MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by watwut | 2026-03-06 21:40:31+00:00
> It does not matter what favors which administration

It does matter. Republicans are supporting the Iran war right now. Americans in general are not, republicans are in. Conservatives and MAGA even more. So, no, they were not actually worrying about military adventures, they like them.

> The grass is always greener on the other side, and people that cannot afford rent are just not going to vote for more of the same

Oh yeh, actually, data shows they do.

> I am more worried about paying real estate taxes, keeping the house, getting my kids through the college, paying car insurance and being able to afford food, and not having to leave the city downtown before dark.

Funny crime was going down for years. Funny, actual crime rates do not even enter discussion about crime. It was republicans who wanted business like expensive college. Who are against students ability to discharge that debt in bankruptcy.

> Trump voter who is not a fan of this war, and he was mostly complaining about skyrocketting cost of doing business and cost of labor that started shooting up about 5 years ago

Well, maybe he should not have voted for Trump.

> Anyone who manages to decrease the cost of healthcare, food, gas, improves an economy, etc.etc. will get my vote.

It would be a mystery why would someone who want cheaper healthcare and better economy would vote for party that consistently pushes for healthcare to be more expensive and worsens economy voted republican. But republican voters do so while people like you talk about these as if matter for republicans

> This time I had to choose between a word salad producer who was a VP of a senile president, and a baffoon. The democratic candidate was as unlikeable as the republican. I stayed home.

Frankly, if Harris is as unlikable as Trump for you, then I doubt the economic concerns here were drivers of yours stay home action. Because it was super clear where Trumps administration will go - including economically.

> Trans issues... not my concern at all. Immigrant rights - I frankly do not care. [...] Immigrant rights - I frankly do not care. [...] Housing immigrant families was mentioned

Fun fact, Biden deported more people then any president before him. Democratic party was never all that pro-imigrant as conservative propaganda makes them.

As for trans, it was republican party that made that issue and they did gained vote on that.
by _alternator_ | 2026-03-06 21:40:33+00:00
Trust me, I’m not trying to defend the leadership of the DoW. But I do believe that there is a difference between reckless indifference and actually intentionally bombing a girls school.

Both sound like war crimes to me, but the latter sounds implausible given the known facts. Let’s not redefine words like ‘intentional’ just because we are appalled. Giving something awful an “awfuller” name is not going to help.
by toraway | 2026-03-06 21:40:48+00:00
It's a retread of another (also baffling) "Why OpenAI Should Build Slack" post from a popular AI Substack.

Just more empty grist for the AI adjacent content mill. "Slack sucks" doesn't let you draft off the current hype zeitgest, so we get "content" like this.

https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-sl...
by zamadatix | 2026-03-06 21:40:59+00:00
The bomb was built with decision to delay shipment until the 13th to see if Japan surrendered. On the 13th no word had come, but the shipment was further delayed to wait for word anyways. On the 14th word of Japan's decision to surrender was announced. https://www.marshallfoundation.org/articles-and-features/gen...

Had the bomb already been shipped, nothing about these delays suggests it would have instead been dropped before surrender instead of just delayed there. In reality, the pause sources from when Truman intervened immediately after Nagasaki (which was bombed on the 9th, Hiroshima previously on the 6th) by the 10th in hopes of unconditional surrender instead.

Had Japan not surrendered for some reason (they had more going south at the time than just the nukes) the US may well have dropped a 3rd bomb over another approach. That said, I'll give due credit to Truman that the activity was paused on hopes of surrender first rather than waiting for the next one to arrive.
by xemoka | 2026-03-06 21:41:13+00:00
They didn't, no one asked google to do it. It was Paul Buchheit's 20% project. Google saw a good thing, solved by someone who knew what they were doing and where they wanted it to go, and fostered it. Hell, it is what built AdWords and ultimately made google the advertising behemoth it is today. I don't think this is the same thing...

I see what you are saying though, a business can expand beyond it's initial constraints, but I'm not sure that chasing prospects like what is described in the OP is really all that successful.
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-06 21:42:04+00:00
What an irritating comment. Identifying bugs in code is, in fact, exactly something a stochastic parrot could do. Vulnerability research is already a massively automated industry, and there's even a very well-established term -- "script kiddies" -- for malicious teenagers who run scripts that automatically find vulnerabilities in existing services without any knowledge of how they work. Having a new form of automation can certainly be a useful tool, but is still in no way an indication of "intelligence" or any deviation from the expected programming of next token prediction guided by statistical probability.
by lysosome | 2026-03-06 21:42:15+00:00
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by MBCook | 2026-03-06 21:42:20+00:00
Have you noticed that in 25 years they have never managed to catch a single terrorist? Do you think they would’ve been quiet if they did? No way.

Random citizens on planes have. At least once.

We’ve had lots of stories about them missing weapons. Lots of stories about them making up ridiculous rules. Lots of stories about them sexually harassing people. Lots of stories about random agents going mad with power.

They have never accomplished anything that wasn’t accomplished by the much simpler and less invasive security we had before 9/11.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-06 21:42:36+00:00
Yea I once had a TSA individual take my 85mm f1.2 RF series Canon lens out of its case and hold it up to the light to "inspect it."

I said, "can you please be careful with that? It's a $3,000 lens..."

The person cut me off and flatly stated: "Excuse me sir, I know what I'm doing..."

The great thing is that if the person had dropped it, they would've faced zero consequences and I would be out a lens which was central to my need to travel.
by uxp100 | 2026-03-06 21:42:37+00:00
That’s a funny analogy because some electric railway companies owned power generation. The one in my town also sold electricity to consumers for some time, though most of the history I can find online focuses on the rail aspect, which makes sense, as they started and ended in the rail business, but at some point in the 1890s to 1930s appended “and light” to their name.
by 0xTJ | 2026-03-06 21:42:53+00:00
Not shocking they seem to have pretty low professional standards. I recently had a friend travelling from the US back to Canada get suddenly thoroughly frisked without warning after the scanners showed some object near her thighs. She didn't have anything but clothes on her body on below the waist. The TSA agent spent time groping around, convinced there was something, then after there couldn't possibly have been an object under her clothes, accepted that (paraphrasing) "there must have been an issue with the scanner".

She called her partner (who I was with at the time) afterwards, upset and shaken by the experience. @TSA in one of the NYC airports: If you're not going to get consent to grope girls, at least let them know that you're about to do it.
by kube-system | 2026-03-06 21:42:55+00:00
They're not mutually exclusive things. Red-teamers often have quite a bit of expertise and are smarter than your average threat. And the point of these exercises is precisely to continually improve in response to the findings. But alas, most of the people who bring guns on to planes aren't threats anyway (at least not in the typical sense), they're idiots who forgot their CCW in their bag.
by eseidel | 2026-03-06 21:43:07+00:00
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by chaps | 2026-03-06 21:43:17+00:00
I'm one of those weirdos who opts out of the scanners because I'd rather avoid having people casually look inside of my body.

Last time I flew out of Laguardia I opted out and while I was being patted down another TSA agent about twenty feet away kept making kissy faces at me. Very much felt like intimidation.

What a time..
by troupo | 2026-03-06 21:43:17+00:00
> I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes business information.

It does. And a lot of this information is highly sensitive. Imagine my company's surprise if Slack would not be shameful and would just open up its data moat to AI.

> There are a lot of things people don't consent to. Being born.

Demagoguery and non sequiturs are not arguments.

But I guess that's what passes for "arguments" for AI maximalists.
by oldestaxe | 2026-03-06 21:43:19+00:00
Heyo,

With tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Aider running autonomously, we are heavily relying on application-level permission systems (like .claudeignore or permissions.deny) to protect our local environments. From a threat-modeling perspective, these are bypassable and don't provide a real security boundary, especially for GDPR/ISO regulated environments.

To fix this, I built aigate in Go. It acts like a Python venv, but for AI permissions. Instead of trusting the AI tool to respect a config file, it uses the OS kernel as the trust boundary.

How it works under the hood:

- File Isolation: POSIX ACLs (Linux) and macOS ACLs to hard-deny read access to secrets (e.g., .env, ~/.ssh).
- Process Isolation: Mount namespaces to overmount sensitive directories (Linux).
- Network Isolation: Network namespaces to restrict egress solely to whitelisted APIs.
- Resource Limits: cgroups v2 enforce memory, CPU, and PID limits so a hallucinated script can't brick your machine.

The DevEx is meant to be dead simple. You set the rules (e.g., aigate deny read .env secrets/) and then run the tool inside it (e.g., aigate run -- claude). If the agent attempts to read a blocked file or execute a blocked command, the kernel rejects the syscall.

It supports Linux, macOS, and WSL, and uses a .aigate.yaml file so you can track AI boundaries in git alongside your project.

Repo: https://github.com/AxeForging/aigate
by bee003 | 2026-03-06 21:43:46+00:00
I built an LLM routing engine for my startup and just open-sourced it. MIT licensed, pip install, no external dependencies beyond pydantic.

It decides which LLM to call for each request — optimizing for cost, latency, and quality simultaneously.

What's in the box (11K lines of Python):

- Thompson Sampling for self-learning model selection (learns from outcomes, no labels needed)
- Implementation of Berkeley's ARBITRAGE paper for advantage-aware model switching
- Energy Oracle that estimates Joules, Watt-hours, and CO2 per inference request
- Semantic cache with embedding similarity (50-90% savings on repeated queries)
- Context compression (system dedup, whitespace normalization, old-turn summarization)
- Provider health tracking with circuit breakers
- Shadow mode with LLM-as-judge quality comparison
- Pluggable storage (memory/SQLite/Postgres)

The core insight: ~90% of prompts don't need a frontier model. The hard part is knowing which 90%. Thompson Sampling figures this out automatically from request outcomes.

I was paying $2K+/month routing everything through GPT and Claude. After building this, the same traffic costs ~$400 with no measurable
quality drop on simple tasks.

The competitive landscape (OpenRouter, Martian, Unify) is closed-source. I couldn't find an open-source router that actually learns,
so I built one.

Limitations I'll be honest about: it's a component library today, not a drop-in proxy. You wire it into your stack. A high-level router.chat() wrapper is coming.

https://github.com/beee003/astrai-router

Happy to answer questions about the routing algorithms, energy modeling, or Thompson Sampling implementation.
by ceejayoz | 2026-03-06 21:43:55+00:00
> Red-teamers often have quite a bit of expertise and are smarter than your average threat.

That is not super comforting.

> And the point of these exercises is precisely to continually improve in response to the findings.

Then they should proudly release some more recent results showing that improvement!

> Most of the people who bring guns on to planes aren't trying to hide anything at all, they're idiots who forgot their CCW in their bag.

Which means they aren't even bothering trying to hide it.
by JBorrow | 2026-03-06 21:43:57+00:00
Maybe I'm entirely out of the loop and a complete idiot, but I am really not sure at all what people mean when they talk about this stuff. I use AI agents every day, but people who say they spend 'most of my time writing agents and tools' must be living in an absolutely different world.

I don't understand how people are making anything that has any level of usefulness without a feedback loop with them at the center. My agents often can go off for a few minutes, maybe 10, and write some feature. Half of the time they will get it wrong, I realize I prompted wrong, and I will have to re-do it myself or re-do the prompt. A quarter of the time, they have no idea what they're doing, and I realize I can fix the issue that they're writing a thousand lines for with a single line change. The final quarter of the time I need to follow up and refine their solution either manually or through additional prompting.

That's also only a small portion of my time... The rest is curating data (which you've pretty much got to do manually), writing code by hand (gasp!), working on deployments, and discussing with actual people.

Maybe this is a limitation of the models, but I don't think so. To get to the vision in my head, there needs to be a feedback loop... Or are people just willing to abdicate that vision-making to the model? If you do that, how do you know you're solving the problem you actually want to?
by VorpalWay | 2026-03-06 21:44:05+00:00
Hm, having a journalist and an academic (with a heavy focus on applied rigorous statistics) as parents probably helped there, you are right. But school is supposed to teach this, at least here in Sweden it is a part of the curriculum. But indeed, that doesn't seem to help, and the US it is especially bad (not saying the situation is good here either though).

There are other things I do remember having to train myself to do though, such as not make value judgments based on the language skill level of others. Rationally I have never cared where someone is from and if they are a native speaker or not, but emotionally that required some effort.
by zahlman | 2026-03-06 21:44:10+00:00
> Oh and roughly 65M of sea level rise as the planet shifts to a snow/ice-free mode.

Current rates of sea level rise are still in single digit millimetres per year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise), so that would take millennia. If there's even enough ice in the caps to get that far. Pre-historically, vast ice sheets covered broad swaths of regions now considered "temperate" (per the famous XKCD, "Boston [was] buried under almost a mile of ice"); what remains is a tiny portion and it's simply hard to imagine that it could fill the seas to such an extent.

If you have detailed calculations, please feel free to cite them. But my back-of-the-envelope reasoning: NOAA gives an average sea depth (https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceandepth.html) of 3,682 meters. You propose that this could increase by nearly 2%. But the density of water only exceeds that of ice by about 9% (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice); the thickness of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_ice_sheet is only about half that average sea depth; and it covers only about 4% of the water-covered area of the planet (14 million km^2 vs. 361 million km^2, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth) which is not even all oceanic.
by meatmanek | 2026-03-06 21:45:30+00:00
I want to know more about the mechanism of damage to a spinal implant from (what I assume is) a millimeter-wave scanner. I would expect millimeter waves to not penetrate very deeply -- Wikipedia says "typically less than 1 mm" (their citation for that is behind a paywall though.) Seems like an implant should be more than 1mm below the surface.
by drnick1 | 2026-03-06 21:46:24+00:00
> technically yes, but if those features have to come, for instance, in all kernel distributions

It isn't the kernel's role to verify ages. The whole issue with FOSS is that it isn't even clear which component (of a Linux distribution for example) should be responsible for things such as age verification. No single part is an "operating system" by itself.
by Trasmatta | 2026-03-06 21:46:25+00:00
I have type 1 diabetes and have a CGM and insulin pump on me at all times. The manufacturers say you shouldn't take them through the scanners, but me and every diabetic I know has never experienced any issues with the devices, so most of us just go through the scanner and then have to be patted down anyway because it picks up the device.

I dread it every time, because when I've tried to inform TSA agents ahead of time about my medical devices (which all the signs tell you to do!) they either ignore me or just tell me to go through. And then when I don't mention it, I frequently get berated on the other side, while they do the swab test for explosives.
by didgetmaster | 2026-03-06 21:47:17+00:00
I always thought one of the best promises of AI was to be able to feed it a 'jargon heavy' document (business contract, corporate policy, congressional bill, etc.), and have it spit out the real meaning in plain language.

"Don't sign this because you are screwed if x, y, or z happens!" would be a good summation in many cases.

Has anyone had much success with this kind of AI interaction?
by btown | 2026-03-06 21:47:18+00:00
Something I've recently come to appreciate is that Claude, with the context of your codebase and your ORM models and how they connect to your frontend, given read-only access to production databases (perhaps proxied to anonymize client data), and to be able to drive production sites with Chrome MCP, can be a monster at answering operational questions.

Say you need to present a new statistic to a prospective partner, or an enterprise client has an operational issue that needs to be escalated. Sales/account management pings people, and pretty soon there's a web of connections that range between email, ticketing systems, Slack, and Claude Code sessions. Someone being brought in needs to be brought up to speed on that entire web. It's a highly focused conversation with human and AI participants, that (because human counterparties need to weigh in) by definition must happen in parallel with other work.

So many companies would benefit from a Hub that speaks agentic workflows, and streams progress token by token, fluently.

Could Anthropic excel at building a backend for this? Absolutely.

Could they excel at building a frontend that takes the world by storm the way Slack did, with its radical simplicity? Unfortunately I'm not as confident here. Consider that their VS Code plugin lags their terminal TUI so massively that it still is impossible to rename sessions [0], much less use things like remote-control functionality.

Show me that they can treat native-feeling multi-platform UI with as much care as they do their agentic loops, and I'll show you a company that could change every business forever.

[0] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/24472
by landscape5497 | 2026-03-06 21:47:41+00:00
> No matter the risk

People don’t necessarily know the risk. Some do, and as someone on HackerNews you are in a space of such people who are more likely to know, but I don’t think the average person knows just how deep risks go.

> We've done this to ourselves, and we're terrified at even the most minor inconvenience

> It's baffling.

> I am quite angry and perplexed at why people have backed themselves into this corner

I don’t think this framing is quite right. It puts the onus of the problem onto the people and solely frames it as something people do, leaving out anything else. I don’t know if that’s how you meant it, but that’s how it comes off.

It’s baffling that people would push themselves into the corner because that’s not the full story. At least in part, they are being pushed into that corner; it’s not just something they do but something being done to them.

That’s what marketing, and at least some aspects of design, are. A company wants people to know about and use their product, and they want people to keep on using their product. Taken farther along, this leads to desires becoming needs or addictions. This can happen with many technologies, products, etc., phones included.

I don’t think it’s as baffling that people are drawn towards using a product excessively when there are millions to billions of dollars alongside time and effort put towards getting people to go down that path
by simonw | 2026-03-06 21:48:04+00:00
Because it's faster.

If the WinAPI docs are solid you can do things like copy and paste pages of them into Claude and ask a question, rather then manually scan through them looking for the answer yourself.

Apple's developer documentation is mostly awful - try finding out how to use the sips or sandbox-exec CLI tools for example. LLMs have unlocked those for me.