MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-08 19:33:31+00:00
Well here are 8 search engines that I know that I did something recently with[0]

1. DDG (Duckduckgo)
2. Kagi
3. Brave (Independent)
4. Ecosia (Looking to be independent with Qwant in future)
5. Startpage
6. Marginalia (Independent and creator is on HN)
7. Mojeek (Independent)
8. Yandex.ru (Russian, Independent)

I personally use DDG (Duckduckgo). I think its a decent option fwiw, yes I know it uses Bing internally but it works really great.

> Evil pays well.

It isn't that Evil pays well although one can say that but rather that, Short term profits seem to pay well.

Although Google now has a decent AI model, Their search engine which I don't use aside from some image search sometimes, is getting worse, (maybe because that somehow helps them short term) because fwiw, their stock price isn't really correlated anymore with how good their search is, because you can bet that if that was the case, Google would throw everything to become best search engine.

These corporations are so locked in/monopolistic that unless you change your search engine/(In case of Microsoft operating system), they don't really care about how much worse their product becomes and sometimes even if people stop using their product, short term, they still don't care.

[0]: what I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=47232986
by simianwords | 2026-03-08 19:34:09+00:00
The author talks about jobs requiring a human element but its not always true. A job always requires you to show your task one level higher - to the manager or whoever requires it.

For example UI design can be replaced by AI. Unless UI or UX design people were bringing something like _taste_ instead of simply mechanically operating figma - they are not keeping their jobs.

I genuinely don't need to learn SQL ever in my life. I just don't need it for dashboards or analytics use. A person whose main job was to translate requirements to SQL into a dashboard and nothing else would not keep their job anymore. The person to whom they were providing the analysis to could just perform the analysis themselves using AI.

I do think that most jobs would change dramatically but for sure some of them would be eliminated completely.
by rkomorn | 2026-03-08 19:34:38+00:00
The "I take full responsibility" thing has been entirely meaningless.

I guess it's supposed to convey that it's not the laid-off folks' fault, and that it was "his decision", but as you said: "taking full responsibility" without any real impact to his life? I may as well take full responsibility for the layoffs. It'd mean just as much.
by behnamoh | 2026-03-08 19:34:44+00:00
I wish it was a TUI. Windows is a plague I try to stay away from as much as possible, and it already gives me headaches to setup WSL and manage them over ssh. Some things you just can't do w/o remote desktop... And sometimes WSL crashes and there's literally no way to recover except to restart the whole machine.

The only reason I use Windows is because Nvidia drivers are easier to setup. But once I'm inside my Fedora WSL, that feels like home, not the Windows host.
by sxp | 2026-03-08 19:34:59+00:00
I found more details at https://www.rouast.com/blog/articles/vitallens-take-a-vital-... and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06892.

It's still vague beyond saying they trained an AI: "VitalLens is trained on the PROSIT and Vital Videos Africa dataset...The time-synchronized sensor array used for PROSIT consists of a video camera, electrocardiogram (ECG), pulse oximetry, blood pressure monitor, and an ambient light sensor. "
by kivle | 2026-03-08 19:36:04+00:00
I switched from ChatGPT Plus to Gemini Pro instead of Claude, since I'm a hobbyist and appreciate having more than just text chat and coding assist with my subscription (image gen, video gen, etc are all nice to have).

At first I found the Gemini Code Assist to be absolutely terrible, bordering on unusable. It would mess up parameter order for function calls in simple 200 line Python. But then I found out about the "model router" which is a layer on top which dynamically routes requests between the flash and pro model. Disabling it and always using the pro model did wonders for my results.

There are however some pretty aggressive rate limits that reset every 24 hours. For me it's okay though. As a hobbyist I only use it about 2-3 hours per day at most anyway.
by kkfx | 2026-03-08 19:36:12+00:00
I keep wondering how much longer they'll cling to these monsters, office suites as a concept. They make no sense since decades, not just for producing TERRIBLE print documents, but also as awful formats for working with text and any data they might contain.

I see this latest development as an admission that their time is up, but I don't see that same awareness from the people who actually use the software.
by mmooss | 2026-03-08 19:36:17+00:00
Markdown is a text markup language, of course. The output does not look like the input (unless you want to read raw text Markdown, in which case LibreOffice works fine).

How would that look in a single-pane, edit-in-place, wysiwyg editor? Where would you type the input, and where and when would it show the output?
by fuelingcurious | 2026-03-08 19:36:23+00:00
Apologies on the delayed response! I must not have set up notifications right. I actually built this all through chat windows rather than a terminal hub.

I haven’t allocated much time to learning Claude code/anti gravity/codex but I want to add more levels to teach some of the mechanical aspects of the refinery.

I’ll definitely try to incorporate what you just mentioned in this next round of coding.
by IndySun | 2026-03-08 19:36:32+00:00
I too am holding back on ios18. One of the weekly calls I get from a non tech friend (actually that's unfair, they're just scared to change settings in case something breaks) wanted to know how I made the timelapse video I'd just sent. I dutifully explained what to tap and how to get to it but to no avail - such is said abomination of the ios26 camera app.
by tim-tday | 2026-03-08 19:36:32+00:00
This just isn’t true.
Offering someone $1k to junk a $5k car does nothing. The only time it matters is when a $2k car needs more than $1k of repair like a transmission replacement. The program kept the most problematic cars off the road generally increasing the reliability of everything on the market.
The used car market is alive and well.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-08 19:37:17+00:00
Improved how?

I picked up the implication that you thought my response could be improved, so I tried to guess what your criticism was and respond to that. If it feels "way off" because I framed it as disagreement, then I dunno, that feels like the right framing? Unless it's something else I did? I could have made it clearer I was guessing but that doesn't seem way off.
by sebastos | 2026-03-08 19:37:25+00:00
Firstly, the models that pass the Math Olympiad aren’t the same models as the ones you’re saying “pass the Turing test”. Secondly, nothing actually passes the Turing test. They pass a vibes check of “hey that’s pretty good!” but if your life depended on it, you could easily find ways to sniff out an LLM agent. Thirdly, none of these models learn in real time, which is an obviously essential feature.

We’ll know AGI when we see it, and this ain’t it. This complaining about changing goalposts is so transparently sour grapes from people over-invested in hyping the current LLM paradigm.
Show HN: Deliberate practice applied to coding interviews
by trane_project | 2026-03-08 19:37:49+00:00
I built InterviewTraner to fix how people prepare for coding interviews. Most people grind LeetCode problems randomly or follow static lists, which is not very effective. InterviewTraner uses a deliberate practice engine to intelligently schedule which problems you should work on and when.

How it works:

- 1,800+ LeetCode problems organized into a prerequisite graph across all major topics (arrays, trees, graphs, DP, etc.).

- The engine starts you on easy problems and only unlocks harder topics once you've demonstrated mastery of their prerequisites.

- Spaced repetition, mastery learning, interleaving, and other strategies ensure you practice what you need.

- Powerful filtering features to only practice a subset of problems when you are in a rush.

What makes it different from just doing LeetCode or some curated sets? The problems are static and you will have to waste time figuring out what to practice. InterviewTraner turns those static problems into a dynamic experience personalized and optimized for you.

I plan on eventually expanding the curriculum beyond coding interviews to anything in the software engineering process that can fit into short and repeatable exercises.

I originally built Trane, the practice engine powering it, to optimize my music practice. The core insight (skills have prerequisites and practice should respect that structure) applies equally well to coding interviews.

Pricing:

- Free lite license (arrays, strings, recursion, hash tables, stacks).

- $10/month for all 1,800+ problems (launch price with LAUNCH code, I plan the normal price to be $20/month).

Happy to answer questions about the deliberate practice approach, the scheduling algorithm, or anything else.

Links:

InterviewTraner: https://interviewtraner.com

Pictures Are For Babies (same engine applied to learning to read and write): https://picturesareforbabies.com

Trane: https://github.com/trane-project/trane
by tombert | 2026-03-08 19:37:49+00:00
I don't think so; I know a lot of them are in charge of multiple companies, which sounds like they work a lot, but I think it signals just as much that CEO really isn't that hard of a job.

Elon is the CEO of like four or five companies I think, while also ostensibly heading a government agency. If you can have four or five full time jobs, then they are not full time jobs.

Given that, I suspect that they're able to find plenty of time for themselves.
by simianwords | 2026-03-08 19:37:58+00:00
photography was always kind of a fake job. i never understood the point of it. i'm sorry but taking a photo with the correct frame or contrast etc is a bit silly. i don't respect anyone who takes it seriously - unless the point of a photo is to understand not the mechanical aspects of it but rather the act of documentation itself, in which case its not photography but something else.

photography is kind of a silly hobby with low barrier to entry that anyone could pick up - any one who simply chooses to say "i'm a photographer" can choose to be one. i know many would disagree but i genuinely don't see any skill in it.

i do however see skill required to craft a good movie and show a real story.
by tmh88j | 2026-03-08 19:37:58+00:00
pypy has been around for almost 20 years. It's listed in the alternate implementations on the official python.org site where you can download releases[1] and it's mentioned dozens of times across multiple sections of python's wikipedia page[2]

[1] https://downloads.python.org/pypy/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#...
by dwohnitmok | 2026-03-08 19:38:12+00:00
Really? I view the original title as a very good summary of the overall point of the article and this new title as fairly misleading.

> It can be debated whether arena.ai is a suitable metric for AGI, a strong case can probably be made for why it’s not. However, that’s irrelevant, as the spirit of the self-sacrifice clause is to avoid an arms race, and we are clearly in one.

> Therefore, one can only conclude, that we currently meet the stated example triggering condition of “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years”. As per its charter, OpenAI should stop competing with the likes of Anthropic and Gemini, and join forces, however that might look like.

The new title is a single, almost throwaway, line from the article.

> While this will never happen, I think it’s illustrative of some great points for pondering:

> The impotence of naive idealism in the face of economic incentives.
The discrepancy between marketing points and practical actions.
The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines. Notably, it’s common to now talk about ASI instead, implying we may have already achieved AGI, almost without noticing.
by ocdtrekkie | 2026-03-08 19:38:16+00:00
No, because Lightning is not an open standard. OOXML has been an open standard for nearly two decades.

And a big issue for me is this blog post hurts LibreOffice because the largest reason enterprises won't touch it is that it is perceived as incompatible even when that compatibility works just fine.

If success and good marketing was the focus, LibreOffice would happily promote that it will take any file format they get because they have robust interoperable software that doesn't actually mind handling XLSX!
by bfeynman | 2026-03-08 19:38:23+00:00
Does anyone else find the way they are writing this full marketing hubris that definitely misconstrues how most people would interpret this. Codex isn't a "model" that is self improving, it's using GPT to write code that is in a wrapper program that also uses GPT. Sure it's kind of neat loop for development, but why are they anthropomorphizing it so much? People designing chips don't say that computers are self evolving, even anthropic just says that claude (the model) writes most of claude code. Heck, you could use claude or any llm to write code for codex..
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-08 19:38:40+00:00
Adding on to it, They use SerpAPI which (sort of) scrapes google and then they do their work on top and this is also how they allow your customizability features to be added too in search if i remember correctly.

Kagi is great if you need great customizability and filters and if you wish to support the future of Kagi/products like these.

And Duckduckgo is great if you need a Google alternative which "just works" without costing money* if you are frugal.

Either way, both options are good and its best to leave Google if/when possible.

The best feature of both of these and brave-search to some degree is that all three support bangs. !yt leads to youtube and !hn leads to hn.algolia.com :) and !sr and so so many more. Bangs might be the best feature that google users might be missing. It just saves so much time.
by cxr | 2026-03-08 19:39:32+00:00
> And if you expect Word's current user base to get by with Emacs or Vim or Zed and git

... who said that? Are they in the room now?

I'm baffled when these kinds of responses show up in these threads—every time I've brought this up. Like, it's pure hallucination. And the readiness to go from what is _my_ very clear call for "empathy for ordinary people" to an explicit suggestion that I might be programmer-brained is inexplicable. Did you black out when reading?

Ordinary people don't want to do any of the things uttered someone who's telling them to stop using Google Docs and to go "download" something called "LibreOffice".
by senkora | 2026-03-08 19:39:40+00:00
I think taskwarrior vs OmniFocus/Todoist/Things 3 is a similar vibe to vim vs IDE.

Some people want a minimalist tool that they can read a manual for and then configure / install extensions for to their liking, and some people want a discoverable batteries-included GUI.

taskwarrior is simply the program and format that has the most support and biggest extension ecosystem for that first group of people.

Both are fine.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-03-08 19:40:24+00:00
I think above all else Feynman was charismatic & engaging. Absolutely brilliant.

He was also known to be extremely difficult in his credit-seeking (earned or not).

Certainly wasn't a fraud, but I think letters like Oppenheimer's probably hurt the candidates more than are helpful (whether or not read by candidate). If read, it can't help with ego/bullying.
by y42 | 2026-03-08 19:41:04+00:00
> consumer-grade hardware

Not disagreeing per se, but a quick look at the installation instructions confirms what I assumed:

Yeah, you can run a highly quantized version on your 2020 Nvidia GPU. But:

- When inferencing, it occupies your "whole machine.". At least you have a modern interactive heating feature in your flat.

- You need to follow eleven-thousand nerdy steps to get it running; my mum is really looking forward to that.

- Not to mention the pain you went through installing Nvidia drivers; nothing my mum will ever manage in the near future.

... and all this to get something that merely competes with Haiku.

Don't get me wrong - I am exaggerating, I know. It's important to have competition and the opportunity to run "AI" on your own metal. But this reminds me of the early days of smartphones and my old XDA Neo. Sure, it was damn smart, and I remember all those jealous faces because of my "device from the future." But oh boy, it was also a PITA maintaining it.

Here we are now. Running AI locally is a sneak peek into the future. But as long as you need a CS degree and hardware worth a small car to achieve reasonable results, it's far from mainstream. Therefore, "consumer-grade hardware" sounds like a euphemism here.

I like how we nerds are living in our buble celebrating this stuff while 99% of mankind still doomscroll through facebook and laughing at (now AI generated) brain rot.

(No offense (ʘ‿ʘ)╯)
by treetalker | 2026-03-08 19:41:18+00:00
Sure, but which part: opposing counsel using LLMs; opposing counsel simply using bullshit asymmetry to befuddle (nothing new); or judges not always reading and looking deeply into the arguments and authorities (also nothing new)?

If the first category, there have been plenty of examples that have even made their way onto the HN front page in the last half year or so. There have even been instances of judges using LLMs to draft orders containing confabulated authorities.
Why the Internet Built for Friends Felt More Meaningful Than AI
by 01-_- | 2026-03-08 19:42:05+00:00
At the beginning of the social internet there was a very simple promise. Technology would help people stay connected to those who were already part of their lives. There was no obsession with “audiences”, no creator economy, no algorithms deciding what you should watch next. The center of everything was human relationships. That is why platforms like Facebook, Orkut and even early YouTube felt meaningful to millions of people. They worked as extensions of real social life.

Today the situation is curious. We live in the most technologically advanced digital era in history. Artificial intelligence writes articles, generates images and can hold long conversations with us. Yet many people feel that these tools do not occupy the same emotional space in their lives that those early social platforms once did. To understand why, it helps to look carefully at how the social web evolved and what quietly changed along the way.

When Facebook launched in 2004 its purpose was extremely narrow. It was built to connect college students who already knew each other. Access required a university email address. There were no influencers, no viral video feeds, and no global audiences. People logged in to see photos from the weekend party, comment on a friend’s post, or check where classmates were studying abroad. The structure of the platform reflected this intention. The core of the experience was simply your list of friends.

That detail, which might seem trivial today, changed everything. Research from the Pew Research Center showed that the vast majority of Facebook connections were people users already knew in real life. On average only about 7 percent of connections were with people the user had never met offline. Most contacts came from school, family, work or existing social circles. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2011/06/16/social-networking-sites-and-our-lives-2/

Read the full content here:<https://chat-to.dev/post?id=UG9wTndyTnkvZlZ6V0hzWGMwRzc5QT09>
by avidiax | 2026-03-08 19:42:22+00:00
One of the things that a CEO drives is vision and innovation.

Sundar misses the mark on these things. AI is a good example. Google invented the transformer architecture, but simply published it for its competitors to use. It took a code red in 2023 to finally push Google to develop products based on this.

Cloud. Years late to the game. All it would have taken is a letter similar to the famous Bezos memo to eventually get all of Google's world-class scaled infra pointing externally and generating revenue. Instead, Google Cloud started late, and couldn't reuse much of the internal infrastructure.

Stadia, another example. That architecture is probably the future. It's not clear how gamers in developing countries are going to afford thousands of dollars in hardware that sits idle 90% of the time.
by ajb | 2026-03-08 19:42:38+00:00
Shocking? Taxed on payout is a discount versus ordinary stiffs who get taxed every year. A percentage taken from the increase of an amount every year, is more than the same percentage taken at the end; as the former foregoes the opportunity to earn a return on the amount taxed earlier. This is quite significant over longer periods. (I learned that from one of Warren Buffet's annual letters - I think he was explaining why insurance is a great business to be in, because the same effect applies to long-horizon insurance policies).
by mmooss | 2026-03-08 19:43:02+00:00
The Economist tries hard to normalize GMO food, without ever raising the issues and addressing them.

Whatever one thinks of that issue, this technique is deception: It decieves people into thinking that it's normal, that there are no issues; it makes it easy to just follow, hard to question. People follow norms, and that's how you convice them to put aside their concerns.

> Over thousands of years of domestication, humans have moulded fruit to their liking. ... As Pairwise’s blackberries and cherries show, advances in gene editing are allowing fruits to be altered in new ways. crispr, the most popular such technique at the moment ...

> The European Union’s Parliament and Council, the bloc’s governing body, reached a provisional deal in December to “simplify” the process for marketing plants bred through new genomic techniques, such as by scrapping the need to label them any differently from conventional ones. That seems an appropriately fruitful approach.

But there is this interesting tidbit, purely from the money-making perspective:

> ... unlike existing genetically modified crops, those made using crispr do not require dna from a foreign organism to be inserted—a practice that experience shows puts customers off.
by ajross | 2026-03-08 19:43:30+00:00
That sounds like spin to me. If there were a clear "quality edge" in "certain business domains" stemming from "exclusive proprietary data", someone would have been exploiting it already using meat computers.

But no, businesses are dumb. They always have been. Existing businesses get disrupted by new ideas and new technology all the time. This very site is a temple to disruption!

Proprietary advantage is, 99.999% of the time, just structural advantage. You can't compete with Procter & Gamble because they already built their brands and factories and supply chains and you'd have to do all that from scratch while selling cheaper products as upstart value options. And there's not enough money in consumer junk to make that worth it.

But if you did have funding and wanted to beat them on first principles? Would you really start by training an LLM on what they're already doing? No, you'd throw money at a bunch of hackers from YC. Duh.