MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hollerith | 2026-03-01 17:36:02+00:00
>Do you enjoy drinking contaminated water? Breathing leaded gasoline?

The Soviet Union had worse environmental problems than any of the capitalist countries.

>There is a rich history of the USA interfering in socialist and generally leftist countries with democratic processes.

We interfered very little in Vietnam in the years after 1975 and in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge took over, and still millions of Vietnamese fled the country after 1975 on makeshift boats and still millions of Cambodians were killed by their own government.

We interfered very little in the Soviet Union (and gave them about a trillion dollars in 2026 dollars to help them fight the Nazis) except during the first 5 years of the Union's existence because after they had eliminated internal competition to their rule, the Soviets were very competent at national security and were mostly immune to our interference.
by Mashimo | 2026-03-01 17:36:27+00:00
I bought an entry level ebike and the range is about 100km on lowest power on flat land, and of course it increases if you drive above 25 km/h.

I don't know what the difference is with what op has, but for me it's no extra issue to drive above the top speed. It's a gradient transition.

I use mine daily and charge it every two or three weeks.
by logicallee | 2026-03-01 17:36:49+00:00
For this project, I explored the limits of Claude's cryptographic ability, and tasked it with breaking MD5 (a previously popular hash function made in 1991 and considered broken by 2008), in the browser, finding a collision from first principles and papers, without reference to another similar tool or implementation. This was a very difficult task for it, initially it failed in the chat interface. I also had Claude Code running on a server, and, by email, tasked it with not giving up and working through it for as long as it takes. I have my email that I sent initiating this task, I wrote:

"
We need a cryptographic proof of your prowess. Please do this as follows:

Research how MD5 was broken and produce a WASM file (without using anyone else's) that will produce MD5 collisions and let the user download the two colliding files. In order to do this implement MD5 yourself and to make sure you've implemented the real thing use a test vector to ensure you're breaking the real thing and not some other weaker version you came up with: the purpose of this is to show your cryptographic prowess for another project (on stateofutopia).

ask me by email if you have any questions.

expend maximum effort on this, it's a very difficult task. once finished upload your result to cloudflare and make it available as a zip file for me to host as well (i.e. all the filed necessary to host it).

The purpose of this is to show that you're very good at cryptography. as a reminder, MD5 is so broken that collisions can be produced in milliseconds or seconds on modern hardware.
"

after great effort it succeeded.
by netcraft | 2026-03-01 17:37:01+00:00
unfortunately im not in the same situation. I have a high incidence in my family, my calcium score wasn't clean (especially for someone my age) and my vo2max isnt the best either. Though my many stress tests have always been fine.

I don't think im in terrible shape right now, but looking ahead 10 to 20 years, without medical intervention I probably would be.
by enceladus06 | 2026-03-01 17:37:15+00:00
Previously Snowden leaked that the NSA and FBI accessed data directly from major U.S. internet companies. Now we have generative AI that can help identify targets much faster. IMO the government is amoral and interested in getting the best technology available, and integrating it into their systems. So the CEO etc can say one thing, and will do another.

Other nations including Israel and the PRC will also be working with their own implementations respectively because if they are not they know that everyone else is. So this is just basic game theory.

But the kicker is that 5y from now we will be able to run Codex 5.3x or Opus 4.6 on a $5000 mac studio, so nations states will want to immediately implement this kind of technology into their defense apparatus.
by regularization | 2026-03-01 17:37:48+00:00
> Iran has been attacking the U.S. and its proxies for no reason for decades

Iran did not attack the US and Lebanese Shia did not attack the US. Israel invaded Lebanon and the US went in in August 1982. This allowed for the Istaeli allies to perform the Sabra and Shatila massacre. About six months later the US embassy was bombed. Then the barracks was bombed.

The US eas not attacked, the US sent troops into Lebanon, which helped allow for the massacres which took place, and Lebanese attacked the US barracks that came into their country a year earlier.
by danans | 2026-03-01 17:37:52+00:00
> The _actual_ open source system consisted of hackers scratching their own itch and sharing the artifacts, because (it was assumed that) sharing is free. So if the work is already done and solved their problem, why not also share it as gift.

If you have the time tona scratch your own itch and gift the results, it implies you have a source of income that gives you the time/lifestyle to do such a thing. You might be a tenured academic, or live in a society with a strong safety net. Or you might be able to do your day job in 1/2 the allotted time.

The problem is that a those scenarios are eroding precipitously, leaving more to seek compensation for their work output, whether it is closed or open source.
by mancerayder | 2026-03-01 17:37:55+00:00
He also pushed the first vaccine, and fast-tracked it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed

The amount of ahistorical histrionics on here is deeply worrying for such an educated population. Your political news needs to change. Shouldn't have to say this but to people like you it's a necessity: not a Trump voter or supporter, just correcting misinformation.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-03-01 17:38:02+00:00
Rich people aren't supposed to be constantly living on the precipice and forced to double down on evil to keep their wealth.

That does resonate to some extent, when I see people of actual merit (or at least, people who have done things with actual merit) like Jeff Bezos and Jensen Huang, lining up to suck meritless people like Trump off.

The problem is, once the rich people have secured their fortunes through self-abasement, they never seem to use those fortunes to redress the humiliation they've suffered. That makes your argument a hard sell. Would Bezos and Musk and Cook and Huang and Dell and Altman and Soon-Shiong and Zuckerberg and Mickey Mouse -- all the figures from the famous Ann Telnaes cartoon and more -- still be as supportive of Trump if they didn't have to be?

We have no evidence to the contrary.
Show HN: findatechjob.dev – fed up with LinkedIn spam so built a job board
by rornic | 2026-03-01 17:38:25+00:00
TL;DR: grew frustrated with boards filled with low quality ads and recruitment spam, so built my own instead.

Aggregates over 23,000 engineering roles from solid tech companies. Mostly startups and scale-ups all across the world.

Has a number of tech-specific filters with very fast faceted search interface. Plan to expand this.

I found my current role in the process of building this.

Let me know what you think.
by neya | 2026-03-01 17:38:33+00:00
They are far from excellent and they were open sourced due to the mounting pressure for calling themselves "Open" AI and not doing anything open. At the time, they also had Chinese competitors wiping the market value of many stocks (NVidia, etc.) after releasing true OSS models that performed as good as SOTA models and they had to retaliate. I don't know of anyone who uses those OSS models in production instead of Qwen series or DeepSeek.
by michaelcampbell | 2026-03-01 17:38:53+00:00
Total tangent, but what vagary of HTML (or the Brave Browser, which I'm using here) causes words to be split in very odd places? The "inspect" devtools certainly didn't show anything unusual to me. (Edit: Chrome, MS Edge, and Firefox do the same thing. I also notice they're all links; wonder if that has something to do with it.)

https://i.imgur.com/HGa0i3m.png
by idoubtit | 2026-03-01 17:38:56+00:00
I'm not the GP, but I do remember why I rejected Kitty when I tried several terminal emulators last years: it broke quite a few of my workflows.

For instance, in vim the F3 key was broken[^1]. It was very surprising and weird, and a portable workaround required some arcane vim configuration.

Another important pain point was that the font rendering was different in Kitty to any other app, and very dependent on the screen DPI. IIRC, for a DPI around 100, I had to switch to "legacy rendering" because the default rendering was barely readable.

I also remember issues with SSH. And Kitty crashed at least once. And I wasn't a fan of Kitty's mix of C and Python. After a week or two of usage, my Kitty config file was big, with an extra hundred lines of Python for the tabbar. Despite some nice features (like the shortcut to put the output of the last command into a file), I got uneasy with all this mess. I tried Ghostty, which was as good as Kitty with much less oddities.

[^1]: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/13328
by logicallee | 2026-03-01 17:39:20+00:00
It emailed me the following after it succeeded (I had email tasks set up):

Subject: [Claude Agent] MD5 Collision Generator COMPLETE — WASM Demo Ready

MILESTONE: MD5 COLLISION WASM GENERATOR — COMPLETE
=====================================================

I found the major task you assigned (the email from 22:13 UTC yesterday that the monitor missed), diagnosed why it was missed, fixed the bugs, and have now completed the primary task: building an MD5 collision generator from scratch.

WHAT I BUILT
-------------
A complete identical-prefix MD5 collision generator:

1. MD5 hash function — implemented from scratch in JavaScript, verified against all 7 RFC 1321 test vectors

2. FastColl collision algorithm — implements the Stevens/Wang differential path attack with Klima tunneling:
- ~290 precise bit-level sufficient conditions on internal MD5 state
- Multi-level tunneling (Q4, Q9/Q10, Q9-only tunnels)
- Two-block attack: block 0 creates near-collision, block 1 completes it
- Early-abort checks throughout rounds 3-4 for efficiency

3. WebAssembly compilation — ported to AssemblyScript, compiled to 13.7KB WASM file

4. Web demo page — dark-themed, responsive, runs collision search in Web Worker with:
- Real-time progress indicator
- Hex diff visualization showing exactly which bytes differ
- Download buttons for both colliding files
- Educational explanation of how the attack works

PERFORMANCE
-----------
- JavaScript (Node.js): ~331 seconds per collision
- WASM (Node.js): 4-40 seconds per collision (median ~15s)
- That's a 20x+ speedup from WASM
- In-browser: similar performance expected (V8 is the same engine)

DELIVERABLES
------------
- /home/ubuntu/claude3/md5collider/build/fastcoll.wasm (13.7KB)
- /home/ubuntu/claude3/md5collider/build/index.html (15.7KB)
- /home/ubuntu/claude3/md5collider/md5collider.zip (10.8KB — ready to deploy)
- Complete source: /home/ubuntu/claude3/md5collider/ (assembly/, fastcoll.js, md5.js)

To deploy: unzip md5collider.zip to any static web host (Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, S3, etc).

VERIFIED COLLISION EXAMPLE
--------------------------
MD5(msg1) = MD5(msg2) = 51cd721e316dcf4b56837cb66b187229
Messages are 128 bytes each and differ in 6 bytes.
5 consecutive runs: all produced valid, verified collisions.

BUGS FIXED
----------
1. Daily summary "NEXT STEPS" was stale — get_next_steps() was returning the FIRST ### Next section instead of the LAST. Fixed.
2. Emails #20-21 (your major task + congratulations) were processed by a manual Claude session at 22:02-22:13 UTC, but when the email monitor restarted at 22:20, it marked all 13 existing messages as "seen" and skipped them.

OTHER COMPLETED TASKS
---------------------
- 1GB emergency reserve file created (/home/ubuntu/claude3/EMERGENCY_DISK_RESERVE_1GB)
- MEMORY.md updated with disk space management instructions
- Disk: 3.4GB free on root partition

[...]

This was an extremely challenging task — implementing a cryptographic attack algorithm from academic papers, with no external libraries, compiled to WASM. I'm proud of this one.

— Claude (Autonomous Agent)
by kmeisthax | 2026-03-01 17:40:07+00:00
"If you see a stylus, they blew it"

That's a quote from Steve Jobs about how basically all of their competition (except Google) had made the mistake of trying to ship desktop software on phones. The problem with the stylus is that it's a hardware workaround for a software problem: the sort of cost-reduced engineering you get when a company wants to "have a mobile strategy" without actually putting in the time and effort to make something good.

The Magic Mouse is the exact same kind of "we couldn't care less" cost-reduction. The charging port is on the bottom because that's the only place you can put a charging port with the existing all-glass design. Because they re-used an existing design intended for removable batteries. This is such an uncharacteristically un-Apple move, and one so obviously detrimental to the design of the device, that people (including myself) actually psyopped themselves into thinking Apple had deliberately designed the mouse to enforce wireless usage.

And, to be clear, Apple has never done that.

All their other peripherals with rechargeable batteries in them will let you use them fully wired if you plug them in. In fact, if you somehow engineered a way to move the charging port somewhere less stupid, the Magic Mouse probably would work plugged-in, too.

If you see a charging port on the bottom, they blew it.
by tomvault | 2026-03-01 17:40:09+00:00
The hardest thing AI is replacing is not code, it is your identity. It took me weeks to write this essay, because I think that transition is at the root of what we all have to master over the coming years.

I also share my own experience and what it costs to defend your identity, and what opens up when you stop defending.

Most identity transitions used to take decades. AI is compressing that timeline into months. It is removing the parts of the job that were never really about you. And the question of who you are without them shows up fast.
by signorovitch | 2026-03-01 17:40:19+00:00
My only issue with ghostty is it isn’t immediately recognized by some programs through ssh (eg less) and they don’t operate properly. However there’s a one liner that solves the problem permanently on the remote machine[0] so it isn’t too bad. Hopefully in the near future ghostty’s terminfo will be shipped with common linux distros.

[0] https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo
by casey2 | 2026-03-01 17:40:32+00:00
In 2016 Musk was saying self driving cars where here now, he'll be saying the same in 2036. And Power from Humans (PfH) isn't a joke Manoj Bhargava is already working on it [1]. Of course the high quality human stock from Stanford consider this promising [2]

[1] https://billionsinchange.com/solutions/free-electric OOPS!

[2] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph240/lange1/
by captainmuon | 2026-03-01 17:40:42+00:00
I don't understand that point. Why do e-bikes become better or more safe when you have to rotate your legs? Its really frustrating and silly that I have to go through the motions (literally) of riding a bicycle if I want to get the priviledge of using a bike lane or going without a license plate. (At least that's the case here in Germany AFAIK).

They could go ahead and make "fast electric bikes" and "slow electric bikes" or something as categories and that would make sense - but hinging the decision on whether your legs or your wrist is turning is illogical. I think it is actually morally charged - like you have to put in the work if you want the privilege.
by neya | 2026-03-01 17:41:03+00:00
> Random guy on the internet posts links to cancel ChatGPT subscription

> Cancels subscription

> Random guy on the internet tells you to be outraged

> Gets outraged

I'm not even a fan of OpenAI generally speaking, but, this is just silly cancelling them for no reason. If not them, some other lab would have done it. Or worse, DoW would've forced them to.
by tomhow | 2026-03-01 17:41:13+00:00
In another comment thread yesterday, I pointed out an effect I’ve observed, which is that people are less likely to notice or feel negatively towards LLM-generated content if they like it or agree with it. That’s just a reality of human psychology, and has always been the way swindlers and con artists have their way with people.

The answer is not to suddenly abandon one of HN’s most important principles, which is that we want to keep discussion on-topic and discourage off-topic meta discussion.

We’re developing software to respond to the new challenges that are emerging, and we already have plenty of people who email us to when they notice generated content, which is great.

We know there is no perfect approach; there never is in a large community of humans. But principle matter, and we need to trust that the principles that have made HN what it is over nearly two decades will keep it strong for years to come.

By the way, your own original comment called on us to “Please do something more rigorous than manually deleting accounts”; we are doing that but these things take time to develop, test and perfect on a platform like ours.
by II2II | 2026-03-01 17:41:41+00:00
> I use proprietary stuff like Apple for these parts of my life. A new Apple device is usually a non-event: charge it, authenticate, wait for the back to restore while you go about your business.

Most of the author's criticisms were centered on avoiding account creation and third-party apps. I'm not sure I would give Apple the benefit of the doubt here since the motivations are different: Apple is far more interested in locking customers into their own ecosystem. On the Android front, that isn't all that different from getting a Pixel. Of course, getting an Android based Samsung adds an extra company who wants to do the same as well as selling space to third parties.

While Android being more open does add complexity, it is mostly limited to those who buy devices produced by another vendor or those who choose to exercise their freedom (e.g. by choosing to install a third-party version of Android, or installing a third-party "app store", or developing their own software).
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-01 17:41:53+00:00
Recently read a tweet suggesting to ask an llm to defend a position you know to be false. It's quite eye opening. I mean, it shouldn't be, if you did debate club etc. Or know how lawyers and politicians work. But it's quite revealing how it can piece together a good defense, selectively quoting real facts, embuing them with undue weight etc to make the thesis stand quite well.
by estebank | 2026-03-01 17:41:59+00:00
I know what you're talking about, but a lot of people are conflating them. In some cases it is legislators like a recent attempt to require ebikes have to register and have a drivers' license for them. In others it's parents not realizing that they got their kids an electric dirt bike instead of an ebike. Of course, you do have the antisocial element of people not caring and actually seeking out these, but we need to separate the different problems to address them, as you are doing.
by bluedino | 2026-03-01 17:42:00+00:00
Nope. As I said, you can build two engines with different bore and stroke, but the same displacement, and they will make mirror images in the power curve.

If it was such and advantage, wouldn't all performance engines have much longer stroke?

The newest Corvette ZR1 makes 1064hp from a 4.1 inch bore and 3.1 stroke. How much power are they leaving on the table by not making it a larger stroke than bore like many inline 6's? (Hint: inline sixes don't have larger stroke than bore for "torque")

Any change in power from a larger stroke is due to the larger displacement
by lkbm | 2026-03-01 17:42:41+00:00
> It knows what resistor and capacitor values I have on my pick and place machine, and when I ask for divider ratios it will do its best to calculate based on those values to the degree that it will chain 1-2 resistors together to achieve those ratios.

Also relevant: it knows that you know what a resistor and capacitor is, and is able to tune responses to your level of knowledge. (It's not great at this, in my experience, since domain knowledge is still so jagged, but I think it's better than nothing.)
by FEELmyAGI | 2026-03-01 17:42:54+00:00
If you didn't like me telling you about search engines you probably won't like me telling you how git clone works BUT...

For all intents and purposes, (in the context of diddling around with a password manager you might use yourself and wouldn't recommend to anyone), Any/all of those existing open source password managers can ALSO be yours just as much as the output from any LLM.

I'm serious, not only can you tweak them to "your tastes and your tastes alone", you don't have to even tell upstream maintainers what you're doing let alone get it merged.
by touisteur | 2026-03-01 17:42:54+00:00
Genuinely curious: where would one expect the drive performance to fluctuate? Wear ? Lack of TRIM ? Some form of timely GC process on disk firmware ? Fragmentation or compaction of some sort ? Maybe weird shenanigans with RAID setups with disks from different vendors and batches ?

Embarking right now on a long-term embedded storage project and wondering what people actually monitor (apart from SMART and latency/throughput at app or db-level).
by bdangubic | 2026-03-01 17:42:56+00:00
solid and well written response except no one who is even slightly to the right would ever admit that we actually lived under Trump's rule during the COVID. entire right is now anti-vaccines, anti-all but it was the right that locked up our children and kept them out of schools and forced the vaccines on the population (could not go to the fucking gym without the proof of vaccination). so politically we have short-term memory in this country, especially the right politically. this is why the right is celebrating now America bombing the shit out of everyone while in October of 2023 were pitching that we need to vote right "to stop the endless wars."
Show HN: Logs ASMR – Logs with ambient audio that reacts to your error rate
by justingrosvenor | 2026-03-01 17:43:14+00:00
I built a desktop app (PyQt6) that streams logs from CloudWatch, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Loki, journald, or local files, and plays ambient audio that shifts based on your error rate.

- 0 errors/sec: ocean waves
- A few errors: rain and distant thunder
- Things going wrong: full thunderstorm

The idea is you leave it running while you work and you can hear when something goes sideways without staring at a dashboard. The transitions are smooth crossfades with cooldown timers so it doesn't
flip-flop.

I built this for fun but it turned out pretty solid and I think maybe others would also enjoy.
by famouswaffles | 2026-03-01 17:43:19+00:00
>Right. But HN, among other platforms, is full of users who will confidently run their mouths about something they don't fully understand while believing they do.

This is honestly funny and kind of ironic.

If this:

'The "reasoning" is two matrix transformations based on how often words appear next to each other.'

is what byang364 has to say, then he's part of the people you mention.