MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulmHope | 2026-03-13 02:25:21+00:00
That's actually the exact problem I kept running into.
When I research something with AI I often ask multiple models because the answers sometimes contradict each other. Each one sounds confident, but they don't always align.
What I'm experimenting with in MetaLayer is:

Send the same question to multiple models in parallel

Extract the main claims from each response

Compare where those claims overlap

Generate a synthesized outcome based on the areas of agreement

Surface disagreements so users can see where reasoning diverges

So the "consensus score" isn't claiming the answer is objectively correct — it's measuring how much the models agree with each other.

Right now I'm trying to figure out whether agreement between models is actually a useful signal or whether it sometimes just leads to shared hallucinations.

Curious if anyone here cross-checks model outputs in a different way.
by carefree-bob | 2026-03-13 02:25:36+00:00
It's hard because people are threatened by good people and don't want to hire them, and also objective standards leave less wiggle room to sneak in your friends or others in your peer group.

Many, many forces lined up against meritocracy. All the incumbents, for example, tend to have something to lose, but it's the incumbents who decide if you are hired.

It's a miracle that there are any good companies once the original owners are gone.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-13 02:25:46+00:00
You are making assumptions, I don't earn or pay tax dollars or euros.

I have a youth trauma, that I refuse to sponsor through (obligatory) healthcare and taxes. No taxes means no income. Fine I'm a homeless bum!

All I see is angry circumcised men being sent to fight another nation's angry circumcised men, instead of addressing the perpetrators of their traumas, work from the individual perspective not the collective one.

> After the revolution they didn't even pursue nuclear weapons until they understood it was the only thing you can get to protect yourself from Israel and American bullying.

I see this claim a lot, but it appears to not be true: plenty of nations have no nuclear weapons program and aren't being bullied; while Iran has a nuclear weapons program, and clearly is being "bullied".

Yes Trump is a clown, in most democracies we can select who brings the bad news and can do the posturing. Most policy is deep state and persists across electoral swings from one party to another. It's not because Trump has been selected as the mouthpiece in charge, that the plans weren't drafted by "deep state" (non-elected) servants and organizations.

The whole republicans vs democrats is a ridiculous joke, you don't have to tell me about it.

Republic: from latin Res publica (the affairs or decisions or matters that belong to and thus need to be decided by the public) so basically "power to the people"

Democracy: from greek dēmokratía, dēmos and krátos (people and rule or power) so basically "power to the people"

So we have 2 parties claiming to stand for the same thing "power to the people" and a never ending fight for the Greek term or the Latin term. Most US citizens don't even understand greek or latin!

What does every elite do in fear of its population? Divide and conquer: divide your population in half and have them fight for a greek term and have the other half fight for a latin term, but use dead old languages so people are blinded from seeing they want the same thing!
by trinsic2 | 2026-03-13 02:26:44+00:00
maybe you guys already do this, but what about having a line of text near the submission fields that says "If you are submitting a Show HN post, please do not post an AI generated version, it degrades the quality of submissions (or it makes it harder for others to submit high quality content, or something like that)

I know when I see those guidelines show up in reddit submission forms, i respect that because I see what the sub exactly wants..
by josephg | 2026-03-13 02:28:24+00:00
> > programmers care way too much about consistency.

> Indeed, it doesn’t matter too much, as long as it is consistent.

Um, I think you may have missed my point. Why does it always need to be consistent?

The problems you're talking about only show up when someone runs a formatter over the entire file. One answer is, just don't do that.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-03-13 02:29:29+00:00
Talk about code smell

If you arent manually auditing, you only notice the fuck ups when they’re instantaneous

If you don’t trust it to interact with prod, but still trust it to write code that will run on prod… you’re still trusting it with write access to prod.

The only thing I’m willing to let Claude write for me is a static site generator, because static files without JS aren’t going to do any damage, it either loads or it doesn’t.
by tharkun__ | 2026-03-13 02:30:18+00:00
See that would definitely get you not hired ;)

Not because you use 2 spaces. You can argue 2 spaces and the pros and cons and how horizontal scrolling is an issue. One question back would be for example if that means you have huge run-on files where a single function does everything and that's why you need like 17 levels of indentation and that's why only using 2 spaces for each becomes important to you. And then you'd need to argue how that's better for visibility and what might actually be worse about it. If you can do all that, you're hired (if the rest of the interview goes well :P )

Who still uses 8? Isn't that like a COBOL thing?

That works as a flippant comment when we're joking about code indentation after working together for a while and we get along great. As the one and only answer in an interview, you're out. That's quite disrespectful and no it's not a COBOL thing, I've seen (and used) 8 spaces and argued for tabs or 4 much later than COBOL days. In fact I've never written a single line of COBOL.
by blackcatsec | 2026-03-13 02:31:07+00:00
To be fair, the first point is a good point. But I'd argue that you should deploy them everywhere in order to not be racist since we already generally know that the red light cameras are revenue generating devices. Is there some data on whether they increase safety? Preferably unbiased (probably not). Unsure.

Nonetheless, a fair point that deserves analysis. (My vote, to be fair, is ask the community what they want and put it up to a vote. With honest information on safety data versus revenue generation)
by ptak_dev | 2026-03-13 02:32:00+00:00
I graduated into a similarly rough market a few years back and went through the same "dozens of applications into the void" phase. A few things that actually moved the needle for me:

1. Tailor every single application. I know it sounds obvious, but most new grads send the same resume everywhere. When I started rewriting my bullet points to match the specific job description's language, my callback rate roughly tripled. It's tedious but it works.

2. Your hobbyist projects ARE portfolio-worthy. Frame them in terms of problems solved and decisions made, not just technologies used. "Built a custom renderer to understand how GPUs work" tells a story that "Used OpenGL" doesn't.

3. The blog is actually a great move. Technical writing signals communication skills, which is what most hiring managers say they can't find in junior candidates. Link it on your resume and LinkedIn.

4. For the resume optimization part specifically, I've been using CareerCraft AI (https://super.myninja.ai/apps/6de082c7-a05f-4fc5-a7d3-ab56cc...) to help match my resume language to job postings. It's surprisingly good at catching the keyword gaps that ATS systems filter on. Might save you some time vs. doing it manually for every application.

5. Don't underestimate the "we want to hire you but need funding" responses. Stay in touch with those people quarterly. Budgets change, and you're already pre-vetted in their minds.

The market is genuinely harder right now, but 0-2 years of experience with strong fundamentals and a willingness to iterate on your approach will get you through. Hang in there.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-13 02:32:32+00:00
I have seen no convincing evidence that NK has miniaturized nuclear weapons sufficiently to put in on an ICBM, nor have I seen convincing evidence that they can handle the complexities of re-entry. If they want to be taken seriously they should give actual demonstrations instead of posturing. You know, like how US / Russia used to allow each other to inspect each others submarines, count warheads, etc.

NK can feign concern like revealing trajectory choices, radar signatures etc. but those can all be addressed: stick a big retroreflector on it that drowns out any actual radar signature, use a ridiculous trajectory, that still puts a representative heat and temperature burden on the re-entry vehicle, and so on and so on.

It seems NK doesn't want to be taken seriously (and the same for Israel when it comes to nuclear weapons to be honest).
by simoncion | 2026-03-13 02:34:07+00:00
> On the other hand, consumer routers route in software, which is easily updated.

Sure. On the other other hand, companies going "Is this a security problem that's going to cost us lots of money if we don't fix it? No? Why the fuck should I spend money fixing it for free, then? It can be a headline feature in the new model." means that -in practice- they aren't so easily updated.

If everyone in the consumer space made OpenWRT-compatible routers, switches, and APs, then that problem would be solved. But -for some reason- they do not and we still get shit like [0].

[0] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsiuA5gOl1o>
by Ajakks | 2026-03-13 02:34:14+00:00
If I were holding earth hostage with my Space Battleship - I would sit in a lunar orbit. Also, I am not kidding about tug-boating - if I fly up, match an asteroids speed and velocity, why cant I just throw a tow strap on that, accelerate, and park it an area that only has to be accurate enough for a planet to hit it - I dont need to stop it, or have it flying at the earth, it only needs to be in the way, moving a little slower than the earth.

What if I make that the space battleship's job? What if a drone can do that?

Im not really worried about resupplying the space battleship holding earth hostage -> someone will "volunteer" to do that, bc they want to live life.
by joe_the_user | 2026-03-13 02:34:27+00:00
Was typing harder then than it is now for some reason?

Uh, yes it was. A manual typewriter required you to exert enough force on each key to get a metal arm to strike a ribbon and make a mark. Pressing two close enough together in time would cause them to hit each. An electric typewrite required less finger effort but it would send vibrations back to one's fingers. Also, erasing mistakes was a serious pain in the neck. Also you had calculate line-breaks yourself, keep track of the end of each and so-forth. "Cut-and-paste" People did that with scissors and tape but, again, a total pain in the neck.

There was a reason that word processors were hailed as a great innovation.
by Lazy_Player82 | 2026-03-13 02:35:18+00:00
I’ve been using Qwen3-72B (and even the smaller 32B model) extensively alongside Opus 4.6 for the past few weeks.

My takeaway is that while Opus 4.6 still holds the edge in high-level system design and 'knowing what it doesn't know,' Qwen3 is remarkably competitive in Python and Rust implementations. In fact, for specific LeetCode-style logic or boilerplate generation, Qwen3 often feels faster and more concise.

The real strength of Qwen3 is its instruction-following capability—it rarely hallucinates API signatures compared to other open-source models I've tried. If you have the hardware to run the 72B (or even a high-quantized version), it's probably the closest you'll get to the Opus experience in the open-source world right now.
by davorak | 2026-03-13 02:35:35+00:00
Dang's search is much more clear cut and I think that is going to be better guide to what the enforcement will look like.

Looking at your search though I think we have to exclude today or at least this thread to get a fair look how llm generated is thrown around or not
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1773187200&dateRange=custom&...

Most of the comments I saw on the first page are not an accusation but there are some there 2 of the 3 I looked at looked pretty clear cut, while the 3rd was poorly written hype which looks like llm output, but I have seen similar from humans before at least from what I read, in either case it was flagged appropriately.
by shalai | 2026-03-13 02:36:09+00:00
Building an AI tire safety inspector that analyzes tread depth, wear patterns, and damage from a single photo.

Hardest problem: vision models kept confusing nail punctures with tread separation at side angles. Fixed it with a two-pass approach — a dedicated damage pre-scan runs first and overrides the main analysis when there's a conflict.

Still unsolved: tread depth estimation from angled shots underestimates by 1-2mm consistently.

Stack: FastAPI, React PWA, Claude Sonnet 4 vision, Railway.

Free to try: https://tinyurl.com/aitireanalysis
by BenFranklin100 | 2026-03-13 02:37:06+00:00
I don’t know the legal protections around automation, but the unions virulently fight efforts to automate the industry.

You should listen to Harold Deggett, the dockworkers union boss who threatened to cripple the US economy if automation was introduced:

https://ijr.com/union-boss-willing-to-cripple-america-made-m...

He also lives in a 70,000 sqft mansion:

https://nypost.com/2024/10/02/business/harold-daggetts-spraw...
by rimunroe | 2026-03-13 02:37:37+00:00
> Craft lovers can still lovingly craft away, even if they have to do it on their own time instead of on their now-AI-dominated day job, just like in ye olde days. Nothing's stopping them.

…except time, which sadly is limited. I’m sad about the real potential that I might not get to be paid to do something I enjoy so much anymore. I care about end products for sure, but that’s not why I’m in this career.

I do this because a large part of the work engages me in a pleasant way. I like TDDing in a tight loop. I like how it forces me to think one step at a time, how I get to stop myself from jumping ahead, and how I get to verify my thoughts or theories within seconds. I find efficiently manipulating text in my editor satisfying. I love the feeling of being validated that my architectural choice was right when a spec changes and the required code change is obvious, minimal, and clearly expressed. I enjoy the feeling of obtaining mastery for mastery’s sake rather than because it lets me create a product.

I’ve felt incredibly lucky for over a decade that my work gave me the opportunity to chase that. I may find enjoyment in wrangling AI, but I’m skeptical it’ll scratch that itch. If it doesn’t and I wanted to still scratch it, I’d have to do it on my own time. That would mean sacrificing time I’ve previously spent on other interests, and I don’t have a ton of time to begin with.
by akoboldfrying | 2026-03-13 02:38:07+00:00
AFAICT at least 2 people in this thread don't seem to think that visibility -- a function of, among other things, weather and time of day -- influences driving safety. I find this amazing.

The point of terryf's example was to point out that for practical reasons, existing laws don't capture every relevant variable. I (but not everyone, it seems) think that visibility obviously influences safety. The point I want to make is that in practice the "precision gap" can't be perfectly rectified by making legality a function of more factors than just speed. There will always be some additional factor that influences the probability of a crash by some small amount -- and some of the largest factors, like individual driving ability, would be objected to on other grounds.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-13 02:38:14+00:00
At the time of the bombing that school was not on Open Street Map, instead the military base (where the school was installed!) had been added a bit more than 5 years ago. Obviously international law requires targets to be thoroughly verified, which obviously didn't happen.

I am not blaming OSM for what happened, but just to avoid having a great FOSS project being used for unverified targetting: perhaps we should have stronger requests for verification for military domains around the world. OSM could contact the governments and ask if any non-military entities reside in that base. If the government refuses to confirm or deny, or just pretend there is no school, then OSM can bring this response up at a later date.
by wisty | 2026-03-13 02:38:50+00:00
The far left and neoliberals are united on this. Whether it's by malice, self interest or incompetence (or a combination), they end up discriminating against the lower classes.

Neoliberals and the far left, when forced to work in the real world, both tend to prefer putting power into rules, not giving people in authority the power to make decisions.

The upside is there's less misuse of power by authorities, at least in theory. The bad news is, you now need far more detailed rules to allow for the exceptions, common sense, and nuance that are no longer up to authorities.

The worse news is, that the people who benefit from complex rules are the upper classes, and the authorities who know how to manipulate complex rules.

"Don't be evil" requires a leader with the authority to enforce it.

A 500 employee manual will be selectively implemented, and will end up full of exploits, but hey, at least you can pretend you tried to remove human error from the process.
by m463 | 2026-03-13 02:38:59+00:00
unrelated but maybe interesting...

I had a colonoscopy and had to empty my system.

I had 1/2 gallon of this fluid to drink the night before, and the other 1/2 gallon to drink the day of. At that point my digestive system was empty.

I will say with an empty system I felt energized and a lot more clearheaded.

I wonder if doing this from time to time is helpful to your system, and furthermore if eating smaller portions would be helpful to my energy levels.
by ashutosh0707 | 2026-03-13 02:39:05+00:00
OpenAI secured a record-breaking $110 billion funding round and a major AWS distribution deal. NVIDIA committed $4 billion to optical interconnect technology for future AI factories. Concurrently, agentic infrastructure startups (WorkOS, Guild.ai, JetStream) raised nearly $180 million for enterprise security and orchestration tools.
by userbinator | 2026-03-13 02:39:21+00:00
I did some RE'ing of BIOS code back in the days of the first SDR SDRAM and the calibration part was reasonably straightforward; basically sweeping some controller registers through their ranges while doing repeated read/write operations with lots of transitions in the data (e.g. 0x55555555 <> 0xAAAAAAAA) to find the boundaries where errors occurred, and then choosing the middle of the range.

While the article does mention periodic calibration, I wonder if there are controllers which will automatically and continuously adapt the signal to keep the eye centered, like a PLL.
by Freedom2 | 2026-03-13 02:39:22+00:00
There was one person on this site who looked down at candidates (for a normal software development job) who didn't answer his interview question well. And by well, I don't mean being curious and working it out on the fly, I mean that if the candidate didn't know the answer of the top off their head, the HN commenter deemed them uncurious and unsuitable. The question?

"How do mobile phone towers work?"
by foo4u | 2026-03-13 02:39:25+00:00
I love how this post, almost to a fault, just jumps right in. No BS set up. Not even context set up. Just what you expected after reading the title. That's an art.

As for the context of the article, maintainability is almost always worth the cost of the function lookup. The proof here that the cost is almost non-existent means to me the maintainability is always worth the perceived (few cycles) impact unless this is real-time code.
by roncesvalles | 2026-03-13 02:40:27+00:00
The solution to this entirely depends on whether you are willing to answer other questions about the number and of what nature. Would you answer: is it higher/lower than X? How about how many digits there are?

But assuming you are unwilling to answer any additional questions, the correct solution is to simply brute force every number up from 0 and its negative.
by etempleton | 2026-03-13 02:40:56+00:00
Same basic issue, but not exactly the same thing in terms of sector or potential impact. The sub prime mortgage delinquency rate remains low as home loans became much more strict after 2008. So that portion of the economy is relatively safe right now. PE is a much smaller market and so the fallout from a private equity collapse, while significant, would theoretically be less likely to negatively disrupt the total market to the same extent as the 2008 housing crisis.
by GameOfKnowing | 2026-03-13 02:42:13+00:00
This is true but also not at all the point of a review. Some tools are better suited for some tasks— reviews help those with the privilege of choice find the best ones for them. Otherwise you’d have a review of a hammer saying “this is a great tool for driving screws if you’re not afraid to get cREaTive with it!” Folks who need to make do with what they have already know about their constraints.
by harrall | 2026-03-13 02:43:20+00:00
Okay that’s like my company that uses Salesforce that sends an invoice to another company that also uses Salesforce.

The fact that we both use Salesforce does not matter. It’s internal and doesn’t mean anything outside the company. Both the brain and gut re-used the molecule for their own internal signaling. Evolutionarily it was cheaper to use an existing molecule.

To the brain, the invoice is just “I’m full” or “I’m hangry.” It doesn’t care how much serotonin the gut had to produce internally to issue that “invoice.” The brain will produce its own serotonin from the signal of satiety but it won’t give you any more than you can from just feeling full.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-13 02:44:40+00:00
do you deny they had the ambition?

you don't train such huge proportions of the population towards physics without nuclear weapon ambitions

you don't enrich uranium to absurdly high levels for peaceful energy production (sorting isotopes is expensive)

you don't assassinate with hydrogen cyanide (generic non-brand equivalent of Zyklon B) random minorities (like Mahsa Amini) just because they would like to study law, and happen to have a less-regime aligned attitude, unless you are running a chemical weapons program (which apparently wasn't really halted after the Iran-Iraq war)
by rimunroe | 2026-03-13 02:45:09+00:00
Exactly. I said this elsewhere in here, but I’ve felt extremely lucky that for the last 13 years I’ve gotten paid to do something that would otherwise have to be a hobby. The problem is that I have other hobbies already and am a parent with limited time to devote to such things in the first place. It’s valid to miss things you were extremely lucky to have in the first place.
by joegibbs | 2026-03-13 02:46:28+00:00
I got 19x. When they say "curious about" it's always a good sign that it's AI, same with X not Y construction, saying "genuinely", saying things like "absolutely slaps" and other millennial slang, being overly positive: generally sounding like the transcript of an Instagram food review. When they're trying to be casual they seem to default to some kind of 2017 millennial stereotype. Typos and "edit:" are always a good sign that it's human, so I'm sure people will start adding those in to AI-generated text to seem more real