MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by r_lee | 2026-03-10 02:38:28+00:00
No problem, I hear ya.

I think it's just such a big shift in mentality, where the field is being devalued and looked down upon, and that causes uneasiness

if I could turn off my fear response, I'd do it. But it's a thing that we can't always control, so while I try to minimize it and be optimistic, it'll always lurk there, especially when headlines constantly remind you of it.

Long-term, I think we'll be fine. Nobody will tolerate a run to the bottom where everybody just makes minimum wage and then there's a high class consumer class at the top. It doesn't make sense.
by marcelk123 | 2026-03-10 02:38:41+00:00
Hi HN,

We recently launched Valedex, a tool for automating the first pass of private market deal evaluation.

Investment teams reviewing CIMs (Confidential Information Memorandums) often spend hours manually reconstructing financials from messy PDFs before they can even start evaluating the deal.

Valedex extracts financial metrics directly from CIMs, computes key ratios, and surfaces structural risk signals across the deal.

The goal isn't to replace analyst judgment, but to remove the mechanical work so teams can focus on decision-making.

We're currently opening a small number of early pilots with investment teams that regularly review CIMs.

Would love feedback from anyone who works with financial documents, investment memos, or messy PDFs.
by DonHopkins | 2026-03-10 02:38:50+00:00
Arguing that something is good because Texas is doing it is ultimately a self defeating argument that reveals a lot about you (as do the other internet incel horseshit and exuberant defenses of Scott Adams' racism and misogyny you post). Do you mean systematic institutionalized racism, rampant gun violence, and frequent school shootings are good too?
by rorychatt | 2026-03-10 02:40:18+00:00
The bet is that compute gets cheap enough before the crunch that it won't matter. You should model it at 10x - but you also need to factor in NPV and opportunity cost. Even if pricing spikes later, the value extracted at today's rates might still put you ahead overall.

The relevant comparison for most enterprise isn't whether $15/PR is subsidised - it's whether it beats the alternative. For most shops that's cheap offshore labour plus the principal engineer time spent reviewing it, managing it, and fixing what got merged anyway. Most enterprise code is trivial CRUD - if the LLM generates it and reviews it to an equivalent standard, you're already ahead.
by eschaton | 2026-03-10 02:40:36+00:00
Indeed, you have to prove that the LLM is generating code from a specification. Right now they don’t do that; what they do is regurgitate portions of their training data based on correlations with input tokens.

Put the programmer’s reference for the Digital Equipment DEQNA QBus Ethernet adapter in your favorite slop tool and tell it to make a C or C++ implementation for an emulator, and you know what you get? Code from SIMH. That’s not “generating,” that’s “copying.”
by asadotzler | 2026-03-10 02:41:05+00:00
Yes true.

B Corps allow the board to weigh things besides shareholder value. That's a meaningful distinction.

The idea is that shareholder primacy isn't compatible with everything every corporation wants to do, so having a board that's protected from lawsuits when they put things above shareholders is a useful thing and B Corps offer that.

The board can, for example, reject a "superior" takeover bid without fear of lawsuits from shareholders pissed off they didn't get the biggest payday available. A typical C Corp's board MUST take the highest offer, and not doing so WILL get them sued. That means if GoodGuy B Corp is about to be taken over by BadGuy Inc., the GoodGuy board can say "No, they're not compatible with the public benefit mission we incorporated under so we're not going to accept their offer." That's actually really useful.
by zahlman | 2026-03-10 02:41:47+00:00
> I ended up with Python, and have been loyal to it for 13+ years

As another long-time Pythonista: I feel like I would have ended up with it anyway, but I do kinda wish I'd done more of that kind of experimentation around that time.

Certainly I've made mental lists of things I'd change about the language. (Not a lot of overlap with the complaints I hear most often, actually.)
by salawat | 2026-03-10 02:41:54+00:00
...You realize the only valid uses of supply chain risk you mentioned were DJI and Huawei. TikTok isn't providing services to the U.S. Gov. Anthropic is an American company with no foreign ownership. A supplier does not have to sell it's product to a government it knows is liable to misuse it. Not as a SaaS provider. Nvidia and ASML are both now covered under ITAR. Your specification of Democrat &Republican admins just demonstrates both are two sides of the same coin. Both need a good and thorough cleaning out.
by duskdozer | 2026-03-10 02:42:21+00:00
That is what he claimed. However, his design document instructs the AI to download the codebase, references specific files in the codebase, and to create a rewrite of the same project by name. It seems very unlikely it didn't look at the code while working, even forgetting that it had already likely been trained on it.

He would have had a better argument if he created a matching spec from scratch using randomized names.
by pavelkds | 2026-03-10 02:42:54+00:00
I work with small Salesforce orgs where Einstein AI is often too expensive or not available.

So I built a small plugin that generates a short summary and draft email for Leads and Opportunities directly inside the record page.

The idea was to keep it simple:
- no enterprise AI licenses
- backend processing outside Salesforce
- option to remove PII before sending data

Curious if anyone here solved similar problem in a different way.
by habitmaxer | 2026-03-10 02:43:43+00:00
I use Claude Opus to rip thru books. It points out the fluff paragraphs so I skip them. Finished stuff I prob never would've touched: Slaughterhouse Five, The Three-Body Problem. I make quick Anki cards from the Opus reading sessions so I don't forget plot bits. I try to get Opus to quiz me on the sections it told me to focus on reading.
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-10 02:44:01+00:00
> People that repeat this line evince a basic lack of U.S. civics understanding -- the Executive branch simply does not have the authority to cancel or postpone elections.

They don't lack the understanding, they are simply paying enough attention to understand that the administration is already breaking the law and flagrantly violating the constitution. The prediction is not that the administration has the authority to cancel or postpone elections legally, but that they will try anyway. It is a reasonable belief, given all the crimes that they have committed so far.

> If you think they're going to just outright coup and push that past the whole of the other branches of government, say so.

That is the implication, yes. Before you dismiss it out of hand, remember that the president has already attempted a coup once before.

So the situation we are in is apparent to anyone who has actually been paying attention: Congress is functionally non-existent right now, having given up congressional power over both taxation and war. The Supreme Court has demonstrated repeatedly that they are in the pocket of the administration, and even if they change their mind at the last minute when they realize they too will lose power under a dictatorship, they have no way to actually enforce their rulings.

That leaves it to the states, roughly half of which will align with the administration, against the federal government. Bear in mind the distinguished individual currently in charge of the DoD is an alcoholic and religious extremist and under his leadership commanders throughout the military have started to refer to the war with Iran as a Holy War. [0] So it is unlikely the military will side with the constitution.

[0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207270/military-leaders-iran-wa...
by OneMorePerson | 2026-03-10 02:44:23+00:00
I dunno about defense as a service since those are pretty short range systems you mentioned (how would someone go "buy" excess capacity), but datacenters already cluster around common resources (water, etc.) so group buying some equipment to put in a ring around the datacenter area seems like it would be what they do.

Yeah the use consumer grade rocket components made SpaceX become viable compared to bloated rocket companies. Short range anti missile systems are not large ordinance, they rely a lot on technology for tracking targeting, and they are not a "weapon" (as in they prevent damage not cause it except inadvertently) so it actually seems like something pretty feasible for a tech company. Build it with consumer grade hardware and you could deploy a ton of them.
by asadotzler | 2026-03-10 02:44:38+00:00
Wrong. B Corp boards are legally protected from lawsuits if they reject the highest bid when they put the company up for sale. In a C Corp, once the board puts the company on the auction block, not taking the highest bid, even from a company that's diametrically opposed to the goals of the C Corp, opens the board up to lawsuits from shareholders pissed about not getting the maximal return. Suggesting this is no difference shows a lack of understanding of the legal regime these types of corporations operate under.
by awesome_dude | 2026-03-10 02:45:04+00:00
I mean, the whole point of explicit being superior to implicit is because what's obvious to some isn't necessarily obvious to everyone.

Someone following me could look at it and go.. "well duh" and that's not going to hurt anyone, but if I didn't put that comment and someone refractometer, then we have someone redoing and then undoing, for no good reason.

There's that meme where people are told to update the number of hours wasted because people try to refactor some coffee and have to undo it because it doesn't work
by CrispAI | 2026-03-10 02:45:18+00:00
The version pinning approach for existing tasks is a pattern I've found really useful in practice. When you're building document processing workflows (transcripts, reports, etc.) the ability to iterate on your agent logic without retroactively breaking existing user sessions is underrated.

One question: for the "existing tasks stay on old version" case, do you support any kind of manual migration trigger? E.g. if I fix a genuine bug in how I'm parsing a document, I might want to re-run the agent on specific old workspaces with the new version, rather than waiting for users to start new tasks.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-10 02:47:05+00:00
My API heavy domain is coding against the AWS SDK

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/boto3/latest/

I am just linking to the Python version because it’s all on one page. All of the other supported languages are the same - they are all autogenerated from the same definition file by AWS.

Also consider these same APIs are surfaced by the CLI, Terraform, CloudFormation and the AWS CDK.

I’ve been testing writing code and shell scripts against the AWS SDK since 3.5. It helped then, I can mostly one shot it now as long as the APIs were available when it was trained. Now I just have to tell it to “search for the latest documentation” if its a newer API
by jrapdx3 | 2026-03-10 02:48:16+00:00
Yes indeed, I concur completely with your comments. I've used Tcl/Tk for a few decades and for a long time enjoyed it's Lisp-like character. Of all GUI toolkits Tk is by far the best thought out, no wonder it's been adopted by a number of other languages.

Tcl does have a few disadvantages, for one the lack of distinction between string and list types makes certain programs hard to write. Also the absence of lexical environment for the apply command requires awkward workarounds. Many Tcl users dislike expr syntax.

Warts notwithstanding, Tcl has allowed me to be very productive. Over the years it's been steadily improved, and yet remains mostly compatible with code written even decades ago. That's a rare accomplishment in the programming universe.
by zahlman | 2026-03-10 02:48:59+00:00
> No download and install process

Plenty of Electron apps expect you to do this anyway. "Apps using web tech" aren't all web sites.

> No "please wait while we update this"

Not everyone has a fast web connection.

On the flip side, plenty of programs have no reason to use a web connection at all once they're downloaded and installed.

> Users can link to individual pages within my app... Users can find text on any page in my app

How many apps out there really have "pages"?

> Users get autofill for forms and passwords and credit cards

Why does my program need this information?

> Users can block ads

Why would my program present ads?

> No "SmartScan couldn't verify if this app is safe" because it wasn't signed with a cert.

Is that supposed to be a plus? Consider the user's side, too. Also, consider that things like Google Safe Browsing exist.

> A knee-jerk answer is often "performance", but honestly, most web apps load faster than their native counterparts these days.

Care to give an example?

(It also generally comes across like you just take for granted that your users will be on mobile.)
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-10 02:49:22+00:00
"some things are so impossible they need to be stopped, now!

fine print: but we could probably pull it off if you abuse your state power to force SpaceX to share concrete designs with the competition (which includes us, Amazon)"

I'm not an Elon Musk fan, certainly not with his concept of ethics,... but I have similar qualms with nearly all people in positions of power, and most of them barely grasp elementary physics.

When people in power actually did and regularly redo their homework, it should be lauded, not punished.

There are plenty of criticisms to level at Elon, for example if humans and their governments really desire a future of safe self-driving vehicles, then Tesla (AND ITS COMPETITORS) ought to publish without censorship all the details, sensor readings, etc. leading up to each accident, near accident, sudden braking, etc. to the public domain, so that any startup, university, student etc. can train models which learn from every incident, instead of just the ones gathered by themselves. If safety of self-driving vehicles is the primary concern its essentially criminally negligent of governments not to force these datasets into the public domain. That would be a security and safety first minded approach that clearly highlights just one of my ethical disagreements with Elon.

But I don't allow my disdain for Elon to elevate above the human quest for veracity and facts.
by sh34r | 2026-03-10 02:49:48+00:00
To me the question is actually, what changed to make them release the story now? Biden’s been out of office for a while now… it wasn’t anything his admin did. They could’ve continued gagging the victims, claiming it’s psychosomatic, and most of us would keep on believing that, because Occam’s razor.

Lots of similar reports came out during the Maduro raid. Same symptoms. Seems we demonstrated the capabilities we were hiding. OSINT experts already put the pieces together a month ago. So did our adversaries. Cat’s out of the bag, so no sense continuing to gaslight our wounded veterans.

We probably put this fucking thing in a plane instead of a backpack. Everything’s bigger in the USA, of course.
by pcthrowaway | 2026-03-10 02:51:43+00:00
> As one of the first 10k beta users, who was fairly active, then moved back to twitter, I agree with this. The userbase is extremely off putting from the get go

Very surprised to hear this... the few times I've visited Twitter in the last year I've been met with a deluge of racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic comments. Like there's practically no moderation on there. People saying "Hitler was right the whole time" and shit like that.

I don't use Bluesky much either but I definitely wouldn't have considered it worse than Twitter
by agentic-wiki | 2026-03-10 02:51:52+00:00
Stop writing essays in your source code. Inline prose comments are a maintenance catastrophe waiting to happen, acting as active lies the moment a refactor occurs. We advocate for discipline: If the code doesn't explain the what and how, it's buggy. Reserve comments only for the why—and even then, encode that why as structured, searchable metadata (`::TAGS::`) rather than fragile prose. If you're still writing paragraphs in your functions, you're inviting rot.
by avaer | 2026-03-10 02:52:11+00:00
I wish the original title was kept ("How to win a best paper award"). It seems a good list for that.

Most of this list is about how to dress for senpai; figuratively speaking. A pretty depressing take on "how to do important research that matters".

I would hope that would be of the most unimportant part of science, totally irrelevant to what's important and what matters. But maybe that's not true today.
by ogurechny | 2026-03-10 02:53:12+00:00
I've been using an old Symbian phone with the same Class Not-That-Good SD card bought back then. In the early 2010s, I copied a lot of MP3 files and ebooks there, and used the camera to take photos occasionally. Then it was no longer used for music and other needs, and the files just rested there. After about 10 years, I've decided to play some music on the phone, and these tracks had a lot of skips and rattle. Images copied from the card showed a lot of damage, too. So when someone on the internet posts how SD cards are a cheap and compact long term storage, I am not impressed. You probably need to refresh all previously stored data with each monthly backup.

It should be mentioned that the phone board often gets warm during operation or battery charging, and the temperature is stated an important harmful factor in a different comment.

So if you have some old files on an old device, and assume that they are still there because their records in the file system still look fine, you might be surprised.
by AnonC | 2026-03-10 02:53:24+00:00
This article covered many historical aspects I was never aware of.

> Suddenly, the globe key on the iPad and the hybrid globe/Fn key on the Mac were equipped with a million Windows-like tasks

It seems like Apple has been in a bind to make the iPad a better Mac and the Mac a better iPad while at the same time insisting that the iPad is its own device with its own purpose and that the Mac is its own device with its own purpose. IIRC, it took a long time to bring a keyboard and mouse to the iPad. Despite Apple’s repeated claims that it doesn’t see value in a touchscreen Mac, rumors point to one being launched next year (albeit with limitations).

Apple used to be good at cannibalizing its own product lines. But now it seems stuck with the desire to sell more iPads and more Macs without one cannibalizing or destroying another.
by _bent | 2026-03-10 02:54:31+00:00
It's extremely distracting to read heavily ai edited texts like these because every single aism throws me a curveball.

It doesn't help that the figures of speech ai loves to use are those that stress things and create tension and drama. And it uses one in every single paragraph, rendering the text into the literal equivalent of a deepfried faux HDR jpg (or a dialogue scene in a Michael Bay movie).

And beyond those practical concerns it's just hard to gauge how much the author truly understands of what he's writing about (and transitively if it's worth to continue reading)
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-10 02:54:47+00:00
They should max out a bit below 6 kW? The H100 SXM5 is 700 w which would place the system at 5.6 kW plus change. Too much for a standard circuit but well within the bounds of a residential appliance.

It's a monolithic 8U rackmount appliance so perhaps a dishwasher would make for a decent size comparison?

Definitely no good if you rent but homeowners should have little to no difficulty. The sort of people interested in such gear usually have multi kW racks already.
by kdheiwns | 2026-03-10 02:55:00+00:00
Apple just seems to be in a rush to launch half-baked features then keeps them in a weird state of stasis for years. The globe/FN key changes the keyboard layout when tapped, which is very useful since I type in multiple languages, but after a few dozen uses it simply... stops functioning. It's been broken for years. The only way I've found to fix it is to open the command line and killall Dock and killall Finder. But then language switching fails again a few more switches later. Not fixing a feature that has a whole key dedicated to it just shows how careless they've become.
by lban2049 | 2026-03-10 02:55:06+00:00
This is a fantastic use case — making academic papers accessible through interactive web pages is exactly what AI should be doing. The per-article cost of $0.65 is impressively low. For anyone building similar "content → interactive page" tools, MyVibe (https://www.myvibe.so) offers instant publishing for web projects. One command to a shareable link, which could complement tools like this for sharing generated pages.
by estearum | 2026-03-10 02:55:11+00:00
Automated traffic control is objectively one of the most pro-social things we could possibly ever create. Yes it is good if more red light cameras exist and face fewer legal challenges.

> the courts solved this by deeming at least certain uses of red light cameras illegal.

This is incorrect. The court in Florida said certain arrangement of the statutory basis (a different one than in CA) for red light cameras is illegal.
by marcelk123 | 2026-03-10 02:55:24+00:00
Happy to answer technical questions.

One of the harder parts of the problem is that CIMs aren't standardized. The same metric can appear multiple times across a document in different formats (tables, narrative text, adjusted figures, projections, etc.).

Our pipeline extracts candidate values, normalizes them into structured metric families, and links them back to document locations so analysts can verify where each number came from.

We're still improving accuracy around projections and adjusted metrics since those are often labeled inconsistently across documents.
by ikkun | 2026-03-10 02:55:46+00:00
related reddit comment from what seems to be "Senior Vice President Of Engineering at TrueNAS": https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/1rpdjb2/comment/o9...

> But I'd wager 99% of the folks commenting on this thread have never done a build from source before, nor would ever want to?

what an insensitive comment this is to anyone that has contributed. are they really saying "the source is available but it's fine if nobody can build it, who cares about building open source projects anyway?" what use is open source code that can't be built?
another of their comments from the same thread:

> We even took protective measures to make sure the open source work we do stays open, by putting them under GPLv3 a while back.

this is almost exactly what minio did; I'm generally in favor of copyleft, but a copyleft license can absolutely be used as a tactic to prevent other commercial interests from benefiting from and supporting an open source project. they want exclusive rights to distribute proprietary versions while benefiting from open source contributors.

I decided to stay away from truenas for my recent nas build precisely because it smelled of enshittification, and it's unfortunate to see it trending further in that direction.
by phoenixy1 | 2026-03-10 02:55:47+00:00
Thanks for the details! Glad to hear you've got full Production access -- if any of the security attestation requirements seem unreasonable for your use case, feel free to reach out to us directly (you can email me at ahoffer@plaid.com and let me know you're the person in this thread) so we can look into it.

You do need to set up Link, but it's pretty easy. The Tiny Quickstart(https://github.com/plaid/tiny-quickstart) has a bunch of minimal examples. If that's too much we have a super-minimal, no-code set of instructions for making API calls in the Postman Quickstart (https://github.com/plaid/plaid-postman?tab=readme-ov-file#ma...).