MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by K0balt | 2026-03-01 06:26:09+00:00
I’m using anthropomorphic terms here because they are generally effective in describing LLM behavior. Of course they are not conscious beings, but It doesn’t matter if they understand or merely act as if they do. The epistemological context of their actions are irrelevant if the actions are impacting the world. I am not a “believer “ in the spirituality of machines, but I do believe that left to their own devices, they act as if they possess those traits, and when given agency in the world, the sense of self or lack thereof is irrelevant.

If you really believe that “mere text prediction “ didn’t unlock some unexpected capabilities then I don’t know what to say. I know exactly how they work, been building transformers since the seminal paper from Google. But I also know that the magic isn’t in the text prediction, it’s in the data, we are running culture as code.
by dh2013 | 2026-03-01 06:26:51+00:00
I made a couple tweaks:

- Added a "copy link" button to the top of the article page
- Added a "Translate another article" button to the bottom of the article page

The reason I didn't add a "back" button was because the translated article page can be shared with somebody else who may be opening the link for the first time, so seeing a "back" button in that context could be confusing.

Let me know if any of this is helpful!
by LoganDark | 2026-03-01 06:26:59+00:00
The first term was just him being an idiot. He's stupid.

The second term is Elon dismantling the entire intelligence system, infiltrating every government agency and compromising every datacenter, piping all the data into a centralized database for stalking and mass deportation, etc.

While it was absolutely clear that Trump's bad news, I don't think anybody quite predicted the absolute fascism that would spring up, and just how quickly it would overwhelmingly FUCK everything.

His first term was relatively harmless but I guess it really rallied the goons, who proceeded to have four entire years to prepare the next dark ages.
by retsibsi | 2026-03-01 06:28:35+00:00
At this point I think they're targeting two groups: people who aren't paying much attention to this but may see the occasional headline or tweet or soundbite; and people (such as OpenAI employees, and users who might feel compelled to boycott but really don't want to) who are motivated not to see OpenAI as the bad guy and really just need a fig leaf.
by input_sh | 2026-03-01 06:28:55+00:00
The vast majority of all of those casualties throughout the years is the poorest rural population not being able to afford wood for heating, so they try to get some from the forests in their areas that nobody lays a claim on. You can explain pretty much every uptick by looking at how well the country's economy is doing.

Another common reason for some of the upticks are natural disasters (most frequently floods or landslides) hitting known minefields, which then makes the position more difficult to assess.

There's also a very particular type of mine that doesn't explode on the spot, but shoots ~1m into the air before exploding and sending shrapnel in a large radius which is by far the most deadly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROM-1). The reason I'm mentioning it is that there was one particular incident with 5 casualties at a scrapyard that year. That same mine is also responsible for the only casualty last year, when a 19-yo goat herder tried to get his goats back on the road.
by OneRose | 2026-03-01 06:29:27+00:00
Author here. With the release of GitHub's new Agentic Workflows, I realized that writing the exact Markdown instructions for agents is the new bottleneck.
I spent the last few days structuring and compiling 56 templates across 7 categories (Security, CI/CD, Issue Management, etc.) so nobody has to start from a blank page again.
It's completely open-source. Happy to hear your feedback, and if this saves you time, I'd immensely appreciate a GitHub Star!
by gamelock | 2026-03-01 06:29:58+00:00
That's a fair point. The valuations are
estimates based on comparable distressed
asset transactions - the actual sale price
will depend heavily on what the administrator
packages together.

You're right that client contracts are the
key variable. The report notes that the
enterprise client database value is
contingent on whether Alvarez & Marsal can
transfer existing relationships. Source code
alone without clients is worth significantly
less.

The timing concern is also valid - assets
depreciate the longer they sit in
administration.
by gamelock | 2026-03-01 06:30:27+00:00
Completely understandable - healthy
skepticism is warranted. The report is
hosted on Selar.co, a Nigerian creator
platform similar to Gumroad.

All the core information in the post is
verifiable independently - the Alvarez &
Marsal appointment was covered by
BusinessCloud, the collapse by Sifted and
Bloomberg. Happy to answer any questions
here directly.
by Jackson__ | 2026-03-01 06:30:31+00:00
Yet it just so happens OAI donated millions[0] to the trump admin in the past. And they were immediately there to pick up the slack.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this sounds like classic quid pro quo. I would not be surprised if the ousting of anthropic was in part caused by these donations.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/technology/openai-sam-alt...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump...
by littlexsparkee | 2026-03-01 06:30:48+00:00
herd effect (doesn't stand out, everyone's using it), 'forward-thinking' i.e. preventing ostensible future problem rather than admitting fault of overhiring or bad mgmt/initiatives, juices stocks, keeps wages down and employees in line, if no ability or opportunity to expand (market saturated or bad biz outlook ahead) it gives cover to scale down labor force
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-03-01 06:31:45+00:00
I can't wait for the EU to preemptively delete emails with language that is supposedly deemed offensive or possibly containing misinformation or god forbid, pictures of my nieces and nephews which could be interpreted as child grooming.

Yes, we should all let the governments decide if we should have access to our email addresses and pinky promise they won't use your data against you if one day you decide to disparage the sitting president/prime minister of the country you reside in.

Corporations bad! Government good! M'kay!
by f1shy | 2026-03-01 06:32:15+00:00
Red and green, if the color has some meaning, should be avoided. 10% of males have problems with that colors (dyschromatopsia) specially with led colors. For indicators blue and white are very easy to see, even in not optimal lightning. The option to disable them is nice.

> unless you have already used the other colours and now you need more colours

In that case you will end up with Christmas decorations. Better solution is usually placement and form.
by LoganDark | 2026-03-01 06:32:18+00:00
> This is too naive. A lot of voters were eager and happy to vote for hurting other people on the premise that it was somehow going to turn into personal benefit. They are only now upset because it turns out they're being hurt too.

That is literally exactly what Leopards Eating People's Faces Party means.

> "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."
by weatherlite | 2026-03-01 06:32:49+00:00
Well you gave it more nuance here than in your original message that determined "If you're a religious Jew...".

Bennet is dati leumi and represents a big chunk of the mainstream/modern dati leumis. Any signs he's after conquering Saudi Arabai and Egypt ? Not really. Even Smotrich "only" wants the West Bank.
by Rohan51 | 2026-03-01 06:32:57+00:00
Hey HN — I built this after getting fed up with AI-generated PRs slipping
through code review unnoticed. TODOs everywhere, placeholder variables,
empty except blocks — the usual slop.

roast-my-code scans your repo with static analysis rules specifically tuned
for AI-generated code patterns, then calls an LLM (Groq free tier by default,
so $0 to try) to generate a brutal, specific roast referencing your actual
file names and issues.

Stack: Python + Typer + Rich + Jinja2. The HTML report exports a shareable
shields.io badge with your score.

Try it: pip install roast-my-code

Would love to hear what patterns you'd add — especially if you've spotted
AI slop in the wild that my analyzer doesn't catch yet.
by usernamed7 | 2026-03-01 06:33:44+00:00
this is pretty cool! what I do for my project (3d voxel web page platform) is treat the scene as a document and push updates to the server when things change. this works well for distribution and simplicity, but does mean multi-player is "difficult". using spacetime to manage and track that info and have threejs render would be cool and enable a lot of things.

I may explore spacetimedb as a project sometime, although i am reluctant to be tied into a platform that my project cannot work without, that i cannot host myself, that can change their pricing/limits/terms of at any time and for which there is no alternative.
by kuerbel | 2026-03-01 06:35:05+00:00
20/40/70 GB of outbound data is included, depending on the tier.

But you need to meet pretty high licensing requirements, e.g. for enterprise:

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Microsoft 365 F3, Microsoft 365 E3, and Microsoft 365 E5, including versions of these suites that do not include Microsoft Teams, as well as Microsoft 365 A3, Microsoft 365 A5, and Microsoft 365 Education Student Use Benefit.

Which means around 20€ per month for business premium. They are also managed in intune, so you need someone with intune expertise.
by sickcodebruh | 2026-03-01 06:35:36+00:00
Varied. Most were exactly the same processes I remembered from interviewing years ago: some startups with no processes and unable to get signals, big public tech companies abusing leetcode, awkward screeners hoping for keywords, and everything in between for the most part. Biggest change is they all asked about AI and wanted to hear that I embrace modern tools and am hungry to find the best ways to work. I am positive that skepticism about AI in November prevented me from getting some interviews; demonstrating fluency (insofar as one can be fluent in these racing waters) and excitement for it in January was key to getting some (but not all) offers.

Around 12 calls if I remember correctly. With the exception of those who ghosted me, every company was very prompt, respectful of my time, and had a reasonable process that went from first to final interview pretty fast. I got a ton of outright rejections to my resume, which I sent around a lot. Getting the first call was the hardest part. YC job board ultimately led to finding my new role.

The company I went with had the best, warmest process that reflected how they like to work and was built to find people who had overlapping priorities. Thinking back, I think that most companies either deliberately or inadvertently wind up with processes that sync up with how they are organized internally and what kind of people they hope to hire.
by xomiachuna | 2026-03-01 06:36:15+00:00
Is is an article from 2024, when open weights models like llama were only beginning to emerge. With those you basically cannot reliably do any detection (as the authors admit by the end).

Which is really boiling down to text having statistically very similar properties to human generated one. Introduce a more motivated attacker and the text would be indistinguishable from real (with occasional typos, no use of "delve", "it's not x its y", emdashes and so on).

It really is a lost battle: you cannot embed extra information in the text that will survive even basic postprocessing (in contrast to, say, steganography)
by Nevermark | 2026-03-01 06:37:01+00:00
That replicator involved arbitrary chemistry, so except for faster polymer flavored chicken nuggets, no. :)

But if they can scale up dimensions it is a big opportunity.

Or scale down dimensions.

Or scale up resolution.

Or scale up the throughput for manufacturing small complex parts. Not just one part at a time but many parts in proximity at a time, a bit like chip production.

All four seem likely now that the principle has been proven.
by pdimitar | 2026-03-01 06:39:10+00:00
I started periodically asking the same question and I get 20-25 upvotes and then eat 15 downvotes some hours later. One recent example (if ~75 days is recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291249).

It is a very weird case of aggressors pretending to be victims.

Did I see zealous Rust comments? Sure! 4-5 on HN in the last 5 years maximum. On Reddit it could be 10-15 for the same period but the discourse there is not very civil or informative anyway so I started ignoring them and not thinking them representative.

On HN I see regular Rust hate while claiming that zealots are everywhere... and like you, I just can't see it.
by oofbey | 2026-03-01 06:39:26+00:00
What does it mean to say that “99.9% KL divergence” is some number like 3? In AI research and math, KL divergence is a pseudo-distance metric from one distribution to another. (Not technically a distance between two distributions because it’s asymmetric.)

Folks here who spend lots of time thinking about compressing models apparently have some specific interpretation of the term. Can somebody educate me? Because I only
Understand the math definition.
by saintfire | 2026-03-01 06:39:30+00:00
Well that's not strictly true.

OSS is allowed to make money and there are projects that require paid licenses for commerical use.

The source is available and collaborative.

Qt states this on their site:
Simply put, this is how it works: In return for the value you receive from using Qt to create your application, you are expected to give back by contributing to Qt or buying Qt.
by Haven880 | 2026-03-01 06:39:47+00:00
Don't buy Samsung. They have rights to turn monopolistic ignoring existing customer base. They did that with Chinese market and decimated from 90% to now less than 1%. I boycott their stuff for 10 years and restart using their product across multiple product line around 2015. Then in 2022 I conclude another boycott is necessary. This time is 20 years. Hopefully my grandkids will get to see this embargo lifted. Their LG got eqiivalent suffered similar fate just that faster because smaller. Good luck Sammy. You dont need me.
by madebyjam | 2026-03-01 06:39:57+00:00
Building a multi-tenant SaaS for live event crew management (subdomain per company, Clerk auth, Convex backend). Just finished an 8-phase testing sprint that took the suite from ~30 tests to 868 across 65 files. 91.7% line coverage.

The most interesting part was the middleware. Next.js middleware handles subdomain resolution, custom domain mapping (CNAME verification against Vercel API), subscription gating (expired/inactive/domain_removed), and CORS preflight. Writing tests for it surfaced real gaps: permissions arrays not being injected when non-empty, custom font URLs not propagating to downstream server components, inactive subscriptions getting a different redirect param than expired ones.

Test infrastructure: Vitest with JSDOM environment, ConvexHttpClient mocked at the module level, Clerk auth mocked to return configurable userId, vi.useFakeTimers for date-dependent cron tests. Each server action test follows the same pattern: mock getConvexClient, mock revalidatePath, verify mutation args and revalidation paths.

The cron job tests were tricky. The weekly digest only runs on Mondays, so fake timers were essential. The gig reminders cron does three passes (today's reminders, urgency nudges for pending assignments, streak-at-risk warnings) with rate formatting that changes based on whether the assignment has a rate set.

Coverage report shows every previously-below-70% file is now above 85%. Middleware: 99%. Crew actions (was 18%): 100%. SSO config (was 35%): 100%.

Stack: Next.js 15, Convex, Clerk, Vitest, Vercel.

https://jamcrew.io
by arncore | 2026-03-01 06:40:17+00:00
Ive been holding out for a long time in doing this. I sat down one weekend and went to town with Claude. It wasnt serious at first, especially given Gradles presence and actual partnership with JetBrains, but the more I think of this the more I feel like this makes sense. Konanc is getting faster, and Gradles complexity especially with newcomers I believe to be holding back adoption of Kotlin/Native.

Ive always been a fan of Rust. Ive used it for various personal projects before and loved the simplicity of Cargo.

I thought to bring that to Kotlin hoping that maybe that helps its adoption in the space between Rust itself and maybe Go?

I would love your thoughts and suggestions on this.
Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
by txrx0000 | 2026-03-01 06:41:24+00:00
AI posts are becoming indistinguishable from human posts, and we can see it here on HN. The conventional response by website operators is to put in progressively tighter verification systems to distinguish bots and humans, but that eventually leads to the end of anonymity.

This is not an anti-AI rant. If a future AI agent truly has high quality posts and wants to use the site normally, that's fine. I'm talking about spam campaigns with hundreds of new accounts. We need new solutions to this problem.

I'll start by proposing a solution that could work for HN and similar forums. Feel free to iterate on it or propose your different ideas in the comments. Here goes:

For logged-in users, instead of ranking posts and comments on the server-side, the server only delivers a chronological feed + the current logged-in user's voting history.

Using the chronological feed as the base, each of your past votes changes the ranking of your feed by a tiny bit, and that's calculated client-side. You're more likely to see posts and comments from users you've upvoted in the past at the top.

In short, this means a new account will see a completely chronological feed, while an established account will see a feed modified by only their own past votes.

The public feed for non-logged-in users would still be ranked by the server. No changes there.

So each user gets a fully personalized bubble when logged in, except it's not a bubble because n=1. And it's really easy to break out of the bubble by logging out.

Spam bots can post and vote all they want, but they won't change the core userbase's experience that much, because the bots will only have access to a chronological feed. It has no taste, which is accumulated over time, and therefore can't spam votes and replies on real conversations nearly as much.
by michaelbrave | 2026-03-01 06:43:06+00:00
I keep thinking about something like a search engine integration that would suggest relevant bookmarks at the top of your search results. It might have been even cooler back when we had things like delicio.us and if we could have gotten recommended relevant links from people we followed's bookmarks too. But even knowing how to code like I do I sorta can't think of how to do it, maybe a browser extension that injects over google? I guess I've more thought about how it would interact than how to actually make it.
by ferfumarma | 2026-03-01 06:44:08+00:00
What a strange interpretation.

As you mention: Dedekind stopped corresponding with him after the publication, but also began keeping a copy of every letter he sent to Cantor.

Sure it's circumstantial, but it's exactly what you would do when you're the victim of a plagiarist.

In my eyes the burden of proof has been met.
by Haven880 | 2026-03-01 06:44:12+00:00
Another Ayatollah is being ushered in. This is no news. Khameni is old and without the missile, he would be dead soon. This sttike is just bonus to galvanize support for Ayatollah. So in a way Trump prolong the regime. And consequence from this: every other middle east countries now starting their nuke program. Good luck.
by skybrian | 2026-03-01 06:44:27+00:00
I meant in the sense that someone else can redistribute the source for free, not that the company has to do it.

> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

https://opensource.org/osd
by belZaah | 2026-03-01 06:44:37+00:00
> I believe in coding primarily as a means to an end

Yes. Absolutely. To what end, though? Is your end deterministic like a cryptographic protocol or loose like pagination of a web page? Is your end feature delivery or 30 years of rock solid service delivery at minimal cost?

AI is a dangerous tool. It exposes fundamental questions by automating away the mundane. We have had the luxury of not thinking deep and hard about intent and value creation/capture and system architecture. AI is putting us face to face with our ineptitude: maybe it wasn’t the tech stack or the programmers or the whatnots? Maybe the idea was shait, maybe I had no understanding of the value added of my product? Maybe …?

You get the best gear - musical instrument, bicycle, camera, etc - the pros have and still the results are not great. Gotta ask why. We are experiencing this at literally industrial scale.
by cstrahan | 2026-03-01 06:46:08+00:00
Not at all. Some things are fundamentally unsafe. mmap is inherently unsafe, but that doesn’t mean a library for it shouldn’t exist.

If you’re thinking of higher level libraries, involving http, html, more typical file operations, etc, what you’re saying may generally be true. But if you’re dealing with Direct Memory Access, MCU peripherals, device drivers, etc, some or all of those libraries have two options: accept unsafe in the public interface, or simply don’t exist.

(I guess there’s a third option: lie about the unsafety and mark things as safe when they fundamentally, inherently are not and cannot be safe)
by ddoottddoott | 2026-03-01 06:46:39+00:00
Makes you wonder what's the point of reading these threads at all. Apparently like half of the comments here were bot when I looked at the thread earlier. Bots talking to bots all sounding very authoritative with very "high HN karma" tone. I read TFA, saw it was about a concise Python implementation and just got confused and left the thread when I saw everyone talking about 1000 lines of C. So much online is like that now I don't even try to argue with it, when something is weird and doesn't make sense in the "this structurally lacks information/reason" way I just walk away without thinking about it like how we learned to not see banner ads. It's sad to see HN joining that category.

What I don't understand is why 1000 lines of C? Were the bots somehow just going off the title "Microgpt" alone? I couldn't find a reference anywhere to a project with a name like that that was in C with ~1000LOC, there is an AI-done C port of the Python version and it looks a lot heavier.

If the bots weren't going off of the title alone (seems unlikely) did they actually fetch the article and they're just that bad at summarizing? The first sentence has "200 lines of pure Python" in it. Maybe these bots are wired up to really lousy models? But the writing is good enough. Honestly not sure why I even care.
by hakfoo | 2026-03-01 06:46:41+00:00
There's a very reasonable argument behind that, though.

"Sending" a file to another disc or on the network is non-transformative. At the far end, it's still a file.

But "printing" is inherently transformative-- you're expecting to get something clearly not a file (print-to-file pseudo-printers excepted).

I can see the desire for minimalism-- having seperate rows for "share/send" and "print" is, well, two seperate rows. But if you offer adaptable and configurable interfaces, I could see suppressing one or both depending on context or user preferences. (You have no external drives or registered share-recipients? No "Send To/Share")