MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2026-03-11 09:43:34+00:00
We were already doing MVC in products like the one sold by Altitude Software in Portugal, in a Tcl based platform that was inspired on Vignette and AOLServer.

The authors of said product eventually went on to create OutSystems, one of the very few RAD products to do Delphi/VB like application servers with graphical tooling.

It was no need for Django/Rails trail-blaze anything other than not everyone has Silicon Valey visibilty to push their ideas.
by stavros | 2026-03-11 09:44:16+00:00
Defining the security boundary is more secure than not defining it. This is a meaningful difference between what my bot does (has access to what you give it access to) vs what OpenClaw does (has access to everything, whether you want it to or not).

If you want perfectly secure computing, never connect your computer to the network and make sure you live in a vault. For everyone else, there's a tradeoff to be made, and saying "there's always a risk" is so obvious that it's not even worth saying.
by FionaLee111 | 2026-03-11 09:44:47+00:00
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by weebull | 2026-03-11 09:45:30+00:00
Two different philosophical approaches with Zig and Rust.

- Zig: Let's have a simple language with as few footguns as possible and make good code easy to write. However we value explicitness and allow the developer to do anything they need to do. C interoperability is a primary feature that is always available. We have run time checks for as many areas of undetermined behaviour as we can.

- Rust: let's make the compiler the guardian of what is safe to do. Unless the developer hits the escape hatch, we will disallow behaviour to keep the developer safe. To allow the compiler to reason about safety we will have an intricate type system which will contain concepts like lifetimes and data mobility. This will get complex sometimes so we will have a macro system to hide that complexity.

Zig is a lot simpler than Rust, but I think it asks more of it's developer.
by EZ_0129 | 2026-03-11 09:45:54+00:00
Hi, we would like to share our project on deploying 8B Llama on Jetson Orin Nano, using only 2.5GB of GPU shared memory (peak).

Using our own extreme low-bit (1.58-bit) deployment pipeline, we ran an 8B-class Llama model with 2.5GB GPU shared memory (peak, 4.1GB in total RAM),

Main Techniques
: 1.58-bit quantization (Mixed-precision QAT)
: Kernel-level optimizations (Custom kernel for embedding access and layer fusion)

For edge deployments, memory headroom matters because the LLM often needs to run alongside other components such as other AI models (ex. STT, TTS, and more) or system workloads including perception, logging, control, networking.

Reducing the model footprint makes on-device LLM deployment more realistic even on Nano-class edge SoCs.
by coffeebeqn | 2026-03-11 09:46:03+00:00
It’s the same with things like mental health and burnout prevention. You can either have a good work life balance through the year and good management and all that or you can have some consultant come throw a PowerPoint at your peons and a $5 voucher to some BS “health” app and call it a day. One is hard and effective and the other cheap and useless
by dominicrose | 2026-03-11 09:46:14+00:00
What top players do in Age of Empires II:

They keep resources (money) at zero by spending them frequently unless they have something more expensive and more urgent to buy.

They are greedy because they want to pay the same amount (or less if possible) for better units (or upgrade them), which is why technology can be more urgent than creating more units.

They are very risk averse, but don't look like it. The more talented a player is, the more risky some of his decisions or actions may appear, but they're not riskier when you take talent into account. That being said, they do sometimes make very bold moves, even in tournaments, because they think the opponnent is not going to expect it.

Alright time to go back to being a villager.
by vintermann | 2026-03-11 09:46:19+00:00
What about the important ones you're not escaping?

To be a bit specific: if you're currently in education, you almost certainly have to play many zero sum games. Yes, education can be a positive thing in itself, but only one of you is going to be best in class. Only a limited number of you will get your papers into that prestigious congress. And while the knowledge may hopefully be useful in itself, the credentials you got in getting it will be less valuable the more people have them.

Then you're off into the housing market. Can more houses be built? Sure. Can we build dikes to claim land from the oceans? Sure. All that is true, but it doesn't help you here and now when you need a place to live - then you're in a game with everyone else who needs a home right now, and if you get one, that's one someone else doesn't get.

Then you have your home, and someone is planning to expand the local almost-unused airport to suddenly take a lot of heavy transport air planes. The noise will impact you a lot. You'd like to influence politics, to call off these plans or at least demand some mitigation, but then you're in a game with others who want to influence politics. Sure, maybe there's a happy compromise to be found, but often there's not. If there isn't, then your ability to put pressure on the decision makers to defend your interests, is going to come at the direct expense of the people wanting an expansion of the airport. Or more likely the other way around.

My point is that yes, it sucks, but often we can't quit the rat race, and often there are conflicts of interest which can't be papered over. It comes off as too easy to, as this author does, say that we can just choose to play different games.
Ask HN: Is there a market for a security-audited Claude Code skills newsletter?
by camicortazar | 2026-03-11 09:46:43+00:00
I've been using Claude Code heavily and kept running into the same frustration: there are thousands of skills out there but no reliable way to know if they're any good or safe to install. Snyk's ToxicSkills research found 36.82% of publicly available skills contain security flaws, 13.4% critical.

I'm building The Skill Shortlist — a bi-weekly newsletter that reviews and security-audits Claude Code skills before they reach subscribers. Every skill is scored across six criteria and gets a clear verdict. If it fails the security check, it never runs. Paid tier includes the reviewed SKILL.md file ready to install.

A few things I'm genuinely unsure about:
- Is this a real pain point or is the audience too small right now?
- Would developers pay for curated, ready-to-install skill files or is this something people prefer to DIY?
- Any comparable newsletters in adjacent spaces that have worked (or failed) that I should study?

Still pre-launch. Happy to be talked out of it.
by vanillameow | 2026-03-11 09:46:54+00:00
>Is there realistically any way to CAPTCHA anymore?

Talking to someone in real life.

Of course that's taking the piss, but realistically that is sort of the answer: Having access to a side-channel through which you can identify that a person is in fact a person, coupled with the trust that they won't try to sleight you by making you waste your attention. Honestly with how much LLM drivel is being generated and the sort-of renaissance of the personal website, blog, and RSS, I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of consensus-trust-based network for human authors were established.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-03-11 09:47:22+00:00
Phew, I am having a real hard time agreeing with you there. I mean, just imagine what would happen, if those social and tough jobs were not performed by people dedicated specifically to doing those jobs. Then we would all have to take care of our family's elderly and that can easily turn into a full time job itself. Let just one relative have Alzheimers or they for some reason cannot move any longer, or even less drastic conditions, that still require you to watch over them, and you will have all hands full taking care of them. This is the reason, why in many societies we decided to outsource this to people whose sole job it is to take care of other people.

Or take nurses for example. You really think they provide low value? Tell me more, when you are seeing a hospital from the inside at some point. Yet they are not paid much.
by adamddev1 | 2026-03-11 09:47:52+00:00
Tests cannot show the absence of bugs.

These are fundamentals of CS that we are forgetting as we dismantle all truth and keep rocketing forward into LLM psychosis.

> I care about this. I don't want to push slop, and I had no real answer.

The answer is to write and understand code. You can't not want to push slop, and also want to just use LLMs.
by strideashort | 2026-03-11 09:47:52+00:00
This is exactly what manipulators/value extractors want you to think.

Case in point: how many here have heard of Mick Ronson?

Few perhaps. However most have heard of David Bowie.

See, Ronson was silently creating value for Bowie. Didn’t even get credited although songs like Life On Mars are what they are thanks to his contribution.

Mick was creating value while everyone one else was getting rich.
by Levitating | 2026-03-11 09:47:53+00:00
I think it's mentioned clearly in the article.

> RISC-V builders have four or eight cores with 8, 16 or 32 GB of RAM (depending on a board)

> The UltraRISC UR-DP1000 SoC, present on the Milk-V Titan motherboard should improve situation a bit (and can have 64 GB ram).

RISC-V SOCs just typically don't support much ram. With the exception of the SG2042 which can take 128GB, but it's expensive, buggy and now old.

So I am sure it's a combination of low ram and low clockspeeds.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-11 09:48:07+00:00
RISC-V truly is the RyanAir of processors: Oh, you want FP maths? That's an optional extra, did you check that when you booked? And was that single or double-precision, all optional extras at an extra charge. Atomic instructions, that's an extra too, have your credit card details handy. Multiply and divide? Yeah, extras. Now, let me tell you about our high-end customer options, packed SIMD and user-level interrupts, only for business class users. And then there's our first-class benefits, hypervisor extensions for big spenders, and even more, all optional extras.
by codytseng | 2026-03-11 09:48:07+00:00
I wanted a lightweight way to keep up with things — glance at the menu bar, see what's new, done. So I built Glanceway.

Two kinds of sources: RSS/Atom feeds (paste a URL), and source plugins — JS modules that fetch from any API, packaged as .gwsrc files (ZIP with manifest.yaml + index.js). Sandboxed JavaScriptCore runtime, api object with fetch/emit/storage/config/websocket. There's a Source Store for community plugins, or write your own: https://github.com/glanceway/glanceway-sources/blob/master/d...

I also added a skill file for AI coding assistants — describe what you want to track and it generates a .gwsrc: https://github.com/glanceway/glanceway-sources/blob/master/g...

MCP server exposes collected data to AI, so "summarize unread items in Glanceway" just works.

Claude desktop: https://github.com/glanceway/glanceway-mcp/releases/latest/d...

Claude code: claude mcp add glanceway -- npx -y glanceway-mcp

There's a Hacker News source plugin if you want to try it: https://glanceway.app/source/codytseng/hacker-news/

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by tim333 | 2026-03-11 09:50:16+00:00
I've had an 8GB M1 since they came out and had almost no problems with memory shortage. The only thing is Firefox sometimes gets in a loop and takes up 20GB+ doing nothing much and you have to close it but that's not really the laptop's fault. You can have programs use >8GB because it swaps to the SSD very well.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-03-11 09:50:38+00:00
They're a perpetual zombie sci-fi product category like flying cars.

The obsession may be a memetic contagion of utopian, cult-like thinking.

In reality, there are few real use-cases for VR and AR hasn't (yet?) but hasn't been made practical enough to overcome their limitations. Both AR and VR devices are still generally unwieldy and impractical even with the latest generation of miniaturization. Modern VR still generally takes over complete visual input (with a few pass through options) and typically has to be used in a static, controlled environment.
by Grimblewald | 2026-03-11 09:51:09+00:00
How does it compare with qwens open weight multimodal embedding model? Anyone know? This seems lesser form what i read, with the drawback of bei g via some api/model i dont have control over. Qwen gives great ebeddings out of the gate while also being steerable, i.e. you can supply a prompt to focus on embedding specific tasks with higher resolution, which in my tests has been mind-blowingly good. Not seeing the value add here.
by Ekaros | 2026-03-11 09:51:40+00:00
If you are going to test what you develop might as well write any tests you do formally right away. It is unlikely you get it fully ready in one go, so you need to anyway run same tests again when you iterate it developing it today.

And that is the minimum level to aim at. If you can automate anything you do to test it right now you should.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-11 09:51:49+00:00
Don't need to imagine, it did not take off, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

> Reception was mixed, focusing on the difficult installation process and the significant performance costs of the Mach kernel. Reviewers noted its potential as a "Unix killer", but that it required users to abandon the user-friendly Macintosh experience for a pure Linux environment.
by casey2 | 2026-03-11 09:52:30+00:00
Two different extremes of dumbassery. If you can't program without the simplest dogma guiding you then programming isn't for you. If you don't even know what you're building why are you selling it as a product?! What are you doing in those 18 months that you don't understand anything about the thing you are building.

It should be common sense to add common sense tests to critical components. Now they are doing TDD THEY STILL DON'T KNOW THE CRITICAL COMPONENTS. Nothing changed. They lack systems thinking.

My guess is that both are just vibecoded slop.
by bobosola | 2026-03-11 09:52:52+00:00
Great detective work re the azimuth finding for the glyph, but I believe the link to a sextant is tenuous at best. The author says it can, of course, be turned sideways to measure an azimuth with respect to an arbitrary meridian. That’s not correct. The tool for doing that is an azimuth ring sitting on a compass which allows the user to obtain the angle relative to north (the azimuth) between the user’s local meridian and a landmark.

A sextant can be used to obtain the relative horizontal angle between two landmarks, but it is much easier to use an azimuth ring. A sextant is designed to be used vertically. Holding and using one horizontally is difficult and time-consuming in comparison and is probably a less than a 1% use case, used only during the training of apprentices as a theoretical exercise (source: professional mariner for many years and daily user of a sextant back in the day). A comparison would be using a screwdriver to drive in a nail; you could do it given enough time, but a hammer is much easier.

I believe the explanation is much simpler: the glyph simply represents a variety of angles measured from north (the common meaning of azimuth) avoiding the use of any lettering (like “N”) or the use of a compass-like symbol which would be difficult to represent at such small scale.

Also (pedant warning for another poster) Polaris is not the brightest star, it’s around the 40th and has no practical use for navigation other than “north is roughly that way”.
by peepee1982 | 2026-03-11 09:52:52+00:00
Geohot is the epitome of someone who thinks because they're exceptionally intelligent and competent in a niche area, they're in a position to confidently explain how the world "really" works, without having to put any effort into actually researching areas outside of their niche.

His blog posts and general opinions voiced in his streams in any other field than what he's working in are so incredibly stupid and put forward with so much misguided confidence that they make me cringe in pain.
by AdrianB1 | 2026-03-11 09:53:01+00:00
Just curious, most people that use FreeBSD are either experts or hardcode enthusiasts. It used to include FreeNAS/TrueNAS users, but they migrated to Linux as the product moved to Linux. That means the users of FreeBSD are not the ones I would expect to purchase and use these controllers, but other options like 10 Gbps with SFP+ (AOC or Fiber Optic) or even 25Gbps and higher. Is there a significant demand for this driver? A 10 Gbps SFP+ card is cheaper and more flexible, I have a few in several computers and even a few laying around as spares, they are also more compatible with all sorts of OS-es and usually more capable.
by mike_hearn | 2026-03-11 09:53:01+00:00
Someone needs to make a website explaining why UBI doesn't work conceptually because this comes up over and over again on HN.

You cannot make UBI work from money saved by removing means testing. Even UBI is a welfare scheme and would require significant bureaucratic hoop jumping to check that a person claiming it isn't:

• Dead

• Non-citizen

• Already claiming it under a different name/bank account/etc

• In prison

• Moved abroad

and so on. All that is expensive, and yet the overheads of even existing welfare systems just aren't high compared to the amounts they pay out. Getting rid of means testing doesn't magically make the numbers balance.

Geohot is correct. UBI seems to only appeal to people who don't understand how the economy works. You can't have an economy in which one person earns all the money by definition.
by frumiousirc | 2026-03-11 09:53:01+00:00
The "AI mode" in Google search is pretty bad for programming. It is not Gemini.

I don't have direct experience with ChatGPT but those that do that I've talked to place it behind Gemini and Claude models.

Try free Claude or Gemini on the web and see if you have a better experience. Claude free is better than Gemini free. (actually, Gemini free seems extra dumb lately).
by OskarS | 2026-03-11 09:55:27+00:00
Conceptually it's quite similar to how C++ templates work (not including C++20 concepts, which is the kind of constraining you're talking about).

I quite like it when writing C++ code. Makes it dead easy to write code like `min` that works for any type in a generic way. It is, however, arguably the main culprit behind C++s terrible compiler-errors, because you'll have standard library functions which have like a stack of fifteen generic calls, and it fails really deeply on some obscure inner thing which has some kind of type requirement, and it's really hard to trace back what you actually did wrong.

In my (quite limited) experience, Zig largely avoids this by having a MUCH simpler type system than C++, and the standard library written by a sane person. Zig seems "best of both worlds" in this regard.
by mothballed | 2026-03-11 09:56:05+00:00
It's not to shut the kids up, it's to shut them in so that all the Karens that rat your ass out the minute your kid is spotted outside on their own won't be able to kick off an investigation based on a phone call that it's illegal for you to even see the complainant of in the report.

Society basically expects you to hide your kids if you can't watch them every second, the externality society imposes on parents is the costs of boarding them up inside.
by 10xDev | 2026-03-11 09:56:05+00:00
You will get laid off but you won't if you create value and you will create value if you don't care about money and it will go recursive but it won't go recursive because there are limits. It won't change anything but it will change everything.

No one knows what he is actually saying (see comments) but at least he managed to compress the entire discourse on AI impact into a blog post.
by nananana9 | 2026-03-11 09:56:10+00:00
Please don't make excuses for literal evil p*dophile megacorporations. There is plenty of low hanging fruit, and even if there wasn't, this issue is important enough that if they can't fix it they should go out of business.

1. They can just disable chat for non age verified accounts. Done. Problem fixed. Oh, but they'll lose money, won't they? That takes precedence over child safety.

2. The community is willing to help. You can find examples of independent actors uncovering tens of thousands of NSFW communities and accounts and submitting them to Roblox with detailed descriptions of the activities of each one, only for Roblox to perma-ban AND SUE the people doing the investigations, and not ban the offending accounts.

3. They can build an actual strong safety team. A $40B company can afford to throw a few million dollars per year to hire 200 people to do that same investigatory work. This is typical tech firm behavior, where they believe every problem can be automated away, and they're not willing to do the minimal amount of manual labor.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-11 09:56:12+00:00
That wasn't necessarily Bush personally, who was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, but his strategists. The Republicans had convinced themselves that surpluses encouraged government spending so by wiping them out and "starving the beast" as they put it the resulting financial crunch would create a need to slash spending, cut social welfare, and reduce the size of government.

Actually now that it's set out like that, the strategists were just as much in la-la land as Bush was.
by krig | 2026-03-11 09:56:44+00:00
There are binaries for Mac here:

https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/releases/tag/1.0.0

The binary release for Linux is a bit rough, there's an `install.sh` script in the repo which can install the tarball for you. For the next release there will be flatpaks, .deb and .rpm available.
by mike_hearn | 2026-03-11 09:58:02+00:00
Forget UBI and AI. They are distractions. Today it's very unclear that even just existing welfare schemes are sustainable. Political parties can buy votes with welfare and they do, so it's an unstable configuration. Europe is full of countries with this problem.

A good example of a country in a downward spiral towards UBI hell is the UK. Around 25% of the working-age population now claim to be disabled, and around 10% receive disability benefits. Labour have a genius idea for how to fix this: let disabled people try out employment for a bit to see if they like it, whilst keeping their welfare payments. So they're turning disability benefits into UBI by the back door.

The UK can't afford anything even close to this. It can't even afford the theoretically non-universal benefits schemes it has: it has massive government debt and deficits because its economy doesn't generate enough wealth, and its health welfare system (the NHS) experiences Soviet-style shortages all the time.

This has happened despite that we've been mass automating jobs with computers and robots for decades. Chips aren't magic wands that make communism suddenly work. The problems with wealth redistribution are fundamental and will never go away regardless of your level of technology.

If you disagree, fine, but please for the love of God focus on walking before you can run. Drive government deficits to zero whilst keeping growth at US levels, and then talk about more generous welfare schemes.

(you can't magic new money by eliminating means testing either, see my other comment on this thread).