MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Polizeiposaune | 2026-03-09 23:55:36+00:00
People have sued over this sort of thing. Apple's Power Macintosh 7100 was originally codenamed "Carl Sagan":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_7100

Sagan sued. Engineers at Apple changed the name to BHA: "Butt-Head Astronomer".

He sued again. The final codename was "LAW: Lawyers are Wimps".
by Schmerika | 2026-03-09 23:56:00+00:00
It's not genius at all. We all know that both the US and Israel are responsible for spending trillions of taxpayer's dollars on illegal wars of aggression and genocide. We weren't fooled by W, we weren't fooled by Obama, or Trump, or Biden.

Look at how the world has watched the US starving Cuba for decades, to take one example of many. Every year, every country except the US and Israel vote in the UN to condemn the sanctions. And every year, no one actually helps Cuba, because America threatens insane consequences.

Not genius. Just threats. Not very smart at all, if we want a liveable planet.
by magarnicle | 2026-03-09 23:56:02+00:00
"The problem isn't the concept of 'null', but rather that everything can be null, which makes it impossible to distinguish between the cases where null is an appropriate and expected value, from the cases where null is a defect."

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2015/04/13/less-is-more-language-featu...
by jcranmer | 2026-03-09 23:56:07+00:00
It should be noted that because of the effect of the poles on the atmosphere (the atmosphere is intrinsically thinner near the poles), the surface pressure is even lower, so that it feels like about 11k feet in altitude rather than 9k feet in altitude.

(See, e.g. https://brr.fyi/posts/pressure-altitude.)
by KoftaBob | 2026-03-09 23:56:55+00:00
What thunder? Mastodon has had nearly a decade to go mainstream and it's still mostly tech enthusiasts explaining to their friends what an 'instance' is.

ActivityPub is fine if you enjoy your identity being held hostage by whatever random server admin decides to keep the lights on. Want to move servers? Hope you're cool with losing your followers. Want real account portability? Too bad. Want scalable search and flexible moderation? Also too bad.

ATproto wasn't built to compete with Mastodon out of pettiness, it was built because ActivityPub fundamentally cannot accomplish the task that ATProto/Bluesky is aiming for: a decentralized social network that isn't a cumbersome pain in the ass to use.
by tialaramex | 2026-03-09 23:58:29+00:00
And crucially batteries aren't fuel they're storage.

Also all these economies do make stuff, they just don't employ huge numbers of semi-skilled workers to do so. Most of the factory jobs are gone, but the factories are not. I live in a port city, about a century ago this city had loads of jobs crewing ships and loading cargo but today more work is done by a tiny fraction as many people.
by netsharc | 2026-03-09 23:58:53+00:00
This page (1) reports 9 stops (between start and destination):

> The plane took off – for the 1st leg of the flight from Amsterdam to Batavia – on 30 April. The schedule: Budapest 30 April, Athens 1 May, Cairo 2 May, Baghdad 3 May, Jask 4 May, Jodhpur 5 May, Calcutta 6 May, Tavoy 7 May, Medan 8 May and arriving in Batavia on 9 May.

This page(2) claims a max speed of 190km/h. Budapest to Athens is 1130 km apart, so if the plane was flying around 150km/h, it's a 7 hour trip for that segment. Ouch. At least the passengers probably had a nice dinner and slept every night in a nice hotel...

(1) https://dutchaustralianculturalcentre.com.au/archive/dutch-a...

(2) https://aircraftinvestigation.info/airplanes/Fokker_F.VIIa.h...
by jaredklewis | 2026-03-09 23:59:02+00:00
I don't think you did get my point (my fault perhaps), as my only point is that if you take away from the Haifa study that fines will automatically increase the prevalence the targeted behavior in all situations, that's an insane conclusion to draw. There are lots of variables at play: the size of the fine, how consistently and strictly it is enforced, the ability of the finer to collect the fine, the social context, and so on. The Haifa study examines none of these.

I see people all the time on the Internet (and even IRL once) make claims like, "oh, carbon taxes will just increase CO2 output, you know like in that Israeli daycare study." Drives me nuts.

Are fines the best possible solution to this particularly traffic problem? I have no idea. I'm not an expert in this area. But I am highly confident that whatever relation it has to the Haifa daycare study is so incredibly tenuous that it is not worth mentioning.
by dangus | 2026-03-09 23:59:27+00:00
If I was to try my hand at predicting the future, Liquid Glass is going to be heavily reworked for next year’s release. Apple seems very obviously and publicly aware that reception has been negative.

I sold my Mac and moved to a Linux laptop over it. I won’t consider coming back until it’s revamped and the notch on the laptops goes away.

They might never get me back, I am liking Linux way too much.
by barbarr | 2026-03-10 00:00:05+00:00
Unrelated, but I see the use of phrase "taste" as having a strong Twitter / e/acc smell (in a negative way).

I tend to associate it with folks who are prepared to victim blame researchers for not adapting to the "new economy" as being people who have "bad taste" or "low agency", maybe as a way to rationalize/justify the upcoming inqeuality that AI will create.

Basically a recycling of the way "IQ"/smarts/hard-work has historically been used to justify disproportionate rewards for the upper class.

(Obviously a gigantic stretch on my part, and not saying the author is in this camp, but just wanted to vent somewhere)
by OrvalWintermute | 2026-03-10 00:00:06+00:00
If you sell to the War Department, the CIA, the NSA, or ICE/Border Patrol, you know exactly how it is going to be used.

This after the fact naiveté by Anthropic is crazy.

Speaking as a patriot I’d be incredibly proud if my tool was used in a supporting role for one of the most perfect military operations ever executed.

This would likely be the Hallmark of my advertising for the near future.

Instead, we have anthropic going on a fishing expedition for information to claim a TOS violation and rightfully getting the boot! :)
by dekhn | 2026-03-10 00:00:12+00:00
I can't speak to the scientific conclusions in the article, but the smallest/simplest proteins go from completely unfolded to fully folded in a few microseconds. Other proteins will never reach their fully folded state without assistance (usually this correlates with the size of the protein, but many other factors, such as hydrophobic surface, play a big role). Understand that process at a molecular level using experimental methods has been an active area of research and we have definitely come to appreciate that proteins are FAST and that it seems like folding speed is often one of the most important aspects of their evolution.

So improvements to experimental technology in this area are very valuable.
by sobellian | 2026-03-10 00:00:47+00:00
I think the article in fact reaches the exact opposite conclusion it should. I'm not really sure how useful it is to talk about sharing and commons and morals when the point raised was about what is possible. The prescription includes copyleft APIs. These are not possible under Oracle v Google. And you could point it out if I'm wrong but the article doesn't discuss what would happen if Congress acted to reverse Oracle v Google (IMO a cosmically bad idea).
by wahern | 2026-03-10 00:02:06+00:00
Nobody should be using API like time(2) or clock_gettime(2)+CLOCK_REALTIME to measure event durations with sub-second precision or accuracy, especially when controlling mechanical equipment. And I'd be absolutely surprised if anybody was when controlling equipment, at least in a regulated industry.

On unix this is what CLOCK_MONOTONIC is for; for one thing, the real-time clock can be reset at any time.
by ineedasername | 2026-03-10 00:02:49+00:00
With respect to consumption, it’s pretty efficient vs older traditional servers, though I know workloads like that aren’t completely fungible. Nonetheless is bears keeping in mind that a single GB200 NVL72 rack provides 1.4 ExaFLOPS of AI compute (at FP4 precision, ideal circumstances, but this is envelope math all around). So it’s power efficient, for what it is.
by partiallypro | 2026-03-10 00:02:51+00:00
BlueSky is vastly worse than Twitter/X now or ever was. It was a good idea, but it ruins the "community square" aspect when BlueSky has just become a total echo chamber. Twitter is still diverse, even if voices that were once banned now have bigger platforms. Now I'd rank BlueSky has a net negative for society. It's basically a DailyKos leaning miniblog with a small userbase. Things you would just used to find in comment sections of left leaning sites.
by hermitcrab | 2026-03-10 00:03:50+00:00
It is covered a bit here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/sep/12/sciencefiction...

No idea if he was as much of an insufferable egomaniac as that article makes out.

Some decades ago I think it was assumed that homosexuality and paedophilia were pretty much the same thing. Hopefully we are a bit more enlightened now.
by minorbug | 2026-03-10 00:04:54+00:00
Hi!

I wanted to too how far I could get porting an old Macintosh application to run on a modern Mac.

The Computer History Museum released MacPaint's original source code years ago (Pascal + 68k assembly). I pointed Claude Code at it with a feasibility plan built in Gemini, and let it go. I didn't write or read any of the code it produced.

My favorite moment: it needed the tool icons, which live in the resource fork of the original binary. The disk image was MFS — Apple's pre-HFS filesystem from 1984. Nothing reads it. So it wrote an MFS parser, decoded the resource fork, and pulled the icons out.

And after one or two bug reports, I got the original screen up and running.

I know this isn't super exciting news for anyone, but as a senior software engineer, I've been feeling the same waves of excitement and existential dread over the improvements of coding models. This little side project made me smile.

The whole thing runs on iPad now. My kids use it every day and fight over who gets to print next.
by ferxalb | 2026-03-10 00:04:57+00:00
Over time I started feeling that modern software change review is too fragmented.

Dependency updates live in one place.
Security findings in another.
Supply-chain checks somewhere else.
Attestation exists as metadata, but often not as an actual decision surface.
And CI ends up stitching all of this together inconsistently.

The result is that teams get more signals, but not necessarily better decisions.

That pushed me toward a different idea: treat dependency review, supply-chain scanning, and attestation checks as one deterministic review problem instead of separate tool categories.

The core thing I’m interested in is not just generating more scans or more PR noise, but creating a clearer review layer:
- normalized findings
- explicit policy signals
- deterministic allow/review/block outcomes
- local + CI workflows
- agent-readable surfaces without making mutation the default

I’ve been exploring this through Rainy Updates and the broader Rainy MaTE direction, but I’m more interested in the underlying question:

Should software change review be treated as one operator layer instead of a collection of fragmented checks?

Curious how others think about this, especially people dealing with CI policy, supply-chain tooling, dependency automation, or release workflows.
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by raffaeleg | 2026-03-10 00:05:33+00:00
The standard security framing on agents borrows from API security, which gets the threat model wrong. API security assumes you can enumerate what a system can do -- access controls work because the action space is static. Agents are different: the action space expands dynamically based on tools available and the instruction given at runtime. The priority for NIST should be distinguishing authorization (who can invoke an agent) from action scope control (what any invocation can trigger). Those are different security primitives, and most current frameworks don't address the second one
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-10 00:05:34+00:00
> how would you empirically disprove that it doesn't have understanding?

The complete failure of Claude to play Pokemon, something a small child can do with zero prior instruction. The "how many r's are in strawberry" question. The "should I drive or walk to the car wash" question. The fact that right now, today all models are very frequently turning out code that uses APIs that don't exist, syntax that doesn't exist, or basic logic failures.

The cold hard reality is that LLMs have been constantly showing us they don't understand a thing since... forever. Anyone who thinks they do have understanding hasn't been paying attention.

> i can prove that it does have understanding because it behaves exactly like a human with understanding does.

First, no it doesn't. See my previous examples that wouldn't have posed a challenge for any human with a pulse (or a pulse and basic programming knowledge, in the case of the programming examples). But even if it were true, it would prove nothing. There's a reason that in math class, teachers make kids show their work. It's actually fairly common to generate a correct result by incorrect means.
by minimaltom | 2026-03-10 00:06:13+00:00
Strong agree on it all being a legal minefield / new grass.

> But was almost certainly part of its training data, which complicates things

On this point specifically, my read of the Anthropic lawsuit was one of the precedents was that if it trains on something but does not regurgitate it, its fair use? Might help the argument that it was clean-room but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by vansbel | 2026-03-10 00:06:14+00:00
This is a clever script! Regarding your question on heuristics: technical errors (SSL/Speed) are good, but I've found conversion friction is a much stronger proxy for 'willingness to pay.' Business owners care less about a missing favicon and more about 'why users aren't clicking the Call button.'

I actually built something that automates the 'conversion audit' side of this. It analyzes the page and generates a prioritized improvement plan. It might be a great 'high-value' attachment to those cold emails to prove you've done deeper thinking than a standard bot.
Happy to let you run a few of your Las Vegas leads through it to see if the pitch resonates better!

If you want you could run it and if possible just give me the feedback after or if you need any help with that. :) https://websiteroasters.com/
by r-w | 2026-03-10 00:07:24+00:00
AI slop article with telltale signs of poor writing that no one bothered editing. Better one from El Reg here dating back to last December: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/jolla_sailfish_5_hand... Not sure why this is back in the news again now after almost 3 months, but Wired also has a more recent article here: https://www.wired.com/story/jolla-phone-2026/
by hinkley | 2026-03-10 00:08:17+00:00
Did you guys go out to celebrate? It's not too late for Ding Dong, the Bitch is Dead.

If you're Oracle it's not necessary a bad thing if you build an antiquated data center. Isn't much of their customer base legacy customers they are rent-seeking from in perpetuity? Those people are never going to be doing cutting edge AI. They will do what they have always done: adopt new technologies right at the nadir of the Trough of Disillusionment.
by smsm42 | 2026-03-10 00:08:34+00:00
For the speeding ticket, if the police officer stops you, you'd get a ticket and would sign it, thus ensuring you were there. Or, if you refuse, the police officer would testify in court (if you would ask for a court hearing) that they saw you behind the wheel (and, likely now, you'd also be on bodycam). That would likely be enough evidence - which is why you probably don't want to go to court, because the judge would be annoyed at you for wasting everybody's time, and you'd probably get more severe punishment.

That said, I did at times get smaller fine and less severe consequences from a speeding ticket by just pretending I am going to go to court (I didn't really want to, I wanted smaller fine :) - because policemen do not like to waste time in court either - so they would agree, that if I do not try to deny I did it, and do not force thus them to go to court and testify, they would agree to less severe violation (while still costing me $$, just not as much as it could). That's totally a thing, at least in the US. The risk, of course, if you are an ass about it and piss off the police officer, they'd say to heck with it, I'll go to court, and you'd have to go to court too, and as per above, you'd get punished more severely. So, always be polite, and it will be to your benefit.

As for automated speeding tickets, I'm not a huge fan of it. Too many cases of this system being wrong or abusive.
by zitterbewegung | 2026-03-10 00:09:29+00:00
While this may be a better sandbox, actually having a separate computer dedicated to the task seems like a better solution still and you will get better performance.

Besides, prompt injection or simpler exploits should be addressed first than making a virtual computer in a browser and if you are simulating a whole computer you have a huge performance hit as another trade off.

On the other hand using the browser sandbox that also offers a UI / UX that the foundation models have in their apps would ease their own development time and be an easy win for them.
by monster_truck | 2026-03-10 00:09:33+00:00
I cannot fucking believe people are letting it remote start their cars and control their garage door. Nevermind ovens. All things people have done and posted about.

As someone that has worked in the automotive space, an enormous amount of regulation and effort is spent making sure you cannot do something like forgetfully remote start the car with your garage door closed and gas yourself. Nevermind securing it so that others cannot do this to you.

And these people are plugging it into ... this, which will happily go "oh, the car turned off after 15 minutes, let me turn it back on!"

There are realistic odds that someone is rotting in their house while their lobster pays the bills and writes blog posts for them.
by LeoRuocco | 2026-03-10 00:09:36+00:00
This is exactly the problem I built CRE (Claude Rule Enforcer) to solve. It's a two-layer enforcement gate that sits between your AI agent and the system:

Layer 1: Regex matching. Blocks rm -rf, force push, terraform destroy, DROP TABLE in under 10ms. No LLM call. Just a wall.

Layer 2: LLM advisory. For grey areas, a lightweight model reads the conversation context and checks whether the user actually asked for that action.

It hooks into Claude Code's PreToolUse event, so destructive commands get blocked before execution. Also works with Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Aider.

The key insight: the company selling you the agent shouldn't also be the one providing safety. CRE is independent.

Open source, 790+ tests. UK Patent GB2604445.3.

https://github.com/tech-and-ai/claude-rule-enforcer
by Escafati | 2026-03-10 00:10:09+00:00
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by LeoRuocco | 2026-03-10 00:10:22+00:00
This article demonstrates exactly why Claude Code's built-in denylist isn't enough. The denylist is a suggestion, not enforcement. Claude can reason around it.

I built CRE (Claude Rule Enforcer) specifically because of this. It's an external enforcement layer, not part of the agent's context window, so it can't be reasoned around or escaped.

Two layers:
- L1: Regex pattern matching. Blocks destructive commands in under 10ms. The agent never even sees the rejection reasoning.
- L2: LLM advisory using a separate model. Checks intent against conversation context for grey areas.

The critical design choice: enforcement happens outside the agent's loop. Claude can't prompt-inject its way past a regex gate that runs before the tool call reaches the shell.

Open source, 790+ tests: https://github.com/tech-and-ai/claude-rule-enforcer
by dfee | 2026-03-10 00:11:00+00:00
i worry about Dioxus. not because "they're going to be destroyed by their VC funding" directly, but indirectly. is this a sustainable endeavor? does the market really want them or care about them? it's hard to consider and commit to them, when it's unclear if they're sustainable or just running on the fumes of a passionate founder three months away from marking the project as unmaintained and walking away.

to that end, while i find beauty in dioxus, i've been more willy to play with expo.
by dchftcs | 2026-03-10 00:11:13+00:00
The impact of false accusations don't start just with prosecution. People lose jobs and friends with it before that stage. I've personally seen people fired for a mere police investigation into something much milder that was eventually dropped.

Also, I did some checking and I can't find sources supporting "100 cases per year".

Various sources say unfounded allegations are estimated to be 5-20% in different research, while there are hundreds of thousands of sexual assault cases in the US alone. This gives an estimate of multiple thousands to tens of thousands of cases per year.

I'm also not sure why you think worrying about false conviction /allegations in DUI and drugs should preclude us from worrying about something less prevalent. Can't people take precautions on all these things that threaten one's reputation and livlihood? There are many things that could have killed you with a 0.01% chance if people didn't bother to fix them, such as battery explosions, and letting them pile up because there are other things to worry about is not the way safety engineering works.
by layer8 | 2026-03-10 00:11:49+00:00
If you go to prison, you can lose whatever media you have as well. I wouldn't rely on a single cloud storage provider, but mirror on multiple ones, and mirror on one or more local device as well, at least for the most important data. I wouldn't use physical media as primary backup copies today: long-term durability, and availability & support of matching peripherals are uncertain, and they don't make proper backups with redundancy easier, nor their verifiability.

For the kids, I'd rather make physical photo albums.