just to force us into getting RAM from them. I have never been memory bandwidth bound (Apple's excuse for soldering in the RAM) in my life and yet I am forced to buy computers that optimize for this at the expense of things I actually care about like serviceability. And also consider the fact it incentivizes people to buy more RAM than they need today in effort to future proof their device, in a time of RAM shortages. And who knows maybe by the time that RAM amount is relevant the CPU can no longer keep up so the hoarding might not even be for anything either.
by roromainmain | 2026-03-08 18:05:49+00:00
I’m not sure it makes much sense to call this naive. When the issue is a moral one, conflicts like this are almost inevitable. Ethical convictions often collide with political or institutional decisions. If a company decides to work with the military and someone finds that fundamentally incompatible with their values, stepping away may simply be the only coherent option for them. It’s sometimes just moral consistency. Moral inconsistency can create deep inner conflict and real psychological distress.
This being said, many queer people (not only trans people) seem to develop particularly inclusive values, perhaps because they have personally experienced the consequences of harassment, exclusion, or violence. Having gone through that kind of experience can make someone more sensitive to the vulnerability of others.
by nerdsniper | 2026-03-08 18:05:52+00:00
> which is like having someone take an entire physics course, writing down everything they learn on post-it notes, then you ask a different person a physics question, and that different person has to skim all the post-it notes, and then write a new post-it note to answer you

This is the best summary of an LLM that I’ve ever seen (for laypeople to “get it”) and is the first that accurately describes my experience. I will say, usually the notes passed to the second person are very impressive quality for the topic. But the “2nd person” still rarely has a deep understanding of it.
by BoxFour | 2026-03-08 18:06:15+00:00
I don't think it's about lethal autonomy specifically as much as it's just about government autonomy period. They don’t think private companies should have any veto power over how the government uses some technology they're provided.

On its face that’s not a crazy stance: Governments are meant to represent the public, while private companies obviously aren't. I think it’s somewhat understandable why the government might reject that kind of "we know better than you" type of clause.

Of course, the reaction is wildly out of proportion. A normal response would just be to stop doing business with the company and move on. Labeling them a supply chain risk is an extreme response.