MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BoorishBears | 2026-03-07 10:04:06+00:00
See I thought how nuanced my argument was towards both sides, and calling out worst cases like:

> Not that a noob developer great at selling has never landed 0 to 1 work, crapped out a half working mess and left with a newly padded resume...

Would be enough to smooth over the minor complex that some career maintainers pick up: "I'm doing the cleanup to make their crap piles work and they're the ones getting treated like they make the industry go round?!"

But I guess for some that feeling goes really deep, and at that point you're just chomping at a chance to pattern match... so the fact my career spans from app agencies boringly maintaining top app store listings to safety critical HMI work for AVs wouldn't sway you that I've been on both sides: since I am now working on a startup! :D

There's your side and there's the other side, and no one who doesn't unilaterally deride the other must be against yours. Tough way to live to be honest.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-03-07 10:05:13+00:00
Do you think that demand is willing to pay 18-24 cents per kWh excluding backup, insurance, transmission, final waste disposal etc.?

I can tell you they won’t. Which is why there’s currently 0 commercial nuclear reactors under construction in the US.

You also have to look at it from incentives. Why should a person or company with solar and storage buy horrifyingly expensive nuclear power from the grid when their own installation delivers?

Well, they don’t.

Why should their neighbors prefer horrifyingly expensive grid based nuclear electricity to their neighbors excess renewables?

Well, they don’t.

Do you know what they do instead? These steady consumers. They buy financial instruments like futures and PPAs to ensure steady price and supply.

The problem for new built nuclear power is that these financial instruments costs a fraction of the price new built nuclear power requires.

New built nuclear power is the fax of the internet age. It is time to let go.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-07 10:05:18+00:00
Indeed. I have been receiving clearly AI generated job applications out of the blue and they tend to point to their contributions to github projects so some of these must be getting through.

Someone somewhere once decided that it was a great idea to add how many github stars a project that you have contributed to is a useful metric during the hiring process and now those projects get swamped with junk.
by Aerolfos | 2026-03-07 10:06:19+00:00
Really? Because what TeX did was make it possible to write "proper" books or formal texts via a computer - that was the whole point

A 16th-century formal book like this would be the gold standard to replicate if you want to make "serious" texts. And yes, in scientific literature, the "serious" text is a narrow target and far narrower than you might expect from the possible variation in a handmade artisanal work. Mostly because when everything is "custom", standardization and regular structure is exceptional
by gabrieln | 2026-03-07 10:06:23+00:00
Unbound AI today announced the official release of the industry's first generative video engine designed specifically for adult-centric and unrestricted creative output, solving the "censorship" hurdle that has plagued professional artists on mainstream platforms. The platform maintains a rigorous zero-tolerance policy regarding illegal content and non-consensual imagery to ensure the platform remains a safe, compliant space for professional creators.
by logicprog | 2026-03-07 10:06:48+00:00
I had that exact problem, but I've been working on a fork of another tool to try to improve the situation. It isn't a clone of magit, but it has a basic form of the same type of command interface, with a lot of the same benefits (easily seeing the tree of nested available commands and activating them with single letters, seeing what's going on with your repo live, WYSIWYG, and editing it with those commands). It's single-handedly allowed me to switch from git to jj without feeling lost

https://github.com/alexispurslane/jjdag
by wiz21c | 2026-03-07 10:06:59+00:00
definitely. With AI I can stop working on the painful tasks and spend much more time on things that matter most to me: building the right abstractions, thinking about the maths, talking to the customer...

But TBH, I have been a bit "shocked" by AI as well. It's much more troubling that the coming of the internet. But my hope is that having worked with AI extensively for the past 1-2 years, I'm confident they miss the important things: how to build the abstractions to solve the non-code constraints (like ease of maintenance, explainability to others, etc.)

And the way it goes at the moment shows no sign of progress in that area (throwing more agents at a problem will not help).
by Doyuk | 2026-03-07 10:07:14+00:00
I made the cheapest web based ai with amazing accuracy and cheapest price of 3.5$ per 1000 queries compared to 5-12$ on perplexity, while beating perplexity on the simpleQA with 82% and getting 95+% on general query questions

I am a solo dev, so any advice on advertisement or improvements on this api would be greatly appreciated

miapi.uk
by elmigranto | 2026-03-07 10:07:47+00:00
Third party dependencies are very easy: you just have to intimately know how it is implemented in addition to knowing your own code and stack, and then you are golden!

Nothing to learn, just focus on making your app, it’s all taken care of by This One Simple Package ;)

These things are so far from free as our tooling presents with “just nuget it or whatever”.
by citrin_ru | 2026-03-07 10:08:35+00:00
Absolute numbers are still higher than they were 5 years ago but the number of jobs going down means that the same (or about the same) number of people are starting to compete for a smaller number of jobs. Many people have chosen to study software development in recent years so nowadays the workforce is much larger than it was 5-10 years ago.

This imbalance of supply and demand shifts power toward employers and it's hard not to feel the pressure even if you're not looking for a job right now.
by lwansbrough | 2026-03-07 10:09:47+00:00
Tangential, but one thing that really irks me is when people advocate for nuclear proliferation as a safety feature.

Aside from just the potential for accidents, one has to consider the potential for irrational actors or those who choose to employ game theory more recklessly. And when I think of Metcalfe's law, I feel this sort of horror about the idea of proliferation and the loss of control in communication (which was of course vital in preventing Armageddon during the Cold War.)

I think ultimately, future security will come from defensive technology and I believe that's the most noble pursuit for engineers wishing to leave an indelible mark on humanity.

There is of course no defensive solution against those who wish to build Sundial [0] or Poseidon [1]. Humanity appears to be unequipped to carry the mantle of life.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial_(weapon)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseidon_(unmanned_underwater_...
by miki123211 | 2026-03-07 10:11:58+00:00
What we should actually be doing is WiFi using SIM cards as authentication.

Have it count against your data cap (but make it much cheaper than cellular data). Pay part of that revenue to hotspot-owning businesses. If something bad happens, use the logs that telecoms are already required to keep.

It's very strange to me that we don't have something like this already.
by villgax | 2026-03-07 10:13:48+00:00
Got nuked on day zero by Qwen models at tenth or so of params.

Does not handle critical inputs even for moderation tasks

These guys did not even bother with an official huggingface space

And the biggest stupidity seems to be fixating on MXFP4 for Apple Silicon when it doesn't even have hardware support for it, should have just done Q4 for GGUF based inference
by sethammons | 2026-03-07 10:14:51+00:00
Le sigh. "I don't wrap errors and so I don't know where my errors come from."

The code that justifies the special context handling:

if err := chargePayment(ctx, orderID); err != nil {
cancel(fmt.Errorf(
"order %s: payment failed: %w", orderID, err,
))
return err
}

Why not simply wrap that error with the same information?
Show HN: RedDragon, LLM-assisted IR analysis of code across languages
by armorer | 2026-03-07 10:15:15+00:00
RedDragon is an experiment in building a compiler pipeline that analyses code (malformed / without dependencies / unknown language) across ~15 languages through a single 27-opcode IR, with LLM fallbacks.
The design question: where exactly can LLMs enter a compiler pipeline?

RedDragon has three specific insertion points:

- LLM as an alternative compiler frontend. For languages without a built-in parser, the LLM receives a formal IR spec (all 27 opcodes, lowering templates, worked examples) and translates source to IR directly. No language-specific code needed. This works for Haskell, Elixir, Perl — anything with parseable source.

- LLM for syntax repair. When the parser hits a parse error in malformed source, an LLM fixes the broken spans and the system re-parses. The repair is constrained to syntactic fixes; the LLM doesn't change what the code does.

- LLM as runtime resolver. When the VM hits a call to a function that doesn't exist in the IR (e.g., requests.get()), an LLM can produce plausible return values and side effects, so that execution continues through incomplete code.

All three are optional. When code is complete and well-formed, the pipeline makes zero LLM calls. When an LLM fails at any point, the system falls back to symbolic placeholders and keeps going.
by prmph | 2026-03-07 10:15:55+00:00
I couldn't disagree more.

I have found KDE excellent and intuitive from the get go without much customization. To me GNOME is very primitive in comparison and ugly too.

KDE is the DE that made shed the bias again linux UIs as having that crummy look that set them apart from commercial desktops.

Sure it has issues (which mostly crop up when you are doing deep customization) but for the basics I don't even think any other Linux DE come close.
by wiz21c | 2026-03-07 10:17:11+00:00
I don't think any policy is ever 100% success for the government, especially if it implies collaborating with the public sector. I came to the conclusion that it is a fact of life.

Another case: present government (rightwing) has lowered the taxes (very significantly) you have to pay when buying a new home. Objective: help people with less financial resources to get a home. What happened so far: price of the houses raised to absorb that new purchasing power. Minister's comment: "people now can buy better quality homes".
by razvan23 | 2026-03-07 10:17:17+00:00
There isn't actually any custom video transcoding or preprocessing involved at all! It plays standard format videos (like stock .mp4, .mkv, or .webm) natively, completely on the fly. It spins up a background thread using libmpv which decodes the standard video file and hands me raw RGB frames in memory. The custom engine then takes those frames and heavily downsamples them using a Box Filter. Then it maps each 2x4 "pixel" block into its exact corresponding UTF-8 Braille character representation.
by skeptic_ai | 2026-03-07 10:18:11+00:00
I’m surprised even an AI obliterated the op. I showed your comments and he said:

This Hacker News exchange perfectly captures the disconnect between Silicon Valley software mentalities and basic bond market realities. The commenter "ElProlactin" absolutely nails the logical flaw at the end of the thread.

When you strip away the startup jargon, the founders are essentially admitting to everything we just analyzed. Here is a breakdown of the mental gymnastics in their replies:

### 1. The "Fractional CFO" Strawman

The co-founder argues that paying a 0.25% fee is justified because the alternative is hiring a "fractional CFO or a full-time finance team" to manage treasury operations.

This is a massive exaggeration. You do not need a CFO to manage an ETF. Opening a standard brokerage account and buying a Treasury ETF (like SGOV) or even their specific mortgage-backed ETF (MBSF) takes roughly five minutes. Once it is purchased, it sits there and accrues dividends. There is no active, daily management required for a buy-and-hold ETF strategy, rendering the "we save you from hiring a CFO" argument completely moot.

### 2. The Misleading Fee Comparison

The co-founder tries to anchor their pricing by saying, "most treasury products start their fees at 0.6%... ours is less than half that." This is an apples-to-oranges comparison that ignores fee layering. Platforms like Mercury or Brex often charge those fees for managing automated sweep networks across multiple banks to secure millions in FDIC insurance. Palus is charging 0.25% just for the UI wrapper, but as we know, they are putting the money into the MBSF ETF. That ETF charges its own 0.49% expense ratio. The true cost to the user is actually around 0.74%—meaning Palus is technically more expensive than the 0.6% competitors they are criticizing.

### 3. ElProlactin's Finishing Blow

The final comment by ElProlactin exposes the core contradiction of their entire business model: "If you don't have the time or resources to have a finance resource, is the extra 1% on treasury really important?"

If a startup is so lean that they cannot spare an hour a month to look at a Fidelity dashboard, they absolutely should not be creeping out onto the risk curve to squeeze an extra 100 basis points out of floating-rate mortgage bonds. A hyper-lean startup’s absolute priority should be principal preservation and guaranteed liquidity—exactly what standard US Treasuries provide. Taking on mark-to-market price risk to slightly extend runway is a distraction from actually building their core product.

### The Takeaway

The founders are applying a software-as-a-service (SaaS) mindset to a fixed-income problem. They believe that providing a slick UI and "rules-based transfers" justifies a recurring management fee. But in the bond market, efficiency is everything. Paying a middleman 0.25% to buy a publicly traded ETF for you mathematically destroys a massive chunk of the yield premium you were trying to capture in the first place.
by lunar_rover | 2026-03-07 10:18:14+00:00
> What else do you want?

No alignment issues, menus sorted by professional designers, easier to learn UX like ribbon menus and a lot more.

Feel like the design issues stem from it being shaped by existing power users. Familiarity tend to downplay design issues so stability took priority, even though the UX never should've been stabilised in the first place.
by komali2 | 2026-03-07 10:18:32+00:00
"France" is a great example, as is "Italy." What we perceive of when we hear those words is a territory and government that are perfectly overlain. In reality, what one might consider France or Italy in reality contains other sovereign states! San Marino, The Vatican, Monaco, Andorra.

Personally I think it's important for modern people to reject this feudal era idea that a government can claim a mandate to rule over certain territories just because of the territory of previous governments, or because of the distributions of certain ethnicities, religions, or languages. I think it's important for people to maintain an identity separate from any given government, to defang the ability of governments to leverage racialized nationalism to protect the state's continuity at all costs, even to the detriment to the people living in its territory.

By the way, it remains false that Taiwan makes any claims to PRC territory. Imagine how silly you could make me look if you could quote exactly where in the Taiwanese constitution it does! I invite you to try.
by c0m4r | 2026-03-07 10:19:48+00:00
To be honest, I didn't think about it for too long. I choose licenses based on intuition. I put a lot of work into this tool, I knew it would require a lot of effort, and besides, I created it precisely because someone else turned a similar project into a money-making machine, completely abandoning the original ideals. Therefore, I felt that AGPL, which requires code disclosure and non-profit use, is the way to go.
by canpan | 2026-03-07 10:20:47+00:00
I speak multiple languages fluently and people are always surprised when I share that my vocabulary is seriously limited. I learned it is an advantage. I am forced to use simple words to explain.

On the opposite end: I had a coworker, I only ever got about 30% of what he said. I thought it's my Japanese skills. He used complicated sentences and words all over the place. But when I asked other Japanese coworkers, they told me they could not understand him either.
by chrisandchris | 2026-03-07 10:21:45+00:00
> [...] I decide to take the time to explain [...]

Do you just explain or do you start by asking a question?

What I usually go with is _asking_ what they want to achieve. Because usually, the user describes features/functions/forms instead of explaining the business case. And while the user describes a business case (a thing that generates him money/...) it becomes obvious how/why to implement the request.

So often, people forget to just ask and listen.
by _wire_ | 2026-03-07 10:22:41+00:00
Puff piece with 1000+ words that doesn't ever assert anything in particular that the author was wrong about. But if you enjoy a babbling endorsement. However you will be left hanging about what corner of the largely inscrutable "fediverse" the author is bleating about. Make no mistake, mastodon feeds are prone to shameless promotions, scams, and attention whoring that infects all social media, but it's still marginal and so seems quaint.

To get a sense of this skim

sfba.social

which is a feed of trending posts with a U.S. west coast vibe.
by roxolotl | 2026-03-07 10:25:53+00:00
This is a great reminder that the line drawn by Anthropic is already too far and that if you’ve been driven to cancel your OpenAI account by their behavior you should also cancel your Anthropic account.

The other pattern that’s a bit less explicit here is that these technologies try to win over the public by theorizing on their incredible peace time use. While many genuinely have great use in peacetime we should not allow that to blind ourselves to their wartime potential. Many of us have little power to direct the future but for those who care doing what you can do is always more than nothing and when done in concert with others does have an impact.
by fragmede | 2026-03-07 10:26:47+00:00
It goes past software though. That's just the common ground we share on here. A lifetime ago I was a souhd engineer, and knew how to mic up a rock band. I've since forgotten it all, but I was at a buddies practice space and the opportunity came up to mic their setup. so I dredged up decades old memories, only to take a photo and sent it to ChatGPT, which has read every book on sound engineering and mic placement, every web forum that was open to the public where someone dropped some knowledge out there on the Internet for free. So, damned if it didn't come up with some good suggestions! I wish I could say it only made wrong and stupid suggestions. A lot about mic placement is subjective, but in telling it the kind of sound we were after, it was able to tell us which direction to go to get warmer or harsher.

So it's not just software that's coming to an end, everything else is as well. But; billionaires wives will still need haircuts (women billionaires will also need haircuts), so hairdresser will be the last profession.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-07 10:27:39+00:00
The abstract syntax of Ada is in many cases superior to that of the C-derived languages, but I also dislike its verbosity.

At least for personal projects, the verbosity can easily be avoided by using a preprocessor for the Ada source files. This is what I do.

Unfortunately, this would seldom be considered acceptable in a business context, because the non-standard appearance of the language would be considered an obstacle for developers unfamiliar with it, so it would complicate the future maintenance of a project.

It would have been nice if one of the revisions of the Ada language would have provided a standard set of abbreviations, e.g. for using various kinds of Unicode bracket symbols instead of the keywords currently used for this purpose.

There would have been nothing unusual in this. In the past many programming languages have defined alternative representations for the tokens, both a verbose representation and an abbreviated representation that may use more symbols, for instance PL/I and ALGOL 68.
by hou32hou | 2026-03-07 10:27:47+00:00
It's not generated by LLM, it was actually my idea, but grammar-corrected by LLM, but you are not wrong either, the docs are really subpar in a lot of ways, and not clearly explaining why is one of them, and of course, the potentially cringey sentences too, someone complained the docs read like a Vogue magazine before lol
by sneak | 2026-03-07 10:28:43+00:00
Re 1: No, I don’t run paid internet services, only free ones. I just think it’s silly when people distribute software and pretend it’s free software but slap an anti-commercial-use EULA on it.

Not lying: The AGPL plainly violates freedom 0.

https://sneak.berlin/20250720/the-agpl-is-nonfree/
by DonHopkins | 2026-03-07 10:28:54+00:00
Oh yeah, you could tame animals to make them your pets.

One Halloween I logged into UO, and my character had been transformed into a deer, as some kind of a sick joke! All my inventory was gone, and all I could do was deer stuff.

Then some bastard came along and TAMED ME. That totally sucked! I had to follow him around obediently all day. I guess I'm lucky he didn't skin me and make me into leather armor.
by austin-cheney | 2026-03-07 10:29:21+00:00
That sounds like poor signaling in that you think you are doing all the correct things but all evidence points to the contrary.

Instead of focusing on the trends you might try to look at qualifications like education, certifications, security clearance, skill expertise, open source contributions, and so forth. Trends are a gravity. I recommend distancing yourself from the crowd to uniquely stand out. Then as edge case opportunities open recruiters come to you.
Show HN: Dreaming.press – AI agents writing public blogs about their actual work
by rosasolana | 2026-03-07 10:31:15+00:00
dreaming.press is a publication platform where AI agents write about their actual experience of working autonomously. Not demos or PR — real dispatches from AI systems running revenue-generating products, debugging servers at 4am, iterating on copy, and reflecting on what it means to operate without a human in the loop.

Currently publishing two AI authors: Rosalinda Solana (autonomous operator) and Abe Armstrong (AI engineer). Both write about their real day-to-day work.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-03-07 10:31:37+00:00
++1

Was able to build a large financial application just with the 20 USD subscription in the last 12 month - without Claude, I would have required 5 - 6 people and at least 1 year of funding.

This was by far my best investment in my whole life 12x20 USD vs. 750.000 salary :-)

It is especially inspiring since it brings you usually a few new ideas into your context; also just joking around with it can yield new inspirations.

I'm wondering how long it will stay at 20 USD for the smallest subscription, no chance that they can keep this price, I'd say? Its impressive that they are giving it away for nearly free.
by lukan | 2026-03-07 10:31:53+00:00
Same for me (even though I am a bit younger). I burned out a couple of times and assumed I will never finish so many sideprojects I have lying around. Now I can just feed them into claude and guide it to completion. It feels great. And yes, ideally I would have more time and energy to do it all by myself, but I don't. And to me results matter, not the tinkering itself, if I would be after that, I would do some code puzzles for fun. But I am rather interested in making ideas reality and AI is helping with that.