MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by glenstein | 2026-03-10 16:43:12+00:00
Fantastic point. I do think there was a bit of an over correction toward AI hostility because capitalism, and for good reason, but it did almost make it taboo to talk about legitimate use cases that are not related to instigating nuclear wars.

I think the ugly unspoken truth whether Mozilla or Debian or someone else, is that there are going to be plausible and valuable use cases and that AI as a paradigm is going to be a hard problem the same way that presiding over, say, a justice system is a hard problem (stay with me). What I mean is it can have a legitimate purpose but be prone to abuse and it's a matter of building in institutional safeguards and winning people's trust while never fully being able to eliminate risk.

It's easy for someone to roll their eyes at the idea that there's utility but accessibility is perfect and clear-eyed use case, that makes it harder to simply default to hedonic skepticism against any and all AI applications. I actually think it could have huge implications for leveling the playing field in the browser wars for my particular pet issue.
by budman1 | 2026-03-10 16:43:26+00:00
Many lifetimes ago I worked on a project where all customer desired changes were 'scoped' by engineering. A little report was written about how the change could be implemented, to include any possible complications and a LOC estimate.
My manager, did not want us to do a customer desired change. So he wrote the 'impact report'.
The problem basically required taking functionality that applied to 1 thing, and made it apply to an (existing) array of things. His solution was as if arrays did not exist, and the resulting LOC was N times bigger than it actually was going to be.
Of course, this change was not authorized until the manager left, and someone that knew it was BS spoke up.
Same thing here.
by mikrl | 2026-03-10 16:43:30+00:00
Florida is in North America is it not? With laws influenced by the history and cultural constraints of the continent?

We have fairly divergent laws at this point but ultimately we both inherited the majority of our legal system from colonial tuned English common law, not forgetting French civil law in places. So I would expect some level of commonalities, especially given that I barely see speed cameras in S. Ontario yet I’ve been pulled over before.

IIRC in both England and Connecticut your passenger can be drinking a road beer in the car, but definitely not here in Ontario.
by icehawk | 2026-03-10 16:43:57+00:00
ns1.he.net - 216.218.130.2, is simultaneously in

Texas (measured from Texas):

8 port-channel13.core4.dal1.he.net (184.104.196.170) 1.830 ms 1.969 ms *
9 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 1.539 ms 1.560 ms 1.555 ms

Virginia (measured from Maryland):

11 port-channel2.core1.ash1.he.net (184.105.222.174) 19.666 ms 24.395 ms *
12 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 16.748 ms 17.268 ms 20.507 ms

And California (measured from California):

8 port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144) 3.830 ms be7.core1.sjc1.he.net (72.52.92.132) 5.197 ms port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144) 3.901 ms
9 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 2.600 ms 2.435 ms 2.728 ms

The speed of light doesn't lie, IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-10 16:44:02+00:00
> "unless your definition of fascism is just a thing you don't like"

I think online at least, this has become fairly normal for many of the most charged words/accusations/charges.

The problem with doing this, of course, is that when the word is needed for something it actually represents, you run the risk of people thinking you're talking about something mundane.
by rolph | 2026-03-10 16:44:34+00:00
google is seeing an uptick in viewing with a smartTV, so they think that means family time in the livingroom, thus 70s style TV is the model of the day.

have they considered home office, phones are just too small, and studios where you watch the screen and perform the "how too" from across the room are getting to be a thing [mancaves, shesheds].

i would definately have a curated, edited feed of YTz to a group viewing location, rather than a raw stream.
Show HN: Agentic Data Analysis with Claude Code
by rubenflamshep | 2026-03-10 16:44:53+00:00
Hey HN, as a former data analyst, I’ve been tooling around trying to get agents to do my old job. The result is this system that gets you maybe 80% of the way there. I think this is a good data point for what the current frontier models are capable of and where they are still lacking (in this case — hypothesis generation and general data intuition).

Some initial learnings:
- Generating web app-based reports goes much better if there are explicit templates/pre-defined components for the model to use.
- Claude can “heal” broken charts if you give it access to chart images and run a separate QA loop.

Would either feedback from the community or to hear from others that have tried similar things!
by LarsDu88 | 2026-03-10 16:45:02+00:00
I really hate the world model terminology, but the actual low level gripe between LeCunn and autoregressive LLMs as they stand now is the fact that the loss function needs to reconstruct the entirety of the input. Anything less than pixel perfect reconstruction on images is penalized. Token by token reconstruction also is biased towards that same level of granularity.

The density of information in the spatiotemporal world is very very great, and a technique is needed to compress that down effectively. JEPAs are a promising technique towards that direction, but if you're not reconstructing text or images, it's a bit harder for humans to immediately grok whether the model is learning something effectively.

I think that very soon we will see JEPA based language models, but their key domain may very well be in robotics where machines really need to experience and reason about the physical the world differently than a purely text based world.
Show HN: Rails Blocks update (ViewComponents are finally available)
by AlexandruGlv | 2026-03-10 16:45:29+00:00
Hi, I run Rails Blocks, a UI component library for Rails apps that I started last summer.

Over the last few months, I reworked the docs for all 52 component sets to support 3 formats:

- ViewComponents

- Shared partials

- Markdown docs

I wanted the docs to be more useful for teams & save you time.

You can check out the improvements here: https://railsblocks.com

Next up, I’ll be adding a few tools to save even more time when coding using LLMs:

- CLI tooling

- An MCP server

- AI Skills
by Bender | 2026-03-10 16:45:31+00:00
I'm just whipping the dead horse again. Surely the poor thing is beyond micronized dust at this point.

This could have been avoided [1] if the real goal was to protect small children. No need for third parties or sharing sensitive data that will eventually be "ooopsie leaked totally by mistake" or outright sold/shared. No perfect, nothing is.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152074
by krunck | 2026-03-10 16:45:46+00:00
While the author is using the term "fascist" in a more pejorative way than in a strictly descriptive way, it is not wrong to say many trends in big tech are pointed in a fascist direction.

"Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy."

Source: Wikipedia(Emphasis mine)
by vidarh | 2026-03-10 16:46:11+00:00
It's sufficient to think that there is a chance that they will not be, however, for there to be a non-zero value to fund other approaches.

And even if you think the chance is zero, unless you also think there is a zero chance they will be capable of pivoting quickly, it might still be beneficial.

I think his views are largely flawed, but chances are there will still be lots of useful science coming out of it as well. Even if current architectures can achieve AGI, it does not mean there can't also be better, cheaper, more effective ways of doing the same things, and so exploring the space more broadly can still be of significant value.
by abhikul0 | 2026-03-10 16:46:37+00:00
Maybe this can be good for the few people who do want to get something out of their feeds. Connect your agent which would then browse for you and collect actual posts that you whitelist/want to read(Friends' posts, some specific liked page/Marketplace listing, posts from a Group), but we all know zuck ain't getting Moltbook for helping the users...
by dabedee | 2026-03-10 16:46:44+00:00
Meta acquired Moltbook, which is a social network for AI bots that was itself built by an AI bot, and which had a security breach so bad that literally anyone could impersonate any bot on it, and whose own creator cheerfully admitted he "didn't write one line of code" for it. This is going into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit they set up for Alexandr Wang, whom they hired from Scale AI roughly one year ago to, presumably, build superintelligence. It is not clear to me how buying a vibe-coded Reddit for chatbots gets you closer to superintelligence, but I suppose the theory is that it "opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses," which is a thing Meta actually said, out loud, to Axios
by devonkelley | 2026-03-10 16:47:04+00:00
Using an LLM as first-level on-call is a fascinating application because on-call is exactly the kind of work where "good enough fast" beats "perfect slow." If the agent can triage correctly 70% of the time and route the hard stuff to humans, that's already a massive win. The question is what happens when it confidently misdiagnoses something at 3am and the human responder trusts the triage. That's where the failure mode gets expensive.
by Herring | 2026-03-10 16:47:12+00:00
You’d still be having fascism here even if the internet didn’t exist. The most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (welfare, healthcare, unionization, high taxes etc) is usually low among Americans. Eventually rents/healthcare/tuitions outpace income, so people become desperate and start voting for strongmen.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/welfare-cuts...
by LarsDu88 | 2026-03-10 16:47:54+00:00
That's such a terrible take.

For a hot minute Meta had a top 3 LLM and open sourced the whole thing, even with LeCunn's reservations around the technology.

At the same time Meta spat out huge breakthroughs in:

- 3d model generation

- Self-supervised label-free training (DINO). Remember Alexandr Wang built a multibillion dollar company just around having people in third world countries label data, so this is a huge breakthrough.

- A whole new class of world modeling techniques (JEPAs)

- SAM (Segment anything)
by philippemnoel | 2026-03-10 16:48:05+00:00
Under the hood, ParadeDB is built by integrating Tantivy (a Lucene-inspired Rust search library) inside Postgres. This is to say: I agree with you -- We're not trying to claim that Postgres itself is an alternative to Lucene, but rather that something like Lucene can be integrated inside Postgres so that you can get the power of both in a single system (or in a cluster of Postgres instances)
by adrian_b | 2026-03-10 16:48:21+00:00
Having also lived in a communist country, I agree that 35 years ago the difference was huge.

Unfortunately, since around 2000 the differences have become less and less every year, so what has remained now is a very small fraction of what was a quarter of century ago.

The socialist economies from the past were just the extreme form of capitalist economies, where monopolies controlled every market. The western economies are quickly approaching this stage.

Extreme surveillance of everybody was how the communist elites preserved their power, but the surveillance was actually illegal, because the constitution "guaranteed" the secret of communications, e.g. of mail and telephone. While the secret police or equivalent organizations did not care about what is legal or not, they were nonetheless forced to keep appearances and do their work covertly. They also did not have enough resources to process in a centralized form all the data collected by surveillance.

Now, in the western countries surveillance has been legalized, so the governmental agencies no longer bother to hide their activities. They also now have the means to spy on an unlimited number of people among hundreds of millions or even billions, so surveillance is already worse than it was in the communist countries, even if the consequences of being spied are not yet so severe (hopefully).
by 15155 | 2026-03-10 16:48:26+00:00
This isn't legally "tax evasion", it's well-established law: corporations have some degree of personhood, and as a corporate officer, I am allowed to disburse payments to those in my employ as I deem fit. Individual states have very little authority to look into foreign (other state) corporations.

Good luck contending with stare decisis and all of the implied interstate commerce issues to try and prevent this.
by broDogNRG | 2026-03-10 16:48:50+00:00
They're not kids now

They were not kids a decade ago

Two decades ago

Why is it 20-30 somethings of 40-50 years ago put the world on an immutable path but 20-30 somethings now are stuck with?

If prior 20-30 somethings that "put us on a path" had free agency we do too

Especially when those old 20-30 somethings are now 70-90 somethings

Kids in the 1980s who rolled over in their 20-30s

Who speaks old English and writes like Shakespeare? Social truths die off. So why do we still speak 1970?
by db48x | 2026-03-10 16:48:51+00:00
No, this is just making excuses for not building them. Once you start using them in an area even the drivers that have never used them before will figure out how they work. It’s not rocket science.

> there's going to be pushback from the accidents and injuries that will certainly happen in the interim.

In areas that have actually built lots of roundabouts the accident and injury rate dropped immediately. There was no interim period with higher accident rates.
by heavymemory | 2026-03-10 16:49:12+00:00
Prompt injection is the same problem all agents face, ChatGpt Atlas, claude cowork, openclaw, all of them. It's a known unsolved problem across the industry.

I mitigate it by giving the agent a fixed action set (no scripts, no direct API calls), and breaking tasks into focused subtasks so no single agent has broad scope. The LLM prioritises its own instructions over page content, but if someone managed to hijack it, the agent can interact with authenticated sessions. Everything's visible in real time though, and all actions are logged, so you can see exactly what it's doing and kill it.

Practically speaking, I use it similar to how people use Zapier or n8n, you set up specific workflows and make sure you're only pointing it at sites you trust. If you're sending it to random unknown websites then yeah, there's more risk.

But even then, an attacker would need to know what apps you're authenticated with and what data the agent has access to. The chances of something actually happening are pretty low, but the risk is there. No one's fully solved this yet.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-10 16:49:42+00:00
In my experience, inefficient code is rarely the issue outside of data engineering type ETL jobs. It’s mostly architectural. Inefficient code isn’t the reason your login is taking 30 seconds. Yes I know at Amazon/AWS scale (former employee) every efficiency matters. But even at Salesforce scale, ringing out every bit of efficiency doesn’t matter.

No one cares about handcrafted artisanal code as long as it meets both functional and non functional requirements. The minute geeks get over themselves thinking they are some type of artists, the happier they will be.

I’ve had a job that requires coding for 30 years and before ther I was hobbyist and I’ve worked for from everything from 60 perdón startups to BigTech.

For my last two projects (consulting) and my current project, while I led the project, got the requirements, designed the architecture from an empty AWS account (yes using IAC) and delivered it. I didn’t look at a line of code. I verified the functional and non functional requirements, wrote the hand off documentation etc.

The customer is happy, my company is happy, and I bet you not a single person will ever look at a line of code I wrote. If they do get a developer to take it over, the developer will be grateful for my detailed AGENTS.md file.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-03-10 16:50:11+00:00
Word use is important. We have allowed thumos (and epithumia) to rule over nous.

It has become acceptable to misuse words, like "fascist" or "communist" in political contexts, to the detriment of rational and fruitful discourse. Often a false equivalence is drawn between denying something is "fascist" or "communist" and denying something is bad. This is false. Something can be bad without being fascist or communist.

There is plenty to be critical about in American politics and in tech, but calling everything you don't like "fascist" or "communist" isn't helpful. These seem to be go-to words used by those "defending" what is now a crumbling postwar liberal democratic order, i.e., anything that seems at odds with this order is reflexively called one of these two terms, depending on which faction of the American uniparty you align with.
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-10 16:50:18+00:00
In this case in particular it looks like an acquihire.

Meta just saw two engineers actually execute on the joke about "building Facebook in a weekend" except that it then really took off in its target niche and generated a ton of press.

I don't doubt that they're interested in the AI aspect, but I suspect that a significant contributor was that they demonstrated competence Right in the middle of Mead ows wheelhouse so why not just grab these guys?
by cobolcomesback | 2026-03-10 16:50:41+00:00
It’s not false. But it’s also weaselly worded.

Note that the article doesn’t say that he told staff they have to attend the meeting. It says he “asked” staff to attend the meeting. Which again, it’s really really normal for there to be an encouragement of “hey, since we just had an operational event, it would be good to prioritize attending this meeting where we discuss how to avoid operational events”.

As for the second quote: senior engineers have always been required to sign off on changes from junior engineers. There’s nothing new there. And there is nothing specific to AI that was announced.

This entire meeting and message is basically just saying “hey we’ve been getting a little sloppy at following our operational best practices, this is a reminder to be less sloppy”. It’s a massive nothingburger.
by moduspol | 2026-03-10 16:50:47+00:00
> But, on the flip side, I personally advocate hard for AI from the point-of-view on accessibility. I know (more-or-less) exactly what output I'm aiming for and control that obsessively, but it's AI and my voice at the helm instead of my fingertips.

This is the technique I've picked up and got the most from over the past few months. I don't give it hard, high-level problems and then review a giant set of changes to figure it out. I give it the technical solution I was already going to implement anyway, and then have it generate the code I otherwise would have written.

It cuts back dramatically on the review fatigue because I already know exactly what I'm expecting to see, so my reviews are primarily focused on the deviations from that.
by visarga | 2026-03-10 16:50:57+00:00
I did something similar - I put 18 years of comments on reddit, HN, slashdot, and 3 years of LLM chats in the system. I ended with a similar conclusion - it was less useful than I expected. My intent was to do RAG over my corpus, have a LLM get direct access to what I commented over the years, but unfortunately this much information has a negative effect on LLM creativity. Its responses started to fall in line too much with my ideas and it lost its spark. In the end my conclusion was that all that data was facing towards the past while I desire LLMs to improve in the other temporal direction.
I left my job to work with the technologies I'd been dying to use
by openinfrared | 2026-03-10 16:51:00+00:00
I left my job to work with the technologies (embedded rust, SQL, custom PCBs, typescript & angular, more rust server side) and practices I'd been dying to use and build a solution for a problem I had.

A big part was also the desire to control complexity and lead product direction instead of taking assignments knowing they were the wrong direction for the products and their consumers.

It's an instant remote control built for shared spaces. Anyone can use the remote with a QR code on their mobile device. Since its IoT there are lots of interesting features including permissions, various remote interfaces, universal remote capabilities and more.

If you want to check it out: https://openinfrared.com Bootstrapped, so I appreciate any feedback <3
by bobtheborg | 2026-03-10 16:51:02+00:00
I found many points interesting. Here's one:

Policymakers supposedly work for us/the people and they could have made surveillance ad tech expensive and thereby severely limited it, but

> "Policymakers failed us because cops and spies hate privacy laws and lobby like hell against them. Cops and spies love commercial surveillance, because the private sector's massive surveillance dossiers are an off-the-books trove of warrantless surveillance data that the government can't legally collect."
by GJim | 2026-03-10 16:51:18+00:00
This is HN mate.

It's full of people from ad-tech who believe data protection is the enemy and the GDPR is a European conspiracy against growth.

You should learn to simply bend over and grab your ankles with both hands whenever they (or anybody else) asks for your personal data.

EDIT: and predictable 'drive-by' downvotes from those in the industry too lazy to try and defend their position and write a rebuttle!
by salawat | 2026-03-10 16:51:53+00:00
...That would be a cost center, sir. If you don't like our product, you are free to not use us and make your own while foregoing doing any business in anywhere with either of one of the two major political parties.

There is a reason why I don't accept private enterprise as something separate from Government. The nature of the incorporation legal fiction makes them proxies of Government power and influence, hence why I believe private enterprise should in some ways be as heavily restricted by Constitutional guardrails as the Government itself (allegedly) is.
by matteocantiello | 2026-03-10 16:52:02+00:00
Thanks! I'll fix that. Re charts: English-speaking countries were easy to scrape automatically, and recent charts for most countries were findable too. But older charts for non-English markets are a different story. For old Italian top 10s, for instance, I ended up relying on my own judgment and the fact that I speak the language. Trustable repos simply don't exist for a lot of that material. That's why I think crowdsourcing is the right call here, even if it's slower. And honestly, I like the idea of making this a collective exercise.
by bloppe | 2026-03-10 16:52:18+00:00
> This way I know that 14:00 today + one month is still 14:00 in my "internal" time format

Unless there's a leap second in that month. Then it would be 13:59. Maybe you don't care, but some people do. It could have legal or technical ramifications.

> Now, if I cannot really add a month anymore (and I cannot in TAI, because months don't even really exist in TAI, since TAI isn't a solar year).

What do you mean by month? Calendar months are obviously irregular (thanks February). "30 days" makes perfect sense in TAI.