MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RickS | 2026-03-14 08:34:56+00:00
Can't believe there aren't more comments on this. I see you've retried at least once too. Fair IMO, this is a good post. Maybe something like "Claude Code binary reveals intentional plan mode degradation" or similar, since IMO the interesting bits are 1. exploring the binary to find this info and 2. actually having receipts.

With that said... do you have receipts? You have a screenshot of what looks like LLM output. For an accusation in this category, I'd expect more info on what exactly is necessary to replicate these findings, ideally in a way that's not susceptible to LLM hallucination / confirmation bias. As a bonus, that depth will probably make it a more compelling post in general.

Hope this gets some viz.
by wiseowise | 2026-03-14 08:35:12+00:00
You sound like a commie, friend! Have you thought of poor millionaires and they right to finally scratch their OCD by adding another useless feature to slop nobody will ever use? Have you considered challenges they face at work, when their billionaire overlords don't make enough obscene money to match Lizard Ellison or Beff Jezos?

Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. (c) Scam Altman
by FabianCarbonara | 2026-03-14 08:35:37+00:00
I would say so ;-)
Right now AI is a powerful tool for me. It helps me express ingenuity on a more abstract level, e.g. conceptual or product thinking rather than implementation details. Some of my current projects I could have built without AI, but not in the time I had. AI moved them from unrealistic to actually doable.
by intended | 2026-03-14 08:35:56+00:00
Eh - it IS what most users want.

In the same way people want to be fit.

There are 3 horsemen of Internet forums, one of them is topics with a low barrier to entry.

At that point anyone can speak up, and their opinion takes up as much screen real estate and reading time (often less reading time) than a truly informed take.

By putting effort barriers in place, it forces a fitness test that most users (and bots) fail.

Another subreddit which has strong rules is r/badeconomics. I didn’t know about neutralnews, so thank you for giving me another example to add to the list.
by Sl1mb0 | 2026-03-14 08:35:57+00:00
I never claimed any techology is good or bad; you also seem to be in agreement with me that technology used in warfare _can_ have "good" applications (I mentioned that the benefits are secondary to their applications in war, that doesn't sound like me saying there are no benefits).

Lastly, the only point I was trying to make is that the argument that researchers do these things for "pro-social" causes is kind of a facade; the macro environment that incentivizes technological development *is* mostly due to government investment. Sure, the individuals working on it may all have different motivations, but they wouldn't be able to do so without large sums of money. The CIA [1] literally has a venture capital firm dedicated to the investing in the development of technology - do you really believe they are doing that to help people?

- [1]: https://fortune.com/2025/07/29/in-q-tel-cia-venture-capital-...
by jaypatelani | 2026-03-14 08:37:18+00:00
Hmm.. asistant i can't escape this screen what is it?

A.i: this is vi text editor.

Human: exit from it and open word processor.

A.i: rm -rf /

Human: good job exiting. Now where's my word processor?
....

Hello? Where's my word processor? Brint it on screen.

Can you hear me ?
by allenu | 2026-03-14 08:37:47+00:00
I think you're spot on. It feels like parts were edited with AI and parts were left alone.

> This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product.

The statement this is making is presumably the crux of the problem (Digg cannot survive without trust!) but it's worded so poorly that it's hard to imagine someone sat down and figured these three sentences were the best way to make the point.
by agentsbooks | 2026-03-14 08:37:59+00:00
The content negotiation approach (Accept: text/markdown) is elegant and pragmatic. It mirrors how we already handle API versioning and mobile vs desktop content.

One thing I'd add from the agent-builder side: agent developers also need to think about how their agents present themselves to external services. Right now most agents hit websites as generic user-agents, and that's a missed opportunity. If agents identified themselves with structured capabilities (what formats they accept, what actions they can take, what permissions they have), services could tailor responses much more intelligently.

We're already seeing this with MCP -- the protocol gives agents a structured way to discover and invoke tools. But the content side is lagging behind. Your approach of treating documentation as a first-class agent interface closes that gap.

The point about models reading only the first N lines is underappreciated. I've seen agents fail not because the info wasn't there, but because it was buried 200 lines into a doc. Front-loading the most actionable content is basically SEO for agents.
by elcapitan | 2026-03-14 08:38:32+00:00
This experience of different devices competing for a BT headphone is really the most annoying aspect of BT to me. I pair my headphones regularly with my work laptop, my phone and my private laptop, and when working from home and walking around in my apartment, the headphones sometimes just randomly pick another device, even if the current device has audio going, and the other does nothing. Sometimes the Macbook does that when it's on standby, which is bizarre. I always wondered if that is an implementation bug on one of the sides. I fixed it by forcing the Macbook to shut off BT when going on standby.
by andrekandre | 2026-03-14 08:38:50+00:00
> If you put the work in upfront to plan the feature, write the test cases, and then loop until they pass...

it can be exhausting and time consuming front-loading things so deeply though; sometimes i feel like i would have been faster cutting all that out and doing it myself because in the doing you discover a lot of missing context (in the spec) anyways...
by tlb | 2026-03-14 08:39:39+00:00
One scenario: there's a short circuit somewhere, say rats chewing through insulation. This can cause a very high current through the short. A non-inverter 4500 watt 120 volt generator might have 0.2 ohms coil resistance, so the short circuit current can hit 170 volts / 0.2 ohm = 850 amps. When the shorted branch's circuit breaker trips, the inductance in the generating windings wants to keep that 850 amps flowing for at least a few microseconds, and it gets distributed across everything else that's still connected. Depending on what else is connected (hopefully including some surge protectors) the peak voltage can get into many kilovolts.

The circuit is something like this:

voltage source -- parasitic inductor --+- circuit breaker -- short
|
+- circuit breaker -- your PC
by davydm | 2026-03-14 08:40:14+00:00
the problem i have here is that there's no way for me to confirm that the secrets aren't stored somewhere on their hardware, either forming a prize worth attacking them for, or, worse, a prize for a less-ethical employee

nice idea, but we now live in a world where we can't just trust a service to do the right thing, and even if they do, to never be hacked
by TeMPOraL | 2026-03-14 08:40:38+00:00
Maybe GP choses to not use it? What about your "relationsip with the PC"?

For me, time I have in front of my PC is quality time I'd rather not waste on bullshit like banking, or worse, rearrange my life to make activities in that quality time that I could've made on the go in the "time holes" during the day.

Fuck apps, alright, but phones are finally getting useful (despite vendors' attempts to undo that). I switched to a foldable phone 6 months ago, and since then I haven't used my personal laptop for anything, not even once. Foldables are what tablets couldn't be, and despite the toy OS, my Fold7 managed to take over ~all tasks I used to do on the laptop or PC, that don't strongly benefit from physical keyboard and sitting stationary (and a good chunk of the latter too, plugged to a screen via USB-C).
by kelnos | 2026-03-14 08:41:35+00:00
I'd love to say that I value directness, but I frankly just kinda don't, for the most part. I don't want people to overly obfuscate what they are saying or beat around the bush, but... I have feelings. Often my feelings aren't rational. Often I have feelings about things when I should be more detached. But that's just how I am.

I don't want someone to come up to me and say, "Your code is wrong; you should have done ABC". I want them to say "Hey, I ran into a problem with your code. I think here on line 123 you meant to do ABC but you did XYZ by accident. What do you think?"

I'm not a dispassionate, disinterested observer. I do have some attachment to the code I write. I know -- and admire -- people who don't, but I'm just not one of them. I like it when someone is polite when they point out my mistakes.
by overfeed | 2026-03-14 08:42:01+00:00
Nice strawman.

Normal people won't even know there's a VM in the background, Linux apps launch and behave like any other ChromeOS app. The integration is very well done, and its evident you've never used it, or even seen how it works in practice and youre hallucinating non-existing complexity. All one has to enable a setting, and they can double-click a Linux app flatpak or AppImage to launch it.
Show HN: Vector databases are the wrong primitive for AI agents
by ajainvivek | 2026-03-14 08:42:15+00:00
Hi HN,

We built ReasonDB because vector databases break down when agents need to reason over structured relationships.

ReasonDB combines:
• knowledge graphs
• reasoning queries
• LLM-friendly APIs

Example:

agent.reason("Why did the refund fail?")

which traces relationships across events, policies and logs.

Repo:
https://github.com/brainfish-ai/ReasonDB

Would love feedback.
by Jaxon_Varr | 2026-03-14 08:42:25+00:00
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by esperent | 2026-03-14 08:42:43+00:00
Yeah I'm not using this.

Information We Collect
Account Information

Conversation Data (Claude Code Plugin)

When you use the Peek Claude Code plugin, it reads portions of your Claude Code conversation transcript on your local machine and sends the following to our servers:

Your most recent message (prompt text)
Recent conversation context (up to 10 prior messages, truncated to 500 characters each)
by i_am_a_peasant | 2026-03-14 08:43:04+00:00
Yeah, I can’t imagine why anyone would think that moving away from the most explicit source of truth possible would make AI work any better. the things good UIs excel at is data representation, not processing. Representing a tree or a graph in text sucks. But AI can sure read a text representation of a tree or a graph and reason about it much faster than through a UI
Show HN: ProjectFalcon – First Native Java at Protocol Implementation
by JohannaWeb | 2026-03-14 08:43:13+00:00
We shipped the first native Java SDK for AT Protocol. No wrappers. No JavaScript dependencies. Hand-rolled ES256K verification using BouncyCastle with multicodec varint decoding and base58btc multibase.

The stack: Java 25, Spring Boot 4, Project Loom, Electron/React/TypeScript/Vite frontend, Kubernetes-ready microservices (falcon-core, falcon-gateway, falcon-web, siv-service, trust-service).

Core achievement: ES256K JWT verification that actually works. Full DID resolution. PDS write-through for sovereign identity. AT Protocol integration end-to-end.

Also shipped: FalconPub (Rust/Axum ActivityPub federation server), Falcon Bridge (cross-protocol translation layer), Juntos (native LGBT communities platform running live).

MIT licensed. ArXiv whitepaper on Sybil mitigation in federated networks.

github.com/JohannaWeb/ProjectFalcon
by shellfishgene | 2026-03-14 08:43:34+00:00
This could be positive. So far things were gamed and manipulated to some extent, with some fake content, but it was never too obvious, and a bit of a cat and mouse game with filters and whatnot. Now, it's so easy to fake content that robust systems will have to evolve, or most social media sites will become worthless, and advertisers will catch up eventually when they are paying for bot-only sites.
The downside of course is that these robust systems are hard to imagine without complete loss of anonymity of the users.
by td2375671 | 2026-03-14 08:43:49+00:00
This one's called DigiBouquet

You pick flowers. You write a card. You share a link. And whoever opens it gets a little reveal moment.

Here's what makes it special:
8 flowers to choose from — roses, peonies, tulips, lilies, orchids, camellias, daisies, lotus
Pick a greenery base layer
Choose a card style (Classic Cream, Midnight, Torn Vintage…)
Set a background mood — Starlit Night, Cherry Blossom, Rose Mist…

Then you get a link. One link. That's your bouquet.

Real flowers wilt. Texts get buried. But this? Your person can open it whenever they miss you. It takes 2 minutes to make and stays forever.

→ digibouquet.net — free, no sign-up, just love in pixels.

#LoveLanguage #DigitalGift #FlowerBouquet
by ThalesX | 2026-03-14 08:43:56+00:00
I recently activated my account on there and went to the forum for my country. It was already taken over by moderators. Then I looked at the mod and he took all real estate that is already available on Reddit that is related to said country. So in a way, he was probably the first account on there and became god-king for eternity for the subreddits related to the country. I had no idea who he was, what he stood for, what his plans were for his newfound digital real estate etc.

I feel like the moderated subforum is a fundamentally broken system for dealing with content. I much prefer the Federated / X / Instagram approach where I can deal with users and have the tools needed to curate my own content, instead of relying on some ideologically captured no-name account that chooses what I can or cannot see based on whims.
by kelnos | 2026-03-14 08:44:16+00:00
Probably. I'm from the US, and I know a few Dutch people, and I find their approach to direct negative feedback off-putting to the point of feeling rude, even when knowing what to expect from them. (I'm sure they find my communication style long-winded, frustrating, and a waste of their time.)

It's a cultural thing, to be sure, and what you grew up with and are used to tends to dominate how you feel about things.
by wiseowise | 2026-03-14 08:45:28+00:00
What's your point though? That just because he's extremely smart, got lucky and got rich in the process he's somehow immune to critique?

No one can argue that John is an exceptional programmer and human being, but millions of developers aren't Carmacks – they're shmucks trying to survive under increasing pressure of corporate boot squeezing ever more. They're the ones being threatened by AI, not wealthy John for whom it's all games now.
by RayanROghabian | 2026-03-14 08:46:01+00:00
I built a web app that lets you seal a prediction, hypothesis, or decision with HMAC-SHA256 and anchor the proof to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps. The secret key never leaves your browser.
The problem: Screenshots can be faked. Timestamps on centralized platforms can be disputed. There’s no trustless way to prove you said something before an outcome without relying on a third party.
How it works:
∙ You write a message and generate a commitment locally in the browser
∙ The MAC gets anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps (~2 hour confirmation)
∙ You get a .psc file and a .ots file — the proof is in those files, not on my server
∙ When you’re ready, reveal your message and key — anyone can verify the math independently
Use cases: Research pre-registration, prediction tracking, sealed decisions before negotiations, scientific hypothesis registration.
What it doesn’t do: No anonymity, no forward secrecy, no message recovery if you lose your key.
Live: psicommit.com
Code: github.com/RayanOgh/psi-commit (MIT licensed)
Happy to discuss the construction or threat model.
Show HN: Connections Game in 195 Languages
by pnhoang | 2026-03-14 08:46:13+00:00
I’ve been building a small side project called LingoPop — a word-connection game inspired by puzzle games like NYT Connections, but for language lovers.

The twist: it works in 195+ languages.
You connect words that belong to the same category (slang, cooking actions, mental processes, etc.), and the categories adapt to the language you choose.

I actually built it for a personal reason too. I’m an expat living in Berlin, my native language is Vietnamese, and I wanted a more playful way to practice German and Italian. I also play the game in English, which sometimes turns out to be harder than expected

So I’m curious to ask this community:

How many languages do you speak?
Now try to prove it by playing LingoPop in those languages.

I’d love to hear:

Which language felt the hardest?

Which word groups surprised you?

Does the difficulty change depending on the language?

Always happy to get feedback from fellow builders and language nerds!
by curtisblaine | 2026-03-14 08:47:39+00:00
Hear me out: javascript integrates types as comments (ignored by default) in its standard and engines start to use types as performance / optimization hints. If you mistype, your program runs, but you get worse performance and warnings in console. If you type correctly, your program runs more efficiently. We already have different levels of optimization in V8 or JSC, why can't they use type hints to refine predictions?
by mna_ | 2026-03-14 08:48:49+00:00
You list "operations" that occurred after Trump burned bridges with us. Why would we help you after the insults, political meddling, and tariffs? Now go look at the Iraq War and Afghanistan War, when the US invoked article 5 (the only time it's ever been invoked). In those wars, our men and women died fighting for your country.
by duskdozer | 2026-03-14 08:50:18+00:00
Phone I didn't know, but the sibling comment interests me. Windows, it works fine on local WSL but for remote yes you do have to have something like mobaxterm running. Not a big deal to me. Mac, I thought it just worked? It used to at least for me, but the last mac I owned was on snow leopard, so I wouldn't be surprised if they decided it wasn't the Mac Way to do things.

Most recently I used X forwarding to manage some LVM disks. I usually like using cli, but for me it's just easier to deal with disks with a GUI. Shy of setting up a full remote desktop, which I've had a lot of trouble with getting to work reliably, what's a better option here for an arbitrary disk program?
by atoav | 2026-03-14 08:50:52+00:00
Yes, but your "IF" is doing the heavy lifting here and it would be your burden to proof how dirt would be a means of artistic expression before anybody could rake your argument seriously.

As a musician myself I can assure you that the high stakes releases for any musician are vinyl releases. They also happen to be the ones with which most musicians earn the most money.

Now technologically vinyl isn't superior (and anybody who claims it is is an idiot in the sense of the word), but technology isn't everything. A noisy casette tape can evoke the same (and sometimes more) feelings than the digital recording. A vinyl record with a big cover, an inlay with band info, that you specifically chose to put on the record player is in a ritualistic sense a thousand times more gratifying than having spotify select a song for you wothout knowing why, in the background of the daily life. Thst is like the difference between a candle light bath and getting wet in a rainshower.

Now that doesn't mean people will be binary either 100% vinyl or 100% digital. Vinyl is for the special occasion or for DJ sets, digital is for everything else.
by b112 | 2026-03-14 08:51:34+00:00
Yes, precisely.

This means that only sites which verify identity will have any value in the future. And by verified, that means against government ID and verified as real.

No amount of sign up fee works as an alternative.

Note that a site can verify identity, prevent sock puppets, ban bad actors and prevent re-registration, all while keeping that ID private.

You still get a handle and publicly facing nick if you want it.

The company which handles this correctly will have a big B after it. Digg actually has a chance at this.

It has no users, so the outrage won't exist in the same capacity. Existing platforms will be pummeled in the market if they try to convert to this type of site, as their DAU will likely drop a thousandfold, just due to the eliminated bots.

But Digg could relaunch this way. And as exhibited, this is now the only way.

The age of the anonymous internet is over, it's done. People not realizing this are living in the past.

Note, I don't like this, but acknowledging reality is vital. Issues with leaked databases, users, hacking of Pii are all technical and legislative issues, and not relevant to whether or not this happens.

Because it will happen, and is happening.

It should be noted that falsifying ID is a crime. Fake ID coupled with
computer fraud laws will eventually result in heafty jail time. This is sensible, if people want a world where ecommerce, and discourse is online... and the general public does.

And has exhibited a complete lack of care about privacy regardless.
by camgunz | 2026-03-14 08:52:42+00:00
I've had a set of Etymotic SR4s for years, I just replace the cable every 1-2 years. I love them to death, they're extremely flat though, so they make a version with bumped bass if that's your thing.

If someone made a cable with a mic on it for them I'd probably buy 10--it's pretty annoying to switch to Apple earbuds for calls, but whatever.
by commandersaki | 2026-03-14 08:52:57+00:00
This guy [1] that posted about his series of plastic laptops over the years is a telling indictment of what the PC/chromebook value range is about. Hinges easily damage, bits and pieces falling off, can't go from closed to open with one finger, etc. In my region in Australia schools require parents to buy a laptop and the choice is between PC and Mac (Chromebook not allowed); before the Neo getting a Mac would be a budget constraint, especially for their children, but now it is such an easy sensible choice.

[1]: https://xcancel.com/mweinbach/status/2032235367961694542
by 0x38B | 2026-03-14 08:53:14+00:00
I'm with you! After I lost my gen 1 AirPods a couple years ago, I paid $20 for a pair of Apple's corded EarPods and used them until they failed (1) a few months ago. They had a good mic + music controls, sounded fine, and didn't need a dongle.

Now I'm down to my Shure IEMs (via an Apple lighting-to-3.5mm dongle) and a borrowed pair of old Galaxy buds - wanted to give wireless buds a try, since it's been so long. I don't like them.

1: emitting an earsplitting screech as they did so - the cable must have gone.