MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swed420 | 2026-03-07 15:10:03+00:00
> None of these companies are clean and I think it’s hilarious HN and the rest of SV has been duped by Dario.

Exactly. Anthropic is to the rest of the AI companies as capital-loyal Democrats are to capital-loyal Republicans of the uniparty.

The choices we are given are merely an illusion. The notion of "lesser of 2 etc evils" is fundamentally flawed.
by fullstop | 2026-03-07 15:10:07+00:00
I don't have tinnitus, but I live about a mile from a major highway. Depending on the time of day, the wind, the temperature, etc, it can carry the road noise directly to my yard. It doesn't bother my wife or my kids, but I hate it.

When it gets to be too much, though, I can just go inside, and that's not something that you can do with tinnitus.

I'm sorry that you're going through that, that must be terrible. Have you tried adding white noise?
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-07 15:10:16+00:00
If this happens then free and open content (the Wikipedia model, more or less) becomes a hugely impactful "commoditize the complement" play for the big AI and tech firms. Every good piece of open content is something that AI firms don't have to license from a proprietary supplier. And if models trained on entirely open content can write an acceptable "first draft" of something new, that's huge acceleration.
by bmitch3020 | 2026-03-07 15:10:38+00:00
4.4% is the headline number, but there are other measures of unemployment [1] that show we are closer to 8% when you include people that are discouraged from even looking and those working part-time but would prefer a full time job.

There's also a stagnation of salaries relative to inflation and a slow hiring market that has people locked into a job when they'd like to find something better. The K-shaped recoveries have people slipping out of the middle class. Combine with housing increasing faster than inflation, future generations having a lower quality of life than their parents.

The wealthy are doing what they can to try to direct the narrative elsewhere, by controlling media sources, blaming immigrants, blaming China, and blaming the government. But we really have far too much wealth concentration to be sustainable, not unlike the ending of a game of monopoly. If a more stable solution isn't found soon, I fear things will get much worse than they already are.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
by jqbd | 2026-03-07 15:11:03+00:00
I want to like it, it's much snappier than vim, but:

I hate selecting lines up. Down xxx is fine. But to go up I have to do x alt; v k. This would be shift+v k in vim.

I often use } { to navigate the file in vim. In hx it's ] p which is very awkward for the fingers. The auto selection makes it hard to read once I use ] p.

Pasting does not behave like vim, often have to click o first then p.

I have to often press ; to unselect just to be able to insert after I navigate to a character with F f t T.

Can't copy from documentation.
Can't create files in the explorer.

It feels like much more work to use hx keybindings than vim.

What I love:

Hints whenever you press a key allow you to learn keybinds quickly.

Very quick.

Built in search, file picker, lsp rust out of the box.
by gdilla | 2026-03-07 15:11:21+00:00
For me, coding since the 80s (but i knew then it didn't spark joy or anything - debugging was so annoying, learning new language syntax even more so...) I love AI. I am a product manager, i just see freedom to make things that are real and learn faster - does this solve a problem? Is it better than what we have now? and move on, disposing of things as i go because it's cheap. To fill the minutes, i might work on 3-4 or even 5 separate projects and even multiple worktrees within those. I feel busier than ever. I think the best part is it's not lazy and I am. There's so many things I don't have time or energy to go deep on that I can delegate. I'm jealous of real sw engineers because it's probably a huge force multiplier, while I can't call BS on it as much, but getting better.
by dathinab | 2026-03-07 15:11:26+00:00
he doesn't want news from social media

he wants somewhat reliable news

and isn't getting them anymore from US news outlets

but found them (surprisingly) in the fediverse

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putting that aside finding news on social media isn't really that absurd but it highly depends on you algorithmic bubble/followers. Through a lot of it can be people sharing links to new.

the think is many smaller independent news outlets have very limited means of reaching (new) people by them self, so like everyone else trying to reach people they will use social media

then there are people which share/retweet news. Prefilled by quality and relevance based on their expertise. If you have enough media literacy to be able to judge their expertise you can follow those which have it and even know what bias is involved in their choices.

And sure all of that only works if you yourself have expertise and media literacy. And tends to work best for specialized/expert topics, not for "simplified" everyman news. But you kinda need that media literacy for any news today.

A example around Twitter was in the past one of, if not the, best ways to get tech. computer security news (about vulnerabilities, attacks etc.). That is iff you followed the right people.

Ironically the dynamics for that where very similar to what he describes: "Proper" news outlets being hardly usable. But other people with expertise sharing relevant news for the sake of the information, not for cloud, ads, propaganda etc. (Just the reasons differ. For tech. security news the problem is a. lacking specialized technical understanding of outlets and b. also that most news are too specialized(i.e. boring) for most of their audience.)
by stego-tech | 2026-03-07 15:11:51+00:00
Hot take, but I don’t think it should recover. If anything, I think a combination of low unemployment, higher wages, and a labor force participation rate of ~45-55% would be a sweet spot to aim for:

* It would indicate more single income households able to make ends meet and live higher quality lives

* It would suggest more stay-at-home parents to rear children, which is only possible in a safe and stable economic environment

* It’d also suggest a higher amount of community engagement, rather than mere working and resting.

* A rise in successful single-income households would also suggest improvements in cost of living affordability

In our current world, where we expect both parents to work full-time jobs to survive (because the cost of everything assumes a married couple employed full-time, especially in cities), this number is bad; in a healthier society, it might be a good thing.

I’d argue in favor of deflating costs or raising wages instead of increasing labor force participation, but that’s my personal soapbox.
by vessenes | 2026-03-07 15:11:57+00:00
I agree California is close to getting to renewable + storage only - close in, you know, industrial scale timelines. For current energy usage. California industrial also outsources a lot of the very fast growing datacenter energy usage elsewhere - WA,OR,NY,TX.

What winter are you thinking of, out of curiosity? An energy demand winter? Or like an energy price winter? I do not believe we will see that in the next 5 to maybe 10 years. There’s just not enough industrial infrastructure being built to cover anything like the AI energy demands coming soon.
by Noaidi | 2026-03-07 15:12:31+00:00
I have had it since I was 13 (60 now). The base noise is filtered out unless I listen for it, but ion occasion I get a temporary deafness, followed by almost a popping sound, then a LOUD tinnitus at a different frequency which slowly fades.

Sometimes I get a new frequency. Since 2000 it has gotten worse, since 2020, much worse. But changing my environment seems to effect it for better and worse.

No doubt mine is connected to my mental illness and probably temporal lobe seizures.
by exidex | 2026-03-07 15:12:34+00:00
I didn't really spent time thinking about it, because from reading their issue tracker, I very much doubt neovim would consider something like that. Partially because of how much of it is already vim specific and it would be very difficult to abstract that away, but mostly because of ideology.

You can already to a lot in Neovim with plugins, including recreating Helix, Ki, whatever. But the problem is that the vim state machine is always present underneath it, resulting in unwanted behaviors or impossibility to implement some things. I would envision it to pretty much allow to listen on raw keyboard and mouse events. However cursed it sounds, it should be possible to fully implement vscode or any other editing model in neovim
by dahart | 2026-03-07 15:12:59+00:00
You are definitely not alone, and it’s unfortunate when people pushing AI ignore that legitimate fear and talk past it.

You are right, there is something you lose, but for what it’s worth, I don’t think the loss is necessarily critical thinking - I think it’s possible to use AI and still hone your critical thinking skills.

The thing you start to lose first is touching the code directly, of course, making the constant stream of small decisions, syntax, formatting, naming, choosing container classes, and a large set of other things. And sometimes it’s the doing battle with those small decisions that leads to deeper understanding. However, it is true, and AI agents are proving, that a lot of us have to make the same small decisions over and over, and we’re frequently repeating designs that many other people have already thought through. So one positive tradeoff for this loss is better leveraging of ground already covered.

Another way to think about AI is that it can help you spend all of your time doing and thinking about software design and goals and outcomes rather that having to spend the majority of it in the minutiae of writing the code. This is where you can continue to apply critical thinking, just perhaps at a higher level than before. AI can make you lazy, if you let it. It does take some diligence and effort to remain critical, but if you do, personally I think it can be a lot of fun and help you spend more time thinking critically, rather than less.

Some possible analogies are calculators and photography. People were fretting we’d lose something if we stop calculating divisions by hand, and we do, but we still just use calculators by and large. People also thought photography would ruin art and prevent people from being able to make or appreciate images.

Software in general is nearly always automating something that someone was doing by hand, and in way every time we write a program we’re making this same tradeoff, losing the close hands-on connection to the thing we were doing in favor of something a touch more abstract and a lot faster.
by crazygringo | 2026-03-07 15:13:22+00:00
> LLMs aren’t “democratising” anything.

They absolutely are. Anytime new knowledge or skills become widely available to everyone, that's a term used for it.

> There’s no democracy in being mostly beholden to a few companies which own the largest and most powerful models, who can cut you off at any time, jack up the prices to inaccessibility, or unilaterally change the terms of the deal.

None of that has anything to do with anything. There's competition between companies to keep prices low and accessibility high.

I think you are simply misunderstanding the word "democratic". It isn't just political. From MW:

> 3 : relating, appealing, or available to the broad masses of the people : designed for or liked by most people

Here, it's specifically about making things available to the broad masses of the people that wasn't before.

This isn't a matter of opinion. It's just the meaning of the word.
by bwoud | 2026-03-07 15:13:27+00:00
Thanks for the M3AAWG reference—that is a great catch.

You are spot on regarding the DMARC interaction. I used 'Safe/Secure' as simplified shorthand for the UI, but you're right that -all can sometimes pre-emptively kill connections before DMARC/DKIM evaluation, causing a loss of reporting data.

I will update the UI labels to be more technical ('SoftFail' / 'HardFail') rather than editorializing them as 'Safe/Secure' to avoid misleading users.

Love the idea of clickable nodes for the visualization drill-down. Adding that to the roadmap for the next sprint.
by IgorPartola | 2026-03-07 15:13:52+00:00
So two factors that affected this report:

1. Kaiser Permanente healthcare strike sidelined 28,000 workers. The strike ended on February 23rd.

2. The severe weather resulting in two major snow storms made it so that lots of businesses were simply closed for a few days. This meant they couldn’t be properly surveyed.

It still is not good, but the magnitude of how not good is worsened by specific one-time circumstances. Make of that what you will.

I can’t see the FT article but this one. Talks a bit about these circumstances: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/february-2026-jobs-report.ht...
by jarnagin | 2026-03-07 15:14:55+00:00
I got it about ten years ago and it drove me absolutely insane for a few months until I just accepted that I would have it. Then a weird thing happened: my brain stopped paying attention to it. Now I mostly only hear it when I think to myself, “do I still have tinnitus?” and try to listen for it. It’s still there, I just don’t care anymore. I had no idea that even what you hear can be such a subjective experience until I went through this, but it makes sense. You do this all the time when you tune out ambient sounds and conversations to focus on something.
by whatsupdog | 2026-03-07 15:15:20+00:00
You'll get used to it. 42 male here. Started at 12-13 years of age. Barely notice it anymore. Some things (lack of sleep, extreme stress, some medicines/drugs) accentuate it a bit, but it's annoying at best, not interfering. I also produce music, so I don't think it has affected my hearing. So you'll be good. Stop worrying.

Oh, use a fan based white noise machine (or a loud fan) during sleeping, really drowns it out.
by thisislife2 | 2026-03-07 15:15:47+00:00
What you are describing will remain a last ditch, desperate, "scorched earth" policy option for Iran. Iran will not bomb the de-desalination plants or the oil infrastructures of its neighbours as that would be a direct attack on these countries. If it does, it wouldn't be just fighting Israel and US but ALL its neighbours who would be forced to join the war. Currently Iran's rational and policy (that it had communicated to their neighbours before the war) is that if any military infrastructure is used on their soil to attack Iran, it would be considered a legitimate target for retaliation. Nearly all of Iran's neighbours host American bases (and some also have American and Israeli intelligence apparatus operating from there) (Iran conducted no attack on neighbors, respects their sovereignty, interests: Army headquarters - https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/07/765072/Iran-conduct... ). Iran has carefully chosen to target only these - the American military bases and some hotels and buildings where American and Israeli intelligence operate from. There have of course been some collateral damage, as Iran's missiles are not precise. But Iran has been very careful - for example, when an Iranian missile (or an intercepted piece of it) struck a Saudi oil infrastructure, Iran's government immediately called the Saudi government and apologised to them and claimed that the oil infrastructure was not the target. (Of course, the scenario you outlined is why Iran's neighbour haven't joined the war, despite their antagonistic relation with Iran).
by tacitusarc | 2026-03-07 15:17:34+00:00
Imagine, if you would, that the strict libertarians had much more influence in shaping the country. So much so that the roads are toll roads, the parks require a fee, and almost no libraries exist because the ROI just isn’t there.

Furthermore, there is no anti-trust legislation, and as a result, there are only a few companies that control all meeting places: the parks, the coffee shops, the roads, the pubs. And they have set up constant monitoring technology.

If you want to set up a protest on a street corner, it better align with the corporation’s views, or they will ban your access to the roads. If you want to talk with friends at the pub, don’t say anything out of line or you’re not coming back. Events can take place in parks, but make sure you only discuss the weather.

Of course, this is fine: you can always just meet at your own home and say what you think, because that is your own property.

…

I realize the analogy is overwrought, but there just doesn’t exist an online equivalent of a public space, and ideological enforcement is trivial. Comparing it to the rules we have for physical spaces mean we need to imagine what those physical spaces would be like if they operated like online spaces, and frankly the result is dystopian (in my opinion).

Surely the solution isn’t just to dismiss it as a non-problem? Or, I suppose, to stop looking for a solution because… solutions so far considered have negative side effects, which feels (practically speaking) the same to me.
by korbatz | 2026-03-07 15:17:53+00:00
I was having exact same observation, albeit from a bit diffrent perspective: SaaS. This is where as the code tends to be temporary and very domain specific, the data (files) must strive to be boring standards.

The problem today is that we build specific, short-lived apps that lock data into formats only they can read. If you don't use universal formats, your system is fragile. We can still open JPEGs from 1995 because the files don't depend on the software used to make them. Using obscure or proprietary formats is just technical debt that will eventually kill your project. File or forget.
by firatcanbozkurt | 2026-03-07 15:18:03+00:00
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by rekabis | 2026-03-07 15:18:18+00:00
For a lot of use cases, even 8Gb/512Gb will end up being horrifically constraining in the long haul.

I understand the simple screen, the reduced speakers, the reduced ports, the smaller battery, and pretty much every other design decision.

But RAM and drive space? Sorry, having a 16Gb/1Tb option would have made this a much more capable machine in terms of longevity relevance.

Everything else was a smart trade-off for the average user. This wasn’t.
by delichon | 2026-03-07 15:18:19+00:00
I love tables. If I can replace a paragraph with a table I usually do, to a fault. In college I was a research assistant in a bio lab and got assigned gobs of tables and charts to make. The way my boss did it, it was a highly non trivial task that required understanding the whole mission in general and experiment in particular. I was effectively his secretary, but it wasn't a shallow thing, it required domain expertise, which is common in secretarial work.

But if I were now that professor I'd fire me, just because he could generate the table five times in the time it would take me to start the task. Maybe I could do better than the LLM on the first pass, but I couldn't keep up with the machine on the iterations, and the end result is a better match to the intention.

And now the same budget can go to an actual researcher rather than the assistant. There really isn't a limit to the amount of valuable research to be done. Empowering is the right word for this technology.
by crazygringo | 2026-03-07 15:18:55+00:00
> why does healthy food cost so much more than processed food?

It doesn't. Carbs like rice, potatoes, etc. are incredibly cheap. Protein like ground beef and basic cuts of chicken are not expensive. And broccoli, carrots, green peppers, apples -- these are not exactly breaking the bank. Product is seasonal, so you vary what you buy according to what is cheapest this week.

Meanwhile, stuff like breakfast cereal and potato chips and Oreo cookies actually are surprisingly expensive.
by sph | 2026-03-07 15:19:17+00:00
> Years ago I completely stopped coding, becoming tired of the never ending rat race of keeping up with the latest bizarre web stacks, frameworks for everything, node for this, npm for that, Angular, React, Vue, whatever

Have you tried Claude? No, Opus? No, not that version, it's two weeks old, positively ancient lol. Oh wait, now OpenClaw is the cool thing around the block.

My dude, the rat race just became a rat sprint. I hope you're keeping up, you're no spring chicken any more.
by accounting2026 | 2026-03-07 15:19:20+00:00
Just wondering do you think you got tinnitus or was it there and you suddenly started noticing? I don't know I got it around 20y ago but I'm honestly unsure if it was one or the other because it became worse and worse the more I started focusing on it. Eventually it subsided. I can still hear it if I listen for it (as I just did now and I can hear a distinct 'bruising' kind of sound) but there's literally months between I even think of it or notice it. There have been studies that lots of 'normal' people notice tinnitus when they enter a sound-proof room.
What helped me was just taking long showers - I literally couldn't hear a thing during the shower and some time after. And it seems the 'drown out' period would last longer. And just knowing something would stop it somehow made me ease more into it and maybe reduced the fear that had been programmed into my brain. I also did omega 3 and gingo biloba (just low doses) and felt like it had some effect.
Was there any trigger and how 'loud' do you perceive it?
by solaire_oa | 2026-03-07 15:19:20+00:00
If it helps, I would consider learning about and deploying local LLMs (llama.cpp etc), if you have the hardware (and it doesn't take all that much hardware at all). They're nowhere near as fast as LLM providers, but they come fairly close in overall quality (including agentic workflows).

The reason that I suggest this is that not only does running locally democratize AI (while AI democratizes software), it solves a lot of the discomfort surrounding the new reliance, dependence, data, and trust given to LLM providers. Basically it removes a lot of the "ick" surrounding LLMs, while also hedging any bets that the investment schemes of LLM providers are unsustainable. You may also hedge bets surrounding "owning" the maintenance of the machines that replace you.

I don't know, it's a small thing that makes me feel a little better during this tumultuous time.
by mynameisash | 2026-03-07 15:19:34+00:00
I'm really sorry to hear that.

I once read something about the prevalence of depression in people with tinnitus. I was surprised by it, but I didn't really consider how disruptive it must be when you're accustomed to not having it. By contrast, I've had it basically my whole life. I remember laying awake at night, listening to the deafening ringing, thinking about how weird it was that silence isn't silent. It wasn't until later that I knew my experience isn't the norm.

I'd love to have a treatment or cure. Especially for folks like you that truly suffer from it.