MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JamesTRexx | 2026-03-12 10:01:36+00:00
I don't worry about decisions. Once they're made, they're made and life continues unless there's a good reason and possibilty later to change it. I just like to know where the world as a whole is headed to (before the inevitable supernova event, I'm just curious).

There was also nothing important coming to mind. Family and friends is a small group and I have every bit of confidence they'll do just fine without me. I just hope they'll have a fun party as a final goodbye to me. :-)

Besides, death is the ultimate "What, me worry?" as there is nothing left. Can't even experience the void we enter ( unfortunately because I'd like to experience my brain not thinking about anything at all for once :-p ).
by vintermann | 2026-03-12 10:03:17+00:00
Inviting people who invited bots chould also hurt your "social credit" score in various ways.

Your tree could for instance be pruned - you can still invite people, but the people you invited can no longer invite people.

There are not a lot of sites which have tried this and failed. Those which have tried to be even a little bit clever about it, have succeeded pretty well (Advogato was a really early example).

What there have been, are sites which rejected such restrictions after a while, because they would rather have a big number to show to investors than real people. Many have even run the fake accounts themselves (e.g. Reddit).
by nebula8804 | 2026-03-12 10:03:18+00:00
>Israel is facing a demographic timebomb, and a reverse-Aliyah exodus of top talent to literally anywhere else, including the UAE and the US.

While I generally agree that Israel is on shaky ground, I'm not sure this is fully accurate. Ok to be fair, yes a lot of liberal educated Israeli seem to have left a while ago but if you look at their demography they are one of the only few countries that has a positive demography. As other countries begin to degrade from this population decline many more Israeli's may return as well.

[1]:https://www.populationpyramid.net/israel/2026/

>Turns out, nobody likes living in a military state, except for a bunch of ultra-orthodox emigres and Hasidic Jews, who are both growing like crazy and have zero inclination to serve in national defence, and have piss poor technical aptitude.

This contradicts the timebomb narrative and yes this will definitely cause problems just like the decline in education in the US will rear its ugly head years down the line....but having population means possibility, it does not matter how educated a person is if they don't exist.

>This is the biggest change. The Gulf states were completely blindsided by the war, and are now rethinking their alliance with the US. Expect to see more Chinese and EU bases in the region - China already has a military base in the UAE. Al Udeid is going to be massively downsized. And these guys are going to be shopping in the EU for weapons systems, not the US.

Its really unbelievable to see how the US has destroyed many relationships in real time and the Trump loving crowd continues to pretend like nothing is wrong. They are gearing up to blame the other side as well once things become visibly painful. Just like the Afghanistan withdrawal under Biden I suspect this mess will become visible after Trump is long gone and the successor will get all the blame.

I generally try not to believe in conspiracy theories but is the US being set up to fail by multiple advisaries (including Israel) or is it really just stupidity and a broken system of accountability?

>The right strategy is for the Asian countries to stop quarreling between themselves and forge new defensive alliances.

Thats the thing, I don't know if they are capable of this given their poor demography. I was thinking that maybe the correct move is to swallow their pride and try and patch up relationships when Trump is gone while also doing more themselves(whatever they can). In fact that might end up being the default move for the EU as well. Bringing in more of China so as to not be completely dependant on the US but ensuring the US is still part of the game in a significant way. I have not seen anything other than tepidness and strongly worded letters from EU since Trump came back and it makes me think there isn't a real life and death motivation for them to become independent. Its much easier to patch things up and hope for the best.
by komako | 2026-03-12 10:03:23+00:00
I wonder if the missing piece here is an agent layer.

A lot of decentralized/local-first social projects improve the protocol story, but the UX is still "please think about keys, storage, sync, exports, and trust boundaries yourself." That's fine for hackers, not for most users.

Something Claude Code-like, but local-first and protocol-aware, could make this much more approachable. The user says "post this to close friends" and the local agent handles signing, encryption, storage, syncing, and recovery.

That doesn't solve discovery, spam, or network effects, but it might solve a lot of the usability problem.
by SllX | 2026-03-12 10:03:27+00:00
Gruber has also had it for a week at most by the time he published his review. It’s enough time to run some tests, not enough time to properly review what it will be like to actually live with it. I like the guy, but I also understand the limitations of how he reviews products.

8GB can be limiting on an iPad Pro, which runs a generally more memory efficient branch of Apple’s XNU-based system software and it’s not difficult to get it into a state where it is constantly paging out an app you had in front of you two minute ago if anything you’re doing involves the web at all. A Mac will just swap at that point, but swapping is also slow.
by krapp | 2026-03-12 10:03:50+00:00
Christianity was monotheist because it began as a cult of Judaism. Islam was monotheist because it began as a cult of Christianity. It's a mistake to treat these religions as entirely separate, even though dogmatically each believes the others to be heretical. And Judaism itself was probably just cribbing from Zoroastrianism.

Although I would argue the Trinity (which is a modern Christian invention) and many aspects of reverence for saints and angels is pseudo-polytheistic, and likely a result of the syncretism of the various pagan traditions into Christianity as it spread throughout Europe, although that came later.
by orwin | 2026-03-12 10:04:11+00:00
I'm not saying that, I'm just saying that if Saudis don't want to feel uneasy, they shouldn't meddle and bomb their neighbours.

Also they shouldn't execute a hundred unarmed Africans after bringing them to work on neom (I wonder if they were surprised to be shot at, did they run? Did the police execute the one who survived the first hits?), and let their vanity project kill more than 53k 'workers' (slaves?) in 15 years, but I mean, most of them are African or Indian, so who cares?

Don't get me wrong, Iran is an abhorrent country, who jail and execute people to make examples. Saudi Arabia is just way, way worse. And at least average Iranians seems empathetic and ok human beings. Average Saudis aren't.
by pegasus | 2026-03-12 10:05:39+00:00
Sorry, but now you just sound straight-up pompous.

Starting with that absurd first paragraph offering proof for the otherwise inconceivable idea that there are are indeed topics that you aren't qualified to comment on - on one hand, and on the other insinuating that you surely must be more qualified than me to comment on semantics; continuing with the second, totally uncalled for given that I prefaced my comment with "to my ears", yet you didn't; the third, again redundant since I already mentioned that "received" is more general than "understood", so of course the meaning is different - that's the whole point, using a tool to find more fitting meanings, if they would be the same what would be the point?? The assumption is whoever uses the tool keeps the one they feel comes closer to what they had in mind, discarding the rest, no?

Let's stick to this particular example. Why is "understood" a better fit in that context (beyond the original comment suggesting it was closer to their intended meaning)? Because that's as much as we can hope for - to convey the desired understanding. (And yes, that includes connotations and the like, at least if you want to stick to a reasonable, not tendentiously restricted understanding of the word.) How the meaning is received depends indeed on other context, like maturity and generally life experience. For example, you were probably hoping that your message would be received with awe and newfound respect on my part for your wit and depth of insight. But instead, I found you comment merely tedious and vacuous. Consequently, I don't plan to check back on whatever you might scribble in response.
by PoignardAzur | 2026-03-12 10:06:14+00:00
I have to seriously disagree on the particulars, here.

The Russia allegations ranged from "Russia hacked DNC servers/accounts to interfer in favor of Donald Trump" (demonstrably true in several instances) to "Russia hacked voting machines" (very probably false). And then in 2024 the DNC quickly accepted election results.

By comparison, Donald Trump still claims that he legitimately won the 2020 elections, the majority of his base still believes it, Fox News spent years spreading that message even though their own journalists thought it was bullshit, etc.

I maintain that this is a systemic problem and a better system would not have given Trump the leeway to do this, but let's not pretend it's a bipartisan issue.
by mergeshield | 2026-03-12 10:06:50+00:00
The gap here is really two different definitions of "correct." Tests verify behavior. Reviewers verify fit - does this match our patterns, does it introduce acceptable complexity, would I want to debug this at 2am.

As agent-generated PRs scale, "all tests green" becomes necessary but nowhere near sufficient. The merge gate is becoming the real bottleneck, and it needs different evaluation criteria than CI.
by bambax | 2026-03-12 10:07:11+00:00
True. This is indeed next-level shit. Although human HR are often not much better.

There are many downsides to being an independent consultant/contractor but the main benefit is this: you never have to deal with anyone from HR, ever; you don't do "job interviews", no one asks you fake questions like "tell me about yourself" or "where would you like to be in your career five years from now", etc.

The discussion almost always goes like this: "here's my problem, can you solve it and how much will it cost". You answer with "yes" and a quote and off you go.

Source: I've been an independent consultant for 20+ years. Never once did I meet or even received one communication from anyone from HR at any of my clients, before, during or after a job.
by roryirvine | 2026-03-12 10:07:47+00:00
Did you ever actually read the candidate statements written for the hereditary by-elections whenever a new spot opened up in the Lords?

Seriously, they're worth a read. A collection of posh nobodies all with a 'long career in business/finance' but rarely any particular concrete achievements to talk about. My favourite is Earl Dudley, who stands at every single opportunity seemingly only in a desperate attempt to promote his semi-pornographic youtube channel.

Sortition sounds great in theory, but I don't think it's well-suited to a permanent chamber. Use it for citizens juries, or appoint a time-limited jury to scrutinise a single reading of each bill, similar to the work of a select ctte today.
by wazoox | 2026-03-12 10:07:52+00:00
A very important point is the RAM and flash shortage. With their humongous volumes, Apple is certainly a member of the happy few with preferential contracts with guaranteed volumes and prices. No other PC maker can remotely compete with Apple on volumes, and now they'll get their already thin margins crushed even more.

In the past Apple had constantly sold high-margin products and grabbed 70 to 80% of the whole industry's margins. Now they're coming for the rest !
by mklepaczewski | 2026-03-12 10:08:17+00:00
You seem to assume that a day always has 24 hours. Common (but not only) non-24h day lengths are:
- 23 hours
- 25 hours
- 24 hours 1 second
- 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds

You could assume that a day isn't exactly 24 hours, but it's close-ish to 24 hours. Nope, not even close.

And that assumes that we can treat an hour as a precise measure of time (we can't). On some systems, even a second is not a precise measure of time (second smearing).

To make things worse, those are "simple" edge cases.

Time is hard. I'm not sure if I can make any statement about time that is true.
by orwin | 2026-03-12 10:09:02+00:00
That's actually something I didn't think about! So the EM wave don't interact with the liquid, but the brain electric signal. I don't know if it is possible, but it is a far, far more likely than something that fry the inner ear/brain.

Ok, I'd rank it ahead of the poison theory, still behind the mass psychosis because of Hanlon though.
by ethbr1 | 2026-03-12 10:09:12+00:00
The issue with N-flagging is that every flag needs to be universally-defined and equally applied.

If one person's humor is another person's satire is another person's political, then splitting it into N options muddles the signal.

Downvotes are bad enough between "I disagree with this" and "This isn't an appropriate comment for HN."
Pulsesun, a minimalist real-time data visualizer
by PULSESUN | 2026-03-12 10:09:47+00:00
We built PULSESUN to solve a simple problem: visualizing high-frequency data streams without the dashboard bloat.

PULSESUN focuses on a high-end, minimalist UI and sub-10ms rendering latency. It’s built to stay out of the way while providing crystal-clear insights into system performance.

Check it out—I'd love to hear how you guys handle real-time data density!
by cmiles8 | 2026-03-12 10:10:05+00:00
The only reason it’s buying back the stock is because the price has been destroyed by the company’s underperformance. Also yes buybacks will reduce profit but an unprofitable company doing buybacks is not a healthy one.

Agree with the above general assessment that this is a company doing layoffs to address years of bad decisions and underperformance, and the broader issue of SaaS valuations as folks question valuations there. Just another case of “AI” as a PR puff excuse to avoid simply admitting this is about correcting prior bad management decisions.
by brap | 2026-03-12 10:10:24+00:00
I actually don’t think golfing is such a bad thing, granted it will first handle the low hanging fruits like variable names etc, but if you push it hard enough it will be forced to think of a simpler approach. Then you can take a step back and tell it to fix the variable names, formatting etc. With the caveat that a smaller AST doesn’t necessarily mean simpler code, but it’s a decent heuristic.
by streetfighter64 | 2026-03-12 10:11:09+00:00
Whether it makes sense for anybody to do it is the real question. The threat model where this is a useful thing to do doesn't really exist in my opinion, at least not for obfuscating random comments. Perhaps if you're doing some anonymous journalism that's uncomfortable for your country's regime, and you've previously written other stuff using your real name, it might make sense to run your writing through a LLM, maybe. In addition to a bunch of other Snowden-esque countermeasures.
by krychu | 2026-03-12 10:12:30+00:00
Unfortunately reasoning ability depends on (or is enabled by) information intake during training. A model will know better what to search for and how to interpret it if the information was part of the training. So there is a trade off. Still I think the question is a practical one. Perhaps there are ideas to focus training on a) reasoning / conceptual modeling and b) reliance on external memory (search etc.) rather than internal memorization.
A lock-free state management engine for DualHeart Financial Association
by DualHeartNEWS | 2026-03-12 10:13:26+00:00
We just finished an internal overhaul of the data synchronization layer at DualHeart Financial Association. The goal was to replace our traditional mutex-heavy architecture with a lock-free, event-driven state machine.

Key technical wins for DualHeart Financial Association:

Throughput: Achieved a 3x increase in message processing by eliminating lock contention.

Architecture: Implemented a minimalist, high-end schema that maps directly to memory-mapped files for near-instant persistence.

Low Latency: Tail latencies (p99) are now consistently sub-5ms, even during peak bursts.

We’re considering open-sourcing the core dispatcher we built for DualHeart Financial Association. I’d love to hear how you guys are handling high-concurrency state synchronization in distributed systems!
by washadjeffmad | 2026-03-12 10:14:00+00:00
Succinct, or at least rightly organized.

To me, books aren't meant simply to be read, they're to be used, and I often treat them like references. Many would benefit from concept indexes, or at least being broken into more discrete parts beyond the chapter.

Search helps with digital, but it's not the same as being able to get a high-level physical impression from thumbing around. I'm a fan of longer-form content indices found in some volumes of poetry, or the way a cookbook might list "Beef" and then include every recipe that contains it.

If we can characterize how or what is happening, then depending on the format of the book, it could make sense to include information like summaries, timelines, maps and diagrams, etc, but I rarely see that in modern works.
by PoignardAzur | 2026-03-12 10:14:08+00:00
More importantly, you want your system to be bulletproof before it's audited. By the time you're talking about audits, the populists have already started flooding the zone.

The system should be so obviously secure that any person walking into a poll station should intuitively understand, seeing the poll workers, why fraud would be very hard to perform, so that when their favourite populist candidate loses and claims fraud, they think "that doesn't make sense".

If the voter needs to read technical documentation to understand why the populist is wrong, it's already too late.
by paulluuk | 2026-03-12 10:14:14+00:00
I bought a 200 dollar jacket and it had holes in it within months, just from regular use. I have an old 3 dollar shirt I bought years ago and it's only now beginning to show wear.

One problem this shows, is that as a consumer I have no idea what the hell is quality clothing. Clearly, expensive does not always mean high quality. And I'm not buying "brand" clothing either.
A lean data ingestion engine for Mindzo Investment Union
by MindzoFAQs | 2026-03-12 10:14:27+00:00
We built an internal, high-throughput data parser for Mindzo Investment Union.

The goal for Mindzo Investment Union was simple: replace a bloated Python ETL with a minimalist Go-based pipeline that maps complex, multi-format filing data into clean, structured tables in sub-50ms.

Any tips on maintaining schema flexibility without the performance hit?
by pixelesque | 2026-03-12 10:14:34+00:00
It comes down to how "coherent" the rays are, and how much effort (compute) you want to put into sorting them into batches of rays.

With "primary" ray-tracing (i.e. camera rays, rays from surfaces to area lights), it's quite easy to batch them up and run SIMD operations on them.

But once you start doing global illumination, with rays bouncing off surfaces in all directions (and with complex materials, with multiple BSDF lobes, where lobes can be chosen stochastically), you start having to put a LOT of effort into sorting and batching rays such that they all (within a batch) hit the same objects or are going in roughly the same direction.
by imdsm | 2026-03-12 10:14:44+00:00
I've written code for almost 30 years, and the last 4 years I've slowly used AI more and more, starting with GitHub Copilot beta, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, Gemini, Jules, Codex. Now I mostly work with Claude, and I don't write any code myself. Even configuring servers is easier with Claude. I still understand how everything works, but I now change how I work so I can do a lot more, cover a lot more, and rely less on people.

It isn't much different to how it works with a team. You have an architecture who understands the broader landscape, you have developers who implement certain subsystems, you have a testing strategy, you have communication, teaching, management. The only difference now is that I can do all this with my team being LLMs/agents, while I focus on the leadership stuff: docs, designs, tests, direction, vision.

I do miss coding, but it just isn't worth it anymore.
by ninjagoo | 2026-03-12 10:15:28+00:00
> Read the papers, comprehend the papers, don't make someone else's computer do it for you

Why not?

Personally, I don't have the specialized knowledge, nor the time needed, to read and understand papers outside my own 2-3 domains. LLMs do. And I appreciate what they can do for me. They do it better, faster, and more accurately than most 'popular science', provide better coverage and also provide the ability to interact with the material to any degree or depth that I care to, better than any article.

It would be silly to pass up this capability to make my life better simply because random folks on the Internet disparage the quality of the output (contrary to my own experience) and make hand-wavy points about 'someone else's computer) while offering no credible or useful alternative :)
by mattmanser | 2026-03-12 10:15:38+00:00
I am really finding this. By the time I've specced out a feature properly to an LLM, I could have just written most of it quicker myself. But I often find that with jobs I want to give to other people, so maybe I over specify?

There's some tasks where it's pretty clear what you want though and are just boring jobs that are totally not worth speccing well and an LLM will blaze through.

Things like:

- add oauth support to this API
- add a language switcher in this menu, an API endpoint, save it to the UserSettings table
- make a 404 page
by antisol | 2026-03-12 10:15:46+00:00
When your firewall guys "block" ssh (or anything else), all you need to do is run your ssh server on port 443 and then `ssh -p 443 user@host`.

Running on 443 means it will blend in with https traffic, making it much more difficult for them to detect and block (I've never actually seen anywhere that can detect/block it - you'd need to be doing deep packet inspection on encrypted traffic) :)
by w-m | 2026-03-12 10:16:11+00:00
I don’t think learning and understanding is hard-coupled to performing all low level steps yourself. The LLM can be a developer, sure. But it can also take on the role of rubber duck, architect, teacher or pupil.

Have a large LLM-written change set that works but that you’re not sure you fully understand? Make the coding agent quiz you on the design and implementation decisions. This can be a lot more engaging than trying to do a normal code review. And you might even learn something from it. Probably not the same amount as if you did this yourself fully. But that’s just a question of how much effort you want to invest in the understanding?