MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by delusional | 2026-03-08 16:34:17+00:00
That seems like a wrong economic theory to me. The economy is based on differential of value. I can make furniture, so it's worth less to me than it is to you. Therefore we can trade. That's what supply/demand is. If AGI somehow exists, then the value of intelligence drops to zero for both of us, there's nothing to trade.

AGI would not make knowledge work valueless, it would move all the knowledge work value to the AGI companies.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2026-03-08 16:34:31+00:00
There is no reason to believe that they haven't already developed and worked out the details of all that, in case they'd ever need it. Now the US and Israel have killed the only man who was preventing it from being done, the late supreme leader. I cannot imagine the next supreme leader (that is about to be announced) not immediately cancelling the prohibition on building nuclear weapons (to be made public only after they've been built, ofc), and giving the order to build ~10 nuclear warheads (the amount that they can build based on the amount of 60% enriched fissile material they currently possess). With two nuclear powers relentlessly attacking them, it would be suicidal of them to not order the immediate building of nuclear weapons ASAP.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-08 16:36:01+00:00
The 9B models are not useful for coding outside of very simple requests.

Qwen3.5 is confusing a lot of newcomers because it is very confident in the answers it gives. It can also regurgitate solutions to common test requests like “make a flappy bird clone” which misleads users into thinking it’s genetically smart.

Using the Qwen3.5 models for longer tasks and inspecting the output is a little more disappointing. They’re cool for something I can run locally but I don’t agree with all of the claims about being Sonnet-level quality (including previous Sonnet versions) in my experience with the larger models. The 9B model is not going to be close to Sonnet in any way.
by werrq | 2026-03-08 16:36:32+00:00
This topic is in mainstream news again, too:

https://www.reuters.com/business/oracle-plans-thousands-job-...

Ellison has borrowed money against $80 billion of his shares:

https://www.reuters.com/business/oracle-plans-thousands-job-...

Banks are getting nervous. The reaction of a psychopath would be to fire people so Ellison can pursue his AI fever dreams. Due to abnormal wealth concentration and total lack of common sense there is nothing to stop anyone should they go senile or insane.

The risk for the entire economy and the job market is immense.
by lp4v4n | 2026-03-08 16:37:31+00:00
It’s the first time I’ve heard about this company, and of course I haven’t taken the time to check how real their product is, but honestly, for me it’s very difficult to believe we currently have the technology to correctly integrate a living neuron into a chip, let alone compute anything meaningful with it.

From what I’ve read elsewhere, our understanding of neurons is still very basic, and we need a lot more fundamental research before reaching results like these. We still don’t even properly know how migraines work, nor can we cure paraplegia, yet somehow we supposedly have the capacity to grow second brains and program them on top of that.
by dcliu | 2026-03-08 16:38:12+00:00
Creator here - yes, it's a mod of a Kensington SlimBlade Pro, mentioned on the site. Rotatrix is the hardware mod (added controller), firmware, and software stack that extracts 3DOF rotation and integrates into CAD and other apps. It's possible with firmware, but you need a trackball with dual optical sensors to do this (which very few have), and the system is patent pending. More on the architecture in the earlier Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990422

Thanks for taking a look.
by api | 2026-03-08 16:38:57+00:00
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It’s a valid point. This neuron chip stuff is far less problematic than a lot of animal testing where you clearly have a whole organism that experiences something.

Factory farming too. The way we treat chickens in particular is out of a horror movie, and that’s in countries with some standards. Globally I’m sure many billions of animals are constantly submitted to the most grotesque torture for food.
by EGreg | 2026-03-08 16:39:02+00:00
Im also gonna be honest

Ever since LLM generated content proliferated we now have “This isn’t X. It’s Y” shibboleths EVRYWHERE!

A person doesn’t normally start a sentence with “This isn’t a silly minor thing that you wouldn’t think it was but I had to say it out of the blue as a set up for the next sentence.” only to be followed by “This is a major deal worthy of you resharing and liking!”

They might do the clauses in the other order, though. “This is a huge deal! Not just business as usual.”
by notnullorvoid | 2026-03-08 16:39:07+00:00
> yes I know what I'm doing and this over-cautious compiler case genuinely doesn't apply to me and there's no way to configure that so it actually lets you do your job

I'm curious why you didn't use `unsafe`?

In general people are really bad at knowing when the strict safety rules are actually being too strict, but if you're confident they are then using `unsafe` seems like a valid path to explore.
by imtringued | 2026-03-08 16:39:10+00:00
You forgot to list like a dozen variants in-between the last two groups. The abrupt end and extremely biased framing is almost comical.

>Climate Warming is Man Made, don't need de-growth strategies because Technology will solve energy efficiency, clean energy growth and carbon capture and humans adapt along the way

Green growth aka energy efficiency doesn't work, so one more category.

Carbon capture doesn't work without government subsidies. Hence you need a group of people who would be willing to pay tax money to solve climate change. One more category.

Human adaptation can mean many things. People accept climate change even if it means mass immigration. One more category.

People accept climate change even if it means armed border conflicts where immigrants get shot (see Poland) due to closed border policies. One more category.

People resign and accept the negative consequences of climate change as the new normal, similar to people living in polluted cities, except globally. One more category.
by a-dub | 2026-03-08 16:39:18+00:00
mmm. interesting and fun concept, but it seems to me like the text is actually the right layer for storing and expressing changes since that is what gets read, changed and reasoned about. why does it make more sense to use asts here?

are these asts fully normalized or do (x) and ((x)) produce different trees, yet still express the same thing?

why change what is being stored and tracked when the language aware metadata for each change can be generated after the fact (or alongside the changes)? (adding transform layers between what appears and what gets stored/tracked seems like it could get confusing?)
I'd like to get everyone's thoughts on Solid
by narukeu | 2026-03-08 16:40:01+00:00
Personally, I prefer using JSX for frontend projects, and I believe that No-Virtual DOM is truly a "next-gen" concept. Because of this, I’ve been following SolidJS for several years now and have watched it mature step-by-step. However, I regretfully feel that Solid's development momentum hasn't been particularly strong. To me, it feels a bit like FreeBSD, something niche and geeky (though I would much prefer it to be the "Next-Gen React" and hope for its widespread adoption).

What exactly is hindering its popularity? Is it the lack of a flagship application (as far as I know, the most popular project using Solid is OpenCode, but I’m not aware of many others), or is it the lack of backing from major tech companies?

Speaking of corporate backing, from what I gather, among the new generation of No-Virtual DOM frameworks, Svelte seems to have higher adoption than Solid. For instance, Apple uses Svelte. What is the primary reason for this? Is it simply that people prefer Vue-style template syntax over JSX?
by backwardsmoo | 2026-03-08 16:40:12+00:00
Aah! I made something similar to this near the end of my PhD!

Rather than having an aperture in front of the imaging plane, I elected to place a controllable aperture at the imaging plane. Then, by selectively placing an aperture or pattern you can 'search' for a light source of interest and 'tune out' background light from the rest of the scene.

The application was for optical wireless communications (free space - like having a room luminary be modulated and picking it up from a phone). I was trying to maximise the SNR of a link with a 'solid angle filter'. The end goal was to try and make it work to filter out the sun (with the help of some optical filters too).

I also used a LCD however for my application it was surprisingly hard to find ones that worked well (in terms of having a high contrast ratio with a small enough pixel pitch) for the wavelength I was using. My links were at 405nm (which was selected as it's 'sufficiently dark' in the ASTM solar spectrum).

I ended up looking at resin 3D printers - as they also use 405nm light to cure prints. There are application-specific displays such as DXQ 608-X04 which was the one I used. They also require very high resolution for high-quality prints, which is a nice bonus.

The whole thing was really interesting but ultimately I never ended up writing it up into papers - just in my thesis. I borrowed a lot of what I learned from the single-pixel camera papers out there, lots of coded-aperture work! I never got to the point of properly 'imaging' a scene with coded apertures (as I had a single high-speed detector) but it's definitely something that's possible.
by synergy20 | 2026-03-08 16:40:45+00:00
how did you get that 'no programming language' conclusion? there are so many well established languages that are more than we need already, the market has picked the winners too, and AI has well trained with them, these are facts. If there is a new language needed down the road for AI coders, most likely it will be created by using AI itself. for the moment, human created niche language is too late for the party, move on.
by rvz | 2026-03-08 16:40:49+00:00
We will look back on this AI bubble 10 years later and see that alongside with the private credit market, the funding of data centers via dubious methods (circular financing, billions of dollars of loans / debt) on top of mass layoffs for the sake of so-called "AGI" to cover up the massive losses will cause a market crash beyond the tech industry.

It just takes a single surprise to shock the market into chaos. My timeline is before 2030.
by threecheese | 2026-03-08 16:40:56+00:00
Have you considered any other options for metadata storage besides the sidecar file? If this is an agentic skill, I would imagine that other methods could be similarly effective - like a cli “getattr —filename” or even “sqlite3 “select metadata where filename=“.

Given agent context strategy is converging on “filesystem is best”, we would need more robust metadata facilities . You have a good opportunity here to test which methods are most effective - starting with your sidecar file.
by Starman_Jones | 2026-03-08 16:41:01+00:00
Kalashnikov worked for decades to build better rifles. Regret is an old man's game.

Even if these AI engineers do regret what they've built, I fear it's too late. A couple years ago, when news broke about Project Lavender, the Google engineers who worked on it protested and got fired. Google's still building weaponized AI systems.
by tliltocatl | 2026-03-08 16:42:22+00:00
It wouldn't impact me at all. Without our hardware it is useless. And customers need certifications, support and availability guarantees. Customers aren't paying shit for code. They don't need code. They need solution to their problems. Of which my code is a very small (if critical) part of.

And yes, that's totally irrelevant. Because the mere fact that some people depend on some evil for their living doesn't justify its existence.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-03-08 16:43:09+00:00
Well, there's only 6 knobs and if you want to be "in tune with the world" those six knobs can only be in one place.

However if you want more notes than that to be their best you're going to have to compromise and work at it a bit.

Now if you want the instrument to sound its absolute best on its own solo, a slightly different place for some strings.

And then depending on other musicians you are playing with and the way their tuning has achieved perfection (or not), some further tweaking can make a big difference.

And that's after accepting that the "knobs can only be in one place".

For students to get really good at the tuning process can require a few extra years of everyday practice more than it does to learn to play a few pieces.

Part of the limitation is the way only a few minutes of tuning are spent for every hour of practice, if that.
by cbility | 2026-03-08 16:43:17+00:00
Why 2030? CO2 persists in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. This doesn't end in 2030.

The goal is not to generate hysteria; but to avoid it. Hitting one or more tipping points [1] is orders of magnitude more destructive than prioritising phasing out fossil fuels, and impossible to undo.

But I do understand that some people have reasons not to care about impacts that have an outsized effect on future generations, so to your request: a recent example of a list of impact predictions is the UK Government joint intelligence committee's national security assessment [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_...
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nature-security-a...
by scottLobster | 2026-03-08 16:43:47+00:00
If you take the time to read the code and understand it to that level, great. But that sort of belies the promise of vibe-coding, where all software engineers essentially become PMs to a bunch of agents.

I use AI to extract information from documentation and write me bespoke examples, but I'd never feel good relying on code it actually generated without extremely thorough testing and review.
by birdsongs | 2026-03-08 16:43:48+00:00
I looked into it. They're not feeding the framebuffer to the neurons, but have a "signal" when an enemy is on screen to some of the tissue's inputs, and how to locate it in the x/y axis, and have outputs for the character to turn right or left or fire.

It's "see this input signal, send these output signals", which seems consistent with the title.

It seems they grow the neural tissue on a chip the neurons can interface with and send out / receive electrical impulses. They let the neurons self assemble, and "train" via reward or punishment signals (unclear to me what those are).

Either way this makes me nauseous in a way I haven't experienced much with tech. The telling thing for me is, all these people are so excited to explain, but not once, ever, in the video speak of ethics or try to mitigate concerns.

We know this is only 200,000 neurons. Dogs have 500 million. Humans have billions. But where is the line for sentience, awareness? Have we defined it? Can we, if we don't understand it ourselves? What are the plans to scale up?

It's legitimately horrifying to me.
by yoctonaut | 2026-03-08 16:43:48+00:00
Kyle Gann's Arithmetic of Listening goes deeply into this. Given an infinite number of ways of dividing the range from f to 2f, some other equal-division temperaments (31 or 53, for example) get closer than 12TET to maintaining low-integer ratios across key centers, but each additional pitch adds complexity. I'd recommend that book in particular. https://www.kylegann.com/Gannbooks.html
by dkechag | 2026-03-08 16:43:55+00:00
I had a bit of a hard time when I first signed up. It turns out the problem was I had included "oracle" in my email (I give a different email on my domain to every provider), so some part of the system considered it an internal email and others part did not, so I had a weird account that could not do anything. Took them a month of two to figure out what was wrong...
Show HN: Astro MD Editor – Schema-aware editor for Astro content collections
by bimsina | 2026-03-08 16:44:24+00:00
I built this for my own Astro projects where I got tired of hand-editing YAML frontmatter and switching between files.

astro-md-editor reads your collection schemas and gives you a local editor UI with typed frontmatter controls (including image/color/icon pickers) alongside a markdown/MDX editor.

Run it with: npx astro-md-editor

Would love feedback on schema edge cases or missing field types.
by Aardappel | 2026-03-08 16:44:40+00:00
That is tricky with raytracing, since rays would need to be curved, and at least in this raytracer, ray steps are not all equal in size so doing that correctly could be very expensive.

But is generally a cool idea.

Fog is good too, though. It helps with a sense of scale, and it helps colors and distance noise not be too busy.
by yuyuqueen | 2026-03-08 16:44:42+00:00
The regression rates match what I saw early on with Claude Code on my monorepo. The fix was structural, not model-level: keeping everything in a single tree (packages, tests, docs, CI config) so the agent sees downstream effects of any change. When context is split across repos, agents cheerfully break imports because they literally can't see what depends on what.

Something hard to capture in benchmarks: project-level conventions. A well-maintained CLAUDE.md at the repo root — describing architecture, naming patterns, test conventions — gives the agent context it internalizes before touching code. My regression rate dropped noticeably once I started maintaining that kind of project metadata. Model choice is only half the equation — the other half is how well you've structured the information environment the agent works in.
by jswelker | 2026-03-08 16:44:55+00:00
I did the math meticulously when I had my first kid years ago, comparing store brand diapers vs cloth. Once you factor in the up front cost of the cloth diapers plus the cost of water and energy and detergent running the wash, the costs are virtually identical. The math looks better for cloth if you use them for years or multiple kids, but that's not super hygienic.

That's not even factoring in time and convenience.

I am convinced cloth diapers are some kind of performative environmentalialsm or performative motherhood akin to the trad wife phenomenon.
by shagie | 2026-03-08 16:45:42+00:00
> It can even work for future dates and times too!

Morocco has some complex logic around Ramadan... which is a moveable festival.

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/africa#L854

Rule Morocco 2026 only - Feb 15 3:00 -1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2026 only - Mar 22 2:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2027 only - Feb 7 3:00 -1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2027 only - Mar 14 2:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2028 only - Jan 23 3:00 -1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2028 only - Mar 5 2:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2029 only - Jan 14 3:00 -1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2029 only - Feb 18 2:00 0 -
by everforward | 2026-03-08 16:46:13+00:00
The fear is that we don’t really understand what causes consciousness. I think that’s a valid fear, because we can’t know ahead of time whether we will inadvertently create a “person” inside the machine.

Unless your proposition is that no collection of human neurons outside of live birth can become sentient, and I’m not sure how you’d arrive at that conclusion without invoking some kind of spiritual argument.
by gruez | 2026-03-08 16:46:14+00:00
>Almost all of that money when given to OpenAI was used/(will be used?) to commit 20% of the Ram supply of the whole world at a more expensive package because these companies just package ram in different order to get "AI ram" and then Micron shuts down the consumer brand (Crucial)

>[...]

>All of this does feel very cartel/monopoly-ish to me to push the competitors out of the market or the people running open source models out of the market and another benefit of it for OpenAI

Nothing you described is actually "cartel/monopoly-ish" beyond "big players have more money to splash around". It's fine to go look at that and go "grr, I hate big tech companies", but the claim of "It's not a shortage, it's a cartel." isn't substantiated. The latter implies some sort of malice beyond what could be explained by standard scarcity thinking, eg. "there isn't enough RAM to go around. We need RAM, so let's stock up".
by card_zero | 2026-03-08 16:46:35+00:00
Notice though that no specific reason is given:

> hard emotional labor

⸻ that's not a selling point,

> isolated

⸻ necessarily, that's the same as "alone",

> waiting to die

⸻ not necessarily, why?

> Being alone all the time is a kind of poverty,

⸻ "alone is bad", how?

> A lone billionaire is less wealthy than a beggar with a loving family

⸻ "company is worth lots of money", how, why?
by sva_ | 2026-03-08 16:46:46+00:00
I haven't watched the whole thing either, but basically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

+ showing the people responsible have only been promoted in those companies

+ pointing out 3 (Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix) companies at the heart of it now have 95% of market share

+ hypothesis they've doing it again (or rather, have continued doing it "business as usual")
Show HN: A simpler alternative to BI tools for Excel users
by skandersab | 2026-03-08 16:46:58+00:00
Hi HN,

Many small businesses run most of their operations in Excel.

Sales tracking, product lists, inventory, revenue reports — everything often ends up in spreadsheets.

The problem is that once the data grows, it becomes difficult to answer simple questions like:

What products actually make money?

Which categories are underperforming?

Where are we overstocked or understocked?

Traditional BI tools like Microsoft Power BI or Tableau Software are powerful, but for small teams they often require:

integrations

data modeling

dashboards to be built manually

I wanted something much simpler.

So I built a small tool where you can upload an Excel file and instantly get a business dashboard.

The system analyzes the spreadsheet and generates dashboards automatically showing things like:

sales performance

product performance

category trends

inventory signals (overstock / understock)

The idea is to remove the need to manually build dashboards or set up complex BI tools.

Instead of connecting databases or building reports, you just drop a spreadsheet and the dashboards are generated automatically.

The project is still early and I'm mostly trying to learn how people actually analyze spreadsheet data.

I'd love to hear how others here handle turning spreadsheet data into insights.
by dkechag | 2026-03-08 16:47:11+00:00
They warn they will reclaim. I had two accounts, one processing data for a free weather service I volunteer for, so it's not idle and has had no issues for a couple of years now. The other for personal projects, so at times it stays idle for a while and I would get these email warnings which made me switched it to paid. I have not paid a cent, again for a couple of years now.
by bdangubic | 2026-03-08 16:47:29+00:00
that is not much of a timeline and not much of a prediction. first you need to define what “crash” means in real terms. over the course of 4 years there will be market correction (especially after a bull run like we are on) so just saying “ai bubble, crash bla bla” is too lazy (although there are probably 10k+ such “predictions” on HN in the last say a year)