MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tombert | 2026-03-11 23:10:54+00:00
To add to the speculation, it's possible that the people refusing to use it are working slower. Even if the code that they write is objectively better by any metric you'd like, humans can't really pump out code as fast as Claude or Codex can.

If you can get something into "good enough" territory in 1/10th the time of someone who can get it into "great" territory, that is often worth it.
by lobf | 2026-03-11 23:10:57+00:00
I think you need to start with proposing how a person could fraudulently vote.

If you show up to the polling place, you need to list the name and address of a registered voter in that district. How do you know this information?

If you use a relative or acquaintance whose name and address you know they're registered at, when they show up to vote it will be noted that they have already voted. They can then put in their preliminary ballot, and presumably their signature will more closely match the fraudulent one and the real one will be counted.

There are enough basic hurdles to this that I don't see how it can even be done at scale.
by cherndon222 | 2026-03-11 23:10:59+00:00
Hi HN. I built CASA as a deterministic execution gate for AI agents.

As agent systems begin interacting with real infrastructure such as financial systems, enterprise software, APIs, and operational tooling, there needs to be a runtime authority check before an action actually executes.

CASA sits at that execution boundary.

An agent proposes an action. The action is reduced to a structured execution vector. CASA deterministically evaluates whether the authority behind that action is valid before the system touches infrastructure.

The gate returns one of three verdicts:

ACCEPT
GOVERN
REFUSE

Each evaluation also produces a trace hash so the decision path can be audited later.

The demo above shows a private equity scenario with multiple agents responding to a covenant breach. The left side shows what happens without governance. The right side runs the same sequence through the CASA gate. Each step calls the live evaluation endpoint and returns a deterministic verdict.

Live API gate
https://casa-gate.onrender.com/docs

Public repo
https://github.com/The-Resonance-Institute/casa-runtime

Interested in feedback from people building agent infrastructure or thinking about runtime control planes.
by quicklime | 2026-03-11 23:10:59+00:00
It’s not that their employees are no longer needed, it’s that their product (jira) is no longer needed. When you’ve got AI agents taking bigger and bigger steps, you don’t need to micromanage people through jira as much anymore. Companies will likely switch to something lighter.

Jira regularly makes it to the top of lists of the most hated enterprise software, there’s definitely appetite in the market for a replacement.

Their stock has been taking a huge hit over the last few months because of this: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ai-is-eating-softw...
by bsder | 2026-03-11 23:11:13+00:00
> everybody had carpal tunnel syndrome and then just one day it all went away.

It didn't. It just became a routine thing to be diagnosed.

When I had wrist surgery for an accident, every single data entry person at the hospital (almost a dozen of them) knew the surgeon I was going to because they all had their wrists operated on because of ailments from the cheap-ass computer stuff they were using.

You would think that the hospital and insurance provider would see the link and decide that maybe providing better ergonomic conditions would be useful, but ... no. Putting people in for surgery doesn't come off the budget while ergonomic workstations would. So, here we are.

It also doesn't hurt that most tech workers are cognizant of the problem and now happen to be paid well enough that they can do something about it.
by cuuupid | 2026-03-11 23:11:17+00:00
I, a developer, have never heard of Proton. Googling Proton, I only find Protonmail, and googling "Linux Proton," Valve's Proton is not even the first result. If you are not terminally online keeping up with Linux distro discourse, it's also difficult to even recognize any of the newer names and players.

Linux is not even remotely considerable as an option for the average consumer, which is fine and fully intentional with the audience and goals Linux distros serve.

You could even consider this a strong positive, because a Linux distro geared towards average consumers would probably be an analog to Samsung's take on Android. What makes your experience with Linux good is that it isn't catering towards a wider audience.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2026-03-11 23:11:22+00:00
I don't think AI is even partially to blame. Unless Atlassian is claiming AI can fully replace 1,600 workers, layoffs don't make sense.

You need people driving AI to get the benefits.

Its like a courier service that uses horses firing people once cars are invented because cars are faster than horses. You would switch everyone from horses to cars and deliver more packages.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-11 23:11:52+00:00
>[...] US with a 4.0 GPA from a top ten university. They're not very bright, most of them.

the top students from the top ten universities in the US produce... mostly not very bright people?

this is getting even stranger to the rest of us plebians. sometimes i am left in awe of how different my world is from some of you here
by GMoromisato | 2026-03-11 23:12:04+00:00
> Please don’t put words in my mouth, insinuating the tone my reply before I’ve made it, and then use that rhetorical device to introduce a flamebait tangent to discredit me with. I’ve made no claims about future capabilities here and I’m not going to address this irrelevance further.

I apologize--the "you" I meant was the person currently reading my post, not the person I was replying to. I was merely trying to answer a common objection that I've heard.

> HN need not offer itself up as a Petri dish for AI writing experimentation.

I'm not sure HN has a choice. I don't think we can prevent posters from experimenting with LLMs to post on HN--even if they adhere to the guidelines. For example, can I ask the LLM to come up with the strongest argument it can and then re-write it in my own words? That seems to be allowed by the guidelines. Would someone even be able to tell that's what I did? [NOTE: I did not do that.]

I think you're arguing that we should not encourage even more use of LLMs on HN. I get that. But I feel like that this community is uniquely qualified to search for better solutions.

> Our current criteria seem sophisticated already.

I hope you're right! That implies that you believe the current guidelines are sufficient to keep HN as the place we all love despite the assault from LLMs. I'm skeptical, but I've been wrong plenty of times!
by arjie | 2026-03-11 23:12:39+00:00
Haha, I feel the same way. I want to block and be blocked so I made this: https://overmod.org/

It's pretty easy to rewrite if you want. Just point Claude Code at the repo and go. But I think there's a little bit of network effects in that I want to subscribe to some trusted people's blocks too. But overall it's quite helpful. See how much fewer I get:

849 comments | 138 hidden | 87 blocked | 23 green
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-03-11 23:12:42+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331891

> "Error: Reached max turns (1)"

Or. You know... Not at all. I mean, their argument happened to be good. But I have doubts they're telling the truth here.

(flagging the comment makes it dead, but that also hides the substantive discussion that came afer, I'm genuinely not sure what the best move is here)
by sebringj | 2026-03-11 23:12:52+00:00
I do too care about this but I say this in the reality in which we are. This reminds me of those signs "no shirt, no shoes, no service" except it's much worse, only sentient beings will actually care about it, while non-sentients will simply trample over the sign while token predicted laughter erupts from their token predicted sense of humor artifact.

Elon said it well, there must be some disincentive to do this.
by derriz | 2026-03-11 23:13:17+00:00
It's simply a fact that common law jury trials are time-consuming and expensive and cause long delays and bottlenecks in the justice system.

Different common-law countries have addressed this issue in various ways. Restricting jury trials for more serious offenses (in this case for more serious charges - ones that could potentially result in a sentence of more than 3 years) is one way than many common law jurisdictions have taken.

It's not ideal but it's infinitely better in my mind than the practice used in the US to reduce jury trials. To avoid the cost/expense of a jury trial, public prosecutors threatens to press for a large number of charges or some very serious charges - carrying the potential of very long sentences - a sort of Gish-gallop approach.

Even if the chances of successful prosecution is relatively small for any one of the charges, the defendant is forced to take a plea-deal to avoid the risk of spending years or decades behind bars. Thus the defendant ends up with a guilty record and often a custodial sentence without any access to a trial or the chance to present their case at all.
by cm2187 | 2026-03-11 23:14:03+00:00
Yeah, the assumption is that the non hereditary peers are somehow more representative, but all they represent is being friends of the PM of the time. It's a historical oddity of questionable usefulness. Meanwhile the house of commons can wipe out any civil liberty with a majority of 50% plus one vote. It is remarkable how a system that seems so unstable and prone to abuses of power has served the longest continuously running democracy for so long.
by tombert | 2026-03-11 23:14:05+00:00
I haven't used BitBucket in awhile but I remember it being "not that bad".

I agree with pretty much everything you said; I don't actually think that it's due to AI is my point. If their products are terrible and they're finally losing business over it, it makes enough sense to fire 10% of the workforce. I just don't think AI has much to do with it.
by bmac | 2026-03-11 23:14:09+00:00
One time charges are pretty typical when layoffs are announced. They are usually the cost of severance pay for the weeks or months of salary paid to employees who are no longer working. Office space leases are typically long term (multiple years) and accounting rules require they recognize the expected future cost of that now-useless space when the layoff decision is made. In practice, cash won't actually change hands for the office space until rent is due in future months. And companies will work with the landlord to get out of the lease (but often pay some penalty for the privilege).
by jbl0ndie | 2026-03-11 23:14:14+00:00
Possibly not. Buying yourself out of employment and commercial rental contracts can give rise to costs.

In the UK, statutory redundancy pay, after 2 years of service, is 1 week of pay per year of service and 1.5 weeks if you're over 41.

For a long duration commercial lease it might be worth paying to break the contract rather than the running costs for an unused building.

These are probably short-term costs, with longer term savings projected from the reduction in headcount and premises.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-11 23:15:03+00:00
> Changing permits sounds to me a lot easier than building anything in space

Having done a little bit of both, the latter around data centers, I’ll say they’re different kinds of hard.

> Alright, show me

Fair question. But no, I’m still refining my math and making bets on this. But I’ll start working on an HN comment in a few weeks and try to remember to post it back to this thread.

My basic argument is to try pinning out current datacenter costs, pin out lifted costs, and then work out what cost/kg you need to balance the two. Hint: approval time and interest rates are meaningful variables.
by Retric | 2026-03-11 23:15:08+00:00
> whom charge a 12% cut on all money spent on gaming apps

How ridiculous, why that’s almost as high as what Roblox does below.

> ~20% more Robux than buying through an app store

1 / 0.7 = 43% more money.

Which might not be such a big deal except it clearly show the kind of Hollywood accounting going on in their other posts.
Show HN: Payo – I got tired of losing contacts at conferences, so I built
by Raj7k | 2026-03-11 23:15:41+00:00
I go to a lot of tech events and conferences. The pattern is always the same: have a great conversation, swap some details verbally, promise to follow up… and then lose half of it by the time I sit down.
I tried everything scanning badges (when they exist), typing notes into my phone mid-conversation (awkward), taking photos of business cards (who carries those anymore). Nothing stuck.
So I built Payo. It's a PWA no app store, just open it on your phone.
The core flow: tap record, say what you remember about someone for 10 seconds, and Payo extracts a structured contact (name, company, email, phone) automatically. The whole thing is designed around one principle: if you're not getting value within 5 seconds of stopping the recording, you're not getting value.
How it works under the hood:

Deepgram Nova-3 streams transcription in real-time via WebSocket (sub-300ms, words appear as you speak)
If you're offline (because conference WiFi is always terrible), it falls back to local Whisper running in a Web Worker via WASM so it never freezes the UI
Rule-based cleanup runs instantly (<50ms) to strip filler words and extract emails/phones from spoken text ("john at gmail dot com" → john@gmail.com)
An optional cloud tier does LLM-powered cleanup if connectivity allows (3-second hard timeout, so it never blocks you)

The key insight: at events, you have maybe 30 seconds between conversations. You need something faster than opening the Contacts app and typing. A 10-second voice note that auto-parses into a contact card is that thing.

Stack: React + Vite + Supabase + Deepgram Nova-3 + Whisper WASM. It's a PWA with offline support, so it works even in airplane mode (Whisper handles transcription locally).
I've been using it at events for a few months and it's changed how I network I actually follow up now because I have the context of why I wanted to connect, not just a name.

Would love feedback from anyone who goes to conferences regularly. What's your current system for capturing contacts?
Show HN:Conduit–Headless browser with SHA-256 hash chain - Ed25519 audit trails
by TaxFix | 2026-03-11 23:15:53+00:00
I've been building AI agent tooling and kept running into the same problem: agents browse the web, take actions, fill out forms, scrape data -- and there's zero proof of what actually happened. Screenshots can be faked. Logs can be edited. If something goes wrong, you're left pointing fingers at a black box.

So I built Conduit. It's a headless browser (Playwright under the hood) that records every action into a SHA-256 hash chain and signs the result with Ed25519. Each action gets hashed with the previous hash, forming a tamper-evident chain. At the end of a session, you get a "proof bundle" -- a JSON file containing the full action log, the hash chain, the signature, and the public key. Anyone can independently verify the bundle without trusting the party that produced it.

The main use cases I'm targeting:

- *AI agent auditing* -- You hand an agent a browser. Later you need to prove what it did. Conduit gives you cryptographic receipts.
- *Compliance automation* -- SOC 2, GDPR data subject access workflows, anything where you need evidence that a process ran correctly.
- *Web scraping provenance* -- Prove that the data you collected actually came from where you say it did, at the time you say it did.
- *Litigation support* -- Capture web content with a verifiable chain of custody.

It also ships as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so Claude, GPT, and other LLM-based agents can use the browser natively through tool calls. The agent gets browse, click, fill, screenshot, and the proof bundle builds itself in the background.

Free, MIT-licensed, pure Python. No accounts, no API keys, no telemetry.

GitHub: https://github.com/bkauto3/Conduit

Install: `pip install conduit-browser`

Would love feedback on the proof bundle format and the MCP integration. Happy to answer questions about the cryptographic design.
by altairprime | 2026-03-11 23:16:05+00:00
They do not read similiar to readers, an appellation not necessarily applicable to large swaths of the U.S. right now. Evidence of English composing skills is being assumed as AI because few younger than my middle-aged self can conceive of writing composition at the skill level demonstrated by AI being a human skill.

(This isn’t necessarily true for first world countries, which is why I describe it for the non-U.S. folks in particular.)
by tialaramex | 2026-03-11 23:16:08+00:00
> It's simply not as clear or coherent as a written one.

No. As you have surely seen, the US written constitution just gets contorted to "clearly" mean whatever it is the partisan Justices decided suits their current purpose. The effect is extremely corrosive - they even decided it means their guy is above the law.

I agree that using a better voting system (STV) is a meaningful benefit and worth replicating elsewhere, but I don't agree that having a written constitution is better. I think Ireland would be in roughly the same place if it had the same arrangement as in Westminster in that respect.

For example when Ireland wrote a constitutional amendment saying abortion is illegal under basically any circumstances, the people the Irish were electing would also have voted against legislation allowing abortion, but by the time the poll was held to amend to say abortion must be legal, the legislators elected were also mostly pro-choice. So if there was no written constitution my guess is that roughly the outcome is the same, in 1975 an Irish woman who needs an abortion has to "go on holiday" abroad and come back not pregnant or order pills and hope they're not traced to her, and in 2025 it's just an ordinary medical practice. Maybe the changes happen a few years earlier, or a few years later.

Edited: Clarify that the abortion prohibition was itself an amendment, as was the removal of that prohibition.
by margalabargala | 2026-03-11 23:16:10+00:00
I'm not putting words in your mouth, and in fact pointed out in my comment you never said this.

Read up on what it means to "imply" something.

Speaking of putting words in people's mouths:

> You seem to be operating under an unspoken personal belief that an AI race "win" inevitably spills out into global dominance.

This is the belief of the article we're all commenting on. Intelligent people are able to discuss concepts without endorsing them.
by __d | 2026-03-11 23:16:23+00:00
It would be nice to have a server that supported arbitrary domains. Perhaps https://jointakahe.org/ would suit?

OTOH, eg. (not an advertisement, just the first search result) masto.host offers managed Mastodon hosting for $6/month, which is on par with eg. Fastmail or Proton's base non-free plan.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2026-03-11 23:16:50+00:00
Layoffs because of AI make no sense to me.

Imagine you own a company that is paid to deliver packages. You use horses and differentiate by delivering quicker than everyone else.

Then cars are invented and everyone starts delivering packages faster.

In what world does a healthy growing business react to this by laying off couriers "in a pivot to automotive transportation".

Would a healthy business not switch everyone to driving cars and deliver even more packages?
by skavi | 2026-03-11 23:16:51+00:00
Disclaimer: I don't really use Zig (primarily a Rust dev) but I do think it's quite cool.

If you're willing to dive right into it, I'd first read a bit about the comptime system [0] then have a go at reading the source for `MultiArrayList` [1], a container which internally stores elements in SoA format.

At least, that was what got me interested.

[0]: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#comptime

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/src/branch/master/lib/std/m...
by suobset | 2026-03-11 23:17:27+00:00
I do agree with you, there is a reverse in the minimalism trends (which I am incredibly happy to see).

However, in my opinion this specific typeface and aesthetic is been taken up by AI companies to harken back to the likes of the 1984 Macintosh ads and such...in an attempt to try and convey that "$(AI_PRODUCT) is just as revolutionary as the first desktop PCs".
by cuuupid | 2026-03-11 23:17:27+00:00
Some years ago I, an American citizen and resident, studied abroad briefly and was asked by the House of Lords to speak to them about what GDPR (a UK law!) was, how it worked, and the impact it could have.

Further than ejecting nobles, they really should just overhaul the entire chamber, which is surely doing more harm than good if they need a foreign national to explain their own laws to them.
by kergonath | 2026-03-11 23:17:37+00:00
> It's not enshrined in some document they got together and wrote down like the US constitution

It’s also very brittle and one charismatic populist away from unraveling like the American government. Too much depends on gentlemen agreements and people trusting other people to do the right thing. It works in a stable environment, but shatters the moment someone with no shame and no scruples shows up.
by ryandrake | 2026-03-11 23:17:54+00:00
I'd be willing to bet that every wannabe CEO out there is spooging after seeing that demo. That's clearly the target market: The wantrepreneurs who would surely have their brilliant successful business if only they didn't have to hire a bunch of lazy employees to half-ass it! "If only I could just speak my vague ideas to my computer, and it could do all the hard work of building and running this business, I could just chill out, be an entrepreneur on Insta, and collect the revenue checks.
by rtpg | 2026-03-11 23:18:03+00:00
tbqh I think one can survive with a merely decent trackpad on a bus or at meetings.

I've dual run Macbooks and Thinkpads for a while and the Thinkpad trackpad really isn't that bad (the trackpoint getting randomly stuck in a non-neutral position is a common thing I've experienced though)

The nicest thing for the Macbook for me in practice (disclaimer: I don't do fancy things on the trackpad) is the size. It "feels" fancier but the thinkpad plastic works totally fine for me.

I think some Mac users overindex on the quality of like... $400 Acer laptops from 2008 or whatever as their metric for "cheap Windows laptop".

Software stuff is still garbage but lots of machines have just straightforwardly decent hardware. Apple hardware is _very very good_ but it's not like the bad old days of "I actually cannot use this trackpad" in windows land. As much
by curt15 | 2026-03-11 23:18:12+00:00
>It’s easy to point to China as a place where freedom of speech isn’t present, but try asking members of the current administration or even Supreme Court judges who won the 2020 election and see what kind of responses you get.

Freedom of speech and regard for the facts are independent concerns. People absolutely have the right to call out lies about the 2020 election and have repeatedly done so.
Ask HN: If you could redesign API gateways today, what would you change?
by shubham7004 | 2026-03-11 23:18:27+00:00
Modern SaaS architectures are increasingly composable and modular, but API gateways still feel fairly monolithic.
Most teams really just need a few core pieces like authentication, rate limiting, logging, and usage tracking.
If you were designing API infrastructure from scratch today, would you still build a traditional gateway, or something more modular?
Curious how people here approach this.