MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zachbee | 2026-03-10 06:33:07+00:00
Their AES implementation uses old-school 2-share boolean masking [1], which has been shown to be insecure since 2005 [2][3]. A modern implementation would use domain-oriented masking [4], like OpenTitan does. Pretty bad look for Crossbar.

[1] https://github.com/baochip/baochip-1x/blob/main/rtl/modules/...
[2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-30574-3_...
[3] https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/086/973/successfully_a...
[4] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/486
by belZaah | 2026-03-10 06:33:09+00:00
I used to manage NT-based infra back in the day, have been on a mac for 15 years now because of stuff like this. A few years ago I bought a Windows box for my daughter. Out of the box the clock was wrong and it would just hang on auto-update. No message, no logs anywhere, just hangs. A few years later the son comes of age and gets his own box. And it’s the same story, no automatic adjustment of the clock. I’m running a bog standard unifi network leading to fiber, nothing complicated, everything else works including all the windows laptops of my wife. But a basic standards-based library-supported Windows function.
by hirako2000 | 2026-03-10 06:33:22+00:00
> Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B is a good comparison

It is not. It's a terrible comparison. Qwen, deepseek and other Chinese models are known for their 10x or even better efficiency compared to Anthropic's.

That's why the difference between open router prices and those official providers isn't that different. Plus who knows what open routed providers do in term quantization. They may be getting 100x better efficiency, thus the competitive price.

That being said not all users max out their plan, so it's not like each user costs anthropic 5,000 USD. The hemoragy would be so brutal they would be out of business in months
by oreally | 2026-03-10 06:33:43+00:00
By the same 'transformative' standards that allow satire, reaction and commentary videos to exist. And those take 100% from the source and add context, whereas good generated AI images that aren't wholesale copying take like less than 10% from the original source.

In addition, the idea that you need to pay rent on *your observation* of someone else's work is absurd. No one pays Newton's descendants for making lifts or hosting bungee jump sport activities.
by saaaaaam | 2026-03-10 06:33:48+00:00
Copyright quite literally protects the act of copying or reproducing a work protected by copyright. And you are technically entering into something akin to an end user licensing agreement when you buy a book, the only difference being that the EULA is incorporated into law on an international basis through reciprocal copyright treaties.

So if scan a book you are making a copy. In some copyright jurisdictions this is allowed for individuals under a private copying exception - a copyright opt out, if you like - but the important thing is private use. In some jurisdictions there is also a fair use exception, which allows you to exploit the rights protected by copyright under certain circumstances, but fair use is quite specific and one big issue with fair use is that the rights you are exploiting cannot result in something that competes with the original work.

Other acts restricted by copyright include distribution, adaptation, performance, communication and rental.

So if you copy a book, digitize it, and write a program to analyze the word frequencies it contains you may, in some jurisdictions but not all, be allowed to do this.

If you’re doing it locally on your own machine you are simply copying it. If you do it in the cloud you are copying it and communicating the copy. If you copy it, analyze it and train an AI model on it that could be considered fair use in certain jurisdictions. Whether the outputs are adaptations of the training data is a matter of debate in the copyright community.

But importantly if you commercialise that model and the resulting outputs compete with the copyright protected material you used to train, your fair use argument may fail.

So when you buy a book you are actually party to what is effectively a licence granted by the copyright holder, albeit it to the publisher. But as the end user of the book you are still restricted in what you can do with that copyright protected work, through a universal end user licence encoded in law.
by palmotea | 2026-03-10 06:34:05+00:00
> Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools.

> The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterised by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT.

> Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established”.

> “Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,” Dave Treadwell, a senior vice-president at the group, told employees in an email, also seen by the FT.
by herrfinste | 2026-03-10 06:34:55+00:00
> One engineer who left Kapwing in fall of 2025 said that the short-lived Tess investment contributed to burnout.

Don’t take this personally.

Even if you told this person to work constantly and they believed in you and the business, it’s not totally your fault that they burned out. I say this as someone that has burned out twice, is currently burned out, and blames those that I currently and formerly worked for. I know the problem is as much me as them. Yes, employers have a responsibility to their employees not to burn them out. But, if they do, even if the employer is in a power position where the employee felt they had no other choice, and I felt that both times, the employee can choose not to work that much or care that much for almost whatever that means- if you’re literally holding a gun it’s different of course.

I know of a developer that committed suicide and the toll that took on the employer. But the employer can’t take on all of that themselves.

I’m sorry that your business failed, but I hope that something good comes out of this.

Also- I’m not saying that any part of your responsibility in burning out this person was ok. Just that not all of it is your fault.
by dataflow | 2026-03-10 06:35:13+00:00
I'm not sure I understand. I'm not talking about stolen/leaked code here. I'm saying: imagine you claim you're the author of some piece of code. You may or may not have written it with an LLM, but even if so, assume you have the full rights to all the inputs. You post it publicly on GitHub. You don't attach a license, or perhaps you attach a restrictive license that doesn't permit much beyond viewing. Someone comes across your code, finds it brilliant, and wants to use it. If that code was non-copyrightable (such as generated via an LLM), then they're fine doing it without your permission, no? But if that code was copyrightable, then they're not permitted to do so, correct?

So now consider two questions:

- You actually didn't use an LLM, but they believe & claim you did. Who has the burden of proof to show that you actually own the copyright, and how do they do so?

- They write new code that you feel is based on yours. They claim they washed it through an LLM, but you don't believe so. Who has the burden of proof here and how do they do so?
by scoofy | 2026-03-10 06:35:42+00:00
You don't have to dance around it. That's exactly what's happening. The people here who are saying it's okay to discriminate against men because "they" commit sexual assaults at a higher rate, those same people would (rightly) lose their minds if anyone suggest that we should discriminate against African Americans if they were to commit some violent crime at a higher rate.

We need to call a spade a spade here. This is blindly terrible logic. It's crass sex discrimination, and it's affect people's ability to find employment, and it's almost certainly against the law.

Deciding we can just start discriminating against an entire class of people in employment or housing, just because their is a subset of that class committing crimes is a civil rights violation.

People need to stop treating this like it's somehow okay because it's men.
by zjp | 2026-03-10 06:36:33+00:00
No there's an alternative to countersignalling LLMs by pretending to be dumb. Since LLMs reproduce all of the worst of English modernity, overrelying on the PMC mush register, the business casual of English, with all the agreed upon casualisms that have rotted out the language like "there's" before plurals, there's an easy way to ensure no one mistakes your writing for an LLM's: use the constructions of the formal register or early modern English.

Roll thine eyes all thou wish’t but this I promise thee, if thou art lucky there will come a day on which thou shalt speak the single most important sentence in thy life, and that sentence will contain the word “thee”: “I thee wed”.

Feed that into a slop detector.
by simianwords | 2026-03-10 06:36:55+00:00
> The complete failure of Claude to play Pokemon, something a small child can do with zero prior instruction

cherry picking because gemini and gpt have beat it. claude doesn't have a good vision set up

> The "how many r's are in strawberry" question

it could do this since 2024

> The "should I drive or walk to the car wash" question

the SOTA models get it right with reasoning

> fact that right now, today all models are very frequently turning out code that uses APIs that don't exist, syntax that doesn't exist, or basic logic failures.

not when you use a harness. even humans can't write code that works in first attempt.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-10 06:37:50+00:00
Hi Vlad,

Turnabout is fair play, you should know that by now. You seem to have the idea up your bonnet that you are in a position to lecture, that sort of thing is best done from a position of maturity. Your incessant attacks are far more against the spirit of HN than anything that I've written in this thread.

Your criticism does not take into account anything beyond the first layer of what I've written and does not apply leeway for cultural or other differences, which you seem to want to flatten to 'whatever Vlad says' being the norm.

Your intolerance is the problem here, not my writing. I asked you because I wanted you to have a chance to clarify your view before criticizing you because that's only fair. It could well be that you had an actual reason besides having long toes.

I don't like to be lectured by those that have ethics issues themselves on ethics and I don't like to be lectured on the tone of my writing by those that have issues themselves with the tone of their own writing.

For someone who has been here for as long as you have I'd expect a more balanced view on the contributors to HN and a much better contribution:flagged comments ratio than you seem to rack up.

If you really want to improve the tone on HN by reducing hostility, snark, unprofessionalism and now personal attacks then I suggest you seek out a mirror. Your own behavior in this thread shows examples of all of those and you are neither a credit to yourself or your employer.
by sciencejerk | 2026-03-10 06:38:55+00:00
Do we really want the entire world to be endlessly full of cookie-licking rent seekers who demand profit every time anyone does anything? Because they failed to capture the value they created, and thus demand a piece of the pie from those who are better at capturing value?

The starving artists I know would be extremely happy to get even one cookie to lick. I know an artist prodogy that paints on canvas and has work in a sizable gallery, at least one institution patron, and is constantly hosting paid workshop events. He architected and built his own custom 40ft ceiling pine art house covered in beautful stained wood and arches, with large metal cuttings and engravings of wild horses on the railings. This artistic prodigy is still starving and works as a handyman/construction worker part-time. He is strongly opposed to AI, by the way.

Most artists are "starving artists"; there are extremely few artists that can support themselves by their creations alone. Many artists make no money at all, and many artists seem to work or create alone as individuals, meaning that they almost always lack the funds or community resources to protect their creative work.
by ggm | 2026-03-10 06:39:07+00:00
so the instance of the grand conspiracy to hand is

1) they knew somebody had a device

2) they bought a device from somebody. is it the same as 1? how do we know?

3) they tested the device on mice, goats, something.

4) the subjects said they had headaches, in some manner.

one version of the story has "two agents walked into a coffeeshop" but instead of a punchline, its "a kid with a backpack on followed them in" and "they reeled in horror as their heads hurt"
which is magically INCONTROVERTABLE PROOF the kid had a microwave weapon in his backpack.

I'd say in this day and age, anything is possible.
by j16sdiz | 2026-03-10 06:40:58+00:00
> It's interesting that "consumers" are generally for the expansion of IP laws.

It's not. This total depends on how you ask it.

Q: Do you think artists deserved payment?

A: YES.

Q: Will you pay for art?

A: MAYBE.

Q: Do you think people should go to jail not paying for art

A: NO.
by davidelettieri | 2026-03-10 06:43:24+00:00
IVF in Italy is included in universal health care already, regardless of age.

If the government is going to pay for IVF for 40 years old women it would be cheaper if those women had eggs frozen at 20 because overall you would succeed with fewer embryo transfers.

Of course that's not the only policy needed, we need affordable house for families, schools, decent parental leave for both parents.
by qazxcvbnm | 2026-03-10 06:44:28+00:00
The new Emacs features sound great! (We have native window management finally)

I wish we would someday be able to edit in xref too, wgrep having landed in Emacs 30 (especially since project.el grep goes to xref by default).

By the way, anyone more informed know about any work on getting a graphical browser to work on latest Emacs, now that webkit xwidgets is dead for Emacs 30+? (Have tried EAF; extremely buggy on Mac)
by mech422 | 2026-03-10 06:44:29+00:00
That sounds neat! I especially like "I give the code a sense of its own emotional state". I can just imagine a function crying "Why did they use that algorithm ?? Why so much spaghetti ?? I'm soo ugly ..Why Why Why" :-D

That would probably motivate me to fix the poor thing, just so I don't feel like I'm torturing it! :-D
by Chamix | 2026-03-10 06:44:30+00:00
I generally agree, back of the napkin math shows H20 cluster of 8gpu * 96gb = 768gb = 768B parameters on FP8 (no NVFP4 on Hopper), which lines up pretty nicely with the sizes of recent open source Chinese models.

However, I'd say its relatively well assumed in realpolitik land that Chinese labs managed to acquire plenty of H100/200 clusters and even meaningful numbers of B200 systems semi-illicitly before the regulations and anti-smuggling measures really started to crack down.

This does somewhat beg the question of how nicely the closed source variants, of undisclosed parameter counts, fit within the 1.1tb of H200 or 1.5tb of B200 systems.
by simianwords | 2026-03-10 06:45:09+00:00
>It is not. It's a terrible comparison. Qwen, deepseek and other Chinese models are known for their 10x or even better efficiency compared to Anthropic's.

I find it a good comparison because it is a good baseline since we have zero insider knowledge of Anthropic. They give me an idea that a certain size of a model has a certain cost associated.

I don't buy the 10x efficiency thing: they are just lagging behind the performance of current SOTA models. They perform much worse than the current models while also costing much less - exactly what I would expect. Current Qwen models perform as good as Sonnet 3 I think. 2 years later when Chinese models catchup with enough distillation attacks, they would be as good as Sonnet 4.6 and still be profitable.
by filipbalucha | 2026-03-10 06:46:06+00:00
Good question. I'd split it into migration vs re-run:

If the goal is for an existing task to continue on the fixed code, yes, we support manual migration.

If the goal is to reprocess certain old workspaces with the new logic, the better pattern is to find those workspaces and create new tasks against the same workspace on the fixed version.

We also support a mode where tasks follow the latest version by default.
by scuff3d | 2026-03-10 06:46:46+00:00
This article is hilariously flawed, and it takes all of 5 seconds of research to see why.

Alibaba is the primary comparison point made by the author, but it's a completely unsuitable comparison. Alibab is closer to AWS then Anthropic in terms of their business model. They make money selling infrastructure, not on inference. It's entirely possible they see inference as a loss leader, and are willing to offer it at cost or below to drive people into the platform.

We also have absolutely no idea if it's anywhere near comparable to Opus 4.6. The author is guessing.

So the articles primary argument is based on a comparison to a company who has an entirely different business model running a model that the author is just making wild guesses about.
by sourishkundu23 | 2026-03-10 06:47:18+00:00
The separation of "gather context → synthesize → act" is a pattern we've found critical in production agent systems too. In LangGraph, we model this as explicit checkpoint nodes — the agent can't proceed to the action phase without passing through a validation gate.

One thing we've run into: the filesystem abstraction works well for code artifacts, but when agents interact with external services (APIs, databases), you need a separate "action journal" that logs intended mutations before executing them. This gives you rollback even for side effects that aren't file-based.

The harder unsolved problem is multi-agent state coordination. When Agent A writes to a shared workspace and Agent B reads it, the filesystem gives you structural persistence but not semantic ordering. Have you thought about adding lightweight event ordering (like a simple monotonic sequence) to the filesystem layer? Without it, agents can read stale state even when files are fresh.

Congrats on the launch — the decoupled storage model is the right primitive.
by EvgeniyZh | 2026-03-10 06:48:34+00:00
There are two generations and 4.5 years between A100 and B200.

A100 has 312 TFLOPS of FP16 for 250W, i.e., 1.25 TFLOPS/W.

B200 has 2250 TFLOPS of FP16 compute for 1000W, i.e., 2.25 TFLOPS/W.

This is ~34% growth per generation and ~14% per year. It's hard to believe it will be 400% per generation this time
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-10 06:48:47+00:00
> I don't like paltry sums like this. $300 is a significant financial impact to someone who's barely making ends meet, and absolutely nothing at all to a billionaire.

One thing about daycares is that you will essentially never find "someone who's barely making ends meet" and "a billionaire" with kids at the same daycare, so a surcharge for out-of-normal-expectations service does not need to be designed to address both cases.

(In fact, you'll probably not find a billionaire with kids at any daycare, their hired childcare workers won't be shared with other people, and will probably be adequately compensated up front in a way which anticipates a fair degree of schedule variability.)

OTOH, with red light cameras, you also don't need to scale the fine to work with both, because the entire purpose is to bind the lower classes while exempting the upper from any substantial burden. (The least cynical explanation is that it is to discourage behavior which might incur liability grossly exceeding the mandatory level of insurance company by those least able to cover the cost of that liability, thereby avoiding uncompensated harms, but the realistic explanation is...not so generous.)
by Leftium | 2026-03-10 06:49:01+00:00
This list is a little old, but found some gems: https://web.archive.org/web/20191114220720if_/http://lazerwa...

I recall I enjoyed Hoplite, Data Wing, Mini Metro, Super Mario Run, and a few others.

---

You probably already know Apple arcade curates a set of games. Many of the 'plus' versions of games have the ad/loot box features stripped or set to "free."
by JAlexoid | 2026-03-10 06:49:32+00:00
Most people can't even imagine the complexity it would require to actually build a system that correctly tracks down the sources for image generation.
Not to mention that each image is generated from literally every single training image in a very small percentage.

It's not hard when someone inputs "create in style of studio ghibli" to say that studio Ghibli should get a cut. It's very different when you don't specify the source for the origin style.

And if you tried to identify the source material owner, the percentage of the output image that their work contributed to would be extremely - if not infinitely - small. You'd get minuscule payouts.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-10 06:50:25+00:00
I guess when you're dissipating upwards of a gigawatt of power at a single site boiling water starts to look attractive. It's a pretty impressive curveball; I definitely would never have predicted "an evil corporation boils off all the local drinking water" to be a legitimate concern. I'm pretty sure that's too absurd a plot point for even a children's movie.
For AI devs and AI startups
by CostsentryAI | 2026-03-10 06:50:43+00:00
Running several projects that collectively hit $2k+/mo in API costs across OpenAI, Anthropic,& AWS Bedrock. Started doing monthly audits then found I was overspending by about 60%. Biggest wins so far: Model routing cut costs 55% with no quality loss on final output Prompt compression saved 70% on my most called endpoint Request deduplication on retries eliminated 15% of wasted calls Caching semantically similar queries knocked out another 20-30%
But I feel like I'm still missing things, especially on the infrastructure side (GPU instance sizing, spot vs. on-demand, etc). So what tools or approaches are others using? Is anyone doing this systematically or is everyone just eyeballing their dashboards? Let me know!
by apnorton | 2026-03-10 06:51:23+00:00
This might not be something entirely obvious to people outside of academia, but the vast majority (which I'm only weakening a claim of "totality" in order to guard against unknown instances) of entities that bear the name of humans in the sciences do so because other people decided to call them by that name.

From another view, Adelson-Velsky and Landis called their tree algorithm "an algorithm for the organization of information" (or, rather, they did so in Russian --- that's the English translation). RSA was called "a method" by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman. Methods/algorithms/numbers/theorems/etc. generally are not given overly specific names in research papers, in part for practical reasons: researchers will develop many algorithms or theorems, but a very small proportion of these are actually relevant or interesting. Naming all of them would be a waste of time, so the names tend to be attached well after publication.

To name something after oneself requires a degree of hubris that is looked down upon in the general academic community; the reason for this is that there is at least a facade (if not an actual belief) that one's involvement in the sciences should be for the pursuit of truth, not for the pursuit of fame. Naming something after yourself is, intrinsically, an action taken in the seeking of fame.
by jychang | 2026-03-10 06:51:38+00:00
That's a tautology. People think chinese models are 10x more efficient because they're 10x cheaper, and then you use that to claim that they're 10x more efficient.

Opus isn't that expensive to host. Look at Amazon Bedrock's t/s numbers for Opus 4.5 vs other chinese models. They're around the same order of magnitude- which means that Opus has roughly the same amount of active params as the chinese models.

Also, you can select BF16 or Q8 providers on openrouter.