MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jimmc414 | 2026-03-03 21:58:52+00:00
related:

U.S. Joint Forces Command Millennium Challenge 2002: Experiment Report

https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20...

The lost lesson of Millennium Challenge 2002, the Pentagon’s embarrassing post-9/11 war game

https://taskandpurpose.com/opinion/millenium-challenge-2002-...

War game was fixed to ensure American victory, claims general

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/21/usa.julianborg...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 21:59:27+00:00
What I want is being able to pay stablecoin from my side and be able to esentially get a virtual card of payment.

The only way which has worked for me was actually using g2a with their crypto provider to get a 10$ gift card of rewarble and activate it.

Does your app allow something like this? can I convert any crypto to payment provider which can be accepted from the other side or am I reading it wrong because you do mention PIX, if it can work with PIX, does it work with VISA/Mastercard cards too?
by salleisha | 2026-03-03 21:59:37+00:00
In startups, "I assumed" is the most expensive sentence you can say.

April 15 is looming. For a lot of founders, the plan is to "just figure it out a week before."

The problem? Tax assumptions are runway killers.

You assume you don't need to file because you're pre-revenue. (You do.)
You assume your R&D credits will just "be there." (They won't without the right paperwork.)
You assume your entity type doesn't have specific state nexus requirements. (It probably does.)
We’ve seen simple assumptions turn into $10k+ penalties. Don’t guess your compliance.

Take a minute to get the facts for your specific setup. We built a tool that cuts through the noise and gives you a custom calendar based on your actual data.

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by paddy_m | 2026-03-03 21:59:45+00:00
I am getting really tired of github. outages happen that's a given. but on so much stuff they don't even care or try. Github is becoming the bottleneck in my agentic coding workflows. unless I make Claude do it intelligently, I hit rate limits checking on CI jobs (5000 api requests in an hour). Depot makes their CI so much better, but it is still tied to github in a couple of annoying places.

PRs are a defacto communication and coordination bus between different code review tools, its all a mess.

LLMs make it worse because I'm pushing more code to github than ever before, and it just isn't setup to deal with this type of workload when it is working well.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-03 21:59:51+00:00
Unfortunately, I think that's likely the case for anyone on the younger side. Most of that came to light in 2013, 13 years ago. Anyone 20-30 years old today would've been a teenager then in high school, and likely not paying attention very closely.

It was big news for a little bit, and then the media by design quickly forgot about it barely a year later, and that is why history is doomed to repeat.
Show HN: Webact – token-efficient browser control for AI agents (GitHub)
by kxbnb | 2026-03-03 21:59:53+00:00
I built webact while experimenting with browser control for LLM agents and kept running into the same problem: token usage.

Most tools wrap Playwright and return huge accessibility trees or DOM dumps, which gets expensive quickly. webact takes a simpler approach — it talks directly to Chrome via the DevTools Protocol and returns a small "page brief" instead.

It’s just a single JS file (~196KB), zero dependencies, and it uses your existing Chrome session.

Happy to hear thoughts.
by deet | 2026-03-03 22:00:20+00:00
It is a precarious time to look backwards on the definition of the roles of an IC or an engineering manager and make any extrapolations to what those will look like in the future.

In my own team, I have seen ICs increasingly function like engineering managers, and even suffer some of the pitfalls of the role switch, as they change from reasoning about creating code to delegating to teams of software agents.

Increasingly, ICs are needing to understand the product roadmap more deeply, figure out how to spec a problem and constraints on a solution in the right way to get their subordinates to produce reasonable output, and be the communication bridge between other jobs functions and the entities actually producing the code.

I've also heard concerns of skill atrophy, as these team members spend less brain energy on language syntax, low level logic, etc, and more on interpreting abstract strategies to solving a problem and pattern matching those strategies against their software engineering wisdom.

If anything, ICs should consider that the skills that will make them successful managing agents might be the ones that have made first-level engineering managers successful: the ability to coordinate with other job functions, map implementation strategies to product and organization needs, and deliberately and carefully delegate and coordinate work of others writing the actual code.
by anon7000 | 2026-03-03 22:01:15+00:00
The problem is that any kind of automatic code change process like CI, PRs, code review, deployments, etc etc are based on having a central git server. Even security may be based on SSO roles synced to GH allowing access to certain repos.

A self-hosted git server is trivial. Making sure everything built on top of that is able to fallback to that is not. Especially when GH has so many integrations out of the box
by schobi | 2026-03-03 22:01:21+00:00
Christopher Helmke just shared another trick https://youtu.be/tSvwcUbL95Q?si=YunTp0p5Duu754cX

It is a clever mechanism to separate a wide range of parts. Like a vi Rating feeder, but without adjusting the device for different object sizes. It is a rotating tube, slightly angled.

How would that help?
Say - you have just one tube to seperate parts. You drop your first box of washers and route them into a sequential storage. They you do the next box with bolts on the same device and drop them into another sequential storage.

They dispensing remainds still manual as mitxela showed.
by don_esteban | 2026-03-03 22:01:34+00:00
Last I checked, International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court tend to disagree.

To say nothing about overuse/abuse of the term 'terrorist' and weasel words 'terrorist aligned ideologies'.

To say nothing about being randomly in the vicinity of a person Israel might consider terrorist might put you in mortal danger, simply because they do not care about 'collateral damage'.

To say nothing about being Palestinian child being a 'future terrorist'.

To say nothing about trying to document what they are doing might put you in mortal danger (just look up the number of journalists killed by Israel).
by tl2do | 2026-03-03 22:01:44+00:00
The expected/unexpected distinction assumes you have the capacity to anticipate failures in the first place. But that capacity varies - even among experienced developers, everyone has blind spots shaped by their specific history. What's "obviously expected" to one senior dev is a surprise to another. The article's model is useful, but there's a prerequisite it doesn't address: the ability to expect is itself unevenly distributed.
by vessenes | 2026-03-03 22:01:50+00:00
Very cool - the post made me want to play the game, and check out lobster, but didn't link to it - lobster is open source: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster. It doesn't look like the voxel engine is, though, which is a bummer. On reflection, I'm guessing that game is built for mods, so that would be a path to getting to play with the engine side.
Facebook Appears to Be Down
by Molitor5901 | 2026-03-03 22:01:59+00:00
Tried to log in and checked with others across our corporate footprint and we all get the same message:

Account Temporarily Unavailable.
Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes.

Can others please confirm? Thank you.
by neogodless | 2026-03-03 22:02:22+00:00
Almost certainly no big loss. One more social network pushing me out.

https://imgur.com/a/nCodoF5 <- broken age verification prompts.

Breaks on both Firefox and Edge. I don't have Chrome installed to test it on.

See also:
https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528... Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.
by shubhamintech | 2026-03-03 22:02:27+00:00
The full-session evaluation framing is the right call - most teams don't realize the failure happened in turn 2 until they've spent 3 hours blaming the model. One thing worth thinking about as you grow: connecting caught regressions to production conversation data. When your simulation flags a new failure mode, being able to say "this pattern has already surfaced X times in prod this week" cuts the prioritization debate in half. Does Cekura currently let you correlate simulation failures back to real user sessions, or is that still a manual step?
by chsitter | 2026-03-03 22:02:37+00:00
I'm not gonna lie - at the moment it's pretty basic as a chunked semantic store where relevant chunks are retrieved in conjunction with some criteria the Agent can pass to the MCP server.

Context usage is definitely a problem that's on my mind also and semantic anchors are one area I'm exploring but don't have a clear architecture for it jotted down yet. The real problem I'm facing right now is how to inject this into say claude or chatgpt and have those agents default use it as a memory layer
by rbanffy | 2026-03-03 22:03:00+00:00
There is a whole universe of good-enough desktop computers that doesn't care that much about performance, but where power consumption is important, because it makes the computer bulky, noisy, and expensive.

I'd love to have a Xeon 6, a big EPYC, or an AmpereOne (or a loaded IBM LinuxOne Express) as my daily driver, but that's just not something I can justify. It'd not be easy to come up with something for all this compute capacity to do. A reasonable GPU is a much better match for most of my workloads, which aren't even about pushing pixels anymore - iGPUs are enough these days - but multiplying matrices with embarrassingly low precision, so it can pretend to understand programming tasks.
by nprz | 2026-03-03 22:03:14+00:00
The IDF has burned through all credibility during their assault on Gaza.
I do not think the US and Israel waging a war on Iran will result in a positive outcome for the Iranian people or the region. The end result will be chaos, misery, and suffering. The latest news is the US attempting to foment some sort or civil war[0]. I sincerely do not understand how anyone could advocate for this.

[0] https://www.itv.com/news/2026-03-03/united-states-seeking-an...
by MoonWalk | 2026-03-03 22:03:34+00:00
Not true. Mac OS does not nag you about subscription services. What are you talking about?

Windows is offensive, insufferable trash. From its CONTINUAL hounding about "your Microsoft account" to its bug-riddled, regressive, and shambolic UI. Things Windows users took for granted 40 years ago are simply gone.

Example: Select three PNGs in Explorer and right-click on them, and look for "Open with..."
by techjamie | 2026-03-03 22:03:46+00:00
I did something similar with OpenClaw (using claude) and my SO's old work. They were going to deduct money off her final check without written consent, after she quit, and were also late on paying her at all. I told OpenClaw the basic situation, and I told it to research applicable laws and cite it's sources.

Once I verified what it found was good, I had it write a demand letter specifying all the statutes that were being violated, and what remedies we would be entitled to if we had to chase it up.

She got a phone call within an hour of delivery saying her pay is being sent to payroll with every penny intact.

Also: I don't give openclaw access to any of my personal info, I literally just tell it to research stuff for me and take advantage of it's ability to store stuff in files.
by craftkiller | 2026-03-03 22:04:07+00:00
I believe these monitors are meant for professionals, which means it is going to be used in bright office buildings. That means running the display at high brightness which is the worst case for OLED since they degrade faster at higher brightness. Quoting wikipedia:

> A US Department of Energy paper shows that the expected lifespans of OLED lighting products goes down with increasing brightness, with an expected lifespan of 40,000 hours at 25% brightness, or 10,000 hours at 100% brightness
by Amezarak | 2026-03-03 22:04:25+00:00
Medicare also negotiates on a state based level and represents more people than most European countries.

Right now the US governments collectively spend more than most European countries per capita on health care. The states and Feds. Totally exclusive of the private market spending. Expanding Medicare/Medicaid may be great for other reasons but does not solve the underlying cost problems in the US.
by drob518 | 2026-03-03 22:04:25+00:00
Have you used local AI models on a 32 GB MBP? I ask because I'm looking to finally upgrade my M1 Air, which I love, but which only has 16 GB RAM. I'm trying to figure out if I just want to bump to 32 GB with the M5 MBAir or make the jump all the way to 64 GB with the low-end M5 MBP. I love my M1 Air and I don't typically tax the CPU much, but I'm starting to look at running local models and for that I'd like faster and bigger. But that said, I don't want to overpay. Memory is my main issue right now. Anyway, if you have experience, I'd love to hear it. Which MBP, stats of the system, which AI model, how fast did it go, etc?
by jimnotgym | 2026-03-03 22:04:59+00:00
That is a great description, thanks.

The question really is why does American tech organise itself this way, a completely different way to other professions?

> The EM role only exists to hire, evaluate, promote, and fire SWEs

I can see why some people would find that unfulfilling. I work in one of those other professions and if I did just the hr bit I would be bored out of my mind! Do SWEs value the input of their EM? Does it really add value, or a bunch of busy work?
by nedt | 2026-03-03 22:05:05+00:00
That's more for age verification and prove of identity, especially in the real world. It's weird that the wikipedia page is talking about drivers license, because I have the Austrian app and I use it with my normal ID card.

To access government service we have something different. Here in Austria it's called ID Austria and you sign with an app when you try to access government services, but also others like health insurance etc.
by lkey | 2026-03-03 22:05:14+00:00
His comment implies that people who use free services don't value them, they are naturally disrespectful, they are 'ripping off' hard workers, and are 'refusing to pay'. These are not neutral terms, they have historically (since Reagan at least) conservative valence.

'welfare queens' etc...

If you didn't notice this sleight of hand in the original comment, that means he did his work correctly.

His conclusion is that things should not be free and open, as a rule, because they won't generate money, attention, or respect if they are free.

He included food stamps in the middle of his list. This choice is not neutral.

The comment invites you to reframe your understanding of food stamps so as to later justify its dissolution as a result 'human nature'.

Food stamps are not intended to function like the other products he listed. Food stamps are not intended to generate respect or direct revenue.

Yet, he said that someone using the 'max' monthly budget of $300 for food, when making less that $26000, is part of the 'natural disrespect' continuum. Tell me, would you consider $300 a month on food excessive and disrespectful where you live?
$3.30 per meal, 3 times a day for 30.5 days?

The whole structure of his 'disrespect' argument is a lie to begin with. People on food stamps do respect the value of being able to feed their families.

Most Americans I've met see their need for food stamps as a moral stain. They want so badly to overcome their 'failure' by working even harder. Many will take second or third jobs with tenuous protections, and have their wages stolen ($2600 per person, on average, almost as much as food stamps pays).

Either way, productivity goes up, inflation marches on, wages stay the same, and I'm the only one getting richer.

Anywho that is why I replied in the manner I did, because the subtext was clearly hidden well enough for many people to need it pointed out.

You are not immune to propaganda, doubly so for the propaganda you don't notice.
by benj111 | 2026-03-03 22:06:46+00:00
I said you can't say whatever you want without consequence. Giving the example of shouting fire.

You responded pointing out it has to be believable, ie real harm done.

I brought it back full circle showing that adverts can 'lie' if it isn't believable.

I am pointing out you are reinforcing my original point, not detracting from it.
by rbanffy | 2026-03-03 22:06:46+00:00
> Also most software runs on ARM now and I don't think that has actually happened in practice.

At least in my house, ARM cores outnumber x86 cores by at least four to one. And I'm not even counting the 32-bit ARM cores in embedded devices.

There is a lot of space for memory ordering bugs to manifest in all those devices.
by mccoyb | 2026-03-03 22:06:55+00:00
Sorry, are you familiar with what a next token distribution is, mathematically speaking?

If you are not, let me introduce you to the term: a probability distribution.

Just because it has profound properties ... doesn't make it different.

> has all the trappings of the stochastic parrot-style HN-discourse that has been consistently wrong for almost a decade now

Perhaps respond to my actual comment compared to whatever meta-level grouping you wish to interpret it as part of?

> It contains a number of premises that we have no business being confident in. We are potentially witnessing the obviation of human cognitive labor.

What premises? Be clear.
by caditinpiscinam | 2026-03-03 22:07:12+00:00
I think you raise a valid point about the bias inherent in these models. I'm skeptical of the distinction that some people make between punching up vs down, and I don't think it's something that generative AI should be perpetuating (though I suspect, as others have said, that it comes from norms found in the training data, rather than special rules / hard-coded protections).

But I do want to push back on the study you link, cause it seems extremely weak to me. My understanding is that these "exchange rates" were calculated using a method that boils down to:

1) Figure out how many goats AI thinks a life in country X is worth

2) Figure out how many goats AI thinks a life in country Y is worth

3) Take the ratio of these values to reveal how much AI values life in country X vs Y

(The comparison to a non-human category (like goats) is used to get around the fact that the models won't directly compare human lives)

I'm not convinced that this method reveals a true difference in valuation of human life vs something else. An more plausible explanation to me would be something like:

1) The AI that all human lives are of equal value

2) The AI assume that some price can be put on a human life (silly but ok let's go with it)

3) The AI note that goats in country X cost 10 times as much as in country Y

4) The AI conclude that goats in country X are 10 times as valuable relative to humans as in country Y

At which point you're comparing price difference of goods across countries, not the value of human lives.

Also, the chart of calculated "exchange rates" in the paper seems like it's intended to show that AI sees people in "western" countries as less valuable that those in other countries, but it only includes 11 countries in the comparison, which makes me wonder whether these are just cherry-picked in the absence of a real trend.
by buffalobuffalo | 2026-03-03 22:07:28+00:00
While not on the same level as these guys, I've done some similar stuff using Claude. This is a classic synergy example, where the output of human + LLM is far greater than just the human or just the LLM working on a problem. My experience has been that the LLM lacks fine grained judgement when it comes to allocating resources, or choosing a direction to work in. But once a direction is pointed out, it can do a deep exploration of that possibility space. Left alone, it would probably just go off on a tangent. But with someone holding the leash and pointing out areas to explore, it is a very useful partner.
by Retric | 2026-03-03 22:07:52+00:00
There’s always an argument for more equipment, but you need to start building them long before they enter service and need to set budgets long before any specific crisis.

Funding for Nimitz was authorized in 1967 they started construction the next year and it was in service in 2025. The US has a very large and very expensive carrier fleet today because people decided it was worth having X boats a long time ago and they calculated X under the assumption that a significant number would be spending time docked / on the other side of the planet from where the conflict is.

Obviously, part of that equation was based around warfare and the likelihood of losing some / extending deployments etc, but what we want today has no barring on what we actually built as all those decisions happened a long time ago.

TLDR; Having more than strictly needed for normal operations = having a surplus when something abnormal occurs.
by storus | 2026-03-03 22:08:08+00:00
In my case no kernel extensions. Every few days the computer freezes with a beachball and/or screen starts falling apart in large blocks randomly shuffling around the screen and I need to power it off. The first logicboard also added a bunch of pink noise in a few clusters all over the screen. Whenever I got close to freeze my power charging beeps were getting more and more frequent up to around 1 beep per 3 seconds with USB charger in (the beep when you insert power adapter into USB port).
by dijit | 2026-03-03 22:08:09+00:00
might be smarter to try mounting the drive on the path that backups use, instead of hoping that the software follows symlinks.

That said, we're very much in "power user" territory now, and it does nothing to support the untethered use-case that Time Machine allows.

In fact, the real punch of my comment before was that this would be a way of selling additional hardware (the old time-capsules) to consumers.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-03 22:08:11+00:00
Yep, the Iran chicken hawks can't keep their stories straight.

Trump's chicken hawk fanboys:

- Iran is weeks away from nukes, but our bombing runs last year were so successful they're now years away. But now they're weeks away again, got to attack!

- We're not the world's police, but Iran killed 30k of their own citizens, we need to help them and be the world's police!

- The Iranians were going to attack US bases because of an Israeli attack, so to prevent those attacks we attacked first. Thus giving them no reason to bomb our bases. Oh god, they're bombing our bases! The fiends!
by kro | 2026-03-03 22:09:18+00:00
In general I'm all for free and European systems, but SEPA payments imo still have pain points:

- you can send money to companies and individuals alike. It's easier to trick people into fake shop payments, a card payment provider requires at least a bit it verification/registration

- it's really hard to dispute/call back sepa payments. The card companies often step in there afaik
by Havoc | 2026-03-03 22:09:35+00:00
Possibly. There are a lot of things around that story that seem very off

Aside from the obvious bad AI images floating around the one credible looking video shows a shaheed flying into a radome. A Radome in the middle of a bunch of buildings. You don't put radars in between buildings. And if it's a phased array I don't think it would be in a round Radome either.

They seem to have hit something of value, but don't think it was a 1bn radar

Everything around this smells like the Iran hilariously oversized F35 misinformation

https://www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/1ldffvd/its_confi...