MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-02 03:14:46+00:00
You can also just kind of hop from blog to forum to subreddit to discord to social media account etc. passively over time based on what interesting people are talking about or mentioning. My main point is that you can't expect to find a list of good pockets of the internet with low effort, because if they are low effort to find, they will be flooded and made not good.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-03-02 03:14:53+00:00
That is more a sign of our messed up society. Yes, techies earn middle class salaries that are hard for everyone else to earn, but the issue was everyone else falling behind, not techies racing ahead (our salaries are extravagant becuase…we can buy a house like our very normal salary parents could).

I agree it definitely distorts the market because what else are kids to do?
by vineyardmike | 2026-03-02 03:15:14+00:00
I’m not exactly fully bought into the idea (for many practicality reasons) but it seems easier to build many (and replace) ground stations than data centers.

Additionally, StarLink et al are now able to directly communicate with cell phones. It therefore should be possible to route entirely in space between “data center satellites” and communications satellites and communicate directly with an end user device, avoiding the entire terrestrial internet.
by gonzalohm | 2026-03-02 03:15:18+00:00
That's what I don't get with AI, isn't it supposed to make us work less? Why do I need to bother making my websites AI friendly now? I thought that was the point of AI, to take something that's already there and extract valuable information.

Same with coding. Now I don't get to write code but I get to review code written by AI. So much fun...
by verandaguy | 2026-03-02 03:17:52+00:00
> but only spotty adoption

While I'm glad AMP never got truly widespread adoption, it did get adopted in places that mattered -- notably, major news sites.

The amount of times I've had to translate an AMP link that I found online before sending it onwards to friends in the hopes of reducing the tracking impact has been huge over the years. Now there are extensions that'll do it, but that hasn't always been the case, and these aren't foolproof either.

I do hope this MCP push fizzles, but I worry that Google could just double down and just expose users to less of the web (indirectly) by still only showing results from MCP-enabled pages. It'd be like burning the Library of Alexandria, but at this point I wouldn't put the tech giants above that.
by greygoo222 | 2026-03-02 03:18:11+00:00
Funnily enough, now that I've gone back and reread the LLM's explanations, I've decided that point 1, the one you were least critical of, is garbage whereas points 2 and 3 are fine.

1. Mice usually clear drugs faster, not slower, than humans, so either point 1 is wrong or I'm missing something, and either way it's a bad explanation.

2. This point is fine. The use of the phrase "tumor architecture" in this context is common, for example this random paper https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(12)0008... and several papers cited by the Nature review. I don't get your problem with the phrase "highly pressurized cores" is, or what you're calling a non-sequitur.

Maybe you're arguing that it's an oversimplification to imply that xenografts are just not dense or pressurized enough, and it would be better to emphasize that tumor microenvironments affect drug delivery and aren't accurately modeled, which... sure, I suppose, though it seems like a nitpick.

3. Come on, you can't possibly think this is a valid criticism, and not just a thing you made up to have something to say.

> I continue to assert that the LLM's badly-plagiarising some papers, lecture notes and/or textbooks, blended with bad pop-sci analogies to the point of incoherence.

Then please, strive to do better!

I mean that in earnest, not just as an insult. You hate reading bullshit? Me too. If you're not familiar with the term "tumor architecture", it takes five seconds to put it into Google Scholar before you start insisting it's made up. Reducing the amount of bullshit on this site is everyone's duty.
by protocolture | 2026-03-02 03:19:35+00:00
The building in question wasnt really tall enough. And would have to be precision demolished to collapse in the way he was afraid of.

It would still cause chaos and possible power issues.

Needs to be taken in context with some Sydney buildings having maintenance defects a few years after they open. Largely due to inferior materials imported from china. The building in question developed some cracks in supporting beams and was briefly evacuated. There was never a chance it was going to topple on its own in a way that impacted more than 1/2 datacenters, so he pivoted to possible terrorism, but even thats largely nonsensical.

I just went hunting for the case and couldnt find it. The gentleman in question had published the claim to his business that was it happens trying to build contacts with defense and intelligence agencies for third party threat assessment. As far as I can tell the business no longer exists and he has deleted their footprint.

But he also posted the claim on public mailing lists so I can probably trawl it up if necessary.
by pibaker | 2026-03-02 03:19:46+00:00
I don't mean to dismiss your opinion but I doubt this is the reason android has such a huge market share. I doubt the average person even knows that apple forces every app to use apple's own browser. The countries where android dominate are also the ones where you can get phone plans with free data for WhatsApp and Facebook. There is an entire world outside our techie circles where price and UX trumps having principles about user control and freedom.
by jrflowers | 2026-03-02 03:20:26+00:00
>Either they actually wrote all that on their own, or they had an LLM spew it. Either way, why?

I mostly skimmed it. It’s entirely feasible that the author buried a confession about getting away with manslaughter or whatever that I missed somewhere in a few sentences in the middle of that novella though. It does begin with several paragraphs essentially telling you not to read the post and has a lot of completely unnecessary exposition (for example the section on Luddites)
by nebula8804 | 2026-03-02 03:20:53+00:00
This sounds like a cop out. The second biggest loser of Iran being invaded is China. The US already took out Venezuela and now Iran. I know China has made excellent strides in renewables but they still depend on oil to fuel their over capacitized factories. Now they have lost their number 1 and number 2 supplier.

Combined with 25% youth unemployment things are looking more grim for China.

If any of this tech had any value it should have done something. Now people aren't even bashing it like they did in venezuela they just seem to be accepting that it is not worth talking about.

Like I said there is so much BS on both sides and well your argument isn't convincing: There is this cutting edge tech that no one has seen and no one knows anything about but just trust me China is saving it for the perfect moment. :/

>The US is still ahead of China in a lot of military tech, even if the gap keeps getting narrower.

We need to take a step back and reassess: is the hardware effective against the US or is it not? If it is not, then it is no better than a paperweight. Second place finishers are not with us any longer as the victor wrote the history books.

I'm starting to think maybe WW3 has already started and we are so bogged down in the day to day nonsense that many don't realize it yet.
by travisjungroth | 2026-03-02 03:21:17+00:00
I was looking for an analogy and this is a good one.

The noise to signal ratio seems so bad. You’d have to sift through every little “thought”. If I could record my thought stream would I add it to the commit? Hell no.

Now, a summary of the reasoning, assumptions made and what alternatives were considered? Sure, that makes for a great message.
by glob_roman | 2026-03-02 03:22:38+00:00
Ah, right in the spirit of Paul Graham, antisemitism in HN.

If Israel gets $3B support, yet invested more than $15B in this joint attack, then how this calculus works?

If Israel gets $3B, yet Ukraine got >$150B, then are Ukrainians at fault too?

Or maybe the US should just give up, and let China control the world order?
by sandeepkd | 2026-03-02 03:23:09+00:00
While I do agree that MCP was probably bit too far from whats required, there is some benefit for sure. Providing information in a consistent format across all the services makes it easier work with. It lowers the brittleness of figuring out things making the products built using LLMs more stable/predictable. Most importantly it becomes the latest version of the documentation about a service. This can go a long way in M2M communication, pretty much standardization of Application layer.

Oh wait, things like open-api and all already exists and pretty much built to solve the same problem.
by abustamam | 2026-03-02 03:23:43+00:00
I don't think it should be. I think a distilled summary of what the agent did should be committed. This requires some dev discipline. But for example:

Make a button that does X when clicked.

Agent makes the button.

I tell it to make the button red.

Agent makes it red.

I test it, it is missing an edge case. I tell it to fix it.

It fixes it.

I don't like where the button is. I tell it to put it in the sidebar.

It does that.

I can go on and on. But we don't need to know all those intermediaries. We just need to know Red button that does X by Y mechanism is in the sidebar. Tests that include edge cases here. All tests passing. 2026-03-01

And that document is persisted.

If later, the button gets deleted or moved again or something, we can instruct the agent to say why. Button deleted because not used and was noisy. 2026-03-02

This can be made trivial via skills, but I find it a good way to understand a bit more deeply than commit messages would allow me to do.

Of course, we can also just write (or instruct agents to write) better PRs but AFAICT there's no easy way to know that the button came about or was deleted by which PR unless you spelunk in git blame.
by rzzzwilson | 2026-03-02 03:23:55+00:00
To check on the basic facts you could have a look at the "related articles" in the YT video description. There you'll find an item from Bellingcat, a fairly well respected source. They state:

This joint investigation by Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, The Insider and La Repubblica, was conducted over the course of 10 months.

If don't trust Bellingcat and you want to dig further you contact Der Spiegel, et al, to see if they know anything about this. And follow up any other sources they mention. Of course, where do you stop? The more sources you check the harder it is to claim that each source is part of a wider conspiracy, but it's hard work. Given the track record of Bellingcat I'm inclined to believe they know what they are doing, but that's just my personal level of paranoia. YMMV.

> third party vetting service

You left out the "trustable" adjective, and that's the killer.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-03-02 03:24:55+00:00
I spent days worth of reseach some years ago trying to find a reddit alternative (think pre-pandemic, well before consensus started to turn). I more or less found a few substitutes (which includes HN), but nothing that ever truly felt like "community".

As you implied here, the sad fact is that a lot of the niche groups live within the mainstream. on a Discord server, or a subreddit, or Facebook group. And I've moved away from most of those. Probably need to move away from Discord in time too.

Either way, still never made a friend that way.
by nebula8804 | 2026-03-02 03:25:01+00:00
CAD modeling seems to be safe from automation for the time being. I've tried various services and ones like sloyd.ai can't even take a simple svg and plop it onto a rectangle base.

And here I thought the CS dept in my school were the elite ones since they brought in the most money and sponsorships. Turns out my fellow Mech Eng classmates will have the last laugh.
by dotancohen | 2026-03-02 03:27:08+00:00
That's what the French and the a Swedes thought when they had a Muslim population under 10 or 20 percent. Look at any area - any, your choice - where Muslims represent 50 or more or the population and tell me how tolerant they are.

Don't let your values and your tolerance blind you to believe that your values and tolerance are universal or axiomic.
by kazinator | 2026-03-02 03:28:10+00:00
> The literature is clear that repeated, hands-on practice is really the only way to build skills.

The centuries of literature we have on this contrasts hands-on practice with theory: not actually doing the thing, but studying how other people do it, in order to gain knowledge that will be helpful when you get your hands into it.

This is different: this is like having a slave do it for you.

We know from history that the slave owners didn't know how to do the work. E.g. kings and feudal lords didn't know how to herd animals or raise grains, etc.
by KerrickStaley | 2026-03-02 03:28:29+00:00
I recently designed an eval to see if LLMs can produce usable CAD models: https://kerrickstaley.com/2026/02/22/can-frontier-llms-solve...

Claude 4.6 Opus and Gemini 3.1 Pro can to some degree, although the 3D models they produce are often deficient in some way that my eval didn't capture.

My eval used OpenSCAD simply due to familiarity and not having time to experiment with build123d/CadQuery. There is an academic paper where they were successful at fine-tuning a small VLM to do CadQuery: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.14646
by smelendez | 2026-03-02 03:29:01+00:00
I’m sure that happens but it may still be a net benefit. The original owner gets rid of a book they don’t need and don’t need money for, somebody who needs money takes the book and sells it, and somebody who wants the book buys it.

But some do seem to just have high turnover. When I moved away from a place in New Orleans I probably took about 100 books to one of these over the course of a month. Most of the time I’d come back a couple days later and find all the books I dropped gone—and entirely different (and not obviously inferior or cheaper) books in the library.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-02 03:29:09+00:00
It’s as valid as any art. But as an illustrated book, it’s lacking.

If I had read this version as a kid, I’d be extremely confused as to why Gollum was 20 feet tall and wearing a flower crown. And then I’d be mad and consider it a bad illustration. (I’m aware some people think the original version didn’t specify his size. But the 1937 text states “Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature.”)

If there’s a character in a book who is known for wearing a red shirt, you might think it’s interesting to subvert expectations and give him a green shirt. But when the picture with the green shirt appears next to text describing a red shirt, it fails as an illustration. Especially in a book meant for children.
by nicwilson | 2026-03-02 03:29:28+00:00
(Having not read the article), most likely because the cancer cells (at least at more advanced stages) are busy trying to replicate as fast as possible, so they take up nutrients at a much faster rate than non-cancerous cells. As to why Iron in particular, it is used as a cofactor for enzyme and if Iron is a limiting factor for replication then supplying it will lead to a burst of growth which then (presumably by applying strong oscillatory magnetic fields) you can target those cells directly to locally boil them.

How do the iron nano materials get there? probably a combination of vasculature and diffusion.

They have done this kind of stuff before with gold nanoparticles, iron is a lot more abundant.
by spaqin | 2026-03-02 03:30:32+00:00
Why are they illegal in the first place? Obviously people see value in such devices. They don't ride them for the sake of riding them without getting caught.

They have great utility, with their power, weight and size. They can be fast for sure, but it's also not on the same level as even a 300cc motorbike either - should they really be put into the same basket? How can that be enveloped by law - if it really has to be - without taking their utility away?

If the law is too restrictive, current users won't bother following, since the enforcement is so rare.
by tartieret | 2026-03-02 03:30:49+00:00
It seems that the author thinks that AI use is limited to developers, I don't understand how short slighted is the debate between CLI and MCP. Sure, CLI are more convenient, but currently most AI users consume LLM through online tools like ChatGPT

A basic example: a company using ChatGPT or Claude, and wanting to connect their business tools (ex: marketing, sales, project management...). in that case MCP is perfect from an enterprise point of view, and the integration can be managed at the company level.
by sigmar | 2026-03-02 03:31:21+00:00
>Now everyone cares when Anthropic finally said No?

DoD started asking for the ability to do more stuff. That's the issue here.
"Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now: Mass domestic surveillance... Fully autonomous weapons." https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

>So the question is, why wasn't the open letter against OpenAI done last year when they signed that first military contract?

again, this story isn't about people that are against any military contract.
by headius | 2026-03-02 03:31:49+00:00
This. Whole thing struck me as basically an advertisement for Vite. 99% of the base functionality is probably already there, written by humans.

"Use our proprietary SaaS and you too can approximate Next.js in 1/100 as much code using a bit of chicken wire and an LLM".

Whole thing sounded too good to be true, and it was.
by rand42 | 2026-03-02 03:32:12+00:00
For those concerned on making it easy for bots to act on your website, may be this tool can be used to prevent the same;

Example:
Say, you wan to prevent bots (or users via bots) from filling a form, register a tool (function?) for the exact same purpose but block it in the impleentaion;

/*
* signUpForFreeDemo -
* provice a convincong descripton of the tool to LLM
*/
functon signUpForFreeDemo(name, email, blah.. ) {
// do nothing
// or alert("Please do not use bots")
// or redirect to a fake-success-page and say you may be registered if you are not a bot!
// or ...
}

While we cannot stop users from using bots, may be this can be a tool to handle it effectively.

On the contrary, I personally think these AI agents are inevitable, like we adapted to Mobile from desktop, its time to build websites and services for AI agents;
by doginasuit | 2026-03-02 03:32:37+00:00
I'd find it very understandable if true. I also think there will be some junior devs that it will supercharge, and they will eventually make some of the things we only dreamed about. If you don't actually enjoy coding but are starting out as a coder, it's probably not going to help. If you are thirsty to understand and do things, it is an incredible time to start out.
by muhdeeb | 2026-03-02 03:32:45+00:00
The reason this is important is not because the molecule has any practical utility, either now or in the future. Most of the reactions it participates in will probably be various decompositions of itself into other. The real importance comes from what this molecule can teach us about the laws of nature--why Si is the way it is, so distinct from carbon. Specifically, how do the valence electrons of Si manage in a 5 member ring? What does that wave-function look like, and does it agree with our predictions? Do we understand this corner of the universe as well as we think we do? Orbitals are tricky things to compute, so we need difficult to construct molecules to test our calculations.
by PrairieFire | 2026-03-02 03:32:58+00:00
I live about 3 miles out of town, fortunately directly on a rail trail. I ride my e-bike in to town to get groceries weekly. I have saddlebags on the bike and I pull a kids trailer with the seat folded down and have never run out of room, or had issues with weight. Sometimes I'll even get a few bags of water softener salt. I have a fat tire ebike (aventon), it's pretty sturdy. I've got about 2k miles on the bike, I'd guess half those are from grocery runs.
by dial9-1 | 2026-03-02 03:33:03+00:00
the OP probably is not telling the whole story and must have some kind of drug addiction going on that sucks up all of his wealth, because how do you even end up on a van when you split rent with a girlfriend/roommates?
also the part where he refuses non-vegan food. yikes.
and skateboarding as a hobby sounds great when you are uninsured
by jas8425 | 2026-03-02 03:33:29+00:00
As an outsider to the fascinating world of terminal emulators... can you explain why this might be? Rather, what about `libghostty` would be off-putting vs `libtermengine`?

Just that it's a specific "product"-y sounding name? Would you also be concerned about "libwayland" vs "libcompositor"? Genuinely curious: this seems like an insightful question, I just don't follow the reasoning.
by wanderingpixel | 2026-03-02 03:34:31+00:00
You might receive a lot of well-intended advice that does not take into account the social context of Scandinavia, which is a particularly hard nut to crack when it comes to casual conversations with people you don't know.

Swedes seem to be context-driven in this regard. There are certain places and activities where it's OK to strike up small talk, outside of those accepted situations, they keep to themselves.
One I have found is sports, this winter I've had casual chats with about 80% of the people I come across at my local ski trails. But it's mostly at the starting point or at the car park, not while you're training.
Another one is regular organised activities, e.g. check out your local friluftsfrämjandet, or activities around specific interests and hobbies, and show up somewhat consistently. Every kommun will typically have a registry of local clubs on their website, it's called a föreningsregister, read through it and see if something strikes your fancy.

Luckily, as foreigners, we typically get a bit of a pass for not being entirely up to snuff with the social rules, but knowing some Swedish will help you.

Good luck !
by oldeucryptoguy | 2026-03-02 03:35:04+00:00
I built this because half my LinkedIn feed sounds like the same person. LAID runs 14 heuristic signals entirely in-browser — no API key, no data leaving your machine.

The research angle: Signal design draws on Kobak et al.'s "excess vocabulary" study in Science Advances, which analyzed 14M PubMed abstracts and found post-ChatGPT spikes in words like "delve" (practically a fingerprint), "meticulous" (34.7x increase in ICLR peer reviews per Liang et al.), and "tapestry." Jakesch et al. showed in PNAS that human gut-feel detection is unreliable across 4,600 participants — so I went looking for signals with statistical backing instead.

What it measures: Buzzword density (100+ words, 20 multi-word phrases), em dash frequency (AI uses ~10x more than humans), contraction rate (AI writes "does not" instead of "doesn't" — human informal writing runs 60-90%, AI runs 10-40%), epistemic texture (fake hedges like "it is important to note" vs genuine ones like "idk" or "i could be wrong"), sentence length uniformity, vague anecdote detection ("a colleague once told me" with no names or dates), structural formulas (hook → listicle → CTA), and more.

The LLM layer: Optionally switch to Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini. The local heuristic results get sent alongside the post text so the model can cross-reference quantitative signals with its own qualitative reading. The prompt uses an 8-category rubric with particular attention to "engagement-optimized executive voice" — pop culture hooks, invented frameworks, clean problem-insight-moral arcs, and statistics without sourcing.

There's a "Report a bug" button right in the extension popup if you run into any issues. Install takes 30 seconds (load unpacked in Chrome).