MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2026-03-06 05:56:11+00:00
> Throwing them into the deep end when they’re 16 or 18 is too late.

I saw this a lot in college. Kids that didn’t have any freedom or autonomy while living at home went wild in college. They had no idea how to self-regulate. A lot of them failed out. Those who didn’t had some rough years. Sheltering kids for too long seems to do more harm than good. At least if they run into issues while still children, their parents can be there to help them through it so they can better navigate on their own once they move out.
by porcoda | 2026-03-06 05:56:44+00:00
Not really a new term: “warfighter” always has made me cringe but it’s been commonplace in defense contractor pitches to DoD for many years. Basically, if you hear it being used you’re likely in the presence of someone who does (or did) DoD work. Totally unsurprising to see it here given this is a DoD contracting argument that we’re all watching from the sidelines.
by eucyclos | 2026-03-06 05:56:46+00:00
I had a coworker who became nouveau riche a while back- he made fuck you money day trading during the roaringkitty debacle - and one interesting thing he said about the experience was that he learned certain luxury goods, such as high end watches, don't depreciate. Like gold jewelry one can usually resell them for cost plus inflation. As such, his logic was that a fancy watch is essentially free while a cheap watch costs whatever it costs.

Not sure if that's the truth or clever marketing by purveyors of luxury goods, but it changes the wealth signaling dynamics of fancy watches if it is.
by kodablah | 2026-03-06 05:57:32+00:00
> People who are saying they're not seeing productivity boost, can you please share where is it failing?

At review time.

There are simply too many software industries that can't delegate both authorship _and_ review to non-humans because the maintenance/use of such software, especially in libraries and backwards-compat-concerning environments, cannot justify an "ends justifies the means" approach (yet).
by llmthrow0827 | 2026-03-06 05:58:01+00:00
Yes, the equivocal wording means nothing. It's clear that Anthropic has no moral qualms about participating in war crimes, since that's been America's MO since forever. America has provided free weapons to Israel to continue their slaughter in Gaza and has now joint forces with the same to assassinate leaders under the auspices of peace talks, and kill schoolchildren and other civilians as part of a terror campaign.
by lvca | 2026-03-06 05:59:33+00:00
This resonates strongly. We've been working on exactly this problem with ArcadeDB — a multi-model database that natively supports graphs, documents, key-value, time-series, and vector search in a single engine. (https://arcadedb.com)

The insight about relationships growing faster than nodes is spot on, and it's why we think the graph model is the natural fit for context layers. But in practice, you also need documents, vectors, and sometimes time-series data alongside the graph. Forcing everything into a single model (or stitching together multiple databases) creates friction that kills agent workflows.

On the GQL/Cypher vs SQL point — agreed on token efficiency. We support both SQL (extended with graph capabilities) and Cypher-style syntax, and the difference in prompt size for traversal queries is dramatic. An N-hop relationship query that takes 5+ lines of SQL JOINs is a single readable line in a graph query language. For LLM-generated queries, that's not just an aesthetic win — it directly reduces error rates and token costs.

Re: GraphRAG — we've seen the same convergence. Vector similarity to find the right neighborhood, then graph traversal for structured context. Having both in one engine (ArcadeDB supports vector indexing natively) means you avoid the API orchestration overhead you mention. One query, one database, full context.

The training gap for graph query languages is real but closing fast. As more agent frameworks adopt graph-based context, the flywheel will kick in.
by chai-admin | 2026-03-06 05:59:39+00:00
Open Call for Posters!

To mark the Center for Human-Compatible AI's tenth annual workshop, we're casting a wide net for our poster session submissions.

Interested in submitting your work for the CHAI 2026 Workshop? See our Call for Posters at https://workshop.humancompatible.ai/. Anyone can submit with recent or relevant research.

Deadline: March 26, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PST.
Workshop Dates: June 4–7, 2026
Venue: Asilomar Hotel & Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA.
by AlexCalderAI | 2026-03-06 06:01:11+00:00
Solid patterns here. One thing I'd add from running Claude Code in production:

The "give it bash" pattern sounds scary until you realize the alternative is 47 intermediate tool calls that fail silently.

Letting the agent write and run scripts means the agent debugs when something breaks. The feedback loop tightens dramatically.

The trick is sandboxing + cost limits. Not preventing shell access.
by jurschreuder | 2026-03-06 06:02:13+00:00
“We live in the age of computers,” Eaton said. “It must be possible for Customs Service to program its computers so it doesn’t need a manual review.”

In DHL the link to get tax documents is already broken for a year or so, so I cannot get VAT back on DHL shipments.

With FedEx I can but it's a manual process of screenshotting a bank transaction and emailing a specific email address with a shipping number.

When tariffs started all the servers of the shipping companies went down.

So I highly doubt they will just do some computer magic.

From experience I assume they will "accidentally" run into all kinds of technical difficulties making it a 274 step process to get the money back.

For scale: Shopify, a software company by heart, with 170bn market cap and 3500 engineers employed, does not have native VAT support, required in the Europe which accounts for 15-20% of their revenue. All they would have to do to support this is add a checkout field "VAT number" that shows up on a pdf invoice.

So to assume a shipping company will just work some computer magic is really far fetched. The FedEx page only lets you login after you refresh the page exactly once already for more than a year.
by AlexCalderAI | 2026-03-06 06:02:41+00:00
When you're running multiple Claude Code agents (or even just one agent working on complex problems), this task scattering is real.

We solve it differently—all agent state lives in markdown files + git history. Simpler than MCP, more transparent than a database.

The key insight: make debugging obvious. When something breaks, you should be able to grep the logs and understand exactly what happened. Black box task managers fail at this.
by eurleif | 2026-03-06 06:02:48+00:00
A very long time ago, I had the idea to set up a joke site advertising "SpamZero, the world's best spam filter", with a bunch of hype about how it never, ever misses spam. When you clicked the download link, the joke would be revealed: you would get a file consisting of `function isSpam(msg) { return true; }`.

Apparently that's not a joke anymore?!
by Slow_Hand | 2026-03-06 06:03:09+00:00
Yeah. It remains an open question if they'll be a net positive in the end. If they end up being helpful, good. And if they end up being mostly a waste of our time, then we'll go back to where we were. More or less.

It seems like there's still some juice to squeeze from this technology, though. So my money is on a net positive. For now.

Even if they end up being bad practice for production code, we can probably agree that they're decent at mock-ups, experimentation, and quick proof of concepts. That at least has some value.

I see a lot of people with zero coding/engineering experience trying to make their own products, and very few of those products with long term staying power. We've got a long way to mature with how we use this tech. This moment feels like the introduction of the home microwave: A lot of terrible, terrible meals were cooked while people briefly forsook their stove to use the miraculous microwave for everything. Eventually people figured out what tasks the microwave was suitable for and then went back to the oven for all but simple re-heating.
by AlexCalderAI | 2026-03-06 06:03:34+00:00
Really nice approach. Running parallel agents is the obvious next step after single-agent works, but the coordination + cost tracking becomes the blocker.

One thing I'd add: make cost-per-agent visibility mandatory from day one. When you've got 5-10 agents running, token burn compounds fast. Each agent needs its own cost dashboard.

We bake this into every agent setup now—cost awareness prevents expensive mistakes.
by gchadwick | 2026-03-06 06:04:44+00:00
You can see the latest nightly results here: https://opentitan.org/dashboard/index.html note there are some 100% figures.

Having spent several years working on OT I can tell you that most of the gaps are things that should be waived anyway. Getting waiver files reliably integrated into that flow has been problematic as those files are fragile, alter the RTL and they typically break as they refer to things by line number or expect a particular expression to be identical to when you did a waiver for it.

This has all been examined and the holes have been deemed unconcerning, yes ideally there'd be full waivers documenting this but as with any real life engineering project you can't do everything perfectly! There is internal documentation explaining the rationale for why the holes aren't a problem but it's not public.
by hunterpayne | 2026-03-06 06:05:04+00:00
Quite a bit of risk telescoping there...because you had the source code to the memcached library so in the theoretical case you found a bug in mature code (how many times have you seen that?), you weren't SOL. So instead you switched to an entirely new system? If you were trying to minimize risk and cost, you did the opposite unless memcached was doing something else that was a problem.
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-06 06:05:14+00:00
> Code is speech, though, and is protected by the first amendment: see Bernstein v. United States.

That is very much overstating the holding in the case [0], the most relevant part of which seems to be:

“encryption software, in its source code form and as employed by those in the field of cryptography, must be viewed as expressive for First Amendment purposes”

The ruling spends a key bit of analysis discussing the expressive function of source code in this field as distinct from the function of object code in controlling a computer.

A law compelling providing functionality which it is merely most convenient to comply with by creating source code as part of the process is not directing speech, any more than an law delivery of physical goods where the most convenient method of doing so involves interacting by speech with the person who physically holds them on your behalf is.

[0] text here: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F3/176/176.F3d...
by dannersy | 2026-03-06 06:05:38+00:00
Anecdotal evidence, how scientific of you. When I say it's unfounded, I'm saying it hasn't been proven with actual research and data. So when you ask, "by whom?", that's exactly my point, it is unfounded. That's what that word means, no one has made a claim, backed by data, that AI is making significant waves on productivity. I don't think I've missed the point at all, but it seems I hit an emotional nerve with you though, so the conversation is over.
by salawat | 2026-03-06 06:05:55+00:00
Not everyone has the capability to rent out data center tier hardware to just do their job. These things require so much damn compute you need some serious heft to actually daisy chain enough stages either in parallel or deep to get enough tokens/sec for the experience to go ham. If you're making bags o' coke money, and deciding to fund Altman's, Zuckernut's or Amazon/Google's/Microsoft's datacenter build out, that's on you. Rest of us are just trying to get by on bits and bobs we've kept limping over the years. If opencode is anything to judge the vibecoded scene by, I'm fairly sure at some point the vibe crowd will learn the lesson of isolating the most expensive computation ever from the hot loop, then maybe find one day all they needed was maybe something to let the model build a context, and a text editor.

Til then wtf_are_these_abstractions.jpg
by yoyohello13 | 2026-03-06 06:06:01+00:00
The companies laying off people have no vision. My company is a successful not for profit and we are hiring like crazy. It’s not a software company, but we have always effectively unlimited work. Why would anyone downsize because work is getting done faster? Just do more work, get more done, get better than the competition, get better at delivering your vision. We put profits back in the community and actually make life better for people. What a crazy fucking concept right?
Show HN: ABES – a memory architecture for belief revision in AI agents
by bradkinnard | 2026-03-06 06:06:22+00:00
I’ve been building ABES (Adaptive Belief Ecology System), a memory architecture for AI agents based on the idea that memory should manage belief state over time, not only retrieve prior text.

The system models memory as structured beliefs with explicit state, including confidence, salience, contradiction pressure, lifecycle status, memory tier, evidence balance, lineage, user and session scope, and decay behavior. Beliefs can be reinforced, weakened, contested, updated, mutated, or deprecated as new evidence arrives.

The goal is to support longer-running agents that need to deal with stale information, conflicting information, confidence change, and belief revision, rather than only recalling similar prior content.

Current implementation includes a structured belief model, reinforcement and decay mechanics, contradiction handling, tiered memory behavior, session isolation, API support, Docker support, and testing/evaluation infrastructure.

What has been verified so far in the project’s published tests and evals:

822 passing tests

a 1,000-prompt evaluation with an overall score of 825/1000 (82.5%)

reported category scores of 96.8% episodic memory, 94.4% working memory, and 92.8% semantic memory

a 15-block side-by-side evaluation against a raw Ollama baseline, where ABES passed 14/15 blocks and the baseline passed 6/15

a 200-prompt cognitive stress test reported as 3 consecutive runs at 200/200

Two easy verification points:

run PYTHONPATH=$PWD pytest tests/ -q from the repo root

inspect results/side_by_side_eval.json for the block-level comparison output

I do not consider internal tests and project-published evals to be sufficient external validation. The next stages are stronger benchmarking, improved contradiction handling and belief revision, stronger temporal and relational structure, longer-horizon testing, multi-agent shared memory work, and better observability of belief transitions.
by jadar | 2026-03-06 06:06:47+00:00
> Secular just means you discuss more than one viewpoint.

Secular is simply the viewpoint that claims to equalize all viewpoints while at the same time discounting them all in favor of its own … and then stealing the good parts of my viewpoint. :) It means you can bring your priors into the classroom but I can’t. At least in a good seminary they are honest about priors and articulate why
their viewpoint is different / better than others. Ethics is and always has been applied theology, answering the question “what do we do?” You can’t answer that question honestly or fully without answering the prior question.
by xvilka | 2026-03-06 06:09:33+00:00
I wonder what's the status of LaTeX 3[1][2]. Also, it would be nice to have an automation in the style of Tectonic[3][4] (which looks like a dead project itself) out of the box.

[1] https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/

[2] https://github.com/latex3/latex3

[3] http://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/

[4] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-06 06:09:57+00:00
The more data they have on you, the more valuable that data is to a third party. So they sell your data to someone else, who then phones you based on your known deep interest in <whatever it was that tracked you>. Or spams you. Or messages you. Or whatever method they think will most get your attention.

If you don't give them that information, they can't sell it, and the buyers won't annoy you.

It's not that the ads you get are more interesting, it's that you get more ads because they think they know more about you.
by fellowniusmonk | 2026-03-06 06:10:18+00:00
Yeah, cool, what categories do you have in mind? Sure we have bias but not infinite bias.

I'll start!

How about sea urchin destruction? I bet otters and sheepshead fish probably have little bookies keeping track and they know which species or virus hold the records! Very fun stuff! I bet they have little tablets to keep track of their records that go back thousands of years? Oh man, yeah, good point about species bias!
by heavyset_go | 2026-03-06 06:11:07+00:00
Just a reminder of what liability the CA age verification law imposes upon developers and providers.

It's not enough to adhere to the OS age signal:

> (3) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a developer shall treat a signal received pursuant to this title as the primary indicator of a user’s age range for purposes of determining the user’s age.

> (B) If a developer has internal clear and convincing information that a user’s age is different than the age indicated by a signal received pursuant to this title, the developer shall use that information as the primary indicator of the user’s age.

Developers are still burdened with additional liability if they have reason to believe users are underage, even if their age flag says otherwise.

The only way to mitigate this liability is to confirm your users are of age with facial and ID scans, as it is implemented across platforms already. Not doing so opens you up to liability if someone ever writes "im 12 lol" on your app/platform.
by not_your_vase | 2026-03-06 06:11:12+00:00
> Autonomous weapons would require a much faster and much more reliable and deterministic AI.

I think this is only true when the bots are on home-field, and you don't want to kill your own ones. When you are on the other side, you just want to shoot indiscriminately everything that moves, and monitor your surroundings to protect yourself. For this, today's LLMs seem to be more than enough. And since there was no human intervention in shooting everyone, it's not even a war crime.
Show HN: Garden Horizons Calculator – Built by a Beginner via "Vibe Coding"
by hyperstatic | 2026-03-06 06:12:24+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a programming beginner, and lately, I’ve been hopelessly addicted to a farming simulation on Roblox called Garden Horizons.

The core loop is simple: plant, grow, and harvest. However, the game uses a complex, non-linear economic system where crop value scales with the square of its weight.

Sell Price = Base Price × (Weight / Base Weight)² × Ripening × Color × Mutation × ...

Calculating the optimal time to harvest became a total ROI nightmare.

So, I built this tool to solve that: https://gardenhorizonscalculator.pro/

Data-Driven ROI: I collected raw data from the game and used Regression Fitting to verify the underlying math. The resulting model is highly consistent with in-game values.

Integrated Wiki: I aggregated scattered info from Discord and community forums into a structured, mobile-friendly guide for plants and mutations.

The Struggle: "Vibe Coding" and its Limits
I built this using Next.js through "Vibe Coding" (heavy AI assistance). While the AI was incredible for getting me from 0 to 1, I hit a massive wall during deployment.

I fell into "Deployment Hell"—failed over a dozen times. At one point, both the AI and I were just staring at the terminal, completely stuck. I realized then that while AI can write code, technical fundamentals are the ultimate safety net. It was only after diving into the documentation and developer forums that I understood the "why" behind the failure and finally got it live.

The Tool: It’s live, free, no sign-up required, and designed specifically for mobile-first use (since most players have it open on their phones while gaming).

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially from anyone interested in non-linear game economies or those who have thoughts on how a beginner can better navigate the "Vibe Coding" workflow.

URL: https://gardenhorizonscalculator.pro/
by throwaw12 | 2026-03-06 06:12:35+00:00
> Just do more work, get more done

That's one of the reasons why I am terrified, because it can lead to burn out, and I personally don't like to babysit bunch of agents, because the output doesn't feel "mine", when its not "mine" I don't feel ownership.

And I am deliberately hitting the brake from time to time not to increase expectations, because I feel like driving someone else's car while not understanding fully how they tuned their car (even though I did those tunings by prompting)
by genve | 2026-03-06 06:12:46+00:00
As a founder building in the AI video space (Genve.ai), I've grappled with this exact question. Our conclusion? Speed and execution are the only real moats.
In the time it takes to file a patent, the SOTA (state-of-the-art) models change twice. For us, instead of spending $20k on legal fees for a patent that might be obsolete in 18 months, we chose to invest that capital into our engineering—specifically developing our parallel multi-language translation engine.
In AI, by the time someone tries to 'copy' your patented method, a new research paper or a model update has likely made that method inefficient anyway. We prefer keeping our specific lip-syncing logic as a trade secret while focusing on scaling the product as fast as possible.
by fzeindl | 2026-03-06 06:12:55+00:00
> Almost no one is shopping multiple supermarkets, buying cheaper alternatives, buying in-season veggies and fruit when it’s cheap, waiting for sales to stock up, buying in bulk and freezing, using coupons, meal planning based on the latest supermarket Sunday circular, etc. only a tiny minority of people have been doing so.

I don‘t know where this observation comes from, but here in Austria a majority of people in lower income sectors than IT do all of this?
by systoll | 2026-03-06 06:13:14+00:00
> I'm confused. This seems like a bad change.

It’s a good change in that it discourages unwarranted funding. Bad for the DoD’s budget, good for the country.

It’s analogous to why `React.__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED` is a pretty good name.

(But even if it's a decent name in isolation, it isn't actually the name of the department, and using it is a tacit submission to the power of the executive over congress. So… bad overall.)
by tolciho | 2026-03-06 06:13:18+00:00
Alas, but the body count usually must be worryingly high before the "hmm, well, maybe we should do something?" thing kicks into gear. Daylight unescorted bomber raids, for example, or a space shuttle departing itself most awkwardly, usually after the attrit rate is already out the barn door and up and over the third ridge is action taken. Fixes may also require a change of thinking, which may be awkward for some, especially where reputations are involved, or piles of Mammon so high that a Jesus himself would throw his back trying to turn those tables at Wall-street. The engineering on the space shuttle was near perfect, right? And then you need ongoing vigilance soas to help slow down the rate of repeats where, spoilers, o-rings were again involved in the almost-disaster that was the Starliner. Squick-worthy adtech? Meh, hasn't gotten enough killed. Yet.