MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonnon | 2026-03-08 07:32:21+00:00
> At 67 I'm refreshing my calculus, linear algebra, and statistics

Does anyone else find this messaging from Anthropic's marketing department silly? AI ultimately devalues human knowledge by commoditizing it, which ought to make one less motivated to go out of their way to acquire it, not more. Yet if these comments are to be believed, it's the exact opposite, with (as of now) 72 instances of the word "learning" in this thread. This, as we barrel headlong towards a world where having a strong back and the ability to turn a wrench or swing a hammer is going to be more remunerative than being able to solve differential equations or follow some arXiv preprint about frontier models. (At least until robotics is solved.)
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-03-08 07:32:23+00:00
I never know how to engage with these kind of discussions, where "literary culture" includes only a narrow subset of the books that are published and read.

The author posts a collage of litfic novel covers and wonders why they're all so similar, but to me the answer seems obvious: litfic is a genre, whether its devotees want to call it that or not, and so it needs a consistent visual language to guide people's eyes in increasingly genre-ified bookstores. He says "every title I see" is like this, but I strongly suspect he'd agree that this is only true because he spots the romantasy section from a mile away and averts his eyes before he has to learn anything about the adventures of Violet Sorrengail.
by russellbeattie | 2026-03-08 07:32:41+00:00
Just last night some friends brought up the time change tonight and the news from British Columbia, and what the California government has or hasn't done about it currently and in the past and why we haven't just gotten rid of the system already to save us the trouble of adjusting clocks twice a year.

And of course, there was instantly a heated debate about whether to permanently choose Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time, with passionate, almost religious arguments for both options. I feared sectarian violence was about to erupt at the dinner table.

Our collective relationship with time is truly unhinged.

#teamdaylightsaving
by kennywinker | 2026-03-08 07:33:35+00:00
No i’d actually say those are both deeply morally questionable jobs. Not just because of the weapons and mass surveillance angles either.

Is one worse than the other? Not clearly. They are both helping build tools that are causing environmental and economic destruction, and they’re both building things likely to be used for violence and control. Idk if gemini has been tapped by any defense departments, but that would be the only subtle distinction i can see (has it happened yet, how hard will the company resist unrestricted use).

Not sure how you read my comment and came to this whack conclusion.
by bruce511 | 2026-03-08 07:34:30+00:00
That's not how medical improvements work.

Imagine I had a pill today that absolutely cured cancer. It would take years of clinical trials, testing on animals and humans, exploration of side effects, which cancers it fixes and so on. and so on. And thats before we talk about production at scale and so on.

The AI idea is the really fast part of the cycle, but its a tiny part of the process.
by sigmoid10 | 2026-03-08 07:34:54+00:00
That is not what your source says. It gives one quote by him that may be misinterpreted in this context, but later clears up that Einstein was not really opposed. He merely thought that pure math was a valid way to discover new scientific insight. But even that point of view, while radical at the time, is pretty much in line with logical positivism and has turned out to be true many times since then.
by wofo | 2026-03-08 07:34:59+00:00
Thanks for posting this! As a long-time Rust user (and contributor, in the good old days), the thing that has always fascinated me about Rust is the healthy balance it strikes between academic brilliance and industry pragmatism. Radical changes like the ones suggested by the OP risk damaging that balance IMO. I'd rather put up with some language quirks and see Rust achieve "boring technology" status...

But who knows, maybe the "academic brilliance" from the article is more pragmatic than I give it credit for. I sure hope for it if these changes ever go through.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-03-08 07:37:56+00:00
The class system of business is a warning here.

There used to be hundreds of humans doing math by hand. They were computers. The people that managed those armies of humans were management class.

Then came actual silicon computers. The ones that managed those, despite the fact the value, quality, efficiency, productivity of the systems they now managed dwarfed the old human armies, those people were no longer management. They were labor.

AI will bring a similar effect. These front line "managers" who were already greyarea management, will be labelled "labor".
by user2722 | 2026-03-08 07:38:25+00:00
I get really annoyed at those articles which advocate the developer to sacrifice themselves towards a better future.

Companies externalize costs. I refuse to be the one, as an individual, with the burden of fixing society ills to my own detriment.

Tell me to get into politics, join an association, whatever. Now, as an individual, lose money for morals? No thank you. I may, and probably will, do it -- but don't expect I do it. I have no business, in a society with less and less public services, to harm myself and my family for refusing to do well paying jobs.

I will externalise those costs as much as possible. I will bring awareness. I will write letters. But don't ask me to leave a well paying job -- that's someone else job to fix.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-08 07:40:00+00:00
In some domains a big Product Hunt launch was a serious achievement. VCs would look at it, journalists would take notice, and you’d get a little burst of signups from a user base known to have a lot of influencers.

Everyone knew it was gamed a little, but there was some organic traffic.

Then it steadily got worse and worse until the front page was just random products that nobody actually used.
by tsoukase | 2026-03-08 07:41:16+00:00
Tinnitus might be the simplest debilitating disease. It's sad that no therapy, even alleviating, is available.

I always thought that tinnitus is caused by a "rusted" acoustic nerve wire (here it's coexistence with hearing loss) no central mechanism is evolved. Linking non-REM sleep phase to tinnitus production is unexpected.
by teaearlgraycold | 2026-03-08 07:41:32+00:00
Qwen3.5 35B A3B is much much faster and fits if you get a 3 bit version. How fast are you getting 27B to run?

On my M3 Air w/ 24GB of memory 27B is 2 tok/s but 35B A3B is 14-22 tok/s which is actually usable.
by mistivia | 2026-03-08 07:42:15+00:00
Template metaprogramming isn't really suited for this task, the prime sieve here serves only as a proof of concept, meant to show the capabilities of this style. But there are cases where `constexpr` is not applicable, especially when involving type manipulations.

On the other hand, C++ template metaprogramming, as an esolang, is fun to tame and experiment with.
by onion2k | 2026-03-08 07:42:23+00:00
At the time it was important, but the real impact came later when it was absolutely pivotal in giving British school children something to learn about and write a report on for one summer of their school life. There isn't a single person who went to school in England who doesn't know about the battle, the Bayeux Tapestry, and the Doomsday book.

(Hyperbole obviously, before people reply to say they went to Hastings Secondary and have never heard of William the Conqueor.)
by wraptile | 2026-03-08 07:44:23+00:00
You are missing the point entirely. It's about how retaining human exposure in the societal loops is playing a vital role in keeping people connected and engaged. I'm an European living in Thailand and I see this difference first hand - the auntie doing local food deliveries or uncle selling food from a cart really connect people a billion times more than a super market would.

My long term prediction is that we we'll be taking curator-like roles much more seriously due to automation, as having human in the loop is not only needed for debugging automation issues but maintaining healthy society loops as well.

This is not a new argument either. Since the inception of cities we know that connection is being lost in extreme efficiency. Ladies delivering yogurt is just trading efficiency for connection.
by nottorp | 2026-03-08 07:44:34+00:00
> if you're collecting zip codes you are already assuming United States

From outside the US: I always thought "zip code" is just what you USers call a postal code. I only found out it's a trademark today, from this HN discussion.

So most people outside the US will see "zip code" and think "oh, they mean postal code but they have this weird term for it".
by darkwater | 2026-03-08 07:45:51+00:00
Yeah I expected this benchmark to include hosted "metal" hardware with the "per instruction cost" benchmark to see how provider like Hetnzer fare against classic AWS VMs. It's a bit apple to oranges I know, but I think nowadays is what most people compared pure performance cost are interested in. I'm not going to migrate from AWS VMs to GCP or Hetzner VMs, but I might be open to Hetzner hosted servers instead for a massive enough cost reduction.
by tlavoie | 2026-03-08 07:47:58+00:00
I worked for a small company that did work for a cross-border manufacturer. Coming from Canada, we were told explicitly that "meetings" was a perfectly good reason for a day trip, and we were never there "to work". US customs has been historically as humourless a bunch as ever existed, and the factory on the other side was unionised, so meetings it is.

What cracked me up was driving back late one evening, arriving back at the Canadian side. The agent asked where I'd been, and I mentioned the town just behind me.

"Oh, _meetings_, eh?" wink
by menaerus | 2026-03-08 07:48:20+00:00
Maybe you can learn to be mediocre or good enough designer or similarly good enough or mediocre engineer. But I don't think you can actually learn to be a great designer or great engineer - it just takes a different set of skills and evolutionary and genetic material which isn't available to all the people. Some people are simply not good enough in logical and abstract reasoning, math, and similar range of skills which are essential for becoming a good engineer. Similarly someone who is a good engineer doesn't and likely can't have skills required to become a good designer, it just takes a brain which is hardwired and developed differently.
by mark-soots | 2026-03-08 07:48:43+00:00
We feel this exact pain. At our startup (soots.ai), we are building a contextualization layer that ingests unstructured data like chats, emails, and transcripts to stop context loss between teams. We essentially had to build the exact same custom pipeline you described because native platforms wall off their semantic graphs. Even if Slack opens up a semantic.search API, just vectorizing the raw messages isn't enough. We found that if you just feed models raw logs, the models get the data volume, but they lack coherence. Our moat is basically that contextualization layer to have the agent understand the 'why'

You are definitely not alone in hitting this wall. Would love to see Slack open up their memory layer, but until then, building that custom pipeline is unfortunately the only way to get a shared reality for your agents
by dqv | 2026-03-08 07:49:32+00:00
> You need it to encode or decode past dates to unix time or other time standards.

Which you need to do if

> You do not need it to "interpret" past dates.

you want to interpret past dates. Mainly you need a historical record of the offsets. Or you're trading inaccuracy of duration measurement from one or two days out of the year to every day of the year by not keeping track of historical offsets or taking them into consideration.

It is absolutely not esoteric for a user to want to know, for example, an accurate duration measurement between a past departure time in one zone and a past arrival time in another zone. (inb4 the user is supposed to somehow anticipate all possible datetimes and calculate these durations in advance in case they need them)

> Combining these two concerns with insanely different scopes is precisely the issue with the tzdb.

I'm laughing so hard at what I just visualized. "Oh, no you only use this zone library for current times, use this other library for past times".

Then someone gets this crazy idea to use just one library and realizes it's quite ridiculous to need a DNS client to pull in the records when they have this other library that has the historical and current zones in a few text files. So then they drop the DNS client and just start using tzdb. It can even work for future dates and times too!

As soon as you create a timestamp, it becomes a recording that needs to take historical zone information into account when interpreting it.
72 commits in a day, a third of them reverting the rest
by madebyjam | 2026-03-08 07:50:16+00:00
I'm building a multi-tenant SaaS solo (Next.js 15, Convex, Clerk, Vercel). Last Thursday I pushed 72 commits. The interesting part is the shape of those commits, not the number.

The first arc was a Lottie animation system for the marketing site. Built a foundation layer, hero ambient particles, six section animations, a pricing sparkle. Then the Lottie React package's `speed` prop turned out not to be a real JSX prop. You need to grab the animation ref and call `setSpeed()` imperatively. After fixing that, I noticed the placeholder animation files had watermarks, so I wrote a 1,250-line Node script to generate custom multi-layer compositions. Then I looked at the How It Works section with its new animations and decided they added nothing. Removed them. Then stripped the watermarked ones from another section. The animation arc was roughly 15 commits of adding and 5 commits of removing.

The last arc was performance. Mobile LCP was at 7.1 seconds. I tried five fixes: opacity 0.01 on the hero H1 (treating the symptom), slide-only animation, lazy-loading particles, scoping providers. None moved it significantly. The root cause was `font-display: swap` on Bricolage Grotesque (73KB WOFF2). On Slow 4G, the font loaded behind 450KB of JS, and the swap event at 6-7 seconds was being measured as a new LCP element. `font-display: optional` and scoping ClerkProvider out of marketing routes (to reduce JS contention) got it under 2.5s. Found the real issue around 2am.

Between those two arcs, I also added and then removed a dark mode toggle, rebuilt the mobile nav as a bottom sheet, added swipe navigation for the PWA tabs, and built a swipeable pricing carousel. The dark mode toggle lasted about three hours before I decided it didn't fit.

Solo building means a lot of commits that exist only to undo other commits. There's nobody to say "that's out of scope" before you spend 8 hours on it.

https://jamcrew.io
by teaearlgraycold | 2026-03-08 07:50:55+00:00
I loaded Qwen into LM Studio and then ran Oh My Pi. It automatically picked up the LM Studio API server. For some reason the 35B A3B model had issues with Oh My Pi's ability to pass a thinking parameter which caused it to crash. 27B did not have that issue for me but it's much slower.

Here's how I got the 35B model to work: https://gist.github.com/danthedaniel/c1542c65469fb1caafabe13...

The 35B model is still pretty slow on my machine but it's cool to see it working.
by kennywinker | 2026-03-08 07:51:05+00:00
> the cost of weapon systems increases, it is less and less likely that these expensive systems will be used to target innocent peopl

Skeptical that’s true. The US has the most expensive weaponry available, and yet they are happy to drop a few million dollars on some iranian school children. It could be true, but i don’t think it is - if nothing else based on the stereotype of the rich kids who totals their parents car.

> Some country can perform a successful head hunt in the span of an afternoon tea party, while some other country have to level cities for few years and yet still fails to even touch the opposition leader

Again, skeptical. The US is happy to share its tech with israel, yet they are the ones levelling cities for years with no perceptable impact on leadership.

> then why do we also invented the career of professional police force?

Historically? To protect the property of the rich from the people they stole it from.

> forcing their own people to wear an obeisant smelling face mask

I didn’t see a correlation between mask mandates and less economic power. China, for instance, had quite severe covid restrictions and yet they are the kind of more-advanced nation you speak of. Most of latin america had virtually no restriction, and they are also “less advanced” wrt ai weapons.

Also, where on earth still has mask restrictions? Find a new grievance, please.
Ask HN: Has finding more competitors ever made you more confident?
by stokemoney | 2026-03-08 07:52:02+00:00
I was researching the personal finance market and initially found only a few obvious companies.

After digging more, I found a much longer tail of startups I’d never heard of, including products that launched, got some attention, and then seem to have faded out.

Oddly, that made me more interested in the space, not less. It made me think that competition by itself isn’t the important signal. The more useful question is why so many attempts failed to differentiate.

Do people here look at the “graveyard” when evaluating an idea, or mostly the current winners?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-08 07:52:48+00:00
> damned if you do, damned if you don't as long as Israel effectively dominates USA middle east policy

Sort of. Israel is the Middle East's regional hegemon. And America is a superpower. Picking both as national enemies was and remains a strategic blunder.

> If they negotiate, the deal gets torn up at best, or they get attacked during negotiations at worst

Again, the deal getting torn up is sad. But it's within the context of decades of antagonism towards powerful enemies. And nobody serious (other than Iran and Oman) seem to be claiming that Iran was open to giving up its nuclear ambitions in Geneva.

> If they maintain any sort of self-defense capability, that's seen as a threat to Israel

They literally chant death to Israel and fund the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah who want to eradicate it. (Weapons aren't inherently offensive or defensive, though they can tend to be more useful as one versus another. Ballistic missiles and nuclear bombs are closer to inherently offensive than inherently defensive.)

> If they shoot back after we bomb 150 schoolgirls, they're the aggressor

Nobody serious claims this. What they are doing by shooting back (and not surrendering) is continuing a losing cycle of violence.

The only thing looser than America's theory of victory in this war is Iran's.

Note: when Iran started shooting at Bahrain, Oman and Azerbaijan, it was the aggressor. Someone shooting at you doesn't mean carte blanche for blowing up non-belligerants.
by nprateem | 2026-03-08 07:53:12+00:00
What do people expect? You use an LLM, don't tell it your preferred writing style and get annoyed when it falls back to defaults.

All those tropes have their place in certain contexts. AI overusing them is because they have no memory across all they've written.

Each conversion is a new chat so it's like "I haven't used delve in a while, think I'll roll out that bad boy"

And then you try to fix this by telling it what not to do which doesn't work very well, so...
by amusings | 2026-03-08 07:54:25+00:00
I'm not yet convinced that the positions are going away. Unfortunately, I find it more likely that it's going to be a bad few years and then surge in demand to fix things that have been done in those years.

Maybe I've just had bad luck but over last 2 decades I've only worked in places where 80% (at least - probably closer to 95%) coworkers (in development related areas) had negative productivity - making software more complex, brittle and abstract than necessary. With AI assistants the same people can be more "productive" and gatekeeping is mostly a lost cause.

I hope to find a decent alternative in those few years and never go back to software :)
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by strosz | 2026-03-08 07:55:04+00:00
Why do we assume it's intel failure, or ai usage?

1. The school was clearly a school. Damn even OpenStreetMap lists it as a school.
2. The other bombings were very precise.
3. This was a school for the families of military people.

US has a history of these types of barbaric terrorism on civilians. There should be full accountability for this targeted terrorism before anything else. Also why are we talking about AI usage like it's some sort of scapegoat, it never is and never in war.
by nishit130 | 2026-03-08 07:55:14+00:00
Even if it's "just" a text predictor, it already outperforms the average person in certain domains, particularly software engineering. With all the recent advances in agentic systems like Claude Code and OpenCLAW, these text predictors can iterate and debug faster than the average human. Looking ahead at the next decade, I totally agree with Sean's view here.

> I'm a daily user of the most recent Claude and while it's amazing at presenting other people's knowledge and reducing cognitive load.

'Presenting other people's knowledge' is enough to get the job done when that knowledge encompasses the entire internet.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-08 07:57:34+00:00
In Portugal it always was, that is why we got to use eh for é, ah for á, he for è, c, for ç and many other tricks.

Shared by other European languages, like ou for ö in German, kalimera for καλημέρα, and so on all around the world in non-English speaking countries during the early days of computing.
by tombert | 2026-03-08 07:58:44+00:00
One person wrote books like JRR Tolkien. His name was JRR Tolkien, and those books are widely celebrated by millions of people as classics.

I don’t have any issue with people using an engine like Godot or Unity or RPG Maker or Unreal or anything else, but I do think that there can be value in “owning the entire stack” of a project, even if that means “reinventing the wheel”.

When I do a project involving HTTP, I could reach for Rails or something, it’s a valid enough and I certainly have done that plenty of times, but I often will work with a lower level protocol. Depending on the language I will use a more simple HTTP server thing like Axum with Rust, and other times I will go full epoll/Selector with a raw socket.

I do this for a variety of reasons, but the main one is that I can build my own framework that works in a way that I think and I don’t pull in a bunch of extra crap I don’t need. I can optimize the “hot paths” of my particular project without worrying about a one-size-fits-all you get for generic frameworks, I don’t have to worry as much about leaky abstractions, and I am intimately familiar with a much larger percentage of the codebase.

There is value in both approaches.